Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-28

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schools the trustees may arrange cours,
for three or four years.
Parents or guardians at their own ex
pense may provide school books for theil
children.
The Madawaska training school ha:
been included in the list of normal school.
and $4,000 has been added to the general
appropriation for the State normal schools.
The State appropriates $4,000 for a
new dormitory at Gorham and $50, O0C
for new building at Pennington.
Among the educational measures are
the following: An amendment to the law
prescribing the subjects on which teachers
shall be examined the amendment reouir-
ing on the part of the teacher knowledge
of civil government and of the effects al
alcohol and narcotics on the human sys-
TEN; the State superintendent of schools
has been given $1,000 for holding annually
of schools for teachers under his supervi-
sion; also $500 out of the school funds
each year for preparing and distributing
among the teachers of the common schools.
outlines, suggestions, directions and other
information upon methods of teaching.
The State superintendent shall also cause
to be held public examinations for teach
ers Certificates either probationary or
permanent shall be issued, Indicating the
grade, and these shall be accepted in lieu
OF other personal examination. The an
preparation for this purpose shall not ex-
coed $500.
Cities. Towns and Plantations.
Gouldsboro was divided to make "a new
town of Winter Harbor, Sullivan to make
new town of Sorrento Cape Elizabeth to
make the town of South Portland. Madi-
son was not divided. Woodville, New
Sweden and Swans Island have been in
corporated as towns. Kossuth and
Brighton gave up their town organiza-
ton. Carrying Place and The Forks be.
came plantations. Parts of the towns of
Greene and Lewiston have been added to
the town of Webster City charters for
Dexter and South Portland have been
granted. Those plantations concerning
the organization of which there have
been legal doubts, have been rc-organized
A law has been passed providing that
the Governor shall appoint Il commission
of three non residents of the city of Water
vile. This commission is to plan a read
justment of the ward lines of that CITY
and report to the chief justice for a;i-
proval.
Alter Many Attempts.
The medical registration bill got through
while the veterinary surgeons bill died
between porch and altar and a victory is
scored for those who wanted anything
for IA beginning. 1t is far from what they
asked for however. Under it not more
than two of the board of six shall be
members of any one school of medicine
and the section providing that unregistered
practitioners could not collect their pay
was stricken out. The State is to pay the
incidental and travelling expenses Of the
board and to each member SIS day when
employed and five cents per mile each
way Graduates of medical colleges and
practitioners of three years practice in this
State will pay registration fee of SO and
those not SO entitled $40.
The State agency bill went through as
it came from the committee and was pub
lished. Among the principal new feat
ures is that for an assay of the liquors.
Sec. 81, chap. 3, Revised Statutes, has
received this addition: amy city officers
elected or appointed by the city council or
by mayor and aldermen shall discharge
their respective duties under the direction
and control Of tho mayor and aldermen.
probato and lnsnivanrv
In settlement of insolvent estates the
Judge of probate may fix the amount to be
allowed for burial lot, etc.
A debtor who has received a discharge
from insolvency may now be compelled
to answer for any claim which was
created by fraud or cmbezzlement Of
such debtor or by his defalcation as a
public officer while acting in fiduciary
character.
Some defects in the collateral inheri-
lance law have been amended. Chart
table requests are new exempted from its
provisions The time for payment of the
tax is left to the judge of probate.
A commission composed of three judges
and two registers of probate to prepare
uniform blanks and rules of practice and
procedure in courts of probate and insol-
vency, has been provided for and ap-
pointed. Public notice of a hearing on
probate of foreign wills shall be made
three weeks instead of 80 days before the
hearing.
By consent of the judge of probate the
witness may waive signing the stenog
rapher's transcript.
A resolve for abstracting the probate
records of Lincoln county from 1850 to
1899, was passed
Free Public Libraries.
Cities or towns with more than $1,000
Inhabitants may receive State stipend on
$1,000 appropriated for free public libraries
instead of on $500 as formerly.
An amendment has gone through which
requires the State stipend for free public
libraries to be 10 per cent of the amount
expended by said town "for the use and
benefit of such free public library and for
the running expenses thereof. y
A town or city shall not receive State aid
for free public library unless the State
librarian shall have received the report of
that town on or before April L.
For Pure Food.
Thirty days imprisonment or fine not
exceeding 500 are the penalties prescribed