CHAP. 130 Pay roll of the House. Chapter 130. Resolve on the Pay Roll of the House. Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of the state to the several persons named in the foregoing pay roll the sum set against their names respectively, amounting to the sum of thirty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars. Approved March 17, 1899. STATE OF MAINE. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, I hereby certify that the Acts and Resolves contained in this pamphlet have been carefully compared with the originals, and appear to be correctly printed. BYRON BOYD, NOTE. The Sixty-ninth Legislature of Maine convened on the fourth day of January and adjourned on the seventeenth day of March, 1899. GOVERNOR POWERS' ADDRESS. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: We exchange congratulations on the threshold of this new year, as we approach the termination of the century, with convincing evidence on every hand that our State is moving forward on the highway of present and future progress, prosperity and industrial development. The clouds of war, which for a time darkened the skies during the past year, have rolled away, and we are fortunately relieved from all future or further anxiety on this account. This legislature will mark the completion of the grandest century the world ever knew. A retrospection of the nineteenth century furnishes us a valuable guide for the present, hope and inspiration for the future. It is our first duty to rightly value the possibilities of the State we inhabit, and whose people have called and chosen you to legislate for them. This will enable us to discover and open paths to new enterprises and beneficial industries. The past seasons have brought us abundant harvests. Our mills and factories are very generally in active operation. Labor is remuneratively employed throughout our borders. The disagreement or misunderstanding between employers and employed, that prevailed for a time in two of our cities, has been amicably and finally settled. Our people enjoy, in a marked degree, the blessings of plenty, of health, of individual liberty and personal security. Peace has once more returned to rule and bless our State and nation. We have every reason to predict, with implicit confidence, the establishment in our State before long of many more and some new industries of great value to our people. And it is my deliberate judgment that the action of this legislature may and will have a far-reaching effect upon that future progress and growth. We have been remarkably free from contagious diseases, except the typhoid fever contracted by our soldiers in the Chickamauga camp. We are undoubtedly largely indebted for this immunity to the regulation and care of our State Board of |