Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-10

REVISION OF THE STATUTEs.-Moaday, Au-
gust S-The motion to reconsider the vote
refusing proposed amendments to the chapter
on Banks and Banking" was lost-10 to 15
The section stands as follows:
Specie specially deposited by a bank in
Boston in the bank of deposit of the Boston
Clearing House, and balances payable on de.
mand due from other banks in this Common.
wealth to banks out of Boston or in South
Boston, which may be applied to the redemp-
ton of their bills, shall be deemed specie in
the bank for the purposes of this section"
Several other amendments were proposed
and lost. On motion of Mr.. Wentworth, of
Lowell a provision was inserted at the end of
section 90, that all the property and effects of
bank shall be first held to redeem its bills in
circulation when the chapter was laid aside
On motion of Mr.. Tucker of Boston, the
Select Committee on title IA (corporations)
toaS discharged from the consideration Of the chap.
tiers upon aohich they hare not reported. Chapters
SO, 60, 81 and 81 have been acted on by the
committee. They relate to loan and fund,
manufacturing turnpike, canal and bridge cor
porations. Chapter IS, " of railroad corpora
tons" was taken up. The amendment pro
viding that damages recovered from railroad
corporation i'll the case of the loss of the life
of passenger shall be recovered in an action
of tort in the name of the executor or admin
istrator was rejected. As the law remains, the
corporation is to be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $4,000 nor less than $500, to be recov-
cred by indictment, and paid to the executor
or administrator.
Chapter 6S, "of the powers, duties and La
bilities of corporations" on motion of Mr..
Wentworth, of Lowell, was amended by the
insertion of provision that shares of all cor
poratons shall be of the value Of 800 unless
otherwise provided.
iS To ba cd l,xyt1
General Committee before chapter 49, which
begins the third part, except chapter So, of
the manufacture, sale, etc, Of intoxicating
liquors." which is in the hands of select
committee.
On motion of Mr.. Tucker of Boston, Chap
ter 179, of prisons and Imprisonment was
amended by the addition of the following pro-
vision to section "A =" Prisoners in the State
Prison or in JAIL House of Correction or other
place of confinement may in their illness on
request to the warden, keeper or master, re-
ceive the visits of any clergyman they desire"
The Standing Committee "on Courts, Judi
cial officers and proceedings in civil cases, re-
port the first three chapters in a new draft and
Encouragement, In consequence of the estab-
lishment of the Superior Court and the abol-
ishing of the Court Of Common Pleas, the
Committee report in separate chapters, lin
order to retain the present numbering Of the
chapters,) the provisions relating to the SUI
preme Court, the Superior Court, and those
common to both.
Chapter III, "of the Supreme Judicial
Court" was taken up, the question being upon
substituting the chapter reported by the Com
mittee for the chapter in the Revision.
On motion of Mr. Wentworth, of Lowell,
section was amended so that the Court shall
have original and concurrent jurisdiction out
of the County of Suffolk when the damages
amount TO one thousand dollars instead of two
thousand.
On motion of Mr.. Stearns, Of Chicopee, sec.
ton IL was amended by the addition Of the
following :-"And upon such trial, exceptions
may be taken, and questions Of law reserved,
to be heard in like manner with exceptions
taken in trials before a single Judge" Adj
journed.