Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-28
STATE HOUSE.
Change in Law Relating to
School Superintendent.
Board Of Examination viii Meet in
Augusta, Tomorrow Morning.
Fire Notices Now Being Sent Out by
Forest Commissioner.

Another law relating to the public
schools, which was amended at the re-
cent session of the Legislature, is
arousing some discussion in education
al circles. The opinions of lawyers
have been asked as to the time when
| the change becomes operative. The
| amendment referred to takes away
from towns the right to elect a super
| intendent of schools at the regular
town meeting and places that power
| wholly in the hands of the superin-
| tending school committee, which shall
annually, and as often as vacancy
shall occur, elect a superintendent OF
schools who shall not be a member OF
the committee. This law was approved,
March 18, and took effect at that time.
1t is now contended that school su-
perntendents elected by towns prior to
March Is shall hold their office until
the end of the term for which they
have been elected; that the law is not
| retroactive, and that the school com
mittees in such towns as elected prior
| to March IS cannot elect a superin-
tendent unless a vacancy occurs. This
is the position taken by some of the
| dDleSt lawyers III the state.
On the other hand, it is urged that
the law meant to apply to all towns
| in the State and was to go into effect
this year.
In accordance with the following
general orders the board of examiners
of Names National Guard will meet
here, tomorrow morning:
I. The board of examination will
meet at adjutant- general office on
Wednesday, April 20, 1908. at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, to inquire into the qualifications
for their respective positions, of per-
sons who have been elected or appoint
ed to offices in the National Guard of
the State of Maine, as follows:
| FIRST INFANTRY.
| First lieutenant, John ]. A. Mulhearn,
| (captain-elecD, Co. L.
First sergeant, Daniel J. Lawler,
| Ost lieutenant -elecD, Co. L.
SECOND INFANTRY.
Second lieutenant, Ralph H. Whitney,
| (captain-e elect, Co. l..
| First sergeant, Harry M. Perry.
| cd lieutenant elect), Co. L.
Corporal Daniel B. Belcher, cd lieu
tenant elect), Co. X.
| Second Lieutenant Charles E. lib
belts, (1st -elecD, Co. A.
Sergeant, John j. McKenna, cd lieu
| tenant elect, Co. A.
NAVAL RESERVE.
Ensign, Everett G. Scully, lieutenant
O.. c. appointeO.
Harry M. Nckerson, MD, assistant
surgeon, with rank of lieutenant, q. CD
appointed).
| Boatswain's mate. first class, Frank
lin Q. Twitchell, (ensign-elecD.
III. The persons elected or appointed
to offices, as above, are hereby notified
to present themselves to the board OF
examination at the time and place
specified herein for the meeting of the
board. Officers elected or appointed
who are members of the National
Guard will appear in undress uniform
without sidearms; they will be fur
nished transportation and subsistence,
but no per diem will be allowed them
| The railroad commissioners have re-
ceived a petition from the Berwick,
Eliot and York Street Railway for an
overhead bridge above the tracks of
The commissioners will meet here, to-
morrow, and will then probably assign
O. date for hearing this petition.
The State assessors have begun NOV
| ing their office and paraphernalia to the
| room of the judiciary committee, which
they will occupy during the time re-
pairs are being made on the south wing
of the Capitol. Labor Commissioners
Matthews, who has been occupying the
room next that used by the assessors,
will probably be domiciled in Room
| No. Z, in the basement, which was used
by the revision committee during the
session.
| The officials at the Office of the forest
commissioners. are engaged in sending
out fire notices to all parts of the wood
| ed sections of the State. There notices
are printed on heavy cloth and will