Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-28

VAOthCi puUliC convenience REQUIRES IO(
construction of an electric railroad.
All horse railroads are to be known a.
street railroads for the purposes of taxa
tlon which shall be upon all at the same
rate as heretofore upon horse railroads.
The county of Washington is empow-
cred to aid in the construction of the
Washington county railroad to an amount
not exceeding 100000, said preferred
STOCK to receive per cent dividends.
The charter has been extended four years.
Before this legislation was attained there
was one of the liveliest contests of the ses-
sion and compromise with Col. Greene
by which he was given q certain time te
build the road, alone settled it.
A narrow guage system from Wiscasset
through Waterville and into Franklin
county has been projected.
Tax Laws.
State taxes in organized plantations
shall be assessed on real and personal
property
When the sale of townships OF tracts
taxed by the State as wild land is not
owned by the persons who own the growth
thereon, the State assessors shall value
the soil and such growth separately for
purposes of taxation.
The law relating to assessment of coun-
ty taxes has received as addition thereto
kthe provision that the county commits.
sioners may add to the tax authorized a
sum not exceeding two per cent of said
sum, as fractional division renders con-
venient.
| BY an amendment lien to secure
payment of tax upon real estate shall take
precedence of all other claims. If such
tax remains unpaid on the first Monday
in December of the year succeeding that
| in which said tax was assessed the pro-
perty shall be sold.
| One of the important acts of this Legis-
lature is that relating to the taxation of
sailing vessel property and it is confident
ly stated by owners of vessel property that
much of that kind of property which
Maine owners have placed in other states
Massachusetts and New York, will be
brought back to Maine and tax paid
thereon. The new law provides for a
valuation Of $50 upon new vessels. The
valuation is TO be reduced 81 per ton for
each year of the vessels age. up to the
| 18th year when the valuation shall be
| fixed at So per ton. Vessels rebuilt, that
is when 40 per cent of the original cost is
| expended in, repairs, shall be valued at half
their age. But vessels on which 20 per
cent of the original cost is expended in re
pairs shall be valued at five eighths age
Appeals from the assessors to the su-
premc court have been authorized. A
non resident shall not be debarred from
appeal through failure to bring in a list
| of his property to the assessors, but in
such case no costs shall be allowed ap-
pellant.
A law has been passed requiring the
State assessors to make lists of lands in
unincorporated places, with rs many
divisions as will secure equitable taxa
| ton, conforming as nearly as convenient
! to known divisions and separate owner
ship, and report the same to each success
sive Legislature.
The law relating to itinerant vendors
has been amended so that no person shall
| hold or receive benefit from more than
one State license; no itinerant vendor
shall be exempted from the rovisions of
sec. Is of the law by temporarily associa-
ting himself with local dealer. The
law also provides for local licenses and
collection of taxes upon the stock of the
vendor who on coming to town shall noti-
fy the assessors.
The recommendation of the State as
SCISSORS to have wild lands valued by an
expert in case of disagreement over the
valuation, died between the two branches.
Mortgages.
Section %, chap 90, Revised Statutes,
has been amended to read "a mortgage
may be discharged by an entry acknow-
Lodging the satisfaction thereof, made on
the margin OF the record of the mortgage
in the registry of deeds and signed by the
mortgage, or by his executor, administra-
tor, or assignee, and such entry shall have
the same effect as a deed of release duly
acknowledged and recorded. Ii mort
gagee, or his executor, administrator, or
assignee, after foil performance Of the
condition of his mortgage. whether before
or after breach of such condition, refuses
or neglects for seven days after being
thereto requested, and after tender OF
his reasonable charges to make such dis
charge or to execute and acknowledge a
Ideed 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.
The law relating to mortgages has been
amended, with the provision that the
mortgage shall be recorded in the place
where the mortgagor resides when the
mortgage is given.
A law has been passed providing that an
uudischarged mortgage, after the mort
gagor has been in uninterrupted possession
for 90 years after the time limited in the
mortgage. shall not affect the title.
cln,o C,ebnrioc
An act has been passed defining the
duties of the commissioner and wardens
of sea and shore fisheries; also resolve
for the codilication of the laws relating &c
those fisheries. The commissioner Is TO
make biennial reports; receive salary
of $1,000 per annum. Wardens snail ho'
exercise their duties save in their own
counties unless otherwise instructed by
the commissioner. They may enter and
seize without warrant. They shall max,
smonthly reports to the commissioner
Their compensation shall be 81 a day and
expenses when actually employed.
Beginning next July the law providing
for 10 l. inch Holsters the year round goes
, into effect.
The act to regulate the packing OF sar
1;,,., ,,,.av;1ac that not less than one