Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-06

and Rose L. Jones.
Resolve for Military Pensions.
Resolve fer State Pensions
| Resolve 10 provide means for ex-
animation of claims for State Pen
| sons.
| An Act to amend Sections 3, 4. & and
! : of Chapter two hundred ninety-t two
! of the Private and Special Laws of
Maine, nineteen hundred nine, relat-
| ing TO the Mexico Water Company.
Resolution to correct certain errors
and omissions which appear in Chap
ter seventy-two, entitled An Aefg- to
provide Charter for the City of
Gardner" Of the Private and Special
Laws of nineteen hundred eleven as
printed in the volume of the Laws of
| the State of Maine for nineteen hun-j
dred eleven.
An Act to provide for the indeterm-
| nate sentence as a punishment for
crime, upon the conviction thereof,
and for the detention and release of
persons in prison or detained on such
sentence and for the expense attend
ing the same.
An Act to incorporate the Jackman
Water, Light and Power Company.
On motion by Mr.. Morey of Andros-
| coggin, Senate Amendment a was
adopted Amend Section of Senate
bill 423 in the sixth line by inserting
after the word of the word Jack
man..
The bill as amended. was then Civ
Ell its second reading and was passed
to be engrossed.
The committee on bills in the second
reading to which was referred Re-
solve in favor of the State pension
clerk reported that same be indefi-
nitely postponed as the subject matter
is covered by Senate Document No.
421
The report was accepted.
Orders of the Day.
The PRESIDENT: The Chair laws
before the Senate for consideration the
first matter specially assigned for to-
day, Resolve relating to the Document
airy History of Maine. Senate Docu-
ment 367.
Mr.. BAILEY of Penohscot: Mr.. Pres
ident, | move that the resolve take its
second reading and he passed to he
engrossed.
The motion was agreed to. the bill |
was given its second reading and was
passed to be engrossed.
The PRESIDENT: The Chair lays
before the Senate the second matter
assigned for today. Resolve in favor OF
the purchase of the Maine State Year
Book for the years 1918 and 1914, the
pending squestion being the second |
reading of the resolve
On motion by Mr.. Richardson OF Pc
nobscot, the resolve was given It's sec
ond reading and was passed to be en-
crossed.
The PRESIDENT: The Chair lays
before the Senate for considera ton this
third matter specially assigned for to-
day, Report of committee judiciary.
ought not to pass = on Senate Docu-
merit 142, An Act to amend Chapter s.
of the Private and Special Laws OF
1903, as amended by Chapter L. of the
Private and Special Laws of 1909. re-
latins to the Squirrel Island Village
Corporation. The pending question is
on the acceptance of the report of the |
committee ought not to pass.
Mr.. BOYNTON of Lincoln: MIR
President, / move that the report to-
gether with the bill be recommitted to
the committee with instructions to re-
port back in a new draft a bill carry
ing "a rebate of 60 per cent.
The proposition now under consider
alton is one of two submitted to the |
Legislature by the town of Southport
in Lincoln county and relates to diff |
ferences between that town and SPUR |
rel island, which is a part of the town
This bill asks that this Legislature re-
duce the amount of rebate from - |
per cent to 80 per cent.
1t is quite possible that because of |
misunderstanding this matter did nto
receive the consideration that it de- |
served at the hands of the committee. |
Il is possible that they labored under
the impression that an agreement had
been reached whereby this was agree
able to all.
| want to here state that no one rep
resenting the town of Southport enter
ed into any agreement that left 40
per cent. due Squirrel Island.
In order that you may understand
more clearly, | will ask you to come
back and see what leads up to THU |
condition of affairs |
Up to perhaps, 1903, by mutual agree
ment the summer colony had paid tneil |
taxes and the town had rebated in the
neighborhood of 30 per cent to be |
used as they pleased in public improve
ments on the island. 1t may have been
in 1903, that Squirrel Island asked the |
Legislature for and received a Village
Corporation charter which compelled
the town to rebate so per cent. That
condition existed with more or less
satisfaction to both until 1909 when
Squirrel Island came to the Legisla 1
ture and asked for and obtained an in
crease of Is per cent. in the rebate,
making it Is per cent, against as Wig
orous a protest as the town could
| make 1t may be here understood, that
| the town assesses the tax, collects ii
| and pays back 70 per cent of it.
The town of Southport is itself an
| island surrounded by number of
smaller islands, which belong to that
| town, one of which is Squirrel Island
| The valuation of Southport is 1922, 900,
$4,000 of it being assessed on SPUR
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