Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-10

WEDNESDAY, April 8.-Remonstrance
were presented from citizens of Warren
against any further appropriations for the
Troy and Greenfield railroad; and petitions
from sundry interested parties for a union of
the Boston and Worcester and Western cor
poratonS. The committee on mercantile af-
fairs and insurance reported adversely upon
the petition of VIM. T. Mortified and others
for incorporation as the Artizan's insurance
company. Mr.. Baker from the special com
mittee on the subject of metropolitan police
for the city of Boston submitted report ac-
companed with a bill providing for the APP
pontment by the governor on or before LIST
of May of three commissioners, citizens of
Boston, to be subject at any time to removal,
the term of office to be three years, one to
expire each year; the commissioners author
lied to choose some citizen of Boston to be
treasurer and clerk, to disburse all MONEYS
belonging to the police fund, and gSye bonds
i'll SZo, UUU. Each member of the police
force shall hold Office during good behavior,
liable to removal on charges publicly heard
and examined; the present force to remain in
service, subject to removal for cause. The
compensation of commissioners to be S. a
day for actual service, and the treasurer $1,000.
such station houses or telegraphs as the board
may deem necessary, the hoard is authorized
after ten days to provide the same, and IN
clude the expenses i'll the annual estimate of
expense of police. The board to make up a
financial estimate of expenses on or before
LIST May annually. The report is signed by
all the members of the committee except Mr..
Tucker of the senate and Mr. Hanson of the
house, both from Boston.
Mr. Shaw of Suffolk introduced bill to
unite the Boston and Worcester and Western
railroad corporations. The bills relating to
the promotion of education in agriculture and
the mechanic arts, authorizing the removal of
certain Indians to the almshouses, in favor of
the town of Grafton, and several others were
passed to a third reading, and others were adj
vanced in the order of business.
In the house parties from various sections
of the state demonstrated against any further
appropriation for the Troy and Greenfield
railroad. The committee on public charita-
BILE institutions reported bill repeating the
provision for the appointment of trustees of
the Taunton and Northampton hospitals and
dissolving the corporations of those institu-
tions, and vestlng the real estate and other
property held in trust by such trustees, in the
commonwealth; also, making the provisions
for the appointment of inspectors and super
intendents apply to the Taunton and
Northampton hospitals in like manner
as they now apply to state almshouses;
also, that the Taunton and Northampton hos
pitfalls shall be used for state pauper lunatics
and the Worcester hospital for other lunatics,
transfers, however, to be made when necessa-
ry; the expenses Of the former hospitals and
of the state pauper lunatics in the latter to be
borne by the commonwealth, the cost at Wor-
cester not to exceed 81 81 per week for each
inmate; and the expenses so paid may be re-
covered by the commonwealth from the luna
tics themselves or the persons bound to sup
port them. Measures were taken looking to
the holding of two sessions daily on and after
Tuesday next The bills concerning elections
in cities, to levy taxes on deposits in savings
banks (amended), concerning theintroduction
of military drill as an exercise in the public
schools, &C., &C., were ordered to third
reading. No other business of public interest
was transacted.