Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-09


In the subject matter Of said petition
shall be notified by the public utilities
commission of the filing OF such petition
and given opportunity to appear and be
1s17)
An Act 10 amend Section Forty-two OF
Chapter one hundred seventeen of the
Revised Statutes. providing for the
monthly payment of salaries of county
commissioners.
Section fcrty-two Of chapter one hun
dred seventeen of the Revised Statutes is
hereby amended by striking out the
words "in quarterly payments on the
first days of January, April, July and
October in the third and fourth lines
OF the first paragraph thereof and insert
ing in place thereof in monthly pay
ments on the first day of each month for
the preceding month"; that said para
graph as amended shall head as follows
Section ~. Each county commissioners
IN the several counties shall receive an
annual salary from the county treasury
In monthly payments on the first day of
each month for the preceding month, as
follows:
Androscoggin, seven hundred and fifty
dollars
Aroostook, eleven hundred dollars.
Cumberland, twelve hundred and fifty
dollars.
Franklin. four hundred and fifty dollars
lars.
kennebec. one thousand dollars.
Knox, four hundred dollars.
Lincoln, three hundred dollars.
Oxford. six hundred dollars.
Penobscot, twelve hundred dollars.
Piscataquis, five hundred dollars
Sagadahoc, four hundred dollars.
Somerset. six hundred and fifty dollars.
Waldo. four hundred dollars
Washington, six hundred and fifty dol
lars.
York eight hundred and fifty dollars
tApproved March Is. 1910
CHAPTER 40.
An Act to amend Section two of Chapter
sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, re-
latlng to marriage of feeble minded
persons.
Section two of chapter sixty-four of the
Revised Statutes is hereby amended by
inserting after the word insane" and be-
lore the word person the words or
Feeble minded so that said section as
amended shall read as follows:
section No insane or feeble minded
person or idiot is capable of contracting
marriage. -(Approved March 10. 19l7)
CHAPTER Al.
An Act to amend Section thirty-four of
= chapter sixty-eight of the Revised
: Statutes, relating to special administra-
tors.
Section thirty-four of chapter sixty
amended by inserting after the word
Probate" in the fourth line Of said sec
ton, the following words: and if for
any cause other than an appeal, the
judge of probate decides that if Is nee
essary or expedient. he may at any time
and place. with or without notice, APP
point special administrator. so that
sad section as amended shall read as
follows:
Section a. When there is delay in
granting letters testamentary or OF ad-
ministration the Judge Of probate may
appoint special administrator who
snail. notwithstanding any pending APP
peal proceed in the execution of his du-
ties until il is otherwise ordered by the
supreme court of probate, and if for any
cause other than an appeal the Judge OF
probate decides that it is necessary or
expedient, he may at any time and place.
with or without notice. appoint a special
administrators; and he shall give bond,
like other administrators. conditiore
that ne will make and return into the
probate court within three months. a
true inventory of all the goods. chatte;z
rights and credits of the deceased. which
come to his possession or knowledge; ana
that he Will truly account fer them under
oath. and deliver them to the person a,I-
thorized to receive them. When by rea-
son OF the removal or discharge Of exeru-
tors or adninistra tors. and appeals from
the DEGREES of removal or discharge,
there is no executor or administrator to
act, the judge may appoint special ad-
ministrator, who shall have the same
powers. and perform the same duties as
other special. administrators. until such
Appeals are disposed of and some execu-
tor or administrator may legally act. -
Approved March il, 1917
CHAPTER AZ.
An Act to amend. Section twenty-seven of
Chapter nine of the Revised Statutes
relating to returns by railroad compa-
MES for purposes of taxation.
section twenty-seven of chapter nine of
the Revised Statutes is hereby amende
by striking out in the fourth line of sal,
section the words 'thirtieth day of June
and substituting therefor 'thirty-first day
OF December, SO that said section as
amended shall read as follows:
Section Il. The amount of such annual
excise tax shall be aseertained as follows
The amount of the gross transporta ton
receipts as returned to the public utli-
ties commission for the year ending on
the thirty-first day of December precen-
ing the levying of such tax, shall be
. divided by the number of miles of rail-
, road operated, to ascertain the average
gross receipts per mile; when such aver
age receipts per mile do not exceed fif-
teen hundred dollars. the tax shall be
. equal to one-half of one per cent of the
gross transportation receipts; when the
average receipts per mile exceed fifteen
, hundred dollars and do not exceed nine
teen hundred dollars. the tax shall be
equal to three-uuarters of one per cent of
the gross receipts, and so on increasing
the date of tax one-quarter of one per
cent for each additional four hundred
dollars Of average gross receipts per mile
or fractional part thereof: provided, that
the rate in no event exceed five and one
half per cent, and in case of railroads
operated exclusively for the transporta-
ton of freight, said rate shall i'll no event
exceed three per cent. When a railroad
lies partly within and partly without the
state. or is operated as part of line
or system extending beyond the State
the tax shall be equal to the same proper
ton of the gross receipts In the State as
herein provided, and its amount shall be
determined as follows: The gross trans
portation receipts of such railroad, line
or system. as the case may be, over its
whale extent, within and without the
state, shall be divided by the total num-
Der of miles operate to obtain the aver
age gross receipts per mile. and the
gross receipts in the State shall be taken
to be the average gross receipts per mile
multiplied by the number of miles operat-
ed within the State. '--tApproved March
Is, 1919
CHAPTER A.
An Act to amend Section seventy-six OF
Chapter sixteen of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to the inspection of Sec
ondary schools.
Of the Revised Statutes Is hereby amend
ed by striking out the words two thou
sand two hundred in the third and
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