The Portland daily press., 1885-04-01
PUBLIC LAWS O. THE STATE o. MAINE
by the uysecod Legsah D


such officers, and at the expiration of each decade
of years it shall be the duty of the clerk then in
office to have one set of such lists received during
the decade, bound in substantial manner
[Approved February l6, 1885,.
Chapter 264.
AN ACT establishing the standard weight of
bushel of BEANS
Be IL enacted, ETC., as follows:
Section 1. The standard weight of a bushel of
beans in good order and fit for shipping is sixty
pounds.
Section 2. This act shall take effed .vhen ap-
proved. approved February Is, 1851
Chapter 265.
AN ACT to amend section thirteen Of chapter one
hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes, re-
lating to witness fees in Probate Courts.
Be 1T enacted, ETC., as follows:
Section thirteen of chapter one hundred and six
teen of the revised statutes is hereby amended
follows:
BY striking out the words sand in the probate
court in the second line thereof, and inserting
said words between the words courts and
"shall in the first line thereof that said section
as amended shall read as follows:
Section Is. Witnesses in the supreme judicial
or superior courts, and in the probate court shall
receive one dollar and fifty cents, or before the
county commissioners, dollar for each days at
tendance and six cents for each miles trave going
out and returning home; and before justice of the
peace and of the quorum, trial justice, judge of
municipal or police court, referees, auditors or
commissioners specially appointed to take testmo,
ny fifty cents day for attendance, and for travel
the same as at the courts aforesaid
approved February 49, 1851
Chapter 266.
AN ACT to establish standard weight of a barrel
of potatoes.
Be jtendcted, ETC., as follows:
Section j. The standard weight of barrel OF
potatoes in good order and fit for shipping, is one
hundred and sixty-five pounds
Section 2. Whoever acting for himself or as the
employe of another takes more than the standard
weight for barrel of potatoes, shall forfeit fifty
cents for each barrel, to the person prosecuting
therefor within thirty days.
Section g. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. LApproved February 49, 1851
Chapter 267.
AN ACT relating to scientific temperance instruc-
ton in public schools.
Be 1T enacted, etc., as follows:
Section /. Provision shall be made by the prop
er local school authorities for instructing all pu-
pills in all schools supported by public money or
under state control, in physiology and hygiene,
with special reference to the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human
system
Section 2. No certificate shall be granted any
person to teach in the public schools Of this state
after the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and
eighty five, who has not passed a satisfactory ex-
animation in physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks stimu-
lants and narcotics upon the human system.
Improved February 10, 1885.
Chapter 26S.
AN ACT to amend section one hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven OF chapter eleven of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to School for the Deaf.
BE 1t enacted, ETC.. as follows
Section one hundred and twenty-seven of chap
ter eleven of the revised statutes is hereby amend
ed by adding to the last line the words sent to the
American Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut and
not exceed two hundred dollars year for each pu-
pill sent to the Portland School for the Deaf, at
Portland, Maine,' that said section when amend
ed shall read as follows:
Section 1877. The governor may draw his war
n ~ inGtrI
ton and support of such pupils may be sent to
said institutions respectively pursuant to the pre-
cedng section, the same not to exceed one hundred
and seventy-ive dollars year for each pupil sent
to the American Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut,
and not exceed two hundred dollars year for
each pupil sent to the Portland school for the deaf
at Portland, Maine [Approved February 1855.
Chapter 269.
AN ACT to amend section eight of chapter twen-
ty-four OF Revised Statutes, relating to pau
pers.
Be 1T enacted, etc as follows:
Section |. Section eight, of chapter twenty-four
OF the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and
eighty-tlGee, is hereby amended by adding the
following words to the end thereof. to wit: But
the time during which said soldier is SO dependent
shall not be included in the period of residence
necessary to change his settlement, so that said
section as amended shall read as follows
section 8. No soldier, who served by enlist
ment In the army or navy of the United States in
the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and
has received an honorable discharge from said SER
vice, and who has or may become dependent upon
any town, shall be considered a pauper or be sub
Ject to disfranchisement for that cause; but the
time during which said soldier is so dependent
shall not be included in the period Of residence
necessary to change hissettlement.'
Section 2. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. approved February 10, 1885
Chapter $40.
AN ACT for the protection of Lobster Traps
BE at eTadcfed, ETC., as follows:
Whoever takes up, OF attempts to take up, or in
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