Daily Kennebec Journal

MAINE LEGISLATURE

Senate.
Saturday, Jan. 28th.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Park of Gardiner.
Met at 10 A. M.
Records read and approved.
Papers from the House disposed of in concurrence.
Read and assigned—An act to continue the powers of the President, Directors and Company of the Alfred Bank; an act to incorporate the Richmond Savings Bank; an act to authorize the inhabitants of the town of Bristol to change the location of the Northerly end of the bridge leading on to Ruthford's Island in said town.
On motion of Mr. French of Franklin the report of the Committee on Governor's Address, which came from the House, was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Vose,
Ordered, That 1,000 copies of the Governor's Message, in addition to those already ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.
Mr. Vose gave his reasons for the order.
Mr. Fuller thought no more copies were needed.
Mr. French of Franklin presented bill an act relating to the location of school houses, which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Nickels,
Ordered, That the Committee on Legal Reform be instructed to see what further legislation, if any, is needed to protect our forests from destruction by fire.
Bill an act regulating the time when the public statutes shall take effect came from the House amended so to fix the time on May 1st, 1871.
Mr. Vose moved to table it. He did not understand why this is brought in here—was not aware the Committee had reported as represented. Understood the time to be limited to the 1st of February, 1871.
Mr. Foster explained how the matter was acted upon at a special meeting, and the amendment agreed to.
Mr. Vose further explained that he knew nothing about the meeting. Hoped the matter would not be forced through to-day when there is hardly a quorum present.
Mr. Carvill read a petition from members of Cumberland bar, asking that the statutes may not take effect until they are printed and distributed.
Mr. Vose said the object of this petition seems to be to obtain a recommitment to another commission for revision, at another great cost to the State. There is no reason for delay. It seems like a censure upon the committee that this matter should come up at this late day. Is there any benefit to be obtained? Cannot see any. As a member of the committee he has some feeling in the matter. Don't believe in such a system of wavering, hesitating legislation.
The motion was carried and the three separate bills referring to the matter, were laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Bill an act fixing the time when acts of incorporation shall become null and void, on its passage to be engrossed, was tabled on motion of Mr. Foster.
Bill an act to incorporate the Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Telegraph Company came from the House amended as per sheet 'A' and on motion of Mr. Hinks was amended as per sheet 'B,' and as amended the bill passed to be engrossed.
Passed to be engrossed—An act to authorize the Wesleyan Methodist Society of Augusta to borrow money; an act to incorporate the St. Mark's Home for Poor and Indigent Women; an act authorizing M. E. Pierce & Co., to maintain their wharf in the town of Boothbay; an act authorizing A. L. Frohock et als., to extend their wharf in the tide waters of Penobscot Bay in the town of Lincolnville; an act extending the time in which Pushaw Dam Co., may complete works, as per charter granted by the Legislature of 1868; an act to authorize the inhabitants of Norway to exempt certain property from taxation; resolve to authorize the county of Penobscot to procure a loan; an act authorizing the selectmen of the town of Wells to locate and build a way across Webhannet river in said town; an act in relation to the collection of taxes in the town of Brownfield; an act to incorporate the Squirrel Island Association; an act to incorporate the Bucksport Young Men's Mutual Life Insurance Company; resolve in favor of David Dudley; an act to incorporate the West Buxton & Bonney Eagle Branch Railroad Company.
On motion of Mr. Foster bill act to prevent the throwing of edgings and refuse lumber into the waters of Violet Brook, in Van Buren Plantation was laid on the table.
Passed to be enacted—An act to extend the time for the Lime Rock Bank to accept the provisions of an act to renew the charter of certain banks; an act to authorize Zenas F. Yates, Joseph F. Woodbury and their associates to extend a wharf into the tide waters of Muscongus harbor.
On motion of Mr. Torrey,
Adjourned.

House.
Saturday, Jan. 28th.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Martin of Augusta.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in concurrence.
On motion of Mr. Cleaves,
Ordered, That the Committee on Railroads, Ways and Bridges, be directed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the laws of the State, that a certain amount of stock shall be subscribed for in good faith, and a certain percentage of said amount actually paid in to all railroad corporations, before towns or cities shall be authorized to loan their credit, subscribe for stock, or in any way aid such corporations in any railroad enterprise.
On motion of Mr. Bonney,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary be directed to inquire whether any further legislation is necessary in relation to the individual liabilities of stock-holders in corporations.
Mr. Parren from the Com. on Railroads, Ways and Bridges, reported ought to pass on bill an act additional to and amendatory of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Co. Read and assigned.
Same gentleman from the same Committee reported leave to withdraw on petition of J. D. Wyer et als., for authority to build a bridge from Bailey's Island to Orr's Island, in the town of Harpswell.
Mr. Carleton from the Committee on Legal Reform, reported leave to withdraw on petition of the inhabitants of Oxford that manufacturing property exempted from taxation by the town be excluded from the general State valuation.
Mr. Talbot from the Committee on Interior Waters, on petition of F. G. Richards et als., reported bill an act to incorporate the Cobbossee Ice Co. Read and assigned.
Mr. Arwell from the same Committee on petition of G. L. Boynton et als., reported bill an act to incorporate the West Branch Dam and Improvement Co. Read and assigned.
Mr. Bonney from the Judiciary Committee on order relating to extending the time for the revised statutes to take effect, reported bill an act to repeal the acts consolidated as the revised statutes for the year 1871; also bill an act to repeal an act entitled an act to repeal the acts consolidated in the revised statutes of the year 1871; also an act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and consolidate the public laws of the State, approved Jan. 25, 1871.
Mr. Bonney in submitting the above report to the House, stated that the revised statutes enacted on the 24th, and approved on the 25th of the present month, take effect the first day of February. But those interested in the matter deemed it advisable that a sufficient time should elapse for their publication and distribution, that the people may know under what law they are living. He had been accordingly directed by the Committee to report the necessary bills so that the statutes will take effect the 1st day of May. He further stated that he had received from the Cumberland Bar a remonstrance against their taking effect until they can be printed and distributed. He thought it proper that the bills should pass, and he moved a suspension of the rules that they might have their several readings and be passed to be engrossed.
The rule was accordingly suspended, and the bills had their several readings and were passed to be engrossed.
Passed to be engrossed—Bill an act to incorporate the Phillips Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; bill an act to amend an act entitled an act to extend the charter of the Rockland Fire and Marine Insurance Co.; an act to change the name of the Portland Tenement House Co., and to grant further powers to the same; an act authorizing I. F. McClench et als., to extend a wharf at Shepard's Point at Hallowell into the tide waters of the Kennebec river; an act to incorporate the Eastern Marble Co.; an act to make valid the acts and proceedings of the town of Kingsbury.
Read and assigned—An act to authorize R. A. & W. A. Friend to extend wharf into tide waters at Center Harbor; an act to repeal an act entitled an act to revise and consolidate the public laws of the State; an act to authorize towns, cities and village corporations to make by-laws and ordinances in certain cases; an act to authorize pensions for disabled soldiers and seamen; an act to reduce the valuation of the town of Veazie and add the amount of such reduction to the city of Bangor.
On motion of Mr. Johnson,
Adjourned.

Bills, Petitions, &c., Presented and Referred.
By Mr. Emery—Petition of the assessors of South Thomaston for 1869-70 for reduction and equalization of State valuation. Referred to Knox County Delegation.
By Mr. Smith of Parsonsfield—Petition of County Commissioner of York county for authority to effect a loan to complete Jail and House of Correction. Referred to the York County Delegation.
By Mr. Chapin—Remonstrance of Charles Ring and 53 others against the passage of an act prohibiting the throwing of edgings and slabs into the Kennebec river; petition of J. H. Pullen and 43 others for aid to build and repair the road from Monson village to Greenville.
By Mr. Cousins—Petition of Henry Kingsbury and 48 others, citizens of Kennebunk, for a charter to the Boston and Maine Railroad Company to extend their road by shore line to Portland; also of same for charter to Portland and York Shore Line Railroad Co.
By Mr. Moore of Machiasport—Petition of Stephen A. Wilcox et als., of Trescott, for repeal of law prohibiting cattle from running at large; of same for change of Supreme Judicial Court from Calais to Machias.
By Mr. Carleton—Petition of Wm. P. Merrill and 65 others, town officers, superintendent school committee, and citizens of Manchester, for repeal of school law of 1870, and repeal of law relating to highway surveyors; of Willis H. Wing and 30 others, town officers and citizens of Manchester, for repeal of teacher law and law appointing highway surveyors.
By Mr. Buswell—Resolve in favor of the Etna High School.
By Mr. Clark of Lincoln—Petition of A. W. Huntress and 96 others in aid of petition of Trustees of Mattawacook Academy for aid.
By Mr. Osgood of Durham—Petition of Joseph Weeks and 37 others of Durham, for a law to protect pickerel in Chandler mill pond.
By Mr. Cushing—Petition of N. C. Fletcher et als., assessors of Camden village corporations for amendment of section 2 of the act of incorporation, for authority to build a village hall.
By Mr. Hacker—Petition of George W. Knight for a lot of land; of A. W. Hoyt to be paid for enlisting soldiers in 1861.
By Mr. Hastings—Petition of Joel Hills and 171 others of Warren, for incorporation into a Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
By Mr. Reed of No. 1—Petition of Nathan Smart of Weston, for a charter for an Express from Houlton to Danforth.
By Mr. Drisco—Petition of W. G. Stone and 46 others of Machias, for repeal of Calais Court law.

Daily Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 1871.

State of Maine,
In Committee on Interior Waters,
January 27th, 1871.
Ordered, That notice be given to all parties interested, by giving notice in the Kennebec Journal, that a hearing on the Bill entitled "An act to prevent the throwing of Slabs, Edgings and other refuse into the Kennebec river and its tributaries," will be had before this committee in room No. 6, on Friday, Feb. 3d, at 2½ o'clock.
J. B. NICKELS, Chairman

Special Notice.
The Committee on Reform School will make the annual visit to that institution on Thursday, February 24.
O. HAYFORD, JR.,
BENJ. ROBINSON,
Chairmen.

State of Maine.
IN Committee on Interior Waters.
January 18th, 1871.
ORDERED, That notice be given to all parties interested, by giving notice in the Kennebec Journal that a hearing on the petition of David Wing et als., for incorporation of the Somerset Boom Company, at Somerset Mills, will be had before this Committee, Tuesday, Feb. 7th, at 2 o'clock P. M.
J. B. NICKELS, Chairman

State of Maine.
In Senate, Jan. 4th, 1871.
ORDERED, The House concurring, that all petitions for private legislation, except "petitions for redress of wrongs and grievances," which shall be presented to the Legislature after the first day of February next, be referred to the next Legislature, and that this order be published in the Kennebec Journal until that date.
In Senate, Jan. 6, 1871.
Read, amended by inserting after the word "Journal" the words "Bangor Daily Whig and Courier and Portland Daily Press," and passed.
Sent down for concurrence.
SAMUEL W. LANE, Secretary.

IN House of Representatives
January 9, 1871.
Read and passed in concurrence.
SUMNER J. CHADBOURNE, Clerk,
A true copy.
Attest:
SAMUEL W. LANE, Secretary.

The report of the surrender of Paris appears to have been ahead of the fact.
Later news speaks of more fighting, a success by Garibaldi, but no reduction in the price of rats, or anything to create a hope that the city will not fall a prize to Prussian valor and military skill.
One of the recent amusements of a Ku Klux band in Georgia, was the murdering of one negro and cropping the ears of seven others. The Augusta Chronicle advises the perpetrators that they must not indulge in such pleasantries too often or there will be trouble.
General James A. Hall has been re-appointed and confirmed Collector of Waldoboro district, without opposition. General Hall was a gallant soldier, is a true man, and a worthy officer, and it is gratifying to see that his merit is appreciated both in his district and at Washington.