Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-21
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGISLATURES.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Mr. Metcalf of Worcester offered an order.
which was adopted, requesting the Auditor to
furnish a statement CT the expenses incurred
in preparing the reports of registry and return
of births, IN arriages, and deaths. in the Com.
monwealth, for the years lS54-5-6-7, with
the names of persons to whom the amounts
were paid.
Mr. Allen of Worcester offered an order,
which was adopted, that the Committee on
the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of authorizing a form of warrant
for calling annual meetings for the election of
State, county and district officers, defining
the order in which they may be voted for on
one Sallot.
Mr. Davis of Plymouth presented the petit
ton Of Nathaniel Harlow and sixty three 9TH
ers, of Plymouth, for the removal of Judge
Loring. Laid on the table.
At eleven o clock the special assignment
the election OF a Sergeant at-AIms-was ia
ken up.
The result of the ballot was as follows:
Whole number fvotes AZ
Necessary a choice .....................l9
Joseph White of Lowell had ....... .......2S
Benjamin Stevens OF Boston. ................u
and sJoseph White was declared elected on the
part of the Senate.
So much of the Governors message as re.
fers to salaries of officers now paid in fees, was
referred to the Joint Special Committee on
Retrenchlnent, who were authorized to send
for persons and papers in any case referred to
them.
The bill to perpetuate the evidence of the
foreclosure OF mortgages of personal property
was read a third time, and, after discussion,
passed to be engrossed
administration of the finances of this Com
monwealth, was taken up, read third time,
and passed 10 be engrossed, and the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
| Petitions Presented aud Referred-Of G. F.
Colburn and eight hundred and one others oil
! Leomihster, and Francis H. Drake and TWEEN.
! ty-ore others of the same town, for the lie,
moval OF Judge Loring.
Orders Adopted.-The Committee on the
| Judiciary coneide. the expediency of provid
ing that in any case of discharge of a person
| in custody, by reason of a Grand jury not
finding an indictment against him, costs shall
| be awarded in his favor against the Common.
wealth that the committee on the discontin.
nance OF commissioners, consider the expedi-
eney OF abolishing the Office of Land Agent
that the Committee on Printing consider the
expediency of furnishing the House with
copies of the State Constitution, with the re
jected and accepted amendments in theil
proper places.
Tomorrow at IL o'clock, was assigned as
the time for the choice of Sergeant Arms
on the part of the House.
On motion of Mr.. Mitchell of Nantucket
the orders Of the day were taken up, and the
bill to regulate the compensation of members
officers, and attendants OF the Legislature
was considered by sections.
Mr.. Mitchell advocated the bill as measure
of reform. Messrs. Duncan Of Haverhill,
and Hoadley of Lawrence, also supported the
| bill.
Mr. johnson OF Abingdon. opposed the bill
directing his argument mainly against the
second section, which establishes forleitur,
of the per diem pay for all days of absence or
the part of members. Messrs. Browne o.
Dorchester. and Riley of Boston, also opposed
| the bill.
sundry amendments were proposed, all o
which, except one, were rejected.