Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-10
LegIaIntive.

In the afternoon, Thursday, the governor
was requested, on the motion of Mr.. Parker of
Worcester to inform the Senate whether Mr.
George M. Weston of Maine has legal
claim against the state for services rendered
at Washington in aiding the collection of the
Massachusetts claims. The first step toward
an adjournment was taken in ordering the ref.
erence of all petitions and reports of commit
tees, subsequent to March 20th to the next
general court. The committee on parishes
and religious societies reported bill authoriz-
ing the Salem street society in Worcester to
mortgage their real estate.
The judiciary committee reported to the
House bill authorizing city councils of cities
to regulate the erection of wooden buildings
for protection against fire, to establish districts
of prescribed size within which such wooden
buildings shall not be placed, and to consider
buildings heretofore erected contrary to such
regulations as common nusances to be abated
| and removed by the mayor and aldermen.
| The finance committee reported bill making
| appropriations from the income of several trust
funds, to wit from the school fund for edu-
cational purposes, S14 800 for the four normal
schools in the state; $500 to the Teachers
Association $500 TO the American Institute
of instruction $500 for incidental expenses of
the board of education and the normal
schools; $4,000 for agents of the board of
education $4,000 for teachers institutes
$4,000 for state scholarships 500 for
county associations of teachers, and APP
preparations of general character. The
discussion of the subject of annuling the I'd
article of the Sd chapter of the constitution
was resumed, Messrs. Morris of Boston, Put
nam of Danvers, and Wood of Nantucket op-
posing reconsideration, and Messrs. Pierce of
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it. The roll called, and the House refused
to reconsider by vote of sc to III So the
constitution remains untouched. Messrs Sam
uel A. Knox, b. L. Otis, and Henry c. Rice
of this city, voted in favor of reconsideration,
and Messrs. Joseph Pratt and Timothy S.
Stone against it. The members of the House
voted themselves each a copy of the general
statutes now in the hands of the state printer.
The subject was debated at some length, in
the course of which Mr.. Wentworth of Low
ell advocated the resolve, on the ground that
the state printer had made hard bargain with
the commonwealth. Mr.. Merrill of Boston,
on the other hand, thought such legislation was
for the benefit of the state printer at the ex-
pense of the state treasury, and opposed it,
Mr.. Hale OF Boston took similar ground. But
the resolve was passed by decisive vote Mr.. |
Pratt of Easton offered substitute for the bill
authorizing the city of Worcester to elect as
SCISSORS for three years. 1t provides for con-
ferring the same authority upon other towns
and cities in the state and extends it to select
men and overseers of the poor.
FRIDAY, March 9th.-Mr Fisk of Hampden.
and editor of the Palmer Journal, offered an
order in the Senate, instructing the Committee
of the Judiciary to report an act protecting
publishers of newspapers from being imposed
upon by persons sending them fraudulent motto.
es OF births, marriages, and Deaths The Sem
ate adopted as a whole the report of the Com
mittee on Education, adver to the petitions
in relation to the division of the school fund,
and the abolition of the board of education.
ms was In inconvenience with the House
which had struck out certain portions of the
report, on the ground of offense to good taste
The bill concerning the Providence and Wor-
Ger, and the Worcester and Nashua roads were
under consideration when the Senate adjourn
| ed to dinner.
Mr.. CUsHMAN in the House offered an order
providing that on and after Thursday, March
| 10, no man shall have the floor more than ten
minutes, or speak more than twice on the same
question without unanimous consent The
committee on mercantile affairs and insurance.
reported variety of private bills which
went into the orders of the day. The COM
mittee of finance reported that the Senate re-
solve making certain appropriations from the
school and other funds ought not to pass. The
committee, however, approved the recon-.
mendations in favor of the Westfield and Salem
normal schools, Mr.. Fuller of Whately intro.
duced bill authorizing the Troy and Green
field Railroad Company to locate and construct
that part Of its road lying along the valley of
the Deerfeld river by the most direct and eli
| gible route from the eastern terminus in Green
field or Deerfeld to Shelburne Falls, anything
contained in the acts and resolves of 1859 to
the contrary notwithstanding. The resolves
concerning the appointment of valuation com
mittee came back from the Senate so amended
that the presiding officers OF the two branches
of the legislature shall be added TO the number
fixed by the House. The Senate amendment
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