Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-01-25

district; relating to purchase OF MEXICO
Rumford toll bridge; establishing Show
hogan Water district; registration OF
voters: establishing Lincoln municipai
court; with numerous bills for the aid OF
highways. institutions, etc.
IN THE SENATE.
State Salaries for 1917.
Senator Higgins of Penopscot-Act to
appropriate $lSl.400 for the payment of
salaries of state oficials fixed by law
for the year 1917. The act carries with it
the emergency clause.
Senator Butler of knox-Resolve ap-
propriating $500 for each of the years
| 1917 and 1918 in favor of the Knox County
General Hospital for maintenance. and
$4,000 for the year 1917 for repairs, alter
ations, extension and equipment.
Senator Deering of York-Resolve APP
propriating $500 for each OF the years
1917 and 1918 in favor of the Trull Hospi-
tai Aid Association of Biddeford.
Senator Lord of York-Resolve appro.
priating $500 for each of the years 1917
and 1918 to be paid to Limington Acad
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institution.
Senator Davies of Cumberland-Act to
amend the Revised Statutes relating TO
recording mortgages of personal prop
erty The amendment provides that
when the property conveyed by mort
gage is not situated in the city, town or
plantation in which the mortgagor re-
sides at the time the mortgage is given,
! the mortgage shall also be recorded In
the city, town or plantation in which the
property is situated at the time the
| mortgage is given.
Senator Davies of Cumberland-Act to
the sale of real estate subject to contn-
| gent remainders. The amendment pro-
vides that when real estate is subject to
a contingent remainder the petition shall
set forth the nature of the petitioners
title to the real estate, the source from
! which the title was derived, the names
and addresses Of all persons known TO
be interested in the real estate and such
other facts as may be necessary for a
full understanding of the matter.
Senator Conant of Waldo--An Act to
! incorporate the Pilgrims Home Gene
! terry Association in the town of Monroe.
| Charles NJ Conant. Arthur Boyd Albert
/ Conant, A. J. Curtis, A. II. Conant,
George II. Clements, T. l.. Clements,
Gorham p Grant, Henry Haley, Charles
r. Libby, Leroy d. Littlefield, Charles
s Littleheld. Charles B. Jewett. w. A.
| Mcfarland, 7. w. Nealey. Isaac J.
Perkins, George Parker. Fred A. Parker.
mund c. Weston, George n. York. John
II. York c. w. Hubbard, Ansel Benson.
Luther Benson Sylvester Benson. Ros-
coe l.. Clements, G. William Elliott, Al
bert w. Foss, Hiram Ide W. I. Morton,
Wallace f. Marden, John F. Marden,
William A. Stevens. Charles whitney.
Laura Coffin, Hattie Clements, Fannie
Shields, Lucy J. Dyer, Bertha Howard,
Ann M, Larrabee, Harriet Patterson,
| Martha w. Ward Julia White. Celesta
3. Roundy, Mary A. Grant and Eizzie :.
| Clark are named as ncorporators.
Senator Wood OF Hancock-Act to
amend the Revised Statutes to Increase
the salaries of stenogra piers OF the su-
! preme judicial court from $500 TO s2lO0
per annum.
providing for the purchase and dstribu-
ton of 500 copies of Lawrence's Digest Of
Maine Reports, at sum not exceeding
So per copy. The digest TO be equal in
paper, printing and binding to those
heretofore published and now on the
! market.
Senator Lord of York-An act to enlarge !
the powers of the Western Maine Power !
Co., giving 1t authority to extend its
lines and furnish its service in any terri !
tory within the State of Maine adjacent
to any of the towns named i'll its act of
Incorporation, provided that it shall not |
extend its lines into any such adjacent |
towns in which any other public utility |
is engaged in selling and distributing |
electricity without the consent of such |
public utility or of the Public Utilities
Commission of the State of Maine The
corporation is empowered to purchase
the bonds of any public utility doing
business In the counties of York. Oxford
or Cumberland.
Westbrook New Hampshire Road.
Senator Stanley of Oxford-Resolve ap.
propriating $4,000 for each of the years
struction of State aid highway. from
Westbrook to the New Hampshire State
line through the counties of Cumberland,
York and oxford. and providing for the
future maintenance of the road
The statement of facts accompanying
the resolve says that the highway for
the construction of which the resolve is
intended is a direct route of travel In A
northwesterly direction from the city OF
Portland to the most convenient point OF
contact with the New Hampshire sv,.
tenn of state highways, ana when COM
pleted would form a direct avenue of
travel between the White Mountain re-.
sorts and Portland shorter by MANY
miles as well as of better construction
than any route now in existence or In
contemplation. IL would relieve the
h-Portland highway to a great
extent by opening up an independent
line of entry into Maine by way of the
White Mountains. which would be Ger.
tain TO result in its use by a very large