Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-02
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

Senate met according to adjournment.
The President resumed the chair.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. MCCULLY of Hallowell.
The journal of yesterday 3 proceedings was read
and approved.
Papers from the House disposed Of in concur
renee.
Resolve in favor of Maine State College of Az.
rcaltnro and the Mechanic Arts (appropriating
Ssz3,22o) was read once, and tabled on motion Of
Mr.. HASKELL.
MIR. TALBOT from the Committee on Fisheries,
reported bill an act to repeal chap. sos, of the
special laws of 1874. Read and assigned,
Mr.. BROWN from the Committee on State Lands
and State Roads, reported resolve in favor Of town
ates 81 900 for road from Athens to Abbott yil.
lage.
Mr.. Brown from the Committee on Public
Buildings. reported resolve authorizing an appro-
P,latlon for chemical fire engine and hose.
Printed under rule. [Approprates S337.1
Under the order providing for Joint committee
for the purpose of investigating the sale of the
lands or scrip granted by Congress this State for
college OF Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,
the following were joined to the House Commit
tee on part of the Senate Messrs. Swassy Of
Oxford Wheelright Of Penobscot and Donworth
Of Aroostook.
communication was received from the Secre-
tary OF State, transmitting the annual report Of
Warden and Inspectors of Maine State Prison.
Referred to Committee on State Prison.
An act to provide for the organization of busi-
ness corporations, was read once, and under sus.
pension Of the rules was given q second reading
and passed to be engrossed, on motion of Mr..
SwAsEY.
On motion of Mr.. SwAsEY.
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary
enquire into the expediencv Of amending chap.
70 OF the revised statutes relating to descent OF
estates.
On motion of Mr.. SwAsEr,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary
inquire into the expediency of amending sec
~, chap l34 Of the revised statutes, relating to
evidence in criminal cases.
On motion of Mr.. SwAsEY,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary
De directed to enquire into the expedency Of
amending chap. 6 of the revised statutes relating
to the assessment and collection of highway taxes
in incorporated places.
On motion Of Mr.. THuR1oueH, the vote ACCEPT
ing the report of Committee on Towns, giving
leave to withdraw on petition of inhabitapts Of
Linneus for the incorporation of Oakfeld plsuts-
tion, was reconsidered. and the report recommit-
ted.
Ga motion of Mr.. STEVENS, bill an act to amend
Sec 81 of chap of revised statutes relating 10 the
returns OF plantations, was taken from the table
and indefinitely postponed.
PETITIONS, BILLS, &C., PRESENTED AND Re.
FERRED.
By Mr. HAsKELL-Remonstrance of Solomsp
stuart and David Torrey, Selectmen of the town
OF Deer ng, against the passage of Deering Boule-
ward bill. Referred to Committee on Ways and
Bridges.
BY Mr.. SwAsEY- Under suspension of the rule.
petition OF Henry w. Poor, for an appropriation
for building road through Dunn's Notch in Oxford
county. Referred to Committee on State Lands
and State Roads
BY MIR. ToLMAS-Under suspension of the rules,
bill an act to incorporate the Deer Isle and Sedg-
wick Horse Ferry Company. Referred to Com.
Inttee on Commerce
READ AND ASSIGNED.
An act to authorize the Receiver of the Ameri.
can Bank to pay dividends on lost certificates;
an act permitting the defendant to give bond in
trustee process; an act authorizing insurance
companies to divide their directors into classes;
an act to prohibit the taking OF fish in NewbeRin
brook in the town of Newfeld; an act to prevent
the taking of front from the Rangely stream in
Rangey; an act to amend sec. of chap. of the
revised statutes relating to the assessment and col
lection of taxes; an act amendatory Of chap. l24
Of the public laws Of ls73 in aid of free high
schools; an act relating to Normal schools; re-
solve in favor Of j. W. Hines; resolve in aid Of
Sola Coly.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act for the preservation of fish in Little Se-
bago lake, in the county of Cumberland; an act to
make valid certain dongs of the town of Yar-
mouth in 1869; an act to authorize Chas. Russell
to build and maintain wharf in tide waters of the
kennebec river at Bowdonham an act additional
to an act to amend an act to incorporate the pro-
prletors OF the Niscasset Bridge Co.; an act to
prevent fishing in Putfer pond IN Dexter; an act
additional to chap. 40 of the laws to prevent the
destruction Of certain fish in the waters of Penob-
scot river; an act concerning the proprietors of
the Sheepscot river bridge; an act to give addi.
tional powers to the Pscataauis Mutual Insurance
Company; resolve for the purchase of Maine State
Year Book and Legislative Manual; an act to
legalize the dongs of the town of Vinalhaven.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An Act amen1ef0rv Of anI 80
chap. 80 of the revised statutes in relation
Webster Mcfarland to build fish weir in
the tide waters at Brooklin; an act to amend
an act relating to the city schools Of Ban
gor approved Feb. is, 1876; An act to authorize
the Laconia Company and the Pepperell Manufac-
turing 90. to connect two piers of their wharves
in Saco river; an act to authorize Gilbert H. Man
chester ct ais to build and maintain fish weirs in
Somes Sound; an act to protect black bass and
salmon in Moose pond and its tributaries, and Se-
bascook river; an act to amend sec. 5 of chap. rs
OF the revised statutes, relating to election returns
an act relating to school money belonging to
school district No. in Biddeford; an act to en-
courage and protect the breeding of trout in Lit.
lie Pond and Little Pond brook in Fryeburg
Academy Grant; an act to amend sec. 3 chap. 81
OF the revised statutes relating to mortgages Of
personal property; an act for the protection of
pike and pickerel in the Berry, Dexter and Wilson
ponds in the towns Of Wayne, Winthrop and Mon
mouth
On motion of Mr.. SruRGis,
Adjourned
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