Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-14
COUNTY wlsDoM.
Hne County Cemmissisn.rs ertn.
Convention.


Convention.
Ane county commissioners of tho s,...
sas' ~ convention at the Court House ye.ter-
ouu,oscOggin county was Represented hv
oscar ID. Bailey, Auburn; Roswell q Root
w w, nast Livermore; ]. Wesley MARVEL
C eusler. Aroostook. Joseph d. Emery
L Ind franklin. Franklin w. Patterson
"uoslry; Isaiah Chick. Madrid; Leonard
NJ. 'rren' liton. Hancock John W. Somes
W., nesert, kennebec. Horace Cuburn
n. "usori geo: IL. Andrews, Monmouth !.
L." 1 ~ Weston Belgrade. Lincoln
petingill. Rumford; Geo. F. Hamn,a Guy
faris Frank Y Bradlee, Fryeburo pannh
scot, Henry W. Briggs. Hodson: William r
CCcrloher' Springfield; Thomas J. peaks
charleston Piscataquis. Caleb J Ford A.
N N.l Jesse Barber, Abbott Augustus w
,milman, F0xcroft. Sagadahoc. OH. z
thompson, Topsham; 3. F. Marble wooI.
wien stephen w. Carr. Bowdoinbam. wal
do' Goodlng Grant, Prospect: Hiram p
farrow, East Belmont; B. Thomn.on
slontvllle Center. York. VIM. III. Deeriny
naco; BenJdmin f. Pease, Cornish; Richard
o ?, GOODWIN, Berwick. Cumberland, Knox
somerset and Washington counties were not
represented. ''
lhey were solid looking men with a bust
ness-llke air, and occupied position within
Tue oar' AT 10 30 the convention commenced
win tne choice OF Waldo Petingill, Rumford
as chairman. and A. c. Otis, clerk.
Adjourned.
AFTERNOON
Inc convention met at o'clock, p. NJ.
j.. W. Maxwell was chosen Clerk. tempo
rarliy, in the absence of Mr.. Otis.
The roll was called.
The following questions were then consid-
cred:
Query No. 1. What constitutes a regular session
This question was discussed at some length.
then by motion of Mr. Deerng of York. il
was laid on the table until today
Query No Can report of the location of road be
legally made at any other time than at a regular
This was also tabled.
Query No 8. How do you dispose of petitions to
to grade hills and roads already established?
Ihe sense of the meeting was to treat petit
tons of this character the same as other De-
ttions.
Query No. 4. Is 1t your practice to order hills
graded on new roads when petitioned so to do?
| The convention voted in the affirmative
Query No 5. Can county commissioners order cat.
Laid upon the table.
Mr.. Patterson, chairman of the Franklin
county delegation, offered petition for pre-
sentation to the legislature, praying that the
figure of $40 900 to which county commits
| sioners are limited in raising money without
the consent OF the people, be raised to Sl5,-
900. Mr.. Patterson asserted that now bi-en-
NAL sessions of the legislature we're held, it
| that sucb yisio no a1o
Franklin county being about to build Court
House, the commissioners would be serious
ly hampered unless the SIS, 900 limit was al
lowed.
| Three gentlemen opposed the petition, and
two others favored it. The petition was
voted down.
| Query No. 8. What are the powers of county
commissioners in regard to the purchasing of
stationery for county officials?
The convention decided that the purchasing
power lay entirely with the commissioners
Hon. A. q. LehrOke, who was present
during the afternoon, gave the assembled
| Query No. Z. Should county commissioners fur
nish tobacco for prisoners in jail?
Voted in the negative very generally.
| Query No. Does labor IN jails improve the NOR
| al condition OF those cuniin d therein!
After general expression of the conven-
ton, it was voted that labor in Jail workshops
does not improve the moral condition of the
| inmates.
Query No. o. Are any alterations in the laws
relating roads in unincorporae places necessary
After discussion, this was laid upon the Ia
BILE until evening.
Adjourned until $50 2 Nj.
EVENING.
At7.3OP. NJ. met according to adjourn
ment.
The following committee was appointed
by the chair to present the matter of requir-
ing bonds of trial Justices etc =, to the legis
lature: S. w. Carr, Sagadahoc; w. Il.
Scribner, Penobscot; w. II. Deering, York;
G. NJ Weston, Kennebec. To this commit-
tee was added the name of Waldo Pettengill
of Rumford.
Voted that the matter of making alterations
in the laws relating to roads in unincorpora-
ted places lie upon the table until this morn
ing
Adjourned to meet at o'clock A. M,
today.