Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-24

Minturn; OF william L. Teel and
twenty-seven others of FreHchboro;
OF Maurice Pendleton and twenty
five others Of Winter Harbor; of ID.
o. Clement and seven others OF
Mount Desert. against the passage
OF nine-inch lobster law.
| BY Mr.. Thompson of Knox: An
Act to amend Section 81 of Chap
ter SO of the Revised Statutes. as
amended by Chapter 30 of the
Public Laws of 1917, and further
amended by Chapter Gil of the Pub
lie Laws of 1919. relating to the
protection of wild birds.
BY Mr. Holt Of Hancock: An Act
to amend Chapter 293 of the<Pub-
lie Laws of 1917, relating to the
powers of the commission of Sea
and Shore Fisheries.
BY the same senator. An Act to
amend Chapter 45 of the Revised
Statutes relating to the Lobster In
ldustry together with certain added
acts relating to the Lobster Indus
try.
On. motion by Mr.. Morrill, OF
Cumberland, 1t was
Ordered, the House concurring,
that-the Maine Water Power Com
mission be and hereby is directed to
investigate and report to the Leg
islature, at as early date as pos
sible, upon the water powers To-
Gated on the public lots, so called
in the wild lands of the State; and
upon the possibilities of the devel-
opment of said water powers; the
expense of this investigation and
report to be paid out of the regular
appropriation for the Maine Water
Power Commission.
Sent down for concurrence.
Bills in First Reading
s. 49, An Act to authorize the
construction of Weir in the Tide
waters of Rogue Harbor in the
Town of Jonesport.
| s. "a. An Act to authorize the
construction of Weir in Tdewa-
tiers Of what was formerly Muscle
Ridge Plantation in the County OF
Knox.
s. IS. An Act to amend Section
fifteen, Chapter fifty-eight. Revised
Statutes, relating to street railroads
i Committee Reports
Mr.. Thompson from the Commit
tee on Claims, on Resolve in favor
of Mamie I. Rogers for building
highways in the towns of Searsport
and Dover, submitted the same in
a new draft under title of Resolve
in favor of Mamie /. Rogers fol-
building highways in the town OF
Searsport," and that it ought tc
pass.
i The report was accepted and the
resolve tabled for printing under
the joint rules.
! Mr.. Parent from the Committee
on Judiciary, on An Act to amend
Section IL of Chapter - of the Re-
vised Statutes as amended by Chap
ter 290 of the Public Laws of 1917
(Senate Doc. No. 35), reported that
the same ought not to pass.
The report was accepted and
sent down for concurrence.
1 Passed to Be Engrossed
H. W. An Act establishing a
game sanctuary in Range 3, east OF
the Kennebec River, in the, city OF
Augusta and county of Kennebec.
S. SO. An Act relating to the rec.
ords of instruments affecting or con.
veying title to real estate in the
County of Knox and now recorded
in other counties.
i. Passed to Be Enacted
An Act to amend Section 3 OF
!, Chapter w of the Private and
Special Laws of 1915, creating the
Office of corporation counsel of the
City of Portland
An Act to extend an act entitled
AN Act to incorporate the ODD
Fellows Home Of Maine"
An Act to amend Section OF
Chapter 13 of the Revised Statutes
relating to Vacancies in the Office OF
County Treasurer filled by appoint
ment.
Finally Passed
Resolve in favor of the town OF
Saint George for the payment oil
additional school funds for the
year nineteen hundred and seven.
teen.
I Resolve in favor' of P. F. Crane
I Secretary of the Senate of the Sew.
eaty-ninth Legislature.
Resolve appropriating money fol-
the expenses of the electoral college
for the State of Maine for the yea,
1921.
Resolve in favor Of the widow OF
Governor Parkhurst
Orders of the Day
\ Mr.. HOLT of Hancock: Mr.
President. I move that we recon.
slider the vote whereby we accepted
the committee report on House Bill
No. 90, entitled AN Act to regu.
late the laws of fishing in the wa
tiers around Monhegan Island"
The motion was agreed to and or
further motion by the same Sen.
ator the bill was substituted for the
report of the Committee.
4 On further motion by the same
Senator. under suspension of the
rules, the bill was given it's first
reading.
j Mr.. HOLT of Hancock: Mr.
President, move we take from the
table Senate Document No. %. en-.
titled AN Act to better protect the
lobster industry within two miles
from the shore of Monhegan Island
between the first day of June and
the twenty-fifth day Of November
of each year."
| The. motion was agreed to- and
on further motion by the same
Senator the bill was indefinitely
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