Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-14

hot water system in the lavatories
throughout the State House.
Registration Of Teachers.
| Kicker of Hancock-Act providing
for the registration Of teachers. Inc
act provides that any person hoicing
State teachers certificate or lem
porary teaching permit or ehgibie 10
receive such a permit, may upon pay
Ement Of So and upon application to the
State SUPERINTENDENT of schools regis
ter as candidate for employ
ment as a teacher in the public schoois
within the State. The act further pro-
vides that neither the State supeflh-
tendent Of schools nor any person EN-
pIoyed under his direction shall be helu
responsible for nor be understood 10
vouch for the fitness or success OF any
teacher securing position in puplc
school through the operation OF TINS
act. nor shall acceptance of this enroll
lment and payment of required fee De
construed as guarantee for securing
Ienn1oyment as a teacher. Payment or
above fee shall entitle person register
ling to benefit of such registration FOR
three years.
State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
Conant of Waldo-Act relating TO do
mestic animals, the improving OF the
quality and Graduating diseases OF 40
nestle animals, including poultry, reg
ula ting the manufacture, use and sale
of tuberculin, mallein and other hIolog-
iical products for use with domestic an
imals: and defining the powers and du-
ties of the State Live Stock Sanitary
Board and the officers and employees
thereof
The word domestic animal is de-
fined to mean any equine or bovine ar
imal, sheep, goat, pig, dog, cat or
poultry.
The act provides for a State Live
Stock Sanitary Board to consist of the
Governor, commissioner of agriculture.
| State veterinarian and two farmers
who are practical live stock men. The
State veterinarian shall be ex officio
secretary of the State Live Stock San
itary Board and shall be the executive
officer of said board. He must be a
graduate of some reputable veterinary
college, his term of office shall be four
years and his salary $4,000. The two
members who are not State officials
shall be paid So per day while actually
engaged in the work Of the board, to-
gether with necessary travelling ex-
penses. The State veterinarian may
appoint and employ legal, clerical and
other agents and employees as may be
deemed necessary.
The duties of the State Live Stock
Sanitary Foard shall be to improve the
quality Of domestic animals, to pre-
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any transmissible diseases of such an
finals, to enforce the laws of the State
relating to diseases of animals and the
manufacture, preparation. storage, sale
and Offering fer sale of food and food
products derived from diseased ami.
mails, and may cause such investiga-
lions to be conducted as may seem ad-
visable
It is made the duty OF every practi-
TONER Of veterinary medicine in Maine
to report Immediately to the secretary
of State any disease now or hereafter
proclaimed by the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board to be Of a transmissible
jcharacter or any domestic animal re-
iacting to tuberculin or mallefn test
Regulations are provided for the i'm
,portation or bringing into this State of
domestic animals except for immedia te
slaughter or temporary exhibition pur-
poses. No apparently healthy bull or
heifer under six months Of age shall. be
subject to examination or tuberculin
test. Special ard eneraI guarantees
are also provided for
New Charter for Auburn.
Hastings of Androscoggin - Ac
granting a new charter to the city o
Auburn.
The act provides that the council
shall be composed of the mayor ant
five other members, the members othe
than the mayor shall be elected on,
from each ward and the mayor shall b,
ex officio president of the council The
members of the council shall hold of
flee for term of two years Of
until their successors are elected
and qualified. Members of the coun.
Gil other than the mayor shall
serve without compensation and the
mayor and city council shall bt
the municipal officers of the city of Au
burn for all purposes required b,
statute or ordinance. The city coun.
Gil is also constituted the overSeers O.
the poor of the city.
~ 'tPNi iiilSlibiIlS SSiiooi tOiIilllll
tee shall consist of the mayor ex of
ficio and 10 other members elected
two from each ward, holding office fol
a term of two years and no person
shall be ineligible to membership Oh
the experimenting school committed
on account of sex.
The new charter provides that on The
second Wednesday of December, 1917
land ennially thereafter. the qualified
voters of each ward shall ballot for {
mayor, a councilman, a member of the
experimenting school committee.
warden and a ward clerk. The nomi
nation of all candidates for elective of
fees provided by this charter shall bt
by petition. The petition of candi-
dates for mayor shall be signed by MOI
less than 100 qualified voters of the
city and the petitions of candidates fol
councilman, for the experimenting
school committe for warden and ware
clerk shall be signed by at least 2;
qualified voters of the ward wherein
the candidates are to be elected.
Nomination papers comprising &
petition shall be assembled and flee
with the city clerk as one instrument
not earlier than % nor later than l.
days exclusive of Sundays. before the
date of election. No nomination shall