Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-08
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assigned.
3 Mr.. WnIrcoMB from the same committee,
% petition, reported bill an act to prevent
lie casting of sawdust and other refuse into
Stevens and Willett's brooks in Bridgton.
Read and assigned.
Mr.. KESNIsToN from the same committee,
'eported legislation inexpedient on petition
Tor Il law regulating the scaling of logs on the
Penobscot.
Mr.. COOLING from the Committee on Ed
,eation, on petition, reported resolve in
favor of the Oxford Normal Institute. Read,
ordered printed and assigned.
Mr.. KEEGAN from the Committee on Claims
IN petition for reimbursement of money paid
tor 4 substitute, reported n resolve in favor
If Morris Phillips.
Mr.. CARLETON moved the indefinite post
ponement OF the resolve; pending which the
same was tabled.
Mr. KEEGAN from the same committee, on
petition. reported resolve in favor ef
Simon +. Walker. Read and assigned
Mr.. RANDALL, from the Committee on State
Lands, on petition, reported resolve IN IA
vor of Oliver Cook. Read aud assigned.
Reported leave to withdraw on petition OF
Henry Rolf for remuneration for lot OF md
Mr.. CRANDoS. from the Committee on State
Lands reported leave to withdraw on petition
u tOScpH NdItlu IL GSeu VI idhp nio'
same report on petition of Alonzo L. Kicker
| for remuneration for timber cut upon mis-
| land.
| Mr.. STANLEY. from the Committee on Fish
cries, on petition, reported bill to prevent
the taking of pickerel in Worthley pond in
Oxford county. Read and assigned
Mr.. WHITMoRE, from the same committee,
reported leave TO withdraw on petition OF
Isaac West for the right TO build fish weir
in Pigeon Hill Bay, in Steuben.
Mr.. POTTER, from the same committee, on
petition, reported bill an act to prevent the
destruction of pickerel in Lovejoy's pond, in
the town of Albion. Read, and amended on
motion of Mr.. CARLETON, and assigned.
| Mr.. CORNISH, from the Committee on Di-
vision of Towns, on petition, reported bill an
act to re annex a part of Limerick to the
town Of Limington.
| Mr.. KING, of the same committee, made a
minority report, giving the petitioners leave
to withdraw.
| Mr.. King moved that the minority report
be substituted tor the majority report, pend
ing which the reports were tabled, and order
ed to be printed.
Mr.. PORTER from the committee on FL
nance, reported ought to pass on bill an acl
to fix the salary of the Treasurer of th'
State. Read and assigned.
Same member from the same committee
reported a bill to provide in part for the ex
penditures of the government. Read tn,
second time and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. WOODBURY. from the Railroad com
mittee, on petition, reported bill to author
ize the extension of the Kennebec & Wis
casset railroad, and to amend existing acts
relating to the same. Bill tabled and ordered
printed.
Mr. PERKINS from the Franklin County
| Delegation, on petition, reported a resolve
| for correction of the State valuation in that
county. Read and assigned.
READ AND AssIGNEp.-An act additional to
chap GA of the Revised Statutes relating to
executors and administrators; an act &c
repeal sec. 81. chap. ), of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to the deeds given by settlers
OH the public lands an act to amend sec. 5
of chap. II Of the Revised Statutes, relating
to equity jurisdiction of the Supreme Judicial
Court.
corporate the Oriental Powder Mills; an act
to amend the charter Of the Saco River Rail
road Company resolve in favor of the
Passamaquoddy Tribe Of Indians.
Resolve in favor of Limerick Academy, and
resolve in favor of Lebanon Academy, were
read the second time, and pending their pas
sage to be enerossed were tabled on motion
of Mr.. CARLETON.
Resolve in aid of building roads in ARGOS
took county, on its passage to be engrossed,
was tabled on motion of Mr.. PIKE.
Resolve in favor Of roads in Perkins and
Washington Plantations in Franklin county,
on its passage TO be engrossed, was tabled on
motion OF Mr.. CARLETON.
! Bill an act to amend sec. II of chap. ZIG
of the Revised Statutes, relating to taxation
| rf road tba third nd
mitted on motion of Mr. PORTER.
Bill an act to prevent the use of narrow
trimmed wheels in the towns of Addison and
Columbia was amended on motion of Mr.
HAMILTON and passed to be engrossed.
! Bill an act to secure a lien on bricks, on its
passage to engrossed was tabled on motion
of Mr.. WILSON of Thomaston.
FINALLY PAssED.-Bill an act to author
ize VIM. c. Holway ct al, to extend a wharf
at Machias an act to authorize the town of
Bucksport to take additional stock in the
Penobsot & Union River Railroad an act to
authorize the Maine Central Railroad Com
pan(hn make loan.
OAotion of Mr.. WILSON of Thomaston,
bilkan act to incorporate the trustees of the
llallowell Classical and Scientific Academy
was taken from the table and passed to be
enacted.
Bill an act to incorporate the Lewiston &
Auburn Railroad Company, came up in or
der, the question being on passing the same
| to be engrossed.
Mr.. HAMILTON opposed its passage. This
bill asks for FIVE miles of railroad from the
cities of Lewiston and Auburn to Danville
junction, simple thing on the face of it, but
there are considerations which should cause
as to pause and deal carefully with the mat
ter. The inhabitants of these two cities only,
ask for it, and why? Because they say they
need better accommodations for the transpor-
taton of freight and passengers. If he was
correctly informed, they have as good rail-
road facilities in those two cities as any other
city in the State. No arguments have been
adduced to show that the road called for is
public necessity. The powerful lobby that
has been here from those two cities - more
powerful than he had ever known-had
shown no good argument in the light of all
the facts that we have had, why this charter
should be granted.
He referred to the number of trains which
| leave those cities daily, to show that they
were amply accommodated For the purpose
of accommodating these people the Maine
Central Railroad Company has expended six
hundred thousand dollars. They have done
this that the people may have close connec-