Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-29

policy shop, ecncmo VI eovAco - s.sensg -
rnhiishing or circulating the same, or any hand
| bi1- advertisement, or notice thereof, or by
knowingly suerns the sae nn nS pc s oharse
! ar on any cover or paper attached thereto; OF
who in any manner aids therein, or u connected
herewith shall DO punished ~ a nne Of tn mo.
indictment or action Of debt, half to the prose
cutor and half to the town wnere ,ns ohense II
not be entitled to the benefit OF chapter one nun,
dred and thirteen, and il by indictment he shall
further be punished by Imprisonment ior tni ~,
days ON the first conviction; sixty, on the
| second; and ninety on the third. Ana al lot,
terry tickets, materials for lottery proc ureu
| for that purpose, shall be disposed OF as pro,
vided in section twelve of chapter one hundred
and twenty-five. The printing, advertising,
issuing or delivery OF any ticket, paper, docu'
ment or material representing or pufporting 70
represent the existence OF, or an interest IN q
lottery policy lottery, game or hazard shall be
primal flcie evidence of the existence, Location
and drawing of such lottery policy lottery,
game of hazard, and the Issuing or delivery OF
any such paper ticket; document or material
shall be prima facie evidence OF vaiue received
therefor by the person or persons, company or
corporation who issues or delivers or knowingly
aids or abets in the issuing OF delivering of such
paper, ticket, document or material
[Approved Marc
Chapter CT.
AN ACT additional to chapter forty-eight OF
the Revised Statutes, relating TO Organiza-
tion of Corporations under the general Jaw
SEC 1. II the stockholders of any corpora
ton already organized or that may be here.
after organized under section, sixteen ana
seventeen of chapter forty-eisht of the re-
yised statutes shall desire to decrease the
amount of its capital stock, the stockholders,
at meeting duly called for the purpose, or at
any annual meeting, when notice shall nave
been given OF such proposed action IN inc Sa aa
therefor, may by vote representing a ma
jority of all the stock issued, decrease the
amount of its capital stock to any. amount dc,
sired, and the corporation shall give NORGE OF
such change to the secretary of state within
ten days thereafter. And each stockhOlder
shall, within three months after such meeting,
surrender such proportion OF ms STOCK as the
amount of decrease shall bear to the amount OF
the capital stock before the decrease, so that
each stockhoder shall have the same proper
ton of the whole capital stock OF the company
SEC. 2. This act shall not affect or preju-
dice in any way the rights of creditors OF such
corporation existing ut the time when the
reduction of its capital stock authorized under
the preceding section shall be consummated.
SEC. 8. The clerk of any corporation organ
lied under the laws of this state may resign
his office as clerk by fling his resignation with
the register of deeds in the county where such
corporation was organized, said resignation to
take effect from and after the time OF the
receipt of the same by such register OF Deeds
Improved March 81
Chapter 6s.
AN ACT additional to chapter thirty nine Of
the Revised Statutes, relating to receptacles
for kerosene, refined petroleum, gasoline or
other burning or Illuminating oils or fluids:
SEC. l. AL persons or corporations engaged
in the sale of kerosene, refined petroleum, gas
oline, or other burning or Illuminating oils or
fluids, in cans of capacity of not less than five
gallons, with their names, or other marks or
devices branded, stamped, engraved, etched,
impressed otherwise produced upon such
cans or ANYTHING connected Herewith or apper-
tanning thereto, may file in the office of the
town or city clerk in which their principal
place OF business is situated, a description of
the names and marks aforesaid, used by them,
and cause the same to be published once a week
for three successive weeks, in any weekly paper
published in the county in which said notice
may have been filed as aforesaid.
SEC. 2. Whoever knowingly and willfully,
without the written consent of the owners,
uses,buys, SELLS fills or traflies in any such can
so marked as aforesaid or defaces, covers up
or obliterates the names, marks or devices
thereon, with intent to use, fill, sell, buy dis
pose of or traffic therein, or to convert the
same to his own use, shall, on complaint, be
punished by fine of not more than twenty
dollars. Improved March 81
Chapter 60.
AN ACT to amend section twenty eight of
chapter ninety of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to the discharge of Mortgages.
Section twenty -eight of chapter ninety of the
revised statutes, is hereby amended, so that
said section us amended, shall read as follows
SEC. 90. A mortgage may be discharged by
of, made on the margin of the record of the
mortgage in the registry of deeds and signed
by the mortgage, or by his executor, admins
traitor, or assignee, and such entry shall have
the same effect as deed of release duly
acknowledged and recorded. IL mortgagee,
or his executor, administrator, or assignee,
after full performance of the condition OF his
mortgage whether before or after breach of
such a condition, refuses or neglects for seven
days after being thereto requested. and after a
tender of his reasonable charges to make such
cpi,a rornn ar n n dna
deed of release Of the mortgage, he shall be
liable for all damages occasioned by such
neglect or refusal, to be recovered in an action
of the case.' [Approved March 81
Chapter 20.
AN ACT to amend chapter six of the Revised
Statutes, relating to Sales of Land for Non
SECT. /. Section one hundred and niney three
of chapter six of the revised statutes is hereby
amended, SO as to read as follows:
SEC. 1893. For all taxes legally assessed on
real estate and on equitable interests assessed
under section three of said chapter, q lien Is |
created to secure the payment of said tax, which
said lien shall take precedence of all other
claims on said real estate, and shall continue |
in force until said tax shall be paid. If any |
such tax remains unpaid ON the first Monday |
in December in the year succeeding the year |
In which said tax was assessed, the collector |
shall sell at public auction so much of such |
real estate or interest as is necessary for the |
payment OF said tax, interest and all the |
charges, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of |
said first Monday in December, at the office OF |
collector of taxes, in cities, and ut the place |
where the last preceding annual town meeting |
was held, in towns. In the case of the real |
estate of resident owners, the collector may |
give notice thereof and of his intention to sell |
so much of said real estate or interest as is /
necessary for tho payment of said tax and all |
charges, by posting notices thereofin the same |
manner and at the same places that warrants |
for town meetings are therein required to be |
posted, six weeks before such first Monday in |
December, designating the name of the owner |
of acres as nearly as may be, the amount of |
tax due, and such other short description as is |
necessary to render its identification certain
and plain. And in the case of taxes assessed
on the real estate OF non resident owners, he
shall cause said notices to be published in |
some newspaper, II any, published in the |
county where said real estate lies, three |
weeks successfully; such publication to be.
gin at least six weeks before said first Monday
In December; Ii no newspaper is Published in
said county, said notices shall be published in
like manner, in the state paper; he shall, in
the advertisements so published, state the
name of the town, and if within three wears it
has been changed for the whole or q part of the
territory, both the present and former name
shall be stated, and that, If the taxes, interest
and charges are not paid on before such
first Monday in December, so much OF the
estate as Is sufficient to pay the amount due
therefor with interest and charges, will be sold
without further notice, at public auction, on
said first Monday in December, at nine O'Clock
in the forenoon, at the Office of the collector