CHAP. 120 BATH MILITARY AND NAVAL ORPHAN ASYLUM For personal services, six thousand five hundred dollars, 6,500.00 Chapt. 77, Res. 1923. For maintenance, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, 14,500.00 2,000.00 For repairs and equipment, two thousand dollars, Chapt. 77, Res. 1923. MAINE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF For personal services, twenty-seven thousand dollars, For maintenance, fourteen thousand dollars, P. & S. Laws 1897, Chapt. 79, Res. 1923. 27,000.00 14,000.00 For repairs and equipment, three thousand dollars, 3,000.00 MAINE SCHOOL FOR FEEBLE-MINDED For maintenance, seventy-four thousand dollars, For personal services, seventy-five thousand dollars, 75,000.00 74,000.00 For repairs and equipment, forty-eight thousand dollars, 48,000.00 For retired prison officials, three thousand eight hundred dollars, 3,800.00 Chapt. 142, Sec. 33, R. S., Chapt. 19, Res. 1923. For new construction 1919 deficiency, one thousand five hundred thirty-three dollars and sixteen cents, 1,533.16 CHAP. 120 For fire protection, twenty thousand dollars, Chapt. 59, Res. 1923. For maintenance, deficiency, one thousand four hundred fiftyfour dollars and eighty-seven cents, Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. NORTHERN MAINE SANATORIUM For personal services, twenty-two thousand dollars, 20,000.00 1,454.87 22,000.00 46,000.00 3,000.00 For finishing basement, etc., ten thousand dollars, 10,000.00 For new building and equipment, fifty thousand dollars, 50,000.00 15,000.00 For repairs and equipment, fifteen thousand dollars, For maintenance, deficiency, two hundred thirty-eight dollars and forty cents, 238.40 Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. STATE REFORMATORY FOR MEN For personal services, twenty-two thousand dollars, 22,000.00 Res. 1923. For maintenance, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars, 34,500.00 Chapt. 182, P. L. 1919. For repairs and equipment, six thousand five hundred dollars, 6,500.00 STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN For personal services, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, 15,500.00 Chapt. 49, Res. 1923. For maintenance, twenty-five thousand dollars, 25,000.00 Chapt. 49, Res. 1923. For interest on Isaac Sanford Legacy, forty-two dollars, 42.00 Chapt. 78, Res. 1923. For rebuilding piggery, one thousand five hundred dollars, 1,500.00 STATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS For personal services, twenty-two thousand dollars, 22,000.00 For new construction and permanent improvements, seven thousand three hundred fifty dollars, 7,350.00 Res. 1923. For interest on trust funds, five hundred forty dollars and For maintenance, deficiency, forty-two dollars and twenty-two cents, Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE For maintenance, three hundred thousand dollars. Res. 1923. For repairs and equipment, including fire escapes, seventy-five thousand dollars, Res. 1923. 42.22 300,000.00 75,000.00 CHAP. 121 For Art and Science Building, eighty-five thousand dollars, 85,000.00 For scientific investigation in agriculture, Aroostook County, For cooperative agriculture, thirty-seven thousand three hun dred sixty-nine dollars and four cents, 37,369.04 Chapt. 17, Res. 1923. For supplementary extension funds, ten thousand nine hundred seventy dollars and seventy cents, 10,970.70 Chapt. 17, Res. 1923. For repairs to barn, Aroostook county, deficiency, one thousand six hundred ninety-five dollars and ten cents, 1,695.10 Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. BOARDS Board of Registration of medicine, deficiency, twenty-nine dollars and twenty cents, 29.20 Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. For board of veterinary examiners, deficiency, seventy-one dollars and sixty-four cents, 71.64 . Chapt. 99, Res. 1923. Amounting to the sum of nine million one hundred ninetyeight thousand five hundred forty-three dollars and seventythree cents, $9,198,543-73 Approved April 7, 1923. Chapter 121. An Act for the Assessment of a State Tax for the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-three. Emergency preamble. Whereas, all taxes upon real and personal property in this state are assessed as of April first and in the greater portion of the municipalities the assessments are completed during the months of April and May in each year, and Whereas, it is necessary that the warrants for state taxes shall be transmitted by the treasurer of state to the assessors of the several cities, towns CHAP. 121 and plantations as soon after April first as practicable in order that the taxes may be promptly assessed so that the cities, towns and plantations may receive sufficient revenue for current expenses, and Whereas, in the opinion of the legislature, these facts render the immediate passage of this act necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health 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: Sec. 1. State tax 1923. A tax is hereby assessed for the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-three upon each city, town, plantation, township and each lot or parcel of land not included in any township in this state. Sec. 2. Rate; basis of valuation. The rate of said tax is hereby fixed at six and one-quarter mills upon the dollar, and one cent for each taxable poll, made up as follows: highways, one mill; schools, three and onethird mills, balance to cover appropriations made by the legislature, in addition to the mill tax provided for by section three of this act. The valuation as determined by the board of state assessors, as set forth in the statement filed by said board as provided by the revised statutes, chapter nine, section eleven, shall be the basis for the computation and apportionment of the tax hereby assessed. Sec. 3. Mill tax for war bond sinking fund. In addition to the tax authorized by the foregoing sections, there shall also be assessed for the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-three, upon each city, town, plantation, township, and each lot or parcel of land not included in any township in this state, a tax fixed at one mill upon the dollar, according to the valuation of the state assessors filed as hereinbefore provided, the proceeds of which shall be known as the War Bond Sinking Fund, and shall be used in accordance with an act of the eightieth legislature entitled "An Act to Provide for a Sinking Fund for the War Bonds and Bonus Bonds Issued by the State of Maine." Sec. 4. Tax list to be filed with state treasurer. On or before April first, nineteen hundred twenty-three, the state assessors shall file with the state treasurer lists of the taxes provided by the preceding sections. Sec. 5. State treasurer's tax warrant. The treasurer of this state shall, in the month of April, nineteen hundred twenty-three, send his warrant with a copy of the lists named in the preceding section directed to the mayor and aldermen, selectmen or assessors of each city, town or plantation taxed as aforesaid, requiring them respectively to assess, in dollars |