The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-29
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.


SENATE.
Especially Reported for the Press.)
AUGUSTA, Jan. %.
The bill giving authority to the Maine
Central railroad to form steamboat connec-
tions, which came up from the House, pending
tabled at the instance of Senator McAllister of
Hancock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
For increase of salaries of register and judge
OF probate of Knox county.
For an experiment station.
For registry law for cities of 5000 inhabit-
ants and over.
For change in trustee law.
To create Phillips Village Association.
To increase salaries of county attorneys of
York and Sagadahoc counties.
For repeal of law relating to close time for
lobsters.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Ought to pass an act to incorporate the Bry-
ants Pond and Andover Telegraph Company.
Resolve in favor of st. Elizabeth's Catholic
Orphan Asylum of Portland.
Changing the time OF holding the terms of
the Supreme Judicial Court in Oxford county.
To provide in part for expenditures Of gov
ernment.
ORDERS ADOPTED.
PeooOa
taking of dispositions in criminal cases and in
cases before the probate courts.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
For the protection of legitimate trade by
actual residents of the State.
Incorporating the South Paris Village Cor
poration.
To incorporate the Peoples Village Trust
Company at Pennington.
Providing for the taxation of life insurance
companies.
To give city of Portland authority to estah-
lish commissioners of cemeteries and public
grounds.
To supply Bath with water.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act to authorize the town OF Bucksport
to retire or exchange its bonded Indebtedness
and to issue new bonds for that purpose an
act to equalize the acts and doings of the IS
SCISSORS of Dyer Brook plantation in the county
of Aroostook.
PETITIONS AND REMoNsTRANcEs PREsENTED.
For passage of a resolve relating to United
States appropriation for Indians.
For bureau OF statistics.
For two terms Of Superior Court at PreEque
Isle
For incorporating Bath Water Supply Co. to
supply Bath with water.
For increasing the penalty for violation of
the law relating to the tolling of grain by mil
lers.
In regard to the adjustment OF railroad
tariff.
Remonstrance against authorizing county
commissioners to locate a bridge across the
Oqunquit river in town of Wells.
For protection of fish in certain ponds in
Limerick.
For modification of fish laws SO as to allow
the taking Of salmon and other fishes in the
upper waters OF the east branch of the Pen
obscot.
For establishment of ferry across Fore
river in Portland harbor.
For an approximation for National Encamp-
ment.
For increase of salaries of Register and
| Judge of Probate of Knox county.
For incorporation of the Rockport Transit
| Company.
For State Reformatory for women.
For bureau of statistics.
For change of name of Cumberland Farm
| ers' Club to Cumberland County Central Ag-
ricultural Society
BILLS INTRODUCED.
To amend aec %, chap. 113 of r. S.. which
| provides that the fees OF the justices before
| whom such examination shall be had shall be
audited by the county commissioners and paid
| ont Of the treasury Of the county where such
examination is had to incorporate truetees of
| the 1st, 10th and 29th Maine Regimental As
sociation; an act additional to chap. 20, r. s.,
relating to discharge of insolvent debtors an
act in relation to taxing Of alewives in town of
l w dfT6u Ill O6OTg6-b ElV6F. 10 establish Jue
standard weight of bushel of beans, fixing
the weight at 60 pounds; an act in relation to
uses and repair of personal property held in
common; to incorporate the Augusta and Hal
lowell Water Company.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
The following were reported from commit
tees, read twice and assigned:
An act in favor of the town of Embden re-
lsting to retirement Of town bonds issued in
aid of Somerset railroad.
ORDERS ADOPTED.
Orders Of inquiry were passed relating to pre-
venting to discrimination ON account of color
or race in hotels and other public places: al
lowing licensed vessels to take mackerel with
seines within the waters OF the State; to COM
pei a society calling themselves Shakers TO
provide for and maintain all persons who, ,hav
ing rendered voluntary service and labor to
said society as members thereof for q term of
| years, have thereby gained residence in the
town where said soci Aty is located; to refund
to the town OF Wiscasset the portion Of school
funds due but not apporJioned on account of
clerical error; relating to dispositions so as to
provide for their taking in probate proceedings
on notice; for rendering State aid for the pur-
pose of educating the blind of cur State at the
South Boston Institute for the Blind.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Legislation inexpedent was reported on pe-
tition for Law forbidding the use of the SO.
called 'set overs on pungs, sledS, sleighS &C.:
| petition to enlarge the powers Of constable of
| the city of Portland.
| Leave to withdraw on petition for dam aud
| ice pend at Little Cox Head in town of Phips-
| burg; for prohibiting the running of sawdust,
| ETC., in Damariscotta river; Tor reimbursement
| to town Of Stockton for over-taxation in 1881.
| Referred to next Legislature, petition to
| dredge bars, etc., and navigate East pond By
| steam.
PASSED TO BE ENaRossED.
| An act to incorporate the Frost Brook Dam
| Company; relating to the Jurisdictions Of
municipal and police judges and trial Justices
| in prosecutions for violation Of the fish and
| game laws.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
| An act to enable the Maine Central Railroad
| Company to form steamboat connections.