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Senate Journal 1837 (30-318514-P088A.pdf)

166. Tues. Feb. 7.

appointment and place business - instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of so amending the law relative to the mode of laying out and establishing highways as to entille any town or other interested party, that may consider themselves aggrieved by the County Commissioners, to have a revision of such doings before a jury or before commissioners to be appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court - order directing the Committee on the Militia to inquire into the expediency of appropriating the sum of One Hundred Dollars to finish the Gunhouse at Wiscasset and also instructing the Committee on Military pensions to inquire into the expediency and propriety of granting a pension to Oliver Perkins of Kennebunk for an injury sustained, by him, while on Military duty.

Petition of Ruel Williams and others, praying to be incorporated by the name of the Maine Rail Road Corporation for the purpose of constructing a Rail Road from Bangor, through Augusta, Hallowell, Gardiner and Portland to New Hampshire line - read and referred to the Committee on Rail Roads and Canals, in concurrence.

Petition of Ruel Williams and others, praying for the establishment of a Municipal Court in the town of Augusta - read and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary,

Description: The journal of the Senate documents the proceedings in the chamber, including actions taken on bills, petitions and reports from committees read, and votes taken. The journals are not transcripts and therefore do not include floor speeches that are found in the modern Legislative Records.

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Language: English

Date: 1837

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