CHAP. 145 Earnings of 'Section 2. When any person is sentenced to hard labor and actually employed in such labor in a county jail or any other this act, how county correctional institution or reformatory on account of persons sen. tenced under disposed of. -further amended. Fines and penalties, how recoVered. any sentence imposed under this act, it shall be the duty of the keeper of said jail or other institution or reformatory, to certify at the end of each week to the county commissioners the number of days during which such persons shall have been actually employed in said jail as aforesaid, and the county commissioners shall thereupon draw their order upon the county treasurer for a sum equal to fifty cents for each day's hard labor so performed by such person and the same shall thereupon be paid forthwith by the county treasurer to the wife of such person or to the guardian or custodian of his or her minor child or children, or to any organization or individual as trustee which shall be approved by the court imposing such sentence.' Said act is further amended by adding thereto the following section: 'Section 3. All fines or penalties provided for by the terms of this act may be recovered or enforced by complaint or indictment and in all prosecutions under this chapter and any amendments and additions thereto, judges of municipal courts and police courts and trial justices within their respective counties shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction with the superior and supreme judicial courts.' Approved March 29, 1911. Statement of desired appropriations to be filed with state auditor. Chapter 145. An Act to insure publicity with respect to the demands upon the State and to facilitate the Legislative Committees in dealing with questions of Appropriation. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. On or before November first in each year preceding the convocation of the legislature, there shall be filed with the state auditor by each individual, corporation, including municipal corporations, association and institution, whether private or public, state officer, head of department, or proper officers of each state hospital, asylum, charitable or reformatory institutions, the fish and game commissioners, and all other state commissions, commissioners and boards, now existing or hereafter constituted, a statement in detail of all moneys, together with the reasons therefor, for which any general or special appropriation is desired at the ensuing session of the legislature, excepting, however, from the provisions of this act, all appropriations necessary to meet the expenses of the legis CHAP. 146 tor may reto be made. statements by state au lature while in session, by such individual, corporation, association, state officer, department, commission, commissioners, boards, etc. The state auditor may also from time to time, in-state audihis discretion, require any such state officer, department, cor- quire reports poration, association, commission, commissioners, boards, or institutions, whether public or private, to report to him as to such other fiscal affairs as the state auditor shall deem necessary for the proper compilation of the tabulation as herein provided. Each of the reports and statements of desired appropriation thus made, shall be in form to be prescribed by the state auditor. The reports and statements of desired appropriations hereinbefore provided for shall be public records. Section 2. On or before December fifteenth in each year, as Tabulation of herein provided for, the state auditor shall make a tabulation and reports of such statements and reports, provided for by section one ditor. of this act, accompanied by comparative data and estimates, together with such comments and a statement of such other matters as he shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of such tabulation and shall transmit such tabulation to the governor and representatives-elect, immediately, and to the legislature on the first day of its next session. Such tabulation so transmitted shall also contain a statement of all moneys required by the state auditor, together with the reasons therefor for which any general or special appropriation is desired by him at the ensuing session of the legislature, together with such comparative and other data as the state auditor shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of the purposes last mentioned. Approved March 30, 1911. Chapter 146. An Act relating to the compensation of the Clerk, Deputy and Assistant clerks, of Cumberland County. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Paragraph four of chapter one hundred and eighteen of the public laws of nineteen hundred and five is hereby changed so as to read as follows: Part of chap ter 118, pub lie laws 1905, amended. 'Cumberland, twenty-two hundred dollars, with twelve hun- Clerk hire. dred dollars a year additional for clerk hire; assistant clerk of courts, fifteen hundred dollars.' Appproved March 30, 1911. CHAP. 147 Close time on gray squirrels. -penalty. -proviso. Chapter 147. An Act to regulate the hunting and killing of Gray Squirrels. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: There shall be an annual close time for gray squirrels, in which it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or have them in possession, except alive, from the first day of November of each year to the first day of September of the following year. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars and costs for each gray squirrel killed or had in possession, except alive, in close time. Provided, however, it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch or kill any gray squirrel at any time within the limits of any city, village, private or public park or water district within this state. Approved March 30, 1911. Section 4. chapter 102, public laws 1905 amended. School moneys of tribe how to be expended. Chapter 148. An Act to amend Section four, Chapter one hundred and two of the Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section four of chapter one hundred and two of the public laws of nineteen hundred and five is hereby amended by adding after the word "services" in the last line of said section, the words 'but the compensation of the superintendent of schools of the city of Old Town for said services shall be not less than fifty dollars per year,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: 'Section 4. All money appropriated for schools for the Penobscot tribe of Indians shall be expended under the supervision of the agent of said tribe, subject to the approval of the governor and council, said agent shall employ the teachers and fix their salaries, limited by such appropriation. The schools upon island number one, commonly called Indian Old Town island, shall be under the care and supervision of the superintendent of schools of the city of Old Town; and those within. the territorial limits of any other town, under the care and supervision of the superintending school committee of such town. Said superintendent of school committee shall visit such schools at least three times during each school term; regulate the grades and courses of study; assist the teachers and scholars. by counsel; determine when any scholar of said tribe may properly be admitted or transferred to the public schools of ORDER OF NOTICE BY S. J. COURT-STATE JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS. said city or town; and make report to the agent once each year, noting therein such facts and information as may seem of importance in the interest of education among said tribe, or as may be required by the governor and council. The agent shall pay said superintendent of school committee from said school appropriation a reasonable compensation for services; but the compensation of the superintendent of schools of the city of Old Town for said services shall be not less than fifty dollars per year.' 153 CHAP. 149 Approved March 30, 1911. Chapter 149. An Act to amend Section one of Chapter eighty-four of the Revised section 1, chapter 84, R. S., amend ed. entry of actions; fur Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section one of chapter eighty-four of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 'and any order or notice that the court may grant may be ordered by a justice in vacation,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: 'no action can be entered after the first day of the session of the supreme judicial court without special permission. When it appears that the defendant has not had sufficient notice, the court may order such further notice as it deems proper. Any justice of the supreme Judicial or of either orders of superior court may order notice concerning any court proceed- notice. ing in or out of term time, directing how, it shall be given; and such order, when made in vacation, shall be indorsed on the process. And any order or notice that the court may grant may be ordered by a justice in vacation.' Approved March 30, 1911. Chapter 150. An Act to consolidate the management of the State Juvenile Institutions. Trustees of Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. The government of the state school for boys at South Portland and the Maine industrial school for girls at Juvenile inHallowell, is hereby vested in a board of trustees, who shall be known as "Trustees of Juvenile Institutions." Section 2. Said board shall be composed of five men and one woman, inhabitants of the state who shall be appointed by the governor. The term of the trustees first appointed shall be fixed at six, five, four, three, two and one years respectively, stitutions. Board of trustees, apand tenure. pointment CHAP. 151 Powers and duties of trustees. Compensation. Inconsistent acts repealed. and the trustees thereafter appointed shall hold office for six years. Section 3. Said board shall perform all the duties required, and have all the powers given by statute to the trustees of state school for boys and trustees of Maine industrial school for girls and said last named boards are hereby abolished. Section 4. Said trustees shall receive as compensation five dollars a day for time actually employed, and necessary traveling expenses, to be audited by the state auditor. Section 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 30, 1911. Preamble. Packing of food in tin or glass, regulated. Chapter 151. An Act relating to the Packing of Food. Whereas, it is necessary for the packing interests of Maine that some form of official inspection of their goods be provided, and whereas the packing season begins before the first of July next, and whereas in the opinion of the legislature these facts render the immediate passage of this act necessary for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety and constitute an emergency within the meaning of the constitution, now, therefore Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. Any person intending to pack food in tin or glass within this state may annually file with the director of the Maine agricultural experiment station an application for a permit. Said application shall state the location of the factory, the kind of food to be packed, the name of the packer and the date on which it is expected that packing will begin. -permit for Within sixty days after the filing of such application for perby whom is mit, the director of said station shall, upon receipt of one hunsued and fee. dred dollars, issue to such applicant a permit for packing said packing food, -packer shall pay monthly for inspection of food. -packer shall be credited at end of year with $100. food in conformity with the requirements of the Maine pure food and drug law for the calendar year. Such packer shall also pay monthly not later than the tenth day of each month the cost of maintaining the inspection for the food packed during the previous month. The one hundred dollars paid by a person for a permit, as aforesaid, shall be credited to him, at the close of the calendar year, as a payment toward the cost of inspecting his product. Said director shall, however, have |