The Portland daily press., 1880-03-02
by TELEGRAPH.
AUGUSTA. ,sai
Last Weeks Work in the Leg
iSlature.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION
ON MILITIA LAWS.
Appointments by the Governor.
AUGUSTA, March l

ApPollUIllcuISA ny GuS 0OVCIuOI.
AUGUSTA, March 1.
The end of the session is rapidly approach
ing, and, in about two weeks final adjourn
ment is looked for In two days more it is ex-
pected that the standing committees will all
have made their final reports. With two ses-
sions day the work of the legislature will be
fastened to completion.
Up to the present time SO acts and Is re-
solves which have passed have been approved.
During the past week 10 acts and 6 resolves
have met with gubernatorial approval. The
most important of these measures are substan-
TALLY as follows:
A law was passed for the protection of blue
back trout in any of the waters of the State
The corporate doings of the Wells Mutual
Fire Insurance Company have been ratified.
The directors of the Penobscot Mutual Fire
Insurance Company have been authorized to
close their business.
The capital stock of the Lewiston Gas Light
Company has been decreased to 100000.
The. st. Xavier's school and asylum at Ban
gor has been incorporated, with authority to
hold property to the amount of 100000. This
is an institution for the relief of INDECENT Or
phans and destitute children.
The county commissioners of Somerset have
been authorized to reassess certain taxes in
that county.
The statutes have been amended so as to au-
thorize the consolidation of schools in rural
districts, and expanding one-half Of the school
money apportioned to the district in the con-
veyance of children to and from school.
Authority has been given to supply the peo-
pie of Houlton with water;
The Waterville Telegraph Company has
been incorporated for local purposes.
The law relating to minors and guardians
has been amended; SO that if person, while
he has domicile in another state, has adopted
a child according to the laws of that State, and
afterward moves into this State and establishes
his domicile and dies in Maine, such adoption
shall have the same force and effect in Maine
as it has in the State where it was made, and
the adopted child shall have the same right of
inheritance as if the person adopting had con-
tinued his domicile and died in the former
State.
The capital stock of the Hill Manufacturing
Company of Lewiston has been increased to
S1,5OO,OOO.
The Ragged Lake Dam Company has been
incorporated, the incorporators being John
Morrison, Elbridge H. Hunting, Eben S. Coe,
Samuel P. Strickland and Samuel H. Blake
The Kennebec and Franklin Telephone and
Telegraph Company has been incorporated,
with capital stock of $4,000. The incorpo-
80 ora 1lop DAI,
and Orville D. Baker. The line is to run from
Augusta to Pennington, with branch lines to
Wayne, Winthrop and New Sharon.
The government of the State Insane Hospi-
tai has been placed in a board of trustees one
of whom shall be a woman, to be appointed by
the Governor, to hold Office during the pleas
ure of the Governor and Council, but not more
than three years under any one appointment
Authority has been given for amending the
legislative records of last winter in relation to
the vote on biennial elections according to the
fact. By some inadvertence it does not appear
that two-thirds vote was recorded in the jour
mails as was the fact.
Resolves have passed appropriating $4,000
for the payment of liabilities incurred in pre-
serving and protecting public property under
the direction Gov. Garcelon, Gen. Chamber
lain and Gov. Davis, and appropriating $500
for the Houlton and Barring road in Indian
township Washington county,.
There was slim attendance in both branch
es of the legislature this morning, consider
able number of members being absent in at
tendance at town meetings, but not enough to
prevent a quorum. Wales, the Fusion mem
boz lIac1. - L.
three weeks, was in his seat in the House The
principal business transacted was of routine
character. The House adopted an order pro-
viding for two sessions daily, commencing on
Friday next
Mr.. Hale introduced a bill extending the
time for ten years for the commitment of pris-
oners and debtors in Piscataquis county to the
Penobscot county Jail. The county of Piscata-
quis has no jail. For years it has used Penob-
scot county Jail under law which has just ex-
PRED, and this bill revives the law and makes
valid the doings of the officers of Piscataquis
county since Feb. of the present year, when
then the lawsexpired, as well as the doings of
the Penobscot county Jail in regard to commit
ments.
The bill in the House which Mr.. Perry, the
Fusion member from Camden, did not want
discussed this afternoon, and which relates to |
the trials OF causes involving the rights of par
ties to hold public offices, provides that any
person who shall claim to be lawfully elected
to any State county Office, in this State, may
suit in the nature of proceeding
in equity, against the person holding or claim |
ing to hold such office, or who holds certif- |
cate OF his election to such office from the |
Governor and Council, or who has been de- |
clared elected by the Governor and Council, |
or who has been notified of such election by |
the Secretary of State, to be commenced by |
petition returnable before any Justice of the |
Supreme Judicial Court, in term time or va |
cation, in tho county where either of the par.
ties reside, or where the duties of such Of
fee are to be performed, aud gives jurisdiction
to that court. The bill is not of partisan char
acter, and is of just as much importance to one |
party as another. 1t simplifes the writ of quo |
and provides for proceeding in |
equity.
The report of the special commission on the |
revision of the militia laws which was trans
nitted to the Senate this afternoon, is a vol
luminous bill numbering 1877 sections. The
in their work have made several
important changes, and also have provided for
The calling out and organizing the enrolled
militia for active duty. They recommend an
annual appropriation for the soldier boys.
A gentleman from Lewiston who came here
.onight, says that it is fact that Gov. Garce-
on, in his speech at the fusion rally in Auburn
Saturday evening, remarked that if those min
sters who have been preaching political SER
mons are going to heaven, he, Gov. Garcelon,
wanted to go to hell.