The Portland daily press., 1874-02-05

on Financial Affairs; petition of Flagstaff
plantation for abatement Of State taxes, that
the same be referred to the Ways and Means
Committee.
Ought not to pass. ON bill to amend sec. %,
chap. 40, R. S., relating to fines and forfetures
Next Legislature, an order providing for the
sale of eggs by weight
Leave to withdraw on petition of town of
Deering for reduction of valuation.
Legislation ineXpedient, on order relating to
requiring the delinquent parties to pay the
whole of fence viewers fees; on order relating
to repeating sec. l, chap. 1913, public laws OF
1873, relating to jury fees; on order relating to
a lien on pressed hay.
| Bills Reported-To incorporate the Fort Fair
field Darying Association, to incorporate the
Androscoggin Insurance Company, with capt.
tai stock of 100000, with right to increase to
| $500,0O0 to incorporate the Portland Marine
Insurance Company, 1.-THE corporators are sam
uel S. Spring, Jacob S. Winsow, Japoo Nc
Lelan Russell Lewis, Geo. E. b. jackson, A.
A. Strout, G. S. Hunt, Daniel keegan and
Isaac Jackson,) and the capital stock is to be
not less than $1,000 nor more than S5OO,00O.
| The corporators are to be liable only Tor their
subscribers Or paid up stock. These bills were
read and assigned
The following bills were reported aud order
ed printed: To amend sec. s. chap 136, h. s.,
relating to fines and costs in criminal cases.
This bill is to make justices and judges OF mu-
nicipal and police courts honest in accounting
for fines collected by them. Bill to amend sec.
| %, chap ga, R. s., relating to embezzlement of
property of deceased persons. The bill au-
thorzes the Judge of Probate, upon complaint,
to summon any party suspected of concealing
| the property of deceased person before he is
to be examined under oath in relation thereto,
and require the production of books and pa.
pers relating to the deceased estate. The bill
is not to apply to any administration touching
| the estate of any person deceased at the date
OF the approval of this act. Bill relating to
assignment of school district taxes, providing
for fractional overlap of not exceeding five
per cent Ut amount raised; bill concerning evil
dence in equity cases; bill to amend an act to
amend sec. IL. chap. n, r. S., relating to de-
cisions in the S. j. Court; bill additional to
chap. 80, R. S., relating to the discharge of
| mortgages
Passed to be enacted, and sent to the Govern
or-Bill to project and facilitate the taking of
alewives in the Damariscotta river to incor
porate the Brookline Masonic Hall association;
to make valid the doings of the town of May
field; to incorporate the Newport Cheese Man
ufacturing Company; to incorporate the Rock
land District Campmeetng Association; to
prevent the taking of cells in Southern Bay in
the towns of Brookville and Penobscot.
HOUSE.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
currence
Petitions, &C., Presented and Referred-Of j.
Estes et ais, Of Vassalboro, for right of suff
| rage to women; for an act to amend Sec IS,
| chap II, Revised Statutes, relating to the pow
ers of the Supreme Judicial Court; petition of
l. I'll. Springer ct ais, of Litchheld, for an act
to enable said town to raise for agricultural pur-
poses; memorial of G. NJ. Weston for repeal of
| resolve relating to him, passed in 1860; of j.
| Wilson ct ais, of Sedgwick, for change in the
| school laws; of HI. c. Friend ct ais, of Etna,
| for change in the school law relating to the dis
tribution OF school money; OF w. Briggs ct ais,
| for same; of inhabitants of Millbridge for
| change of time and place for holding the S. /.
| Court of Washington county; of III. Baker ct
| ais, for amendment of chap. g. public laws of
| 1872 concerning innhoiders, the effect of which
is to allow innholders to sell liquor; for au act
| relating to divorce; for same to amend chap.
| 60, Revised Statutes of j. X. Ames ct ais, of
! Machias. for act to amend an act to prevent OBJ
| structiCns in Macbias river remonstrance of I.
Roberts against the petition of T. l.. Roberts to
| build wharf in Bar Harbor in the town of
| EIDE j; of j. r. Hersey ct ais, to amend the
| law relating to the sale of domestic Wines for
al act to incorporate the Trustees of the Eaton
Family and Day School at Norridgewock; of
citizens of Harrison, for change in school laws;
of citizens of Otisfield and Harrison, for a
State Normal School at North Bridgton; re-
monstrance of q. FL. Webb ct ais, of Deer
Isle, against the close of time for taking lob
sters; for bill to amend sec 50, chap. 40, Re-
vlsed Statutes. relating to the taking of smelts;
of w. Whitmores ct ais, for an act relating TO
the use of fisheries on tide water streams; petit
| ton of A. Campbell ct ais. for repeal of act
| approved Jan. 3lst, 1923, entitled act for the
regulation of the taking of fish i'll the Nara
| guagus river; for an act to incorporate the
| Dexter Cheese Factory Co. to incorporate the
| Norrdgewock Granite Co. petition of O. Fl.
| Mason ct ais, for incorporation of the Bethel
| Cheese Co. /; remOnstrance of the Inhabitants of
| Jackson Brooks plantation, against incorpora-
| ton of citizens of Millbridge. against change
| of town lines of Cherryfeld and Millbrdge; of
| G. w. Libby ct ais, of Cape Elizabeth, against
| annexation to the city of Portland; of f. r.
| Jordan ct ais, of Knightyile, for same; of
| Evans ct ais, of Turner's Island, for same, of
| municipal officers of Cape Elizabeth, for same;
| of D. w. Kincaid ct ais, for Incoration of the
Steam Ferry Co., between Cape Elizabeth and
| Portland; for resolve authorizing the Land
Agent to settle with proprietors as to their in
| terest in lot No. q, township No. Is, r. T.; pc
| tition of j. Bachelor, for deed of lot No. 129 in
| Oakfield of G. T. Daniels. for aid to complete
the road from west line of Presque Isle township
| to Pesqure Isle stream; of j. Chamberlain, that
| Land Agent may locate lot granted e Bar
rows on certificate; memorial of the inhabitants
of Cyr plantation, relative to State lands in
| said plantation not yet surveyed into lots; petit
Sec. 4, chap 251, acts of 1873, relating to the
breadth of the rims of wheels to be used in the
town of Dennysville and Edmunds; of B. f.
Higgins Of Jay, relating to duties cf and
Agent; of f. B snnett, for lot of land; remon-
STRANGE of Bangor Board of Trade, against a
charter for railroad bridge over the Penob-
scot river at or neaS Bucksport; petition of D.
Fling, for conveyance of lot No. 80 in Eustis; of
Bangor and Calais Shore Line Railroad Co., for
| extension of time for location of road; for an
act additional to chap. 113, Revised Statutes,
relating to poor debtors; of f. w. Stimson ct
als of district No. 2, town of Linneus, that the
doings of the district may be legalized; petition
of town officers and citizens of Fort Fairfield
for change of school laws, also for change of
pauper laws; of selectmen ct ais, of Palermo.
for increase of the mill tax and change in the
pauper laws; of P. Walker of Brighton, ct ais,
for amendment of school laws; for az act au-
thorizng the Somerset Railroa Co., to build a
branch road to Dodlin Granite Quarry; of C. A.
Lord, ct ais, for Incorporation of Williston
church, Portland; of P. McCrillis of Dexter,
collector, for refundment of overcharge of inter-
est; OF the county commissioners OF ArOoStOOk.
for repayment of certain money; of citizens of
Lee, for change in school laws of citizens of
Mllbridge, for same; remonstrance of ctizens
OF Macwahoe plantation. against its incorpora-
ton as town: petition of j. N. Wadswell ct
ais of Manchester, for reduction of State
valuation .of j. D. Sparrow ais, for repeal
of law OF 1866, delegatng the power of estab
fishing the salary of the Warden of the State
Prison to the Inspector and placingit in the
hands of the Legislatures; remonstrance of the
citizens of Springfield, against the ncorpora-
ton of the county of Appleton; of several of the
Penobscot tribe of Indians, for change of elect
ing officers; for charter for a bridge over
Spruce Creek in Kittery; for an act to amend
the charter of the Piscataquis Savings Bank; Of
citizens of Bristol for incorporation of the
Bristol Agricultural Society and Farmers
Club; of the County Commissioners of Cumber-
land county, for increase of pay.
Orders Passed the Committee on Judi
CARY inquire into the expediencyof amending
Sec 2, chap. 116. Revised Statutes, so that the
fees of trial justices for the trial of an issue
shall be 81 25, for the entry of an action, etc.,
fifty cents, for an execution of a writ lively five
cents; that the Committee on Mercantile At
fairs and Insurance inquire into the expediency
OF repeating sec. &C, chap. 40, Revised Statutes;
that the same committee inquire into the expe-
diency of amending sec. "a, chap. 4S, Revised