The Portland daily press., 1885-02-05
HOUSE.
HUUBEs
PETITIONS AND REMoNsTRANcEs PRESENT.

PETITIONS AND REMoNsTRANCEs PRESENTED.
For an experimental station.
For the increase Of penalties for violations
OF the law in relation to telling grain.
For increased ferry facilities between Port
land and Ferry Village.
Remonstrances against steam ferry between
Kitterv and Portsmouth.
Against additional legislation relative to
throwing wood refuse into the Kennebec
river.
For legislation to prevent unequal and exor-
DltaHt rates OF freightS on railroads. sssa
Against the act to incorporate the Waterville
water company.
Relating to increase of salary of the Judge of
the police court of Belfast.
Against the destruction of the lock in the
Kennebec dam at Augusta
Relating to dairying
For permission to light the Mattaw amkeag
bridge
For State bounty of $3.50 to be paid Milton
W. Burnham, private, Co. K. 31st Maine Vol
uateers.
RESORTS OF COMMITTEES
Adverse reports wers made on petition fer
passage OF law whereby all persons who fur
nished substitute in the late civil war be re-
imbursed; relating to pay of Assistant Adju-
taut Generals, Quartermasters,and Adjutants;
on making valid doings of several school dis
tricEs in the town of Oldtown. Favorable re-
ports were made on the act TO legalize the do
ings OF the selectmen OF the town OF Enfield;
an act to incorporate the Sandy River Improve
ment company; amending chan. q sec. 40 and
IL, Revised Statutes relating to record and
qualifications OF Justices of the Peace; to
amend the charter of the city of Augusta re-
latlng to common council; to tax the salaries
OF Judge and Register OF Probate for Knox
county; establishing the standard weight Of a
bnshel of beans go lbs); to amend sec. l, chap.
132 VI the Revised Statutes.
ORDERS ADOPTED.
That the joint standing committee on state
prison be requested to furnish an itemized bill
ef expenses during their late vigit to that in
stitution.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
An act to increase the capital stock OF the
Bar Harbor Water company $4,000 makiog
the whole capital 100000.
When the resolve appropriating $1,000 for
ths temporary home for women and children
in Deering came up on its passage to be en-
crossed MIR. Moore of Thomaston, asked for an
explanation, saying that if they paid for
everything that was introduced here, and we
put them all through We would have to sell the
State.
Mr.. Dyer OF Baldwin remarked that the
Home operated all through the State OF Maine
and large part of its work which it accom-
plished was outside OF the county of Cumber-
land. The friends of the Home had raised by
subscription 800 of which $4, 800 the house
had been built and furnished. They had rais-
ed further about 1890 by subscriptions. 1t
was impossible to carry on the Home without
more funds. the yearly expenses being about
$1,000. 1t was an Institution Of State charity
and should be maintained.
Mr.. Moore remarked as it was child of the
State he would support the resolve.
The resolve was then passed to be engrossed
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act to repeal those portions of reo. 81, chap.
~ OF the X. $. relating to Nequasses stream in
Woolwich and Copsecook or Orange river 10 Whit
ing; an act supplementary TO chap. 2S2 of the pri-
Vate and special laws of 1870 relating to the Iicon
c bridge between Wateryille and Winsow; an act
10 provide in part fer the expenditures OF govern
men; resolve to appropriate S28 276 Al meet LA
blJles OF Maine Insane Hospta resolve in favor Of
st. Ellazoeth Orphans Asylum In Portland, appro-
piating $500; resolve in favor of the Bath AIliba-
Ty AMI Naval Orphans Home, appropriatiDg S16-
5Oo an act to amend an act to incorporate Ihe Van
Buren laundering &Manufacturing Co. ian act addi-
ional to the charter of the city Of Portland in re-
lat1n TO board Of health resolve in favor Of the
temporary home for women and children in Deer
ing, appropriating ST. 900.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act in addition to and amendatory of chap
act to incorporate the Bryant's Pond and An
Gover Telegraph Co.; an act 10 change the name
OF Annie Dyer; an - act additional to and
ssmendatSry sIsas CRY of an act act to incorporate the
provement Co.; an act to change the time Of
holding the term OF the Supreme Court in Oxford
county, an act additional to chap. rs of private and
special laws of 1866, entitled an act creating the
an act TO incorporate the PassadImkeag Log
Driving Company.