Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-05
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
THURSDAY, teD. o.
SENATE

SENATE.
Petitions Presented and Rete7red-Sundry
against the annexatian of Roxbury to Boston.
The Committee on Railways and Canals re-
ported leave to withdraw on petition of Boston,
Barre, and Gardner Railroad Company asking
for further time, on the ground that the com
pany had not complied with the statute pro-
vision relative to giving due notice
Mr.. Parker of Worcester opposed a reconlntt-
ment I!
Mr.. Odiorne favored the motion for recon-
mitment The motion was finally lost, and
the report was then accepted.
Orders of the Day.-The bill in addition to an
act to incorporate the Massachusetts Medical
Society and to the several acts in addition
thereto, Mr. Peck of Worcester moved that the
bill be amended so that the society could bet
ter avoid taking members from the medical
schools of Harvard and Berkshire without sub
jecting them to the same ordeal through which
Others have to pass.
After debate the bill was recommitted for the
purpose of more fully perfecting the same
Resolve amending the Constitution in re-
spect to the power of the Commander-in-C Chief
over the military forces of the State came up,
when Mr.. Bacon inquired the nature of the
resolve.
Mr.. Branning, of Berkshire, explained at
length, stating that the resolve was designed
in certain exegencies (when the President of
the United States makes requisition on the
Governor for the services of the militia, for
instance) to place in the hands of the Governor
the power to put the command of the militia
in the hands of the President of the United
States. The subject was assigned for consid-
Grafton on Monday next, at P. M.
Several bills were ordered to a third read
ing.
Bills establishing the line between the towns
of Marion and Wareham and to authorize
Hiram Brooks to extend his wharf, were passed
to be engrossed.
A communication was also read from James
I. Robinson, resigning his seat as a member
of the Senate from the County of Berkshire,
he having recently been appointed Judge of
Probate and Insolvency, for the County of
Berkshire Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Petitions Presented and Referred. Several for
law to prohibit the rendition of fugitive slaves
several against the annexation of Roxbury to
Boston several in aid of Wilbraham Acade-
my, and several in aid of asylum for Deaf and
Dumb.
Orders of inquiry were passed; numerous
reports of committees were made; one resolve
providing for the printing of report on the
insects Of Massachusetts which are injurious to
vegetation-that 1000 copies be printed under
the immediate superintendent of Prof Agas-
siz; also leave to withdraw on the petition of
T. 0. Prince, of Winchester, contestant for the
seat held by 0. R. Clark. There were two
packages Of two ballots each for Mr. Prince
found in the box by the Selectmen, in such
condition as to warrant the belief that they
were each thrown by one person only, and they
We're accordingly thrown out. Mr.. Prince
lacked two votes of an election.
Orders Of the Day.-Two bills were ordered
to third reading.
The bills, making appropriations for expen-
SEES of the State Almshouses, and the Hospital
at the Rainstord Island, and authorizing the
Treasurer to receive certain moneys from the
Treasury Of the United States, were passed to
be engrossed.
Several other matters coming up were refer
red, laid on the table or recommitted.