Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-19
MASSACHUSETTS LEGIsLATuRR.

SATURDAY, May l6-I32d day.
SENATE.-The resolve relating to the State
Printing was reported back from the Commit
tee on the Treasury, with the second section
omitted. This is the section which was clum.
silly left by the House. and was inconsistent
with the first section.
A resolve appropriating $5703 for repairs,
furniture, &C., at the State House, was report
ed by Mr.. Cowdin.
Mr.. Hoar reported that the bill relating to
the Police Court in Pittsfeld ought not to
pass also that the bill extending the time for
the issue Of executions ought not to pass ::
that the bill relating to the powers of County
Commissioners ought to pass with an amend
ment.
BsIkS Passed to be EngroSsed- Relating to
divorce; TOR the pay of members of the Exec
utlVe Council and of the Legislature and its
officers; to perpetuate the evidence of title of
real property, obtained under mortgage deeds
cotaining power of sale In addition to the
several Acts giving jurisdiction in equity to
the Supreme Judicial Court to apportion and
assess tax Of $S99,973; in relation to Com
mon Carriers; concerning Idiotic Children
on the petition of A. s. Haven.
Rejected-Bill concerning railroad CORPORA
tions.
The bill to incorporate the Brook line Rail-
road Company was passed to third reading,
and further assigned for Monday next.
A long debate took place on the West Rox-
bury Railroad bill, but it was ordered to a
third reading without amendment
HoUsE.-A long and able report was receiv-
ed from the Committee ON Prisons by Mr..
Fay Of Chelsea, on the subject Of Prison dis
ciple. 1t is accompanied by resolve appro-
priating $500 for the Prison Library also a
bill requiring that one or more of the inspec-
tors shall approve bills for purchases contract
ed by the warden also a resolve authorizing
the warden andinspectors to sell certain lands
lying South of the Prison, belonging to the
State, to remodel the lower stories of the hos
pital building, and to construct twenty cells in
the same, at an expense of not more than
$4,000, to be paid for out of the proceeds of
the land sold, and apply part of the proceeds
to the payment of outstanding claims of $4,000
for alterations in the guard room and to meet
deficiency OF $4,000 in the expenses of the
Prison-the balance to be paid into the treas.
ury,
The following bills were passed to be en-
crossed I'm addition to the resolves in favor
OF normal schools and school agents relating
to persons committed to the State Lunatic
Hospitals in favor of the Dudley Indians /:
concerning the annual returns of Railroad
Corporations; to incorporate the West Cam
bridge Horse Railroad; the Somerville do: to
increase the capital of the Hampshire Manu-.
facturers Bank, at Ware; the Housatonic
Bank, at Stockbridge.
The bill in addition to an act establishing
the Northampton Hospital for the insane, was
taken up and assailed very fercely from vari-
GUS quarters, and on various grounds. MIR,
Ihayer OF Boston, made an onslaught upon
the whole institution, declaring that it ought
not to have been commenced-that it was
only commenced for the purpose of rewarding
certain political operators for doing dirty work,
Mr.. Holland Of Westheld, moved to strike
out the Sd, Sd. and 4th sections, which au.
thorize the appropriation of S4S, 800 for fur.
nishing the hospital and providing for its oc.
cupancy. and which authorizes the issue of
scrip, and the borrowing of money in antici
patton of the same. This motion was carried
and the sections were struck out
motion was made to indefinitely postpone
the bill, and in order to save it, it was recon
mitted to the committee The only sections
remaining in it are those which appropriate
$50,0000 for finishing the Hospital, aud which
make the commission expire in October next .
The bill to repeal an act to change the time
Of assessing taxes in the city of Boston, was
ordered to third reading.
The bill to extend the time of payment OF
the State loan to the Eastern Railroad, was
passed to be engrossed without opposition,
and the House adjourned.