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The Daily Spy
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Legislature session on March 15: Senate advanced papers and engrossed a bill for additional Court of Common Pleas terms in Essex county. House referred petitions on abolishing capital punishment, state reform school for girls, and women's suffrage; passed bills incorporating Boston Musical Fund Society, concerning alien passengers, and altering Hopkinton High School name; accepted report on usury laws and engrossed bill preventing school disturbances.
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WEDNESDAY, March 15.
SENATE. The orders of the day were taken up, and various papers therein advanced from the second to the third reading. All the important matters, however, were passed over or laid on the table, by reason of the absence of several Senators who propose to discuss them. The bill for the establishment of additional terms of the Court of Common Pleas in Essex county, was ordered to be engrossed.
HOUSE. Petitions, &c. presented and referred—of J. C. Kemp and others, for the abolition of Capital Punishment; of George Blackburn and others for a State Reform School for Girls; of several Persons, for an extension of the elective franchise to women.
Passed to be enacted—Bills, to incorporate the Boston Musical Fund Society; concerning Alien Passengers; to alter the name of the Hopkinton High School.
The orders of the day were taken up and the report granting leave to withdraw to the petitioners for a repeal or modification of the usury laws was accepted. The bill to prevent disturbances of schools and public meetings was ordered to be engrossed.
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Massachusetts
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Wednesday, March 15.
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bills passed to be enacted: incorporation of boston musical fund society, concerning alien passengers, alteration of hopkinton high school name. bill for additional court of common pleas terms in essex county ordered engrossed. report on usury laws petitioners granted leave to withdraw accepted. bill to prevent disturbances of schools and public meetings ordered engrossed. petitions referred: abolition of capital punishment, state reform school for girls, extension of elective franchise to women.
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In the Senate, orders of the day advanced various papers to third reading, but important matters postponed due to absent Senators; bill for additional Court of Common Pleas terms in Essex county engrossed. In the House, petitions presented and referred; bills passed to enactment; orders of the day taken up, report on usury laws accepted, bill preventing school and public meeting disturbances engrossed.