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further amended 6y adding AFTER tho WORD
amended, the words sor yarding,' SO that said
section as amended. shall read as foliows;z
| 'SECT. 20. Whoever .lab0rs AZ cutting and
peeling or yarding hsmloct 6ark, OF so sa nsas
sons engaged in such labor, has y lien THEREON
for the amount due for. his personal services
and the services performed by his team.wmcn
takes precedence Of all other claims contin
ues for thirty days after the contract Is com
pleted, and may be enforced by. attachment;
provided, however, that such lien SHAH no.
continue after tho bark or wood has arrived q
. market lApproved March 81
Chapter 81.
AN ACT relating to Gaslight Companies.
All gaslight companies in this state which are
authorized to furnish gas for lighting are here.
by further authorized to furnish gas for heating
and for power and proper appliances tne, n
same rights as they are now authorized to fur
nish gas Tor lighting purposes.
fApproved March 81
Chapter GO.
AN ACT authorizing steam railroads 70 use
Electricity as motive power. 4.
Railroad corporations which are suolec. "
the provisions Of chapter fifty-one OF tne re-
vised statutes, and amendments thereto, are +
hereby authorized to operate their rafiI9aus
by electricity. tApproved Marehol
| 81 Chapter 83. ~
| AN ACT to amend section twenty -six OF cnap-
ter seventy three of the Revised Statutes, re-
lating to Unrecordcd Deeds
of the revised statutes is hereby amended py
| adding after county in the fourth line OF
registry. district so that said section when
amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. %. If deed conveying lands IN
more than one county is lost before being re-
| corded in all, or if q deed is recorded IN the
wrong county or registry district and lost, q
| certified copy from a registry where 1t has
| been recorded, may be recorded in any other
county, or registry district, with the same
| effect as record OF the original.
lApproved March 81
Chapter 81.
AN ACT to amend paragraph eight Of section
six of chapter six of the Revised States, relat'
Paragraph eight, section six Of chapter six
| of the revised statutes, is hereby amended by
| adding after the word charges In the iast
line, the words and the polls of all soldiers
and sailors who receive state pension; SO that
| said paragraph shall read as follows
VIII. The polls and estates of persons who
by reason of age, infrmity and poverty, are
In the Judgment of the assessors unable to
contribute toward the public charges; ana the
polls of all soldiers and sailors who receive
state pension [Approved March 81
Chapter 65.
AN ACT in relation to State Taxos on Organ.
lied Plantations taxed by the State as Wild
SECT. /. Warrants for state taxes on organ
ICED plantations taxed by the state as wild
lands, shall be sent by the state treasurer to
the county commissioners OF the county IN
which such plantations are.
SECT.2. The county commissioners shall
add the amount thereof to their assessment for
county taxes and assess the same ON the real
and personal property In such plantation to
the property owner, or person in possession,
in accordance with their valuation thereof,
stating the amount of such state tax ON each
owner in a separate column.
SECT. 3. They shall commit the same with
warrant in the usual form to some inhabi-
tant of the plantation, or in their discretion to
any other person, appointing him collector
and directing him to collect and transmit the
same to the county treasurer by July first, next
after The date of commitment. The county
treasurer shall forthwith transmit the same to
SECT. l. Such collector shall give bond to
the county treasurer in such sum and with
and the commissioners shall agree with him as
to his compensation, which shall be paid by
the county.
sioners by the first day of December in each
year, and return to them his collection list,
showing the amounts received OF unpaid on
each tax in his list. On all such taxes then I'M
paid, interest shall be added from the first day
of July preceding at twenty per cent until
paid. The clerk of courts shall record in a
book kept for that purpose such returned col
lector's list with the collectors return thereon
showing the amounts received or unpaid on
each tax in the list, which record shall be evil
dence OF the facts therein stated.
SECT. 6. Such state and county taxes are
lien on the property assessed from the date of
their assessment by the commissioners, to be
enforced by suit, as hereinafter provided,
brought at any time within one year from the
time when such collection lists are returned to
said commissioners.
SECT. I. The commissioners may order the
county attorney to bring an action of debt in
the supreme judicial court in the county where
the land lies, in the name of the county, to
collect such unpaid taxes with interest. The
writ shall run against the person to whom the
property was assessed and all persons I'M
known who have any interest therein. The
county attorney shall file notice of lis pendens
as provided by law in the proper registry of
deeds and shall enter the writ in court. The
court shall order notice to the defendants
named therein and to all persons unknown,
and in addition to the usual Judgment against
defendants, shall also render Judgment in rem
against the property assessed, to be enforced
by sale on execution. When the officer sells
real estate on such execution he shall sell the
least undivided fractional part thereof, that
any person bidding will take and pay the
amount due on the execution with all neces-
sary charges for sale, and he shall deed to the
purchaser such part SO sold to him subject to
redemption according to law, and tho deed
shall be construed to convey q right of entry
and seizin In such part, in common and un-
divided, of the property assessed
SECT. g. When real estate is sold under this
act, the deed shall be deposited with the
county treasurer; and any person having an
interest therein may redeem by paying the
amount due thereon with interest at twenty
per cent, within one year from the time of
sale; whereupon the county treasurer shall
cancel the deed. If not redeemed at the ex-
piration of the year, the county treasurer
shall deliver the deed to the purchaser. The
lien OF the tax expires within fifteen months
from the time of sale unless the deed is
recorded within that time.
SECT. 8. So far as applicable, sections
thirty-eix, thirty. seven, thirty .eight, ninety
nine and one hundred and one, OF chapter six
Of the revised statutes, with the amendments
thereto, apply to proceedings under this act.
Sections seventy-two and seventy seven. of
said chapter six shall not apply to taxes
assessed under this act.
SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when
approved. IApprovcd March 81
Chapter SO.
AN ACT to amend section thirteen Of chapter
one hundred and twenty eight of the Revised
Statutes Of this state, in relation to Lotteries.
Section thirteen of chapter one-hundred and
twenty lei ght of the revised statutes of this
state Is hereby amended by adding after the
second word in the first line, the words
policy, policy lottery, policy shop and by
striking out the words "and declared a
nuisance" in the fourth line of said section,
and by adding the words writing, printing
after the word "making" in the fifth line Of
said section, and by adding after the word
therein" in the eighth line, the words slip,
bill, token or other device purporting or de-
signed to guarantee or assure to any person or
to entitle any person to a chance of drawing
or obtsining any prize or thing of value to be
drawn in any lottery, policy, policy. lottery,
policy shop, scheme or device of chance of