Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-02

AAopiHS tHdI you anu TIE ileH1pcAS VI
the Executive Council may always
keep a place in the same. l subscribe
myself
Yours very respectfully,
CHARLES NJ. SLEEPER.
Then the question was asked: who
can accept the resignation?"
The Statutes provides for the election
Of the councillors by the Legislature.
which shall also fill any vacancy, but
nothing is found as to the acceptance of
resignation. On the advise of Attor-
ney General Pattangall the resignation
was declared received and accepted,
with an order to report the same to the
next session of the Legislature.
And that reminds us that, although
the Governor referred several times to
the possibility of an extra session of
the Legislature, he did not once commit
himself on the subject.
Governor Curtis then said at P. NJ:
ION motion of DR.. Sleeper, adjourned"
Executive Council Orders
Orders to the following effect were
passed Wednesday at the session OF
the Governor and Council
Authorizing the payment of the
$4,000 for the Parker and Boiler lot
Reformatory.
Appropriating the sum Of SIS for
the expenses of Curator Thomas James
taking to Washington the collection
of mounted Maine fish and game. pic
lures. etc. which is to he placed in
the committee room9aof Senator john
son and also to allow Mr.. James to
visit other state museums in Wash
ington, Pennsylvania and New York.
Appropriating $500 for an additional
clerk at the office of the Fish and
Game department.
Authorizing the state Auditor to APP
prove claims coming over from 1919
through the failure of certain towns
in Maine to make returns regarding
the free schools and to charge the
same to the 1916 appropriation.
Approving the action of the trus-
tees of the juvenile institutions in APP
pointing an assistant superintendent
for the State School for Girls, at a
minimum salary of $500 per year.
Authorizing Supt. of Public Build
ings Harry a. Plummer to visit Bos-
ton and Providence on account of Sc
curing supplies and to visit the state
capitols.
Increasing the salaries of State
Highway Commission employees as fol-
lows: Margaret Lee from $50 to sos;
Loie Young. S45 to $50: Helen NJ.
Hutchinson. $40 to $50: Lena F. Nor
ton, $40 to $50: Alice NJ. Faulkenham,
s45 to $50.
Also authorizing the commission to
employ additional clerks, at the rate
Of $40 per month.
Also approving the promotion of
Harry r. Barney from assistant book
keeper to bookkeeper and accountant
with increase of salary from S65 to
800 per month. Also increasing the
salary of Stenographer Lottie o. Sher-
burne from $40 to $50 per month.
An order appropriating the sum Of
s16O.S1 to reimburse Miss Gertrude L..
Mcdonald for salary paid an assistant
superintendent from Sept. 4 to Dec.
81 last, was tabled for investigation by
the proper committee.
Instructing the State librarian to
send to the St Mary's College at Van
Buren, the books in the French Ian
guage received from the French gov
eminent.
For stationery account, the sum of
s311.14.
The Public Utilities Commission
was authorized to employ chief
clerk in the rate and schedule depart
ment, who shall also be assistant clerk
to the chief inspector, at a salary 1or
both positions of $500.
Beginning April 1, the Public CtiH-
ties is authorized to pay the chlef OIL
rates and schedules O salary OF slSoo.
The Public Utilities Commission was
requested to furnish the Governor ana
Council a list Of all bonds OF puplc
utility corporations in Maine secured
nv mortgage on real estate, not TO IN
clude bonds in instances where any
mart of the security is personal prop
ertv. franchises or anything Of like
nature.
The contract for binding the 1orth-
coming edition of the Revised statutes
was awarded the Plimpton Pfess OF
Norwood, Mass, according to the plus
published Wednesday morning IN TINS
department. The company was oroeie"
70 furnish n bond Of $1,000.
The bid for the highway bond issue
of s5OO,oO of 1922 by Burgess. Lang 4
Co. Of Boston and sale of the issue 10
that firm was approved
The attorney general was authorized
TO approve and the secretary OF State
to accent a new certificate Of lncor-
poration of the new Waldo County
Fair Association without further fees,
the customary fees having been paid
but the papers made invalid through
an error Of the officers of the assocla-
ton in filing the same.
The sheriff of Cumberland was au-
thorized to remove one Linnie Trip.
a State pauper, from Harpswell to the
state School for Boys.
The secretary of State was instruct
ed to notify the trustees Of all State in
situations to forward to the Executive
Council not later than March 10 list
of all the insurance carried, showing
the amounts. rates, etc, and not in the
future to place any more insurance
without the approval of the Executive
Council.
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