The Portland daily press., 1880-03-19
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 10.
BY TELEGRAPH.
AUGUSTA.
ADDITIONAL ACTS AND RE-
SOLVES PASSED.
Adjournment Probable To-Day.
Especial Despatch to the Press.l

Especial Despatch to the Press.l
AUGUSTA, March 1S.-The following is the
substance of recent measures of in
terest to your readers which have passed the
legislature:
The Acton consolidated Mining and Milling
Company has been incorporated with capital
stock not to exceed $1.200O00. The incor-
porators are Geo. P. Wescott George Wal kerr
James Beiley, Weston F. Milliken, Hanson
yr., John s. Morris, Payson Tucker. Ferguson
Haines, VIM. III. Moulton, Clarence Hale,
Clark III. Barker, Chas. M. Rice, James e.
Sturges, Chas. Mccarthy, Jr., Stephen Jen-
nings, and Frank G. Stevens. Authority is
given to purchase the property of the Acton
silver mining Company, Portland Acton
Silver Mining Company, Forest City Silver
Mining Company and Boston Acton Silver
Mining Company, and the sale dissolyes those
corporations, except for winding up their
affairs. The corporation is authorized to
construct line of telegraph from its mines to
any point in Lebanon on the line of the Port
land q Rochester railroad.
The law exempting mining companies from
taxation has been restored.
The State tax for the present fiscal year has
been assessed at 81 ,124 ,26127, a tax of five
mills on the dollar of the present valuation,
The liquor bill has been amended SO that in
toxlcated persons shall suffer the penalty of
not only Imprisonment but labor.
The Canton Bridge Co. have been incorpor-
ated for the erection of bridge over the An
droscoggin river at Canton.
The catching of land-locked salmon and
olack-bass has been prohibited for three years
In Moose pond in Harmony and Hartland.
The statutes relating to election returns
have been amended so that the Governor and
council, when on or before Dec. LIST they open
and compare the votes so returned shall also
have the same tabulated, and during the 80
days allowed for correction, any person voted
tor, either personally, by or with counsel, shall
have the privilege of examining the returns in
either OF them, or any member of the Council
The law also allows the same examination of
returns in the election of county officers.
The trustees of the Reform School, instead
OF being allowed 10 cents mile for actual
travel each way are now allowed actual ex-
penses.
The Saco & Biddeford Telephone and Tele-
graph Go. has been Incorporated The incor-
porators are Frederick T. Brown, John S.
Derby, Frederic Yates, John Quinby, Daniel
Goldthwait and Winfield S. bennett.
The law relating to the taxation of the ca pi-
tai stock OF toll bridges has been amended so
that stock owned by persons residing out of
the State shall be taxed in the town where the
bridge is located; and where the bridge is To-
Gated IN TWO towns, one half of such sto ok
so owned shall be assessed and taxed in each
town.
The Penobscot Valley Gorsedh of Bards and
State of Maine Branch of the Druidic Uniyer-
slty OF America has been incorporated for
printing literature, art, medicine, philosophy
and other branches of knowledge, according
to the curriculum of the bards The incorpor-
ators are Daniel H. Ames, Samuel W. Hos
kins, >. lngraham Brown, J. Henry Lindsey,
Seth B. Sprague, Geo. P. Sewall, Cbas. b.
Sprague, BENZ. G. Woodbury., Chas. j. Shreve,
Louis q. Stearns, j. Higgins Wilson, Charl es
Woodbury., VIM. Mclaughlin and James
Davis.
eThe Free High School law has been amend
ed SO that towns which have established free
high school shall not receive over $3.50 from
the State.
The trustees OF, the State Insane Hospita
have been authorized to erect an additional
building on The hospital premises at a cost not
exceeding $4,000, to be completed in 1881.
Resolves were passed providing for an
amendment of the constitution, changing the
term OF office of Senators and Representatives
so that they will hold office two years from the
day next preceding the biennial meeting of the
legislature, and the amendment proposed if
adopted at the September election this wear
shall determine the term of office of Senators
and Representatives to be elected at the same
annual election as well as those elected there
after.
The salary of the Governor has been in
creased to $1,000, to take effect another year.
The sum of 1000 has been appropriated
for the benefit of the State Prison, of which
$4,000 will go toward paying the liabilities of
that institution.
The Legislature will probable finish its
business and adjourn tomorrow.
Speaker Weeks of the House was presented
to-day with an elegant gavel made from the
wood OF the Constitution and Kearsarge, the
gift of NJ. F. Wentworth. -