Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-30
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
AH'-ND4t1 } -'AttI NII :
SENATE.

SENATE.
The resolve for the purchase of the Hancoch
House came up from the House amended.
The word "unanimous" was stricken out by
vote of20 to ID, and the Senate concurred with
the House in the amendment by vote of q tc
13.
The bill fixing the salaries of county com
missioners came up.
Mr. Bigelow of Worcester moved to fix the
salary for Worcester at s., 500 instead of 81.
200. Lost.
The bill was then ordered to third reading
by vote of % to 10.
The bill to incorporate the Boston and Hall.
fax Telegraph Company was refused engross-
ment by vote of II to 16.
The bils-in addition to an act supplement
tary to an act to regulate the sale of wheat
corn, and other grain, and meal; to set off Ger
tain persons with their polls and estates from
the town Of Marshpee to the town of Sand
wich; to incorporate the Rollstone Insurance
Company; to authorize the Treasurer and Re-
ceiver General to receive from the Secretary of
the Treasury of the United State certain mon
les due or to become due from the United
States to this Commonwealth to amend an
act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic
Telegraph Company; concerning the Hamp-
shire and Hampden Railroad Company; to
incorporate the Highland Agricultural Socie-
ty; altering the boundary line between the
towns of Holliston and Milford to incorporate
the Groton junction Hotel Company and to
revive the Eastern Avenue Corporation to
incorporate the Boston Mechanical Bakery
Company and the resolves-concerning the
nowage of lands in the towns of Concord, Sal
isbury, Wayland, Bedford, and Carlisle con-
corning the State map; in favor of the guardi-
an OF the tribe of the Punkapog Indians on
the petition of Josiah Rutter, trustee; in favor
OF the town of Dudley; on the petition of Ma
thanlel Silsbee, trustee, and Mary Ann c. d.
Silsbee; for furnishing the libraries of the Nor
NAL Schools with copies of the historical and
scientific works published by the State; and
in aid of the Hospital at Northampton in favor
of Robert B. Caverly-were ordered to be en-
crossed.
A communication was received from the In
surance Commissioners, in reply to an order of
the House, stating nothing has been paid for
clerical assistance in the office, but assistance
has been rendered By or more persons connected
cih the family Of one Of the Commissioners, equiv
alent to the labor of one person, ever since the
Commissioners entered upon their duties The
Committee have also, themselves, performed
considerable amount of labor outside of office
hours.
The bill concerning mortgages on personal
property, after long debate, was passed to be
engrossed.
The bill in addition to an act to punish fraud
by the sale of adulterated milk and to provide
for sealing measures used in the sale of milk,
was debated at length, amended on motion of
Mr.. Potter, of Boston, by providing penalty
for feeding cows on flax seed meal, refuse of
breweries, &C., and was then passed to be en-
crossed.
Passed to be engrossed-Bills, &C., in addition
to an act to incorporate the proprietors of the
Cemetery of Mount Auburn to prevent the
infringement of trade marks for the further
protection of trees on highways; to incorpo-
rate the Stoneham Branch Railroad Company
(amended) in addition to the act to change
the organization of the Board of Overseers of
the University at Cambridge.
EUening SeSsion.-The whole evening was
devoted to the discussion of the personal lib
erty bill, and the further consideration thereof
was assigned to Tuesday evening.