Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-05
STATE sOLONS.
Legislative News of interest to Ham
cock county headers.


Among measures introduced during the
past week were the following:
BY Senator Holt An act granting Brad
bury Smith the right to establish and
naintain a terry between Sullivan and
Hancock.
By Mr.. Consry OF Bucksport--R Resolve
appropriating $1,000 TO aid in repair of
road in East Orland 20 Ellsworth line.
By Mr.. Conary OF Bucksport An act to
increase the salary OF Judge Of probate of
Hancock county from 81 100 to 81 500.
BY Mr.. Mason OF Ellsworth An act to
increase the salary of register OF probate
from $1,000 to 81, 800.
By Mr.. Phillips OF Bar Hsrbor-Resolve
appropristing 1900 for Bar Hsrbor
hospital.
By Mr.. Holt of Hancock-Act prohibit
ing the use of travis Of more than 1000
hooks to a boat in portions Of French
mans bay.
BY Mr.. Holt OF Hancock-Act prohibit
ing the taking of cod or other fish except
herring by means of gill nets in portions
OF Frenchman's bay.
By Mr.. Mason Of Ellsworth-Reso
appropriating $4,000 for repairing the
road between the town lines OF Walths m
and Plantation No. p in Mariaville,
Hancock county.
By Mr.. Mason OF Ellsworth-Resolve
providing pension of SIS month for
Moses Cottle Of Ellsworth, veteran of
the Civil war.
By Mr.. Foss OF Hancock-Act to amend
section |, chapter 4, OF the Private and
Special laws of 1918, "Act to regulate the
taking of smelts in the waters of Egypt
bay, Franklin bay, Thornton hay and
river, in the towns of Hancock, Franklin
and Sullivan" by adding land their trib-
utaries, above line from Benefits Point
southeasterly to the northern end of
Ingalls, Island and east OF the town OF
Sorrento"
By Mr.. Conary of Bucksport- An act 10
increase the salary OF the judge of the
Western Hancock municipal court from
$500 to $50.
Resolves were introduced in the Senate
for an appropriation of 5000 for repair of
Docian shore road in OrIand; 5000 for
road repair in orland; 5000 to repair
in town Of franklin; 5000 to
repair Jordan's River road in the towns of
Trenton and Lamoine.
Among matters before the committee on
sea and shore fisheries yesterday was the
petition of Bradford Rowe and sixty others
of Swans Island asking for the enactment
of law preventing or regulating the taking
Of clans in the town OF Swans Island.
The act proposed would prevent non-resi-
dents of the town taking CLAIMS for other
Than the purpose OF bait. Representative
Sa rage of Mount Desert stated that the
fishermen, and that they had been haudi-
capped in getting bait for their travis.
There is no cold storage plant on the is
land, and the fats are much dug over.
He stated that he had been told that
of other towns go there and dig,
and it had been understood that CLANS
had been dug there for cannery. The
petition and bill were laid on the table
for a week to give residents OF the island
an opportunity to appear.
MT. DESERT BRIDGE BILL.
In the House last Wednesday, Jan. %,
Representative Mason of Ellsworth intro
duced two bills dealing with the new
bridge at Trenton. One bill repeaIs the
former act providing for the care and
maintenance OF the bridge, and the other
changes the appcrtionment of the expense
so as to relieve the town of Trenton some
what.
The new bill provides that the towns of
Bar Hsrbor, Mt. Desert, Southwest Har-
Dor, Trenton and fremont, assisted by
the county Of Hancock, shall bear the ex-
pense of keeping the Mt. Desert bridge in
repair, and employing draw tender. The
county shall pay $500 annually and the
towns shall pay balance of the expense, 10
be apportioned in accordance with their
valuations as fixed by State
assessors. The amounts so to be paid by
each of the said towns shall be computed
and fixed by the county commissioners,
and said several amounts shall be added
} and included in and become and be
part OF the county tax annually assessed
against said towns.
The county commissioners of said
county Of Hancock shall have charge of
said bridge and employ a suitable draw
tender and keep said bridge in repair.