. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. is ticket—for a second term,1872, which he also filled to the eminent satisfactionof his constituents in both Susquehanna and Wyom-ing counties. During 1872 he was chairman of thecommittee on Vice and Immorality and of the Li-brary committee, secretary of the Counties andTownships committee, and a member of the com-mittees of both Claims and Ways and Mea
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. is ticket—for a second term,1872, which he also filled to the eminent satisfactionof his constituents in both Susquehanna and Wyom-ing counties. During 1872 he was chairman of thecommittee on Vice and Immorality and of the Li-brary committee, secretary of the Counties andTownships committee, and a member of the com-mittees of both Claims and Ways and chairman of the committee on Vice and Immor-ality he presented, as originating in committee, theLocal Option Bill, and sustained the same byboth voice and vote, finally securing its enactmentinto law. During his first term as a member ofthe House he presented a Bill for the repeal of theFourth Section of a Bill, supplemental to the Mil-ford & Matamoras Railroad, which had been pre-viously passed, in a peculiar manner, and had beensioned by the Governor through inadvertance,not fullv understanding its design or effect, whichwas to take from the State Treasury, for the periodof ninety-nine years, the $10,000 annual bonus paid. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 473 by the New York & Erie Railroad Co. to the Statefor the right of way, such sums to inure to thebenefit of such Milford & Matamoras long and bitter struggle ensued, and the Bill wasnot finally reached during the session, but the fol-lowing year Mr. Beardslee again presented a Re-pealing Act, and after a protracted struggle hadthe satisfaction of securing its passage, allowingsaid bonus to again flow into the State Treasury,instead of being absorbed by a twelve-mile narrow-gauge railway, or lining the pockets of its pro-moters. Mr. Beardslee has always taken a warmand active interest in the common schools, and hasbeen, almost constantly, a member of the schoolboard since he arrived at his majority, as
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