Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-21

Mr.. FRENCH of Somerset moved its refer
ence to the next legislature so that all parties
may come before the committee and have a
full hearing.
The question of referring was put and car
ried IL to Z.
Resolve in favor of State College of Agri-
culture came from the House amended SO as
to make the appropriation $4,000.
Mr.. PERLEY moved to insist and invite a
committee of conference.
Mr.. FULLER thinks it best to accept the
amendment, else we may lose all.
Mr.. PERLEr moved to table the bill. Car.
ried.
Mr.. CLEAvEs moved to reconsider vote final
ly passing resolve in relation to preservation
of the colors in the capitol. He moved to
amend so the resolve win read as follows:
Resolved, That the Governor and Council be
requested to obtain plans and estimates OF the
costs and manner best adapted to preserve the
colors and trophies, of the late way, now in
the rotunda of the State House. The resolve
then passed to be engrossed
Mr.. FOSTER in the Chair.
Mr.. PERLEY moved to take from the table
resolve in favor of the College of Agriculture,
and moved that the Senate insist on its former
vote and ask committee of Conference.
Carried. And Messrs. Perley, Vose and
Kinks were appointed that Committee.
Same Senator moved to take from the table
bill an act relating to fishing in small ponds.
Concurred with the House in indefinitely post
poning the bill.
On motion of Mr.. Minor the report of Joint
Special Committee on Councillor apportion-
ment, was taken from the table and read.
Mr.. FRENCH of franklin thinks extremes
are made to meet in the report, as Franklin,
Washington and Aroostook are classed in one
district.
Mr.. MINoT answered. 1t was necessary to
class these counties together to make the APP
portionment as nearly equal as possible.
Mr.. HOLLAND is satisfied with the report.
Mr.. FRENCH thinks it would be better to
class counties more nearly contiguous even If
the population was not exactly of the right
amount. Moved to lay the report on the
table.
Mr.. ToRREY hoped the report would be
tabled
Mr.. FRENCH of Somerset favored accepting
the report.
The report was accepted.
PASSED TO DE ENACTED-AD act authoriz-
ing Darius Wellington to construct and main-
tain fish weir in Haycock Harbor; an act
to incorporate the Midway Railroad Com
pany; an act to incorporate the Penobscot
Central Agricultural Society; an act to au-
thorize the city of Belfast to purchase the first
mortgage bonds of the Belfast s Moosehead
Lake Railroad Co., and for other purposes;
an act to prevent the throwing of slabs and
other refuse material into the river st. Croix,
and its tributaries; an act TO enable the city
of Bangor to aid the Bangor & Piscataquis
Railroad Co., in the extended construction of
its railroad; an act additional to an act to pro-
vide for more free navigation of Penobscot
river; an act to amend chap. $50 special laws
of 1854, entitled, an act to prevent obstrnc-
tons in the Narraguagus river; an act to in
corporate the East Branch Dam and Improve
ment Company; an act relating to the admin
istration of Oaths and the acknowledgment of
deeds and other papers an act to prevent OBJ
structions in Union river; an act authorizing
the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor Mercans
tile Association; an act to authorize Edward
L. Whittier and others to extend their wharf
into the tide waters in Belfast; an act to in
corporate the Pemaquid Ice Company; an act
to amend the Revised Statutes relating to rail-
roads; an act to incorporate the Calais Tug
Boat Company an act to amend an act to in
corporate the Warren Manufacturing Com
pany; an act defining the notice on petitions
for assessment of damages for lands taken by
Railroad Corporations; an act to amend an
act to incorporate the Damariscotta Water
power Company to incorporate the Oldtown
Water-power Co.; an act to incorporate the
Trustees of the Bsngor Masonic Fraternity.
FINALLY PAssED-Resolve in favor Of p. M.
Fogler; resolve amepding the State valuation
and abating the State tax in township No. 6,
r. 5, Aroostook Co. resolve in favor of Da-
vid Dudley resolve in aid of road through
township letter f, Aroostook Co.; resolve
relating to the military stores at Portland; re-
solve authorizing the Attorney General to in
stitute certain legal proceedings resolve in
favor of the heirs of the late Capt. Lewey
resolve in relation to lands in the towns of
Madawaska, Frenchville and plantations of
st. John, St. Francis and Wallagrass.
On motion of Mr.. DUDLEY,
Adjourned.
CoRREcTIoN-In the discussion Saturday,
in relation to the Augusta dam fishway, Mr..
Carvill is reported as saying, the fish commits
sioner says the cost of constructing a fshway
over this dam would be about $50, 900. He
put the amount as stared by Mr.. Parker of
Skowhegan, who offered to build and main
tain the fishway for three years for $1,000.
House.
MONDAY, Feb. 20.
Mr.. BoNNEY in the chair.
No chaplain present.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
currence.
READ AND Ass1GNED-An act to amend sec.
4, chap. l24 of the Revised Statutes, relating
to polygamy; an act to amend chap. As of the
Revised Statutes, relating to manufacturing,
mining, and quarrying companies; resolve in
favor of the widow of the late Gen. II. &. Berry
of RocklaDd; an act to increase the number of
fish Commissioners; an act to legalize the
ioings of the town of Grafton; an act addi-
tional to sec. "a of chap. II of the common
school laws, relating to the employment of
teachers.
The report of the Committee on Printing
and Binding, reporting contract with
Sprague, Owen & Nash, to do the State Print
ng, was tabled on motion of Mr.. REED of
Waldoboro.
Mr.. WILSON laid on the table resolve fix
ing Portland as the next place for the meet
ing of the Legislature.
On motion of Mr. WILSON,
ORDERED, That the Governor be requested
10 furnish for the information of this House, a
copy of the report of the Land Agent, dated
June 80, 1870, on order of the Governor and
Council dated Feb. 30, 1869.
On motion of Mr.. GooGINs,
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