Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-04-09

claiming under them to revive and secure the
title to such lands by the payment of the inter-
est already due on the notes given for such lands
on or before the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and forty, and paying whatever
may remain due on said notes, one fourth in six,
one fourth in twelve, one fourth in eighteen,
and the remaining fourth in twenty-four
months from the approval of this act by the
Governor, and the interest TO be reckzned and
paid on the whole sum due at each time of
payment, and performing all other conditions
in such deed within two years from the passage
OF this Act, exempting from the operations Of
this act, all cases, where the State after condi-
ton broken by the failure TO pay or perform ac-
cording to the terms of such deed, may. have
already sold and conveyed its rights to such
lands to another purchaser-also all cases where
a controversy at law is pending relative to the
title of such lands to which the State is not a
party to the suit
SEC. g. Be it further enacted, That this act
shall apply to and take effect in all such cases
of forfeiture as may take place hereafter within
one year from the passage OF this act, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved by the Governor, March Is, 1910.
An Act to suspend for limited time the oper-
alton of certain portions Of an act entitled
An act prohibiting the ennis ion and circula-
ton of Bank Bills of small denomination,
II
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in Legislature assembled, That
the operation of the first and second sections of
an act entitled An act prohibiting the emission
and circulation of Bank Bills of small de-
nomination, and certain Others and also SO
much of the third section of said act as relates
to the circulation of the bills therein prohibited,
be and the same is hereby suspended until the
sixteenth day of November next, and this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved by the Governor, March IS, 1910.
An Act additional to an Act to provide for re-
pair of highways in certain unincorporated
townships.
SEoEIoN L. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives. in Legislature as
sembled, That from and after the passing of
this Act the provisions of the first section of
the Act entitled s An act to provide for the re-
pair of Highways in certain unincorporated
Townships, approved April first, eighteen hun
dred and thirty-six, be and hereby is extended
the roads laid out and made by the State of
Maine or by said State and the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts or hereafter to be laid out
and made by the same and to roads the repairs
and protection of which the State of Maine
has assumed. And the authority given to the
County Commissioners for the several Coun-
ties in the second Section of the act to which
this is additional to appoint Agents to lay out
and expend the amount of assessment made
under said act is hereby extended to them to
expend the assessments made under this act
| Sec 2. Be 1T further enacted, That said
County Commissioners shall make assessment
as provided in the first section of this act, on
or before the fifteenth day of May in each year,
and shall certify the amount SO assessed, speci-
| flying the amount assessed on such township OF
part of township, and the road on which such
| a 10 tn, ho cd IN he N
Treasurer of the County where such expendi-
ture is to be made, who shall soon as may be
publish an attested copy thereof in some news
paper published in said county, if any, and in
the newspaper published by the printer of the
State, three months before the time of sale, to-
gether with notice that SO much of said lands
will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder,
at such times and places as they shall designate
as will satisfy said assessments and incidental
| charges, unless said assessments be paid to the
| Treasurer before said time of sale.
| Sec 8. Be itfurther enacted, That the owner
of any township or part of township SO assessed
shall have the privilege of expanding such as
sessment under the agent appointed by said
| County Commissioners any time before the fif
teenth day of July next after said assessment
provided he give notice in writing of his inten-
ton of doing SO, to the agent SO appointed, or
or before the first day of June next after sucf
assessment; and any expenditure SO made, GER
tilted by such agent to the County Treasurer
shall be received as payment of SO much of sale
| assessment.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the own
ers of land sold in pursuance of the foregoing
section, or their lawful agents, shall have thu
right to redeem said land by paying to the pur
chasers thereof the sums for which said land
were sold, together with twenty-five per cent
| per annum interest on said sums from the time
of sale. Provided such payment shall be made
within three years from the time of said SALE
| [Approved by the Governor March 10, 1840.]
An Act to establish, regulate and preserve thu
booms on the Aroostook, Fish and Saint job,
| rivers.
SECTION L. Be it enacted by the Senate ant
House of Representatives in Legislature assem-
bled, That the boom constructed across thu
Aroostook river under direction of the Lane
Agent, in execution of the resolve of twenty
fourth January, eighteen hundred and thirty
nine, and other resolves on the same subject, fol
the purpose ofsecuring timber cutby trespasser
on the public lands and preventing its being
carried out of the State, be established and con