Worcester daily spy., 1859-03-04
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
WEDNESDAf, MATCH Il
SENATE.

SENATE.
Mr.. Upham of Worcester, from the Com
mittee on Claims, reported a resolve in favor OF
the Dudley Indians
The orders of the day were taken up.
The bill establishing the fees for blank wrlts
(amended), and the resolve providing for the
enlargement of the enclosure of the State Prls-
an, were ordered to be engrossed.
The bill concerning the discipline of convIcts
in the State Prison (new draft) was laid on the
table.
The bill to modify the act of 1854, granting
aid to construct the Hoosac Tunnel, was taken
up.
The bill proposed by Mr. Branning as sub
stitute permits the whole road, after the first
seven miles, to be constructed at the option OF
the company, and appropriates S5O,OO0 for each
mile; the advances being equivalent to SloO,-
600 for five miles of road and 1000 feet of COM
pleted tunnel, for which the present loan law
allows only 100000; reserves SlO0,00O to be
paid after the completion of the whole road,
on account of furniture and equipment.
After debate, the question Of substituting
Mr.. Brannings bill for the committees bill was
taken by yeas and nays, and the proposition to
substitute was lost, by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs Bacon, Bagg, Bigelow, Boynton,
Branning. Cornell Evans Fisher, Frost, Osgood,
Rich, Simmons, Upham, Walker-l4.
NAYs-Messrs Atwood, BoweIman, Brooks, But
Ter, Conn., Daggett, Fabens, Field, French, Hotcll-
kiss Knight Metcalf Norton, Odiorne, D. F. Par-
ker, E. u. Parker, Peck, Sawin, Elton, Williams
20.
ABsENT-Messrs. g. L. Davis, r. T. Davis, w. 7.
Davis, Goddard, Luce.
Mr.. Bacon of Middesex, moved to amend
the first section of the bill by adding, "and
provided also that no scrip shall be delivered
to the Treasurer of said corporation until salts
factory evidence shaH be furnished to the Gov
ernor and Council that said corporation have,
since the next preceding issue OF scrip, expend
ed, in reasonable and economical manner,
in excavating or completing their said tunnel,
or in grading constructing, or completing their
line of road sum at least equal to the
amount of said next preceding issue of scrip" "
Adopted.
Mr.. Walker, of Hampden, offered an am nd
ment to have the required height of the tunnel
measured from the top of the rail,
Mr.. Odiorne, of Suffolk, moved that the
question on the amendment be taken on Thurs
day, at o'clock. Carried. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Wilkins, of Boston, from the committee
on Mercantile Affairs and Insurance, reported
a bill prohibiting the issue of shares of stock
at less than par value, by any incorporated
company.
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matter therein being the resolve making an ap-
preparation for the erection of an additional
building for the State Industrial School. Ques-
ton on rejection, the Committee on Finance
having reported that it ought not to pass.
After debate, the House refused to reject it.
The resolve took its first reading.
Numerous reports were accepted :-lneXpe-
| dent and leave to withdraw.
Several Bills and Resolves were ordered to
a third reading
| The bill concerning payment of taxes be
tween landlord and tenant was ordered to be
engrossed.
The bill concerning the State Reform School
for boys was discussed at length. 1t provides
that towns shall pay fifty cents per week fol
each boy sent therefrom, and that all senten
ces shall be during their minority. The bill
was ordered to be engrossed.
The resolves in favor of the Massachusetts
School for Idiotic and predetermined Youth
were ordered to take their first reading
The bill concerning the State Lunatic Hos
pital was ordered to be engrossed.