Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-26
Next Council Meeting May
Require Two Days.
Committee on State Orchard
Purchase Meets July 3.
Towns Where State Road Locations
Have Been Changed.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Friday, July 9, at 10 A. M.

The next regular meeting of tho
Governor and Council, which will be
held in the Council chamber Friday
forenoon, July 9, is expected to be a
busy one as large amount of matter
will claim the attention OF that BODY.
and it is now said that the meeting
will be carried over into the following
day, Saturday. A large number of
bills, included in which are resolves
and others, which on account of the
referendum can not be paid until after
the laws enacted by the last legisla-
ture go into effect July 3, will claim
the attention of the Council, and there
are also various other matters of i'm
portance which will come before the
meeting.
1t is also understood that the list of
appointments which Governor Fernald
will be called upon to make the week
preceding the meeting of the Execu-
tive Council will be large ond The
appointments to be made to fill va
cancies occurring as the result of the
expiration of the terms of service of
State officials will be short, but the
shortage will be made up by the ap-
pointmentS of various boards and
commissions which will be required
by some of the laws which will go in
to effect with the coming of July. One
of these latter appointments will be
that of a Maine State Board of Regis
tration and Examination in Optome-
try in accordance with the provis-
ions of Chapter 1O5 of the Public
Laws. and another is that of 16 medi-
cal examiners. one from each county
at he. tntp in
provisions of Chapter 1879 of the Pub
lie Laws. which chapter is entitled
IAN Act to amend Chapter one hun
dred and forty OF the Revised Statutes
relating to Coroners' inquests and the
appointment of Medical Examiners"
The text of the above chapter is as
follows:
Section L. Chapter one huidred and
forty of the revised statutes is hereby
amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing sections:
Section a. The governor, with the
advice and consent OF the council,
shall appoint for a term of four years,
for each county in the state, one or
more able and discreet men, learned
in the science of medicine and anato-
my, to be medical examiners in SAID
county
Section Is, All medical examiners
shall be bona fide residents of the
county for which they are appointed
Section 16. Whenever a medical
examiner is notified by the attorney
general county attorney for his coun-
ty, or any coroner of his county that
any person has come to his death by
violence and that an autopsy is nee
essary. he shall Immediately make a
complete autopsy in the presence of
the coroner who has the body in
charge The coroner and medical ex-
amlner. if they deem it necessary,
may summon one local physician as
an assistant and witness, who shall
also act as clerk and make a full and
complete record of all the facts and
circumstances tending to- show the
condition of the body and all vital
organs and the cause and manner OF
death, which record shall be signed by
the medical examiner and the assis-
tant and delivered to the coroner
Section II. The fees of said medi-
cal examiner shall be twenty-five dol
lars for the autopsy and actual travel
and expenses The fees of said as
Slstant shall be ten dollars
Section .. Section thirteen of chap
ter one hundred and forty of the re-
vised statutes is hereby amended by
inserting after the word inquest" and
before the word "shalr' in the first
line. the words together with the rec
ord of the medical examiner so that
said section as amended shall read as
follows: