Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-23
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Ii is provided that any person who shall VII
fully neglect OF refuse 10 perform any duty
Imposed upon him BY the provisions of the
i act shall be fined not more than one hundred
dollars for each offence, for the use of the
town 10 which the offence occurred. Physi
= clans are 10 receive twenty five cents from
the town for each birth or death reported by
them TO the sown clerk. and the after officer
Is 10 receive fifteen cents each for receiving,
recording and returning such bi tn, mar
J riase or death This act i. To take effect and
be in force on and after the fist day of
January, 1880, and all c or psrs Of acts
? Inconsistent with this act are repealed. This
bill is put forward in the interests of the
State Genealogical Society. Ii combines the
best features of three bills PR pared by this
society, the State Board of Health and Mr..
Hovey, aud has the endorsement of all these
parties Ii is most important matter. In
the outline of the b Il given above only
the most prominent and important provisions
are shown. Ii is matter which viii come
home TO all people and will undoubtedly
awaken very general interest.
The Judiciary Committee voted yesterday
TO have hearing January 81, on the ques-
tiop of depriving property held as an in
vestment by literary or scientific Institutions
of exemption from taxation. There will
undoubtedly be considerable discussion over
thi, matter and the hearing will probably BE-
an Interesting one.
hearing on the question of extending the
lien on lumber will be held Jan, 30th.
An animated hearing on the question of
renewing the charter of +. {. Barker. giving
the exclusive right TO navigate certain Range
ley Lskes-the tupsuptie and Moose lucme-
guntic-by steam power, occurred before
the Committee on Interior Waters yesterday
afternoon. A remonstrsnce was presented
| by William Soule and IL others against the
charter. Both Mr.. Barker and MIR. Soule
were present 10 present their claims. Th.
delegation of franklin County were report
ed TO favor having the navigation of these |
lakes free TO all. The matter WAS laid upon |
| the table.
The committee on legal affairs opened |
their session yesterday afternoon By giving |
hearing to the dental bill the principal |
| provisions of which are that a board of e1
aminers, five in number shall be sppointed
which shall issue certificates TO those fitted
| 10 practice dentistry. All now in practice
shall be registered on the payment of one
dollar and the satisfactory answer of such
questions as the board may PROFOUND. Any
person having diploma from any reputable
dental college shall be given certificate on
the payment of two dollars. All others
shall be given thorough examination and
pay fee of twenty dollars.
A. NJ. Goddard, Esq, appeared for the
petitioners and backed up his arguments by
a large pile of petitions from Portland,
Brunswick, Lewiston, Belfast and other cit
les lie claimed that all the States in the
Union, with the exception of six, had such
law, and that because Maine had no such
law the quscks were all driven here for
refuge.
DIR. Fill brown of Portland professor of
dentistry at Harvard said that one of the
principal reasons for passing such law was
that in the practice of dentistry many pow
erful drugs were employed TO produce
y alaestheism, TO use which properly
considerable knowledge and skill is
necessary TIL r. are more d,a.hs
from the improper use of anaestheucs in
the dentists chair than in any other place. A
dentist without any surgical education is en-
rely ignorant of how great a shock his op
eraaons may give to the patient and long
sickness and death are often caused by a
sudden fright or careless movement which
practitioner with practical education would
be very 10th 10 cause. All the States around
us have passed laws regulating the practice
of dentistry and consequently Name now re-
ceives all the scum of the profession, espe
clally now that = law has been passed in
Massachusetts, The doctor cited the case
of an expressman who twelve weeks after he
left his wagon hung out his sign dentist.
IL would be better for even graduates of
dental colleges 10 pass sn examination.
DIR. ID, W. Fellows, president of the
Maine Dental Association and DIR. Roberts
of Augusta were also present.
On motion of Mr. Haines the bill was laid
on the table.
he al
next came before tie committee,
L. d. Carver, E'q of Watervile, appeared |
in its favor. He says that the matter has
always been in the hands of the selecimen
that the manipulation of check lists for po |
| litlcal purposes resulted. Senator liaines
| spoke of the condition of things which has |
for many years existe1 in Waterville. There
has always been trouble about making the |
check lists there, and the same difficulty no
doubt exists in other portions of the State. |
Mayor Wakefield of Bath, said that in the |
past there had been many names illegally
registered in that city and that registration
board would much improve the present con
dtion of things. The bill was laid on the
table.
| Representative r. r. Joy of Winn received
letter a day or two since from j. Darling
of Lowell, one of the leading hunters of the
State, in which he criticises the methods of
the game wardens quite severely and thinks
the tendency of the present law is to drive
sportsmen away from our State, Mr.
| Darling thinks that there are today 10 900
deer in Maine, and he thinks that dogs are
necessary to the sportsmen in hunting, and
that even with the use of dogs even the year
| ly increase would not be killed. He declares
that it is the winter hunting and still hunting
tnat destroys the deer and not the hunting
which 10 done during the open season. Mr..
| Darling is evidently a warm friend of the
visiting .portsmen and makes a strong pre-
sentation of his own idea of the inducements
that should be held out to them.
/ T. F. Pierce, Esq. of Rockland appears
as counsel for the remonstrants in the hear
ing on the petition to divide the town of
Rockiand.
BY the provisions OF Waketeld's bill to
prevent the sdulteration of heat meal. who
! ever 81 lis any compound under the name of
wheat or graham meal, forfeits one hundred
dollars for the first ofense and for subse-
! quent offenses. two hundred dollars. Off
| GERS are empowered to cause all suspected
specimens of sdulterated meal TO be salisfac-
torily tested, the expense of the same. not
exceeding twenty dollars. included in costs
of prosecution and allowed TO the officer
paying for the same.
flOu w liiihn = rye mas sent fresiIelt
of the Senate Lori an elegant morocco
bound copy of the rules of the United States
Senale, with the autograph of the dstn-
guished Senator on the title page.
The following is the text Of the resolution
which the Getty sburg committee has decided
to have introduced into the Senate
Resolved, That the sum of 81 900 be and
is hereby appropriated 10 enable the Maine
Gettysburg battlefield commission appointed
under the resolve approved February rs.
1881, to complete and erect and dedicate
monuments provided for in sad resolve
Resolved. That this appropriation -hall
be expended under the direction Of said com
mission and, wh@n audited and approved by
the Governor and Council. the State Treas
urer is hereby directed to pay said sum.
| Tie teachers act, which provides that
teachers shall be vested with the same au-
thori'y in the government of pupils as parents
have in the government Of their children,
vas presented. /, provides that the chill
dren may be expelled temporarily in cases of
unlawful i1subordinatiou
Representative Burleigh of yassalboro in
trOduced a resolve that there be Appropriated
800, or such part as may be needed, to pay
the railroad fare of delegates appointed by
the Governor to attend the Farmers National