Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-04
Totil.. 1908

Totl ........................ 1908
Had the laws not been thus enforced. it is
believed that every one of these persons would
now be inmates OF our State Institutions at
cost this year of at least one hundred thou
sand dollars and the same amount per annum,
hereafter, while they remained. Nearly eve~
ry one of those shipped to Liverpool went
with their own consent, though some of the
number, it appeared, were Originally sent to
tn country as criminals or paupers. Had
they been retained here, and we contine1 to
allow our State to be the receptacle Of the vi
cious, the degraded, and the insane, whom
foreign parsimony and cruelty might deiiber.
ately and unfeelngly send to our shores, ad
ditional almshouses and hospitals would be
necessary tor their shelter and confinement
Christian philanthropy should be exercised,
as heretofore, iii everything relative to their
return; but they should be sent back svste-
matlcally, uniformly, and speedily.
On the last day OF the session of the last
Legislature, bill was presented for my con-
sideration, authorizing an extension of the
northeIly shore of Soutl- Boston. AS but a
few hours OF the session remained, and many
other Other bills were awaiting my Signature, no
wa :, 80 Oh =. si"o 1t that In0r-
ou9h investigation ITS importance demarded.
A cursory examination showed that it limited
the riparian owners by arbitrary and fixed
side lines, instead of allowing each one the
Hate appartenant TO his upland, EXTENDING In
+ eiIv S..IrS aiAN~s.- +ta iins Ok pa
rights, as they did within 1t. 1 therefore
oil / not sign the bill, and it failed to become
a law.
Further investigation has since satisfied me,
that the Act III question involved gross viola.
ton Of the private rights of portion of the
shore-owners, conferred improperly large
o1n6 x,a1t1 Ii, rrif A.
principles all anomaly in legislative grants
1t i; much to be desired that these flats should
be improved up to the line which the State
Commissioners have fixed, as the boundary.
to which their fllng will not be detrimental
to the harbor Of Boston. According to the
reports of various Commissioners, the State
has no vendlble interest in these flats, bat
merely the right Of eminent domain for the
dement, OF the public, subject to the right Of
the shore owners to pass and repass which
II can at any time properly waive, when it
concelVes thai the community will not be
thereby injured.
Ii it had no vendible interest.-and the ne.
titioners for this Bill are unanimously of that
opinion,-it necessarially follows that it has
no interest which is properly the subject of a
grant. Therefore it cannot establish artificial
side lines, and bestow, by arbitrary metes and
bounds, exorbitantly upon one, and little or
nothing upon many The most it can legit-
mately do, is to release its claims on all the
flats within the commissioners line, and leave
the shore owners to occupy and improve so
much as is respectively appurtenant to their
present property, according to the uniform
principles OF law, which the decisions of our
conrts, Tor nearly two hundred years, have
recognized and established as the universal
rule equally applicable to all the citizens and
all the shore property Of the Commonwealth.
Bill founded on such principles would have
received my sanction.
In pursuance of an act of the last Iegisla
turo, Board OF Insurance Commissioners
has been appointed, with power TO visit com
panies, inspect books, and examine officers
under oath. The expediency OF the establish.
ment OF this commission will be apparent.
when it is considered, that the amount of
property insured in this Common wealth, by
home and foreign companies, exceeds the
enormous sum Of .fUe hundred and tcentv- fine
millions Of dollars. There is abundant rea.
son to believe that many times the cost of
this commission has already been saved bv its
preventing the admission into the Common
wealth OF several insolvent and fraudulent
companies from other States, which have at.
tempted TO do business here
1t is important to the public security that
the Legislature should proceed with the most
cautious scrutiny in granting acts of incor-
poration, inasmuch as insurance charters
nave OF late become articles of merchant
dize 1t is ascertained that of more than six.
ty companies chartered within the last ten
years, not one-third nave gone into operation,
and oil the seventeen incorporated by the last
Legislature, bat four are now organized.
The Commissioners appointed BY my pred.
ecessor, under the Act TO establish a State Re-
form 5 hool for Girls, have selected. in tbe
town OF Lancaster, size every way adapted
by natural facilities, for the intended purpose
Inc three main buildings are nearly complet-
ed. house suitable for the superinlendent
ana farmer being already on the place. A
Board OF Trustees from various sections of the
State have been appointed, and, as required
by law, have taken charge Of the farm. A
spperlntendent has already been chosen, by
laws prepared and approved and In few
months the School will be opened for the re-
cepllon OF inmates. A small appropriation
VIII De necessary to erect chapel, to furnish
the buildings, and to provide tho necessary
implements and stock for the farm. The re-
port OF the Commissioners and Trustees win
furnish further information in reference 10 this
institution. ''
1t 10 my duty only to remark TINT tb,s
school differs from every other in Die conn,r.
It being intended exclusively for girls; in he
classification, gathering its inmates into small
families by themselves, and thus eoe,,rinr
home discipline; and in placing tho snnoryje
SION ana Instruction OF tho several bomes,