The Portland daily press., 1895-02-28

publishing or circulating the same, or any hand
bill, advertisement, or notice thereof, or by
knowingly suffering the same to be published
in any newspaper OF periodical under his charge
or on any cover or paper attached thereto; or
who in any manner aids therein, or is connected
Herewith, shall be punished by fine of not
less than ten dollars nor more than one thou
sand dollars, to be recovered by complaint,
indictment or action of debt, half to the prose
cutor and half to the town where the ofense is
committed; and if by action of debt, he shall
not be entitled to the benefit Of chapter one hun
dred and thirteen, and If by Indictment he shall
further be punished by Imprisonment for thirty
days ON the first conviction; sixty, ON the
second; and ninety on the third. And all lot
terry tickets, or materials for lottery, procured
for that purpose, shall be disposed of as pro-
V1ded IN section twelve of chapter one hundred
and twenty-five The printing, advertising,
issuing or delivery of any ticket, paper, docu-
1nent or material representing or purporting to
represent the existence of, or an interest in a
lottery, policy, lottery, game or hazard shall be
prlma facie evidence of the existence, location
ana 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 value received
| therefor by the person or persons, company or
corporation who issues or delivers or knowingly
aids OF abetsin the issuing or delivering of such
| paper, ticket, document or material
| lApproved Mar. g.
Chapter 81.
AN ACT additional to chapter forty-eight of
| the Revised Statutes, relating to Organiza-.
1 W.
| SEC. /. If the stockholders of any corpora
ton already organized or that may be here
after organized under section, sixteen and
| seventeen of chapter forty eight of the re-
4 yised statutes shall desire to decrease the
amount of its capital Stock the stockholders,
| at meeting duly called for the purpose or al
| any annual meeting, when notice shall hav e
| been given of such proposed action in the call
| therefor, may by u vote representing a ma
| jority of all the stock issued, decrease the
| amount of its capital stock to any amount de.
| sired, and the corporation shall give notice OF
such cha ge to the secretary of state within
ten days thereafter And each stakeholder
shall, within three months after such meeting
surrender such a proportion of his stock as the
amount of decrease shall bear to the amount OF
the capital stock before the decrease, so that
each steckholder shall have the same proper
| ton Of the whole capital stock of the company
as before the decrease.
SEQ. 2. This act shall not affect OF preju-
dice in any way the rights of creditors of such
corporation existing at the time when the
reduction of its capital stock authorized under
the preceding section shall be contaminated.
| SEC g. The clerk of any corporation organ.
lied under the laws of this state may resign
his office as clerk by filing 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 So.
AN ACT additional to chapter thirty-nine OF
| the Revised Statutes, relating to receptacles
| for kerosene, refined petroleum, gasoline OF
| other burning or Illuminating oils or fluids
SEC. l. All persons or corporations engaged
in the sale of kerosene, refined petroleum, gas
oline, or other burning OF Illuminating oils or
fluids, in cans of capacity of not less than five
gallons with their names, or other marks OF
devices branded, stamped, engraved, etched,
impressed or 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, description OF
the names and marks aforesaid, used by them
and cause the same to be published once week
| for three successive weeks, in any weekly paper
published in the county in which said notice
may have been filed as aforesaid
SEC. ?. Whoever knowingly and willfully,
without the written consent of the owners
uses buys, sells, fills or traf1ics 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 a fine of not more than twenty
| dollars. approved March g.
Chapter SO.
| 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 as amended; shall read as follows
SEC. %. A mortgage may be discharged by
an entry acknowledging the satisfaction there.
| of, made on the margin of the record of the
mortgage in the registry of deeds and signed
| by the mortgagee or by his executor, admins
TRAITOR, OF assignee, and such entry shall have
| the same effect as deed of release duly
acknowledged and recorded. If q mortgagee,
| or his executor, administration, or assignee
after full 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 q
tender of his reasonable charges to make such
| discharge or to execute and acknowledge a
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.
| payment OF Taxes.
SECT. l. Section one hundred and niney three
of chapter six of the revised statutes is hereby
amended, so as to read as follows:
| SEC. 1873. For all taxes legally assessed on
real estate and on equitable interests assessed
under section three of said chapter 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
4 such tax remains unpaid on the first Monday
| in December in the year succeeding the veal
| 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 oil
said first Monday in December, at the office Of
|
where the last preceding annual town meeting
was held, in towns. In the case of the rea
| 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 the 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
II known, the right, lot and range, the number
| of acres as nearly as may be, the amount o.
| tax due, and such other short description as is
necessary to render its identification certain
| and plain. And i'll the case of taxes assessed
| on the real estate OF non resident owners he
shall cause said notices to be published in
some newspaper, If any, published in the
| county where said real estate lies three
| weeks successfully; such publication to he
| gin at least six weeks before said first Monday
| in December; if 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 if
| has been changed for the whole or part of the
| territory both the present and former name
shall be stated, and that, if the taxes, interest
| and charges are not paid OF 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