Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-05

amended giving the claimant 10 instead
OF 80 days in which to file his statement.
Complaints of violations of the fort,
nightly payment law must hereafter be
made by an employee to whom wages are
then due.
Public notice of a hearing on probate
OF foreign wills shall be made three weeks
instead of 80 days before the hearing.
Licensed taxidermists may now receiy.
and have in possession for purposes of
mounting, fish and game at any season.
There shall not be any alewives taken
from Sheepscot river or tributaries, save
from Back river, for three years.
Parents or guardians at their own ex-
pense may provide school books for their
children.
Accident or casualty insurance com
panies shall receive notice of accident
within 30 instead of 60 days.
The salary of the Judge of probate of
kennebec county is now $1,000
A town or city shall not receive State
aid for free public library unless the
State librarian shall have received the re-
port of that town on or before April /.
The county Of Washington is EN-.
powered to aid in the construction of the
Washington County railroad to an amount
not exceeding $500, 900, said preferred
stock to receive per cent dividends.
The charter has been extended four years.
The salary of register of probate in
Penobscot county is fixed at $1,000, with
$500 for clerk hire
A law has been passed relative to pro-
duction of books and papers in actions of
law SO that in case of unreasonable delay
or refusal the court may order non-suit.
The salary of the judge of probate of
Cumberland county has been fixed at
$500
/ The register of deeds of Kennebec county
shall receive salary of $500, with $500
for clerk hire.
An amendment has been made SO that
any Jail where any special kind of labor
is done by any class of the convicts shall
be regarded as work Jail.
The number of pounds of trout or
salmon that may now be taken is 25 and
not so as heretofore.
Provision has been made for the err
forcement of liens on buildings and lots
by bill in equity.
Children may now be bound assappren
ticcs by their guardians.
The salary of the Somerset clerk of
courts shall be 5000.
The anti compact insurance law and
the one prohibiting CO. insurance have been
repealed
Lien on colts has been extended from
five to six months.
A law has been passed whereby build
ings and places encroaching upon the
highway may be left there without the
owners acquiring titles to the land on
which the buildings are.
Sales on the installment plan will be
or should be made hereafter in COM
pliance with the new law which pro-
vides that no agreement whereby the
property shall be the property of the seller
until paid for, shall be valid except as be-
tween the parties unless recorded in the
city clerk s office.
The Rumford Falls Village Corpora
ton has been incorporated.
Hereafter surety companies must pay to
the insurance commissioner So instead of
81 for agents certificates.
An addition as been made to the Re-
vised Statutes relating to malicious mis-
chief so that whoever breaks and enters
any railway car, destroys Injuries, defiles
or defaces any railroad car on any rail-
road in the State, or mischievously or
maliciously releases the brakes upon,
moves or sets in motion any railroad car,
etc, shall be imprisoned not exceeding
two years or by fine not exceeding $500.
An act to prevent the use of the words
"coin silver, sterling" sterling sill
YER, F." etc, on spurious goods is in force
Section 8, chapter 4, Revised Statutes, is
repealed. This relates to elections.
Section 10, chapter 49, Revised Statutes, is
repealed. This relates to size OF packages
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