commissioner shall be authorized and required to assume and CHAP. 336 exercise, subject to the supervision of said board, all such executive powers and functions as may be necessary to secure a complete and creditable display of the interests of the state at the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and, as the executive agent of said board, he shall have personal charge of the solicitation, collection, transportation, arrangement and exhibition of the objects sent under the authority of the state to the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and of such objects sent by individual citizens of the state as may be by them placed in his charge. He shall make a report to the board monthly and shall hold office at the pleasure of the board. duties of SECT. 6. The said board shall have charge of the interests Powers and of the state and its citizens in the preparation and exhibition, commission. at the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of the natural and industrial products of the state, and of objects illustrating its history, progress, moral and material welfare and future development, and in all other matters relating to the said World's Columbian Exposition; it shall communicate with the officers of and obtain and disseminate through the state all necessary information regarding said exposition, and in general have and exercise full authority in relation to the participation of the state of Maine and its citizens in the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three. governor from SECT. 7. The said board shall make a report of its pro- Shall report to ceedings and expenditures from time to time to the governor, time to time. and at any time upon his written request, to be by him transmitted to the legislature, together with such suggestions as he may deem important regarding provision for a complete and creditable representation of the state at the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three. SECT. 8. To carry out the provisions of this act, the sum Appropriation of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be of. necessary, is hereby appropriated, a sum equal to sixty-two and one-half per cent of the whole sum expended to be used under the direction of said board in defraying the expenses of collecting and arranging the exhibit of Maine, a sum not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the whole amount expended, to be used in the erection of buildings, and a sum not exceed and expenditure CHAP. 337 ing twelve and one-half per cent of the whole amount expended to be used in the payment of salaries, expenses of subsistence and travel of the officers and members of the board created by this act, ten thousand dollars or such part thereof as may be necessary to be expended in eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the balance of said appropriation or such part thereof as may be necessary to be available and expended in eighteen hundred and ninety-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-three. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved April 3, 1891. City, authorized to renew mortgage. Chapter 337. An Act authorizing the city of Calais to renew its mortgage of the Saint Croix and Penobscot Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The city of Calais is hereby authorized to renew its mortgage of the Saint Croix and Penobscot Railroad upon such term and conditions as the mayor and city council may determine. Approved April 3, 1891. Doings of town of Greenville, made valid. Chapter 33s. An Act to make valid the doings of the town of Greenville. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The mode of notifying and warning the annual town meeting of the town of Greenville, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and all the acts, votes and proceedings of the inhabitants of said town, at said annual town meeting, are hereby confirmed and made valid and legal in the same manner as though said annual town meeting had been notified and warned, and a return thereof made in accordance with the mode voted by said town at the annual town meeting of said town for the year eighteen hundred and seventy. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved April 3, 1891. СНАР. 339 Chapter 339. An Act to set off certain property in Foxcroft from the limits of the Dover and Foxcroft Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The territory in Foxcroft covered by the residences and land connected therewith of William McComb, Freeman H. Jackson, Lewis C. Dexter, Danville P. Oaks, George W. Colcord, Charles B. Sherburne, Luther Garland and John F. Martin, is hereby set off from the limits of the Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved April 3, 1891. Territory, set off from limits of Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Co. CHAP. 340 State tax, 1891. Chapter 340. An Act for the assessment of a State Tax for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, amounting to the sum of eight hundred fifty-one thousand seven hundred forty-one dollars and ninety cents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECTION 1. That each city, town, plantation, or any other place hereinafter named, within this state, shall be assessed and pay the several sums with which they respectively stand charged in the following lists; the same being in addition to the poll tax of one cent on each poll, a tax of two and three-fourths mills on the dollar of the present valuation, for the current disbursements of the treasury, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one and for the school mill fund established by an act approved February twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. COUNTY OF ANDROSCOGGIN. Auburn...... Durham Seventeen thousand sixty seven dollars and thirty four cents. ...One thousand forty three dollars and eighteen cents.... East Livermore. One thousand three hundred seventy dollars and twenty cents.... Nine hundred eight dollars and ninety two cents....... $17,067 34 1,043 18 1,370 20 908 92 913 09 33,447 36 Four thousand five hundred eight dollars and fifty nine cents 4,508 59 |