Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-04
House.
Adjourned
THURSDAY, March

| currcnce.
! Read and assigned-Resolve in aid of thu
| road leading from Monson to Greenville, ii
! Piscataquis county; an act to incorporate the
| Schwartz Machine and Saw Manufacturing
| Corporation; an act giving further authority
to the towns of Brunswick and Topsham tt
purchase the Androscoggin bridge; an ac
to legalize the acts of Thomas W. Herrick o
| Watervile, as Justice of the Peace; an act t
incorporate the Androscoggin Valley Rail.
road Company.
Mr.. SMITH of Parsonsfeld, announced the
attendance of Caleb Burbank, member cleo
! from Acton, and Mr.. Smith was charged witt
! the duty of conducting him to the Governor
for the purpose of taking and subscribing the
| oaths necessary to qualify him to enter upor
the official discharge of his duties.
Subsequently MIR. Burbank appeared in the
House and took his seat.
Bill an act to establish the number ofpounds
of coal which shall constitute a ton, was read q
third time, rules being suspended, and tablec
on motion of Mr.. FARwELL.
Mr.. REED presentedthe petition of Charles
Comery ct Is ais, asking to be incorporated
as a manufacturing company with bill accom-
| panying, which were referred to the Commit
| tee on Manufactures.
Mr. HAMMOND of Westbrook, presented re
| monstrance of Rensselaer, Cram ct ais, agains
petition of Chas. f. Barrett ct ais. which wa,
| referred to the Committee on Interior Wa
| ters
| Mr.. MAIN presented petition of Francis b.
Lane to be set off from Unity plantation, Ken
| nebec county, and annexed to the town of Uni
ty and County of Waldo, which was referred
to the next Legislature.
Mr.. HUMPHREY presented remonstrance OF
Geo. w. Pickering ct 22 ais, of Bangor,
against the consolidation" of the railroads OF
Maine also remonstrancc of Thomas j. Stew
art ct l2S ais, of Bangor, against the same
also remonstrance of VIM. H. McCrllis ct
ais. of Bangor, against change Of the name OF
the Moosehead Lake Railroad Company
which were referred to the Committee on
Railroads, Ways and Bridges.
Mr.. KEEGAN, under a suspension of the
rules, presented bill an act relating to schools
in Madawaska, which was referred to the
Committee on Education.
On Motion of Mr.. ToBEY,
Ordered, That the Secretary Of State be
directed to have prepared, printed slips of an
act to amend secs. 10 and ~ of chap. of the
Revised Statutes, relating to highways, and
transmit one to each town and plantation as
soon as practicable.
On motion of Mr.. Humphrey, bill an act to
change the name of the Moosehead Lake Rail-
road Company, and to amend the charter Of
the same, was taken from the table, votes
passing the same to be enacted and engrossed
reconsidered, and the bill recommitted to the
Committee on State Lands and State Roads.
Mr.. HUME, from the Committee on Legal
Reform, reported reference to the next Legis-
lature, on order relating to the propriety of
amending the law so that juries shall be COM
posed of six instead of twelve men.
Mr.. MoULToN, from the Committee or Ag-
riculture, made the same report on order re-
lating to exempting from taxation improve
ments on cultivated lands.
Same member, from the same committee,
reported same on various petitions for the
protection of forest trees.
MIR. BARKER. from the judiciary Commit
tee, on order, reported bill to amend sec. 20,
of chap. SO of the Revised STATUES. Printed.
Mr.. HARTMAN, from the Committee on
Legal Reform, reported ought to pass on bill
an act additional to chap. Il of the Revised
Statutes, relating to banks Printed.
Mr.. BARTON, from the same committee, on
order, reported bill an act to amend chapter
"a of the Revised Statutes, relating to pau
pers.
Mr.. HUMPHREY, from the same committee,
on bill an act to amend sec. 8 Of chap. 30 of
the Revised Statutes; also bill entitled an act
to amend sec. IA of the same chap, and bill
an act to amend chap. 10 of the laws of 1858,
reported the same in a new draft, and that
they ought to pass. Printed.
Mr.. BLAKE, from the Committee on Coun-
ty Estimates, reported resolve laying tax
on the several counties in the State. Printed.
Mr.. TwITCHELL, from the Committee on
Railroads, Ways and Bridges, on petition, re-
ported bill an act additional to the acts which
constitute the charter of the Portland and
Oxford Central Railroad Company. Read
and assigned.
Mr.. WARREN, from the Committee on Mer-
camille Affairs and Insurance, reported ought
to pass on bill an act to incorporate the Ban
gor Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Read
and assigned.
Mr.. HoLBRooK, from the same Committee
reported ought to pass on bill an act to incor-
porate the Merchants Warehouse Company.
Read and assigned.
Mr.. BARKER, from the Judiciary Committee,
on petition, reported bill an act to authorize
the town of Bowdoinham to raise money for
certain purposes. Read and assigned.
Bill an act to amend sec. las of chap. of
the Revised Statutes, relating to land sold for
taxes, was read third time and tabled on
motion of Mr.. HUME.
Bill an act to amend sec. III of chap. 6 of
the Revised Statutes, relating to land sold for
taxes, was read third time and tabled.
Passed to be eRgrossed-An act additional
lurther regulating Probate Courts and pro-
ceedings; an act authorizing the building of a
dyke or dam across Dyke Branch stream in
the town of Columbia, in Washington county !;
resolve in favor of the Canada road an act to
amend chap. "a of the Revised Statutes, con-
corning forcible entry and detainer; an act to
incorporate the Cumberland Dyke Company !;
resolve to make valid certain doings of the
town of Temple.
Bill an act to amend chap. SO Of the private
and special laws of 1863, relating to the Lime
Rock Fire and Marine Insurance Company,
being on its passage to be engrossed was ia
bled on motion of Mr.. CROCKETT.
Bill an act to amend sec. SO of chap. 6 of
Revised Statutes, relating to the collection of
taxes, being on its passage to be engrossed,
was tabled on motion of Mr. HUME.
Bill an act to amend chapter 264 of the laws
of 1864, relating to the distribution of lists to
magistrates, was read third time, amended
by making it apply to United States Pension
Agents, as well as magistrates, and passed to
be engrossed.
Passed to be enacted-An act to incorporate
the Calais Branch Railroad Company; an act
to incorporate the Canada Falls Dam Conn
pany; an act authorizing John c. Hartman