Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-07
Nsynss Pardon Hearing May
Be Assigned for July.
State Assessors Announce First
Series Of Meetings.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, June IS, at $50 A. M.


4 tons which will come up for confirma-
ton at the regular monthly meeting
! of the Governor and Council to be held
IN the Council chamber at the State
House on Tuesday, June Is, commence
ing at $50 in the forenoon. The list,
- far as executive appointments are
/. concerned, will be brief, there being
but two according to the executive
register to be made. One of these will
be the appointment of member OF
the board of trustees of the State
School for Boys at South Portland, to
fill the vacancy due to the death OF
the late Fred Atwood of Winterport
The other appointment will be that of
q state assayer to succeed William
H. Oler of Portland, whose term will
expire June 90. 1t may be possible also
that twa other appointments will be
made at the same time, as the terms
NJ Galen NJ WOOdcOck of Bangor and
John l.. NJ Willis of Eliot, members
of the Board of Registration and Prac-
tice of Medicine, expire July l and
the July meeting of the Governor and
Council does not come until nine days
after that date.
1t not expected at the present time
that there will be a great deal of bust
ness at the June meeting of the Coun-
ell out of the routine line, although it
is possible that the petition for the
pardon Of Samuel d. Haynes, who is
serving life sentence at Thomaston
for the murder of James l.. Robbins, q
Rockland policeman, in 1879, may be
taken up. 1t was expected that the
petition would be presented at the May
meeting of the Council and Hon. Wal
ter B. Clarke of Portland, who is coun-
sci for the petitioners, was present at
the meeting, but the matter was not
presented.
This will make the sixth time that
Haynes has petitioned for executive
clemency and it is understood that the
coming petition is based on the dis
covery Of new evidence. Haynes has
always cOntended that he did not in
tend to kill Robbins but only to stun
him in order to escape from the Rock
land police station in which he was
confined after having been arrested for
larceny. Robbins was killed by being
struck over the head with stove
poker as he sat by the lookup stove.
The petitioners claim that Haynes has
expiated his crime and that at the
time Of the trial he should have been
convicted of manslaughter instead of
murder, the maximum penalty for
winch first mentioned crime was at the
time OF the commission 10 years in
State prison 1t is thought probable
that the petition may be assigned a
hearing by the Governor and Council
at the coming meeting.
One of the matters which was taken
up at the last meeting of the Council
and which was a little out of the or
uihary was that of designating the
cate OF the July meeting at the same
time mat the June meeting was desig-
mated. the date of the June meet
ing being Thursday, June 10,
which is presumed to be due to the
ioct mat the 80 days provided for by
'he referendum to elapse between the
passage of the acts of the last Leg
lSlafurc and me time that they should
become effective will expire July 2, and
as the acts provide for the appointment
quite number of commissions and
omclais 1t will be the desire of the
governor to attend to the matter as
Sooh as possible. The date on which
appointments will be announced for
inc July meeting will be July 3.
announcement was made Saturday
al ire office of the Board of State AS
sessors or the first Of the coming Sc
RES OF meetings which the board will
noid with the town assessors of the
otWe and also with the wild land own
ers the different meetings being held
y" the same trip. The meetings thus
Tar have been assigned to but two
eouhties and are as follows:
oxford county--At Hotel Argue Not
~ FEyeburg at . A. NJ. Tuesday, June
81 AT the courthouse in South Paris al
"A. NJ Thursday. June "a; at the as
SCISSORS office in Rumford at A. M
Friday. June Is.
FRANKLIN county-At the assessors
ohce In Phillips at 3 A. NJ Tuesday
s"he ~; at the courthouse in Farm
"'ston 1T A. M. Wednesday, June 80
Inc dates of the meetings to be hel(
III the other counties of the State will
uot he assigned until later and the
lumber of meetings to be held in each
.ouhty vary according to requirements
Aecordlng to the schedule the number
VI meetings held in each county are
as follows, but it may be the decision
W the board to change them this year:
Hni"roscoggin, one; Cumberland, one;
i"rk, two; Somerset, two: Kennebec
"ne' Piscataquis, one: Penobscot
uree: Aroostook, four; Washington
."o' Lincoln, two: Knox. one; Han
'ocK' two and Waldo one.
II may be possible that more meet
.'ss may be hold in the different coun-
veg than scheduled, and the places at
"hich they wilt be held are also sub
Net to variation. Neither is the work
tne board confined to the localities
= which the meetings are held. In
,''aking the tour the members of the
.oard may visit many other towns as
~ many instances they receive re-
quests to visit different towns for the
purpose of inspecting certain indus
u'es with view of rendering assist
ence IN the matter of valuation. The
work OF the board is constant study
~ the conditions touching on valuation
se 50 rapidly changing as compared
WIN those of so years ago.
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