The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-08


shall be held to prohibit the sale of lob
sters that have been legally canned
approved March 49,
Chapter SO.
An Act to provide for retiring and PEN
sionng Prison Officers.
approval of the governor and council re-
tire from active prison service and place
upon q pension roll, any officer of the
Maine State Prison, who has been employ
good record, for the term of thirty years
or who, after twenty years of continuous
service in said prison, has attained the
Section g. The words prison service as
used in section one of this act, shall be
construed to mean service In the state
prison, and an officer of the state prison.
shall. for the purpose of this act. be
credited with all the time which he has
served as an officer. with a good record.
The words good record shall be con-
stirred to mean that the officer has not
been discharged for misconduct from the
state prison, or that, II so discharged, 1t
was afterwards found that he was not at
fault and the restoration to duty or re-
appointment in the prison from which he
was discharged shall be sufficient evidence
for the exoneration of any officer
Section 3 An officer who Is IS retired retired as
pension equal to one half the salary he
was receiving at the time of his retire
ment. This pension to be paid from the
state treasury.
Section 4. Prison officers shall only be
retired and pensioned, as provided for in
section one of this act, by the recon-
mendation of the warden. which recon-
mendation must be approved by the state
board of inspectors of prisons and jais.
together with the approval of the gov
ernor and council.-(Approved March 49,
Chapter SO.
An Act to amend Sections one, two, four
FIVE six, seven. eight, nine, twelve and
nf
twelve, Public Laws, nineteen hundred
and seven, relating to Highways.
Section one of said act is hereby
amended by inserting after, the word
the words or state roads so that said
section as amended shall read as follows:
Section /. The objects of this act are
to obtain more uniform system for the
permanent Improvement OF main high
ways or state roads throughout the state,
to secure the cooperation of the munich
palities and the state in providing means
therefor, and to provide for more efficient
appropriated for highway construction
and repairs
The flrsc paragraph of section two OF
said act is hereby amended by striking
out the word the" In the ninth line
thereof and substituting the word said
and by striking out all after the WORD
provisions" in line nine as far as and
including the word thereto" in line
.'the'' preceding the word state" in line
thirteen of said section and by striking
out the word road" following the word
state" in said line thirteen and SUB.
stituting therefor the word roads and by
striking out in lines thirteen and four
teen of said section the words under the
provisions of this act"
Said first paragraph of said section is
also amended by striking out after the
word notification in line eighteen the
words ito make such designation, and
the clerk of each board of county COM
missioners shall return forthwith to the
state commissioner of highways record
of their proceedings in each town and a
description of each road designated as
state road" and substituting therefor the
words to determine the main travelled
thoroughfare of said town and to desig
nate the name as the state road. Said
county commissioners shall forthwith re-
turn to the state commissioner OF NIGH
ways record of their proceedings IN
each town and an accurate. minute and
careful description of each road so
designated so that said first paragraph
of said section, as amended, shall reau as
follows.
section 2 The following described
roads shall be considered main highway :
or state roads within the meaning OF tms
act in towns which have already aVatled
themselves of the provisions OF sections
ninety-nine to one hundred and FIVE OF
chapter twenty three Revised Statutes.
nineteen hundred and three, ana acts
amendatory thereof and additional there
to- such roads as have heretofore peen
designated state roads by the county
commissioners; in towns which nave no.
heretofore availed themselves OF sa1a
provisions of this act, such roads as may
hereafter be designated as state roads.
When notified by the state commissioner
of highways that any town has voted 70
accept the provisions of this act. it shall
be the duty of the county commissioners
of the county in which such town Is
located on or before June first OF the
year of such notification to determine
the main Travelled thoroughfare of said
town and to designate the same as the
state road. Said county commissioners
shall forthwith return to the state COM
missioner of highways record or their
proceedings in each town and an &C.
curate, minute, and careful description OF
each road so designated, .
Section four is hereby amended py
striking out all of said section and sub
stituting the following section THEREFOR;
so that said section as amended, snail
read as follows:
ganized plantation or the county commits
sioners for any unncorporated township
desire state aid as contemplated by TINS
act, for the permanent improvement Oh
its state road such city or town or Or
ganized plantation may raise ana appro-
pirate in addition to the amounts regu-
iarly, raised and appropriated for the care
of ways highways and bridges tho 1oi-
shall be paid
Towns having valuation of two hun
bred thousand dollars or less may appro-
pirate any amount not exeeeaihs wv
hundred dollars; towns having a vaina-
ton over two hundred thousand dollars
and not over eight hundred thousand DOL
lars may appropriate any amount not eN-
ceeding four hundred dollars: towns nav
ing a valuation over eight hundred thou-
sand dollars and less than one million dol
lars may appropriate any amount not ex-
ceeding fof1r hundred fifty dollars; ana
towns having a valuation over one mil
lion dollars and not exceeding three mn,
lion dollars may appropriate an additional
fifty dollars for each two hundred thou-
sand dollars additional valuation or frac.
ton thereof; towns having valuation OF
three million dollars and less tnan Tour
million dollars, may appropriate one
thousand dollars and towns having
valuation over four million dollars may
appropriate an additional one. hundred
dollars for each one million dollars add
tional valuation or fraction thereof.
And the commissioners of each county
within which are located unincorporated
townships, IL they desire state aid for the
permanent Improvement or the man
thoronghfare or state road of any OF said
townships, shall raise and appropriate IN
addition to the amounts regularly raised
and appropriated for the care OF nigh
ways and bridges, In each. OF said town.
ships. fifty cents for each thousand OF
valuation of each of said townships lot
which state aid Is desired
And 1t shall be lawful for any CITY
government to make Appropriation IN
order to secure state aid at any neetihs
of said city government held petween, t aH
date of its Inauguration and April fif-
teenth'
amended by striking. out all OF sald sec
ton from its beginning to ana ,, ,hcsun'h nf
onid saotion Said section Is also amended