The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-06
FIFTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
Especial to Press.]
SENATE.

| The House papers were passed III concur
| renee.
The petition of S. Fl. Norton, ct ais, for
| cheese factory at North Livermore, and an act
to incorporate the Buxton ard Hollis Manufac-
turing Company, which provides that Thomas
r. Lane, E. III. Banks, S. B. Palmer, Chas. A.
| McKenney and j. M. Mason be incorporated to
carry on the manufacture of cotton and wool
at Bar Mills in Buxton, with capital stock OF
S25, O0O to be divided in shares at 800 each
| were admitted under a suspension of the rules
| and referred.
Leave to withdraw was reported by the Com
mttee on Claims on the petition OF Simeon +.
| Walker for services rendered.
The Committee or Military reported resolve
| in favor of the Military and Naval Asylum,
| appropriating SO, 900 for that institution.
The Committee on Fisheries reported a bill
| incorporating the Cumberland Fish Co., with
Hezekah Winslow, Mark p Emery and Jas.
NJ Kimball as corporators, with capital OF
of $40, 900, to carry ON the business of breeding
| fish.
The Committee on Towns reported bill SET
| ting off portion of Berwick to the town of
| North Berwick.
The Committee on Indian Affairs reported a
resolve to pay Mitchell Paul Susup the sum of
ninety dollars for attendance aud travel as dele
gate from the Penobscot tribe of Indians.
| The Committee on Claims reported bill re-
| Installing the bounty on wolves and bears, which
was ordered printed under the rule.
| A resolve sppropriatipg $9,6797O for the
| benefit of thePenobscot tribe of Indians. One
of the items is 500 for the salary of the
priest. with the provision that he says mass
there twenty-four times during the year.
A bill to incorporate the Limerick Savings
| Bank was admitted under suspension OF the
| rules and referred.
The Committee on Indian Affairs reported a
resolve appropriating 800 for the transit and
| expenses of John Dana as representative from
| the Passamaquoddy tribe OF Indians, which
| was read twice and passed to be engrossed.
The Committee on Interior Waters reported
a bill incorporating the Auburn Aqueduct Co.,
which was read and assigned.
The bill allowing the Portland & Rochester
to lay side track came up on its passage to be
engrossed land Senator. Foster offered amend
ment that this extension be not exempted from
taxation, as is provided in the charter of the
rest of the road, and he offered as an explana-
ton that as the question of taxation of such
railroads is now an open question, and that
pending its decision the Legislature should not |
grant any more such rights.
Senator Haskell thought the matter was too |
small, the width being only so feet and the |
length 200, to cumber the bill with an amend |
ment and that this railroad should have the |
same as other roads, and that when the courts |
decide the matter this road will fare the same |
as the others.
Senator Hall thought the amendment was |
unjust to the P. & r. road.
The matter was, on motion of Mr.. Foster, |
laid upon the table.
A communication was received from the |
Secretary of State, laying before the Legisla-
ture the reports of the Warden and Inspectors |
of the State Prison, which was referred to the |
Committee on that institution.
The resolve instructing the Land Agent to |
sell Ether w. Sprague some land in Aroostook |
was taken from the table and passed to be en-
crossed.
The following order was offered by Mr.. |
Emery and passed.
Ordered, The House concurring that the tenth |
Joint rule be amended to read as follows:-
Every bill or resolve of a public nature, and
every bill or resolve -appropriating money, or
dispOsing of state lands or other state property,
reported in either House by committee or laid
upon the table by leave shall be printed and
distributed in both Houses before having its
first reading. The printed copies shall show
by what committee the bill or resolve was re-
ported or by what member laid upon the table.
A petition to make valid the doiDgs of the
Selectmen of the town of Hermon was received
and referred.
The bill reported by the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads, providing that all state
Al IF |
the Governor and Council and State Treasurer,
was taken from the table, and Senator Cutter
offered an amendment providing that all after
the enacting clause be stricken out and the
following inserted:
Sec The time provided by chapter three
hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes |
of 1874 for closing the affairs of the Land Office
is hereby extended to December 81, 1875, and
the office of the Land Agent is revived and
continued until that date; and in the meantime
the Land Office shall be maintained and all the
books used pertaining TO the Land Department
shall be kept at the State House in Augusta
Ordered to be printed.
The bill relating to highway surveyors was
taken from the table and passed to be en-
crossed.
The bill relating to idiotc persons in the
Insane Hospital was indefinitely postponed.
A resolve in favor of Jerome Ball; an act to
provide in part for the expenditures of govern
ment were laid upon the table on their pas
sage to be engrossed. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Senate papers were disposed of in concurrence
except the order of Mr. Holbrook of the SEN
ate, to the effect that members of the Legisla-
ture be paid actual expenses to and from the
state capital once, which was tabled by Mr..
Lyman of Machias
Mr. Halves of Deeripg, asked the House to
suspend the rules to allow the petition of JOS
D.. Clark for reimbursement of expense in cap
turing the horse thief Sterrtt, which was re-
ferred to the Claims Committee.
Mr.. Pillsbury presented bill to Incorporate
the Little Blue Slate Co. Rules suspended and
received.
Mr.. Cobb of Lewiston, presented bill re-
lating to directors. 1t provides that when any
city or town holds one-ifth of the capital stock
of any railroad in the state; any citizen of such
town or city who is freebooter, shall be eligi-
Bile as director of such railroad.
Reports of Committees The. following bills
were reported by Committees and read and as |
signed: Bill to incorporate Waldoboro' Say
ings Bank; to incorporate Forest Slate Co.; to
make valid doings of District No. 3, st. George; !
to repeal act prohibiting catching of pickerel in
Three Mile Pond Vassalboro; to incorporate
Topsham and Brunswick Savings Bank.
The following bills reported yesterday and
printed under the rules were read and assign
ed: Bill making common carriers truckmen,
etc., liquor sellers when they knowingly carry
the same from place to place; relating to depu-
ty town treasurers; relating to the schools of
Bangor; relating to the distribution of school
moneys among smaller districts; relating to
contested election cases in the House, assigned
to Wednesday; resolve appropr ating $500 for
road in Lmeston and Hamlin plantations,
Reported and ordered printed: Bill to amend
lobster law of last year; (noted in despatch of
yesterday0 relating to salmon fishery in st.
Croix river, making the river an exception to
act of las year.
Legislation inexpedient'' was reported ON
order relating to administration of estates of
persons presumed to be dead; same an order re-
lating to holders of bills of banks in hands of
receivers; same on order allowing trespass IN