Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-05
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
7 IT Q H>DA I NIdT
SENATE.

SENATE.
Petitions Presented and Rete1red.-Of over
seers of the poor of the town of North Brook
| field, for compensation for the support of
State pauper; OF Benjamin Walker of Wor-
cester, and ARENAS Staples of Blackstone,
constables, for naturalization for expenses
under the liquor law.
The orders of the day were taken up and
three resolves, and three bills were ordered to
a third reading.
The bill concerning the agent and draw
tenders of Charles River and Warren bridges,
was ordered to be engrossed.
The next matter was the bill in addition to
an act authorizing the loan of the State credit
to enable the Troy and Greenfield Railroad
Company to construct the Hoosac Tunnel /;
amendments introduced to secure the proper
construction of the same, were rejected.
On motion of Mr. Butler of MiddleseX, the
vote whereby the amendment of Mr.. Bacon
of Middlesex, was adopted, was reconsidered,
and the following substituted, on motion
of Mr.. Butler of Middesex
And provided, also, scrip shall be delivered to
the Treasurer of said corporation until satisfactory
evidence shall be furnished to the Governor and
Council that said corporation have expended in a
reasonable manner i'll eNcayating or completing said
tunnel, or in grading. constructing completing
the line of road, at least equal TO the amount
of all the preceding issues of scrip.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed.
The bill concerning the discipline OF convicts
in the State Prison, was ordered to be en-
crossed
Mr. Sawin of Plymouth, from the Commit
tee on Banks, reported a bill to punish and
remedy the unlawful detention of bank-bs
1t provides that corporations holding bank
notes shall be required to deliver up the same
whenever the specie is rendered.
HOUSE.
The Senate amendments to the bill relating
to school books and changes in the same, were
concurred in.
Petitions Presented and Retared-Of B. T.
Taft and so others, Calvin Stevens and 80
others, of Groton, in aid of the petition of Geo.
w. Bancroft and others, in relation to dancing
IN Groton Academy; of the Worcester County
Institution for Savings, for an act to fix the
time of their annual meeting.
The bill to incorporate the town of Belmont,
to be taken from Waterfowl, came up, and,
after an extended debate, the bill was ordered
to be engrossed, by yeas 119, nays 105.
State Industrial School for Girts.-The bill to
amend an act to establish this institution, was
objected to briefly by Mr.. Russell, of Boston,
Mr.. Shepard, of Somerville, and Mr.. Chandler,
Of Worcester, and was then refused an engrosS-
ment. 1t provided that no girl more than fif
teen years of age should be committed to the
institution.
-Four bills were ordered to a third reading.
Passed to be Engrossed-Bils, &C., to amend
an Act concerning the discipline of jails and
houses Of correction; in relation to the sala-
ries of the Registers of Probate and the Reg
listers of insolvency in the counties Of Nam
tucket and Franklin for the year 1883 in ia
vor of David T. Brown; relating to a return
of picked and smoked fish relating to the
trout fishery in Marshpee river; to amend Il
resolve on the petition of VIM. Robinson,
guardian of the Dudley Indians in relation
to the diet, clothing, and bedding Of convicts
in the State Prison; to extend the marine rail-
ways of d. O. Parkhurst and John Fl. Gale of
Gloucester; in favor of the Massachusetts,
School for idiotic and feeble-minded youth /;
relating to the attachment Of real estlte; au-
thorizing the city of Charlestown to establish
fire department; relating to bail in criminal
cases; to increase the capital stock of the
Washington Insurance Company additional
to an act incorporating the Bowdoin Mutual
Fire Insurance Company to incorporate the
Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.