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/ houses. Judges OF municipal and polio
, courts and trial Justices shall have Juris
| diction OF all osfenses arising under I'M
chapter, where the amount OF which an
such innkeeper or boarding house keepe
or the owners thereof have been thus de
. franded, does not exceed the sum 9
twenty dollars Improved March 16.l
Chapter 80.
AN ACT to provide for the Schooling o
Children In unorganized Townships.
Section l. whenever In any unOr
ganized township in this state there shall
be two or more children between the ages
OF four and twenty-One years, the state
superintendent of schools shall cause an
enumeration OF said children to be made,
and returned to him. and shall provide
for the schooling Of said children, either
by establishing a school In the township,
or by sending the children to schools In
adjoining towns or plantations. or both.
case any of said children are, by the
state superintendent, sent to schools In
adjoining towns or plantations said chill
dren sent shall have the same rights In
such school as children resident in said
town or plantation. Provided. however,
that IN case the interest on the reserve
fund in any unorganized township TO-
gethcr with the amount arising from the
per capita tax called Tor In this act Is
not sufficient to provide schooling for the
children Of said township for at least
twenty weeks in Il year. the remainder OF
the expense shall be paid from the fund
appropriated by section four of this act.
provided further, that no money shall be
expended under this section for the benc-
iii of any township until the inhabitants
of said township shall pay TO the state
treasurer II sum equal 10 twenty-five
cents for each inhabitant thereof.
Section 2 The state superintendent
shall certify TO the governor ana council
the number and residence of the children
enumerated and schooled. as provided In
section one of this chapter together with
the cost of schooling said children ana
the governor and council shall direct the
treasurer of state 10 pay to- the state SUI
perinte ndent of schools so much OF tha
interest on the reserve land fund of the
township in which said children reside
as added to the amount received IRON
the inhabitants Of the townsnip from 'n ~,
said school The state superintendent OF
schools shall pay to the treasurer OF any
town or plantation in wfnch ne may
school any Of said children, the same
amount per scholar as is apporti0ned per
scholar by the state treasurer for that
year
Section g. The state superintendent of
schools shall have power to appoint
agents for the several townships i'll which
schools shall be established under this act.
whose duty 1t shall be under the direc-
ton of the state superintendent to emu
merate the pupils. collect the per capita
tax. employ the teacher and attend 10
all necessary details in connection with
said schools: for which work he shall be
paid a sum not exceeding two dollars per
day, when actually employed in this duty,
Section 1. For the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this act, there is
hereby appropriated the sum of hfteen
hundred dollars annually.
Section 5. All former acts and parts OF
acts. inconsistent with this act. are here
by repealed.
when approved Approved March 1G.l /,
Chapter 90. y
AN ACT to amend the Laws of eighteen
hundred and ninety-three ChapfPE5
three hundred and four, as amended NJ
Laws of eighteen hundred and nina ~
five. Chapter forty. relating to Bo24
of Registration. fkss-
Section four of chapter three hun ~
and four. is hereby amended by ins~lt-
ond line. the words having four thou
sand or more inhabitants and by adding
TO said section the following words: In
all cities having less than four thousand
inhabitants. the municipal officers shall
make such list. exercising the same pow
ers and being governed by the same laws
as municipal officers of towns having five
hundred or more registered voters, so
that said section. as amended, shall read
as follows:
hereby established in each city of the
state having four thousand or more in
habitants. which shall have exclusive
power and authority to determine the
qualification of voters therein, and ex-
elusive power to make up. correct and
revise the list of voters in each of said
and have exclusively all the powers now
exercised by boards of registration or by
the municipal officers of said cities in
making, preparing, revising and correct
ing the list of voters therein. under chap
ter four of the revised statutes, or any
other statutes relating thereto. In all
cities having less than four thousand in
habitants. the municipal officers shall
make such list, exercising the same pow
ers and being governed by the same laws
as municipal officers of towns having five
\, voters
IApproved March 1871
Chapter 81.
AN ACT 10 amend Section thirty of
Chapter two hundred and eighty-iive of
the Public Laws of eighteen hundred
on Salmon.
Section thirty of chapter two hundred
and cighty-five of the public laws of
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven Is
hereby amended by adding To said section
the following: Provided further. that it
shall be lawful TO take salmon by weirs
on the Saint CroiN river below the break
water at the ledge. between the fifteenth
day of May and the first of September. SO
that said section, as amended. shall read
as follows:
Section %. From the fifteenth day of
July to the first day of April following.
there shall be a close time for salmon
during which no salmon shall be taken or
killed in any manner. under penalty of
not more than fifty nor less than ten dol
lars. and Il further penalty of ten dol
Provided, however. that between the
fifteenth days of July and September, it
is lawful to fish for and take salmon by
the ordinary mode. with rod and single
line but not otherwise.
Provided further, that it shall be law
full TO take salmon by weirS on the Saint
CroiX river below the breakwater at the
ledge between the fifteenth day of May
and the first of September.
[ApprOved March 16
Chapter 02.
AN ACT to amend Section thirty-five of
Chapter two hundred and eighty-five,
Public Laws of eighteen hundred and
nincty-seven, entitled An Act to revise
and consolidate the Public Laws relat-,
ing to Sea and Shore Fisheries
Amend section thirty-five by inserting
after the word channel in the ninth
line the following: except in the Cat
nance, Eastern and Abbagadasset rivers.
such weirs may extend twenty-five feet
beyond the one-eighth aforesaid, provided
such extension shall not exceed ONE
fourth of the width of the channel In the
Abbagadasset and Eastern rivers. Strike
out the words Ion and after the twenty
fifth day of June in the eleventh line
and insert the following: between the
twenty fifth day of June and the fifteenth
day OF August of each year. so that the
section, as amended, shall read as fol-
lows:
Section So. The limit of depth pre-
,scribed for weirs in the preceding section