The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-22

and equipments have been made more strin-
gent than in the old law. The law in relation
to court martials has been changed and inn
proved. The pay of staff officers has been re-
duced.
An appropriation of $4,000 has passed to
uniform the volunteer militia.
WAYS AND MEANS.
The sum of 81 ,O72, O35. IL has been appropri-
ated to provide in part for the expenditures of
government for the current fiscal year.
The State tax for the present fiscal year has
been assessed at $1,124 ,261.27, tax of five
mills on the dollar of the present valuation.
The State Treasurer has been authorized to
procure loan of 1907 900 for payment of
bonds becoming due Aug. 18th of the present
in sums not less than 500 bearing interest at
4 per cent. and payable as follows: $4,000 in
one year; $50, 900 in two years; $50 600 in three
years; $4,000 in four years: $5O,OOO in five
years; S57 900 in six years. No sale of these
bonds shall be made at less than par value and
accrued interest thereon.
A law has passed for the taxation of rail-
roads. 1t provides that the Governor and
Council, between April 1, and Nav l, in each
year, shall appraise the several railroads in
this State, with their franchises, rolling stock
and fixtures, at their cash value, and upon
The appraisal of railroad property shall en-
brace only the roadways, rolling stock and
franchises. The land, buildings and fixtures
outside OF railroad ways shall be taxable in
the towns where located, as other property.
When a railroad extends beyond the limits of
praise the road within this State and so much
OF the franchise and rolling stock as may be-
long to the company within the State. The
taxes shall be due and payable to the State
Treasurer, one half July 1, next after the as
sessment is made, and the other half Oct.
following. The tax is lien of all taxes on
the shares Of any railroad company, and when
the tax is paid the State Treasurer shall credit
to each town in which shares in any road SO
assessed are owned April preceding, such pro-
portion of said tax as said shares bear to the
whole number of shares of such railroad COM
pany.
A law was passed taxing express companies
and persons carrying on express business in
this State, three-fourths of one per cent of the
gross receipts for the year commencing April
LIST of the present, year and for every sub
Treasurer on or before May 1st annually. This
tax is in lieu of ali local taxation.
All telegraph companies doing business in
this State have also had imposed on them a
tax of two and one-half per cent on the value
OF amy line owned by them or by any perso n
including all poles. wires, insulators, office
furniture, batteries and instruments, and any
circumstances or conditions which affect the
value of the property. The Governor and
Council are to determine the values and assess
the tax on or before May LIST annually, and it
LIST annually, and shall be in lieu of all state or
municipal taxation on any of the property or
shares OF companies or persons. When the
tax is paid each town will be credited such
proportion of the tax of each company as the
number of shares in said company owned in
fto for hno 10 fhn Hn1a refx A.,
company's shares owned in the State, the re-
mainder to be retained for the use of the State.
FISH AND GAME.
The duties and powers of the Comm issoners
of Fisheries and WardenS have been enlarged
in enforcing the game and fishery laws
The taking Of fish from Wilson pond in
Greenville, in the county of Piscataquis, has
been prohibited from October 1st to June LIST,
for five years.
The taking of trout and land-locked salmon
in the Rangely, South Bog, Bemis and Cup
suptic streams has been prohibited from July
LIST to May 1st, and in the Kennebago stream
from Sept. LIST to the first day of May.
The law relating to the shooting of seals at
Fort Point in Stockton has been repealed.
The catching of land-locked salmon and
black-bass has been prohibited for three years
in Moose pond in Harmony and Hartland.
The law relating to shore fisheries has been
amended so that the catching of porgies by the
all of the small bays, inlets, harbors or rivers
of this State. where any entrance to the same
or any part thereof from land to land, is not
more than two nautical miles in width, under
penalty upon the master or person in charge
of such seine or seines, or upon the owner or
owners OF said vessel, seine or seines, of not
less than one hundred nor more than three
hundred dollars, and there shall be lien up
on the vessels, steamers, boats and apparatus
used in such unlawful pursuit until said penal
ty, with costs of prosecution, is paid; but a
net for meshing porgies of not more than one
hundred meshes in depth, and net for mesh
ing herring Of not more than one hundred and
seventy meshes in depth, shall not be deemed
a seine Repeats all of chap. 66, public laws
OF 1878, excepting sec. as amended.
A law was passed for the protection of blue
back trout in any of the waters of the State.
The York County Game and Fish Society
has been incorporated for the protection Of
game and fish, to encourage their propagation,
and with authority to enforce the game and
fish laws. Authority is given to hold property
are Geo. F. Calf. Geo. A. Carter, John e.
Andrews, R. D. Bowers, John Chadwick, VIM.
D. Durham, James I. Buck, w. S. bennett,
S. s. Richards, J. w. Hobson, S. s. Mitchell,
j. G. Weymouth, A. w. Larrabee, Charles
Twombley and Frank E. Libby Of Saco; Thorn
Haines, Warren c: Bryant. Frank Hazleton,
G E. Hussey, G. II. Abbott, Abijah Tarbox,
II. Boynton, G. N. Ward, G. M. Moses, W. e.
Andrews, J. G. Shaw of Biddeford; and Geo.
G. Lord Of Kennebunk.
An act has passed which only allows the
catching of fish in Dexter pond between July
LIST and September 21st of the year, under a
penalty of $40 for each attempt if the law is
violated.
A law has passed forbidding the taking of
land-lOcked salmon in Nickerson lake in New
Limerick and Linneus, and Deep Lake in
AroO frOtr for Exrox
$40 for each fish taken.
The law relating to the taking of fish in
Webbs pond in Franklin county has been re-
pealed ~
The fishery laws have been amended so that
from July 10Th to September 18th it sh all be
lawful to take salmon with rod and single line.
The law for the preservation of water fowl
in the ponds and streams of Plymouth has
been repealed.
A law has been passed that no quail shall he
killed in this State before Sept. i, 1888, under
a penalty of 1926 for every offence.
The catching of fish in Lovejoy Pond in
Albion has been prohibited from Oct. LIST to
June LIST, yearly.
The law relating to river fishing has been
amended SO that weirs shall be stripped so as
to render them incapable of taking fish on and
after June 25th, annually. III
ELECTIONS.
The law relating to the organization of the
IoS iSldturo WllCu prOVlu0S GnaC no person Snail
be allowet to vote or take part in the organiza-
ton of either branch unless his name appears
upon the certified roll has been repealed
The statutes relating to election returns
have been amended so that the Governor and
Council, when on or before Dec. LIST they open
and compare the votes so returned, shall also
have the same tabulated, and during the 80
days allowed for correction, any person voted
for, either personally, or with counsel, shall
have the privilege of examining the returns in
the presence of the Governor and Council, or
either OF them, or any member of the Council.
The law also allows the same examination of
returns in the election of county officers.
A law has been passed providing for the
trial of cases involving the rights of parties to
hold public offices, under which any person
who shall claim to be lawfully elected to any
county office, or to the Office of county attor-
ney, may commence suit in the nature of a
proceeding in equity against the person hold
ing or claiming to hold such Office, or who
helds certificate of his election to such office
from the Governor and Council, or who has
been declared elected thereto by the Governor
and Council, or who has been notified of such
election by the Secretary of State, to be COM
nenced by petition returnable before any JUS
If the Supreme Judicial Court in term
lime or vacation, in the county where either of
'he parties reside, or where the duties of such
office are to be performed.
AGRICULTURE,
The law relating to agricultural societies has
been amended SO that under the penalty of a
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