The Portland daily press., 1881-02-16
BY TELEGRAPH.
AUGUSTA.
Bill to Change the Portland
HarbOr Commissioners Line.
NEW APPORTIONMENT OF
COUNCILLOR DISTRICTS.
The Amendment to the Liquor
Law Killed.
Continuation Of the Insane Hospital
Inquiry.
Especial Despatch to the Press. I

AUGUSTA, Feb. Is.
Tie bill to change the loaction of part of the
harbor commissioners line in Portland harbor
was read twice today in the House and assign
ed for tomorrow. The new line was surveyed
at the request of the harbor commissioners of
Portland under the direction of Gen. Thorn
of the United States Engineers, and has his
approval. The object of the bill is to give in.
creased wharf facilities which are imperative
ly needed. The new line is not far from par
allel with the old one. and something more than
200 feet outside of it. The full text of the
bill is as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentotiues in Legislature assembled, as fol-
lows:
SECTION 1. That portion of the harbor com.
missioners' line in Portland harbor, establish
ed in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
lying easterly of Galt's wharf, so-called, is
hereby changed and established to run as fol-
lows Starting at point located at the south
east corner of Galt's wharf at the junction of
the straight southerly face with the curve form
ing this (roundD corner of said wharf, marked
by a composition spike driven into the cap
timber about one and half inches from its
outer edge. By reference to two fixed points,
marked by copper bolts and called the east and
west base, the former on the outer pier of
Portland breakwater, the latter thirty-eight
and tive-tenths feet west of the shore end of
the same, the starting point is permanently
located as follows: Angle at west base be-
tween Galt's wharf and east base sc degrees,
minutes. Angle at east base between Galt's
wharf and west base 56 degrees 3 minutes
Distance from west base to Galt's wharf (com-
position spike) $3.50 "a 100 feet. Distance from
east base to Galt's wharf composition spike)
3235 7S-lOO feet. Starting from the point on
Gait's wharf, located and described as above,
the line runs northeasterly, making an angle
of sc degrees minutes with the east base for
distance of 3190 feet to point lying in the
prolongation of the northeasterly side of the
easterly Great Eastern wharf, so-called, and
3l5 feet distant from the southeasterly corner
of said wharf; thence northerly and tangent
to the curved harbor commissioners line
around Fish Point, established by the commits
SECTION q This act shall take effect when
approved.
Mr.. Hatch of Bangor presented resolve
relating to bond held in trust by the State
for the State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts, which read as follows:
Whereas the State of Maine holds in trust
for tine benefit of the State College of Agri-
culture and the Mechanic Arts, a registered
bord OF the State of Maine, numbered 251, for
the sum of $4,000, which became due August
Is, A. d. 1880, and the State of Maine, by
resolve approved March "a, A. D. 1864 direct
ed the Treasurer of State to invest all money
received from the sale of land scrip donated
to said college by the United States in the six
per cent stock of this State, to be inyiolably
held for the benefit of said college, and this
sum of $30,0O0 being portion Of said invest
ment, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Treasurer of State be
authorized and directed to issue new regis.
tered bond in favor of said college for the sum
of $4,000, bearing interest at the rate of six
per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually,
to bear date of August Is, A. D. 1880, and pay
able in nine years from date; the same being
August Is, 1885, said bond to be signed by the
Treasurer, countersigned by the Governor and
attested by the Secretary of State.
The subcommittee on councillor apportion
ment reported the following classification to