The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-08
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Especial by Internationa Line
SENATE.

AUGUSTA, Feb. 1.-THE Military Committee
reported their visit to the Bath Orphan Asylum
and recommended an appropriation of $4,000 for
that institution The report and resolution were
printed.
The Committee on the Division of towns re-
ported a bill to set off part of Letter Plan
tation to Madrid.
Passed to be engrossed-Bill incorporating
Deering Gas Co.; resolve in favor of Hiram
Howard bill changing the shire town of Som
erset county to Skowhegan.
Passed to be enacted.-Bill to amend an act
creating the Oxford Village Corporation
and to make valid the doings of the same;
limiting the provisions of chapter 235 of the
special laws of 1872 relating to regulating pri-
vate booms on the Kennebec river; to authorize
the construction of private railway in Bidde-
ford; to incorporate the trustees of the Hallow-
ell Scientific Academy; authorizing the Maine
Central Railroad Company to make a loan.
An order was passed calling ON the Commit
tee on Education for list of applications by lit
erary institutions for aid with amount asked
for.
Bill establishing County Boards of Education
was tabled on motion of Mr.. Harrington. An
act to incorporate the Cumberland County Cen
trail Railroad Company came up on its passage
to be engrossed. Mr. Morris opposed, believing
its effects will be to draw away business from
Portland, and it is only Maine Central idea.
Mr. Chaplain favored the bill because the
road will aid the interior towns. The bill passed
to be engrossed.
An act relating to the sale of intoxicating
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! be engrossed. -
| Majority and minority reports of Committee
ON Banks and Banking relating to Savings
| Banks were assigned to Friday at II o'clock on
motion of Mr.. Morris
A communication was received from the Su-
| perintendent of Schools in response to an order
of the House transmitting an exhibit OF school
taxation. A communication from the Secre-
tary of State transmitted county estimates
Presented and referred.-Bill to amend chap
ter 66 Revised Statutes relating to Commission
ers of Insolvent Estates; bill to declare the con-
struction of chapter 1879 of the Public Laws Of
1870 relating to interest; bill to authorize George
Marks and A. H. Fogg to extend a wharf into
tide waters in the town of ST. George.
Orders passed.-That the Committee on Ju
dietary inquire if legislation is necessary t.
compel chartered corporations to strictly con
strue the terms of their charters and conform
thereto; that the same Committee inquire int
the expediency of amending chapter relating
to the sale of public lands; that the same Com
mittee inquire into the expediency of repeating
section II, chapter II Revised Statutes relatin
to license to carry into effect contracts of de
ceased persons
Leave to ,oithdraD was reported by Commit
tee on various matters of minor importance.
Read and assigned.-Bill to extend the Ker
nebec & Wiscasset Railroad Co.; resolve in ia
vor of the Oxford Normal Institute; bill to pre-
vide in part for the expenditures of the Stat
government; bill to amend section 8, chapter
of Revised Statutes relating to the equity jur
diction of the s. J. Court bill to institute Ha
Dor Masters in towns; bill to fix the salary
State Treasurer
Passed to be engrossed.-Bill to prevent tn
use of narrow trimmed wheels in Columbia an
r Addison; bill to amend the charter of the Sac
River Railroad Co.. (; bill to incorporate the Oh