Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-16

CT to hold said office durns, sucb unex-
| pirnd term
! section :. Said highway commissions
| eiS' haNlhS been sworn according to
| l"N' snail constitute Il board. and an
| fu'll! on the third Monday of March
or as soon thereafter as convenient
| SINAI! meet ana organize by alIointiu.-
OF" OF their number chairman ana
| "hothcr clerk for the ensuing ye,r
| iht% may adopt rules, not iuron-
| SlStcnt with law. for the orderly con-
duet of their business. Their cIer,,
| snail he sworn as such. and shall keen
true record of the doings of the
| board, which record shall be omen to
public inspection.
ection $. Said board of highway
| commissioners within said CITY Shall
have all the powers and perform all
the duties by law pertaining to road
| commissioners Of towns ana such
other powers ANA duties relative to lie
care. control, Improvement, repair.
cons traction and protection of the pub
lie streets. roads. ways. bridges an.;
sewers III said cry rs said municipal
officers or the city council Of said ,.ity
Ilay lawfully confer ON said bo. rd.
shall also have the care Of the sewers
i'll s:,iu city. and shall contract fo- ma
have charg" Of III repairs, coustruc-
| tion, Improvement and extension of All
sewers. streets ana public ways ;.u-
ti,oriZed by said city council. Sail
| board If highway commissioners shall
not ::ldKe amy contract or incur ANY
liability on behalf of said city involv-
| ing an Indebtedness or expenditure of
money i'm excess of the amount ap-
prorrjIted for such purpose by said
city council.
Section .. Said board of highway
commissioners shall report in such
| form ANA 1T such times ~ the mayor or
board of aldermen may require.
| Section 10. Section Scventy-one of
| cha pter t,r.ntN-thrce of the Revised
statutes shall not apply 10 said board
| Of highway commissioners.
Section II. said board Of highway
commissioners shall certify to the
board of aldermen each month prior to
the regular meeting Of the aldermen
| I'll Suril bills as are due for material
| furnished or work done by authority OF
said board of highway commissioners.
Section l. said highway commits
| sinunrS shall hold no other Office unde:'
| tn. charter or ordinance of SAID city,
| ana shall not be directly or indirectly
| interested i'll any contract for labor or
| material to be furnished said city OF
| u uny ,lenurtmen thereof.
Section T. Said highway commits
sfoners shall receive in full for their
services srrh st;,tcd salary as shall be
| nv ha
| for The chen current municipal Gear.
| ana shall receive no other comncn,d-
| ton from said city except the amount
| octual,, eXpeuded for necessary tray
| elin:, expenses.
Section II. All acts and parts OF
,cts Inconsistent with this act are
| hereby repealed or SO amended as to
| conform to the intent and purpose OF
| this act.
Section l.. This act shall take effect
when approved. except that the hrst
three sections thereof shall take effect
At the expiration of The tenn at oiiirt
ri he present common council of said
city.
REPRESENTATIVE KinSman Of Augusta
introduced a bin to prevent the pollu-
ton of the waters of Carleton ponu.
Section Of the bill provides that II"
nerson. firm or corporation shall here
after build. use or occupy any struc-
1ure upon or near the shores of Carrie
Ton pond Tor such purposes on in such
manner that The sewage or drainage
therefrom shall enter the waters OF
said pond or pollute tho same.
Section ; provides that no person
shall throw the body of any dead AMI
NAL or other offensive material INTO Inc
waters of the pond or leave the same
upon the pond when Frozen nor Shali
any sewage. drainage. refuse or poiiut-
| ing matter of such kind as Will impair
| the parity Of the water or tend TO rem
! der il INJURIOUS to health be discharged
| into the pond or deposited therein or
| thereon. But nothing shall herein pro-
| i'ihit the cultivation and use or the
soil in the ordinary methods of agricul-
| ture: if no foul or decaying matter is
| used therein within five hundred feet OF
| the line of high water on the shores Of
said pond.
Section provides that whoever vio-
| lates any of the provisions of the fore
going sections snail be punished by
| she not exceeding $1,000 or by impris-
| onnant not exceeding one year. The
| Supreme judicial Court shall have ju-
risdiction in equity to enjon, prevent.
restrain any violation of the foregoing
| provisions.
Section 4. If any person shall battle
| in said Carleton pond so long as the
| water of the same is used for the pur
| poses OF water supply by the Angus
| ia Water District. he shall be fined not
exceeding $50. or imprisoned not ex
| Cepding six months.
Section :. No person shall use any
boat on said pond, or fish therein. or
| harvest ice therefrom. Whoever vio-
| iates this section shall be fined not ex-
Ceeding $50. or imprisonment not ex
| cceding six months. Nothing herein
| shall prohibit the necessary uses of said
Fond by the Augusta Water District.
| Section 6. This act shall take effect.
| when the Augusta Water District shall
| begin the construction of it's works in
| said pond for the use Of the water
thereof as a water supply