Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-09
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGIsLATURE.

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SENATE.-RepOrts of Committees-J Judiciary
by Mr.. Dewey of Worcester, bill to
change the name Of the State Reform School
for Girls to State Industrial School for Girls.
Constitutional fundamentally Mr., Pierce
of Norfolk, that the amendments agreed to
last year relative to elig bilityto Office and the
right of suffrage ought not TO pass accepted
under suspension Of the rules.
Mr.. Pierce also reported from the same Com
mittee resolve providing for districtins the
State, for the choice of Senator'S and Repre-
sentatives TO the General Court
Nj. Carey of Essex, from the same Com
mittee, also reported resolve for an amend
ment to the Constitution, as follows:
q No person shall be eligible to office under
the Constitution of this Commonwealth, I'M
less he shall have been born within the juris-
: d elton of the United States of America, or
unless he shall have been the child of am
American citizen born during the temporary
absence of one or both parents from the Uni
ted States
Seyrally read once and placed in the Or
ders.
Mr. Odiorne of Suffolk offered an order that
the Banking Commissioners examine the do,
ings of the various banks in the Common
wealth, with a view to discovering by what
means, if any said banks may have secured
on their loans a higher rate of interest than
is allowed by law. Laid on the table.
Mr. Odiorne then offered an order directing
the Bank Committee to consider the eXpeGi-
ency of law restricting the loans of any bank
in this Commonwealth to any one individual,
i'll the same manner that loans to Directors are
now restricted. Adopted,
Messrs. Carey of Essex and Breckenridge of
Hampshire were appointed on the part of the
Seuate on the petition for abolition of the Po-
lice Court in Blackstone.
The bill in addition to an act to incorporate
the Bank of Mutual Redemption was taken
up, the.question- being on Mr.. G. w. War
ren's amendment.
After debate, the amendment was rejected
without division.
Mr.. Lewis then offered an amendment to
strike out the Sd section, and insert in its
place section providing that said bank shall
not issue any bills for circulation.
Messrs. Raymond and Dewey opposed the
amendment, which was advocated by Mr..
Lewis. The yeas and nays were taken, and
the amendment rejected--yeas 6, nays %.
The orders of the day were chen laid on the
table.
HoUsE.-Petitjons Presented and Referred
OF Goddard, Rice, & Co., in aid of that of
]. NJ. Blanchard and others; of T. Fellows
and los others, of Chelsea, for annexation to
Boston.
Orders Adaptation motion of Mr. Loring
ofsAarlboro as to providing for the appoint
ment of Trial Justices i'll each County ms to
the necessity of further legislation in relation
to the regulation of railroad fares as TO
amending the law respecting the age at which
children shall be received in the public
schools.
The Orders of the Day were taken up, and
several bills were advanced one stage.
Passed to be Engrossed-The bills to change
the name of Second Baptist Church in Sa-
lem; TO incorporate the Blackstone Athena
UNI; amending the 49th chapter of The Re.
vised Statutes, respecting the manner OF sure
ties surrendering their principals in bail
bonds.
The bill in addition to the act relating to
the days Of grace on commercial paper, as
amended, was next considered, the question
being on the reconsideration of the vote by
which the. amendment offered yesterday by
Mr.. Phelps of Springfield, was adopted. The
re consideration was carried.
The question then REQUIRED on the adoption
of the amendment. Lost. The bill was then
ordered to be engrossed
The bill to enable parties in civil actions to
be witnesses therein was lost ayes SO yeas
&c.