Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-30
The Council Orders

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ordered into executive session.
!. The Council Orders
1.-The following are the orders passed
by the Council during the Thursday
evening and Friday sessions:
That the commissioner CT agricul.
ture is hereby authorized to have the
bill Of Pr. F. B. Peabody, Richmond,
for setting fractured arm and medical
attendance upon the son Of George
Brown. amounting to $50, paid from
the appropriation for Agricultural sta
tistics.
That the bill for F. L. Hutchinson
for $7537 for visiting. New York mar
kets anN' attending the meeting of the
NATIONAL Commissioners Association at
Norfolk, Va. beginning Dec. II, 1916,
be paid from the appropriation for
Improved Method of Marketing Farm
Products. So
That bill of s7576 of the Commits
sioner of agriculture for attending the
meeting Of the National Commission
efs Association meeting at Norfolk
Va, be paid from the appropriation
for agricultural statistics.
That the bill of the Rockland Motor
g. Machine. Co. for work, etc, at the
Maine sConvalescent hospital at Chase
Island in 1913 ana 1914, amounting to
$5S.1S. be paid from appropriation for
maintenance of the Augusta State hos
pital
That the following transfers from
one bureau to another In the Depart
ment of Agriculture be made: $4sC
from Bureau of Horticulture, $47O
from Agricultural Statistics and $500
from Improved Methods Of Marking
Farm Products to- the Bureau of In
spection. 49, ~
That bill of James, M. Bartlett
$500. expenses attending the Asso-
citation of Official Agricultural Chem
lists at Washington, ID. G. Nov. 20
1916. be paid from appropriation for
analysis of foods, seeds, fertilizers, etc
That the State auditor be author
tied to pay from the, State contingent
fund to the 1915 Appropriation for
printing, binding. ETC., for the State
superintendent Of public schools the
sum of s516.36 for payment of binding
the 1915 reports. sit
to pay from the contingent fand to the
appropriation for Fare and Treatment
of Tubercular peri pms the am Of s4O.-
600, the approprt ition provided by
Chapter s51 Of p. 1. 1915. being Insult.
ficient. ~ as
That the State auditor be directed to
pay from The contingent fund to the
appropriation for bodfity on bobcats
the sum of 5000, tfiesis16 appropria-
ton being insufficHen{!!Isf B
4. That the State ahditor be directed
to pay from the contialent fund to The
appropriation for thsf Passanaquoddy
Indians the sum of :$4a6S.62, the 1916
appropriation being insufficient. *
/, That the State Auditor be directed to
pay from. the, contingent fund the sum
Of $1,000 to the Peppbscot Indian ac-
count. the 1915 appropriation being in
sufficient. t3 ~
That there be paid from the contin-
gent fund Of the Governor and Council
to W. b. Trask 500 and to l.. H. Win
throp 500 for investigation Of interest
on lands reserved for Public Utilities
fund. go 4
That the Commissioner Of Agriculture
is authorized to take from the Horticul-
ture appropriation $3.50. to be expended
for the expense Of protection Of trees
and shrubs: also $3.50 from the Agri-
cultural statistics funds for the expense
of Farmers Institutes,
That the State treasurer be directed
to pay from the Department stationery
funds bills amounting to $239.70.
That 5000 copies of the Report Of the
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and
Game for the year 1916 be printed and
bound-250 copies in cloth. the re-
remainder in paper: not exceeding six
half-tones in each report.
That the; bill Of Melvin H. Simmons
for drafting bills for the Department Of
Labor and Industry In 1915 amounting
to $50 be paid from the appropriation
for Woman Factory Inspector. travelling
expenses, etc. F.'e r
+ That the state Treasurer refund to
Hiram r. Farrow OF Belmont the IS
paid as fee on notary public commits
sion issued in 1914, in which an error
existed. rendering the commission inval-
ia, from fees on Commissions.
That Commissioner of Agriculture ~
authorized to take from the HorttGit
ture funds $175, to be expended fcEana
proving and protecting dairy ints&gf
That the sum OF s253.06 be eala1<
to Funds received as automobilp ::
and same amount be ere dited t6app$Hs
prjation for Purchase of automebtl6
plates" in Office of Secretary of4 EtA&l
!. That State Auditor Be directed "A ~
from contingent fund to Trustees Os J9-
venile institutions ts7s:1I Tor per Aians'
and expenses. the appropriation being:
EXHAUSTED. g5a4gs5st =
That the State Auditor pay KEN the
contingent fund $425.9S to pay expenses
Of the Law Courts for 1915; appropri-
alton exhausted. ,sSr
That the State Auditor be direetN4 to
set up an account Portage. GeQ6a,
etc. 1912 and 1918 deficiencsk 36ef1eeb
of the supreme judicial court end 49,;
from contingent fund $90.5e &eo1enSE
for those years. *
That the State Auditor be directed TO
pay $3.50 from the contingent fund tn
bill for 500 copies Documentary Hios
tory Of Maine Vol xXfIII. tie TappSo-
priation having lapsed.
That the State Auditor be directsd to
pay Ss5.23 from contingent fund to pay
bills of Better Protection and Preser-
walton OF the Lobster Fisheries: appro-
priation exhausted.