The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-03-10
SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Especial Despatch to the PRESs.l

Especial Despatch to the PREss.1
AUGUSTA, March 9.
Bills were reported to incorporate the PEOPLES
Bank of Waterville; Richmond Bank of Rich
mond; Norway Bank of Norway; Sagadahock
Bank Of Bath; Merchants Bank of Waterville;
Sejok Bank OF Ellsworth; to establish the sal
airy of the County Attorney of Piscataquis
county. Fixes it at $3.50 per annum.
Petitions for the increase of the salaries of
the Register of Probate and Clerk of Courts of
Somerset county were referred to the next
Legislature.
The petition of the Saco Rifle company to
be attached to the active militia was referred
to the Governor.
Favorable reports were made on bill relating
to proceedings in Probate Court. 1t gives an
est in real estate the same rights in probate
courts that the original assignor OR grantor
may have; on bill relating to paper settle
ment OF inmates of the Bath Military Asy-
lum; to enforce returns and publications of
statements of corporations; on resolve in favor
of Bath Military Asylum. Appropriates $1,000
for 1881 and S5, 800 for 1882 and $500 for re-
pairs.
A bill was presented to construct railroad
from Monson to Athens.
BIZ to amend sec. II, chap Is, Laws of 1878,
relating to the taking of smelts was amended
so that the open and close time shall be one
month earlier, and passed to be engrossed.
Bill for the speedy detection of crime came
back from the House, that body insisting on
its former vote and proposing committee of
conference, in which the Senate concurred.
Bill to protect the property of numbering
companies was taken up and discussed and
passed to be engrossed-yeas IA, nays 5.
Bill providing for holding annually one term
of the Supreme Court at Caribou, Aroostook
county, was indefinitely postponed
The military committee reported resolve
requesting the Governor to invite President
Garfield to be present at the reunion of Maine
soldiers and sailors next summer.
The contract with Judge Goddard for revis-
ion OF the statutes was accepted.
Resolve making appropriation for roads in
Indian townships in Washington county, was
tabled pending its passage to be engrossed.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
Resolve appropriating $44,O 900 for the State
Prison; bill to amend the charter of the Ken
nebec, Dead River & Mouse River Log Driv-
ing Co.; relating to the Municipal Court of
Brunswick; to amend sec. 4, chap. SO, R. S.,
relating to the attachment of estates of absent
defendants.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Resolve providing for change of the Con-
stitution regarding the time of holding the
state election which was passed by the House
and indefinitely postponed by the Senate,
came back from the House, that body voting
to adhere to its vote. Senate voted to adhere
to its vote which kills the measure
Vote passing the bill for the protection of
numbering companies was reconsidered and the
measure indefinitely postponed.
The resolve in favor of the Agricultural
College was taken up and an amendment
adopted that the appropriation contained in
the resolve shall be termed an endowment
Senator Dingley moved to reduce the appro-
priation to $500 for both years, which was
lost. The resolve was then tabled
Committee of conference reported disagree
ment in the House order for an investigation
of the Bath Asylum and recommended adher-
ence to the vote refusing the order passage.
The report was accepted.
Bill for taxation of railroads was reported
and ordered printed.
Bill relating to paupers in certain planta-
tions was passed to be engrossed.
PASSED TO BE ENGROssED.
Bill to locate highway across Spinney's
Creek in Eliot; to amend sec. 5, chap. 107, r.
S., relating to dispositions; to incorporate the
Peoples Bank of Waterville; to incorporate
the Saco Water Co.; to incorporate the Rich
mond Bank; to incorporate the Pleasant Cove
Ice and Water Power Co.; to incorporate the
Norway Bank; to incorporate the Seejok Bank
of Ellsworth; to incorporateithe Sagadahoc
Bank of Bath; to incorporate the Merchants
Bank OF Waterville; to increase the salary of
the County Attorney of Piscataquis; relating
to the Reform School.
HOUSE.
House receded and concurred with the Sem
ate in recommitting bills to extend the time