Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-01

ing the powers and duties OF the Railroad
Commissioners, in regard to requiring Rail
road Companies to maintain stations, or de-
pots for freight and passengers, when the
public convenience and necessity in theii
| opinion require it.
On motion of Mr.. REYNOLDS,
ORDERED, That the Committee on Educa-
ton be directed to inquire into the expedi-
ency of amending the school laws, so as to
include mechanical drawing among the
branches of learning required to be taught in
the public schools.
On motion of Mr.. GREEN of Wilton,
ORDERED, That the Committee on Educa.
ton be instructed to inquire into the expedl-
ency of so altering the laws in relation to
the election of experimenting School Com
mittees, so that they may be elected for only
one year, instead of three years rs now
On motion of Mr.. Bliss,
ORDERED, That the Committee on the Ju-
dicary be directed to inquire whether any
further legislation is necessary to protect
owners of land by reason of the location Of
school houses.
On motion OF. Mr.. RAwsoS,
ORDERED, That the Judiciary Committee
be directed to inquire if any amendments are
necessary for the purpose of more clearly de-
fning the meaning of chap. IL, of the laws OF
1869, entitled an act in relation to conditional
sales of personal property.
Mr.. CLEAvEs, from the Committee on
Legal Reform, reported. ought to pass on bill
an act additional to an act entitled an act to
enable the banks of this State to become
banking associations under the laws of the
United States, approved February "a, 1865,
Printed under rule.
Mr.. LAMB, from the same Committee, re-
ported leave to withdraw on petition of
Stephen 4. Wilcox ct ais, for an act allowing
the inhabitants of Prescott to allow cattle in
said town to run at large.
Same member, from the same committee,
reported leave TO withdraw on petition of
Daniel Stevens for n law imposing tax on
the owners of dogs.
Mr.. WHITMoRE, faom the Committee on
Fisheries, on petition, reported bill an act
authorising Eliza Morton, or her heirs to con-
struct a weir in Johnson's Bay, Lubec.
Read and assigned.
Same member. from the same Committee,
on petition, reported bill an act to author
ize Isaac West to build and maintain weir in
tide waters Of Pigeon Hill Bay. Read and
assigned.
Mr.. BLISS, from the Committee on Interior
Waters, reported reference to the Committee
on Legal Reform, on bill an act to prevent
the throwing of edgings into the waters of the
Narraguagus river.
Same member, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, on petition, reported bill an act to in
corporate the East Branch Dam Company.
Read and assigned.
PASSED TO ZEE ENGossED-An act author
iZing a. p. Anterior to construct a fish cir;
an act authorizing Ezra ID. Reed and George
Reed to construct fish weir; an act addi-
tional to the acts establishing the Portland &
Rochester Railroad Company; resolve in re-
lation to the completion of the publication Of
the Revised Statutes; an act to incorporate
the Katahdin Companp; an act to incorporate
the Squirrel Island association; an act author
izing towns and cities to hold money in trust
for certain useful purposes; an act to legal
ize the doings of the proprietors of the Free
Baptist meeting House Society in the town of
Gray.
Bill an act to incorporate the Buxton and
Bonney Eagle Branch Railroad Company
was read third time and laid on the table on
motion of Mr. RoBIE.
Bill an act relating to the collection of
taxes in the town of Brownfeld, was read
third time, and tabled on motion of Mr..
CLEAyEs.
Resolve in favor of David Dudley, was
read second time debated by Messrs
Hacker, Woodbury., Stickney, Martin, Kee-
gan, Wilson, Smith of Parsonsfield, Carleton,
Sewall, Pike, Dingley, and Moore of Buck
field.
The resolve was reeommitted to the Com
mittee.
Mr.. PATTEN was excused from serving on
the Committee for Apportionment of State
Officers, and Mr.. Hagar was substituted.
Mr.. CARLETON presented bill an act to
amend an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Cobb Lime Company. The rules were
suspended, and the bill was read three times
and passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. OsGooD of Lewiston, the
report of the committee giving leave to with
draw on petition for an act to incorporate the
Lewiston Medical Institution, was recommit-
ted.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED-An act to incor-
porate the Penobscot and Lake Megun-
tic Railroad Company; an act to amend an
act entitled an act to incorporate the Cobb
Lime Company.
Mr.. Bliss was directed to notify by tele-
graph, the corporators of the Cobb Lime
Company of the passage of an act to amend
the act incorporating the Cobb Lime Com
pany.
FINALLY PAssED-Resolve providing for
furnishing the Maine State Year Book and
Annual Register for the use of the Legisla-
ture and several State Departments.
On motion Of Mr.. GOODWIN,
Adjourned.
Bills, PETITIONS, &C., PRESENTED AND Re-
FERREp.
By Mr.. CLEAvEs-Remonstrau of John
A. Montgomery and so others against change
of law in relation to election of railroad d.
rectors annually; petition of Joseph Howard
ct ais, for an act concerning railroad corpor-
atoms; of c. p. Kimball and l25 ais, of
Portland for extension of Boston and Maine
Railroad; of John G. Hayes and l2l ais, of
Portland in aid of same.
BY Mr.. STANDARDIZATION of Nathl Wilson
to revive charter of the Penobscot X. II. Co.
for sole purpose of collecting a certain de-
mand on said Company; of Joseph S. Smith
and 225 others of Oldtown, in aid of petition
of Charles j. Lord ct ais.
BY Mr.. MINoT-Petition of A. Morse ct
ais, for an act of incorporation for an Ice
Company; of citizens of Phipsburg in aid of
petition of citizens of Arrowsic for repeal of
sections II and 10 of chap. 20 of the laws OF
1869; of citizens of Woowich in aid of same.
By Mr.. CoBB-Petition of Jason Webb ct
ais, for charter for railroad from Danvile
junction through Gray, Windham, and Cor
ham, connecting with the T. & X. X. X.