Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-30

amended. shall read as follows:
| Section 2. Towns establishing state
roads as aforesaid may. on complying with
| the conditions hereinafter set forth. re-
| ceive from the state one-half of tire
amount actually expended in permanent
improvements of said roads not exceei-
! Ing two hundred dollars per year: provided
| that no town shall receive such statc alb
| unless its appropriation and expenditure
| Tor such road shall amount To at least
one hundred dollars and shall have been
| exclusive Of and in addition to the
amount regularly raised in stich town
| I9r highways and bridges; and provided
aiso, mat the amount so expended shall
pc used before the first day OF SEN
| tember in permanent Improvement OF
| CONTINUOUS portion of said road, and in
inSinner sa satisfactory to the county com
in ,'I iaas OF the county wherein said road
| - ioeated. such aid shall be paid from
~ Iae stare treasury on and after the first
go VI january upon certificate by the
| ton three ~ CIV
Sectlon 2. Section six of said chapter is
nerepy amended by striking out all Of said
H Si aiter the word of in the second
| or the words forty thousand dnlIors ebou
| be appropriated annually. so that said
section as amended, shall read IS follo~s.
ont e thn nr =. TOT me purpose of carrying
| forty thousand dollars shall be annronrt.
ated annually app 't'''
Section 3. This act shall take effect
[Approved March 1ol
Chapter GA.
An Act to amend Section three. Cban,cr
eighty of the Public Laws of ejghteen
hundred ninety-nine, relating to the
eiectlon or truant officers and the filling
or vacancies occurring in the office OF
Truant Officer.
Section l.. Section three chapter eighty
of the public laws of eighteen hundred
ninety-nine, is hereby amended by adding
after the word year in the last fine ~
said section the following words. namely:
and shall elect truant officers al thcii,
iirst meeting after the annual meeting of
the town, in case the town neglects 10 do
so or the truant officers elect or any of
them, fail to qualify. So that the last
sentence in said section, as amended
shall read as follows, namely:
Section 3. experimenting school COM
mlttees shall have power to fill vacancies
occurring during the year and shall elect
truant officers at their first meeting after
the annual meeting of the town, in case
the town neglects to do so, or the triant
officers elect, or any OF them, fail to quail
ify.'
Section .. All acts and parts of acts in.
consistent with this act, are hereby re-
peaied.
GApproved March 10l
NJ Chapter 65.
An Act to provide for the recording of
Plans.
section i. The county commissioners at
the expense of the several counties shall
provide suitable books of the best quality
OF tracing cloth, interleaved with white
paper and substantially bound. for the re-
corolng OF such plans as may lie presented
Tor record; and shall provide other books
OF substantial binding with stubs for tha
insertion and preservation of such plans
as it may not be expedient to COPY into
the books first mentioned.
In all cases where a plan is to beycopiel
IN the first named books the register of
deeds may employ competent ,ra fts-
a, commemorate fn oil
copy, and shall receive for examining and
certifying the same, the sum fifty cents i'm
addition to the amount paid for making
record, and a like sum for FURNISHING
copies from the record.
Said commissioners shall also cause 20
be made suitable index to all plans on
record, whether filed and recorded before
or after the passage of this act
when approved.
[Approved March 1o1
Chapter sc.
An Act to amend Section three of Chapter
two hundred and sixteen of the Public
Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety
three, relating to the Conveyance of
Scholars and to the maintenance of pub.
lie schools.
Section /. Section three of chapter two
hundred and sixteen OF the public laws of
eighteen hundred and ninety three as
amended by chapter two hundred and
ninetE-f5vc o. the public laws Of eight
by chapters forty-eight and seventy
four of the public laws of eighteen
hundred and ninety and by chap
ter two hundred and three of the u,,b-
lie laws OF nineteen hundred and one is
further amended by inserting between the
words vote" and instruct" in the seven
tenth line of said section, as last amend
ed the words at the annual meeting, after
the said committee shall have made n
written recommendation to that effect so
that said section, as amended by this act,
shall read as follows:
Section g. This act shall not abolish nr
change the location of any school legally
established at the time of its passage; but
any town at its annual meeting, or at a
meeting called for the purpose, may deter
mine the number and location of its
schools, ami may discontinue them or
change their location; but such discontinue
ance or change of location shall be made
only on the written recommendation of
the experimenting school committee,
and on conditions proper to preserve the
just rights and privileges. of the inhabi-
tants for whose benefit such schools were
established; provided, however, that in
case of any school having, as now estab-
lished, or which shall hereafter have, too
few scholars for its profitable mainta-
nance, the experimenting school commit
tee may suspend the operation of such
school for not more than one year unless
otherwise instructed by the town. but any
public school failing to maintain an aver
age attendance for any school year of at
least eight pupils, shall be and hereby is
suspended unless the town in which said
school is located shall by vote, at the an
nual meeting after the said committee
shall have made a written Recommended
ton to that effect, instruct its supcrintend-
ing school committee to maintain said
school The superintendent of schools in
each town shall procure the conveyance Of
all public school pupils residing in his
town a part or the whole of the distance,
to and from the nearest suitable school.
for the number of weeks for which schools
are maintained in each year, when such
pupils reside st such distance from the
said school as in the judgment of the super
Intending school committee shall render
such conveyance necessary. Provided, how
ever, that the experimenting school COM
mittee may authorize the superintendent
of schools to pay the board of any pupil or
pupils at suitable place near any esta5-
lished school instead of providing convey
ance for said pupil or pupils. when in their
Judgment it may be done at an equal or
less expense than by conveyance
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act, arc hereby re-
pealed.
Improved March H.
Chapter 81.
An Act relating to the salary of the Sher-
A.