The Portland daily press., 1874-02-02
FIFTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE.
Especial to the Press.1
SENATE.

Papers from the House disposed of in con-
currence.
Ihe following bills having passed the House
came up Tor assignment ard will come up on
thelr passage to be engrossed on Monday next:
AN act authorizing Joseph Cbu CHI & Co., to
oulld wharf in tide waters IN Bristol; to au-
thorze the same parties to lay an aqueduct in
Tide waters in Bristol; to authorize Josiah Hup
per to build wharf in Deep Cove, in Georges
river; authorizing William Keen of Bremen to
maintain and repair wharf; to incorporate the
Hancock county Publishing Company; to in
corporate the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pyth-
las OF the State of Maine; to incorporate the
Bath Manufacturing and Commercial Compa-
ny; to incoi porate the Pennington Cheese Nam
ufacturing Company; to increase the capital
stock of the Mechanic Falls Dairying Associa-
ton; to incorporate the Fryeburg Cheese Com
pany; to incorporate the Katahdin Slate Com
pa1y; additional to an act to incorporate the
Gastine and Ellsworth Railroad Company, ex-
tending the time for locating ard completing
the road to three years; to authorize the inhab-
itants o. Kennebunkport to bridge certain
creeks: resolve in favor of Alice McPhail; in
favor of Charles o. Brown of Moro Plantation;
in favor of Isaac W. Clark of Mapleton; in fa-
vor of Silas III Waldron OF Napoleon.
Petitions Presented and Referred-Of VIM.
Hunter ct ais. for r. peal of Washington county
court bill Of 1869; of w. G. Turner ct ais, to
have Isle au Haute incorporated into a town;
bill to make valid the doings of the town of
franklin In relation to school district in said
town; bill to encourage and protect the breed
ing OF trout in letter b pond in Upton.
Orders passed-For publication of Senate
journal; relating to an appropriation to cover
the bridge across the Aroostock river at Carl
bOu.
Reports Of Conamattees-Leave to withdraw
was reported on the petition of the towns of Ad-
olson, Verona and Fremont, for authority to
allow cattle to run at large in those towns; the
Fish Committee report reference to the next
Legislature, with order of notice of petition, to
protect cells IN Damariscotta river; also ought
not to pass, on bill to protect the Nobl eboro and
Newcastle fisheries.
Legislation inexpedient was reported on an
order relating to the challenge of jurors so as
to allow the State to challenge the same num-
Der as the accused in criminal cases.
Bills and resolues reported-Bil to amend Sec
ton IA chapter 134, Revised Statutes. This bill
provides that clerks of courts shall, without
charge, furnish all persons indicted for crimes
punishable by Imprisonment in the State Pris-
on copy of the indictment, and in all indict-
ments of capital cases, a copy of the indict-
ment and list of jurors summoned, and process
to obtain witnesses, to be summoned and paid
for at the expense of the State; and further,
that counsel shall be assigned and paid for by
the State nj n pYpnnd 91E0 for n
one trial. The hill was ordered printed. Bill
to repeal sections 81. So and "a of chapter 80,
Revised Statutes, relating to bay; bill to amend
chapter 1885, public laws of 1871, relating to
river fisherles-the bill simply includes st. Croix
river below the breakwater at the ledge among
the waters to which the statutes do not apply;
resolve in favor of Joseph NJ. Socklexir. These
bills and resolves were assigned for Monday.
Passed to be enacted and sent to the Governor
An act to amend an act to incorporated he PEN
obscot Railroad Company; to continue in force
SO much of chapter 462 special laws of 1868, as
relates to fishing Interests in Lark pond;
granting further time to the Northern Aroos-
Eookstsailroaa oonpauy I'd locate and complete
its road to incorporate the Rockland & Thorn
aston Water Company.
A journed to Monday afternoon at o'clock.
HOUSE.
Senate papers disposed of in concurrence
Petitions DC, Presented and Referred-Of D.
T. Richardson ct ais. of Brighton, in support
of the petition of the Trustees of Brdgton
Academy for Stale Normal School; of the in
habitants of Springfield foT amendment of law
in support of common schools; of j. Z. Leigh
ton ct ais, ct Columbia for same; for an act
confirming the articles of agreement of the
European & North Ar erican Railway Co.; of
d. j. Sawyer ct ais. of JOnesDort for a bridge
over the Peno6scot river at Verona; Of A.
Simpson ct ais, for same; of j. richards ct
ais of Salem for amendment of school laws:
of inhabitants eff Van Buren,, Hamlin and
Cyr, for an appropriation to build bridge over
the Little Madawaska river, township K, rau e
2, Aroostook county; of A. R. Coolidge and l..
j. Thomas, for grant of 200 acres of land to
their heirs; of S. Barber ct ais of Falmouth,
for State Normal School at Bridgton; for in
corporation of the Androscoggin Insurance
Company, capital stock 5000 600, with power to
increase the same to 5000, 900; for Incorporation
of the PenObscot Central Agricultural Society;
of S. Dill ct ais, for The Maine Dairymens' As
ISOLATION; of citizens of Lincoln county for an
act TO prohibit the SEEMING of white perch in
Damariscotta pond; of j. G. Leighton ct ais,
of Columbia, for repeal Of law changing time
and place Of holding the s. j. Court in the
county of Washington; for an act ncorporat-
ing tie Imperial Slate Company of Monson,
with capital of $250,000.
Orders Passed-That the Committee on Inte-
rior Waters inquire into the expediency of max
ing regulations concerning the place and mau-
ner of the burning of slabs and edgings prohib-
tied from being thrown into the Peno6scot riv-
er; that the Committee on Legal Affairs be di
reeted to inquire inGo the expedienoy of legis-
lation requiring the payment of the last pre-
viously assessed poll or personal tax as requis-
tie to the voting privilege; that the State Treas
urer be directed to communicate to the House
as soon as may be, the sum of reasonable COM
pensation paid out of the State Treasury since
1870, and to whom paid, as provided by sec. IA,
chap. 1874, r. s
Read and Assigned-Bill to amend sec. AZ,
chap. 81, R. S, relating to the stopping of
railroad trains at crossings, (tabed to be print
ed); to confirm the lease of abe Bangor & Pts
cataquis Railroad Company to the consolidated
European g. North American Railway Co.;
to amend the charter of the Passadumkeag
Railroad Company, to incorporate the Bar
Harbor Water Company.
Leave to STANDARDIZATION of w. Bates ct
s'e., 60. ...large.-.-.-.r-Glo- puwers or Ifiai
Justices; of O. B. Grant ct ais, for the exclu-
sive right to raise fish in Little Sawyer pond,
Greenville; of selec:mer of Monson TO- au-
thorlty to further aid the Bangor & Piscataqnis
Railroad Company.
The resolve reducing the valuation OF the
town of Baileyville, Washington county, was
on its passage to be engrossed referred to the
Commute on Ways and Means.