The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-01-22
Name Legislature.

| AUGUSTA, Jan. IA. Senate. Among the
matters referred were the following: Petition
| for the establishment of an experiment and
fertilizer station. Bill amending the statutes
relating to the method of voting, and the ballot
boxes that shall be used at elections. 1t pro-
vides that voters, previous to voting, shall an
nounce their names.
House. Large number bills, etc. referred.
Ordered, That, the Judiciary Committee be in
structed to inquire into the eXpediency of
amending the laws relative to the sale of lands
| for taxes.
Jan. 10. Senate. Referred-BiIl relating to
giving bonds by Judges and others who receive
fines in criminal prosecution to insure the pay
ment of fines; bill to incorporate the Maine
Telephone and Telegraph Co., 81. r. Bodwe,
Fred Atwood. Thomas W. Vose, Edward
swazey, incorporators; capital stock what may
! be deemed necessary) bill providing for hold
| ing teachers conventions. Ordered, That the
Committee on State Prison be requested to
make a particular examination into the sanitary
! condition of the prison. Mr.. Young, of Cum
bertrand, presented the order and argued that
| the institution was hundred years behind the
| times in this respect
House. Decentralization for establishing
| bureau of statistics; petition from Brunswick
! for city charter; petition for repeal of close
! time on HOLSTERS, bill regulating the hours Of
| labor and employment of women and minors in
manufactures. 1t provides that corporations
! shall give previous notice to their operatives
when discharged; that no minor under eighteen
years of age and 10 woman shall be employed
more than ten hours for "a day; that no child
/ under ten wears OF age shall be employed, and
none under fifteen during he sessions of school
/ that Inspectors of manufactures be appointed
Ordered, That the Committee on Judiciary
lnquUe into the expectancy of amending the
statutes in relation 10 iails. that sentences
/ longer than one year shall be to State Prison.
Ordered, That the Committee on Judiciary
| inquire INTO the eXpediency of submitting to Il
! vote of the people an amendment to the Consti-
tuition changing the time of holding the Guber-
/ material elections from the first Monday in Sep
/ TENDER to the first Tuesday of November.
! AT the close of The session Mrs j. L. Foster,
I of Clinton. Ia, addressed the Legislature fifteen
minutes on Temperance. She favored temper
ance text books. In referring to the Man from
! Maine she was loudly cheered.
4 Ordered, That the Committee on Elections
/ consider what legislation is eNpedient to secure
I the abolition OF the school district system.
/ Jan. l6. Senate. Referred-Bill to ncorpor
| ate the Boston aud Maine Express Company
with the following incorporators: Frank Jones,
/ Portsmouth, y. H.; James I. Furber Boston ;
/ PaySon Tucker, Portland: Frederick Robbie,
Gorham; }. K. BodweIl. IIalowell; Orvle d.
! Baker, Auburn; George G. Wing, Auburn; F.
| II. Cergue. Bangor; j. IL. Marley. Augusta
/ The company will operate over the Boston and
Name Railroad and ali the stage lines in Maine.
/ New brunswick, and Nova Scotia; capital
stock. $4,000. Bill to incorporate Dirigo
! Telegraph Company, to construct at once lines
| to all the principal points in Maine. to connect
with the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Com
| pany. The incorporators are Frank Jones, Of
I New Hampshire: pavson Tucker. George z.
! We>tcott, Charles p. Mattocks, Port land; j. X.
/ bodWell, IlalloWell; Frederick hobie. Gorham;
/ +. H. Clergut. Bangor; George &. Wing, Au
! burn; William II. Higelow and H. S. Osgood,
/ of Augusta.
Ordered. That the State Prison Committee
| inquire into the cXpedienry of establishing a
State house Of correction for waits, vagabonds
and drunkard>.
House. Ordered, That the Committee on Ie-
gal Affairs inquire into the eXpediency of re-
| mbur,ing the persons drafted under the con-
/ scl1ptlon IN July, 1864. for sums paid by them
for substitutes, or rs communication to exempt
| theretrom.
| Ordered, That the Committee on Legal At
fairs inquire INTO expectancy of authorizing co.
! operative insurance companies 10 do business in
! this State.
Some dozen of petitions We're put in in faAor
OF q. A. X. Encampment appropriation. No
| amount was stated. bot it is understood that
| they will ask for $4,000.
Both Houses adjourned TO Tuesday.
| Jan. 20 Senate. A bill was introduced and
referred, amending sec. 90. chap. LIB OF the Re
! Nl>ed Statutes, So that creditors can oblige debt
ors to disclose second and third time if they be-
| ieNe they have acquired property. Also IA pc
| tition to prohibit the transportation OF pckerel
| and bass out of the State.
House. y swarm of petitions We're present
I ed and referred, a large number being for Il re-
| tormatory for women, q. a. K. appropriation.
and the repeal of The lobster law. and including
one asking Tor that portion of the fish and game
| law relative TO killing and having IN possession
| deer, moose and caribou between the first of
/ October and the first of JANUARY following. be
| repealed.
1t was ordered that the Committee on Educa-
! ton inquire into the eXptdicncy of enactln@ ii
law authorizing school supervisors i'll school
| districts where the number OF pupils is less than
! ten, TO discontinue the schools and provide
tran. portalion for them TO other districts.
Committees of the Legislature have voted to
report the following: Resolve ap;.roprialing
Il sum not more than $4,000, 10 aid 10 enter
/ tanning the National Eneampment of the 6. a.
| r.; ought to pass-l bill for the establishment
OF an agricultural experiment station: same on
amendment in relationt to filling vacancies in the
offices of Registers of Deeds.