Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17

town of Rangeley and Rangelcy
Plantation. To complete this con-
fusion of names we have two PLAN
tations Number Twenty one. one IN
Washington and one in Hancock
County, both organized places, each
with q board of assessors and
treasurer. This similarity in naints
causes much confusion lE the var
ious departments. and occasionally
results in paying money 20 the
wrong town or plantation.
My predecessor in his report to the
Seventy-nin Legislature recon-
mended a change in the law which
eXcmptS educational institutions
from paying over their income TO the
Treasurer Of State. Under this act,
Section 80, of Chapter 2, Il. s., the
six State normal schools pay u part
of their expenses from income re-
oeived for board of pupils and room
rent Of dormitories, this iucomc be-
ing disbursed by the Department Of
Education without covering same in
to Treasury, and the remainder from
the appropriation for normal schools.
This dual method of paying bills has
always caused confusion. I wish to
urge upon the Legislature the i'm
portance of enacting law requiring
all income of these institutions to be
paid to the Treasurer, and all cX-
penses to be paid from ore apprC-
priation.
There should be an act authorizing
clerk hire in the office of the AttOr-
ney General and the Director of Sea-
and Shore Fisheries. Such authority
has never been granted 10y statute
for these departments.
Section 9, Chapter 90, r. s., pro-
vides that no soldier or sailor shall
be considered a pauper. $ act!on Z,
of the same chapter outlines pro-
cedure in case a soldier becomes q
pauper" after his connection with
the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, has ceased. These
two sections are entirely contradict
tory and should be rcconciled.
In the revision of the statutes If
1916. the laws governing two of thu
State institutions, the Bah Military
and Naval Orphan Asylum and the
Maine School for the Deaf. were not
brought within the statutes. These
institutions arei as much q part of
the States activities in tnc'r several
lines as are any other OF the State
institutions. Tie reason for :heir
omission from the cOmpl,-cd revision
is probably that when the acts pass
cd making them State institutions.
such facts were by error ;Gcluded in
the classification of private and
special rather then public acts. These
should be embodied in tila revised
statutes in the next revision.
! believe that the law should he
changed that requires two sets of
l,1 10 In inf cd IlS.t, re
for the September election. The
extra set is sent a few days after the
first one, so that in case the first
one is lost. the town will still have
sufficient ballots. To show that this
seems unnecessary. / need only CHE
the fact that the law providing for
primary elections makes provision
for one set of ballots only and L
have heard of no shortage Of ballots
at the primary elections. Tie cX-
press bill alone on the extra set in
1922 involved an extra expense OF
SAT-. 03
The last Legislature passed an act,
Chapter Isl, Public Laws 1921, re-
quirng q resident auditor at the
University of Maine. In compliance
with this act my predecessor ap-
pointed as resident auditor Mr..
George H. Bangs, who has establish
cd a complete system of controls Tor
carrying On the financial transact
tons at the University. III ! ills of
that institution are now audited. In
the past eighteen months more .han
q thousand dollars has been saved to
the institution by cash discounts
alone. while by painstaking economy
the balance sheet for the ycrr end
ing June 80. 1922. shows 4 net opcr-
.ating surplus of over 81. 10000.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signcd) GILBERT y. IIAYF0pD
S:tato AUDITOR