The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-02-02
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Especially Reported for the Press.)
ROUSE.

AUGUSTA, Jan. 81.
PETITIONS AND REMoNsTRANcEs PREsENTED.
For the adjustment of freight tariff on rail
roads.
For amendment of sec. 50, chap. 40, R. S.,
so that catfish are not to be included.
For amendment of charter of city lof Gardi.
ner.
For a Superior Court to be holden at Houl-
ton and Presque Isle
To amend the charter of the Boothbay rail-
road.
Asking that the law relating TO capital pun.
ishment be changed,
To incorporate the Rockehanna Improvement
Company.
For the protection of fish in the tributaries
OF Wilson pond in Auburn.
Relating to close time on 1oodcock SO that it
will be changed to July 10th and Dec. LIST.
Relating to fee for recording chattel mort
cages.
For ministerial fund OF First Parish of Tops,
ham.
To prohibit the sale of aduIterated honey.
Bill an act to authorize the First parish OF
Falmouth to sell and convey lands which had
passed to be engrossed in the Senate came
down from that board recommitted to the
Committee on Judiciary. The House concur
red.
The petition for an act to incorporate the
Bath Water Supply Company was taken from
the Judiciary Committee and referred to the
Committee on Legal Affairs.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
In relation to the jurisdiction of libels for
divorce
An act relating to the appointment of ad-
ministrators in cases where wills have been de-
stroyed.
To repeal sec. 8, Of chap. 80, of R. S., of
An act in relation to the Union Water Pow
er Company.
Amending sec 4, chap. 14O, relating to the
fCf fC T1MYga al -.
State prison will be vested in the Governor
and Council, but its government and direction
are In board of three prison and jail inspec-
tors. one warden, one deputy warden, one
CLERK, one oommissary, ten guards and such
number of overssers and aids as the inspectors
determine to be necessary.
70 compel speedy trials of cases against cor
porations and firms.
To incorporate the Provident Aid Society,"
To provide for the organization of Mutual
Relief Associations.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Leave to withdraw on petition of clerk Bark
ahegan Dam Company for increase of tolls; on
petition OF Lake Auburn Mineral Spring Com
pany for authority to navigate Wilson Pond
Tor t1ve years; ought not to pass on act to es-
tablish Superior Court in Androscoggin
county.
ORDERS ADOPTED.
Orders of inquiry were adopted relating to
SECURING d JUST anu equitable appOrblOmE16ut
of the amount to be paid by the State, annual
ly, to cities and towns in which railroad stock
is held exempted from other than State taxa
tion by sec. Al, of chap. 6, Of r. s.; of in
ereasing the salary of the secretary Of the
Board of Agriculture; in regard to contagious
diseases OF animals with the view OF determine
ing whether it is sufficient for the protection
of the stock interest of the State; SO amending
the Statutes that the testimony OF deceased
witness may be used in subsequent trials of the
same cause; to investigate the criminal costs
OF Kennebec county; increasing the pay OF
county commissioners of Washington county,
and as to whether their compensation is
equitable and just.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act relating to the cona pensation of
county commissioners for Piscataquis county
to restore and increase the salary of the county
attorney OF Piscataquis; to amend an act to in
corporate the Bath Military and Naval Or
phan Asylum; an act relating to drains and
common sewers in the town of Brewer to in
crease the capital stock OF the Merchants Ma
rine Railway Company.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
Resolve in favor of the joint standing COM
mittse on military affairs; an act to amend
sec. 25, of chap. 40. of the R. S., relating to
the taking of CLAIMS and shell-fsh; and act to
amend secs. l and of chap 122 OF r. S rela.
tive TO the penalty for the crime of perjury.