The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-13
BAY STATE LEGISLATURE.
Court sIttiDgs In Western Massachusetts,.
Corporation Laws.

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Corporation Laws.
Boston. April --Recommendation Of
the rejection of the bill fixing the hours
of labor on railroads was refused by tho
senate, l2 to IL.
The bill to extend the time with which
debt incurred by the town Of Brookline
for the building of schoolhouses and the
construction of highways was passed to
be engrossed.
The committee on judiciary reported
bill transferring the sittings of the su-
preme judicial court ins the counties OF
Berkshire, Franklin and Hampden to
Springfield, where all cases entered or
pending in the counties shall be entered
and heard after the passage OF the act.
In the house the committee on manu-
features reported leave TO withdraw on
the petition for the passage of an act 10
enable cities and towns To manufacture
gas and electricity.
Another of the bills Of Mr. Bliss has
been reported against by the COMMITTEES
on taxation. This time IL Is the bill which
provided that telegraph companies shall
be taxed not on the miles of line, but on
the miles of wire, and that railroad COM
panies shall be taxed on miles of track,
instead of miles of line.
The joint special com mittee on the re-
vision of the corporation laws reported
fayorably, in a new draft, on the bill
which was passed last year by the house,
and which provides that. il foreign cor
poration which owns or controls ma
jority of the capital stock of domestic
street railway, gas or electric light COM
pany issues stock, bonds etc, based upon
or secured by the property franchise or
stock OF such domestic corporation. unless
such issue be authorized by the law Of
this commonwealth, the supreme judicial
court sitting in equity may in its discre-
tion dissolve such domestic corporation.
The attorney general il authorized to in
stitute proceedings under the act.
The same committee reported bill
providing that stock and bonds of gas
and electric light companies shall only be
issued under the supervision of the gas
and electric light commissioners, and
only in such amounts as the commission
ers deem reasonably requisite.
The COMMITTEES on railroads reported
against a hill providing that all railroads
shall keep on sale at all passenger sta
tions tickets at rate not exceeding
cents mile for distance of over three
miles.
The committee on taxation recon-
mended reference TO the next general
court on the bill permitting owners Of
personal property subject to taxation to
have exempt the total value of the debts
owed by the owner OF such property.
The committee on railroads reported
bill in favor of the petition of the Ex-
pressmen's league of Massachusetts, for
greater express facilities The bill pro-
vides that hereafter the local expressmen
enter upon the railroads and steamboats,
by the permission of the railroad com
missioners, and not OF the railroad COM
panies. They are given legal status,
which they did not have before. The rail-
road corporations are bound to furnish
express messengers or the expressman
himself with season ticket at passenger
rates.
The legislative committee on expendi-
lures refused to accede to the report of
the committee on education for the build
ing of three new state normal schools,
and voted to recommend the establish
ment of one new school at a cost of S75,-
OO0 the location TO be left 10 the state
board OF education.
The legislative committee on expendi-
lures decided to report against bill pro-
viding for the tearing down of the front
of the state house and the erection of a
new one at cost OF 81 500 900.