Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-05
Revised Statutes. relating to liens or

81. Revised Statutes. relating to liens .
pledges.
Bill an act to authorize Fred c. Barker I,
navigate Mooselucmeguntic and Cupsupti
Lakes in Franklin and Oxford counties BY
steam.
Bill an act to amend an &C, entitled an &C
creating certain islands in the town Of Cum
berlsnd into voting district.
FINAlL1 PAsskp.
Resolve in favor of Peter j. Newell.
Resolve in favor Of Joseph Nicola.
Resolve in favor of the Committee on
Agriculture.
Resolve in favor of the Maine General
Hospital.
Resolve in favor Of the Joint Standing
Committee on State Prison.
| Resolve in favor Of the distribution Of Ger.
tilted copies Of plans on file in the Land
oiice.
TAnEN fsoh rnK TAaLH,
On motion of Mr. Barker of Bangor-Bill
an act relating to life and casualty Insurance
on the assessment plan. was taken from the
table and referred to the Committee on Iu-
surance.
or motion of MIR. Wilbur of Avon-Bill
an act relating TO proceedings on motion for
new trials in certain criminal cases was
takea from the table and referred TO the
Committee on Legal Affairs.
On motion of MIR. Stearns of Caribou-Bill
an act 10 insure the better education of prac
TONERS Of dental surgery and TO regulate the
practice of dentistry in the State of Maine
was taken from the table aud assigned to
Thursday. Feb. !. for its third reading.
TABLED.
Bill an act to amend section /. chapter us
Revised Statute. relating to salaries.
SPEcIALIy ASSIGNED.
On motion of Mr. Eels of Camden, House
documents numbers 69 and 10, relative to
the division of the town of Boo,hbay. were
taken from the table and assigned for We'd
nesday. Feb 6. Subsequently. on motion
of Mr.. Barker of Bangor, on ac count Of the
anticipated absence Of Mr.. Tilton. a mem
Der of the committee, the vote whereby they
were assigned, was reconsidered. and the
document resssigned for Thursday, Feb. I.
The bill relating to fences and other struc-
lures unnecessarily exceeding six feet in
height, and for the abatement of nuisancss,
came up for consideration by special assign
ment
MIR, Sprague. of Dexter, moved that it be
passed To be engrossed.
MIR. Pa,tangall of Pembroke. said tent
when the bill came up on Saturday it struck
him as a rather peculiar bill. lie though,
that the person who prepared it had not sui
hciently considered the objections to 1t. So
he had called the attention of the House
to it. Amy man has an inherent
right to erect. fence six feet high.
Now h, may erect that fence hon
estly and sincerely, and some fellow who
is maliciously Inclined may drag him before
u trial justice. He believed that if the bill
was passed it would fail in accomplishing its
object. Even il man were Obliged 10 cut
his fence down 10 less than six feet, he might
erect stump fence more Objectionable and
make it hideous with the pictures of our
public men rs published in our newspapers
daughter We were not here to aid private
legislation fitting some particular case. lie
always had and always will be opposed to
that kind of legislation.
The question was put and the bill was re-
fused passage.
The vote was doubted, and a divisi,
called for. The vote stood 81 in the atfima-
tive 10 80 in the negative, and the bill was
passed To be engfossed.
On motion OF Mr. Wakefield, of Bath,
Adjourned.