Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-31
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

| ltksbAS. Jan. ~
| Met according 10 adjournment.
| PRAYER by Prof Francis A. Robinson Of
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary.
| Papers from the House disposed of In
| concurrence.
| Mr.. Maxwell of York, from the Committee
| on Maine State Year Book, reported by re-
solve. authorizing the Secretary of State to
| contract for 800 copies of the Year Book for
| the year 1883 at a cost not to exceed $3.50;
also 600 copies Of the same for year 1884 at
a cost not to exceed $500.
Mr. Marble of Lincoln, from the Commit
tee on Commerce, reported a resolve memo
rialzing the General Court of the State of
| Massachusetts to abolish their compulsory
pilotage laws. Read twice under suspension
Of the rules. and adopted. Also resolve ask
| ing Congress to relieve the shipping interests
/ of the country. Read twice under suspension
| of the rules, and adopted.
| On motion of Mr.. Connor of Somerset, bill
an act to incorporate the Bar Harbor and
Ellsworth Telegraph Co, coming up on its
passage to be engrossed, was laid on the
| table.
On motion of Mr.. Weeks of Kennebec,
bill an act to restore the salary of the Judge
of Superior Court of Kennebec county, COM
| ing up on its passage to be engrossed, was
laid on the table
| READ AND ASSIGNED.
An act to authorize the sale and lease of
| the Knox and Lincoln Railroad; resolve in
favor of the Passamaquoddy tribe Of Indians,
PASSED TO RE ENGRossKD.
An act to legalize the doings of the town
| of Bethel; an act to authorize Converse Pur-
rington to erect a wharf in tide W waters of the
town of Bowdoinham; an act additional
to and amendatory of chap. PIG of the
| nriv afa and anecial laws nf lSf2 entitled nm
act to incorporate the Rockland and Thomas
| ton Gas Light Co. /; an act in relation to cor
| porations: an act in addition to sec. 4, chap.
| 81. of the revised statutes, relating to rail
| roads an act to permit the kennebunk and
Kennebunkport Railroad Co. to lease its road;
| an act to authorize the Green Mountain Rail-
way Co. to change its gauge; an act to change
| the name of the town of Howard in Piscataquis
county to Williamantic; an act to set of I.
| b. Rowell and Walter ID. Butterfeld from
| Hartland Village Corporation; resolve in
| favor of school district No. 2 in the town Of
| Madison; an act to prevent the fraudulent
| removal or concealment of mortgaged prop
| erty an act to amend act entitled ian act
| to incorporate the National Bell Telephone
| Co. of the State of Maine an act to increase
| and encourage the breeding of trout in the
trout pond in the town of Stoneham.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act to protect officers in the service of
| process, civil and criminal an act to amend
sec. 32 of chap. II of the revised statutes re-
| lating to the location Of school houses; an
act to authorize the Pejepscot Water Co.,
| to purchase and own real and personal estate.
On motion of Mr.. Coffin of Washington,
Adjourned
PETITIONS, BILLS, ETC, PRESENTED AND
REFERRED.
By Mr.. Smith of York-Petition Of ID. b.
| Legallee and IL others of Biddeford Pool in
favor Of a constitutional prohibtory amend
ment; referred to Committee on Temperance.
| Also petition Of +. T. Adams and 40 others
for change in divorce laws; referred to Com
mittee on the Judiciary.
| BY Mr.. Weymouth of Penobscot--Bill an
act to provide for the establishment Of titles
to lands among the Penobscot Indians and for
the preservation of evidence Of such titles;
referred to Committee on Indian Affairs.
| Continued on third page.) {