Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14

sioners shall fix the amount which such
railroad shall pay to the state before 1t
shall exercise its right To lay its tracks
over such crossing: and in either case
the commissioners shall make. such or
der for the anDortionment OF the eX-
pense of future maintenance OF such
crossing as they shall deem equitable.
Section 6. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereb
repealed, and this act shall take erect
January first. nineteen hundred FOUR
teen.-(Approyed March 81. 1872
Chapter t48.
An Act to amend Section two of Chap
ter fifteen of the Revised Statutes, as
amended, in relation to the continue
anCe of schools failing to MAINTAIN an
average attendance OF at least elsht
pupils.
section two of chapter fifteen of the
Revised Statutes, as amended by chap
ter ninety of the public laws OF niH I,
teen hundred seven, is hereby amended
Section s'i The lo cat MHo66f 81 an, mee1ln5
legally established prior to March sew
enteeath, eighteen hundred and ninety ,itg
standing the district is abolished; put
any town at its annual meeting. or at
a meeting called for the purpose. may
determine the number and location or
its schools, and may discontinue them or
change their location: but such discon-
tnuance or change of location shall be
made only on the written recommenda-
ton of the experimenting school COM
mittee, and on conditions proper to pre-
serve the just rights and privileges Of
the inhabitants for whose benett such
schools were established; provided, how
ever that in case any school shall here
after have too few scholars for its prof
liable maintenance, the experimenting
school committee may suspend the of-
Grafton of such school for not more than
one year unless otherwise instructed by
the town. but any public school faillng
any school year, of at least eight pupils.
shall be and hereby is suspended, un-
less the town in which said school IS
located shall by vote, at the annual = ].
purpose after the said committee shai
have made a written recommendat ton
to that effect, instruct its experimenting
school. The superintendent of schools IN
each town shall procure the convey
ance of all common school pupils residce
ing in his town, a part or the whole OF
the distance, to and from the nearest
suitable school. for the number OF
weeks for which schools are maintained
in each year when such pupils reside
at such a distance from the said school
as in the judgment of the experimenting
school committee shall render such con-
that the experimenting school commit.
tee may authorize the superintendent of
schools, to pay the board of any pupil or
pupils at suitable place near any es-
tablished school instead of providing
conveyance for said pupil or pupils,
when in their Judgment 1t may be done
at an equal or less expense than by con-
yeyance. '-(Approved March 81, 1881
Chapter 149.
An Act to amend Section eight of Chap
ter eighteen of the Revised Statutes,
as amended, by Chapter fortyeight o.
the Public Laws of nineteen hundred
and nine, relating TO the State Boaro
of Health.
Section eight of chapter eighteen OF
the Revised Statutes. as amended i.
section two of chapter forty-eight ..
nine, is hereby further amended by in
sorting after the word diseases in
twenty-ninth line the following: for
guarding against the transmission of in
fectious and contagious diseases through
the medium of common towels, common
drinking cups and other articles VIII
may carry infection from ptrson TO per-
son; for the sanitation of railway SER
vice and that of other common carriers,
SO that's aid section, as amended, SHALL
read as follows:
Section 5. The more effectually
protect the public health the State board
of health may establish such systems of
inspection as in its judgment may h
necessary to ascertain the actual or
threatened presence of the infection of
Asiatic cholera, smallpox, diphtheria,
scarlet fever. plague or typhuS fever;
and any duly authorized agent or in
specter of said board may enter any
building, vessel. railway ear or Other
public vehicle. to inspect the same an
to remove therefrem any person affected
by said dsea SEES. and for this purpose
he may require the person in charge of
any vessel or public vehicle other than
a railway car TO stop such vessel OF
vehicle at any place, and he may re-
quire the conductor of any railway
train to stop his train at any station OF
upon any side track and there detain it
for a reasonable time. provided, that no
conductor shall be required to stop his
train when telegraphic communication
with the dispatcher's office cannot b.
aSV,
circumstances as may endanger the
safety of the train and passengers; an6
provided further, that any such agent
or inspector may cause any car whicl
he may think may be infected with anv
of said diseases to be sidetracked at
any suitable place and there be cleansed
fumigated and disinfecteed. And the
said board of health may from time Il
rules and regulations for guarding
against the introduction of any infec-
tious or contagious diseases into II
State including rabies, or hydrophobia
of animals and men; for the control and
suppression thereof if within the State
for the quarantine and disinfection of
persons, localities and things infected o
suspected OF being infected by such dis
eases; for guarding against the trans
mission of infectious and contagious dis
eases through the medium of common
towels, common drinking cups and other
articles which may carry infection from
person to person. for the sanitation c
railway service and that of other com
mon carriers, for the transportation of
dead bodies when death results from
any infectious or contagious disease; for
the speedy and private interment of the
bodies of persons who have died from
said diseases; and, in emergency. for pro-
viding those sick with said diseases with
necessary medical aid and with tempor-
ary hospitals for their accommodation
md for the accommodation of their
nurses and attendants. And the said
board may declare any and all of its
rules and regulations made in accord
ancc with the provisions of this section
to be in force within the whole State or
within any specified part thereof, and
To apply to any person or persons, fam
lily camp, building, vessel, railway car or
publ, vehicle of any kind. '-(Approved
March 81, 1872
Chapter $50.
An Act additional to Section forty-one
of Chapter forty-nine of the Revised
Statutes relating 20 the organization
of Insurance Companies.
Section forty-one of chapter f9rty-nine
of the Revised Statutes of Maine Is
hereby amended by adding thereto the
following.
VII To insure the payment of COM
pensations and benefits under any work
mans compensation law now existing or
hereafter enacted in this State and also
in any other state, SO far as the same
may he permissible under the laws
thereof. '-(Approved March 81, 1917
Chapter 1871.