The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-04-16

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annual meeting in March, and choose clerk, three
assessors treasurer, collector of taxes constable
veyors Of lumber and two or more fence viewers
and highway surveyors shall be appointed in planta
lions wherein highway taxes are assessed.
SECT. Z The clerks of organized plantations shall
make return to the secretary of state blanks by
him furnished for that purpose or before the first
day of July annually the ofthe and
clerks Of their several plantations and that the
have been duly sworn, and when any such return is
shall not furnish such plantation with blanks for
election returns and no votes purporting to be cast
by any plantation neglecting to make such return
council. But when plantation is organized after
the first day of July of any year. such return is not
required to be made by the clerk thereof during such
wear But the votes Of such plantations shall not be
counted allowed by the governor and council for
any purpose, during the year Of its organization, un-
prior to the second Monday in September So ii
sHcr 8. All laws relating to calling, notifying and
conducting town meetings, the election, appointment,
qualification duties, powers, compensation, liabilities
and penalties for official neglect and misconduct of
town officers apply to plantations and their officers,
when specially otherwise provided Voters In plan.
tations are liable to the same penalties for unlawful
voting as voters in towns are. e, .,.. !.
SEcr g. The assessors of plantations shall be con-
sidered the selectmen thereof for the purpose Of
performing such duties as the seectmen Of towns
plantations, shall give such bond such officers Of
towns are required to give, to be approved in like
Of assessment Of taxes in plantations as well as the
assessment collection and disposal thereof shall be
the same as in towns. .. i -, $40 .-- =
in plantations organized under the provision Of
ton two of this act, shall Immediately take an inven-
tory Of the polls and valuation OF the property there
in, the same taken in towns, and return them
or before the fifteenth day Of May following their
election, to the county commissioners of their
ty, who shall have power to examine and correct the
same in such manner shall make it conform to the
last state valuation, and return copy of such
on their ratabe proportion according to such vail
ation of all state and county taxes shall be assessed
on such plantations in the same manner on towns;
and such plantations and also such may by special
order of the legislature be required to pay state or
county taxes shall have power to raise money by
ance with the provisions Of chapter eighteen sections
and seventyf0ur Of the revised statutes
Such inventory and valuation i'll any plantation shall
be TAKEN and returned to the treasurer
Of state whenever required by him.
SECT II. All plantations have power to raise and
expend money for the support of Schools and making
and repairing school-houses as provided in chapter
eleven sections five, fftynine, sixty and sixty-one
for support ofthe poor provided in chapter twenty
be necessary to defay all legal plantation expenses
SECT. u. Organized plantations shall not be COM
posed of more than one township, and when organ
lied under the provisions Of section two of this act
former organizations cease to have any effect
SECT 10. When towns are Incorporated, the as
thereof required to return to the county
commissioners of their county, the original valuation
first taken in their towns before the fifteenth
day of May next following their Incorporation said
valuation to be examined, corrected, and COPY
thereof returned to the state treasurer and become
the basis of state and county in the man.
ner the valuations of plantations as provided in
section ten of this act.
SECT. IA. If such valuation is not made and re- |
turned by any town or plantation within the time
specified the county commissioners shall appoint |
three suitable persons Of the county be assessors
therein who shall be sworn and make and return the
inventory and valuation required within the time |
fixed by said commissioners; and such valuation
shall be examined corrected, and copy thereof re-
the assessment of state and county taxes in the
assessors chosen by said town plantation.
SECT 10. The assessors appointed under the pre-. |
ceding section, shall be paid from the county treas
ury reasonable compensation for their services, to
be determined by the county commissioners and any
paid shall be added to the county tax appor-
toned to such town plantation, and shall be col
1ected and paid into the treasury in the manner
as county taxes are
SECT. 16. Plantations organized upon the appli-
cation of three more inhabitants thereof may at
any time be reorganized under the provisions of this
act.
SECT. II. Section seventy-seyen of the fourth
chapter of the revised statutes is hereby amended so
as to read as follows:
SECT. IT,, lift does not appear by the return of
the list Of voters posted up and of the names of
the voters said list who actually present and
voted at such election and by the return of its organ
iZatiOp duly signed and made to the Office of the