The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-04-07
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from and after the first day of January one thousand
eight hundred and nnetyonc shall receive an annual
salary of three hundred dollars in quarterly payments
the first day of January, APRIL July and October in
stead of the compensation provided IN section twenty
is further provided that the sheriff of said county shall
not receive from any OF his deputies any OF the fees
earned by said deputies or any percentage thereon
sgcrs This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved March IL.
Chapter Ga.
AN Of of r16a at and
ings and examinations in said courts.
SECT. The judge of any court of prob tie court
the proceedings any hearing examination where
contest is had in his court whenever such judge deems
sworn faithful discharge of his duty, and, under
the direction of the judge shall take full all
also such other proceedings at such hearing exami
nation as the judge directs and when required by the
judge shall furnish for the files of the
and legbe long hlnd or written transcript of his
notes Of the oral testimony Of any person tesfyng at
in making said transcript the stenographer shall
SECT . When a transcript has been made as pro.
vided by section one of this act it shall be read the
and place to be appointed by the judge unless such
person his counsel, in writing valves such reading
and if it is found to be correct if it contains
mistakes, alleged mistakes, and such
mistakes either corrected the proceed
ings had in relation to the hereinafter provid
ed such transcript shall be signed by the person whose
testimony or examination it is, in all cases where the
person testifying submitting examination re-
quired by law to sign his testimony examination.
when the reading OF transcript waived prOvid-
ed by TINS section, such transcript shall be deemed
correct.
SECT. g. Manifest errors or mistakes in any tran
script may be corrected under the direction of the
judge, according to the facts But when an error or
examinations by his COUNSEL by the person tes
tying submitting to examination, by his counsel
and said parties cannot agree whether not there is
such an error or mistake as alleged what correction
should be made the judge shall decide whether or not
such mistake exists, and may allow or dis
allow correction according he may find the fact
but in such case the judge shall annex to the transcript
Ia al aOnda
mistake, and by whom alleged, and the correction
ally agree that there is or mistake in the tran
script and in like manner agree what the correction
should be- the transcript may be corrected according
such agreement, but correction shall be stated
and maden the presence of the judge No changes or
the presence of the judge the person appointed by
the judge to take the examination:
SECT. 4. When an examination is taken before some
person appointed by the judgeto take it, judge may
aso apPo1 to attend such examina-
ac and the duties of such stenographer shall be the
and duties of any person appointed by the Judge to
take examination, shall be the same at such exami
for the correction alteration of transcripts may Be
had before such person as before the judge
SECT. 8. All transcripts made and signed as herein
provided, shall be deemed original papers.
SECT g. stenographers appointed under the provs
their services in court or at and travel
dence to the place of holding the court or examina-
ton and ten cents for every hundred words of tran
the county in which the court examination is held
after the stenographers bill has been allowed bv the
Judge of the court in which the services were rendered
But any stenographer employed under the provisions
of this act negects refuses to perform nv part of
the duty required of him he shall receive paw for his
services ana also may be punished for CONTEMPT of
court. In probate Matters the executor administra
tor or guardian SHALL in each the estate in
his hands, pay to the register the county
the assignee shall pay the the register for the
county before any claims paid, other than those
named in paragraph of section forty of chapter
seventy of the revised statutes.
of this act, shall also furnish correct and egibe
long hand or typewriter copies of their notes Of the
oral testimony taken at any hearing examination to
any person calling for the same, upon payment of ten
cents for every hundred words of the copy furnished
Approved March 49,
CHAPTER 65.
AN ACTto apportion the State for Representative
ito Congress.
SECT |. The counties of York and Cumberland
shall compose the first district entitled to one
representative. The counties of Oxford Franklin
Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Knox and Lincoln shall
representative. The countless of Kennebec Somerset
Waldo and Hancock shall compose the third district
and be entitled to one representative The counties Of
Penobscot Piscataquis, Aroostook and Washin9ton
shall compose the fourth district and be entitled re- ono
representative.
SECT. q The election of representatives to congress
shall take place and be on the the second Monday Of
september, one thousand eight hundred and ninetv-
two, and thereafter bianniay.
SECT. 8. The representatives chosen in the several
districts SHALL at the time their election be residents
therein The foregoing division of the state into ronra
sentative districts, shall be and continue in force m
til an apport1onment shall be made for representative
to congress, after tll1ing the twelfth census
SECT. a. In case any vacancy among the represent.
ativeS to congress requires election prior to the
second Monday of Sep omber thousand eight hun