The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-14
Maine Legislature.
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Heath of Hallowell.
Payers from the House disposed of 10 con.
currence.
Bills were read and assigned as fellows: tt
incorporate the Phillips Savings Bank; 20 in.
corporate the Ellsworth Boom Co.: to make
valid the doings of District No. in Burnham
amending the charter of Wiscasset Bridge Co.
incorporating Rockland and Thomaston Gas
Co.. establishing Municipal Court in Lewis.
ton; incorporating town of Enstis; incorporat
ing Kennebec Ice Co.. authorizing jailors to
administer oaths to poor debtors; extending
Bangor and Piscataquis railroad; act to pre-
vert the throwing of slabs, &C., into PenObscot
river; act to incorporate Portland ROssini
Club; Tor the extension of Boston s. Maine
railroad; to protect bridges from injury by
droves OF cattle: relating to location Of school
houses; resolve liz favor OF State Library; re-
lating to administering oaths; relating to COL
lection OF taxes; to increase capital stock of
Warren Manufacturing Co; to incorporate the
Orono Horticultural Society.
The President retired and Mr.. Cleaves of OK
ford, took the chair.
Bill an act to exempt females from arrest was
debated and tabled.
Reference to the next Legislature was re-.
ported on petition for aid in erecting wooden
factory in Skowhegan, and on all orders relat-
banks and their deposits.
Ought not to pass was reported on Mr.. Nor
ris' bill to provide for calling convention to
revise the State Constitution, the committee
finding no authority in the Constitution for re-
porting sucn bill.
Leave to withdraw was reported on petition
of Selectmen from Milo for reimbursement.
Orders presented-By Mr.. Carvill, to in
quire into the expediency of repeating the act
to authorize consolidation of railroads, APPROX
ed April 1. 1855; also for distribution of paper
credit reports to the House, &c., as usual.
Bill an act to increase fees of town clerks
and constables, reported in a new draft; tabled
and ordered printed. Bill an act to repeal the
chatter of the Cobb Lime Company was re-
ported ought not to pass and was tabled. An
act to authorize the city of Belfast to purchas e
bonds of the Boston, Maine & Hartford rail-
road was tabled when on its passage to be en-
crossed.
The Committee ON Agriculture reported re-
solve approprating $4,000 for the Maine State
Agricultural Society to defray expenses incur
red by the accident at the late fair in Augusta.
Tabled to be printed.
HOUSE.
The following new matters were introduced {:
Bill to incorporate the Mechanics Savings
Bank; to incorporate the Phillips Mutual Fire
Insurance Company; amending several petit
tions against consolidation, and relative to the
school laws of 1870.
Bill! to make valid the doings Of Milo was ap-
propriately referred.
Oruers were introduced as follows: Directing
the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency Of
authorizing towns to have certain additional
powers now given to cities relative to police
regulations; also that committee be raised
on the establishment Of councillor districts for
the next decade, and Messrs. Hobart, Wagg,
China, Emery, Berry of Damariscotta. Foster,
Jones of Springfield, Bishop, Mowat, Andrews
of Palmyra, White and Woodbury. were APP
pointed. Also inquiring of the Secretary OF
State whether the Insurance Commissioner
had not submitted his report; also requesting
of the Senate the paper credit report. This
last created an extended debate on the merits
of the report and the Senate action.
Reports of committees: Inexpedient was re-
ported on bill relating to rights of poor debt
ors same on several petitions for bill to pro-
hbt the consolidation of parallel railroad lines
Referred to next Legislature: On petition
for charter for railroad from Danville juno
ton 10 Gorham. The bill is known as the
grand route. Same reference on memorial of
Mr.. Poor for post road and highway from Port
land to Chicago and Hong Kong.
Leave to withdraw was reported on petition
for the better protection Of aewives in Damar-
iscotta river.
Ought not to pass was reported on resolve in
favor of Bangor.
The conference committee on the time of the
Statutes going into effect reported disagree
ment.
The Fishery Committee reported bill amend =
ing chap. 40 Revised Statutes, relating to river
fisheries; to authorize railroad companies to
take gravel and borrow pits.
The Judiciary reported resolve authorizing
the Attorney General to institute suit against
the Cumberland & Oxford Canal Company for
surrender of its chatter.
Several resolves appropriating money for
roads were assigned for Wednesday.
r = H. nv1d ,oI
for Monday: To incorporate the Jay Boom; to
incorporate the Cooper Brooks Dam Co.; re-
lating to sale of military stores in Portland ;
bill concerning equity suits; bill to amend
chap. 81 Revised Statutes, relating to railroads
printed bill relative to drains was recommitted.
The following bills pending eDgrossment
were tabled: To incorporate Penobscot County
Agricultural Society; to authorize Franklin
Wharf Company to extend its wharf; to incor-
porate the Midway Railroad Company; bill
additional to act incorporating Portland and
Rutland Railroad Company; to regulate fish
ing in Sandy river ponds; bill to repeal porgie
law of 1870, now amended and engrOssed.
The other matters were reported yesterday
and advanced one step.
SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 13-Mr. Cleaves presided
pro tenn, Bills reported, read and assigped:-
an act to authorize the construction of fish
weir in Cranberry Isles; an'act to repeal sec
ton 1st, chap. 12O laws of 1870 relating to TAX
ing porges ian act to secure lieu on bricks; to
amend sec. 10, chap. 26, relating to form of .ac-
tions; to require blanks to be furnished trial
justices by the several counties; resolve in ia
vor of the heirs of Capt. Leroy; an act to in
crease the number of fish commissioners to
three, laid over to be printed; bills, au act to
authorizs the city of Belfast to purchase the
first mortgage bonds of Belfast and Moosehead
railroad was amended so as not to exempt them
from taxation, and passed to be engrossed.
Report OF Superintendent of Common Schools
was received and referred to Committee on
Education. Several remonstrances against
consolidation were received and referred.
References to next Legislature was reported
on petition OF town OF Atkinson for deduction
of taxes; of H. Rolfe of Maysvile for remun-
Grafton ior lands. Leave to withdraw was re-
norted. on petition of M. L. Stuart for aid for
roads in Castle Hill plantation; on petition OF
j. Hilton to tax wild lands in Somerset couu
ty, An order was passed, on motion of Mr..
Morris, calling on the COMMITTEE on Railroads,
etc, to esee what should be done to require
railroad trains to be supplied with tog signals
to be used in case Of accidents. The following
were appointed on the part of the Senate OH
the joint committee OF councillor appOrtion-
ment: Messrs. Hobson, Carvill, Spaulding,
indefinitely postpone bill an act relating TO adj
ministering oaths was lost, 10 to II. An
act relating to location of schoolhouses was ia
bled.
Passed to be enacted-An act to incorporate
theIPiscataqua Marine Railway Com; an act
to make valid the doings of the town of Prem
tiss Jan act to amend the charter OF the city Of
Auburn; an act to amend sect. 20 of CHAP.
81 of the Revised Statutes; an act additional
to amend an act entitled an act to enable the
banks of this State to become banking associa-
lions under the laws of the United States, ap.
proved Feb. "a, 1865; an act to authorizing g.
Wasgett of Swan Island to extend his wharf
an act additional to an amendatory of an act en-
titled an act to incorporate the Portland and
Cgdensburg Railroad Company; an act to au-
thorize Z. X. Harding to build and maintain a
wharf in Small Point Harbor; an act to amend
an act to incorporate the Merchants Ware
House Company, approved March TO- 1870; an
act additional to act to incorporate the PenOb
scot Log Driving Company; an act relating tC
the Literary Philomathean Society; an ret re
lating to the collection OF taxes in the town O
Brownfield; an act surrenderiDa the charter o.
the Maine StatesSemnary; an act to incorpor
ate the Buxton 6 Benny Eagle Branch Il. r
Company; an act fixing the time when acts o
incorporation shall become null and void.
Finally passed Resolution in favor of the
town of Fort Kent.
HOUSE.
Senate papers disposed of in concurrence
In reply to an order the Secretary of the State
INFORMED the House that the report OF thu
Commissions OF Insurance has not been reciev
ed and that he has no information in regard t.
the same. In reply to an order the Governor =!
informed the House that the expense Of dis
bursting the Soldiers and Orphans aprropria
ton for four years amounts to $39714.37 Sew
eral petitions were read and referred, agains
railroad consolidation. a bill relative to tn