Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-27
COMMITTEE WORK.
What the Legislative Committee Are
Doing.
FISHERIES AND GAME.

FISHERIES AND GANE-
| Committee on Fisheries and Game met ves-
| terday afternoon and transacted the following
business and voted to report bills favorable
to the following petitions:
Amos l.. Allen and other citizens of the
towns of Alfred for an act to prohibit the tax
ing of fish from Messabesic pond and its
| outlet for period of two years
John +. Sprague and II Others to incor-
pnrate the Piscataquis Game and Fish Pro-
tective Society.
Baker Tufts ct. ais. of Rangely and Sam
uel Farmer ct. ais. of Phillips to prohibit all
fishing during the winter months in Rangelv
lakes, and fishing with spawn in September
An act to amend chap. 200 of the private
and special laws of 1876, relating to fishing
in IIowes pond in the town of Iermon.
Orestes NJ. Brown and 20 others of Sebago
for a law to promote the catching of fish in
Sabbath Dav pond in Sebago, for the term
| of three years.
An act to protect fish in HOsmer's Pond,
Camden, for the term of four years.
BENZ. Lincoln ct. ais, of Dennysville and
Edmunds, asking for amendment to sec. 2.
chap. 100, special laws of 1879, relating to
the taking of alewives in Dennys river.
Hearings were appointed on the following
petitions:
Francis p. Emerson of York, to have ex-
elusive use of BARRELS mill pond in York;
to stock the same with fish Time, Feb. l.
Samuel l.. Davis ct. ais. for legislation to
see what shall constitute a barrel of herring.
Time Feb s.
Il. A. Cox ct. ais. of Pittston, John Berry
ct. ais. of Gardiner, J. Il. Bodwell ct ais.
of Hallowell and several other petitions to
prevent the taking of smelts in the kenne
bee river and its tributaries, except by hook
and line. Time, Feb s.
Isaac W. Smith ct ais to protect fish in
the Lufkns pond, town of Phillips in favor
of Seward Dill Time. Feb. l..
Joseph Lamb ct. ais. for the protection of
trout and land-locked salmon in the Cupsup-
tic and Kennebago streams in the town of
Rangely. Time, Feb, s,
Nahum Warren ct. ais. of Veazie and in
habitants OF Bangor and Brewer. for equal
rights in catching salmon in the Penobscot
river Time Feb. l.
Ordered, That Committee on Fisheries in
quire into the expediencv of enacting law
giving n bounty on dog-fsh, Time, Feb,
y. s. Allan ct. ais. of Dennvsvile and
Edmunds for amendment to see. , chap. 57s
of the special laws of 1868. relating to the
taking of Salmon in Dennys river. Time,
Feb. |,
INTERIOR WATERS.
Committee on Interior Waters
voted to refer to the next
Legislature the petition for charter
of the katahdin Dam Co Hearing was as
signed for February 9th, on petition of Shaw
& Bros and Others for charter to erect dams
improvements on Shag Rock and Jennings
Brook, tributaries to the Mattawamkeag
river. Hearing assigned for February I'd on
petition of J. s. .Jenniss to build wharves in
tide water in the town of Hampden. Petition
of Atlantic and st. Lawrence X. II. Company
to extend wharves into tide water. Reported
that bill ought to pass. Petition of +. c.
Barker for renewal of charter to navigate by
steam Interchangeable and Cupsuptic Lakes.
Voted. ought to pass. Petition of I. \.
Foery for amendment to the charter of the
Pleasant River Dam and Improvement Co.
Hearing assigned for February 9th. Petition
of Charles 4. J. Farrar for extension of
charter to navigate Richardson Lake. Hear
inc February I'd. Petition to amend the
charter of the Bangor Boom Co. Hearing
assigned for February 9th. Petition OF An
tonic Outlet to prevent throwing refuse into
Vivlet Brook. Hearing assigned tor Feb
ruary ID.
Committee on Towns voted to report bill
To incorporate the town of Van Buren,. As
signed February 10th as the time for hearing
O. r. Skolfield and others, for division OF
the town of Harpswell. The Rockland divi-
sion case will be heard next Wednesday eve
ming. The petition to set off part of the
town of Berwick to South Berwick was
settled bv voting to report modified bill,
satting off to South Berwick all chat portion
of Berwick living south of the old line of the
p & NJ. Railroad. South Berwick agrees to
nav $50 as its proportion of Berwick's debt
for that portion of land taken. George {.
Yeaton. ESQ. of South Berwick. appeared
for the petitioners, and W. ]. Copeland,
Esn.. of Berwick, for the town of Berwick
Voted to allow the petitioners for the divi-
sion of Eaton to bring in bill
TEMPERANCE.
Committee on Temperance listened TO the
reading of a bill BY Gen. Neal Dow. asking
for additional legislation to suppress the
liouor traffic. The bill was laid on the table.
On Wednesday next hearings will be given
on the proposed constitutional amendment
nrohihitinr the sale of liquor. Bill to amend
the liuuor law was referred to sub-commit-
tee. which will report at the next meeting
FIN,NcIAL AFFAIRS.
Committee on Financial Affairs reported
hill TO allow Franklin county TO re-assess the
taxes on wild lands. On petition of the
directors of the Maine General Hospital. ask
ing for an appropriation of $1,000. assigned
Wednesday next for a hearing
MANUFACTURES.
Committee on Manufactures reported
tonight to pass on two bills: An act to
authorize the Little Androscoggin Water