The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-30
FIFTY.THIRD LEGISLATURE.
Especial to Press.i
SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 20,

AUGUSTA, Jan. 90.
Met at ten a. M
House papers disposed of in concurrence.
Resolves in favor of Alice McPhail, Charles
o. Brown, Isaac w. Clark, Silas H. Waldron,
give deed of lot of land, came up on their first
reading and were laid on the table.
The Reports of the Railroad Commissioners
and the Warden of the State Prison were re-
ceived and referred
Orders Passed-Relating to a law authoriz-
ing the amendment of writs by inserting or
striking out the names of plaintiffs; tending the
Senate Chamber to the officers Of the First
Maine Volunteer Militia this evening for the
purpose of electing major.
Petitions, &C., Presented and Referred Bill TO
protect the rights of the public in the Neycas-
tie and NobleborO fisheries. This bill limits
the price of green alewives taken in Damaris-
Gotta river to fifty cents per hundred, and sew
enty-five cents per hundred for smoked ale
wilkes, and no more, under penalty of not less
than $50 or more than 500; petition of Charles
P. Quint ct ais, to build a wharf in Bowdoin
ham; of M. Lincoln, for authority to extend
wharf into tide waters in Brewer So feet below
low water mark eff Saco Water Power Machine
Shop Co., for increase Of capital stock from
$780, to 100000.
Reports of Commsttees-From the Committee
on Claims, resolve in favor of the town of Gin.
ton: to authorize Kennebec county to build a
bridge, was reported back to the Kenebec
county delegation. The Financial Affairs
Committee report the petition of F. Shaw to be
reimbursed for State tax, to the Ways and
Means Committee.
Bills were reported to increase the capital
stock Of the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co, /;
for the better protection of the lobster fisher
les in Maine; to incorporate the West fremont
Brick Co.. to incorporate the Lincolnville Rail-
road Co and to incorporate the Kineo Slate
Co. These bills were each read and assigned
for tomorrow.
The bill to incorporate the Enterprise Cheese
Co., OF Industry, was read and assigned for to-
morrow
Passed to be Enacted and sent to the Governor
An act to incorporate the Hancock Stone CO;
an act to incorporate the Casco Tanning Co. ;
an act to authorize Cyrus J. Hall to extend "a
wharf in Mt Desert; an act to incorporate the
Waterford Cheese Factory; an act to incorpor-
ate the Elm Dale Cheese Factory; an act to in
corporate the Portland Cordage Co. an act to
incorporate the Aroostook Valley Dairy Co.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Senate papers disposed of in concurrence.
L. j. Morse, member elect from Bangor,
took the required oath.
A communication was received from the
Secretary of State Transmitting the report OF
the Railroad Commissioner
Petitions presented and referred-For an
act to promote the efficiency of the police in the
City of Portland; of G. Cary ct ais. of East
Machias, for the repeal of the act changing the
time and place of holding the s. j, Court in
the County of Washington approved March
18th, 1869; of the Bangor Mechanics Associa,
ton for an amendment of the act of 1871, au-
thorizing the City of Bangor to aid the Bangor
Mercantile Association; of the citizens on
Brunswick, for an increase in the jurisdiction
OF their Municipal Cont; of A. w. Trickey Ell
ais. for change of law in regard to assessment
of taxes in certain cases; Of the President and
directors of the Somerset Railroad, for extern
ton of their charter; of j. +. Harmon ct ais.
in aid of the petition of the Bangor and Shore
Line Railroad Company, for a bridge over the
Penobscot river at Verona; of the inhabitants
of school district No. 10, town of Deering, for
authority to dissolve connection with the town
OF Westbrook and to insure to them their pro-
portion of the school property; of H. Bacon ct
ais. OF Durham. for act refunding money