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

ted in certain cases
Be 1t enacted, etc., as follows:
Section nineteen of chapter two of revised stat
utes be amended by striking out all in said section
following the word reimbursement and insert
ing instead thereof the words 'any such agent or
officer who shall violate the provisions of this sec
ton shall upon conviction be incl sum equal TO
such excess of appropriation by him expended, and
imprisoned in the discretion of the court All pros
ecutiOns under this section shall be by Indictment
and the fine nure to the state SO that said sec
ton shall read as follows:
Section 19. No agent or officer OF the state, or
of any department. thereof, whose duty it is to ex
pend money under an appropriation by the leg1sa-
ture and who exceeds III his expenditure sad APP
preparation. shall have any claim for reimburse
ment. Any such agent or officer who 5h vi violate
tire provisions of this section shall upon conviction
be fined equal to such excess of approprla-
erection of the court. All prosecutions under this
section shall be by indictment and the fine nure to
the state [Approved March 6, 1851
Chapter 34S.
AN ACT to prohibit the sale to minors of publ
cations devoted to criminal news.
Be it enacted etc, as follows:
Section l. Whoever knowingly sells, lends,
gives away, or shows to any minor child, any book
pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, or other printed
paper devoted to the publication, or principally
made Up of criminal news, police reports, or
counts of criminal deeds pictures and stories of
lust or erime or circulaes, posts or causes to be
circulated or posted in any conspicuous public
place, any picture, hand bill or poster containing
obscene indecent or immoral representations; or
child to sell or give away or in any manner to dis
tribute, or who having the care, custody control
OF any minor child, permits such child to sell or
give away, or III any manner to distribute any
book, magazine, pamphlet or newspaper coming
within the first paragraph of this section, shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county Jail not
more than six months, or by fine not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol
lars, or by both imprisonment and fine.
Section 2. Judges of municipal and police
courts and trial justices shall have by complaint,
jurisdiction of the offenses mentioned in this act,
original and concurrent with the supreme judicial
and superior courts. [Approved March 6, 1851
Chapter $40.
AN ACT to amend section seven of chapter seven
of the Revised Statutes relating to the northern
registry district of ArOOstOOk County.
Be 1t enacted, etc, as follows:
Section seven of chapter seven of the revised
statutes is hereby amended by striking out the
words g thence south to the northeast corner of
township numbered thirteen in the third range" in
the fifth and sixth lines of said section and insert
ing in the place thereof the words thence north
to the northeast corner of township numbered ff.
teen in the third range thence west to the north
west corner of said township numbered fifteen in
the third range, thence south to the southwest
corner Of township numbered fifteen in the third
range, thence west to the northwest corner of
township numbered fourteen in the fourth range,
thence south to the southwest corner of township
numbered fourteen in the fourth range, so that
said section, amended, shall read as follows
Section Z. ALI that part or the county of ArOOs-
took lying north of line commencing at the
southeast corner of township +, in the first range
west from the east line of the state, thence west
the south line of said township and the south line
of township K in the second range, to township
numbered fifteen in the third range, thence north
to the northeast corner of township number fif-
teen in the third range, thence west to the north
west corner OF township numbered fifteen in the
third range, thence south to the southwest corner
Of township numbered fifteen in the third range,
thence west TO the nOrthwe st corner of township
numbered fourteen in the fourth range, thence
south to the southwest corner of township number
ed fourteen in the fourth range, thence west on
limo line nj Shi nd
teen to the seventh range line thence north to the
northeast corner of township numbered thirteen
in the eighth range, thence west to the west line
of the state, compose the northern registry dis
trict of Aroostook County and the register shall
keep his Office in the town of Madawaska.'
[Approved March g. 1885,
Chapter $50.
AN ACT to amend section one hundred and seven
ty-five of chapter six of the Revised Statutes re-
lating to suit for taxes
Be 1t enacted, etc., as follows:
Section one hundred and twenty-five of chapter
six of the revised statutes, is hereby amended by
striking out the word foregoing in the first line
and substituting therefor the word Other, so that
said section. as amended, shall read as follows
Section It's. In addition to the other provisions
for the collection of taxes legally assessed the
mayor and treasurer Of any city, the selectmen of
any town, and the assessors OF any plantation to
which a tax is DUE may, in writing, direct al &C
ton of debt, to be commenced in the name of such
city or the inhabitants of such town plantation,
against the party liable; but no such defendant is
liable for any costs of suits ualess it appears by
the declaration and by proof that payment of said
tax has been duly demanded before suit
Approved March 6, 1851
Chapter 3J1.
AN ACT to amend section eleven of chapter if-
ty-eght of the Revised Statutes, relating to Ag-
rcultural Institutions
Be 1t e, acted, ETC., as follows:
Section 1. Section eleven of chapter fifty
eight of the revised statutes Is hereby amende by
striking out all of said section after the word
"doars' in the eighteenth line of said section,
thatsaid section amended, shall read follows:
Section II. The treasurer of an incorporlt