Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-13
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.
Tuesday, Feb. II.

tuesday, Feb. IL.
SENATE.-O Orders ADOPTED. That the Jndic-
airy Committee inquire into the the expedien-
cy of limiting by law the time within which
any company may organize under an act off
incorporation, when tie time is not express
ed in the act.
TIE Orders Of the Day were taken up, and
the bin concerning Boston and New York
Central Railroad Co. was passed to third
reading.
Passed to be esgrossed. Bills extending the
time for the construction of the Boston and
New York Central Railroad; In addition, &C.,
to establish State Reform School for girls;-
to Incorporate the Nantucket Agricultarel So
clery (amended)
Eligibility for Office. The resolve for amend
ment to the Constitution, relating to eligibility
to Office, Chat no person shall hold office I'M
less born within the United States, came up
on its passage to third reading.
Mr.. G. w. Warren Of Suffolk, offered a
substitute that ''no person born without the
jurisdietion of the United States shall be eli
gible to Office under the Constitution of this
Commonwealth, except he be the child of an
American citizen. Lost without division.
The resolution was then passed to third
reading; Yeas %; Nays IL.
= Qualifications of VoterS.-The resolve for
amendment of the Constitution relative to
qualifications of voters Chat voters shall be
able to read and write) was next taken up.
Mr.. Dewey os Worcester, moved to amend
by. adding after the word "Constitution,"
the words Sin tie English language"
Mr.. Pierce of Norfolk, said there was no
language legally recognised in Massachusetts,
except the English. He thought the article
was sufficiently explicit, and that the amend
ment would be superfuous,
A 11oin fbo 81
called for-the bill to incorporate the Warren
Salt Company.
After debate, the bill was rejected yeas
nays IS.
AT 1.2 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
DEMONSTRATIONS Presented and Referred.
OF John Darling and others, for annexation
to the town of Douglas.
Senate papers were passed in concurrence.
Mr.. Weeks of Lowell offered an order re-
lating to the suppression of dances, dancing
schools, balls, cotillon parties, and other such
like assemblies on Saturday evening. Re.
jectsd-ayes 16, noes 65.
The Speaker appointed the following Com.
mittee on the petition of Ii. G.. Kimball, and
others, for a Police Court in Blackstone =
Messrs. Wheeler of acknowledgements Gas
ton of Roxbury, Southworth of Franklin,
Reed of Boston, and Harding of Lawrence,
1uS NOtS MASlSD1 tuc 11OusC pdSseu 10 De
ongrossed the bill to establish the Office of,
Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the
County of Suffolk, was reconsidered- ayes,
l0l; nays, 30.
The question then REQUIRED on passing the
bill to be engrossed, and after much discussion
the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Passed to be eagroSsed-pills to extend the
time for the construction of the Millbury and
Southbridge Railroad; concerning the Per-
kins Mills and Dwight Manufacturing Com
pany, and to increase the capital stock of the
latter.
AT IL o'clock, the subject specially assigned
for consideration, was taken up, being the re-
port on Senate bill, "In, addition to an act
concerning the Duties and Rights of Jurors, u
that the same ought not to pass. Question
on rejection.I
After some debate, Mr. Littlefeld Of Fox
boro', moved as an amendment, to strike out
oil after the enacting clause, and insert 1.-THE
act concerning the duties and rights Of jurors,
passed April 7, 1856, is hereby repealed"
Adjourned.