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Worcester Daily Spy
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Legislature proceedings on April 11, 1851: Senate handled petitions on Mystic River flats, reconsidered New England Telegraph bill, and heard speech on Hoosac Tunnel Bill; House debated order on legislative privileges and tabled it.
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FRIDAY, April 11th, 1851.
SENATE.—Various petitions, chiefly relating to the flats on Mystic River, were presented and referred.
The vote by which the bill to incorporate the New England Telegraph was passed to be engrossed, was reconsidered, and the bill then laid on the table.
The orders of the day were then taken up, and Mr. Griswold continued his speech in favor of the Hoosac Tunnel Bill.
HOUSE.—Mr. Curtis of Boston, as a question of privilege, offered the subjoined order:
Ordered, that the Committee on the Judiciary on the part of this House, inquire and report whether the exclusive privilege, right, and duty of this House to be the Grand Inquest of this Commonwealth, has been, or is, in danger of being infringed upon, or in any, and in what way invaded.
This order was discussed at great length by various gentlemen, and finally laid on the table.
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Friday, April 11th, 1851
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In the Senate, various petitions relating to the flats on Mystic River were presented and referred. The vote on the bill to incorporate the New England Telegraph was reconsidered and laid on the table. Mr. Griswold continued his speech in favor of the Hoosac Tunnel Bill. In the House, Mr. Curtis of Boston offered an order for the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether the House's privilege as the Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth has been infringed upon. The order was discussed at length and laid on the table.