The Portland daily press., 1874-01-24
FIFTY.THIRD LEGISLATURE.
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of in concurrence ~ &
BiHs, Petitions &C., Presented and Referred,
Ut James Babcock and others for the cEnntv of
Appleton; OF +. Shaw for reimbursement .of
State tax enormously collected; of the TINS
tees of Colby University for amendment of
charter, repeating that part making the Presi
dent OF the College, ex-officiO a member of the
Board of Trustees, and allowing them to elect
their own President; of E. E. Brown and others
Tor change in pauper, laws limiting the time
Tor acquiring settlement to one year, and that
lliegtimate children follow the settlement
OF their mothers; bill TO Incorporate the Farm
lngton Cheese Manufacturing Company. ~
leiaslng to morality and decency; petition or
j. u. Hamilton ct ais, for Incorporation of
Cheoeague Island Wharf Company.
orders pdssed-That the Committee on the
Judiciary inquire whether the Cumberland and
oxford Canal has not failed to be of public use
or benefit; and whether the stockholders in
SAID canal, having failed to keep the same in
repair SO as to permit the transportation of
goods and other commodities on said canal, any
further legislation is expedient or necessary to
enable adjacent land owners to obtain posses
sion of land taken for the construction of said
canal; that the same committee enquire into
the expediency of requiring deputy sheriffs to
report to county commissioners instead of to
sneriffs, as now required, whose duty it shall be
to audit and approve the same; also requiring
each deputy messenger or employe attendant
upon court to present his account to the Judge
holding said court, whose duty it shall be to
audit and approve the same; that the same
committee inquire into the expediepcy of chang
ing the laws of this State, taking the invoice
and making assessments of all taxable proper
ty to the first day of January, 1874, instead of
April, as the law now requires; that the Com
mittee on Legal Affairs inquire into the expe-
diency of some further provision of law to pre-
vent frauds and gambling on railroad cars; that
the same committee inquire in the expediency
of amending section 5 chapter 116, Revised
Statutes, by adding, Sand if the precept bears
written amendment that the same be return
ed by mail or express, then only actual travel
and postage or express charges are to be allow
ed" that the Committee on Judiciary inquire
into the expediency of SO amending the stat 1
utes relative to liens 50 as to give laborers on
bark a lien on the same for their personal SER
vices; that the Committee on Legal Affairs in
quire into the expediency of amending section
AZ chapter 6, Revised Statutes, relative to the
taxation of land in unincorporated townships;
that the Committee on Agriculture inquire into
the exnediency of a law to better protect tine
sheep husbandry from destruction by dogs;
that the Committee on Financial Affairs in
quire into the expediency Of maxine it the duty
of the State Treasurer to publish in his annual
report at the close of each fiscal year state
ment of the indebtedness, if any, of each city,
town and plantation for the State taxes impos-
ed thereon, specifying as far as may be conven-
lent, in tabular form the several years for which
the amount or amounts of such indebtedness
may be outstanding against them; that one on
the part of the House and one on the part of
the Senate be added to the Joint Select Com
mittee on State Prison, making said committee
to consist of five instead of three; the Senate
concurring, th at the Legislature adjourn final
-ly on the 18th Of February next; that the use
of the Hall be rendered Enoch Knight for the
delivery Of his lecture February Sd; that the
petition of inhabitants of Vanceboro' for in
cooperating into town be taken from the table
and referred.
On motion of Mr. Powers Of Honlton, the
vote yesterday legalizing the doings of Van
Buren, Plantation was reconsidered and refer
red back to the proper committee. A spicy dis
custom took place pending the motion between
Messrs. Powers and Keegan of Madawaska.
Passed to be enaeted-Bill Incorporating the
Bangor Foundry and Machine Company.
HOUSE.
Senate papers were disposed of in concur
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{ Mr. Talbot Of East Machias, rose to ques-
ton of privilege. He had learned of reports
circulated among the members that he had pur-
posed to force upon the House yesterday COM
mittee on the State Prison order introduced by
him He disclaimed any such purpose.
Petitions Presented and Referred-Of A. s.
Farnsworth ct ais, in aid of petition of Bangor
& Calais Shore Line Railroad for bridge at
Verona; of the President of the Ellsworth q
oas.las tSF s Ct et fdf x
tension of Somerset Railroad to meet the Lewis
y kennebeek road at the Canada line; of Sc
lectmen of Brownsville for extension of time to
locate and build branch road from Milo to K.
>. l. w orkS: for an act to make valid the do
ings OF the town of Brighton; of inhabitants
OF Maytield; for act to make valid certain pro-
ceedngs; of r. B. Clark ct ais, of Eas port
for act changing time and place of holding the
). j. Court in Washington county; of NJ. Gould
ct ais, trustees of the Bridgton Academy. ask
ing to have State Normal School established
in place OF said Academy, and rendering to the
chises of said Academy upon certain conditions
specified; of l. Luce ct al, for Incorporate on of
Orchard Beach Association; of A. WATSON ct.
ais, of Cambridge, for change in pauper laws;
OF W. Bates ct ais, praying for enlarged pow
ers of trial justices; of w. Percival ct ais, of
China, for the relief of B. G. Matthews; re-
solve in favor of tue town of Pittston; in favor
of town of Brownfeld; of inhabitants of Bal
leyville for reduction of valuation; of f. league
ct ais, for an act to protect the eel fishery in
namariScOtfq riv nd popds IF n T of
ais, for appropriation of $1,000 from the State
for road in Washington county; of citizens of
Alva Plantation for an act incorporating said
Plantation into town by the name of Blain;
of Thomas Lovely, for deed of lot of land, Sec
ton SO, in Mapleton Plantation, exempt from
settling duties; of III. A. Hurd ct ais, against
any division OF the town of Berwick; for an
act additional to chapter 124, Revised Statutes
Reports Of Connittees-Of the COMMITTEE on
Railroads, bill granting the Penobscot & Lake
Megantic Railroad Company further time of
three years in addition to the time allowed by
its charter, within which to locate and con-
struct its road Mr.. Palmer of Penohscot from
the Committee on Insane Hospital, reported IAN
act to provide further protection to inmates of
the Insane Hospital, and to guard against FER
ror in commitments thereto" which was laid
over to be printed. mo itlNf
The committee on Education, reported Dill
to establish the Maine Industrial School for
Girls; also resolve appropriating the sum of
$12,5OO to endowment and maintain the
same 9f. .sill
A minority report was submitted by Mr.. Fos-
ter of Oxford, upon the same subject, that leg
islation thereon is inexpedient. The reports
were tabled and ordered to be printed. ~ -
A bill to incorporate the Hancock Stone Com
pany was passed to be engrossed
Passed to be Enacted and seLt to Governor
for approval-Bill to incorporate the Bangor
Foundry and Machine Company. t--A T.
NEW YORK. ss ef .-s-r'a
s The Plymouth Trouble.
A prominent member of Plymouth Church
says:-s'The Church will stand by its pastor
and that efforts to revive the old scandal will