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Chapter 14.

A Memorial to the Members of Congress to Promote the efficiency of the
Life-saving Service.

CHAP. 14

Whereas the United States Senate has passed senate bill Preamble. number five thousand six hundred seventy-seven, entitled: "To Promote the efficiency of the Life-saving Service:" and said bill is now in the committee of interstate and foreign commerce of the house of representatives in congress; and

Whereas we believe that the officers and members of the United States life-saving service should receive from the government the same treatment in regard to retirement, long service pay, etc., as is given to the rank and file of the army and navy of the United States, and in lieu of the fact that from the hazardous and valuable work which the life-savers perform, the vast amount of value and the great number of lives which they save from the perils of the sea, and that said service is a branch of the government service which pays back to the public a great profit of what it costs to maintain it; and that articles of enlistment compel them to serve with the army and navy during war:

Be It Resolved: That they should be entitled to all privileges. as given to the aforesaid bodies, and

Retirement and relief of members of U. S. life

Be It Resolved: That we earnestly request early and favorable action upon senate bill number five thousand six hundred seventy-seven by the house of representatives in congress assem- saving serbled, for retirement and relief, as recommended by the Honor- vice, in favor able S. I. Kimball, general superintendent of the United States life-saving service, and approved by the honorable secretary of the United States treasury.

Be It Further Resolved: That the secretary of state be and hereby is directed to immediately transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Honorable S. I. Kimball and to the honorable secretary of the treasury, Washington, D. C., and to members of congress from this state.

Approved February 15, 1911.

of.

Chapter 15.

Resolve in favor of Chapin Lydston.

Chapin

favor of.

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of twenty-five dollars for services and six dollars for mileage Lydston, in to be paid Chapin Lydston of Litchfield for attendance as an officer during the organization of the house of representatives.

Approved February 15, 1911.

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Patrick Hayes, in favor of.

Chapter 16.

Resolve in favor of Patrick Hayes.

Resolved, that there be paid to Patrick Hayes for services. as messenger at the organization of the house, the sum of twenty-five dollars, and for mileage the sum of two dollars.

Approved February 15, 1911.

Stephen D. Lord, in favor of.

Chapter 17.

Resolve in favor of Stephen D. Lord.

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of fifteen dollars for services and twenty-two dollars for mileage to be paid Stephen D. Lord of Lebanon for attendance as door-keeper of the senate at the organization of the legislature.

Approved February 15, 1911.

Richard Stuart, in favor of.

Chapter 18.

Resolve in favor of Richard Stuart.

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of twenty-five dollars for services and ten dollars for mileage to be paid Richard Stuart of Newport for attendance as an officer during the organization of the house of representatives. Approved February 17, 1911.

James M.

Benson, in favor of.

Chapter 19.

Resolve in favor of James M. Benson.

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of twenty-five dollars for services and ten dollars for mileage to be paid James M. Benson of Newport for attendance as an officer during the organization of the house of representatives.

Approved February 17, 1911.

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Chapter 20.

Resolve in favor of E. M. Thompson.

Thompson,

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum E. M. of fifty dollars to be paid to E. M. Thompson of Augusta, in favor of Maine, for services as clerk of the house of representatives at the organization of the seventy-fifth legislature.

Approved February 17, 1911.

Chapter 21.

Resolve in favor of Edward E. Chase, Jr.

Resolved, that there be and is hereby appropriated the sum of fifteen dollars for services and twenty-four dollars for mileage to be paid Edward E. Chase, Jr., of Blue Hill, for attendance as an officer of the Senate at the organization of the legislature.

Edward E. favor of.

Chase, Jr., in

Approved February 25, 1911.

Chapter 22.

Resolve in favor of the Town of Bridgton in the County of Cumberland.

Resolved, that the sum of fifty-seven dollars and ten cents be and hereby is appropriated to be paid to the town of Bridgton for the purpose of reimbursing said town for money paid out for care and commitment to the Maine Insane Hospital of Charles E. Chase, a state pauper.

Approved February 28, 1911.

Town of

Bridgton, in

favor of

Chapter 23.

Resolve authorizing the Land Agent to release the State's interest in a certain ledge or reef, near Bar Harbor, in Hancock county.

Resolved, that the state land agent be and he is hereby authorized and empowered, upon payment of a nominal consideration of five dollars to make, execute and deliver a good and sufficient deed releasing to Rudolph E. Brunnow of Princeton, Mercer county, state of New Jersey, his heirs and assigns, all the right, title and interest which the state of Maine, has and which it has in any manner acquired in and to a certain ledge

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or reef, situated in Frenchman's bay, near Bar Harbor in the town of Eden, Hancock county, described as follows: A ledge or reef being at high water about two hundred feet in length and containing above ordinary high water mark about onesixth of an acre, situated near and directly in front of a lot of land owned by said Rudolph E. Brunnow, together also with the shore connected with the same to low water mark.

Approved February 28, 1911.

New England Fruit Show, in favor of.

Chapter 24.

Resolve in favor of the New England Fruit Show.

Resolved, that there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of agriculture for expenses and premiums on Maine grown fruit at the New England Fruit Show to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, in the fall of nineteen hundred and eleven.

Approved February 28, 1911.

E. F. Co

burn, in favor of.

Chapter 25.

Resolve in favor of E. F. Coburn, of Andover, Maine.

Resolved, that the sum of sixty dollars be and is hereby appropriated to be paid to E. F. Coburn, of Andover, Maine, to reimburse him for money paid out to complete the work of placing and re-setting buoys on Upper and Lower Richardson lakes for which an appropriation was made by the last legislature.

Approved February 28, 1911.

Louis

Mitchell,

in favor of.

Chapter 26.

Resolve in favor of Louis Mitchell, Representative of Passamaquoddy
Tribe of Indians.

Resolved, that the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars be and hereby is appropriated to pay Representative Louis Mitchell of the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians, for his travel and attendance at this session of the legislature.

Approved February 28, 1911.

Chapter 27.

Resolve proposing a memorial to Congress in favor of the Sulloway

Pension Bill.

CHAP. 27

Whereas a bill, house resolve number twenty-nine thousand Preamble. three hundred forty-six, known as the Sulloway bill, granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers and officers who served in the Civil war and the war with Mexico, has passed the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, and is now pending in the senate; therefore, be it

Congress.

Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the Memorial to state of Maine in legislature assembled, that we heartily approve all of the provisions of said bill, and we hereby respectfully request our senators in congress to vote for, and use every honorable means to secure its passage by the senate of the United States as amended by the senate committee, and reported, and now pending in the United States senate.

Resolved, that copies of this resolution, signed by the respective officers of both houses, be sent to each of the senators from Maine in the congress of the United States.

Approved March 2, 1911.

Chapter 28.

Resolve in favor of Lettie Whittier, of Mount Vernon.

tier, in favor

Resolved, that there be paid to Lettie Whittier, widow of Lettie WhitHoward Whittier, late of Mount Vernon, in the county of of. Kennebec and state of Maine, the sum of six dollars per month, payable quarterly, from the fund appropriated for military pensions, and to begin January first, nineteen hundred and eleven, in addition to the amount already being paid to her, as provided by a resolve passed by the legislature of nineteen hundred and

seven.

Approved March 2, 1911.

Chapter 29.

Resolve in favor of Albion Moody.

Moody, in

Resolved, that there be paid to Albion Moody, of Kennebunk, Albion a pension of eight dollars per month, beginning January first, favor of. nineteen hundred and eleven, and continuing during the pleasure of the legislature, and until otherwise ordered.

Approved March 2, 1911.

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