The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-04
FIFTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE.

FIFTY-THIRD LIE GISLATURE.
Especial to Press,
SENATE
AUG UsTA, Feb. 3.
House papers disposed of in concurrence
The report of the Commissioners Of the In
sane Hospital was received and referred to the
Committee on Insane Hospital.
Orders Passed-Reating to amending chap.
122 pnblic laws of 1873, relating to poor debtor
disclosures; in regard to the inexpediency Ut
passing a resolve inIfavor of the town of Graf
ton to aid in building road through Grafton
notch.
Petitions Presented and Refered:-Bill TO re-
peal chap. SO of the public laws of 1872, relat-
ing to granting new trials; petition OF citizens
OF Lee, for Incorporation OF the county OF APP
pleton remOustrance of the town of Mattawam-
keag against theAsame; petition Of j. w. Clark
ct ais, for set over draft on single seighs; re-
solve to furnish certain books to the library of
Colby University. The resolve directs the Sec
rotary of State to furnish the University with
Maine Reports volumes to 80, and Al to 60,
Rev sed Statutes of 1871, Acts and Resolves of
1921 to 1873, Inclusive; bound volumes of Pub
lie Documents 1921 to 1868, Journals OF the
House and Senate, and volumes and of the
can be spared without detrment to the State
Reports of Conanaittees-Of the Committee on
Financial Affairs on petition of the Childrens'
Home at Bangor, referring the same to the
Committee on Military Affairs; Of Committee
on Towns, repol ting bill to incorporate the
town of Vanceboro', the bill was tabled; also
bill to incorporate the town of Blaine from
Alma plantation. The bill was assigned for to-
Al T.
sec. A, chap. II, of Revised Statutes, relating
to school district taxes. Laid over to be print
ed The amendment simply strikes out the
word Thirty in the fourth line of the section
and inserts the word "slxty,' maxi g it the
duty of assessors to assess school district taxes
in sixty days after receiving certificate of the
district clerk
Bill to repeal sec. 80, 50 and 81 of Revised
Statutes, relating to hay, was taken from the
table and passed to be engrossed.
Bill to provide for further protection to the
inmates of the Insane Hospital, (Sen No. 81
was taken up. The amendment known as the
Mrs. Packard bill. which had been offered as a
substitute (Sen. No. y was unanimously re
jected The lobbying of Mrs. P. had evidently
been overruled. The bill reported by the Com
ly.
The following bills came from the House en-
crossed, and were read and assigned for to-
morrow:-An act to incorporate the Bar Har-
Dor Water Co.; an act to confirm the lease of
the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad to the
consolidated European and North American
Railroad Co.; an act to amend an act to incor-
porate the Passadumkeag Railroad Co.
Passed to be Enacted and sent to the Governor
An act to authorize John Whitmore to con-
struct wers in thoj ponob,oot river, a,lditivuot
to an act TO incorporate the Calais Railway Co.
and the several acts additional thereto; to in
corporate the Enterprise Cheese Manufacturing
Co.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
currence.
| A communication was received from Hon.
S. C. Hatch, State Treasurer, showing the COM
pensation of clerks since 1870 to be $2625 per
annum in that Office.
Petitions &C., presented and referred-Of
R. Pinkham ct ais of Rockland, praying that
women may have the right of suffrage; of II.
S. Staples ct ais to amend chap. 60 OF the Re.
| vised Statutes, SO as to restrain Judges OF
| Probate from giving all the personal estate of
| deceased persons to the widows OF the de-
ceased TO the prejudice and damage OF credl.
tors; for an act additional to chap. 143, laws of
1873 relating to the Jail system of the State of
| Maine; for incorporation of the New England
Rolling Stock Company. The following named
| gentlemen are the incorporators: John Lynch,
r. E. Wood, J: S. Kicker, ". G Ray, H J.
| Libby A X, Shurtleff, F. Robbie, E. G. Wal
lace, e. E. B. jackson, A. w. II. Clapp, w.
| H. Conant, p Barker G. P. Wescott, S. Han
son, A. X. P: Lord. The object is to OVID and
loan locomotives and cars Capital stock not
| to exceed $500,OO0; of E. f. Collins ct ais. for
charter for railroad from West Waterville to
Augusta; to amend chap. 1888. private and
| special legislation of 1873. relating to the
| rights of the P. s. & P. Railroad, in the city of
| Portland The point of the amendment in
wolves the extension of the P. s. & 2. Railroad
| to Union street. Portland. so as to grant them
the right to take property for depot purposes.
1t provides for the rights of the city and other
railroads; of the Selectmen of Southport for
| change of school laws, 1relating to the manner
| of raising school money; of L. Preble ct ais. for
\ the use Of fisheries Coz tingent to their land;
| of w. f. Coffin ct ais to stock Pennaqu am
Lake with salmon; for an act amending chap.
As of the Revised Statutes, relating to interest;
| of j. A. Emery ct ais. of Thomastonl to legal
| ize the doings of said town in regard to the
property of j. Newhall; of A. H. Clark ct ais.
| to prevent the catching of smelts and other fish
by net in the Kennebec river; of the Selectmen
| of Waldoboro to regulate fisheries in said town;
| of d. Getchel, for reimbursement for timber
cut on his land; of T. Bailey ct ais. for incor-
|
Manufacturing Company, with capital of
$4,000; of C. P. Low ct ais. of Monmouth, for
| incorporation of the North Monmouth Cheese
| Company; of w. Lewis ct ais. for incorpora-
| ton of the North Wayne Cheese Company; of
j. I. Richards ct ais of Gardiner, for incorpo
| ration of the Oakland Park Association; of in
habitants of Silver Ridge Plantation, for sale
| of swamp lands; of Chas A. Kimball ct ais. of
Rumford, for aid in building road from Up
| ton to Andover, Oxford county; OF JAS Ding
| ley ct ais. for amendment of the charter of the
| Auburn Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
On motion tho vote 20 ssirg tho hill nhn~tnrz
| tering the Sagadahoc & Cumberland Railroad
| Company, was reconsdered, and an amend
ment offered by Mr. Reed of Bath. Mr. North
| of Augusta, thought the amendment might be
broad enough TO permit the bridging the
| Kennebec river at Bath, and for the purpose
of looking into it, moved to table. Agreed to.
The bill granting bounty on certain wild an
imals was recommitted with instructions to
the committee to report bill repeating all such
! bounties.
Orders Pdssed-That the Committee on Le
| gal Affairs inquire if any, and what legisla
| ton is needed to determine the rights and liza
bilties of owners making excavations on pri-
! vate lands; that the same committee inquire
what further legislation IS necessary to secure
uniform compensation to County and munich
pal officers; that the Committee on State Lands
and Beads inquire into the expediency of re-
porting resolves maid oflthe building of bridges
| over Wheelock Brook in st. John Plantation
aud Peler Brook in st. Frances Plantation;
tat the Committee on Mercantile Affairs and
Insurance, inquire into the expediency of
amending sec So, chap rs of the Revised Stat
utes as follows And any such insurance COM
pany which shall neglect or refuse to pub
lish such statements as aforesaid, shall forfeit
not less than fifty dollars; that the same COM
mittee Inquire whether the provisions of Sec.
81, chap 70, of the Revised Statutes do mot in
clude Life Insurance Companies doing business
on the note or loan plan from the State.
Passed to be enacted-Bill to prohibit the tax
ing of ees in the towns of Brooksyie and Pc
nobscot; to incorporate the Newport Cheese
Association to make valid the doings of the
town of Mayfeld to incorporate he Rockland
District Campmeeting Association; to protect
and facilitate the taking of Alewives in Dam