Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-10
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, Feb. s.
NM

SENATE.
Alter the reception of petitions several COM
mlttee reports of leave to withdraw, and mex
pedlent to legislate were made. Also that
several House bills ought not to pass
Messrs Butler, of Middlesex, and Simmons
OF plymouth, were appointed Committee on
the part of the Senate to reporta new draft of
the Constitution.
In the order of the day, bill to establish the
salary of the District Attorney for the South
Eastern District; resolve concerning the cor
rectlon and publication of the State Map, were
ordered to third reading.
Bills concerning the Brookline Railroad
Company, relative to the specific performance
OF written contracts; in addition to an act to
provide for the adoption of children, amended !;
IN addition to the several acts concerning
Courts OF Probate in the County Of Dukes /;
resolves concerning the revision of the Statute
Laws; bill in addition to an act to incorporate
the Supervisors of the Adams Temple and
School Fund in Quincy, were severaly passed
to be engrossed.
The vote by which the bill in relation to the
adoption of children was passed to be engross-
ed was reconsidered and the bill so amended
as to provide that children wiltally deserted by
their parents might be taken for adoption
that when the parent applies to the court for
reversal he shall show that he did not will
fully" neglect and desert his child.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Petitions were received and sundry orders
of inquiry presented. Several reports of COM
mittees were made, one of them accompanied
by bill providing that engineers of fire de-
partments shall be chosen by the people in
town meeting.
Messrs. Brownel of Westport, Morris of
Boston, Horton of Dover, Joslin of Webster,
and Lyman of Hinsdale, were joined to the
Senate Committee on the subject of new
draft of the Constitution.
In the Orders of the Day, the vote giving
leave to withdraw on the petition for the re-
moval of tie Berkshire County buildings was
reconsidered, and the subject recommitted with
directions to hear the parties.
The proposed amendment of the Constitu-
ton, requiring two years residence in the
country after naturalization of foreign born
citizens, to entitle them to vote, was agreed to
by vote Of 179 to 80. Having now passed.
by the required majority, both branches of the
Legislature in two successive years, it will go
to the people for ratification when if it receives
a majority of the votes, it will become part
of the Constitution.
The bill granting $500 to the Teachers AS
ISOLATION was passed to be engrossed, as were,
also, resolve on the petition of Charles Sprague
John B. Tremere, and Charles Amory, Trus-
tees and bill to incorporate the Dorchester Ex-
tension Railway Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9.
SENATE
After petitions were presented and referred,
MIR. Butler of MiddleseX, from the Committee
on the Claims of the State against the Gener-
al Government, reported resolve, which was
adopted, authorizing the Governor and Coun-
Gil to appoint an agent, to act in concert with
an agent to be appointedby the State of Maine.
In the orders Of the day, Mr.. Buffers mo-
ton to reconsider the vote whereby the bill in
relation to the adoption of children was passed
to be engrossed, was debated some two hours,
when Mr. Buffers motion for reconsideration
was rejected by % to 10.
Several bills were advanced one stage and
ordered to third reading
The bill relating to the removal of convicts
to the State Prison, after debate, was rejected
The report Unexpectedly of the Committee
on Banks and Banking, in relation to loans to
Directors, was discussed, and laid on the table,
as was also the bill to equalize taxation.
Passed to be engrOSSed.-Bils to establish the
salary of the District Attorney for the South
ern District; resolve concerning the correction
and publication of the State Map and the
bill to incorporate the Webster Insurance Com
pany of Boston.
After acting in concurrence, upon several
papers from the House, the Senate, at to
O'Clock, adjourned.
HOUSE.
Nothing of Importance was done previous to
taking up the special assignment, at three
o'clock, except the passage of the bill concern
ing certain prosecutions for keeping and main.
tanning common nuisances.
AT three o'clock, the special assignment be-
ing the consideration of the bill to increase the
salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Judi
cial Court $1,000 each, was taken up. Messrs.
johnson of Arlington, Eldridge of Canton, and
Tucker of Boston spoke at length against it,
and Messrs. Sumner of Great Darlington,
Chase of Salem, and Wells of Greenfield, in its
favor.
Our report here closes, it being about five
o'clock.
OUR Proposed New TERRITORIES IN THE