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

revised statutes, Is hereby amended by striking
out the word 20 takes" iii the fourth line, and in
sorting place thereof the word issues, SO that
said section as amended, shall read follows:
Section SO. Every foreign insurance company
doing business in this state, shall annually, pub
fish three weeks sue ,essivey, in some daily or
weekly paper printed in every county where it has
a duly authorized agent, or Issues policies, con-
densed statement of its condition conformable to
its last annual report to the commissioner; and
any such insurance company which neglects or
refuses to publish such statement forfets not less
than fifty dollars approved March 6, 1851
Chapter $40.
AN ACT relative to criminal costs and expendi-
lures in the county of Kennebec.
BE 1T enacted, ETC., as follows:
Section l. All judges of municipal and police
courts in the county Of Kennebec shall be paid
pal officers, of their respective cities and towns
and paid quarterly from the treasures thereof
All fees paid to and received by them in criminal
es shall be paid quarterly into the county treasury;
and no salary shall be paid to any such judge until
he shall file with the city or town treasurer, a
written statement of the fines and criminal fees by
him paid to the county treasurer during and for
the preceding quarter.
Section g. The fees of such judges for services
in Grim nal cases shall be allowed and taxed in
behalf of trial justices and shall together with the
fees paid in by any such Judge, be annually paid to
the city town from which such judge yeceives
his salary; provided, however, that if the amount
of such fees allowed and the fees paid in by any
such judge during the year shall exceed the amount
of his annual salary, such shall revert to the
county ana De covered INTO the county treasury.
The word fees used in this and the preceding
tion includes all fees fixed by law in criminal cases,
including fees for copies. Such Judges, however,
may retain for their own use all fees received by
them in civil cases. All blanks for criminal cases
used by such judges shall be furnished by the
county. When the salary of any judge has been
fixed and established provided in section one, it
shall not afterwards be diminished during the con-
tnuance in office of any such judge to sum lower
than the &nount of the fees received by the city
town during the preceding year from the county,
N
of chapter one hundred and thirty-two of the re-
vsed statutes shall not apply to the county of Ken
nebec while this act is in force.
Section 8. City marshals, deputy marshals and
chiefs of police in the county of Kennebec shall be
paid salaries, or per diem compensation, to be
fixed by the city council of cities and municipal
officers of towns, and payable from the treasures
thereof. Such officers shall not be paid any fee
for any official service in any criminal case in said
county, except as provided in sections six and
twelve of this act. The fees of such officers for
services in criminal shall be taxed and allowed
in behalf of sherifs, and fifty per cent thereof
first deducting fees referred to in sections six and
twelve of this act, shall be annually paid by the
county treasurer to the city or town from which
any such officer receives his salary, compensa-
tiOn and the balance shall revert to the county and
be covered into the county treasury. When said
fifty per cent exceeds the annual salary or COM
pensation of any such officer, such shall not
be paid to the city or town, but shall be covered
into the county treasury. Such officers may retain
for their all fees received by them in civil
cases. No such officer shall receive from any re-
In all such cases, such fine and costs shall be paid
to the judge issuing the precept against such re-
Spondent.
Section 4. City marshals and their deputies in
the county of Kennebec shall faithfully and dill
gently inquire into all violations of law, within
their respective cities, and institute proceedings
against violations or supposed violations of law,
and artcuIarly TIE laws against the illegal sale of
Intoxicating liquors and the keeping of drinking
houses and tipping shops, either by promptly en-.
tering complaint before magistrate and execut-
ing the warrants issued thereon, or by furnishing
the county attorney promptly and without delay
with the names Of alleged offenders and of the
witnesses to be promptly summoned before the
grand jury. Whenever the aldermen of any City
are, after investigation and hearing, satisfied that
Che city marshal, or his deputies, have wilfully re-
fused or neglected to faithfully discharge the du
ties imposed by this section, they shall remove
him, or them, from office Nothing herein con-
tanned shall relieve any other officer named in chap
Ter tWentysaven Of the revised statutes, from any
of the duties imposed upon them by said chapter.
Section 5. No police officer, or constable, in
said county, who is paid per diem compensation
shall draw or receive any fees whatever from said
county for services IN any criminal case except as
provided in sections six and twelve of this act but
all such fees shall, if above be covered into the
county treasury to the use of the county
Section g.. Fees taxed and allowed to the officers
named in sections three four and five of this act
For attendance as witnesses in any criminal case be-
fore the superior court, before any court held
IN some town other tnan that in which such officers
reside, shall be paid to them from the county
treasury. The expenses of any such officer neces-
sarily and reasonably incurred and actually dis
bursed il the service Of any criminal precept shall
be allowed and paid to him upon his filing an
1temlz d account thereof, under oath, accompanied
by proper vouchers thereof.
Section T. No sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal,
deputy marshal police officer constable, in said
COUNT shall be entitled to fees for attendance
witness in any criminal case while he is paid fo1
attendance as an officer of the same court, or on
the same examination or trial. No allowance shall
be made to any such officer for aid in the service of
any mittimus unes' the same is first authorized in
writing by The court issuing the same.
Section 8. In the service of any precept in