Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-04-12


be kept closed.
SECT 3. Every public house where guests are
lodged. and every shop mill. factory and other
building in which any trade, manufacture or bust
ness Is carried on which requires the presence Of
workmen or other persons in any part thereof above
the hr.t story, and all halls and other rooms used
for pnblic assembly or for public amusement, shall
AZ all times be provided with suitable and sufficient
fire escapes, outside stair. ladders from each
story or gallery bove the level OF the ground easily
accessible to all inmates in case OF fire or of alarm
of lire; the suficiency thereof to be determined
provided in the following section.
SECT. /. In towns or parts of towns where there
i no organized fire department. ii shall be the duty
OF the pal officers annually to make careful
inspection OF the precautions and safeguards pro-
vided in compliance with the foregoing require
ments, and TO pass upon their suficency in
to arrangement and number, and upon their state
ofrepair and to direct and order such alterations,
additions and repairs az they may judge neces-
sary. In towns, cities and villages which have an
organized fire department, the duties aforesaid
shall be discharged by the board OF tire engineers.
SECT. .. such municipal officers or fire engineers
snail give written notice TO the occupant Of such
building, room, hall other place hereinbefore
specified, also TO the owner thereof, if known,
their determination as 10 the suficency of said pre-
cautions and saeguard- specifying in said notice,
any alteration, ADDITION or repair which they deem
necessary and require. Sixty days shall be allowed
after such notice and order, tor compliance with
the same.
SECT i. Any owner occupant who Deglects
with such order, forieits fifty dollars and addi-
uonal sum OF i've dollars day for every day
tInuance of such elect refusal; and the build
ing or part OF building occupied shall be deemed
to be acommon nuisance, without any other proof
thereon than proof of its and the keeper shall
be subject TO the penalties provided in of other
nnlsances. And said officers may forbid the use Of
such building for any public purpose until their
order has been complied with. And if the owner or
occupant OF said building lets the same in
violation OF such ORDER said owner occupant for
fets not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars
tor each otiense.
SECT :. Whenever the municipal officers or
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guards and precautions for escape casa OF fire or
OF Alarm have been provided it shall be their duty
10 give 10 the occupant of such building certih-
cate under their hands OF such fact: and such
tlncate shall be valid only for year from its
GATE 1t shall be the duty of such officers to return
TO inc Clerk office of their town or city, monthly
Ms. OF such certificates by them issued which the
ceIS shall record in book kept for that purpose.
SECT T. Every person receiving such certificate
shali pay to such officers the sum of two dollars
therefor, and shall keep such certificate posted in
the building affected thereby. Such annual certih-
cate SO posted to be taken prima facie evidence
OF the inspection of such building and OF its pro-
vision with the suitable safeguards. and precautions
herein before mentioned
SECT Q. Every occupant of such building, who
negects or refuses to procure such certificate to
have the same posted aforesaid forei,s ten dol
fuses.
Scot, 10. Every municipal officer or fire enpi.
neer who shall refuse neglect to perform the
sum of fifty dollars
SECT. Ii. All ines and forfeitures imposed Nv
this act shall be recovered by and for the town or
city where the building is located, by an action on
the case, or by indictment.
SECT. II. Chapter seventy of the public laws OF
the year eighte en- hundred and seventy eight and
chapter fifty of the public laws of the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-one, are hereby repealed.
Approved February IA, 1851
Chapter l31.
AN ACT to establish the manner of calling meet.
ings of village corporations.
Be it enacted, &C.. as follows:
The meetings of any village corporation NAV be
notified by the person to whom the warrant is d.
rected by his posting up attested copies thereof in
two or more public and conspicuous places within
the limits of the corporation days before the
meeting, instead Of as now provided by the act