The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-01-26
Maine Legislature.



SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 25-House papers were dis
posed of, and the accompanying bills read and
assigned.
Bills and petitions were presented as follows
and referred: Act in relation to the collection
of taxes in Brownfeld; bill additional to chap
81 Revised Statutes, relative to Aowage; bill
giving consent of Legislature of Maine to the
purchase by the United States of land within
the State for lighthouses. and bill to provide
for the REIMBURSEMENT to the United States
for the above purpose; bill to amend the act
to revise the statutes, errors having been dis
covered.
The following orders were passed: That OF
the Oxford delegation, inquiring into the ex
pediency Of amending special act relative to
expenses incurred in the arrest of Truman 3.
Young, one Of the Norway Bank robbers, 60
allow expenses not yet settled; directing the
Committee on Agriculture to visit agricultural
colleges; directing the Banking Committee to
inquire into the expediency of prohibiting
savings banks from maki0g investments ont OF
the State; petitions of Timothy Downing Of
CheSterville for aid on account tf uninst i'm
prisonment; OF various parties for change Of
valuation.
House order relative to the manual, known
as MIR. CarletOn's order, was defeated and sub
year book at q cost of $3.50 The judiciary
Committee reported bill fixing the time
when acts of incorporation shall be valid un.
less actual organization takes place. The lin
it fixed is four years. Tabled and printed.
Same committee reported legislation inexpe.
dent on the order authorizing county COM
missi0ners 10 grade roads as well as order the
building OF new. The Committee on Interior
Waters reported a bill to authorize A. w. &
r. Friend to extend wharf into Central har-
Dor in Brooklyn.
The Senate papers were concurred in and
the Senate bills read twice, except the petition
OF the town of Newort for a reduction OF valua-
ton, which was referred to the Penobscot del.
egatiOn, with instructions not to change the
county aggregate, and the order relative to the
number OF copies Of the report of the Ipsur-
ance Commissioner, which was increased to
$500.
Among the petitions were the following: Of
certain parties that property exempt from tag.
alton be excluded from the valuation; to au-
thorize corporations to plow marshes; of J. E.
Donnell and others for change OF name of the
Portland Tenement House Company; of the
Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Co. that
Bangor may be further allowed TO loan ITS
credits thereto; of the selectmen of Cape Eliz.
abeth for an appropriation OF the town; to
Boothbay Marine railway.
The Committee on Education reported the
same on petition for aid to the Oxford Normal
Institute.
The Judiciary Committee reported bill to
prevent quackery in the medical practics.
Printed and recon mitted.
Bills were reported by the committees as
follows:-ToIlllow the Augusta Wesleyan Sc.
ciety to borrow money; to authorizes the town
OF Norway to exempt property from taxation;
70 incorporate Home tor Poor and INDECENT
Women in the city OF Augusta; to authorizes
the Penobscot Go. to procure loan; to incor
porate the Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Tele.
graph Co.; to extend and maintain a wharf in
Boothbay; same at Lincolnville; to extend the
time o. rasaay Pan Ga IL Hscm9Iftsa6 ~ars
read twice and assigned for tomorrow
The bills before reported took one further
reading Bill to incorporate the Cobb Line
Company created sharp debate between
Messrs Bliss of Washington and Bird Of
Rockland. Mr.. Pike called up the order sub.
uniting. questions to the Supreme Court and
moved to strike out and substitute two enquir-
les which embodied all the questions relative to
the constitutional power of towns to authorize
law aid to manufactures Mr. Cleaves pre-.
scented the order yesterday, relative to exempt
ing women from imprisonment for debt, and
Mr.. Haskell the order relative to jurymen; to
build bridge across long creek; Of A. B. Hoff
and others for charter to authorize the Bos.
ton and Maine R. r. Co., to extend their road
to Portland and for a charter for the Portland
and York Shore Line r. r. Co;o A. W.
Dana and others for a charter for railroad
from Springyale to Portsmouth of Lubec par
ties for change OF fishing laws; of j. O. Smith
aid others against the repeal of school laws;
bill relative to the literary societies of Bates
College; for KenDebunk Savings Bank; to in
corporate Portland Air Co.
MIR, Sewall OF Oldtown, presented a series of
resolutions in favor of Portland railroad lioe
from Portland to Chicago, approving of the
bill introduced by Senator Hamln in Con-
gress
Orders That the Judiciary Committee see if
any legislation is necessary to protect the
rights of creditors of insolvent estates against
the unadjusted claims of mortgages; that the
same comu,!ttee see if it is not expediept to
change the law so as to allow appeals 10 be
taken to the Supreme Judicial Court from the
decision OF joint boards of county commission.
ers relating 10 ways in more than one county;
that the Committee on Legal Reforms be in.
structed to take into consideration the expedi-
ency of exemptiDg cows from taxation and tax.
ing carriages, gold and silver plate, musical in
struments, &c. An order was also passed sim.
liar to that OF the Senate relative to savings
banks.
Report Of Committees -Legisation inexpedi.
ent on order relating to the expediency Of re-
curing the same Judge to bold two successive
terms OF court in the same county; relating to
actions of soldiers on plantations for recovery
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