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brook was elected State Treasurer. The elec- 

 tion of United States Senator took place on 

 the 18th of January. Eugene Hale, Kepub- 

 lican, was chosen by a vote of 22 in the Senate 

 against 8 for Joseph L. Smith, and 1 for Harris 

 M. Plaisted, and of 83 in the House against 64 

 cast for Smith. On the 15th of March Oon- 



ressman William P. Frye was elected United 

 tates Senator to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the resignation of Mr. Elaine, appointed Sec- 

 retary of State in President Garfi eld's Cabinet. 



Acts were passed at this session, making 

 women eligible to the offices of supervisor of 

 schools and superintending school committees, 

 and regulating the practice in equity proceed- 

 ings. 



Other important enactments were an act 

 concerning the care of abused and neglected 

 children; an act authorizing the improvement 

 of marshes, meadows, and swamps ; an act con- 

 cerning public parks and squares ; and an act 

 for the promotion of medical science. An act 

 relative to the manufacture and sale of vinegar 

 is as follows : 



SECTION 1. Whoever manufactures for sale, or know- 

 ingly offers or exposes for sale, or knowingly causes 

 to be branded or marked as cider-vinegar, any vine- 

 gar not the legitimate product of pure apple-juice, 

 known as apple-cider, and not made exclusively of 

 said apple-cider, but into which any foreign sub- 

 stances, ingredients, drugs, or acids have been intro- 

 duced, as shall appear by proper tests, shall, for each 

 such offense, be punished by a fine of not less than 

 fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. 



SEC. 2. Whoever manufactures for sale, or know- 

 ingly offers or exposes for sale, any vinegar found, 

 upon proper tests, to contain any preparation of lead, 

 copper, sulphuric acid, or other ingredient injurious 

 to nealth, snail, for each such offense, be punished by 

 a fine of not less than one hundred dollars. 



SEC. 3. The mayor and aldermen of cities shall, 

 and the selectmen of towns may, annually appoint 

 one or more persons to be inspectors of vinegar, for 

 their respective places, who snail, before entering 

 upon their duties, be sworn to the faithful discharge 

 or the same. 



An act relating to admissions to the bar 

 provides : 



SECTION 1. No person who has not been a member of 

 the bar of another State, in good standing and in ac- 

 tive practice, for at least three years, shall be admitted 

 to practice law in the courts of this State, unless ho 

 shall have studied for at least two years in the office 

 of some attorney-at-law. or part of the time in such 

 office, and the remainder in some law-school, and 

 shall also have passed a satisfactory examination in 

 his legal studies. 



SEC. 2. All examinations shall be public, and in 

 the presence of some justice of the Supreme judicial 

 court during term-tune. The time for holding tho 

 same in each county, not exceeding twice in each year, 

 shall be fixed by the Chief-Justice. The examination 

 shall be partly oral and partly written, and shall be 

 conducted by an examining committee of tho bar, in 

 each county, to be appointed by the Chief- Justice. 



The principal provisions of an act for the 

 better protection of life in buildings used for 

 public purposes are as follows : 



SECTION 1. Any church, theatre, hall, or other build- 

 ing or structure intended to bo used temporarily or 

 permanently for any public purpose, or any school- 

 house or school-room, public or private, hereafter con- 



structed, shall have all inner doors intended to be 

 used for egress therefrom open outward. 



SEC. 2. All outer doors of buildings or structures 

 of the kind mentioned in section 1 of this act, con- 

 structed or hereafter to be constructed, shall be kept 

 open when such buildings or structures are used by 

 the public, unless such uoors open outward, and ex- 

 cept that fly-doors opening both ways may be kept 

 closed. 



SEC. 3. All hotels used for the accommodation of 

 the public, and all shops, mills, factories, and other 

 buildings, more than two stories in height, in which 

 any trade, manufacture, or business is carried on, 

 which requires the presence of workmen or other 

 persons in any part of the building above tho first 

 story, shall bo provided with such suitable, and suifi- 

 cient fire-escapes, outside stairs or ladders, as the muni- 

 cipal officers shall deem to be sufficient to afford safe 

 and easy escape from the building in case of fire ; and 

 such fire-escapes or ladders shall be attached to the 

 building or be stored outside of such building, and 

 convenient thereto, as the municipal officers shall 

 direct, and shall be of such length and number as said 

 officers shall approve. 



An act relating to the transportation of pas- 

 sengers and freight by railroad contains the 

 following provisions : 



SECTION 1. ... No railroad doing business within 

 this State shall demand or receive of any other rail- 

 road doing business within the same, whether mak- 

 ing direct connection or not, or from passengers over 

 the same, or from freight forwarded over the same, 

 higher rates of fare or freight than it demands or re- 

 ceives of any other railroad within the State. 



SEC. 2. No rebate, drawback, allowance, or other 

 advantage shall be made or extended by any railroad 

 in favor of another railroad doing' business over the 

 same, by which tho operation of tne foregoing section 

 shall be changed or affected, or by which one rail- 

 road doing business over the same shall receive any 

 greater advantage than any other railroad, doing busi- 

 ness over the same, shall receive. 



SEC. 3. Any railroad company chartered under the 

 laws of this State, which shall refuse to receive, trans- 

 port, or deliver any freight, merchandise, or passen- 

 gers, according to the provisions of this act, and under 

 the terms thereof, or which shall demand or receive 

 from any other railroad in this State, for the trans- 

 portation of its passengers or freight, any sum in ex- 

 cess or violation of said provisions, shall, for each 

 offense, forfeit and pay any corporation injured, tho 

 sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered bj an 

 action on the case in any county in which any of the 

 parties in such action has a residence or place of 

 business. 



An act was also passed for the taxation of 

 railroads, the essential portions of which are as 

 follows : 



SECTION 1. Tho buildings of every railroad corpo- 

 ration or association, whether within or without tho 

 located right of way, and its lands and fixtures out- 

 side of its located right of way, shall be subject to 

 taxation by the several cities and towns in which 

 such buildings, land, and fixtures may bo situated, as 

 other property is taxed therein. 



SEC. 2. Every corporation, person, or association 

 operating any railroad in this State, snail pay to tho 

 State Treasurer, for the use of the State, an annual 

 excise tax. for the privilege of exercising its fran- 

 chises in this State, which, with the tax provided for 

 in section 1 , shall bo in lieu of all taxes upon such 

 railroad, its property and stock. There shall be ap- 

 portioned and paid by the State from tho taxes re- 

 ceived under the provisions of this act, to tho several 

 cities and towns in which, on the first day of April 

 in each year, is held railroad stock hereby exempted 

 from other taxation, such amount equal to one per 



