Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-05
Automobile Law Has Paid
The State $18,468,
Business Of the Current Year
Will Beat All Records.
State Board Of Health Has Just
Issued May Bulletin.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, June IS, at $50 A. M.


OF automobiles is still on the increase
at the office of the secretary of State
and each succeeding month finds larger
numbers of applications coming in at
the office. During the year 1908 the
number of registrations numbered al
most 1000, being in round numbers 994.
ana at the rate at which the applica-
TONS are coming along at present there
is every reason to believe that the reg
lstrations for the year will exceed 1900.
The total registrations from the time
that the law went into effect in June
1905, up to Friday noon, was 1928, and
the amount received in fees therefrom
1856
The number of automobiles register
ed from, June l, 1905, to June l of the
current year was 1874, and the amount
received in fees $774S; the number reg
lstered during the month of Nav was
355, over half the number registered
since Jan. l Of the current year. and
the amount in fees $40; the number
registered during the past five months
was GAP, and the amount received in
fees therefrom $1zS4
The number of licenses issued to OBJ
orators from the time that the law
went into effect up to June l of the
current year was 1852 and the amount
received in fees 1924; the number of IL
censes issued in May 1854, and the
amount received IN fees $708: the num-
Der of licenses issued during the past
five months was 672, and the amount
received in fees $l344
The number of motor cycles register
ed from June l, 1905, to June 1 of the
current year was 1885, and the amount
received in fees $3.50; the number reg
istered during the month of May, ",
and the amount Ct fees $3S; the number
registered during the past five months
was "A and the amount received in fees
$59.
The number of dealers licenses is
sued from June /, 1905, to June l of the
current year was 1O3, and the amount
received in fees 5000; the number is
sued during the month of May was six,
and the amount of fees 500; the num-
Der issued during the past five months
was %, and the amount received in
fees 1920
The fees received from the registra-
ton of automobiles from June 1, 1905,
to June ], 1905, was $7748; from licen-
istration of motor cycles, 1866; from
licenses issued to dealers, $1,000, max
ing a grand total of S1S,46S
The fees received from the registra-
ton of automobiles during the month
of May was s710; from licenses issued
to operators, $40 from registration of
motor cycles, $3S: from licenses issued
to dealers, $50. making grand total of
1856.
The May bulletin of the State Board
of Health, which has just been issued
from the Office of the board, contains
an abstract Of the public health laws:
These include all the health laws with
the amendments passed by the Legis-
lature the past winter, Incorporated
and also copies of the new health laws
Including the act directing the boards
of health to keep on hand supply of
antitcxin; act torbidding the dumping
of waste material in public ways; act
in relation to furnishing supplies to
families in uuarantine; act prohibit
ing expectoration in public places; act
relating to tuberculosis; act relating to
the appointment of school physicians;
act relating to dirty and contagious
school children; act relating to exclu-
sion of unvaccinated school children;
act forbidding the purchase of second
hand school books; and the various
acts in relation to milk and vessels
used as milk containers.
In relation to the antitoXin law, the
state board says it hopes to make ar
raI gements so that diphthera anti
toxin may he kept in the hands of the
local boards of health in all but the
smaller towns and plantations. The
State board will not keep 4 supply on
hand but hopes to arrange so that it
may be supplied by the manufacturers
from central station in the State, SO
that the local boards of the towns may
pay for only what they use and after
it is used An announcement of the
final arrangements will be made in the
July issue of the bulletin, and proba-
bly, earlier through the daily press.
Meanwhile the State board requests
that the name of the secretary or
chairman of each local board will be
sent to it at once.
Notice has been issued from the office
of the State commissioner of highways
of hearings to be held in the towns OF
Whiting and Columbia on petitions
from a majority of the legal voters of
those towns for a change of location
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