The Portland daily press., 1867-02-13
LEGISLATURE OF MAINE.
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE PREss.1
STATE HOUSE, AUGUSTA, Feb IL.

ESPECIAL DISPATCH III IhE Thbso'I
STATE HOUSE, AUGUSTA, Feb. IL
SENATE.
The Senate passed to be engrossed an ac'
authorizing towns to choose one Selecthiah,
Assessor, Overseer, &C., for one, two and three
years respectively, by a large majority.
The Committee on Library reported IN favor
of purchasing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln,
late President of the United States, to be plac-
ed in a conspicuous place in the State House,
at q price not exceeding $1,000.
The Senate voted not to concur with the
House in establishing the salary of the Cover
nor at $500, and on motion of Mr.. Caldwell TO
insist and appoint conferees, Messrs Caldwell,
Crosby and Woodman were appointed.
The act to remove disability on account OF
race Is especially assigned for tomorrow.
Inc PRESIDENT appointed the committee ON
that part of the Governors message that re-
lates to capital punishment: Messrs. Crosby,
Billings, Hamblen, Dyer Woodman, Wmgate
and Fairbanks.
Mr.. Crosby reported a bill an act to surren-
der the charter of the Piscataquis Fire Insur-
anee Company.
Passed to be e7ldcted-Act to amend chap. Al
of the laws of 1868; act relating to the salary
of the County Attorney of the county of Knox;
act to authorize certain persons to extend and
maintain wharf in Rockport harbor, in the
town of Camden; act to authorize Simon Nc
Dougall and James Race to extend their wharf
in the town of Boothbay; act to make valid
the doings of the town of Fort Fairfield; act
to incorporate the Matinicus Wharf and Dock
Cnnnanv. act tn authorize the Kpnnahec r.
Wiscassct Railroad Company to unite with the
Knox & Lincoln Railroad Company; act to
change the valuation of the town of Chelsea in
the county Of Kennebec; act to incorporate the
Trustees of the Norridgewoek High School ;
act to grant authority to Oliver NJ. Reynolds
to construct wharves or piers in Lnbec; act to
annex Sarsfield plantation to the town of Fort
Fairfield; act relating to bills of exchange; act
to authorize the Portla nd, Saco & Portsmouth
Railroad Company to aid in the construction
of the European & North American Railway;
act to authorize Samuel b. Locke and others
to construct dam and sluice across Lower
Kezar river, in the town OF Lowell, and estab-
fishing the rates of toll for shipping lumber
through the same Adjourned
HOUSE.
Resolve providing that a sum not to exceed
three thousand dollars be expended for the pur-
chase of the Knox Mansion passed one reading,
and after short discussion by Messrs Bickford
and Plaisted, was laid on the table and We'd
nesday next assigned.
An act to renew the charter of certain banks
was tabled.
Resolve regulating elections among the Pen
obscot Indians passed to be engrossed.
Mr.. Shepley, under suspension of the rules,
laid upon the table "a resolve providing for the
restoration of the Probate Records of Cum
berland county,"
motion to recommit the report Of Com
mittee on State Printing and Binding, after
discussion by Messrs. Brown, Atkinson, Plais-
ted, Berry and others, was negatived, and the
contract made with Messrs Stevens s. Sayward
was confirmed.
The vote of yesterday by which the report of
the Committee on Agriculture was laid upon
the table, viz: The reports of w. A. p. Dilling
ham, President of the State Agricultural Col
lege, of Hon. Phinehas Barnes, Treasurer of
the same, and of Prof. Reed Law Olmstead,
landscape architect of the same, was, on motion
of Mr.. Oak, of Garland, reconsidered, and five
thousand copies were ordered to be printed.
Leave of absence was granted to b. w Tay-
Tor and S. A. Wilcox from and after Friday
next
\ Act additional to act to supply the city of
Portland with pure water was amended and
passed to be engrossed. The act forbids taking
water from any of the tributaries of Sebago
Pond. M