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


Section II. The assessors and experimenting
school committee school supervisors of towns,
may annually apportion twenty per cent of all
money required to be raised by section six, and
twenty per cent of all money received from the
state for schools, except money received under sec
ton twentyeight, among the districts IN the sew
eral towns, in such manner as IN their Judgment
shall give to the smaller districts as nearly may
be, an equal opportunity for common school ed
ucation. But money apportloned TO districts
formed from two or more towns shall not be dl-
minshed under the provisions of this section
Section 2. This act shall take effect when APP
proved. approved March 6, 1885,
Chapter 353.
AN ACT to amend section seventy of chapter six
of the Revised Statutes relating to assessment
of taxes in places not Incorporated.
Be 1T enacted, etc, as follows:
Section l. Section seventy of chapter six OF
the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking
out from the third line of said section the words
''including those made on account OF highways,
that said section, as amended, shall read as fol-
lows:
section 70. Such lands may be assessed by the
county commissioners according to the last state vail
uaton for due proportion ofcOunty taxes Lists Of
such taxes shall Immediately be certified and trans
mitted by the county treasurer to the treasurer of
state. In the list, each such township and tract
shall be sufficiently described, with the date and
amount of assessment on each The treasurer of
state SHALL in his books credit the county treasurer
for the amount of each such assessment; and when
paid to him. shall certify to the county treasurer
the amount of and interest so paid on the first
Monday of each January
Section 2. This act shall take effect when APP
proved [Approved March 6, 1851
Chapter 354.
AN ACT to provide for recording deeds by the
State of Maine.
Be 1T enacted, etc., as follows:
Any person Interested in any land conveyed by
the state of Maine the deed of which is recorded
in the land agents office, may cause copy attest
ed by the land agent to be filed and recorded in the
registry of deeds in the county and registry dis
trict where said land lies, whether said deed shall
or not have been acknowledged by the agent or
knO the
shall have all the force and effect of record of
deed duly acknowledged. [App. March 6, 1851
Chapter 355.
AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and fif-
teen of the Revised Statutes, relating to the sala
ry of the Superintendent of the Insane Hospital.
Be 1t enacted, etc, as follows:
Section one of chapter one hundred and fifteen
of the revised statutes is hereby amended by strik
ing out the word 'thirteen' and inserting instead
thereof the word sixteen, that said section shall
Section /. The superintendent of the Maine
Insane Hospital sixteen hundred dollars
[Approved March 6, 1885,
Chapter 356.
AN ACT fixing the salary of the Treasurer of Wal
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section l. The salary of the treasurer of Waldo
county, shall be fixed by the county commissioners
but it shall not exceed three hundred dollars for
each year, aud in that proportion for any fraction
Section q This act shall take effect on the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-fve. [Approved March 6, 1851
Chapter 355.
AN ACT to authorize the licensing of private de-
tectives.
Be itenocted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The governor with the advice of the
council, may license not exceeding twenty private
detectives, for the detection prevention and pun
iShment of crime, to serve for the term of four
years. unless such license is sooner revoked for
cause. The fee such license shall be fifty dol
lars, to be paid into the state treasury; and each
person licensed shall give bonds with two sure
ties, approved by the governor and council. con-
dtioned for the proper discharge of the services
which he may perform by virtue of such licenses
but nothing herein contained shall be construed
to cO1fer on any such person, so licensed, any OF
the power and authority of sherifS or police oth-
Gers except in cases of felones and offences under
chapter one hundred and twenty of the revised
statutes.
Section 2. Private detectives licensed as af re-
said shall have the same authority to arrest III cas-
es of offences under chapters hundred and
twenty and one hundred and twenty-five of the re-
vised statutes aad of felOnies in any part of the
state SherfS within their respective counties in
similar cases They shall receive the same fees as
fees of sheriffs in similar cases, and extra
pensation Shall be paid to them in any case, from the
state or county treasury. [App March u, 1851
Chapter 35S.
AN ACT to repeal penalties and forfeitures on ac-
count of the failure to comply with section eight
Of chapter forty eight OF the Revised statutes of
eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
lie u enacted, ETC., as follows:
No action or indictment shall be maintained for
any penalty, or forfeiture, fine imposed in con-
sequence of a failure to comply with the require
ments of section eight, chapter forty-eight of the
revised statutes of eighteen hundred and seventy
one; and this act shall apply to pending suits and
indictments commenced since the repeal of said
statute, except as to costs. [App March g. 1851
Chapter 359.
AN ACT to amend the Revised Statutes.
Be ut enacted, ETC., as follows:
Section 1. Section thirty-eight of chapter three
of the revised statutes is hereby amended in line
word preceding