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brought their families there, and livo in cot- 

 near tiio Homo, receiving their ration in 

 kit ul and carrying it home. 



The Industrial School for Girls contained at 

 the last report 84 inmates, and 36 in homes. 

 The proportion of older girls is unusually largo. 

 Some are grown to more than ordinary wo- 

 man's size, and are capable of efficient service. 



The Agricultural College askod of the Legis- 

 lature an appropriation of $0,000, in addition 

 to $3,200 received as interest, to meet its ne- 

 cessities, as follows: To pay for instruction, 

 $4,000 ; for apparatus, $1,000 ; for current ex- 

 penses, $1,000. For 1870 the catalogue shows 

 an attendance of 101 students who have en- 

 tered for the full course of four years, besides 

 those who are pursuing a special course. One 

 hundred have graduated, and most of them 

 entered upon active and useful pursuits. The 

 instruction in shop-work, on the Russian plan, 

 although the means were inadequate, was very 

 satisfactory. 



The vexatious question of mileage which 

 troubled the members of the Legislature was 

 decided against them. The Constitution says, 

 "The expenses of the House of Representa- 

 tives in traveling to the Legislature and re- 

 turning therefrom once in each session, and 

 no more, shall be paid by the State," etc. The 

 Revised Statutes say, "Each member of the 

 Senate and House of Representatives shall be 

 paid an annual salary of one hundred and fifty 

 dollars for the regular annual session of the 

 Legislature, and two dollars for every ten 

 miles travel from his place of abode, once in 

 each session." The members voted themselves 

 mileage both ways, viz., going and returning. 

 The Governor refused to approve of the act, 

 and with the Council referred the question to 

 the Justices of the Supreme Court. The Jus- 

 tices, looking at the statute alone, said: " The 

 limitation of once in each session excludes the 

 idea of more than once. The member is enti- 

 tled to mileage on the first day of the session, 

 and this mileage is all to which he is entitled." 



A case involving the meaning of the words 

 "tippling purposes" came before the courts. 

 The liquor law forbids the sale of cider for 

 " tippling purposes." The defendant admitted 

 that he had sold cider to be carried away from 

 his premises, and such was the proof; but it 

 also appeared that the persons who bought 

 the cider took it out by the roadside and into 

 the neighboring fields, and there got drunk 

 upon it. The defense contended that the 

 words "tippling purposes" meant drinking 

 upon the premises. But the Judge presiding, 

 after fully explaining to the jury the meaning 

 of the word tipple, charged them that " a man 

 may as well tipple in the street as in a build- 

 ing in his own house as in the shop where 

 the liquor is sold." And he gave them fur- 

 ther instruction to the same effect. Upon ex- 

 ceptions taken to the charge of the Judge, the 

 full Court decided that the exceptions must be 

 sustained, holding in effect that, in order to 



convict a person of selling cider for " tippling 

 purposes, the Government must prove that 

 the tippling was done in the shop or building 

 kept by the defendant. 



A convention was held at Augusta on June 

 2d of the surviving members of the Senate and 

 House of Representatives of 1851, who voted 

 for the passage of the original Maine Liquor 

 Law, as well as other friends of prohibition, 

 tho occasion being the twenty-eighth anniver- 

 sary of the signing of the bill by Governor 

 Hubbard. One of the members stated the 

 action of tho Legislature on the subject. He 

 said: 



The bill had been twice passed before, but failed to 

 receive tho Governor's signature. The search and 

 seizure act wad perfected m 1853, which takes right 

 hold of the critter himself. This law was remodeled 

 in 1855, improved, and made very stringent, so that 

 our friends who were opposed to it thought it almost 

 unendurable. In 1856 a new Governor arose " who 

 knew not Joseph," and the Maine Law was swept from 

 our statutes. To one Phinehas Barnes of Portland 

 was assigned the task of drafting a license law, which 

 passed, and which contained no local option. This 

 amounted to about tho same as free rum. This law 

 remained until 1858, and then was reSnacted the 

 Maine Liquor Law, wliich, with its amendments, has 

 since remained. This law has given Maine a world- 

 wide reputation, and this is something to be thankful 

 for. 



An address to " the temperance people of 

 the world," reported by Neal Dow, thus de- 

 scribes the Maine legislation on the subject : 



To show conclusively the position which this policy 

 now holds in the public opinion of Maine, it is ooly 

 necessary to mention the facts that since 1851 several 

 acts additional to the .Maine Law, all in the direction 

 of greater stringency, have been passed, except that in . 

 1856 there was a general breaking up of political par- 

 ties, and one came into power by which the law was 

 repealed, and a license law substituted for it. But at 

 tho next election that party was ignominiously de- 

 feated by a tremendous majority, and the Maine Law 

 was reenactcd in a more stringent form, and was sub- 

 mitted to a popular vote, by which it was approved 

 by more than four to one, and since that day there has 

 oeen no attempt at repeal. In 1871 an act additional, 

 of greater stringency than any which had preceded it, 

 was adopted without a dissenting voice in either 

 House ; and at tho session of 1879 a question came up 

 for the modification and the amelioration of the pen- 

 alties and the requirements of the law, which was 

 promptly defeated oy the emphatic vote of 127 to 17. 

 This latter vote may be fairly considered as marking 

 tho present condition of public opinion of this State 

 upon tho whole principle and policy of prohibition, 

 and the determination of the people to suppress the 

 liquor-traffic. 



In the same address the following results are 

 ascribed to the operation of this law : 



It is not too much to say that tho quantity of liquor 

 now smuggled into the State and sold in violation of 

 law is not one tenth so largo as it was before the law. 

 This great change In tho habits of the people procures 

 an enormous saving in the wages of labor and in tho 

 resources of the State, which were formerly so largely 

 squandered and wasted in strong drink. By some 

 slight additions to the law, the absolute extirpation 

 of the traffic may be easily effected. This saving in 

 the money and morals of the people by the suppres- 

 sion of th'o liquor-shops has produced most important 

 results, which may bo seen everywhere throughout 

 the State. Better houses and buildings, public and 



