Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-20

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Representative Davies of Yarmouth in
| troduCed an act to create the Office Of
| medical examiner of far reaching scope
and which if adopted would abolish the
office of coroner and give to the state a
staff of medical examiners in the several
| counties.
The act provides that the Governor
shall appointed for the term of four
yeats physicians to be medical examiners
in each county. The number of medical
examiners and associate medical exam
iners for each county is as follows: An
droscoggin county /, Aroostook county 3,
Cumberland county .. Franklin /, HAN
cock l, kennebec l. Knox l. Lincoln /,
oxford .. Penobscot .. Piscataquis L. Sag
adahoc l. Somerset l, with a proviso that
an associate may be appointed for this
county; Washington , York .. The bill
is long containing "a sections in
which the duties of the medical exam
irels are fully described These duties
differ from and are larger than the du-
ties of coroners. The medical examiners
shall be paid by fees, s. for viewing a
| body without autopsy; viewing a body
and autopsy. $50; and for travel 10 cents
He shall make examinations of the dead
bodies of only such persons as are sup
posed to come to their death by violence,
and if he considers further examination
necessary he shall perform an autopsy
after having obtained the written con-
sent of the county attorney, mayor or
selectmen. The bill provides that the in
quest shall be held by a court or trial
justice in which all persons not required
by law to be present shall be excluded
An inquest shall be held in all cases of
death by accident upon a railroad, as is
provided for in the existing law The
attorney general or county attorney may,
| notwithstanding the medical examiners
report that a death was not caused by
violence. direct that an inquest shall be
held by magistrate designated by him.
Representative Marshall of Portland in
PRODUCED an act to increase the number
of justices of the supreme judicial court
SO that the court shall consist of a chief
justice and 10 associate justices, and also
to provide for the sessions of the law
court. The act provides that for law
court purposes the state shall constitute
one district. The sessions of the court
as the law court shall be holden at Port
land on the first Tuesday of january
at Augusta on the first Tuesday in May:
at Bangor on the second Tuesday of
September of each year, and may be
adjourned from time to time to places
and times most conducive to the dispatch
of business and to the interests Of the
public. Meetings of the Justices who have
sat as lower justices during tine year
Snail also be held at such times and
places as the chief Justice shall appoint.
Af oil
viously considered and undetermined.
Such meetings shall be held at least
| twice in each year. Such justices shall
be reimbursed for their expenses actual
| ly and reasonably incurred in attendance
! at such meetings. The first Tuesday OF
every month. except the months of June.
July and August, shall be return day
| for the entry of appeals to the law court
Representative Burleigh of Augusta in
troduced an order to give detailed in
formation to the members of the House
and Senate relative to proposed and act
ual expenditures. The order provides for
special clerk to be appointed by and
under the superintendent of the chair
man of the committee on appropriations.
| 1t calls for a weekly schedule, which
shall include a statement of every paper
| Of any description in the possession of
the Legislature calling for the expendi-
turc of money. The full text of the order
will be found in the stenographic report
Representative Colby of Bingham In
| troduced An Act to authorize the Gov
ernor to issue his proclamation to pre-
vent the use of firearms In the forests
during dangerously dry time. Section
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