The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-04-02

and inserting in place thereof the word
| two: also Nv striking out the word "Au-
gust" in the eleventh line of said section
and inserting in place thereof the word
September, Sc that said section, as
amended shall read as follows:
| Section g. Towns establishing state
roads as aforesaid may, on complying with
the conditions hereinafter set forth, re
ceiye from the sczt3 one-half of tie
| amount actually expended in permanent
! improvements of saI~<roaas not eXceeI-
ing two hundred dollars per year; provided
that no town shall receive such state aid
unless its appropriation and expenditure
| for such road shall amount to at least
one hundred dollars and shall have beea
| exclusive of and in addition 10 the
amount regularly raised in such town
for highways ana tgidges and provided
also, that the amount 80 expended shall
be used before the first day of Sep
| TENDER In permanent Improvement of
a continuous portion of said road. and in
| a manner satisfactory to the county com
missiOner5 of thu county wherein said road
! is located. Such azd shall be paid from
the state treasury on and after the first
! day of January, upon certificate by the
governor and copnfsI as provided by see
| ton three
Section q Section six of said chapter IS
| hereby amended by striking out all of said
/ section after the word of" in the second
| line thereof and inserting in place there
of the words forty thousand dollars shall
! be appropriated annually, so that said
section as amended shall read as follows:
! Section 6. For the purpose Of carrying
/ out the provisions of this act the sum Of
forty thousand dollars shall be approprl-
Section ;. This act shall take effect
Approved March 1O1
Chapter Ga.
An Act to amend sectlon three. Chapter
eighty of the Public Laws Of eighteen
hundred ninety relating to the
tfs.ra fr-vn -,
of 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 line II
said section the following words, namely.
! and shall elect truant officers at their
| first meeting efter the annual meeting of
the town, In case the town nogleets to do
50 or the truant officers elect, or any of
them, fail to qualify. So that the last
shall read as follows. namely:
Section 3. experimenting school COM
rnittees 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 truant
| officers elect, or any of them, fail to qual-
| ify.'
Section . All acts and parts of acts in
| consistent With this act, are hereby re-
pealed.
TApproved March 1Ol
Chapter 65.
An Act to provide for the recording of
| Plans.
Section l. The county commissioners at
| the expense OF the several counties shall
provide suitable books Of the best quality
of tracing cloth, Interviewed with white
paper and substantially bound. for the re-
cording of such plans as may ue presented
for record; and shall provide other books
of substantial binding with stubs for the
insertion and preservation of such plans
| as 1t may not be cXpedient to CODY into
the books first mentioned.
| In all cases where a plan Is to be copied
in the first named books the register OF
deeds may employ a competent drafts
man at fair compensation to make such
copy, and shall receive for examining and
certifying the same the sum fifty cents in
addition to the amount paid for making
| record, and a like sum for furnishing
copies from the record.
Said commissioners shall also cause to
be made a suitable index to all plans on
record, whether filed and recorded before
or after the passage of this act.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved.
Approved March 1Ol
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.
hundred and sixteen of the public laws OF
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as
amended by chapter two hundred and
ninety-f!Vc % the public laws of eight
cen tundred and nnety-seven, and
by chapters forty-eight and seventy
four of the public laws of eighteen
hundred and nnetynine, and by chap
ter two hundred and three of tile pub
lie laws of nineteen hundred and one. is
further amended by inserting between the
words vote" ana instruct in the seven
n n = a q q 4
ed, the words at the annual meeting after
the said committee shall have made a
written recommendation to that effect. SO
that said section, as amended by this act,
shall read as follows:
Section 3. This act shall not abolish or
change the location of any school legally
established al 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 and 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, rs now eStab-
lished, or which shall hereafter have, too
few scholars for its profitable mainte-
nance. the experimenting school commit
. | tee may suspend the operation or 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
1 least eight pupils, shall be and hereby is
? suspended, unless the town in which said
! school is located shall by vote at the an
l nual meeting after the said committee
shall have made written recommended
ton to that effect. instruct it's superintend-
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 part or the whole of the distance.
to and from the nearest suitable school,
for the number of weeks for which schools
n are maintained in each year, when such
= pupils reside at such Il distance from the
| said school as in the Judgment OF the super
, intending school committee shall render
such conveyance necessary. Provided now
y ! ever, that the experimenting school com
4 mittee may authorize the superintendent
: of schools to pay the board Of any pupil or
pupils at q suitable place near any csta3-
iished school i1stead of providing convey
ance for said pupil or pupils, when IN their
| Judgment it may be done at an equal or
O less expense than by conveyance.
d Section 2. All acts and parts of acts IN
consistent with this act are hereby re-
d Improved March Ill
II Chapter 81.
W An Act relating to the salary of the Sher-
r. If of the county Of Aroostook, ana ming
o rho same at five hundred dollars a year.
Section /. The salary of the sherlh OF
the county of Aroostook shall be i've nun
r1Gta n