Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-16

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4 Bill an act to amend chapter 81 Of Il
Special Laws of 1887 entiIled an act to c;
tend the charter of the Saltwater Bridge.
Bill an act to incorporate the Fslmou,
Trust Co.
Loan and Trust Co.
Bill an act to amend chap. l49 of the Put
lie Laws Of 1887 relating to the employmet
of the convicts in the Maine State prison.
PASSED TO BE EsGRossEp.
Bill an act authorizing Clinton NJ. Hamil
ton and others to extend their wharf into lid
waters.
Bill an act to provide for school commit
tee to superintend the schools in the town o
Deering.
Resolve authorizing the County Of Aroos
took to procure money on q loan.
Bill an act to incorporate the Maehia
Water Company.
Bill al act to incorporate the trustees o
Van Buren College.
Bill an act authorizing the De xter L Piscata
qus Railroad Company to lease its railroad
Bill an act authorizing the Dexter 1 New
port Railroad Company TO extend lease of it
railroad.
| Bill an act to prohibit for the term Of 81,
years the taking of togue, otherwise called
Thomp,on-Pond trout, from Anonymous
Pond in the town of Harrison, CUNT er
land County.
B.ll an act for the protection Of trout ant
pickerel, and to regulate taking of same
from the Great Brook" Shorey's, Staples,
and Perkins brooks in the town of Eliot
| Bill an act to prohibit the taking of land
locked salmon from Parker's pond in the
towns of Mt Vernon and Faye,te.
| Bill an act to prohibit the setting of hook.
for the purpose of catching pickerel in Moose
pond in the town of Mt. Vernon for the term
| of five years.
Bill an act to incorporate the Knox Bank
ing and Trust Company.
Bill an at to make valid the election of
| officers in the wear 1888 Of the North Pitts
ton Cemetery Society in the town of Pittston.
| Resolve for the preservation of Ell. Cover
| nor Kings monument.
Resolve in favor Of the State reform
| school.
Resolve in favor OF the town of Needy
bemps.
Resolve in aid of dairying and sheep rails
ing. sheep. horse. swine and poultry grow
ing interests in the State of Maine.
Bill an act to regulate and protect the ale
wiVe a 'hery of Pemsquid river.
Bill an act to prohibit fishing for 4 term
of years in Nevers Brook IN the town of
Sweden, Oxford county. Caisley and Rogers
brooks in Bridgton, Tingley brook in Bridg-
ton. and Naples and Lakin brook, 5ebago.
Cumberland county
Bill an act to amend and add to an act to
incorporate the LIMERICK Railroad Co. As
amended by the House
Bill an act to incorporate the Oakland
Water Co.
Mr.. Collins of Aroostook, presented re-
solve in favor of the Pas,amsquoidy tribe
of Indians, which was passed to be engrossed
under q suspension of the rules.
PASSED TO ne ENACTED.
Bill an act relating to change in law in
regard to deputy Town clerks.
Bill an act to amend section III, chapter
~ of the Revised Statutes relating to bank
| deposits of married women and minors.
Bill an act to incorporate the Crystal Ice
| Co.
Bill an act to incorporate the Bethel Water
Co.
Bill an act creating the Bethel Village
| Corporation.
| Bill an &C: to make valid the doings of the
town of Smithfel1 at the annual March
Meeting of 1883.
Bill an act to incorporate the Stillwa'er
Log Driving Co.
| Bill an act to divide the town of Bo,thbay
and incorporate the town Of Boothbay Har-
| Dor.
Bill an act to make valid the doings of the
town of Pennington.
TABLED AND SPECIALLY ASSIGNED.
| The majority reports of the Committee on
! Hair aet tn tp fnr
printing and distributing ballots at the pub
lie expense and to regulate voting in State
and city elections [House document 10. !
came from the House, the report adverse to
the measure having been accepted. The re-
ports were laid on the table and specially as
signed for Thurs lay next at ii O'Clock, on
motion Of Mr.. Heath of kennebec.
TABLED.
| Bill an act to incorporate the Clinton
| Village Corporation came from the House
passed to be engrossed, AID was laid on the
table on motion of Mr.. Heath of kennebec,
Resolve to authorize the county of Knox
to procure q loan came from the House
passed to be engrossed, and was laid on the
tabled to be printed.
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT.
Bill an act additional to chapter 80 of the
Revised Statutes establishing bounty on
crows came up by special assignment, and
by consent Mr.. Heath. withdrew bis motion
to ndefnstely postpone, and inquired of the
committee reporting the measure the reasoni
for its passage.
| Mr.. Daggptt of Piscatsquis, said one rea
son was the large number Of petitions from
the farmers asking it. Crows are a great in.
| ,urv ~ tho crops of farmpra wali q
benefit and he thought the one about
balanced the other. If the case stopped
there he would be against the bill; but it
| does not The best reason for the bill wa,
the depreda ions of the crow upon the small
er birds He believed that when the cros
destroyed ore insect that is injurious tt
crops, it kills birds that destroy foui
insects to the cr5ws one
Mr. Poor of Cumberland op ,osed the bill
frst because he was against useless legisla
ton. 1t provides bounty of 10 cts for the
head of each crow handed into the tow n treas
urer from April Fools day until Nov. s0th
leaving a close time on Gro IS from Dec. Is
until April. Laughter If crows wer,
such a terrible pest why provide a close time
for them2 1t is well known by farmers boy
tina, during the period set apart for the .hoot
ing it is most difficult to kill a crow. Wher
YOU get where q crow 10 be isn't there
Laughter. He eas nov Sc years old au'
mad never shot one though be had trie,
ever since he was 10 years old. In the re
Rod fixed as the close time they are tam
when the boys might succeed in getting
few The bill provides that in order to &c
the bounty not less than 10 heads must b
landed 10 at n time, and he submitted ~heth
sr, taking into consideration the great diff
Guilty of getting at the bird. they would no
be pretty stale and offensive by the time tn
boy had accumulated the requisite number
But seriously, he submitted whether thi
vas not small lesislati IN. and whether, if th
bill passed. the representatives here woul
not 60 down to posterity as the crow egisla
ture.
Mr.. Heath moved to amend by adding
This act shali also apply to the Englis
sparrow
Mr. Freeman of Cumberland had som
! objections to the bill based upon q lack o
( appreciation of its necessity and feeling o
uncertainty rs to its results. All had lear
Q of the man ho did not shoot the bear tn,
E destroyed his stock because the bounty ~
{ not enough to make it an object. He wa
{ uncertain uheiher this would come unds
,h.s ah;.rsion sithou gr Yhsrs raS n rf,sSi