The Portland daily press., 1895-02-28

thereof the word street. so that said section
as amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. At. Street railroad corporations and
associations are subject to the six preceding
sections, and to section four, except that the
tax shall be ascertained as follows; when the
gross average receipts per mile do not exceed
one thousand dollars, the tax shall be equal TO
one tenth OF one per cent on the gross trans
portation receipts; and for each thousand dol
lars additional average gross receipts per mile,
or fractional part thereof, the rate shall be
increased one tenth of one per cent
SECT 2. This act shall take effect when
approved. Improved Feb. 2S.l
Chapter as.
AN ACT to amend section two of chapter two
hundred fortytwo of the Public Laws of
eighteen hundred ninety-three, relating to
Free Public Libraries.
Section two of chapter two hundred forty-tWo
of the public laws of eighteen hundred ninety
three is hereby amended by inserting therein
after the words, % for the use and benefit OF
such free public library the following words:
and for the payment of the running eX[ enses
thereof so that said section as amended, snail
read as follows;
SECT. ,. The municipal officers in any town
or city where free public library is establish
ed, shall annually, on the first day OF May, Ger
tify to the state treasurer the amount of money
appropriated and expended by said town or
city during the preceding year for the purchase
of books and documents for the use and bene-
fit of such free public library and for the pay
ment of the running expenses thereof; and the
state treasurer thereupon shall pay to said
town from the state treasury, for the purchase
of books for the use of such library, sum
equal to ten per cent of the amount expended
by said town as certified by its municipal
officers [Approved Feb. %.
Chapter 46.
AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and
twenty three of the Public Laws of eighteen
hundred and ninety-three, relating to Acct
dent or Casualty Insurance Com anies.
Chapter two hundred and twenty-three of the
public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety
iG Nv mnndp6 "a
word sixty in the seventh and ninth lines
thereof and inserting the word thirty so
that said act as amended, shall read as follows:
mo conditions, stipulations or agreements con-
tanned in any application for insurance in any
foreign or domestic casualty or accident in
suranoe company, or contained In any policy
issued by any such company, or In any way
made by any such company, limiting the time
within which notice of the accident or injury,
or death, shall be given to such company, to
period of less than thirty days after the hap
pening of the accident or injury, OF death, shall
be valid. Said notice may be given to the CON-
pany insuring, at any time within thirty days
after the happening of the accident or injury,
or death and shall be valid and binding on the
company Approved Feb %.
Chapter At.
AN ACT to amend section eight of chapter
eleven of the Revised Statutes, as amended
by chapter two hundred siXty-eight of the
Public Laws of one thousand eight hundred
and eighty nine, relating to School Books.
Section eight of chapter eleven of the revised
statutes, as amended by chapter two hundred
and sixty eight OF the public laws of eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended
by adding to said section the following: 6 Pro
vided, however, that any parent or guardian
of any pupil in the public schools may, at his
own expense, procure for the separate and
exclusive use of such pupil the text books
required to be used in such schools, SO that
said section, amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. s. Towns shall provide school books
for the use of the pupils in the public schools,
at the expense of said town, and all money
hot Clo1
be assessed like other moneys, Provided,
however, that any parent or guardian of any
pupil in the public schools may, at his own
expense, procure for the separate and exclu-
sive use of such pupil the text books required
to be used in such schools
approved February 25.l
Chapter 4S.
AN ACT relating to Safe Deposit Companies.
Whenever the amount due for the use of any
safe, or box, in the vaults of any safe deposit
company, shall not have been paid for three
years, such corporation may, at the expiration
of such period, cause to be sent to the person
in whose name such safe, or box, stands on its
books, a notice in writing in a securely closed,
postpaid, registered letter, directed to such
person at his post office address as recorded
upon the books of the corporation notifying
such person that if the amount then due for
the use of such safe, or box is not paid within
sixty days from the date of such notice, the cor
pOration Will then cause such safe or box to
be opened III the manner hereinafter provided;
at the expiration of sixty days after the mail
ing of said notice, the corporation may then
cause such safe or box, to be opened in the
presence of it's president, secretary or treas
urer, and of a notary public not an officer, or
in the employ OF the corporation, and the con
tents of said safe or box, shall then be sealed
up by such notary public in a package and a
certificate of such sealing shall be Endorsed
thereon, signed by such notary and attested by
his seal, and said package shall be distinctly
marked with the name and address of the per-
son in whose name such safe, or box, stands
upon the books of the corporation, and the es-
timated value thereof; said package shall then
be placed in one of the general safes or boxes
of the corporation, and shall be held subject
to redemption by the owner thereof, who shall
be required to pay the rent due for said safe
or box, and all costs and damages attending
the opening thereof together with reasonable
charges for the custody of said package by the
lien upon said package to secure the payment
OF such rent, damages and charges.
Approved February 25.l
Chapter 40.
AN ACT relating to the taxation of Express
Corporations, Companies or Persons.
SECT. l. Section hfty-six of chapter six of
the revised statutes, is hereby amended, so
that said section as amended, shall read as
follows:
SECT. 56. Every such corporation, company
or person, shall, by it's properly authorized
agent or Office, annually, on before the fiji
teenth day of May, make a return under oath
to the state assessors, stating the amount of
said receipts for all express matters carried
within the state as specified in the preceding
section; whereupon the state assessors shall
on or before the fifteenth day of June follow
ing, assess the tax therein provided, and forth
with certify the same to the treasurer of state,
who shall thereupon notify said corporations,
companies OF persons, and said taxes shall be
paid into the state treasury or before the
first day of May following
SECT. 2. Section fifty-Seven of chapter six of
the revised statutes, is hereby amended, so
that said section as amended, shall read as
follows
SECT. 81. The tax assessed upon express
corporations, companies and persons as afore-
said, is in place of all local taxation, except
that real estate owned by such corporations,
companies or persons shall be taxed in the
municipality where the same is situated, as
nonresident real estate, but the amount of
taxes assessed upon such portion of real es-
tate owned and actually used by them in the
transaction of their business shall be deducted
by the state assessors from the tax hereinbe-
fore provided
SECT. 3. Section fifty-eight of chapter six of
the revised statutes, is hereby amended, so
that said section as amended, shall read as
follows
SECT. IS. Any corporation, company or
person, neglecting to make returns according
to section fifty SIX forfeits twenty-five dollars
for every days neglect, to be recovered by &C
ton OF debt in the name of the state.'
approved February 25.l
Chapter so.
AN ACT to authorize Licensed Taxidermists
to receive and have in possession Fish and