The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-04-01


Section |. The standard and legal weight OF a
bushel Of herdsgrass seed, when we'll cleaned and
in good condition, is forty-fve pounds.
Section 2. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. [Approved February 81, 1886
Chapter 299.
AN ACT to amend section sixteen OF chapter one
hundred and thirty-tWo of the Revised Statutes,
relating to Appeals from Magistrates
Be 1T enacted, etc., as follows
Section sixteen of chapter one hundred and
thrtytwo Of the revised statutes is hereby amend
ed, by adding thereto the following words:
The appellant may, at any time before such
copy has been sent to the appellate court, come
personally before such magistrate, who may permit
him, on motion to withdraw his appeal and abide
by the sentence appealed FROM whereupon, he
shall be ordered to comply with said sentence and
the sureties taken upon the recognzance upon such
appeal shall be discharged If the appellant is de-
tanned in jail for want Of sureties to prosecute his
appeal he may give notice, in writing, to the ailer
OF his desire to withdraw his appeal and abide by
the sentence appealed from; whereupon, such ailer
shall cause him to be taken before such magistrate
who shall order him to comply with the sentence
appealed from, hereinbefore provided; and in
such case the Jaier, or officer taking the appellant
before ire magl trate by his direction, shall be
titled to the same fees, to be taxed and paid as
part of the costs of prosecution as are allowed to
an officer for serving mittimus.
approved February q, 1851
Chapter ESQ.
AN ACT amendatory to section twentv-nine of
chapter ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, to
create q lien wood.
BE 5ten0cted, etc., as follows:
Section !. Section tWenty-nine of chapter nine
tyone Of the revised statutes is hereby amended by
adding after the word Ebark in the first line the
words or cutting cord wood, and by adding after
the word OZARK in the fifth line, the words cor
WOOD, SO that said section, amended, shall read
as follows, namely:
Section 20. Whoever labors at cutting and peel
ing hemlock bark or cutting cord wood, has lien
thereon for the amount due for his personal servc-
es which takes precedence of all other claims con-
tachment; provided, however, that such lien Shall
not continue after the bark wood has arrived at
Market
Section q This act shall take effect when an
proved. Improved February q, 1885.
Chapter 2Sa.
AN ACT to provide for the proper expenditure of
School Funds in plantations.
Be 1t enacted, ETC., as follows:
Section /. All moneys due plantations from the
state treasury for school purposes shall be paid to
the treasurers of such plantations under the same
conditions as in of towns, and the same shall
be expended by such plantations under the same
restrictions and limitations as are required of
towns.
Section g. All acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act hereby repealed
Improved February q, 1851
Chapter 2S1.
AN ACT to amend section four of chapter one
hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes relat-
ing to the State Prison.
Be 1t enacted, etc., as follows:
Section l. Section four of chapter one hundred
and forty is hereby amended as to read as fol-
lows:
Section The supervision of the state prison is
is vested in the governor and council, but it's gov
eminent and direction are in board of three
prison and Jail inspectors one warden, one deputy
warden, one clerk, eleven guards, one of whom
shall perform the duties of cOmmssary, and such
number of overseers and aids as the INSPECTORS de-
termine to be necessary
Section q This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. [ApproVed February 81, 1851
Chapter 2S3.
AN ACT to facilitate the giving of bonds required
by law.
Be 1T enacted, etc. as follows:
Section /. Any company with paid up capital
of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, duly incorporated and organized for the
purpose of transactng business as surety on obga-
tions of persons corporations, and which has
complied with all the requirements of the law reg
ulating the admission of such companies to trans
act business in this state, may, upon production of
evidence of sovency and credit satisfactory to the
judge, head of department or other officer author
lied to approve such bond, be accepted "a surety
upon the bond of any person or corporation re-
CURED by the laws of this state to execute bond
and it such surety company shall furnish satisfac-
tory evidence of its ability to provide all the seen
rity required by law no additional surety may he
exacted, but other surety or sureties may, in the
discretion of the official authorized TO approve such
bond, be required, and such surety company NAV
be released from it's liability the same terms and
conditions are by law prescribed for the release
of individuals, it being the true intent and mean
ing Of this act to enable corporations created for
that purpose to become surety on bonds required
by law, subject to all the rights and liabilities of
private individuals.
Section 2. Any court or officer whose duty it is
to pass upon the account of any person CO pora-
ton required by law to give a bond, may when
ever such person or corporation has given any such
surety company as surety upon said bond allow in
settlement of such account a reasonable SIM for
the expense of procuring such surety.
Section g. Any company which shall execute
any bond as surety under the provisions of this act
shall be estopped in any proceedings to enforce
the liability which it shall have assumed to incur,
to deny it's corporate power to execute such nstru
ment assume such liability.