SUMMER TRAINING SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRI BUTION OF EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS. (Chap. 188, Resolves 1901.) training favor of. Resolved, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars Summer be appropriated annually, from the state school fund, to defray schools, in the expenses of holding at least four summer training schools for teachers and for the purpose of preparing and distributing among the teachers of the schools and school officers of this state, outlines, suggestions and directions concerning the management, discipline and methods employed in teaching, for the purpose of promoting improved systems of instruction; said. schools to be conducted by and said documents to be prepared and distributed under the direction of the state superintendent of public schools. The governor and council are hereby authorized to draw their warrant from time to time for the expenditure of said sum, upon the presentation of bills properly avouched by said superintendent. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE AND EDUCATION OF THE FEEBLE MINDED. idiotic and (Chap. 44, P. L. 1907, as amended by Chap. 167, P. L. 1909.) SEC. I. The state shall establish and maintain a school for school for the care and education of the idiotic and feeble minded six feebleminded, to years of age and upward, which shall be known as the Maine establish. School for Feeble Minded. All such feeble minded persons supported by towns in the state, who, in the judgment of the municipal officers of towns or state board of charities are capa、 ble of being benefited by school instruction, shall be committed to this institution. of trustees. SEC. 2. The governor shall, with the advice of the council, Appointment appoint five persons, all of whom shall be inhabitants of this state and one of that number shall be a female, to be trustees of such school. The trustees shall be appointed as follows: The first three Tenure. to serve for two years, the other two for four years, and thereafter said trustees shall be appointed to serve for four years. 4 Management of school. Destitute subjects may be admitted as state charges. -subjects from other states may be received. Governor, ex-officio trustee. Judge of probate may commit to school. 1909, c. 167. The said trustees shall have the general management and supervision of said school and one or more of said trustees shall visit said school as often as once each month, and said board of trustees shall annually on or before the first day of October of each year furnish a report to the governor and council containing a history of the school for the year and a complete statement of all accounts, with all the funds, general and special, appropriated or belonging to said school with a detailed statement of disbursements. SEC. 3. All indigent and destitute persons in this state, who are proper subjects for said school, and have no parents, kinsmen or guardian able to provide for them, may be admitted as state charges and all other persons in this state, who are proper subjects for said school when parents, kinsmen or guardian bound by the law to support such persons are able to pay, shall pay such sum for care, education and maintenance of such persons as the trustees shall determine, and such persons from other states having no such institution and similar schools may be received into such school when there is room for them without excluding state charges, at a cost to each person or those who are legally responsible for their maintenance at a cost of not less than three dollars and twenty-five cents per week. SEC. 4. The governor shall be, ex-officio, a member of the board of trustees of said school and shall annually visit said school. SEC. 5. Whenever it is made to appear, upon application to the judge of probate for any county and after due notice and a proper hearing, that any person resident in said county or any inmate of the Maine Industrial School for girls, the State School for boys, the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum or any person supported by any town, is a fit subject for the Maine School for Feeble Minded, such judge may commit such person to said school by an order of commitment directed to the trustees of said school for feeble minded accompanied by a certificate of two physicians who are graduates of some legally organized medical college and have practiced three years in this state, that such a person is a proper subject for said sation of probate for institution. Whenever, upon such application, there is occa--compension for the judge of probate to attend a hearing on days judge of other than days fixed as the regular day for holding the probate services. court, said judge of probate shall be allowed five dollars per day for his services and expenses, which shall be paid by the county treasurer upon the certificate of the county commissioners. committal appeal. SEC. 6. Any order of committal under this act shall be sub- Order of ject to appeal in the same manner by the same persons and to subject to the same exent that decrees of the judge of probate appointing guardians over persons alleged to be insane or incompetent or spendthrift, and no committal under this act shall bar habeas corpus proceedings, but the court upon habeas corpus proceedings may confirm the order of commitment whenever justice requires. Any inmate of the Maine School for the Feeble discharge Minded may be discharged by any three of the trustees or by a justice of the supreme or superior court of the state whenever a further detention in such school in their opinion is unnecessary, but any person so discharged who was under sentence of imprisonment at the time of his commitment, the period of which shall not have expired, shall be committed or remanded to prison for such unexpired time. of inmate. admittance. SEC. 7. Feeble minded persons shall be admitted to the insti- Order of tution in the following order: First, feeble minded persons who are now in public institutions supported entirely at public expense; second, feeble minded persons in public institutions not supported as aforesaid; third, feeble minded persons who are not in any institution of the state, who have no parents, kinsmen or guardian able to provide for them, or who are committed by a judge of probate; fourth, those residing within the state whose parents, kinsmen or guardian bound by law to support such persons are able to pay; fifth, persons of other states whose parents, kinsmen or guardian are willing to pay. and council and pur SEC. 8. The governor and council shall select and purchase Governor t suitable site for said school and home and the board of trus- shall select tees, as soon as appointed and organized, shall proceed as soon chase suitas practicable to erect thereon and properly furnish and equip suitable buildings and structures to accomplish the objects set forth in this act. able site. Trustees to make rules and regulations. Governor shall draw warrant. -accounts of trustees shall be audited. Appropriation. Compensation of trustees. SEC. 9. Said trustees shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations as to admission to said institution and for the government and control of said institution and its inmates, and to do everything necessary to properly care for and educate the feeble minded of the state. For all bills contracted by the governor and council as aforesaid in purchasing a site the governor shall draw his warrant upon any money in the treasury to pay the same not otherwise appropriated, and all bills contracted by the trustees in erecting, repairing and equipping suitable buildings and operating the institution shall each year be audited by the governor and council, and the governor shall draw his warrant upon any money in the treasury to pay the same not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 10. A sum of money not exceeding sixty thousand dollars shall be appropriated under this act to be used and expended for the purposes therein named within the next two years. SEC. II. The trustees shall receive five dollars per day when employed and actual expenses. SEC. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. AN ACT REQUIRING STEAM PLANTS IN SCHOOL Steam plants to be Examined by municipal officers. (Chap. 82, P. L. 1907.) SEC. I. Whenever any school building, church, or other public building is heated by a steam plant, located in, under or near such building, such steam plant shall be in charge of a person qualified as provided by this act. SEC. 2. The municipal officers of any town or city in which any of the buildings enumerated in the preceding section, heated by steam, are located, shall require the person or persons contemplating taking charge of the steam plant for such purpose, to be first examined by them, and they shall require him to produce before them proof of his competency to have charge of such steam plants; and unless the person so applying has been licensed as an engineer, or has had previous experience as a machinist, or as an engineer of a steam plant, he shail be required to satisfy said municipal officers that he possesses the requisite qualifications and experience to assume charge of the particular plant which he desires permission to operate; and if said municipal officers, after such examination, are satisfied -officers that the applicant possesses the requisite qualifications for such shall issue work, and is of temperate habits, they, or the majority thereof, shall issue under their hands a certificate in the following form: certificate. STATE OF MAINE. 'City (or) Town of ... Form of This is to certify that ... having made application certificate. to the municipal officers of the city (or) town of seven.' Said certificate when issued shall be filed in the office of the Certificate shall be filed. city or town clerk, and such clerk shall issue and deliver to said applicant a duly attested copy of such certificate, and the copy so issued shall be posted by the holder thereof, in a conspicuous place in or near the room in which the boiler to be operated is located. to issue to applicant SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for the municipal officers of Unlawful any city or town to issue the certificate provided for by this act certificate without receiving proof that the person to whom such certifi- without proof of qualificate is issued has had experience in such work, and is in all cation. respects qualified to discharge the duties referred to in the certificate granted, and is also of temperate habits. |