Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-04-09
AN ACT in addition to can Act establishing the
County of Aroostook'


County of Aroostook.'
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in Legislature assem-
bled, That stAn Act additional to an act to reg
ulate the jurisdiction and proceedings of the
Courts of Probate" approved March 10th in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-ive," and also Gan Act providing for
the appointment of Judge and Register of
Probate for the northern district of the County
of Washington" approved March thirteenth
eighteen hundred and thirty five, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all mat
tiers and things pending in the Probate Court
for the Northern District of the County of
Washington, which were pending in said
Court on the first day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
nine, and yet remaining unsettled, and all pa
pers, instruments and records belonging to the
said Probate Court, be, and the same are hereby
transferred to the Court of Probate within and
for the County of Aroostook, and said last men,
toned Court shall have jurisdiction thereof and
proceed to the final settlement and adjustment
of all such matters and things pending as afore-
said, in the same manner that said Court of Pro-
bate for the Northern District of the County of
Washington could have done, had the Act es-
tabshing the same remained in force.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Judge
of the Court of Probate within and for said
County of Aroostook, shall receive an annual
salary of seventy-fve dollars, and the Register
of said Court shall receive an annual salary of
one hundred and twenty-five dollars, both of
said salaries to commence from and after the
first day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; and
that this act shall take effect from and after its
approval by the Governor.
[Approyed by the Governor Jan. "a, 18401
An Act altering the time of holding the District
Court for the Western District in the County
of Franklin.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives in Legislature assem-
bled, That from and after the first day of March
next, the District Court for the Western Dis
trict shall be held annually within and for the
County Of Franklin, at Pennington on the last
Mondays of March and September; and all ac-
tons, suits, matters and things pending in said
Court, and all writs, executions, warrants, re-
cognlzances, or other processes which, before
the passing of this act, would have been return
able to, or had day in, said Court to be held on
the first Tuesday of March next, shall, after
this act takes effect, be returnable to. and have
day in said Court to be held on the last Monday
of March next.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all acts
and parts OF acts inconsistent with the provis-
IONS OF this act, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
[Approved by the Governor Feb d, Is4O1
An Act to remedy certain defects in existino
Laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in Legislature assembled. That
the notice directed in and by the second section
of an act entitled Gan act to provide for the re-
pair of highways in certain unincorporated
townships approved April first, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-six, and also the notice
directed in and by an act entitled can act pro-
vidng for the organization of plantations. !" an
proved March twenty fifth, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-seven, and also the notice
provided in and by the first section of an act
entitled San act additional to an act respecting
mortgages and the rights in equity of redemn
tion," approved March twentieth, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight, shall, severally,
in all cases where no newspaper is, or at the
time shall be, printed in the County where anv
such township, or any such unincorporated place
proposed to be organized, or any such mortoaged
real estate, lies, be sufficient if published IN The
state newspaper, IN the manner provided in and
by said acts respectively; all the other reuuis-
tons of said acts to render the same effectual
being complied with.
fApproved by the Governor Feb. a. Is4O1
An Act additional to "An Act for the limitation
of criminal prosecutions"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
representatives. In Legislature assembled, That
SO much OF an act entitled can act for the limit
alton of criminal prosecutions" approved Feb.
ruary sixth, eighteen hundred and thirtv-nn
as provides that nothing in that act shall extend
to any crime which shall have been committed
before SAID act took effect, be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
[Approved by the Governor Feb. IL, 1s4O,1
An Act additional to an act accepting the sur
render OF the charter of the Peoples Bank,
Bangor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in Legislature assembled, That
the powers and liabilities continued to the Peo-
pies Bank, Bangor, by the second section of an
act accepting the surrender of the charter of
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. be.
and the same is hereby extended, for the term