Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

State Legislature.

IN SENATE.

MONDAY, FEB. 21.

The bill to establish a College in the town of Amherst, passed to be enacted.

TUESDAY, FEB. 22.

Bills incorporating sundry new Banks, were read a first time, committed, and assigned to to-morrow for further consideration. A bill to aid the Bunker Hill Monument Association, passed to be engrossed, and was sent down for concurrence.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23.

A bill to establish limited copartnerships was negatived in the second reading. Bills to incorporate the President, Directors & Co. of the Belchertown Bank; Washington Bank; Sunderland Bank; Danvers Bank; Hampshire Manufacturers' and Mechanics Bank; Fall River Bank, in Troy; Housatonic Bank, were read.

THURSDAY, FEB. 24.

The resolve directing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to summon the President and Directors of the Dedham and Agricultural (Pittsfield) Banks, to appear before the next General Court, and shew cause why their charters should not be forfeited—was passed, and sent down for concurrence. [We understand that this resolve is in consequence of the above Banks having issued more bills, of the denomination of five dollars, than their charters permitted.]

FRIDAY, FEB. 25.

The Hon. Mr. Gardner offered the following resolution, which was unanimously accepted:—

Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be presented to the Hon. NATHANIEL SILS BEE, their President, for the important and dignified manner in which he has presided over their deliberations the present political year.

Thereupon the President rose, and expressed his acknowledgments to the Senate.

SATURDAY, FEB. 26.

See proceedings of the House.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MONDAY, FEB. 21.

The resolves providing for the appointment of Commissioners, to prepare and digest a system for the establishment of an institution for the education of the laboring classes of the community in the practical arts and sciences, were read a second time. The blank was filled with the names of Theodore Sedgwick, Esq, of Stockbridge, Hon. Leopold M. Parker, of Charlestown, and James Savage, Esq. of Boston. The resolve was then passed and sent up for concurrence. [In Senate, read and concurred.]

The bill to establish a College in the town of Amherst, passed to be enacted.

TUESDAY, FEB. 22.

The bill to establish the Wilkinsonville Turnpike Corporation, was referred to the first session of the next General Court.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23.

A resolve passed, making the compensation of the Lieut. Gov. while performing the duties of Chief Magistrate, equal to that allowed by law to the Gov.

Bills passed readings—in addition to an act to incorporate the Mendon Bank; to aid the Bunker Hill Monument Association; to incorporate Banks in Belchertown, Ware, Danvers, Sunderland, Troy, and at the South End, Boston.

THURSDAY, FEB. 24.

An order of the Senate directing the Committee on Banks to inquire into the expediency of authorizing any or all the Banks in this State to issue bills of a less denomination than five dollars, to a greater amount than they are now allowed to do, was read and concurred.

The bill to aid the Bunker Hill Monument Association, was passed to be engrossed.

FRIDAY, FEB. 25.

The following Order, presented by Mr. Doolittle, of Belchertown, and seconded by Mr. Knapp, of Boston, was read and passed unanimously, viz.

Ordered, That the thanks of this House be expressed to the Hon. WILLIAM C. JARVIS, for the dignified, able, and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of Speaker: and that we congratulate that Hon. gentleman that it has fallen to his lot to preside in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a period when the prospect before us is for the first time for many years a unanimity and harmony in the great State elections, believing, as this House does, that the faithful and unexceptionable discharge of the Speaker's duty, has conduced with other considerations to this happy result.

To which the Hon. Speaker made an appropriate reply.

The bill to provide payment to the County of Worcester, for the use of the House of Correction, was referred to the next session of the General Court.

The bill to aid the Bunker Hill Monument Association, passed to be enacted.

SATURDAY, FEB. 26.

The committee on the Pay Roll, reported their Roll, amounting to $20,558, and it was therefore ordered that His Honor the Lieut. Governor, with the advice of Council, be requested to draw his Warrant on the Secretary for the payment to the members of the House of Representatives the sums set against their names respectively.

The Secretary came in with a Message from His Honor the Lieut. Governor, informing the Legislature that the Executive had approved of one hundred and fourteen acts, passed by the General Court at their Session, the titles of which he read, and that it was His Honor's pleasure by and with the consent of Council, and at the request of both branches of the Legislature, to prorogue them to the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday of May next.

In consequence of the disagreement of the two Houses relative to the Tax Bill, the same was not passed, and therefore there will be no State Tax raised for the year 1825.

The bill to raise $75,000, did not provide for the reimbursement, by the respective towns, of the money taken from the public Treasury for their Representatives' pay last June session. The committee of the Senate introduced an amendment to that effect. This was accepted in the Senate, but the House refused to concur.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

BY HIS HONOR

MARCUS MORTON.

Lieut. Governor, and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.