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administration may be granted such property, at
any time within two years next after it accrued
first became known, but such administration shall
affect other property and shall not revive debts
approved February 21.]
Chapter 81.
AN ACT TO amend section one of chapter three hun
dred and fourteen of the Public avs of eighteen
hundred and eighty relating to the citizenship
ofpersons connected with the Soldiers LONE at
That section one of chapter three hundred and
fourteen, public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty
five be amended by inserting after the words shall
lowing but any person connected with the National
Home as aforesaid, but having domicile i'll town,
in this state, outside of said Home and voting resi-
dence therein, shall not be disqualified from voting
in the which he has such residence account
of his connection with said Home, so that said Sec
ton when amended will read as follows:
become inmates Of the National Home for disabled
volunteer soldiers at Togus in the county of Kenne
bec subject to the rules and regulations thereof
or shall receive ratons therefron shall be deemed
citizens of the respective towns in which they had
legal residence when their connection with SAID Ma
tional Home commenced so long such connection
shall continue Herewith, but any person connected
domicile in town, in this state, outside of said
home, and voting residence therein, shall not be
such residence account of his connection with said
Home. Approved February 81.
Chapter 32.
AN ACT to amend section eighty-seven of chapter
eleven Of the Revised Statutes relating to the quail
ifcations Of instructors in public schools
SECT /. Section eighty-seven of chapter eleven OF
the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by inserting
ology' the words and the elements of the natural
sciences especially applied to agriculture so that
said specification Will read as fOloWs:-
81 On satisfactory evidence that candidate pos
sesses good moral character, and temper and dis
Shall examine him in reading spelling, English gram
mar, geography, history, arithmetic, bookkeeping
ences, especially as applied to agriculture and such
Schools and particularly into the school for which he
is examined also as to his capacity for the govern
SECT, q This act shall take effect and after
August one. eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Chapter 33.
AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and fifteen
Of the Revised Statutes entitled "Salaries of Public
Officers and Compensation of Members OF the Gov
Section of said chapter is hereby amended in
secretary Of the board of agriculture, by striking
sfteen that said paragraph shallrcad follows
THE secretary of the board of agriculture, fifteen
expenses incurred in the discharge OF his Duties
account whereof be first audited by the governor
warens on the treasurer state such as are
necessary to defray the same end other expenses pro-
[Approved February 25.]
Chapter 81.
AN ACT to provide Board of Registration in the
SECT. l. "A board of registration is hereby estab-
ished in each city of the state which shall have the
exclusive power and authority to determine the quail
ifcation of voters therein and exclusive power to
Of said cs and shall perorm all the duties and
have, exclusively all the powers now exercised by
the municipal officers of said cities in making pre-
pairing, revising and correcting the list of voters
therein under chapter four of the Revised Statutes
any other statute relating thereto.
SECT 2. Said board shall consist of three members
who shall be residents and legal voters of the city
where such board is established, of whom shall be
appointed and commissioned by the governor by and
with the consent of his council for term of four
years. but the rsttem shall expire May one, eighteen
hundred and ninety five, and who shall not hold or be
eligible to any elective municipal office during said
term. Said member of said board shall be appointed
Immediately the approval of this act The other
two members of this board shall be chosen from
the political party polling the highest number of votes
for governor in this state at the next preceding state
election and from the political party polling the
next highest number of votes for governor of this
state said election, and they shall each hold their
Office for the term of two years. but the first term shall
expire May one, eighteen hundred and ninety three,
elective municipal Office during said term. Each
shall be nominated by the city committee of his
political party, and upon due notice thereof in writing
the several mayors of said cities shall forthwith
point such persons nominated members of said
board If either both of said political parties for
the space of days after the approval of this act
after vacancy occurs in such board by its said
committees neglectS refuses so to nominate
a member of such board and to notify the mayor of
such city thereof, said mayor shall select and appoint
q member of said board from the political party
neglectng and refusing to nominate. And in caseany
member of said board, SO appointed by said mayor,
neglectS refuses to act as member of said board
the other two shall proceed with the business this
board as provided by this act in his absence. And if
any member of said board be absent disqualified by
being by the appointment of some qualified eectOr of
said city of the political party the absent
member represents.
SECT. 8. The person appointed and commissioned