The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-02

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hold real and personal estate to an
amount not exceeding 500, 900.
To Punish Lying
An act to prohibit false statements or
Misrepresentation concerning any in
surance corporation or association trans
acting business under the laws of this
state or concerning any officer thereof.
| ANY agent or solicitor for any insur-
ance corporation or association who
shall knowingly or wilfully make any
false, ibellous, or any misleading state
ments or Misrepresentation concerning
any insurance corporation or association
| transacting business under the laws of
this state or concerning any officer there
| of, shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be punished by a
fine of not less than $50 nor more than
$500 or imprisonment in the county Jail
for not less than 80 days nor more than
one year, or both, and he shall be for
hidden to transact any business as an in
| surance agent for not less than five nor
more than ten years.
| Against the Spite Fence.
Mr.. Bird of Portland presented today
as an amendment to section 5, chapter
| II, R. S., copy of the Massachusetts
| statute, chapter 34s of the year 1887. The
chapter has been held to be constitu-
tional and applies as well to existing
structures subsequently, maintained as to
| those afterwards erected. The statue
| is that relating to nuisances, the principal
difference from the Maine law being
found in the following clause: ANY
| fence OF any structure in the nature of a
| fence, unnecessarily exceeding six feet
| in height, maliciously kept and main
tanned for the purpose of annoying the
owners or occupants of adjoining prop
erty, shall be deemed a private NUS
| ance.
Here's Another Bank Bill.
Another saving bank bill appeared to-
day. Its to insert on the statutes this
provision relating to the rights of invest
ment: 1.-THE term municipal indebted
ness of any city, as used in this section
shall be construed to be its debt evi
denced by bonds, contracts or obliga
| tions liable to be met by tax levies, ex-
elusive of any such debt created for a
water supply, and of the amount of any
| sinking fund available in reduction of
any of its debt, but including all bonds,
| contracts and obligations of street i'm
provement boards, school district boards
| and boards of education or other corpo-
rate bodies authorized to contract debts
and issue bonds to be met by taxation
within such cities; and the bonds or OBJ
| legations of such street Improvement
| boards, school district boards on boards
| of education and other corporate bodies
| within ct1oh aitioc araotiY,r Eny1
| the taxable property within their limits,
| shall be treated as the bonds and obliga-
lions of the municipality; the number of
| inhabitants of such cities shall be deter
mined by the last previous official census
| thereof.
| For the Aged in Cape Elizabeth
Mr.. Haskell of Cape Elizabeth put in a
bill today to incorporate VIM. B. Hig-
gins, Irene M. Higgins, Nathaniel Dyer,
Amanda E. Dyer, Clara I. Dyer, Stephen
Scammon, Lesbie G. Jewell, Emma HI.
Jewell and Eliza A, Poland, as a body
corporate to be known as the Cape Eliza
| beth Home for Aged Women. The COR
poration shall consist of not less than
| seven nor more than eleven members all
of whom shall be citizens of Cape Eliza
| beth. The corporation may hold prop
erty to an amount not exceeding $4,000,
exempt from taxation.
For Medical Registration.
A bill entitled an act to prevent incom-
petent persons from practising medicine
and surgery came into the Senate today.
| 1t provides that the Governor shall APP
point board of medical registration con-
sisting of three. The bill provides that
a person desiring to practise medicine or
| surgery shall have received degree at
| some suitable college or school and pass
an examination by the board. Any per-
son who may show that he has been en-
gagged in the practice of medicine for ten
years past may not be required to pass
| the regular examination. The measure
| is similar to those previously introduced
on this subject
A Stroudwater Concern.
VIM. Fl. Stevens, Michael Stevens and
Tristram Stevens, ask to be Incorporated
as the Stroudwater Electric Light and
Power Company. The capital stock is
to be $4,000 and the corporation is to
have the rights usually enjoyed by such
| concerns.
The Axe Falls.
The tax committee report legislation
inexpedient on the order directing them
the inquire into the expediency of sabol-
ishing the state board of assessors.
The committee on pensions report adj
versely on the petitions of several
Aroosto ok war veterans for pensions.
In an order referred from the last leg
| islature, the railroad committee report
legislation to provide for a non-partisan
board of railroad commissioners inexpe-
dent. -
The committee on military have rec
commended leave to withdraw to the
Bangor petitioners who were so surprised
| to learn that the arms had been taken
| from the Bangor arsenal.
| The Judiciary committee report ad-
versely on bills to establish boundary
| lines, creating lien for labor on lumber,
to amend the statutes in relation to taxes
on buildings owned by non-residents, to
guard against the accidental killing of
people by sportsmen; and to provide for
the correction of errors in the assess
ment of taxes.