The Portland daily press., 1891-04-07


snail De allowed attendance the provided for
and IN Of f6ntles by chapter three hundred
and eighty-fve.
SECT. q This act shall take effect when approved.
approved March IL.
Chapter IS.
AZ b TO repeal chapter two hundred and eighty of
nine establishing bounty on Crows
SECT l. Chapter two hundred and eighty of the
titled can Act additional to chapter thirty of the re-
E ly statutes established bounty on crows is
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved
Approved March H.
AN ACT to authorize the selectmen OF towns to an.
point Police Officers. ~
SECT. 1. The selectmen of towns shall have power
and authority appoint and control and fix the com
pensation of police officers. Such appointment shall
and recorded the ad shall t be or eb
time not exceeding one year as the selectmen shall
SECT. 2 Police officers so appointed shall severallv
nave an the powers OF constable in criminal matters,
within the limits of the town, and may removed by
the seectmen when they shall deem that the interests
of the town require such removal
Approved March 49,.
Chapter 60.
AN ACT to amend section eight of chapter twenty
nine and one hundred and forty-six of the Public
Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty nine, relating
to dependent soldiers and sailors, SO that said sec.
ton shall apply to families OF soldiers and sailors
statutes, as amended by chapters nine and one hun.
dred and forty six of the public laws of eighteen
and sailors. is amended by inserting in line eleven
after the word "sailors,' the following words: cor
their families, $50 that section eight Shall read as
follows:
sect. 8. No soldier sailor who served by enlist
ment in the army or navy of the United States the
war of eighteen hundred and sixty one, who has
received an honorable discharge from said service
and who has or may become dependent upon any
town, shall be considered pauper, be subject to
which said soldier sailor is dependent, shall not
be included in the period of residence necessary to
not have authority to remove to, support in the
n CHfflp r1nn chnU
support them at his home in the town of his set
than the poor house, as the overseers of the poor of
the town of his settlement may deem right and proper
This section shall not be construed as to deprive
of the poor any right remove and sup
port such dependent soldier sailor and his family in
Approved March Ii.
Chapter 6n.
AN ACT to amend section seventeen OF chapter forty
of the Revised Statutes, amended by chapter two
hundred and sixty-one of the Public Laws of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty five relating to Migratory
Section seventeen of chapter forty of the revised
statutes amended by chapter two hundred and six
tyone Of the public laws of the year eighteen hundred
and eighty five, is hereby further amended by adding
thereto the following words Sand it shall be lawful TO
take shad and alewves in the An(rOscoggn river and
in Merrymeeting bay from April first to June fifteenth
in each year. by the of drag seines not than
fifty fathoms in length, and of not more than fifty
meshes in DEPTH that said section, as amended
SECT II. The taking of maczerel, herring shad,
OF purse and drag seines is prohibited in all Small
bays inles, harbors, wers, where any entrance 10
than three nautical miles in width, under IL pen
atty upon the master person in charge of such
seines, upon the owners of vessel senes
ployed in such unlawful fishing, of not less than three
hundred than five hundred dollars to be
covered by Indictment, action of debt; OnefOurth
Of the penalty to the complainant prosecutor, and
theefourths to the county in which the proceedings
are commented; and there shall be lien upon the
vessels ste; meIs boats and apparatus used in such
unlawful pursuit., until said penalty, with costs of
cutiOn is pad but net for meshing kerCl
pOrges of not more than hundred mCShes in
depth. and net for hing herring, of than
one hundred and seventy mesheS in depth, and net
meshes in depth, shall not be deemed seine; and it
shall be lawful to take shad and alewlves in the An
droscoggin river and Merry meeting hay from April
first June fifteenth in each year. by the use of drag
seiues not more than fifty athOms in LENGTH and OF
not more than fifty meshcs in depth
Approved March 49,
G'hnpseP G9.
AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and nine of
the Public Laws of eighteen huntlr and eighty nine,
County equal to that Of the other counties, Cumber-
land excepted.
SECT. 1. Section of chapter three hundred nine
the public laws of eightc hundI "a and eighty nine
is hereby amended by striking out tie words ";nd
KcnncbeC countless in the last clause Of said section
and substituting the word county III place "cOun
ties, 10 tha1 said section shall read as Flows: .
'STCT. 7. Ell ID each Gay at.endance ~ the sneTiH
on tie annresne judicial either of the superior
courts tca dol ars Ne paid from The county treas,
uIy. This amendment shall not apply 10 Cumberland
county
Approved March Is.