Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

postoffice at York Village, all in said
!, town of York, at least seven days before
the date of holding said meeting. The
only business which shall be acted upon
at said meeting, except the choice OF 4
moderator and secretary and the appoint
ment OF the committee hereinafter pro-
vided for, shall be upon the following
Il question namely, viz: Shall the act en-
tiled An Act to divide the town of York
and establish the town of Gorges'' be ac-
cepted? The vote at said meeting shall
be by written ballot, those in favor of
said acceptance to vote yes" and those
opposed no At said meeting the polls
shall be open at ten o'clock in the fore
noon and remain open until four O'Clock
in the afternoon. The ballots cast at SAID
meeting shall be counted by a committee
of six, of which committee the selectmen
of York shall be three, the other three
to be appointed by the moderator from
among the taxpayers within the limits of
said town of Georges; and should said Sc
lectmen decline or refuse to act said mod
orator shall appoint as members of said
committee three taxpayers living in said
York outside the limits of said proposed
town of Gorges. A correct list of said
| taxpayers within said limits of said pro-
posed town of Gorses who were assessed
Il tax for the year \. d. 800 shall be pre-
pared by Il committee of three residents
of said proposed town of Gorges to be APP
pointed by the justice of the supreme
judicial court presiding at the May A. d.
| 1900 term of said court in York county,
| which committee shall have access to the
| books of the assessors of said town of
| York, and who shall sign and make oath
| to the correctness of said list which shall
| be used as Il check list at said meeting
If at said meeting this act is not accept
ed, another meeting of said taxpayers
similarly called and held shall be held
during the month of Augusta, A. d. 1910,
to act upon the same matter, and if at
said second meeting said act is not ac-
| cepted then this act shall be void For
| the purposes of said second meeting Il
| correct list of said taxpayers within said
limits Of said proposed town of Gorges
| who We're assessed tax for the year A..
| ID. 1910 shall be prepared by a committee
of three residents OF the proposed town of
Georges to be appointed by the justice of
| the supreme judicial court presiding at
l the May, A. d. 1910 term of said court in
| York county, which committee shall have
| access to the books of the assessors Of
| said town of York. and who shall sign
| and make oath to the correctness of said
| list which shall be used as a check list
at said meeting.
| The moderator and secretary of either
of said meetings shall make return under
| oath to the secretary of State of the re-
suit of the vote at such meeting.
| Mr.. BURLEIGH: Mr. Speaker, it
| strikes me that the amendment offered
| by the friends of the minority is fairer
proposition than that offered yesterday.
| We voted quite decisively that this town
ought to be divided. The particular con-
ditions which call for a division seem to
| be that the people who are consregated
in this section which is proposed to be
| set off are people who built up the place
and who want modern improvements and
| their wishes are perhaps in opposition to
| the other portion of the town, so there is
necessarily this friction. They are people
who wish to progress in their own way
and pay for their own improvements.
| Now is it not fair proposition not only
| that this should be submitted to the vot-
ers of the town but also to include the
people who are building up these i'm
! provements the other taxpayers? The
| Legislature can impose that condition if
| it sees fit to make the acceptance of this
act dependent on the vote not only of the
| technical legal voters of the town but of
those people who have property interests
| there. That is all there is to this propo
sition.
| Mr.. MONTGOMERY of Camden: Mr..
Speaker, 1 would ask the gentleman from
| Augusta what this word taxpayers in
his mind would inclllde. if it would not
| include minors and people living outside
| the State?
| Mr.. BURLEIGH: Mr.. Speaker. this is
my understanding of it. a majority of the
| taxpayers who are assessed tax for the
year 1909 upon a poll or property. | should
understand it would not take in minors
1t would take in all the property tax
payers.
| Mr., MONTGOMERY: Whether they
| live in the State or out of the State?
| Mr.. BURLEIGI: Whether they live in
| the State or ont of the State.
Mr.. MONTGOMERY: Would it not in
| clude people under guardianship?
| Mr.. BURLEIGH: Possibly it might. If
|
| under guardianship ! think no real in
| justice would result if they should vote
| Mr.. PATTANGAIL: Mr.. Speaker. I
| suppose the women in the proposed town
Of Gorses own property and are tax
| payers. ! would like to inquire of the
| gentleman from Augusta if under that
| amendment the women of Georges would
| vote on this question?
| Mr.. BI-RLEIGH; 7 understand that
| they could; and | sec no reason why
| they should not.
Mr.. PATTANGAI.L: Any woman liv
| ing in New York and owning property
in the proposed town is allowed to
| vote?
| Mr.. RTRLEIGII: Yes.
| Mr.. PAWrANGALL: Then the object Of
| the amendment is to confer limited wo-
| man suffrage? Laughter).
| Mr.. COOLIDGE of Lisbon: Mr.. Speak
| er. it seems to me that the matter We
| voted upon yesterday was eminently
/ fair. When we live in town we have
| some interest in its schools, in the bust
| ness arrangement. the methods by which
| we shall live. and those are the things
that We care about; they are the vital