Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-02-16
House..
TUESDAY, Feb. Is

/ TUESDAY,, FeD. 10.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. FULLER of the House.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
| currence.
Read and assigned-An act to authorize
Richmond l.. Williams to navigate Moose
pond resolve granting lot of land to Fran
| els Albert Jr. an act to amend an act to sup
ply the people of Bangor with pure water; an
act to authorize David Rodic to construct a
fish weir in Frenchman's Bay; an act to
amend sections l0and II of chap. of the Re-
vised Statutes, relating to choice of highway
surveyors.
Mr.. WHIDpEN presented the following bills
which have had three several readings, the
rules being suspended, and passed to be en-
grossed:
Bill an act to amend an act entitled an act
to incorporate the city of Calais, approved
February, 8, 1868; an act to amend an act
amcndatory of and additional to an act to in
corporate the city of Calais, approved Febru-
ary &c, 1869.
On motion of Mr.. FARwELL,
! Ordered, That the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads be requested to in
quire into the condition of the two great
roads leading to the St. John river, viz. the
road leading from Caribou to Van Buren,
and the road leading from Dalton to Fort
Kent, and report by resolve the amount re-
quired to repair the same.
| On motion of Mr.. SrIcKNEY,
| Ordered, That fifteen hundred copies of
the report of the Commissioners on the Settle
mcnt of the Public Lands of Maine, be print
cd for the use Of the Legislature.
On motion Of Mr.. TwITCHELL,
Ordered, That the use of this Hall be
granted to the Committee on Railroads, Ways
and Bridges, for the purpose of a hearing for
the consolidation Of railroads, this afternoon
at 2 l-2 o'clock.
ON motion of Mr.. PATrEN,
Ordered, That the Committee on Federal
Relations be directed to inquire into the ex-
pediency Of reporting resolves instructing our
Senators and requesting our Representatives
in Congress to favor a reduction of the tariff
on pig iron from nine dollars per tori to three
dollars per ton.
On motion of Mr.. BARTON,
Ordered, That the Committee on Legal Re-
form inquire into the expediency Of repeating
or amending chap. llS of the laws of 1867, re-
lating TO testimony of persons taken in the
trial of civil causes who have since deceased.
Mr.. WHIDDEN, from the Committee on the
judiciary, on order reported bill an act to re-
peal an act entitled an act for reviews in GRIM
inal cases. Printed under the rule.
Same gentleman, from the same committee,
on order reported bill an act to amend Sec
| tiotf y VI Sbdp. ioS vi tiit AscNistu ctotutSo,
relating to jurisdiction Of Justices of the
Peace. Printed under the rules.
/ Mr. CHASE, from the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads, on petition of Daniel
Everett ct ais, for aid to build bridge across
Aroostook river in Washburn, reported re-
ference to the next Legislature.
| Same member, from the same committee,
on petition of Jesse Murphy for remunera-
for opening winter road from Chesenecook
Lake to Moosehead Lake, and for aid to build
the same, reported leave to withdraw.
Passed to be engrossed-An act additional to
chap. 3, of the Revised Statutes, relating to
authorize the lst Freewill Baptist Parish in
Augusta to borrow money to pay itstiebts and
mOrtage its church and lot to secure the
same; an act authorizing Geo. l.. Snow to
extend his wharf into the tide waters of Rock
| land Harbor: an act to make valid the doing'
the town of Dalton.
Passed 10 be enaeted--An act to incorpor-
ate the Goose Pond Dam Company; an act ia
incorporate the Annebescook Steamboat Com
pany, an act to authorize the town of Wayne
to appropriate money to encourage manufac
lures; an act to incorporate the SearspOrt
Manufacturing Company; an act TO regulate
the gathering OF cranbcrries in the town OF
Labec; an act to incorporate the Lincoln
Woolen and Gotten Manufacturing Company ;
an act to authorize William Godfrey, Frank
lin Brown and Hardy Hinkley to construct a
fish weir in the tide waters of Pigeon Hill
Bay in the town of Steuben; also one in the
tide waters Of Dycr's Bay, in said town; an
act to amend an act to incorporate the Maine
General Hospital; an act to change the name
of the Gardincr District Camp Meeting AssO
ciation an act to establish the salary of the
Register Of Probate Of the County Of Waldo