Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-02-06
Committee Hearings Program.

hearing Tuesday afternoon on the re-
| solve in favor of DeForrest keyes who
asks the State for reimbursement for
money which he paid for tax deeds on
wild lands, lands which he could not
locate after he had paid the State his
money for them. On Wednesday this
committee will give hearings on an act
| to create a board of prison commits
sioners, act to amend the Revised
Statutes relating to the inspection of
safeguards and repairs by town Of
ficers and fire engineers and on an act
to provide whole family protection for
members of fraternal benefit societies.
! On Thursday afternoon this committee
| will give a hearing on resolve relat-
| ing to the conservation of the storage
reservoirs and water powers Of the
State of Maine.
The committee on library will hold
hearings Tuesday afternoon on re-
! solves in favor of the purchase of
Maine State year books for the years
1917 and 1918, to purchase 100 copies
of new history of Norway providing
I for the purchase and distribution of
Lawrences Digest of Maine reports.
authorizing the purchase of a history
of Pemaquir, act relating to assistance
to towns in establishing free public Ii
/ braries, act relating to librarians re-
ceiving instructions, act to establish a
legislative reference bureau and on an
act relating to State stipend for sup
port of public library.
| The committee on inland fisheries
and game will give several hearings
Tuesday afternoon, including an act to
| hr1n
| tration law.
| The committee on salaries and fees
will hold hearings Wednesday after
noon on an act to establish the wages
| of clerks in the offices of the Aroostook
registry of deeds. southern district,
and clerk of courts of Aroostook coun-
| ty and to secure to such clerk or
courts reimbursement for necessary
expenses in attendance upon the terms
of the supreme judicial courts at Carl
bou, to establish the salary of the reg
lister of deeds for the southern registry
district of Aroostook county, act re-
lating to clerk hire in the Office of the
register of deeds for York county and
to amend the public laws of 1915 relat-
ing to the amounts to be paid for clerk
hire in the several counties.
The committee on interior waters
will hold hearings Tuesday afternoon
on resolve in aid of navigation on
Grand and Junior lakes in Washington
county, act authorizing the Songo
River Line, Incorporated, to construct
and maintain wharveS at East Sebago
and Long Beach. SO called, act to eX-
tend and amend the charter of the
Bangor Boom Company, resolve for the
maintenance of lights along the mar
rows connecting the Upper and Lower
| Richardson Lakes and on an act to
amend the act Incorporating the Pen
obscot East Branch Log Driving Com
pany.
The committee on public utilities will
hold hearings Wednesday afternoon on
acts extending and amending the char
ter of the Fairfield and Skowhegan
| Railway Company, to amend the pub
lie laws of 1913 relating to the con-
troll of public utilities, extending the
charter of the Quebec Extension Rail-
way Company, extending the time in
which the Maine Title Guarantee Com
pany is authorized to commence busi-
ness and to authorize the town OF
Yarmouth to supply gas and electric
ity.
The committee on State lands and
forest preservation will give a hearing
Wednesday afternoon on a resolve IN
favor of a cooperative survey of the
boundary line between the State OF
Maine and the state of New Hamp-
shire.
The committee on legal affairs vii
hold a hearing on Tuesday afternoon
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Home Association in the town OF Mon
roe. On Wednesday the committee
will give hearings on an act to create
industrial banks, to provide compensa
ton for town clerks for issuance ano
recording of burial permits and an ac'
amending the Revised Statutes relat'
ing to the registration of voters. Or
Thursday afternoon the committee will
give hearings on an act to provide
penalty for avoidance Of taxtcab anc
, public automobile fares. act to amene
! the act to establish the Rumford Fall:
: municipal court and an act amending
| the Revised Statutes relating to loar
> and building associations.
The committee on ways and bridge:
will hold hearings Wednesday after
) noon on resolves appropriating money
; to repair the main highway leading
f from the town of Franklin, in Han
! cock county, to the town of Cherry
t field in Washington county, to repair
5 the highway in the town of New Port
; land leading from New Portland Vii
: lage to Kingfield, reimbursing the
county commissioners of Penobsco
, county for the cost of repairs to the
State bridge across the Penobsco
river between the city of Old Towr
and the town of Milford. in favor o
the town of Prentis for the repair o.
2 the Danforth road so called and to aiC
in repairing the Middle Dam Carry
road in the town of Upton and the
plantation of Magalloway. On Friday
r afternoon the committee on ways anc
bridges will hold hearings on resolves
/, in favor of rebuilding a portion of the
road leading from Southwest Harbol
|, to fremont known as Long HILL" re-
pairing highway in the towns of Perry
| and Pembroke, reconstructing the roao
over Moulton Hill in the town OF
{ Brooks, rebuilding a bridge connecting
the towns of Bucksport and Verona, tC
| aid in rebuilding road in the town oi
| ~ in roh,iiIdincp road n thf