Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-04
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.

MASSACHUSETTS, LECIsLATURE.
TUESDAY, March 49,
SENATE. Petitions Presented. OF Francis
Jackson and filty-six others, for the removal
Of Edward Greedy Loring from the office of
Judge OF Probate for the county of Suffolk.
Orders Adopted. On motion of Mr. Albee
OF Middlesex, that the Committee on Re-
trenchment and Reform be instructed to re
port how much moneyls paid annually out of
the State Treasury tor the support of common
schools; second, how much for the support
OF the Massachusetts Militia system; third,
whether any reduction is expedent in the ex-
pense Of the militia system of the Common.
wealth fourth, whether the custom OF an
nual encampments may notbe abolished With
out detrimcnt to the military power of the
State; and fifth, whether the expense of the
militia and police force should not be betrayed
y=the towns and cities rather than from the
State Treasury.
Mr.. swift of Barnstable, introduced re-
solve in relation to the death of DR.. Kane
winch, under suspension Of the rules, was
: ordered to be engrossed
Bill to incorporate the Fall River and War
rem Railroad Company; resolve ON petition Of
Edward +. Jones tor compensation and bill
70 establish the city OF Chelsea, passed to
third reading.
message was received from the House
announcing the election on the part of that
orahch' OF zen b. w. Pierce, as Major Gen
eral OF the Volunteer Militia. Adjourned.
HOUSE, he roll was called and eighty
S,.se members were present.
Report Of Committee. Judiciary Biu ra.
latlng to the licensing of billiard rooms, bowl.
ing Alleys Ctorbidding persons to keep them
lor gam without license from the munieinal
authorities, on penalty Of SI00.1
ordered, That the Committee on Education
consider ana report to the legislature such
resolutions as they may deem appropriate in
relation to the deGease of DR. Kane,
fassed to be Eagrosse6. Bills to incorporate
the Dorchester Athenaum; CONCERNING nro-
pate courts III the county of Berkshire: relat-
ing to the police court of the city of awrence.
to amend the charter of the John Hancock
Bank OF Springheld to continue in force an
act to incorporate the Essex Mutual Fire In
surance Company; to amend the 3Ist section
Of the SSd chapter OF the Revised Statutes,
rreiatFe to the bonds OF the Registers OF Pro.
cate ;in addition to an act to incorporate the
Medtord and Charlestown Railroad COMPANY.
Resolves-On the petition of Saml Hougi.
ton, agent of the proprietors Of Roxbury, Me;
authorizing ]. 1ngersoll Bowditch, Executor
OF the last Will aud Testament of the late
Ephralm Peabody, TO sell real estate of the
testator
FenaSe Medical College. The House took
up the report OF inexpedient to legislate, on
SO much OF the Governors Addrss as relates
to the Female Medical College. Alter debate
the report was unanimously accepted.
Trustee Process The bill relating to the
trustee Process was taken up and discussed
at length, and was ordered to third reading.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of
tickets to the Washington Inauguration Ball
have been sold.
We regret to notice the death of the
only remaining son of Horace Greely-a lad
OF years, who died of Group last Saturday.
Mr. Greedy has been sorely afflicted in the
loss of his children.
The emperor of France has bestowed
gut OF $5O0,000 francs (about Sl0O. 000)
to the widow of the unfortunate MI. Moiev
who was shot by mistake in the debtors mrs.
on at'CHchy. Mrs. Morey is the daughter of
DR.: Thomas Chadbourn of Concord. N n
and Mr.. Morey was a .natve of Plymouth,
Mass.
Five persons, sentenced to the Michi-
gan penitentiary Tor life Tor murder, escaped
on Tuesday last. Among them were Freder
lck Haynes convicted OF the murder of the
irali Emma Price" and Lapham alias Ca
orie'' VINO was convicted some years since of
poisoning his wife.
Another mysterious disappearance is
chronicled in New York. Mr.. Charles K.
hing book-keeper for Petsibone & Platte,
lett the CITY in November last to visit his
friends in Waterford, N. r., but never reach
ed them, and all efforts to ascertain what be-
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