The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-21
HOUSE.

Aho AoiioWlHS oIutT pdSSeu. 1ndG Tile 6OV-
ernor be requested to furnish the House all the
items in the bills rendered the Governors coun-
Gil by the Superintendent of schsols for the year
1870 also for the year 1871.
A memorial to Congress in relation to the
Niagara Ship Canal was referred to the COM
mittee on Federal Relations.
Read and assigned.-Resolve in favor of the
Maine State College of Agriculture and Me-
chanie arts; resolve relating to the fishing inter-
ests OF the State of Maine; bill authorizing the
selectmen of Harpswell to lay out way across
tide waters from Bailey to Orr's Island and the
inhabitants to build the bridge; bill to amend
section chapter 81 Revised Statutes relating
to assessments of damages from highways and
railroads; act to provide for the preservation of
boundaries of ancient highways additional to
chapter Is Revised Statutes; bill to amend
chapter rs Revised Statues relating to the re-
demption of real estate from levy ON execution;
bill relating to the empanellng of juries for the
trial Of capital cases; bill to fix the compensa-
ton of the County Commissioners of Kennebec
county; bill additional to chapter 113 Revised
Statutes relating to poor debtors.
Among the bills passed to be engrosse were
the following: Bill amending sections Is, 26
and "a, chap. 4, r, s., relating to fish and the
corporate the Biddeford & Saco R. Il. Co.; to
establish the fees of the Municipal Court in
SacO; bill to incorporate the town of Island
Falls.
The resolve relative to the payment of boun-
ties on wild animals, was finally passed.
MI. Millay moved reconsideration of the
vote whereby the House passed the general rail
road bill to be engrossed. The House refused
the reconsideration by vote, yeas 43, nays SO.
The bill to fix the salary of the State Treas
urer came back from the Senate. The House
insisted on its former vote, passing the same to
be engrossed as amended reducing the amount
of the salary from $25OO to $4,000, and proposed a
committee of conference, land appointed Messrs
Titcomb, Perry and Carleton on the part of the
House.
The bill to incorporate the Dexter & Brown
field r. r. Co., came up by special assignment,
Mr.. Lebroke having the floor Several amend
ments were proposed and rejected.
Messrs Lebroke, Stevens, Barker and others
favored the bill.
Messrs Brown, Humphrey, Palmer and 9TH
ers opposed.
Pending action the House adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A bill authorizing the jailor of York county
to remove prisoners in certain cases was pre-
sented and ordered printed
Mr.. Fessenden presented an act to repeal sec.
q private act of 1871, relating to the p & o. r.
r. Co., read twice under suspension of the rules
and assigned for tomorrow
The bill authorizing the Knox g. Lincoln r.
r. Co. to lease the Penobscot Bay g. River
Road was passed to be engrossed.
| The following bills and resolves were also
passed to be engrossed: Resolve relating to
the pay of clerks in theState department resolve
in favor of College of Agriculture; bill relat
ing to foreclosures of mortgages on real estate
bill relating to the injuries by defective high
! ways.
The question of chartering the Piscataqu
railway from Dexter to Brownville, which wa
under discussion, at the hour of adjournment
was taken up.
Mr.. Brown of Bangor having made a Ions
speech in opposition, the bill was supported b.
Mr. Stevens of Parkman, and Lebroke of Fox
croft made a long speech in its favor.
MIR. Humphrey of Bangor replied, and afte
some closing remarks by Mr. Lebroke the vot
was reached at IL clock, when the bill wa
passed to be engrossed by vote of II to 49
amended so the road shall go by way of Sebe
village