Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-02
NAIVE LEGISLATURE.
Senate.
WrpNEspAY. Feb. !


Papers from the House disposed of in con-
eurrence.
Read and dssiQned-An act authorizing
A. +. Atherton to construct fish weir;
an act authorizing Ezra ID. Reed and George
Reed to construct fish weir; an act addl-
tional to the acts establishing the Portland q
Rochester Railroad Company; 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 an act to incorporate the Bucksport Viii
lage corporation; an act to revise and CONSOLE
date the laws of the State; an act to authorize
/. +. McClinch ct ais, to extend wharf at
Shepard's Point Hallowell; an act to reduce
the valuation of the town of Neazie and add
the reduction to Bangor; an act to incorporate
the katahdin dam company an act to author
ice the construction of wharf in York riy-
err; an act to incorporate the Piscataquis
Reservoir Dam Company.
Mr.. Minor from Committee on Manufactures
on bill an act additional to chap. 80 of Revised
Statutes relating to flowing lands, reported
reference of same to Committee on Legal Re-
form.
Passed 10 be eagrossed-An act to incorpor-
ate the West Branch Dam and Improvement
Company; an act to make valid the doings of
John F. Robinson as a Notary Public; an act
to incorporate the United Trustees of the Free
and Accepted Masons of Bath.
Bill an act to incorporate the Cobbosse Ice
Company came up on its passage to be en-
crossed, on motion of Mr.. GRAY was amend
ed as per sheet "a" and passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. VosE, Senate documents
No. 10, IL, and 10 were taken from the table
and indefinitely postponed. These acts re-
ferred to the acts revising the laws of the
State, &C.
On motion of Mr.. LANE, bill an act incor.
porating the Trustees of the Bangor Masonic
Fraternity, was laid on the table and ordered
to be printed.
On motion of Mr.. FULLER, the petition OF
w. B. Hayford for railroad charter which was
referred to Committee on Federal Relations,
was taken up, the vote reconsided, and re-
ferred to Committee on Railroads, Ways and
Bridges.
On motion of Mr.. FRENCH of Franklin,
Senate document No. II was taken from the
table and referred to Committee on Education.
On motion of Mr.. VosE,
ORDERED, That all petitions received by
the mails of to-day, to be presented to the
Legislature, shall be presented tomorrow as
if to-day.
Mr.. LANE thinks we may as well shut down
upon the reception Of petitions to-day as any
time.
Mr. NEAILEY was of the same opinion.
Mr.. VosE gave his reasons for presenting
the order.
On motion of Mr.. LANE the vote was taken
by yeas and nays with the following result:
YEAs-Messrs. Bartlett, Foster, Gray
Kinks, Minot, Morris. Nickels, Rolfe, Sawyer
Smart, Smith of Lincoln, Fose.--l2.
NAYs-Messrs. Carvill, Dudley French o.
Franklin, French of Somerset, Fuller, Hob
ID.
Spaulding, Torrey, Webber.--l4.
So the OF Ter was refused a passage.
On motion of Mr.. Minor,
Adjourned.
BILLS, PETITIONS, &C., Presented AND RE-
FERRED.
BY Mr.. CHARACTERIZATION of inhabitants OF
the town of Oxford for correction of errors in
the State valuation of said town. Referred
to Oxford County Delegation.
BY Mr.. FRENCH of STANDARDIZATION OF
j. j. Parlin and others that the March term OF
the Supreme Judicial Court of Somerset be
held at Skowhegan. Referred to Committee
on Judiciary.
BY Mr.. Observation-Disclosures of Lyndon
Oak and SO others against division Of North
Penobscot Agricultural Society. Referred to
Committee on Agriculture.
House.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. J..
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. HATHAWAY of the
House.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
currence.
READ AND AssIGNEp-Ap act to authorize
c. B. Sanford and Hugh Ross to extend their
wharf into Penobscot river; an act to extend
the limits of the Bangor Boom Company.
Mr.. PIKE laid on the table for the purpose
-
formation of railroad companies.
A communication was received from the
Governor, in response to an order of the
House, transmitting information in relation
TO the completion of the European and North
American Railroad, and that the notice re-
quired in sec. 2, ofthe acts providing for the
defence of the North Eastern Frontier had
net been given.
On motion of Mr.. WILSON,
ORDERED, That the Secretary of State be
requested to furnish for the use of the House,
one thousand copies of the census of Maine
On motion Of the same gentleman,
ORDERED, That the Secretary of State
furnish each Monitor of this House with a
copy of the last Revised Statutes, for the use
of the House.
On motion of Mr.. Hour,
ORDERED, That the Committee on Eduea.
ton be instructed to inquire into the expetli.
ency of providing by law that whenever any
town in the State shall provide suitable free
high school for the youth in said town, it il
desirable that the State encourage sucl
efforts by appropriations of money, the sam,
to be held in trust by the State, and the in
terest thereof to be paid to said town so lonl
as said free high school shall be properl,
maintained, and whenever the town shall fai
to support said school the principal or appro
priation thus guaranteed shall revert 10 tn,
State.
On motion of Mr.. CousENs,
ORDERED, That the Committee on the ,Ju
dietary be directed to inquire into the expedi
ency Of amending sec. ll6, chap. of thu
Revised Statutes, so that collectors of taxes
may collect the tax upon goods, wares, ant
merchandise, logs, timber, boards, and Other
lumber and stock in trade, including stocl
employed in the business of any of the me.
chanic arts, when such property is taxed tc
non-residents, in the same manner that tax
upon horses, mules and neat cattle when such
animals are taxed TO non-residents are now
collected.
On motion Of Mr.. CLARK Of LINCOLN.
ORDERED, That the Committee ON Ieoa1
Reform be directed to inquire what, If anv