Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04
Nat Cost Of Enforcement
EToDate Is $18,811.58.
Steam Railroads File Annual
Reports With Commissioners.
pstItIon for Change Of Course Of
Highway in Carmel.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
N.xt Meeting Of Governor and Council
"wednesday, Oct. 6, at 10 A. M.

Tho total net cost of the Enforce
want Commission, created by act or
tbe Legislature of 1905 by the Sturgls
low co called for the better enforce
roent of the prohibitory liquor law
from the first of this year to the first
- tbis month has been $1S,S11.58, ac-
oording to figures given out at the
C.ota House Saturday. The total cost
of the commission during tnat time,
ner;od of nine months, has been $l9,-
aA4s4 hut there has been received IN
9res and fees from prosecutions under
the law the sum Of $1G3S.26. The fines
amounted to $575, all of which came
from the treasurer of Knox county
Tho fees were $106326 of which $31332
came from Somerset, $666.34 from
Knox county and the remainder from
saeadahoc county. No fines or fees
were received at the office of the state
treasurer during the months of Angus;
or September.
II cost the counties of AndrOScOggln
and PenObscot, the only two counties
In the state where the deputy enforce
ment commissioners are at work, the
sum of $l493.75 for the month of Sep
TENDER, in accordance with the law
passed at the last session of the Legis-
lature, which was introduced by Rep
resentative Andrew p. Havey of Sulll-
van, one of the members OF the present
Enforcement Commission, and which
provides that the counties where the
deputies work shall pay their salaries
and expenses.
There are now Il deputy enforce
ment commissioners on the staff as
follows: Maxine Beaulieu of Lewis
ton, Melville +. Goss Of Auburn Les
lie H. Hayward OF Lewiston, Austin 3.
Howard of Auburn, Heber II. Allen OF
Jay, Walter j. Fernad of Rockland,
Roy f. French of Bath Fred Lucas Of
Saint Adams, Fred j. Horne of Canaan,
Albert Fl. NeWbert OF ROckland, Ben
jamin F. Towne of Waterville, Melvin
l.. Emerson of Old Town, Obed f..
stat kpole of Biddeford, Percy ]. Cliff
ford OF Hampden and Bion E. Whitney
of Bar Harbor
The three commissioners, Henry w.
Cakes of Auburn, George M. Phoenix
of Alfred and Andrew p. Havey Of Sui
Ivan, each received q salary of $500
per annum and their expenses while
the deputy enforcement commissioners
each receive SO a day and their ex-
penses The clerk Of the commission,
Augustus Z. Norton of Lewiston, re-
ceives a salary of $1,000 per annum.
The expenses of the deputy enforce
ment commissioners include board,
room rent, postage, carriage hire,
trucking, justice before whom oath is
taken and search lights.
Since the passage of the so called
Sturgis law at the session of the Leg
isla'Ire in 1905. deputy enforcement
commissioners have made seizures ir
every county in the State, with the
exception of York, Cumberland, Han
co *, Waldo, Piscataquis and Aroos-
took. In the county of Franklin seiZ-
uree We're made in but one town, that
OF Jay, near the Androscoggin coun,y
line, while the deputies made but one
selZng trip through Lincoln county
and that at the request OF the sheri;.
or the county, John b. Rafter 81
Damariscotta
Since the first of the year the deputy
enforcement commissioners have been
at work in the counties of Andr0scog-
gin. PenobScot, Knox and Sagadahoc
Dut they We're withdrawn from Knox
and Sagadahoc on the first day of last
July. The deputies have not been busy
In oxford or kennebeC counties since