Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

/ s56491, s556.97 and s7s4.47, for repairs
on boat Virginia from April 6 to May
81 be paid from the appropriation pro-
viding and operating patrol boats
| That the amount to be paid Luther
Maddocks of Boothbay Harbor from
the State Contingent Fund for his SER
vices and expenses in connection with
| the Maine Sea Food Protective Com
mission is hereby fixed at $272.S0 to
cover items for the year 1915, instead
| Of s279.a3 as provided in the order of
Governor and Council July IS. 1917,
| The sums Of $50 and SIS We're order
| ed refunded to r. A. Clark Of Madison
end Ed. Cannon Of Machas for all
permits issued before the law passed
by the State Legislature relating to
issuance of eel permits became eff
fectivc.
That the sum Of $500 be transferred
from the appropriation for Personal
Services for the Reforma tory for We
men to the appropriat for Food
| Supply.
! That T. T. Hardy Of Waterville, chair
man Of the Trustees Of State Sanata-
ton be authorized to represent the
State as the official delegate to tho
losis at Rutland, VT, on Oct As and
that DR.. L. D. Bristol, commissioner
Of health, and Mrs. George French of
Portland, member Of the State SAM
torium trustees, be authorized to at
tend as unofficials of the State.
The sum Of 81 900 is transferred from
the State Contingent Fund to be used
by the Public Utilities Commission for
20 l., 80
at rate Of $500 per annum and expon-
ses and for such other expenses as may
be incurred by the commission in car
rying out the investigation ordered by
Chapter 9S, Public Laws of 1917, of the
pollution Of cancer Of domestic supply
water.
That $4,000 he transferred from the
appropriation for general expense for
the Reformatory to the appropriation
for repairs and equipment.
That the State Highway Commission
be authorized to employ Miss Blanch
M. Norton as a stenographer and clerk
temporarily at salary Of $40 per
week.
That the Highway Commission be
authorized to purchase five Ford ton
trucks at cost Of $4,000. plus freight,
to be used for maintenance work.
Bills amounting to s131947, chareable
to the department stationery supply
fund, were ordered paid.
mat the salaries of the porters and
laborers in the department of the SUI
perlntendent of public buildings is
hereby fixed at s16o5 per week each
from Oct. /. 1917.
The order of Sept. 10 relating to the
remodelng of the Chase building at
the Central Maine Tuberculosis Sana-
forum was rescinded and $4,000 an
rropriated from the State contingent
fund for remodeling the Chase build
ing. to he expended by the trustees
under the direction Of the Governor
and Council and the contingent fund
shall be reimbursed in 1918 from the
rneXpended funds appropriated for the
state tuberculosis Sanatoriums for the
year 1916.
where's, the present facilities for
the care of patients at the Central
Maine tuberculosis Sanatorium are in
adequate as to cooking and dining
room facilities and care of help, and
the proper care of patients necessitates
the imme date remodeling of the Chase
l
limnary work thereon this year, such
rcmodelinS having been authorized by
| Resolve Of the Lesisla ture of 1917, bu.
the appropriation therefor not avail
able until the year 1915
1t is ordered, that the trustees of
tuberculosis sanatoriums under the di-
rectlcn of the Governor and Council.
remodel the Chase building and pro-
coed forthwith to have the prelimin-
airy work completed before cold wealth
er, and the entire remodeling complet-
&c as early in the year 1918 as posi-
BILE, and for the purpose Of defrayine
the expense of this preliminary work
the sum of $4,000 is hereby appropriated
from the State contingent fund, but
the State, contingent fund shall be re-
imbIrsed in 1918 from the appropria-
| ton for said purpose made by the Leg
islature to be available as aforesaid.
| This appropriation from the State con-
tingent fund is made to meet the emer-
! gency existing.