The Portland daily press., 1866-02-05
LEGISLATURES OF MAINE.
. AUGUSTA, Feb. :


! Read and assigned-An act to incorporate
the Holbrook Island Slate Company; an act
to amend the charter of Shaw & Clark Sewing
Machine Company; an act to increase the
capital stock of the North Bank at Rocllland
4. an act in relation to the rules of evidence, in
addition to an act amendatory of section So of
I Revised Statutes, relatingato costs in. courts.
| Mr.. Holbrook reported favorably the bill, an
act to incorporate Bangor Wood Mandatory,
and it was read and assigned; also, reported
bill, an act to authorize the increase OF the cap
ital stock of the Portland Steam Packet Com
+. pany, and it was read and assigned. vel
Mr.. Manson reported bill, an act to regulate
the inspection of flour, and it was read and as
signed; also, acts to incorporate the Presque
Isle Manufacturing Company, and the Sagada-
hoe Plumbago Mining Company, both of which
were read and assigned; also, against allow
ing Union Wharf Company, of Portland to ex-
tend their wharf. Accepted.
O. Passed to be engrossed-An act to increase
the salaries of the Judge and Register Of Pro-
bate in the County OF Oxford; an act to in
corporate the Piscataquis Central Park Asso-
citation; an act to prevent the killing of fur
bearing animals between the months of May
and October; an act to grant the rights of
companies organized in this State to the
Portsmouth Great Falls and Conway Railroad
Company; an act authorizing the inhabitants
Oh Tile UOWu Oh EdSUpOrL 10 EXEMPT certain
property from taxation.
Passed to be enacted-An act to incorporate
the officers and members of Rocl1land lodge
an act to increase the salary Of the Judge of
Probate of Hancock County; an act to amend
the charter of the English Spinning Roller
Company; an act to incorporate the CuShnoc
Manufacturing Company; an act to amend
Bath city charter; an act to, authorize the
sale of the Old Methodist Free Meeting House,
in BowdoinhaIn; an act to make valid the
building of wharves in Richmond an act to in
corporate the Sangerville Factory Company;
an act legalizing the doings of the town of
Princeton in exempting certain property from
taxation; an act authorizing Benz. Fowler to
build wharyes and fish weirS in Johnson's
Bay; to incorporate South Berwick Savings
Bank; to amend section 8, of chapt. 80 of the
Revised Statutes, relating to lime and lime
casks; to incorporate the New Sharon Water
Power Company. s.s3 ,GtG0tf
The act relating to Hawkers and Pedlers
was read and assigned
"- AD HOUSE. sN.745
Read and assigned-An act relating to ap-
peals in Probate Courts; an act to incorporate
the Wiscasset Savings Bank; an act to- incor-
porate the Richmond Manufacturing Compa-
ny; an act to incorporate the Enrol Steamboat
Company; an act to extend the time for clos
ing athe concerns of the American Bank. an
act to increase the capital stock of the Lime
Rock Bank an act to incorporate the Penob-
scot Land and Mining Company.
Mr.. Fairbanks, from the Committee on Mer-
camille Affairs and Insurance, reported bill to
incorporate the Workingmen's Cooperative
Association ofPortland and vicinity. Read
and assigned.
Mr.. Weber, from the same Committee, re-
ported an act to incorporate the Tontagna Pc
troleum Company. Read and assigned. .Hf
Also, reported an act to incorporate the
Commercial Warehouse Company. Report
accepted, bill once read and ordered on mo
ton OF MIR. Williams of Augusta. 49,
Bill to extend the time for the completion
of the European & North American Railway
and to enlarge the powers of said Company,
was read second time, and the bill was as
signed for Tuesday.
Passed to be engrossed-An act to extend
the provisions of an act entitled an act to in
corporate the Bangor d Piscataquis Railroad
Company; an act to increase the salary of the
Judge and Register of Probate for the County
of Kennebec; an act to incorporate the Bethel
and Hanover Toll Bridge Company; an act to
amend the charter of the Portland Rolling
Mills Company and additional to the same;
an act to incorporate the Moose Island Rail
way Company; an act to incorporate the
Brunswick Peat Company; an act to extend
the jurisdiction of the County Commissioners
Of Cumberland County over tide waters near
Martins Point in said County; an act to in
corporate the Ticonic Water Power and Man
uiacturing Company; an act to incorporate
the Newport Savings Bank. 4r.-4
Mr.. Stevens Of Augusta, called up the bill
relating to the rate Of interest, the pending
motion being the amendment of Mr.. Stetson
of Bangor TO strike off all restrictions. I9t,
The bill was debated by Messrs. Stetson,
Harrington, Adams and Walker, and was laid
upon the table for further discussion,