Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-22
IN THE SENATE
Meeting of Community Forum

T. NJ. Rollins
IN THE SENATE
Meeting of Community Forum
Butler of Knox-Act providing for
the use of school buildings for the
purpose of holding meetings Of a social
center of community forum. The act
provides that if a proposal to use a
school building as a social center Or
community forum is approved at
meeting by the adult residents of the
town, the adult persons may proceed
to organize and elect necessary Off
GERS including an executive secretary
and prescribe and adopt bylaws and
regulations for the conduct of the
meetings of the social center or COM
munity forum. The bylaws and
regulations shall show that the pri-
mary object of the organization is
public education and dispensation of
knowledge of current events and topics
Of the day through the open presen-
tation and orderly free discussion Of
public questions with view to a
more intelligent discharge of the duties
of adult citizenship including the du-
ties of parents in the training of their
children and the management and
making of suitable homes, and that the
membership and equal right of at
tendance and participation in all meet
ings of the organization includes all
adult residents of the town.
Insurance Dividend, When Due
Chick Of Kennebec-Act providing
that any dividend due from a foreign
mutual fire insurance company under
a policy of insurance issued by it shall
be payable at the place of business of
it's duly commissioned agent in this
State seven days subsequent to a de-
mand for the payment thereof made
by the assured or by his authorized
representative, and upon failure, to
make such payment an action therefor
may be maintained.
IN THE HOUSE.
State Incomes and Expenditures
harrington of Augusta-Act to
amend Sec. 90, SO and "a of Chap. 2,
Revised Statutes, relating to the esti-
mated income and expenditures of the
State departments and institutions.
L
words First Monday in December
AID inserting in place thereof the
words "Fifteenth day of November"
and amending Sec. by striking out
the words ION or before the 18th day
of December in each year" also by
striking out the words first day of its
session" and inserting in place thereof
ION or before the 18th day of January
so that the amended section shall read
as follows:
Section % On on before the 18th
day of November in each year pre-
ceding the session of the Legislature,
the heads of departments, state insti-
buttons, commissions and boards of
trustees who are entrusted with the
expenditures of public moneys shall
file with the auditor written esti-
mate in detail Of the necessary expen-
ditures of the department, institution
or commission of which they are in
charge for each of the two following
years, together with the estimated in
come, if any, for said several years"
The committee on ways and bridges
reported ought to pass in new draft
On the act amending the Revised
Statutes relating to State and State
aid highways and to provide a mill
tax fund for their construction
The new draft eliminates the approx
al of the Governor and Council and al
lows the expenditure of that part of the
mill tax highway fund used exclusively
for the construction of State highways
solely by the State Highway Commas
sion, except what may be necessary to
meet the requirements of the national
government for receiving federal aid.
The new draft contains section pro-
viding for State highway construction
during the year 1917 of not less than
100000 exclusive of funds received
from the reissue of bonds now or here
after to be retired. Said $500 600 to in
clude all sums received from the fed
eral government and any unexpended
balance of this fund at the end of the
year shall be added to this fund for
State highways for the next year
The new draft also provides that all
fees received by the treasurer of State
for the registration Of motor vehicles
shall be used in the following order:
First to pay interest due on all bonds
issued under the provisions of the
State highway act; to create such fund
to meet maturing bonds as the Govern
or and Council may deem necessary to
pay bonds due curing the current year;
to provide funds for the administration
Of the office and duties of the Highway
Commission and for all the expendi-
lures salaries and expense incident
thereto and for maintenance require
ments under the act: the balance to be
applied on State highway construction
work and any unexpended balance in
any year to be carried over to the ball
ance of the following year. The new
draft repeats the section Of the chapter
of the Revised Statutes relating to the
registration of motor vehicles provid-
ing for the disposition OF registration
fees under the previous arrangement.
Like the original bill the new draft
fixes the mill taX at I mill on the dollar
to be annually assessed upon all prop
erty Of the State according to the value
thereof and to be known as the Mill
Tax Highway Fund for the Construc-
ton of State and State-aid highways.
The committee on ways and bridges