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Atlantic Coast Pilot Charts
- Coastal Pilot charts from the 1879 Survey of the Coast publications. A set of six volumes covering the Maine Coast: #1 Passamaquoddy Bay to Schoodic; #2 Frenchman's Bay to Isle au Haut; #3 Penobscot Bay and Tributaries; #4 White Head Island to Cape Small Point; #5 Cape Small Point to Cape Ann; #6 Cape Ann to Cohasset.
1913 Gettysburg Reunion
- In February of 1913, the Maine Legislature passed a Resolve appropriating $18,000 for Maine's participation in the exercises commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. For all veterans who were residents of Maine, the State would provide free round trip transportation and from Gettysburg, accommodations, and medical care. To qualify, the soldier had to have fought in the battle. Other Civil War veterans could attend, but they had to pay for their own transportation and accommodations. In order to locate Gettysburg survivors, the Adjutant General canvassed all Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Posts, Regimental Associations, and inserted notices in the newspapers. By April of 1913, they had located more than 500 veterans of the battle, including two Confederates. The name of a veteran on this list does not mean he went to the reunion or that the State paid his way, only that they were located.
Maine Volunteer Militia (Post-Civil War)
- Correspondence and other records of Maine’s militia in the years after the Civil War. Much of the collection includes requests for aid in obtaining veteran pensions.
Maine Constitutional Convention
- After a vote was held in July 1819, the Act of Separation was approved. Subsequently, a constitutional convention took place in Portland, starting on October 11, 1819. Delegates from across the state gathered in Portland to work on the new Constitution, which was completed later that month. Once the draft was approved by the delegates, it required a vote from the people of Maine. In December, the citizens of Maine approved the Constitution.
Bangor Municipal Court
- Bangor had some form of municipal court, whether it was under the title of municipal, town, or police court, from at least 1844 until 1961 when the Legislature reorganized the court system for the State. Maine’s municipal courts were first established in 1825 and had jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases, except larcenies exceeding $20 and criminal cases in which the fine exceeded $5.