Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-03-22
AT AUGUSTA.
Matters Relating to Hancock County
-Doings of the Past Week.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH is.

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After running debate of over two hours
the House adjourned at 6.45 Wednesday
without taking action on the Sturgis bill.
Among the representatives who argued
the matter was Hutchins, of Penobscot.
In the Senate the following House bills
we're read and assigned:
An act to enable Edwin w. Doyle to
maintain the dam on upper Flanders
stream in Sullivan.
An act to extend close time on deer on
Swans Island.
An act to amend chapter 259 of the pri-
vste and special laws of 1903 relating to
the protection of deer on Mt. Desert is
land.
An act to amend chapter 1874 of the pri-
waite and special laws of 1895, entitled an
act to incorporate the Castine Water Co.
An act to regulate the use of the roads
of the town of Clstine.
Resolve in favor of the town of Maria
vile.
An act to amend the charter of the
Northeast Harbor Water Co.
Bills and petitions presented: By Mr..
Clark, of Hancock, petition of k. II.
Norwood and fifty others in favor of the
Milliken bill.
Passed to be engrossed: An act to
authorize the North Brool<lin Wharf Co.
TO extend a wharf into the tide waters OF
Bluehill bay at North Brooklin.
An act to amend section Al OF chapter Al
OF the revised statutes relating to the close
time on smelts.
Passed to be engrossed: An act author
izing the town of Stonington to issue
bonds for the erection of a schoolhouse.
An act to amend section of chapter 1853
of the private and special laws of 1897, re-
lating to the taking of alewives in Baga-
duce river.
An act to extend the charter of the Blue
hill Water Co.
An act granting permission to John L.
Gross to construct and maintain a bridge
across Moose Island bar, in the town of
Stonington.
An act against the willful destruction of
fish in the rivers and bays in this State.
An act to extend the charter of the
Hancock County Railway Co.
An act to extend the charter of the
Bluehill Banking and Trust Co.
On motion of Mr.. Clark, of Hancock,
bill, an act to incorporate the Trinitarian
parish of Castine and to legalize the
doings of said parish as heretofore known
under the name of the Trinitarian society
of Castine, Maine, was tabled.
THURSDAY, MARCH is.
In the Senate Thursday the following
bills were passed to be engrossed:
An act to enable Edwin w. Doyle to
maintain dam on Flanders stream in the
town of Sullivan.
An act to extend the close time on deer
on Swans Island.
An act to amend chapter 184 of the pri-
vate and special laws of 1895, entitled: An
act to incorporate the Castine Water Co.
An act to regulate the use of roads in
the town of Castine.
An act to amend the charter of the
Northeast Harbor Water Co.
Passed to be enacted: An act to extend
the charter of the Ellsworth Street Rail
way Co.
In the House the petitions of G. B.
Smith and thirty-one others, of Mt.
Desert, and of Brooklin grange for the
proper labelling of patent medicines were
read and placed on file.
Passed to be engrossed; Bill, an act au-
thorizing Frank q. Squirting to build and
maintain wharf in tide waters at Gran
Der ry Isles.
Passed to be enacted: An act to pro-
hibit ice fishing in Brewer pond, So
called, in the towns of Orrington, holden
and Bucksport.
The fate of the Sturgis bill was decided
Thursday when the House passed it by a
vote of 70 to so. No further opposition is
expected on the measure and it will be
soon one of the laws of our State. The
principal speakers in favor of the bill
were Representatives Littlefield, of Rock
land, and Merrill. Those opposed to it
were Representatives Johnson, of Water
Vile, and Reed, of Portland.
The big audience which this bill had