The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-07
Maine Legislature.
SENATE.


AUGUSTA, Feb 6-The President being alb
pro tenn. IN
: papers were passed in concurfe nes.----
I Bills passed to be engrossed in that body on
Saturday were read and assigned
Mr.. Dudley introduced the following:
Ordered, That the Governor be requested on
or before June 1st, to designate for settlement
two or more townships of land which have
been conveyed to the European s. North Amer
lean Railway Co, and City said company of
such designation, with directions that the same
be at once surveyed and opened for settlement
as provided by law.
Several unimportant petitiops were pre-
seuted
The following bills were finally passed and
sent to the Governor: An act authorizing A.
p. Atherton to construct a fish weir; an act
authorizing Ezra D. Reed and George Reed to
construct fish wair; an act additional to The
acts establishing the Portland & Rochester r.
r. Co.: an act to legalize the doings of the
proprietors of the Free Baptist meeting house
in the tow of Gray; an act to authorize l. T.
McClinch and others to extend wharf at
Shepard's Point, Hallowell; an act to incorpor-
ate the Katahdin Dam Co.; an act to incOr-
porate the Madagazeal Dam Co.; an act to in
corporate Bucksport Young Mems Mutual Life
lhSuEduCc w., III dCb " luCOtpUIdtS tilo OOD-
bossee Ice Co. an act to authorize c. b. San
ford and Hugh Ross 10 extend their wharf into
PenobscOt river.
Senate papers concurred in.
Several Inconsistencies, were received against
any change of place in the March term of the
Court in Somerset county; also against incor-
poratiug a fire department at West Waterville
Bill to amend sect 10 chap IS of the Revised
Statutes. l
Petition of Seleclmen of Jefferson for 81 par
ate representation was referred 10 the Appor-
Torment Committee. re -
The following is the subject matter of the
orders:-That the Judiciary Committee inquie
into the expedieDcy of amending line 4, section
5, chap. of the Revised Statutes bv inserting
after the word property the words "all prom
issory notes or other written contracts Tor the
payment of a certain sum of money wherein it
is stipulated that the goods and chattels for
which the note is given shall remain the prop
erty of the payee until payment" The same
committee to inquire into the eXpediency of
requiring municipal officers to priut, week
| before the annual meeting, an exhibit of ihe
! financial condition of the town; that the same
committee inquire what further legislation is
| necessary for the protection of mill owners
| that the same committee inquire if further leg
isation is required upon the removing of pris-
| oners from one Jail to another for greater Sc
| curty: that the Railroad Committee inquire il
| any change is required in sect q, chap. 81 OF
the Revised Statutes relative to railroad fences;
! that the Committee on Education report the
number of petitions for the repeal of the school
| laws of 1870.
| On petition Of parties to be transferred from
| WALDO to East Kennebec Agricultural Society
reference to next Legislature was reported.
| The Committee On Fisheries reported bill
to repeal the porsie law of last year, which was
| printed.
The Judiciary Committee reported bill TO
exempt women from imprisonment for debt,
| which was printed
The Legal Reform Committee reported bill
to amend the Incorporation of the Merchants
| Warehouse Co.; same committee reported a
bill to amend chap. 343, laws of 1870, granting
certain powers to the city of Portland.
| The Committee on Interior Waters repor. ed
| hill to authorize G.. X. Harding to maintain
| wharf in Small Point Harbor
The Judiciary Committee reported resolve
| in favor of Riley Plantation in Oxford county