Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-18

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plain my reasons for sisnins that report
an servant OF the Staie. charged viii
me aasy. % far - am able, OF protecting
tne interests OF ths entire Ssate, and vheE
masssr comes up before committee ol
when an member II 10 my duty to hon
sssay veaen tne tseomony and make de-
c1aon 10 accofdance with my Judgment IL
relation thsseto. Therefore l have signsd
me minority report. The gentleman vhc
preceded NE has told You that the vlllas,
Of Aechanic fails 70 made up OF the cor
nef OF Two towns, which from 1867 10 1881
we're one school district. supporting theii
school ~ one corporation. The village
contairs about 400 voters. little over e0(
on tne Poland side and about 200 on the
Minos side. II has valuation within ths
corporation iimits proposed by the charteI
of 1853 OF about St00. 600 on the Mino'
and esoo. 600 on the Poland side. Tho prin
cipai part Of the stores are on the Mino
aide. 1t has on the Polsnd side pApei
mill run BY corporation, several memberi
of which are practically non.fesidents, ~
undefstand Il. Upon the Mlnot side there
10 2 large shoe factory and several othel
industries. Upon htss sight 1t strucl
me that would be unwise Il
separate village OF 20 email population
and erect two corporations therein. Ths
village u divided BY . stream less than 100
iset VIDE, ~ ! understand ii. Il has {
close community OF interests. 1t 10 %
situated that II will be long time. il ever,
before city can come out of it. There.
fore, II erected into two corporations they
must have for long time two weak cor.
pafations with the double burden Of support-
ing them, when one would answer the same
ter was granted in 1883 covering all thai
portion Of these two villages which was
near enough to be benefited BY any system
OF wafer works, for nre purposes, police
department, schools, sewers and sidevalks
That charter, ~ you have heard, provided
that these people might vote hve times in
four and half years upon its adoption,
which you have been told truly was COM
promise charter. Let u see what some Of
the provisions Of that charter are. Section
pointed out the limits. section 2 author
lied them to raise money for fire depart.
ments, for police and night watch, to Light
their streets, for water. sewers and side
walks and for schools. The streets
were to be maintained by the
towns after the erection of this
corporation a. before. Their officers
were named and this provision put in. that
every alternate year . majority Of the as-
sessors and school committee should be
residents of the part Of the corporation
known - the POLAND side,' thus giving
them fair chance with the officers, and
the Assessors were to be the municipal off,
GERS. Section six provided for the duties
Of the fire engineer. Section seven pro-
vided how the taxes should be assessed.
Section eight provided that no indebtedness
for the purpose Of the charter should be
beyond . per cent. Of the valua-
lion Of the corporation. Section ten pro-
vided for the five votes in four and
= half years. Section eleven provided
That the schoolhouse OF the union district
erected in MiRot at heavy cost should be-
loog to the corporation to be erected under
mat charter thus giving them the benefit
o. the money they bed paid into the village
'chool district corporation. That section
also provided that they should be paid for
me schooihouses ON the Polsnd side such .
,um OF money 10 committee appointed BY
the Supreme Court sh'uld deter
mine that IT was. worth. Section IL
provided how the school money should be
Apportioned amongst the inhsbitaufs Of
Ihas corporation, and 1t also provided that
I there were aoy pupils outside Of the
limits OF this Charter OF 1859, they should
be admitted upon such terms - the super
nfe ndinR school committee for the time
being should impose. thus securing to them
under this charter, all the rights shat they
could reasonably ask. You can very well
'ee that man living outside Of the limits
Of this proposed corporation would not wish
20 become member Of that corporation to
be organized under that charter. The
State in 1883 sanctioned the COM
promise agreement entered into by the
friends and opponents OF that charter,
and the state, 80 far Is it could.
agreed impliedly that it would not
grsnt another charter until the term and
limitation OF this charter had expired.
Therefore the opponents to this new charter
Justly claim that you should Withhold your
hand from this village until the four years
have elapsed One OF the reasons given
Tor organizing new corporation. and 1t 10
|. very proper rea'on to hear always, is
hat the people OF the propofed village
corporation cannot get from the town such
Nd - they desire for improvements. But
N the hearing before the committee the
nan most IN favor OF this new charter said
hat the town OF Poland ~ town had
levef Refused to graft to them all that
hey had asked for village Improvement
That TO my mind 10 decisive upon the
question whether the Poland eide should be
erected into corporation. Therefore the
'osition OF the minority of this committee
. that - the State has entered into this
contract that the villa9e should have four
md half years and hve votes on this ques-
lou, and a. there il NO immediate necessity
'of separafe corporation to be organized
N the Poland side. that it il the duty OF
his Legislature to let the people remain -
hey are nnil the expiration OF the four
md half years from the tins the charter
was granted. Then after the heat OF this
contest has subsided and they have hsd time
o take . second thought, ii they
IT'LL persist in erecting themselves into .
'eparate little corporation With 200 voters
md $500 900 OF valuation, we and this