Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-16
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, March IA.
SEN

SENATE.
The bills giving aid to Tufts College. Will
braham Academy, and the Museum of Com
parative Zoology, and to increase the school
fund, were, on motion of Mr. Peck. recommit.
ted.
In the orders of the day, sundry reports
were disposed Of and the resolve concerning
the Middlesex Canal and the bills relating to
the taxation of ships to secure the payment
of rents; authorizing the city of Charlestown
to establish fire department; relating to the
Probate Court of the county of Nantucket for
widening the draw of the bridge over Black
River; and relating to bail in criminal cases
(amended), were ordered to be engrossed.
Mr.. Fisher of Norfolk, from the Committee
on Parishes and Religious Societies, reported
bill to legalize the proceedings and records
of the proprietors of the Union Meeting House
in Worcester.
Mr.. Butler, from the Militia Committee, re-
ported bill providing that, instead of the an
nual parade i'll May, the duty may be perform
ed between the 10Th of May and the Doth of
June, and no person shall receive any compen-
sation, unless he performs duty at the annual
encampment.
An order for two sessions day after Thurs
day was rejected
Bills were reported to increase the capital
stock of the Atlas and North Banks, in Bos-
ton, under the general banking law.
HOUSE.
The Committee on County Expenditures
made report giving information in reply to an
order OF inquiry as to the amount of money
drawn from county treasures or by District
Attorneys, as attorney fees under the liquor
law. In Barnstabe nothing has been paid in
Bristol the fees have been taxed in the bill of
costs, but have not been drawn from the treas
uries; in Berkshire, $50 was paid to former
attorney i'll 1856, and $500 now remain
IN the Treasury in Dukes no such fees have
been paid; in Essex So was paid in 1856, and
IN 1897 $3.50 to the present District Attorney !;
III Franklin $3.50 during the last two years; in
Hampton not any in Hampshire $500 to two
Attorneys in Middlesex $500 to two District
Attorneys in 1866, 1856, and 1857 in Nan
tucket none, and no case under the law has
been tried in Norfolk $1100 to former At
torney; in Suffolk none, and in Worcester
none.
The Committee on Manufactures reported a
long bill containing provisions for the safety of
the public and of stockholders in manufactur-
ing corporations, requiring the annual pubca-
ton of a statement Of their affairs, the holding
OF annual meetings where the establishments
are located, and of quarterly meetings of the
Directors at the same place. restricting the
right of person to be a director or treasurer
in more than one corporation where the CAPT.
tai is 100000 or over, limiting the number of
votes that one stakeholder may give, guarding
the vote by proxy, &c, &c.
"A communication was received from the
Governor, transmitting the request of the
Committee of One Hundred" through Hon.
Edward Everett, for leave to place Powers's
bronze statue of Webster in the State House
Grounds, with recommendation that the re-
quest be granted.
The bill to establish the Superior Court
came up, and Mr.. Cushing, from the Judiciary,
offered sundry amendments, which were adopt
ed, and the bill, as amended, after debate, was
ordered to third reading