The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-25
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| Jurist.
Especial to the Pressl
! AUGUSTA, January 24.-Representa-
tive Haskell of Cape Elizabeth presented
this morning the village end Sf the Cape
Elizabeth question in the shape of a
charter for Elizabeth City, and
moved its reference to the committee on
legal affairs. The provisions of the bill
follow:
Elizabeth City.
| The proposed charter provides
that if the inhabitants of that town
so vote, they shall be a bo ly
polite and corporate under the
name of Elizabeth City. The admin
istration of the proposed city is to be in
the hands of a Mayor and council, to be
elected in seven wards, members of
the council to be styled aldermen. The
Mayor is to be elected by the legal voters
of the whole town. The aldermen are
to be elected by wards, one from each
ward. A school committee, to be COM
posed of three persons, is provided for,
! to be elected in the same way as the
Mayor. An auditor is also to be chosen
| and seven counstables on the general
| ticket. A plurality vote is sufficient to
| elect all the officers. The city council
may elect city clerk, treasurer who
| shall also be collector, street commiss-
| ioner, three assessors and three over
seers of the poor. health officers, and
an assistant assessor for each ward. 1t
it may establish by ordinance,a police
department to be composed of chief
| and as many assistants as the council
may determine. The chief and the po-
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| Mayor and confirmed by the council, and
they shall be removed for cause.
The council may create fire
department, to be composed of
chief engineer and one assistant engineer
| from each ward. The engineers are to
| be elected by the city council All the
officers shall hold office for one year, ex-
cept the school committee, who shall
hold for three years. Elections are to be
| held annually on the first Monday of
March, the first meeting after the accep-
tance of the charter, to be called by Civ
| ing notice at least seven davs before the
| first Monday in March. This act may BE
submitted fer the approval of the voters
at any time within five, years after It's
enactment, except in the months of Sc
| tember and November, and if it receivt
a majority of the votes of the elector
| present it shall go into effect
The Memory of Judge Virgin.
When the legislature adjourned today
it was to meet again Thursday morning.
| This was in accordance with an order
passed by both branches in order to give
| the officers and members an opportunity
to attend the funeral of Judge Virgin.
The resolutions on Judge Virgins death
h1xr
| Pertaining to f1,e Schools.
| a state board of education is the latest
project to demand legislation. Mr. Lane
of Augusta presented the bill. 1t pro-
| vides for board to consist of the gov
ernor and seven other members to be ap-
pointed by the governor, provided that
| the board as first constituted shall con-
| sist of the governor, the board of normal
/ school trustees and two others. The
terms of each shall be for three years, so
arranged that no more than two shall be
| appointed in ny one year.
| The duties of the board shall be such
as now devolve by law upon the state SUI
perintendent of common schools |; nd the
| normal school trustees. They shall have
| secretary or agent, whose salary shall
not exceed $1,000, and may have clerk
| at salary not over $1,000. They may
| grant state certificates to the teachers in
| public schools. The compensation of
the board shall be So day and travelling
| expenses. s
| Mr.. Shaw of Bath presented a bill fix
| ing the ages at which pupils may attend
| public schools from five to 81 years.
Senator Winslow of Somerset presented
a bill to abolish the school district
system in the state. 1t is about the same
bill in every section as the one introduced
two years ago. That bill contained some
conservative features not introduced be-
| fore and these are all retained In the one
! presented yesterday, and some additional
ones calculated to remove many of the
principal objections heretofore made.
| There have been fears among the smaller
| districts that the smaller districts would
| be abolished under the new system, but
sec. of this new bill provides that this
act shall not abolish or change the loca-
| ton of any school legally es ablished at
the time OF its passage; but any town at
| it's annual meeting. or alta meeting called
| for the purpose, may determine the num-
| ber and location of it's schools, and may
discontinue. them or change their loca-