Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-09
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

Senate.
MONDAY, Feb. 8.
Senate met according TO adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. DREW Of Augusta.
The journal of Saturdays proceedings was
read and approved.
Papers from the House disposed Of in concur
renee.
Bill an act to repeal chap lST Of the public laws
,f 1874, relating TO idotc persons in the Insane
Hospital came from the House, that branch INSIST
ing upon its former vote passing the bill to be en-
Mr.. MoRR1soN moved that the Senate insist up
on its former vote indefinitely postponing the bill
Pending action that motion, the bill was
tabled on motion of Mr.. CoRTHELL.
Mr. HASKELL, from the Committee OH Rall-
roads reported in a new draft, bill act TO in
crease the capital stock of the Dirigo Slate.Quarry
Co.. and authorizing the construction OF tramway
railroad Read and assigned.
An act regulating costs in certain cases, pending
its passage to be engrossed was tabled en- motion
of Mr.. FOSTER
An act to amend chap As. sect of the revised
statutes in relation to interest pending its passage
to be engrossed was tabled on motion Of Mr.
EMERY.
An act to incorporate the Monmouth Silver
Mining Co., pending its passage to be engrossed,
was tabled Oh motion of Mr.. FOSTER.
An act to extend the time for the location and
completion of the Georges Valley railroad, came
up on its passage to be engrossed.
Mr.. FOSTER offered the following amendment
Add to the bill at the end of sec. Provided tLat
any clause contained in the original charter OF
said Georges Valley Railroad Co." whereby the
State is prohibited from assessing any additional
tax on said company shall not extend or apply TO
this act.
The amendment was adopted and the bill was
tabled on motion of Mr.. FOSTER.
Resolve in favor of the town of kingsbury was
taken from the table on motion OF MIR. CoRTHELL,
and passed to be engrossed in concurrence
Resolve in favor of Crystal Plantation was taken
from the table, and pending lis passage to be n
| crossed Mr.. FOSTER offered the following amend
ment which was adopted And this shall be
in full for the construction Of said road through
said plantation.
The resolve then passed TO be engl6ssed.
An act additional to chap. Co Of the private and
the Oldtown Water Powerand Manufacturing Co..
pending its passage to be engrossed, was tabled on
motion of Mr.. FOSTER.
On motion of Mr.. EMERY,
Ordered i hat there be appointed by the char
a committee of three to be a committee on the
business of the Senate.
And the following were appointed Messrs.
Emery Of Hancock, Swasey of Oxford and Palmer
Of penobscot.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
| An act to provide for the appointment of
| deputy town treasurers; an act additional
| to an act IN relation to contested elections
| an act relating to the city schools OF Bangor
| an act to amend chapter l66 of the public
| laws of 1874, relating to school money; an act
| TO incorporate the Waldoboro' savings bank ;
| an act to incorporate the Peoples savings bank OF
| Lewiston; an act to incorporate the Topsham
| and Brunswick twenty-five cent savings bank; an
act to legalize the doings Of school district No 3,
in the town of st. George, in the county OF hnoN
an act to incorporate the Forest Slate Co.. an act
to prevent the taking OF pickerel in Three Mile
| Poud, in the towns Of Nassalboro, China, and
Windsor; an act relating to the seizure OF liquor
in transit, to amend an act entitled an act add
tonal to chap. q Of the revised statutes relating
| to intoxicating liquors.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act relating to the settlement of persons con.
! nected with the National Home for Disabled
| Soldiers and Sailors in the county Of kennebec
an act to incorporate the Monson Pearl Slate
Co.; an act to incorporate the Maine Boot
| and Shoe Manufacturing Co.; an act to
| knights of Pythias, of Saco, Me-; an act to au-
thorize the Cobb Lime Co. to increase its capital
stock an act to incorporate the Cedar Brook and
| Swift Cambridge River Improvement Co.; an act
to amend an act to supply the cities of Lewiston
and Auburn with pure water; an act to incorporate
| the North Windham Manufacturing Co.; an act to
| incorporate the Ball Hill Brick. and Manufacture
ing Co.; an act to incorporate the Union Slate
| Co.; an act to incorporate the Wood x Bishop
| Foundry Co.; an act to amend sec. 3 OF chap
1893 Of public laws of 1874 relating to disclosures
| of poor debtors; an act to incorporate the Little
| Blue Slate Company.
| PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
| An act to incorporate the National Temperance
| Camp Meeting Association; an act to incorporate
the Arundel Mutual Relief Society; an &C. to
egalize the doings of School District No. in the
town Of Lamoine; an act to protect the rights OF
/ the owners of Petit Menan Point, in the town of
| Steuben; an act to authorize Mellen Gilmore and
/ Luther Gilmore 10 build wharves and piers on
their own land in the towns Of Eddington and
| Brewer, along the banks of the Penobscot river;
/ an act to incorporate the Saccarappa Savings
| Bank; an act to incorporate the Portland Safe
Deposit Co.; an act to incorporate the Mattawam-
| keag Boat Co.; an act to amend an act to incor-
| porate the Martha's Grove Camp Meeting Associ-
| alton, approved Feb 6, 1872; an act authorizing
| the town of Eastport to loan its credit in aid of
building railroad from the tide water within said
| town to connect with any shore line rail-
| road; an act to renew the charters of the
| of Bangor, and the North Bank of Roekland
| an act additional to an act approved March lst,
1869, as amended by chap. All of the special laws
of 70, entitled an act to supply the city OF Bangor
with pure water; an act to regulate the inspection
of fish; act to incorporate the Edgecomb
and Newcastle Farmers and Mechanics Club;
an act to make valid the dongs ofthe town of Ami
ty act to incorporate the Bristol Agricultural
Society and Farmers Club; an act to amend chap.
lib Of the revised statutes an act to authorize the
Continental Mills to reduce the par value of its
stock, and to issue new shares; an act to amend,
so far as the county of Cumberland is concerned,
the law relating to the jail system OF the State an
act to amend chap. ll3 of the revised statutes re-
lating to the relief poor debtors; an act to
peal sections 80, 40 and Al of chap "a of the re-
yised statutes, in relation to paupers.
FINALLY PASSED.
Resolve for the purchase of the Maine State
Year Book and Legislative Manual.
On motion of Mr.. FOSTER,
Adjourned
House.
MONDAY, Feb. 8.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. PENNEY of Augusta.
|. Papers from the Senate disposed Of in concur
renee.
Mr.. NADEAu presented resolve abating the
State tax Of Aigle plantation for the year 1869.
Affairs, under a suspe nsion of the rules.
Mr.. JUDD presented petition of j. w. lines
for deed of land, and petition of the inhabitants
Of Easton and vicinity, for aid in building bridge