The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-08

to be at least one week before the time
named therein for the closing of such
bids Sealed proposals submitted in ac-
be addressed to the trustees, commits
sioners, or other persons having the con-
! structfon in charge and shall remain
committee of the governors council at
such time as the governor and council
Section 8. On and after August first,
nineteen hundred nine, whenever any
bridge within the state is to be con-
structed or repaired. the cost of which
one thousand dollars or more. and the
cost of such construction or repairs is
to be paid wholly or in part by the state
a sRe s1atrast fo FIJI the ne s shall be
way commissioner, county commission
ers or municipal officers within the
repairs are to be made shall advertise
for sealed proposals not less than two
weeks in such papers as the state COM
missioner of highways may direct, the
last advertisement to be at least one
week before the time named therein for
the closing Of such bids. Sealed pro-
posaals sd submitted in h aeeord I'd with
to the state highway commissioner or
county commissioners having. the con-
struction in charge and shall remain
sealed until opened in the presence of
said commissioner or commissioners at
such times as the state highway COM
missioner may direct,
Section 4. No contracts shall be
awarded unless it's faithful performance
shall be secured to the state by a bona
in"penal sum of not less than twenty
Such bond shall be payable to the state
of Maine and shall be deposited with
the state acknowledgement April
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Chapter 2o3.
An Act to provide for the transfer of
Patients in Insane Hospitals to the
Maine School for Feeble Minded.
The trustees Of either insane hospital
are hereby authorized to transfer feeble
minded persons, supported entirely at
public expense, who are now or may be
hereafter in said insane hospitals, to the
Maine School for Feeble Minded, when
ever in their Judgment the welfare of the
patients transferred will be promoted
thereby. A copy of the certificate of
commitment to the hospital in which
said patient has been confined, certified
by the superintendent of such hospital,
together with certificate of the super
intendent declaring said patient to be
feeble minded and not insane, and GER
tificate signed by the secretary of the
trustees of said hospital showing such
transfer has been voted by the trustees,
shall authorize the superintendent of the
Maine School for Feeble Minded to re-
ceive and detain such patient in custody
in the same manner as if ne mad orlgi-
nally been committed to such institution,
and the expense of such transfer shall
be paid by the state.-(Approved April ~
Chapter 2o4.
An Act to increase the salary OF the
Commissioner Of Sea and Shore FISH
cries
Paragraph twenty of section one of
chapter one hundred and sixteen of the
revised statutes of nineteen hundred
and three, as amended by chapter, one
hundred and twenty of the public laws
of nineteen hundred and five. is hereby
further amended, by striking out the
words Fifteen hundred in the first line,
and inserting in place thereof the words
two thousand that said paragraph
when amended. will read as follows:
Commissioner of sea and shore fish
cries. two thousand dollars and actual
travelling expenses. -(Approved April
Chapter 2o5.
An Act to increase the salary of the
Warden of the Maine State Prison.
The salary of the warden of the Maine
State Prison is hereby fixed at two
thousand five hundred dollars from and
after the first day of .Tuly one thousand
sum now provided.-(Approved April
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Chapter 2o6.
An Act to consolidate and revise the
Military Laws of the State of Maine.
Section l. The militia of the state shall
consist of every able bodied male citizen,
and every able-bodied male of foreign
birth who has declared his intention to
become "a citizen, who is a resident of this
state and who is more than eighteen and
less than forty-tive years of age, subject
to the following exceptions: , .,o
Persons exempted by the laws OF the
United States, to wit:
The e-president of the United States
the officers, judicial and executive, OF tne
government of the United States, the
members and officers of each House OF
Congress, persons in the military or naval
service of the United States, all custom
house officers. with their clerks, post
masters and persons employed by the
United States in the transmission of the
mail ferrymen employed at any ferry on
a post road artifcers and workinen EN-.
ployed in the armories and arsenals OF
the United States, pilots, mariners ac-
tually employed in the sea service OF any
citizen or merchant within the United
States, and all persons who are exempted
by the laws of the respective states or
territories shall be exempted from militia
duty, without regard to age.
Persons exempted by the laws OF the
state, to wit:
Justices of the supreme judicial court;
ministers of the gospel; persons of the
denomination of Quakcrs and Shakers;
and officers of the militia who have been
honorably discharged.
Section .. All male citizens who are
more than eighteen and less than forty
five years of age, excepting Idiots, luna
tics, pauperS, vagabonds, habltual drunk
ards and persons convicted of Infamous
crimes, and who are resident in this state,
shall biennially in April, he enrolled by
the assessors in the several cities, towns
and plantations in which they reside, in
such manner and according to such regu-
la lions as the governor shall prescribe.
On such enrolment and opposite the
name of each person who is exempt
from duty under section one, or who is
serving in the active militia or who is
unable by reason of physical disability
to perform military duty, the assessors
shall write the word exempt" and state
in each case the cause of exemption. The
assessors shall subscribe said list and
make oath that the same is true to the
best of their knowledge and belief; and
shall file the same with the clerk of the
city, town or plantation on or before the
first day of May of the year when made:
and each clerk SHALL on or before the
tenth day of said May, make certified
statement of the total number enrolled,
the number marked exempt, the number
number marked disabled, and forward the
same to the office of the adjutant general.
Section 8. Any person claiming exemp-
ton shall satisfy the enrolling officer of
his right thereto, and in case of doubt
the burden of proof shall be upon the
person claiming exemption, and the en-
rolling officer may require him to sub
nit to examination on oath, and may
administer such oath.
Section 4. Any person knowingly and
wilfully refusing information giving
false information to an assessor or other
authorized person making the enrolment,
respecting the name, age, residence, occu-
patton, military service, ply or men
tai condition, or other proper subject of
inquiry, of himself or any person within