Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-15
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future aid to educational institutions,
act relating to the payment of super
intendents of schools.
The committee on taxation will con-
slider Tuesday the order inquiring into
the advisability of modifying the pro-
visions of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to advertising the lists of assess
ments of wild lands The committee on
inland fisheries and game will con-
slider Tuesday the act relating to close
time on deer in Knox and Waldo coun-
~. The act relating to illegal combi-
nations by fire insurance companies do
ing business in this State will be con-
sidered Wednesday by the committee
on mercantile affairs and insurance.
The question of the regulation of
the State liquor agencies will be threSh-
ed out Wednesday before the commit
tee on temperance when the act to reg
ulate the purchase and sale of lntOXl-
eating liquor by the State commission
er anu by town liquor agencies comes
UP for q hearing. Hearings will also
be given by the temperance committee
on that day upon the act providing
Jail sentence for illegal possession and
the act to provide q Jail sentence for
maintaining a liquor nuisance.
The committee on interior waters VIII
give hearing Wednesday upon an act
to incorporate the Somerset Power Co.
| and to authorize the company to con-
struct, maintain and acquire dam at
| or near Long Falls in Somerset county
| for the purpose OF utilizing and storing
| water and generating and furnishing
| power for manufacturing, electric and
| railway purposes. The committee on
| agriculture will give hearing Thurs
| day upon the resolve for the appoint
ment of 4 committee to inquire into
| the ACCESSIBILITY of reorganiZing the
agricultural department, so that all the
| agricultural interests and appropria-
| tons shall be under the head of the
commissioner of agriculture The conf
| mittee on labor will give a hearing
| Thursday at p NJ. in the Senate
| Chamber upon an act to amend Sec
| ZION Sc of Chapter 40 of the Revised
| Statues relating to the hours of labor
| An Act to exempt growing white
pine from taxation, an act relating to
| portable or movable SaWmills in cities
and incorporated towns, and an act
| relating to forest commissioner and the
protection of forests are assigned for
| a hearing Wednesday at 7.30 p. NJ. by
| the committee on forest preservation
and water supply. The committee on
public health will consider Thursday
| two acts relating to the sale of poiSonS.
The amendment offered by Senator
Baxter of Cumberland to the minority
report of the committee on ways and
bridges, signed by Senators Wyman
and Theriault and Representative
Rounds, IS virtually a new bill since
It strikes out all of the county bridge
bill except the enacting clause.
The full text Of the new bridge bill.
| which has several advocates in the
Senate and is looked upon favorably
by many opposed to the Donigan bridge
| bill, and who also do not like certain
| provisions of the county bridge bill,
| is as follows:
| Section T. On and after the first day
| Of January A. d. 1910, all bridges
| which form part Of any highway,
| townway or other public street or way.
and having a clear span of % feet or
| more. shall continue to be maintained
and kept in repair by the city or town
| in which such bridge is located, and
| upon certificate under oath by the
| treasurer of any city or town made
| quarterly on the first day of January,
| April, July and October of each year,
| to the county commissioners of the
| county i'll which such city or town is
| located, containing an itemized state
| ment of the amount of moneys eXpend-
| ed by such city or town in maintaining
and repairing bridges under this sec
| ton during the three months next pre-
| cedsng, the county commissioners shall
| forthwith v hon satisfied of the cor
| rectneSs of such statement, draw their
| order upon the county treasurer for
| the payment of two-thirds of the
| amount of such expense to the treas
| urer Of such city or town. In case any
| Sucn bridge lies in two or more towns
and more than one of said towns is
obliged by law to contribute to the
| maintenance and repair of said bridge
the treasurer Of each town shall GER
| ti1y to the county commissioners the
amount expended by his town in main
tanning and repairing its part Of said
bridge, and the county commissioners
|
| correctness Of such statement order the
county treasurer to pay to the Treasure
er of each town two-thirds of such
amount so expended by it.
| Section 2. Whenever the municipal
officers of any city or town are of the
| opinion that public convenience and
safety require the rebuilding or con-
| struction OF a bridge with a clear span
| of % feet or more between the abut-
| ments and forming a part of any high
way. town way or other public street,
| or way, they may petition the county
| commissioners Of their county, setting
| forth the location of the bridge, its
| size, and the kind of bridge. which
| in their judgment is required and the
probable cost Of the same, whereupon
| the county commissioners shall, after
notice and hearing, decide whether
such bridge shall be rebuilt or con-
structed as petitioned for. and if they
| decide that public convenience and
safety does require the rebuilding or
construction of a bridge as petitioned
| for, they shall forthwith proceed to