Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-06-09
Board Of State Assessors
Begin Meetings.
will Hold First Of Series al
Fryeburg, Today.
Columbia Insurance Co., Authorized
to Operate In Maine.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, June %, at 10 A. NJ.

In accordance with the provisions of
Section ) of Chapter 8 of the Revised
Statutes, which provides that the
Board of state Assessors shall visit
officially every county in the State at
least once in two years and shall
there hold sessions at such times and
places as they may deem necessary to
secure information to enable them to
make a just and equal valuation of
the taxable property in every place
therein and to investigate charges of
ccncealment of property liable to as
scssment, the board will go to Frye
burg today for the purpose of holding
the first meeting of the series for the
present year. The meeting will begin
at . o'clock this morning and will
probably continue through the re-
maiAdcr Of the day. No meeting will
be held on Wednesday but on Thurs
ray the board will be at South Paris
and on Friday will close the business
of the week with a meeting at Rum
ford Falls TWO or three of these
meetings will be held in every county
of the state.
The law also requires that each
Der or members Of each of them, shall
attend these meetings, having with
them tire then last list or books giving
the valuation of all taxable property
in their respective towns, and to an
swcr under oath, if required, such
questions pertaining to the valuation
of the property in their towns as the
Board of state Assessors may put TO
them. Any town whose assessors
shall fail to attend these meetings
without excuse satisfactory to the
state board is liable to pay the rea-
sonabIc expenses of the board or of
any person appointed by it, incurred
in making examination of the list or
books of said town or in getting other
evidence pertaining to the valuation
of the property in such town
Returns are now coming in at the
Office of the state board in response
to the blanks sent out to the cities,
towns and plantations of the State
earlier in' the year and requiring the
local boards. in accordance with the
la% which requires them to make re-
turns to the state board. before the
first day of August, Of the valuation
Der of blanks sent out from the office
Of the State board was 521, and of that
number 2SS returns have been made.
Announcement was made at the
Office of Hon 5. w. Carr, state insur-
ance commissioner. Monday. that
certificate had that day been issued to
the Columbia Insurance Co. of Jersey
City, n. j., authorizing it to transact
a marine insurance business in the
State of Maine. The company was
incornoratcd under the laws of New
Jersey and began doing business in
1901, and has a capital stock of S40O.-
600. IT.; admitted assets are $601.-
4So,IO. and ii has Il surplus over all
liabilities amounting to $l12,490 $50. The
officers of the company are as fol-
lows: President, George f. Crane;
vice-president. Franz Hermann;
treasurer, c. f.. Dean; secretary, Ar
thur Hadlay: directors. George f.
Crane. Frederick Busk. r. Hermann,
Lawrcnce knccland, G. f.. Dean.
George d. IIallock and Arthur Hadley.
Managers, Franz HERMANN The
company will be represented in Maine
ny T. Z. Jones N Co. OF Portland.
Paul D. Sargent, state commissioner
of highways. finished last Thursday
the first week of the series of meet
1ngs which he is holding i'm the towns
OF the state where petitions had been
fed requesting q change in the loca-
t'on of the state road as laid out by
the county commissioners under the
now law. and no further meetings will
be held until Friday. June H. when
Mr.. Sargent will be at Caribou. where
a meeting will be held at 10 A. NJ. On
the following Monday, June Is,
meeting will bc held at 10 A. NJ. Pc
utlons have also been received from
several other towns of the State. but
as yet no dates have been assigned
Tor hearings. The counties in which
petitions for a change have been filed
include ArooStook, Cumberland, Ken
hrbec. Pcnobscot, Sagadahoc and
Leon S. Merrill of Solon, the State
in.-f, x,.ifI hn