Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-22

House 599 An Act to amend Section
75 Of Chapter of the Revised Stat
4 utes relating to free public libraries.
House 600. An Act to amend Section
50 of Chapter of the Revised Statutes
relating to instruction Of librarians.
| Housce COL. An Act to authorize the
erection and maintenance of bridge
across that part of the Aroostook riV-
err known as the Back channel.
House Co., An Act to establish leg
isIative reference bureau in the State
| library.
Passed to Be Enacted
An Act additional to and amendatory
of Chapter zoe Of the Private and Spe-
cial Laws Of 1907, relating to the West
Branch Driving and Reservoir Dam Co.
An Act to amend Section "a Of Chap
ter of the Revised Statutes. relating
to the challenging of the right OF
4 person to vote.
An Act to amend Section 10 of Chap
ter 5 of the Revised Statutes, relating
/ to the sessions Of the Boards of Regis
tration in cities with over $4,000 inhab-
itants.
An Act to amend Section IA Of Chap
ter So of the Revised Statutes, relating
to the extension of charters OF street
railroads.
An Act authorizing the town of Bucks
port to secure supply of water
An Act to amend Section 25 of Chap
ter 80 of the Revised Statutes. provid-
ing for the election of inspectors OF
buildings.
An Act to provide for county law
library at Rumford in the county or
oxford.
An Act amending Chapter 121 of
the Private and Special Laws of 1915
relating to closed time on Holsters III
Machas Bay and adjacent waters in the
county of Washington,
! An Act to amend Section "a of Chap
ter As of the Revised Statutes, relating
to fishing for smelts in West Bay and
West Bay Stream.
4 An Act authorizing the American
Realty Company to erect and maintain
piers and booms in the st. John River
in St John and St. Francis Plantations
An Act to provide for street lights on
! Old Town Indian Island No !.
An Act to provide common on Old
Town Indian Island No. l.
An Act providing for the relief of
members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
| Reservations.
An Act to amend Paragraph 10 of
Section 81 of Chapter 80 of the Revised
Statutes, relating to trial terms of the
supreme judicial court in the county
Of oxford.
An Act relating to annual or biennial
reports of State charitable and cor
rectional institutions.
An Act to extend the rights, powers
and privileges of the Gulford Manu-
featuring Company for the erection and
and maintenance of piers and booms
in the Piscataquis River.
An Act relating to the issuing of blank
writs by clerks of the supreme judicial
courts, and superior courts, clerks and
recorders of municipal and police courts
and trial justices.
An Act to enlarge the powers of the
Western Maine Power Company.
Mr.. BAXTER of Portland: Mr.
Speaker. I would ask that the last bill
relating to the Western Maine Power
Company be set aside.
On motion by Mr.. Baxter Of Port
land, the vote was reconsidered whereby
bill, An Act to enlarge the powers of
the Western Maine Power Company,
was passed to be engrossed
Mr.. BAXTER of Portland: find.
Mr.. Speaker, that there is a clerical err
ror and l want to present and amend
ment correcting it. l offer this amend
ment. which is rather long, but it SIM
ply incorporates three words, the word
firm in two places and the word Eek
press" which is in all the other amend
ments which have been adopted
The SPEAKER: Does the House
wish TO hear the amendment read as
proposed by Mr.. Baxter, or is the ex-
PLANTATION of the gentleman sufficient
Mr.. CUSHMAN of Auburn: Mr..
Speaker, l move that the amendment
be read.
The SPEAKER: The Chair will
read the original bill and then will read
it as amended. ~
1T shall be unlawful for said cor
poration to transmit electric current
for sale or use beyond the limits of
this State, or to contract with any per-
son, firm or corporation for the trans
mission or sale of electric current be-
yond the limits of this State; and said
corporation shall not be permitted to
acquire in any manner the franchises
of, or consolidate with or transfer or
lease its property, rights or franchises
to any other corporation or person now
transmitting, or having the right to
transmit, electric power beyond the
confines of this State without author
ity of the Legislature"
! The Chair will not read the bill as
amended by the gentleman from Port
land:
1T shall be unlawful for said corpo-
ration to transmit electric current for
sale or use beyond the limits of this
State, or to contract with any person,
! firm or corporation for the transmits
sion or sale of electric current beyond
the limits of this State; and said cor
poration shall not be permitted to ac-
quire in any manner the franchises of,
or consolidate with or transfer or lease
its property, rights and franchises to
any other corporation. firm or person
now transmitting or having the right
to transmit electric power beyond the
confines of this State without the ex-
press authority of the Legislature"
! On motion by Mr.. Baxter of Port
land the amendment was adopted, and
on further motion by the same gentle
man. the bill was passed to be en-
crossed as amended by House Amend
ment A.