Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27
Site Of School For the
Feeble Minded
Nav Be Announced al Council
Meeting Tuesday.
Recruits at livermore Falls TO Be
Examined May !.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, April %, at 10 A. N.

The regular Ulccllu6 VI tic 1oSCAhOi
and Council will be held in the COUNCIL
chamber tomorrow. Tuesday, COM
mencing at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon,
and the session is expected to he
fairly busy one. Among the riatters
which will come before the meeting in
addition to the routine business will
he the retition for the pardon OF Will
liam Mcintosh OF Cary plantation, ac-
ton on which was postponed at the
meeting of the council April 2. and a
hearing will also be held on the petit
ton for the pardon of Edward st.
Pierre of Lewiston who is serving 10
wears at Thuluaston on two indict-
merts for robbery.
Another matter which will probably
be taken up at the meeting is that of
the school for feeble minded, ard 1t is
generally supposed that the selection
of a site for the institution will be an
nOunced.
1t will be remembered that there
was enacted by the last Legislature
q law entitled An Act to provide for
the care and education of the feeble
minded" the opening section OF which
provides for the establishment and
maintenance by the State of school
for the care and education of the i'd
lotto and feeble minded six years of
age and upward, which shall be known
as the Name School for Feeble Minded,
and that all such feeble minded per-
sons supported by towns in the State,
who, in the judgment Of the munich
pal officers of towns Of State board OF
charities are capable of being ben
Gifted by school instruction. shall be
committed to this institution.
The law also provides for the ap-
pointment by the Governor, with the
advice of his Council, of five persons
all of whom shall be inhabitants Of this
State and one of that number fe,
male, to be trustees Of such school
and that the trustees shall be ap
pointed as follows: The first three t.
serve for two years, the other two
for four years, and thereafter sale
trustees shall be appointed to serve
four years 1t is further provided that
the said trustees shall have the gen.
eral management and supervision OF
the school, and that one or more OF
the trustees shall visit the school as
often as. once each month, and that
the board of trustees shall annually
on or before the first day of October
of each year furnish report to the
Governor and Council containing a
complete history of the school for the
year and complete statement of all
accounts, with all the funds. general
and special, appropriated or belonging
to said school with a detailed state
ment of disbursements. 1t is also pro-
tbn q "
officio. q. member of the board OF
trustees of the school, and shall an
nually visit the school.
Section s of the law provides for
the selection and purchase by the
Governor and Council of a suitable
site for the school and home. and
that the board of trustees, as soon as
appointed and organized. shall pro-
coed as soon as practicable to erect
thereon and properly furnish and
equip suitable buildings and struc-
lures to accomplish the objects sci
forth in the act.
In conformity with the above sec
ton Governor Cobb appointed as q
committee to select a site for the
school the following members of his
Council Hon. w. Scott Libbey OF
Lewiston, Hon. Leroy f. Pike of Cor
nish and Hon. Thurston S. Burns OF
Westbrook These gentlemen have
visited various sections of the State
and have examined many possibilities
in the way of sites, and while many
excellent ones were found a difficulty
was encountered in the RICH price OF
real estate in some of the localities
which were looked upon with approval
by the committee. 1t is thought now
however that site has been selected
which can be secured at a reasonable
price. The appropriation for this pur-
pose was an amount of money not
exceeding $4,000 to be expended with
In the next two years.
Announcement was made Saturday
at the office of the adjutant general
Of the issuance of Special Orders No
49, the text of which is as follows:
Augusta. April "a. 1908.
Special Orders No. 80.
l. Captain James F. Hill. Medical
Department. NJ G. S. NJ. is hereby
ordered to proceed to Livermore Falls
Me-. in season to reach there on
Thursday, May z. 1908. at 2 o'clock p
NJ. to make the medical examination
OF the men enlisted by Isaac b. Ciary,
under Special Orders No. 10. A. G. O.,
c.
III. Isaac B. Clary will assemble
the men at some suitable place for
examination and will report to Cap
tam Hill upon his arrival at Liver
more Falls and conduct him to the
Place of rendezvous.
BY order of the COMMANDMENTS
Chief: .
AUGUSTUS b. FARNHAM,
Adjutant General.
Prof u hn