Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-19
STATE HOUSE.
Council Approves New York
County Officials.
Additional Candidates Who Will
Be Voted Upon in June.
Collection Of Rare Historical Manu-.
scripts. Given to the State.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Spec;s! Meeting of Governor and
Council, Thursday, April 1S, 10 A. M.
Regular Meeting of Governor and
Council, Wednesday, May 10, at
10 A. M.

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The Executive Council. at the meet
ing, Thursday. approved all nominal
tons made by Governor Plaisted, since
the last Council meeting. including
those of Nathaniel b. Walker of Bid
deford as county attorney OF York
county, to succeed Asa A. Richardson.
of kennebunk. removed, and DR.. Har-
ry A. Weymouth of Saco as sheriff of
York County, tc succeed Charles o.
Emery of Sanford, resigned
Warrants We're passed, covering the
following amounts: Maintenance of in
situations, $44, l69.s7. House and Senate
pay rolls, sl2.539: general expenses. 1912,
s44.sis.25; general expenses, 1911, s29,
279.22. The State auditor reported a
balance. after paying the warrants 10
date OF S263 517.95.
Hearing upon the petition fer the
pardon hearing of Richmond II. Inger-
soil, the former treasurer of the York
County Savings Bank, who is serving
n two-yea sentence in the York eoun-
ty jail for embeZZlement. WAS assigned
for Friday, May 10 at 10 A. NJ. the ear
lest possible time at which notices for
the hearing could be published the legal
number Of times. Mrs. Annie j. Lord
of Old Orchard, daughter OF Mr.. In
gersell, was present at the Council
meeting and was given the notices to
take back with her to York county in
order to secure their immediate publ
cation Mrs Reynolds was accompa-
MED by Miss Laura +. Allen of Saco.
daughter OF the late Congressman
Amos l.. Allen.
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cepting the Thornton manuscripts.
Ordered. that the State historian be
authorize TO accept on behalf of the
State from Miss Elizabeth T. Thorn
ton, certain manuscripts, letters and
other writings, collected by her father
and great grandfather, on condition
that the same be properly arranged.
bound and deposited for safe keeping
with The secretary of State or state Ii
braran. the same to be designated as
the John Wingate Thornton papers.
and any expense connected to be de-
frayed from the appropriation for State
historian.
ordered. further, that the thanks of
the State be extended to Miss Eliza
beth T. Thornton for this valuable gift.
This collection includes large num-
Der of manuscript papers brought to-
gether by the father of Miss Thornton,
the late John Wingate Thornton, a
prominent lawyer in Boston and well
known as a scholar interested in mat
ters pertaining to Maine. being ma
tive of Saco He was a grandson of
Thomas Gilbert Thornton of Saco, who,
upon Thomas Jeerson's accession to the
presidency of the United States, was
appointed United States Marshal to the
District of Maine and held that office
under jefferson, Madison and Munroe.
Many of these manuscript papers We're
collected by Thomas Gilbert Thornton.
They relate to matters of public and
private interest in Maine during the
Colonial period and to the period in
which Maine was known as the Dis
trict Of Maine They include CORE
spondence concerning such prominent
families as the Cults. King and South
gate families. Doubtless John Win
gate Thornton added considerably 10
these papers, so that they cover a pc
riod from about 1850 to the time when
Maine became a state. Miss Thornton
gives these papers to the State OF
Maine on the condition that they shall
be arranged chronologically. under ap-
propriate headings, and that the whole
collection designated as the John Win
gate Thornton papers shall he placed
and suitably mounted and bound in the
State library or the Office of the seere-
tary of State.
State Historian Henry s. Burrage, in
4 letter to Gov. Plaisted relating to
this collection, says: st should be re-
membered in estimating the value of
this proposed gift that the state has no
manuscript papers belonging to this
neriod, covering nearly 200 years. In
my opinion it should be made the be-
ginning of a collection of manuscript
historical material having reference to
Colonial Maine
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