CHAP. 17 Temporary loan for 1899, authorized. Chapter 17. Resolves authorizing a Temporary Loan for the year eighteen hundred and Resolved, That to provide for the wants of the treasury, the Resolved, That the treasurer of state be, and hereby is authorized to give notes in behalf of the state, payable within two years from the date hereof, for such portions of the loan hereby authorized, as may be required. Approved February 21, 1899. Passamaquoddy Indians, in favor of. Chapter 18. Resolve making appropriations for the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians. Resolved, That there be paid from the state treasury to be expended under the direction of the governor and council to the agent of the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians, for the benefit of said tribe, for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, as follows: For May dividend, four hundred dollars each year; for November dividend, four hundred dollars each year; for distressed and contingent poor, three thousand five hundred dollars each year; for contingent purposes, one hundred and fifty dollars each year; for bounty on crops, two hundred dollars each year; for plowing, one hundred and fifty dollars each year; for salary of governor, one hundred dollars each year; for salary of lieutenant governor, forty dollars each year; for wood, six hundred and fifty dollars each year; for fertilizers, one hundred and fifty dollars each year; for educational purposes, eight hundred dollars each year; for salary of priests, two hundred dollars each year; for salary of agent, two hundred dollars each year; for basket ash, three hundred and fifty dollars each year; for agricultural purposes, six hundred dollars each year; for police, fifty dollars each year; for school books, thirty dollars each year; for painting schoolhouse at Pleasant Point, forty dollars in eighteen hundred and ninetynine; for repairs and painting hall at Peter Dana's Point, fifty dollars in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; for repair of road, Peter Dana's Point, one hundred dollars in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; for repair of church building, Pleasant Point, two hundred and fifty dollars in eighteen hundred and ninety- CHAP. 19 nine; for over expenditures from last appropriations to be paid to agent of said tribe in the year eighteen hundred and ninetynine, forty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents. All the foregoing sums to be expended under the direction of governor and council for the purposes for which they were appropriated and for none other, and any money not expended for the purposes for which it is appropriated, shall not be allowed to said agent in the settlement of his account. Approved February 21, 1899. Chapter 19. Resolve in aid of the Temporary Home for Women and Children, at Deering. Resolved, That the sum of five thousand dollars be and hereby is appropriated for the use of the Temporary Home for Women and Children, at Deering, of which two thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid to said institution during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and two thousand five hundred dollars during the year nineteen hundred. Approved February 21, 1899. Temporary Deering, in favor of. Home in Chapter 20. Resolve in favor of a road in Jerusalem Plantation. Resolved, That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be expended under the direction of the county commissioners of Franklin county, in repairing the road from Carrabassett to the Dead River road in said county. Approved February 23, 1899. Road in Plantation, Chapter 21. Resolve in repairing a road leading from Van Buren to Caribou, Aroostook county, at a point in Cyr Plantation leading to Connor Plantation. Resolved, That the sum of two hundred dollars be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the state, for repairing and maintaining the road in Cyr plantation known as the Caribou road, and leading from Cyr plantation into Connor plantation, Aroostook county, the same to be expended under the direction of the county commissioners of Aroostook county, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Approved February 23, 1899. Road from Van Buren to Caribou, in aid of. CHAP. 22 St. Elizabeth's Orphan Asylum, in favor of. Chapter 22. Resolve in favor of the Saint Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Resolved, That there be and is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid the Saint Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Portland, for the use of said institution for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and one thousand dollars for the use of said institution for the year nineteen hundred. Approved February 23, 1899. Home for friendless boys in Deering, in aid of. Chapter 23. Resolve in favor of the Home for Friendless Boys in Deering. Resolved, That the sum of two thousand dollars be and the same hereby is appropriated for the use of the Home for Friendless Boys in Deering; one thousand dollars of which shall be paid in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and one thousand dollars in the year nineteen hundred. Approved February 23, 1899. Roads in in favor of. Chapter 24. Resolve in favor of Roads in the Indian Township, Washington County. Resolved, That the sum of four hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated to repair roads and bridges in the Indian township, Washington county, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and four hundred dollars for the year nineteen hundred. Said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the governor and council. Approved March 1, 1899. State pensions, in favor of. Chapter 25. Resolve for State Pensions. Resolved, That the sum of seventy-seven thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated to provide for state pensions for invalid soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans, and the dependent children, parents and sisters of deceased soldiers and sailors eligible thereto under existing law, for the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and seventy-seven thousand dollars for the year nineteen hundred. Approved March 1, 1899. Chapter 26. Resolve in favor of procuring portraits of the past presiding officers of the State Senate. Resolved, That the sum of three hundred seventy-six dollars and fifty cents be paid from the state treasury to defray the ex·penses incurred in procuring a portrait of each of the past presiding officers of the state senate since eighteen hundred and twenty, the same having been secured and placed in suitable frames in the office of the president of the senate, in accordance with an order given by the sixty-eighth legislature. Approved March 1, 1899. CHAP. 26 Portraits the Senate, in aid of procuring. Chapter 27. Resolve in favor of the Maine State Library for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred. State library, Resolved, That the sum of three thousand four hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated for the use of the Maine state in favor of. library for the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and that a like sum be and is hereby appropriated for the year nineteen hundred, the same to be expended yearly for the following purposes; for continuing sets of American, English and colonial reports, digests and statutes, nine hundred dollars; for subscriptions to historical, literary and scientific periodicals and works, one thousand dollars; for completing sets of Scotch, English, Canadian and American reports and session laws, nine hundred dollars; for typewriting and cataloguing, four hundred dollars; for Maine statutes and supplements, two hundred dollars. Approved March 1, 1899. Chapter 28. Resolve for an appropriation for the use of the Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries. Resolved, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated for each of the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, to be expended by the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, under the direction of the governor and council. Approved March 1, 1899. Sea and shore fish eries, in favor of. CHAP. 29 N. M. West, in favor of. Chapter 29. Resolve in favor of N. M. West, secretary of the committee on Maine State Resolved, That the sum of two hundred and eight dollars and forty cents be paid to N. M. West, secretary of the committee on Maine state prison, to defray expenses incurred by him on. account of the visit of said committee to the Maine state prison at Thomaston during the present session, in compliance with its. official duties. Approved March 1, 1899. Bath Mil- in favor of. Chapter 30. Resolve in favor of the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum. Resolved, That there shall be and hereby is appropriated for the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum the sum of eight thousand five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and eight thousand five hundred dollars for the year nineteen hundred, and also five hundred dollars for repairs for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and five hundred dollars for repairs for the year nineteen hundred. Approved March 1, 1899. Penobscot Indians, in favor of. Chapter 31. Resolve making appropriations for the l'enobscot Tribe of Indians. Resolved, That there be paid from the state treasury to the agent of the Penobscot tribe of Indians for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred to be appropriated for the benefit of said tribe each year, as follows: fortyfour hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy cents, amount of interest on their trust fund held by the state for the benefit of said tribe; for agricultural purposes eight hundred and fifty dollars each year, for bounty on crops two hundred dollars each year, for annuity seventeen hundred dollars each year, for salary of agent four hundred dollars each year, for instruction in agriculture fifty dollars each year, for schools six hundred dollars each year, for salary of governor fifty dollars each year, for salary of lieutenant governor forty dollars each year, for salary of Roman Catholic priest one hundred dollars each year, for cemetery fence fifty dollars for year eighteen |