Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-16
HOUSE.
= FOUSE.
Thursday. February 15, 1917.

Journal of previous session read and
approved.
| Papers from the Senate disposed of
| in concurrence.
! From the Senate: An Act authoriz-
/ ing the town of Caribou to acquire
property of the Caribou Water. Light
and Power Company. and to construct
and maintain for itself and for persons
and corporations a system of water
works within said town.
This bill was read and passed in the
| House as amended by House Amend
ment A and then sent to the Senate.
| In the Senate, House Amendment A
was indefinitely postponed in non-c con-
currence and the bill was recommitted
to the committee on legal affairs.
On motion by Mr.. Tuttle of Caribou,
the House receded and concurred with
the Senate in indefinitely postponing
the amendment
On further motion by the same gen.
tleman, the bill was recommitted in
concurrence to the committee on legal
affairs.
Senate Bills on First Reading.
| Senate 1877. An Act to punish the
giving of checks or drafts on any bank
or other depository. wherein the per-
son so giving such check or draft shall
not have sufficient funds or credit for
the payment of the same.
| (Title amended by the committee to
which 1t was referred to read "An Act
making it unlawful to give checks or
drafts on banks where the maker has
not sufficient funds or credit to pay the
same. and providing penalty there
| for.'D
Senate 1873 An Act concerning in
dustrial banks, defining the same. and
providing for their incorporation, DOW
ers, supervision and control.
| Senate 40. An Act to extend and
amend the charter Of the Fairfield and
Skowhegan Railway Company.
From the Senate: Report of the
committee on judiciary on bill, An Act
to amend Section 81 of Chapter 50 of
the Revised Statutes of 1916, relating
to applicants for admission to the bar
of this State, reporting ought not to
pass"
In the Senate the report Of the COM
mlttee was accepted.
| The report was accepted in concur
renee
| The following bills and petitions
were presented, and on recommends
ton of the committee on reference Of
bills, were referred to the following
committees
| Commerce.
| BY Mr. Fletcher of kcnnebunkport:
Petition of Percy n. n. Lombard, and
20 others, of Old Orchard. in favor of
an act to amend Section 3S of Chapter
40 Of the Revised Statutes of 1916, rela-
tive to Old Home Week; also petition
of John II. Insolvency. and 90 others,
of Old Orchard, in favor of same
| Inland Fisheries and Game.
/ BY Mr.. Grant Of Hope: An Act to
amend Section 70 Of Chapter SO Of the
! Revised Statutes of 1916, relating to the
use of firearms upon Megunticook lake
and adjacent waters and tributaries
thereof, in Knox and Waldo counties,
and upon the shores thereof
| BY Mr.. Bowman of Detroit: Pcti-
ton Of +. II. Farnham, and 50 others of
! Palmyra in favor Of repeal of Sunday
hunting law.
BY Mr.. BuzzclI Of Belfast: Petition
of Francis Longley and 10 others
in favor of same; also petition of
/ Chauncey NJ. Allen and 20 others in
favor of same.
! BY Mr.. Williams of Auburn: Re-
monstrance Of Rev. A. ID. Paul and "a
others against the passage of House
| Document No. A, relative to Sunday
hunting.
| BY MIR. Fletcher of Kennebunkport:
bunkport and 3S others against passage
of same.
| BY Mr.. Cummings of Hebron: Re-
others against same
BY Mr.. Emerson of Lewiston: Re
monstrancc of George II. Hamlin and
four others of Lewiston against same.
BY Mr.. Harrington of Augusta: Re
monstrance Of Byron Cummings and -
others Of Bethel against same.
BY Mr.. Russell of Pennington: Re-
monstrance of Charles Z. Brooks and
II others against same.
BY Mr. Hartman of Stonington: Re-
monstrance of d. W. Kimball and 80
others Of Sedgwick and Brooklin
against same.
BY Nh. Alden of Gorham: Remon-
STRANGE of Henry II. Crane of Gorham
and 81 others against same.
Sea and Shore Fisheries.
BY Mr.. Boman of Ninalhaven: An
Act relating to fish wardens. Q.000
copies ordered printed)
BY the same gentleman: Petition
of b. j.. Lawry and others in favor Of
nine-inch lobster law.
BY Mr.. Hartman of Stonington: Peti-
ton of l.. D. Newman and p others
asking that no change be made in the
present general lobster law or shipping
Holsters out of the state.
State Sanatoriums.
BY Mr.. Barnes of Houlton: Petition
of +. H. Jackson and 140 others, resi-
dents of Aroostook County, in favor of
the passage of a resolve for the estab
lishmcnt Of the Northern Maine Sana
torium; also petition of Henry II. Put
nam and 10 others. residents of Wash
'ington County, in favor of same.
Orders.
on motion by Mr.. Brewster Of Port
land, it was
Ordered, that House bills Nos 249