Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-20
AUDITORS ESTIMATES
OF STATE EXPENDITURES
Transmitted to legislature -ResoNe Appropriatng
$558, 400 for Maine Insane Hospita|..Bi||
Creating Office Of Medical Examiner.

| The most important feature of the
! session of the Legislature Tuesday If
| ternoon was the transmission by stare
| Auditor Charles 2. Hatch Of the tabu-
lated statement of the expenditures
and incomes of the various depart
ments in accordance with the provi-
sions of the act creating the Office Of
State auditor The resolve in favor Of
the Maine Insane hospital introduced
by Senator Shaw carrying the sum of
| $55S,400 covers many important i'm
| provementS for that institution. A
House act of sweeping nature is that
introduced by Representative Davies
of Yarmouth abolishing the office Of
coroner and creating in it's place that
of medical examiner. An act of much
| interest to those desiring the preser
walton. of the forests of the State was
that introduced by Representative Col
by of Bingham authorizing the Cover
nor to issue his proclamation to pre-
vent the use of fire arms during dam
gerously dry time.
The bill introduced by Representa-
| tive Marshall of Portland to increase
| the number of justices Of the supreme
| judicial court is one in which the law
yers of the State are very much in
| terested and has for its purpose the cX-
| peditinG Of the business of the Law
| court.
| The bill introduced by Senator
| Looney OF Cumberland in regard 10 the
employment of labor in mechanical and
manufacturing establishments is the
same as far rs the relation to tho 5S-
hour law is concerned as two House
acts. which have already been intro
| Gticcd, one by Representative Frost Ct
| Lewiston and the other by Representa-
| tive Heaes Of Auburn, but it further
provides that no child under IA shall
| be employed in factories or merchan-
| tile establishments and no child over
| ia and under IS shall be employed in
such establishments unless dncumcn-
| tary proof of age, such as certificate
| of BIRTH etc. is presented. No child
| of Is or under shall be employed in
any way during school hours, even as
| telegraph messenger boy. unless he
presents age and schooling certificate.
In the Senate Tuesday afternoon
| Senator Shaw of Kennebec introduced
| a resolve appropriating $55S,4OO for the
Maine Insane Hospital for the years
| 1909 and 1910. The money is asked fo'
| the following purposes; salaries for
supcrintenGents and physicians, $4,000;
| improvements to grounds, $17,40o:
| further improvement to grounds, roads
aud walks, $4,000; completion and fur
i nishing of building for the criminal in
| sane. $4,000; for Chase Island hospi-
| tai, $4,000; renovation of kitchen and
| bakery and erection of dining hall TO;
| employees. $4,000: for the construction
| of two new wings and a central build
ing, slo5 200 for the year 1909 and $780,
| 900 for the year 1910; for furnishing
these wings. $4,000: for the support and
| maintenance of the criminal insane,
| $4,000.
Senator Reynolds of Kennehcc sub
mitted the report of the committee APP
| pointed by the Governor to mvesti-
| gate methods of scaling logs and lllm-
bcr in the State of Maine. The report
recommends that the caliper rule b'
/ used.
Senator Osgood of Androscoggin in
troduced an act to define and regulate
the practice of optometry. The act
/ provides for the creation of q board,
which shall be known as the Maine
| state Board of Registration ana cX-
animation Of Optometry to consist OF
| five members, four of whom shall have
| been resident and practicing physicians
! in the State of Maine for five years
prior to their appointment, and thi
fifth an occulist who shall have prac-
ticcd his profession for the same perlod
in the. State, and not more than three
of whom shall belong to the same poll
teal party The members shall be APP
r,inted by the Governor, one to serve
for one year, one for two years. the
other two for three years and thereat-
ter every member appointed shall
serve for three years. After &c
DAYS from the date this act
takes effect it shall be unlaw-
full for any person to practice
,optometry in Maine unless he shall first
obtain a certificate of registration from
the board, after having passed the re-
CURED examination. Nothing in the
act shall be considered as applying tc
physicians and surgeons authorized &c
practice medicine or to resident mef-
chants so long as they shall sell spec
itacles as any other piece OF merchah-
disc. without representation OF quduii-
cation in the practice of optometry
The oct provides that every person re-
ceiving a certificate under the provi-
sions of this act shall record the GER
tificate with the clerk of the supreme
judicial court of the county i'll which
he intends to practice, and that clerl
shall issue license under his officia
seal. After providing that any person
entitled to a certificate under this act
who shall not within 80 days after the
act becomes a law, make written ap-
plication for examination. shall b.
deemed to have waived his rights to {
4 certificate, the act provides that tho