Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-12

BOW DITCH ~ WEBSTER
General orders have been issued from
the office of the adjutant general, as
follows:
l. The following named officers ana
persons who have served as such, are
hereby placed upon the retired list of
commissioned officers of the volunteer
militia of the State of Maine, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of Sec
| ton /. Chapter 76 of the Public Laws
of the State of Maine, approved March
II, 1903, with the rank set against their
names:
Alonzo York. with rank of lieutenant
colonel. Service: Second lieutenant,
Company E, Second Infantry, Febru-
airy IL, 1882, to January II, 1885; first
| lieutenant. Company e, Second In
| fantry. January II, 1885, to January q,
| 1891; captain, Company f, Second In
| fantry, January q, 1891, to September
/ g. 1893; major, Second Infantry, Sep
tember 30, 1898, to July 16. 1898; lieu
tenant colonel, Second Infantry, July
| 16, 1898, to May 5. 1908.
Dana w. Lovejoy, with rank of cap
| tain. Service: Second lieutenant, Com
pany F, First Infantry, April Is, 1896, to
| July 49, 1897; captain, Company F, First
Infantry, July 10. 1897, to May 5, 1908.
Langdon S. Chilcott of Bangor, with
| rank of major. Service: First lieu
| tenant and adfdtant, Second Infantry,
July 5. 1887, to November I, 1887; cap
| tain. Company G. Second Infantry, No
vember T. 1887. to March %, 1892;
| major, Second Infantry, March 49, 1892,
| to April 10, 1894; resigned and honor
ably discharged, April 10, 1894.
The following petition has been re-
ceivcd by the railroad commissioners:
| To the honorable board of railroad
commissioners of the State of Maine:
The undersigned, selectmen of the
| town of Skowhegan, in the county of
Somerset and State of Maine, respect
| fully represent that your honorable
| board for good and sufficient reasons
has condemned the highway bridge
| leading across the north channel of
| the Kernebec river in said town,
whereby the erection of a new bridge
across said channel of said river at
said place has become necessary; that
the Skowhegan e Norridgewock Rail
way & Power Co., a corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws
of said State and having its principal
and established place of business in
said town of Skowhegan, owns and
| operates an electric street railway eX-
| tending into the towns of SkoWhegan
organized and existing under the laws
and Norrdgewock, both in said
| county. and crossing said condemned
bridge, by virtue of it's location in due
and legal form:
| Wherefore your petitioners pray that
your honorable board will apportion
| between said towns of Skowhegan and
said SkoWhegan and NorridgeWock
| Railway and Power Co. the cost of the
erection and future maintenance of
| said bridge to be erected as aforesaid
at the place aforesaid.
r. F. PARKER,
s. II. BRADBURY,
A. H. WYMAN,
Selectmen of the town Of Skowhegan.
Dated at Skowhegan, this 9th day Of
| May A. d. 1903
ON the foregoing petition the COM
missioners have ordered hearing al
| the office of the board in Augusta, Fri
day. May Is, at 10 A. NJ.
discussion of the question of the
taxation of manufacturing corporations
has been going on for some time among
the local assessors and others inter-
ested in the matter. At the last ses-
sion of the Legislature it was sought to
secure change, but the project was
not carried through. There seems to
be conflict on the subject. Para
graph ), section IA, chapter G. Revised
Statutes, provides as follows:
MACHINERY employed in any branch
of manufacture, goods manufactured
or manufactured, and real estate be-
longing to any corporation, except
when otherwise expressly provided
shall be assessed to such corporation in
the town or place where they are sit
uated or employed; and in assessing
stockholders for their shares in any
such corporation, their proportional
part of the value of such machinery,
goods and real estate. shall be de-