The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-01

Improvements already begun or contracted
for, provided thai either city may refund
all or any of its present bonded indebted
ness.
All city moneys in the hands of the
treasurer of the city of Deering upon the
contamination of tho annexation shall be
turned over by said treasurer to the treas
urer of Portland.
Fourth. Upon the consumation of the
annexation, the several inhabitants of the
city OF Deering, and on-resident property
owners, shall be holden to pay all taxes
that have been assessed upon them and
are uncollected, and the several collectors
of taxes for said city are hereby author
lied and required to collect all taxes to
them committed under thoir respective
warrants, and pay them over to the treas
urer OF the city of Portland.
Fifth. All official records and docu-
ments of the city Of Deering shall be
transferred from the several departments
to which they respectively belong, to the
corresponding departments in the City of
Portland, and the production, attesta-
ton, or authorization of the same by
the respective official custodian of the
records of said several departments in
said Portland shall have the same effect
TN any legal proceedings) as If produced,
attested, or authenticated by the custo-
dian OF the records of the department. in
said Deering from which the same were
seyerally transferred.
| Sixth. All drain and sewer assessments
which shall have been made by the CITY
OF Deering prior to the time that the con-
summation of annexation takes place,
and which shall remain unpaid at that
| time shall be collected as provided by the
Deering city charter and ordinances, and
all rights, privileges and powers provided
by said city charter and ordinances, for
the collection Of said drain and sewer as
sessments and taxes SO made, shall be ap-
plicable for the collection of the same.
Seventh. On the completion OF the
annexation the schools of Deering shall
come Immediately under the jurisdiction
of the school committee of Portland, and
be thereafter subject to its control; but it
is expressly provided that said school
school facilities furnished by the city of
Deering to it's inhabitants, and, in par
ticular, shall maintain the High school
in Deering, as an Independent or branch
school, on an equality as to privileges and
standards with the High school of Port
land
Eighth. For the purpose only of closing
up the business pending in the Deering
Municipal court at the time of the con-
summation of annexation. the entire
jurisdiction, civil and criminal, of the
Deering Municipal court shall be con-
ferred upon the Municipal court of the
city of Portland, which court shall issue
all executions or other processes necessary
to carry into effect any Judgment, order,
or decree of said Deering Municipal court
as fully as said Deering Municipal court
might have done had not this provision
been made
All complaints, civil suits, recog-
nizances, appeals in civil and criminal
cases, and all other processes, civil or
criminal, pending in said Deering NUM-
cipa. court at the time of the consumma-
ton of the annexation, shall be trans
ferred to the Municipal court of the city
of Portland, and shall be entered on the
docket of the same at the first term next
after said contamination takes effect, and
shall be heard and disposed of as If origi-
nally entered in said Municipal court of
the city of Portland, and all writs,
petitions and warrants, and all processes
whatever, returnable to said Deering
Municipal court shall be returnable to
and be entered on the docket OF said
Municipal court of Portland, and shall be
heard and disposed of in said Municipal
court of Portland as if originally entered
therein.
The judgments, decisions, orders and
decree of the Supreme Judicial court, at
any law term, made in cases originating
in said Municipal court of Deering, shall
be certified to the recorder of the NUM-
cipal court of Portland
All records of the Deering Municipal
court, and the custody of the same, shall
be transferred to the recorder of the
Municipal court of Portland to whose at
testation of the same, Or their contents,
full faith shall be given.
Ninth. All provisions of the charter
and city ordinances of the city of Port
land inconsistent with the terms and
conditions herein set forth shall be
amended, in case the annexation is COM
pleted by tie vote Of the two cities, to
conform to said terms and conditions.
December thirty first, eighteen hundred
and ninety seven.
HENRY L. CHAPMAN,
WIN. Fl. NEWELL,
A. M. SPEAR,
GEO. NJ. SEIDERS,
MVRON II MOORE