Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-14


therein named and said fund shall be
paid as directed.-tApp. Mar. I'D
CHATTER 30.
An. Act to- Amend Section Eight Of
of the Revised Statutes. Relating
to the Fees Of Jurors.
Section eight of chapter one hun
bred and eighteen of the revised stat
1ts t tSe AMENDED SIss b. striking ing
word dollars. in the fourth line Of
said section, and inserting in place
thereof the word four, so that said
section as amended shall read al fol-
Sec. 8. Grand and traverse JURORS,
attending the supreme judicial court
or superior courts. and Jurors at
tending on any other occasion pre-
scribed by law. shall each be allow
90 fon nr doll la day for their at
their travel out and home, to be
paid out of the county treasury
tApproyed March I'D
CHAPTER 81.
An Act to name Amend Section Two Of
Laws Of Nineteen Hundred and
Nineteen, Relating to the Training
Of Rural Teachers.
Section two of chapter fifty-one Of
nineteen is hereby amended by strik-
ing out all of the last sentence in
said section and substituting there
for the following words: The COVER
nent of such amounts as they shall
approve out of the appropriation for
the training of rural teachers and
said amounts shall be deducted from
ton when amended shall read as
follows:
Sec, 2. The state superintendent
of public schools is hereby authori-
aed se sr the o as
board incurred by teachers in at
tending said school of instruction, and
at the close of the school year he
shall recommend to the governor and
SUCCESSFUL service. the payment to
twenty-hve per cent Of the annual
salary paid to her by the town for
her services. The governor and coun-
ell shall direct the payment of such
amounts as they shall approve out of
the appropriation for the training of
rural teachers and said amounts shall
be deducted from state school funds.
-(Approved March 10
CHAPTER 49,,
An Act Additional to and Amenda-
tory of Chapter Seven of the Re-
vised Statutes. Relating to Elec-
Chapter seven Of the revised stat
thssreto the following sections: >,
b. Sec Sec, l ;.a IN absentee voter Is
Is a duly qualified registered voter,
and in respect to any primary cleo
ton duly enrolled as a member of
the. political party in the primary of
which he proposes to vote, but Who
through absence from the. city or
Is unable. to cast his ballot at the
polling. place where he is entitled to
vote, at any city election. at any pri-
mary election held pursuant to sec
tions one, twenty-thr and twenty
four of chapter six of the revised
statutes of Maine, or at any general
state election is defined in section
one of chapter seven of the revised
statutes of Maine, including also cleo
tions for the choice of electors of
president and vice-president of the
United States. elections held in ac-
cordance with the initiative or refer
endum provisions of the constitution
of Maine, and elections to vote upon
amendments to the constitution of
Maine.
Sec. 1874. Thirty days at least. when
practica BILE. Nrior to any election at
which absentee voting is authorized,
and in other cases as early as may be
or in case of city elections the re-
spective city clerks, shall prepare, in
such quantities as the official pre-
pairing same may deem necessary, the
(a) Omcial absent voting ballots
similar in all respects to the official
ballots to be. used at such election.
except that the words, Official Absent
Voting Ballot, shall be printed con-
spicuously on the back and outside
thereof.
(b) Blank forms of application for
such ballots worded as follows. but
varying the bracleted word (state)
so as to properly designate the cleo
tion then next to be held. and omit
ting the bracketed clause concerning
enrolment in elections other than pri-
mary:
I. hereby apply for an
official absent voting ballot. I am a
legal resident of the city or town of
in the county of ,
State of Maine. ! am a duly qualified
and registered voter, and am, as be-
lieve, entitled to vote at the next
(state) election, at pre-
cinct ward in the city
or town of in the county
of and State of Maine.
Ct have conformed to all the re-
ouirements of the laws of Maine rela-
tive to enrolment and am entitled to
vote for the nomination of candidates
Of the party)
number if any. on April first of the
present year was
and is now
We. The unaefsirned. majority, Of
the officials having charge of the
registration of voters of the city or
town of hereby certify that
the above signature, to the best OF
our knowledge and belief, appears to
be genuine, and that we believe the
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be true.
(Signatures) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
(c) Envelopes Of SUFFICIENT size to
contain the ballots specified in clause
(a) bearing on their reverse the fol-
lowing Affidavit
State of }
I. do solemnly swear
that. am a legally registered voter
in the city or town of in
she eeua and % entitled to cast s' Within
ballot; that, I am unable to east my
ballot on election day at the polling
cause ! shall be absent from said
town of on election oay
that / have carefully read the in
structions forwarded to me with the
to the undersigned person taking my
oath hereto. said ballot unmarried:
that I then marked said ballot and
sealed 1t in this envelope, all in his
presence and in the presence of no
other person, but without his seeing
how marked said ballot and with
out communicating to him how
voted or intended to vote.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
by the above affiant, personally