Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-04
line LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

senate
THURSDAY, Feb. 5.
MI according to adjournment.
Prlver hy Rev. Mr.. DREW of Augusta.
Records read and approved.
PAPERS from the House disposed OF IN con
cufren e.
Resolve for the purpose Of carrying INTO e.
fec; chan. $50 of the Resolves OF lo6i' IN Ia
vor of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary re""
and assigned to tomorrow
Resolve in favor of Paul Tabor, lald upon
the table on motion of Mr. LANG.
nv. Lang presented the Report of the Trus-
,ees Of the State College Of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, and moved its reference to
Committee on Agriculture.
Mr.. TALBOT, from Committee on Treasur-
cr's Accounts, reported the State Treasurer
bond correct. and that the sureties are respon-
sible and sufficient. Read and accepted.
On motion of Mr.. CLEAvEs,
Ordered. That the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads inquire into the eX-
pedieney of making an appropriation to the
town of Mexico in Oxford county, TO rebuild
a bridge at the mouth Of Swift river in said
town.
On motion of Mr.. CUSHING printed bill an
act authorizing any city or town to and IN
building railroads, by raising money for same,
was read twice under a suspension OF the
rules, and passed TO be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. LANG, Senate Document
No. - was taken from the table, and Mr..
CUSHING moved that it be assigned to edncs-
dav of next week for discussion. Carried.
Rad aud assigHcd-Resolve in favor OF
Ionis Bcnevcit. representative Of Passama-
quoddy Indians; an act to repeal chap. 50 Of
the acts of 1855 and sections 80, 33 and IA of
chap. 81 of the Revised Statutes, and to
amend sec. 81 of the same chapter, relating
to levy of executions against towns; Bill an
act to amend chap. l9l Of Laws OF 1868; re-
solve providing for the purchase and dlstribu-
ton Of supplemental Digest of the Maine
REPORTS Bill an act TO incorporate the Sher-
man Steel Company.
On motion of Mr.. TALBOT,
Adjourned.
PETITIONS, Bills, &c, PRESENTED AND RE-
FERRED.
By Mr.. characterization of citizens OF
Mexico. in aid of petition of selcctmen ct ais.
OF Bangor, for an appropriation. Referred TO
Committee on Claims.
By Mr.. Observation-Disclosures of \. NJ.
Robinson ct ais, Trustees of FoXcroft Acade-
my, against uniformity of text books.
BY Mr. CARvILL-Remonstran of A. G..
Poland ct ais, of Brunswick, against same.
By Mr.. acknowledgements Of ii. F.
Howard ct ais, of Dixfield and Canton,
against same.
By Mr.. observation-disclosures of o. Is.
Cheney ct ais. against same. These remon-
strances were seyerally referred to Committee
on Education.
PISSED to be impressed -Rcsolve in favor OF
Joseph Localexeis, representative OF Penob-
scot Indians; Samuel L. Smullen and sylvia
nus G. Prince, TO extend wharf into tide
waters in Harpswell; an act authorizing
William MeGilvery to extend his railway
wharf in the town of Brewer, and also to build
a Marine Railway an act to make valid the
doings of the pew holders ofihe Freewill Bap-
fist Meeting House in Richmond; an act TO
amend an act to incorporate the Barring
Bridge; an act to incorporate the Riverside
Echo Publishing Association.
Passed 10 lie eaacted-An act to authorize
John c. Condor TO extend and maintain his
wharf in the city of Belfast; an act to incor-
porate the Blanchard Maine State Boiler Com
pany; an act to set off certain lands from sill
yer Ridge Plantation, and annex the same to
the town of Sherman.