The Portland daily press., 1899-03-15

certificate issued to q resident of Maine
by any casualty or accident insurance
company doing business ON the assess
ment plan. there shall bo printed in bold
type, making one of the principal lines
near the top thereof, the words "Tbis
policy is subject to assessments" and in
or upon every application, circular, card,
advertisement, and printed document Is.
sued by such corporation within this state
there shall be printed conspicuously the
words Assessment Plan
"Sect 3.-When upon Investigation.
the insurance commissioner Is satisfied
that any such corporation has violated
the provisions of this act it shall bs his
duty to revoke the license issued to such
corporations nd It's agents.
"Sect. 4.-Nothing In this act shall in
any way conflict with special provisions
of the charters OF companies heretofore
granted.
"Sect. 5.-This act shall take effect
July 1. 1899 "
LAW FOR POOR DEBTORS.
The judiciary committee aimed a blow
at the system Of disclosure before COM
missioners when they reported IAN act
| to abolish imprisonment for debt and to
provide for the disclosure of poor debit
ors. - The blow at the present disclosure
system will be parried il POSSIBLE and an
attempt will be made to Kill the bill.
Whom the measure camo up in the House
this morning 1t was promptly tabled by
MIR. Manley. 1ne bin is a long document.
1t starts OF as follows:
"Section l.-No execution issued on
| judgment founded on a contract express
or implied, or on prior judgment on
contract, shall run against the body of
the judgment debtor unless the debtor
was arrested on the original writ as pro-
vided in section two OF chapter lls OF the
X vised Statutes.
"Sect. 2.-1he judges or probate. and
the judges OF municipal and police courts
shall hereafter have in their respective
counties jurisdiction to take disclosures
of poor debtors.
Sect B-Ihs owner of any Judgment
remaining unsatislied in whole or in part
may have disclosure of the business and
property affairs Of the judgment debtor
by proceeding as hereinafter provided" +"
| Then follows long series of provisions
giving to the judges the authority to take
disclosures and setting forth the manner
of proceedings under the act.
The STREET RAILWAYS.
| When the bill in relation to street rail
way corporations came mp in the House,
MIR. Maoomber of Augusta, offered as an
amendment a substitute providing that
all street railways, in addition TO the
rights granted by their charters shall have
all the privileges and be subject to all the
limitations of the general law.
| THE NATIONAL GUARD.
The resolve to provide for the re-equip-
ment of the National Guard was indet-
nitely postponed In the Ii use this morn
ing on motion of General Brown Of Fal-
mouth. General Brown stated that his
motion was made because since the re-
solve was reported by the committee on
military affairs it had been ascertained
that the National Guard could get along
without the appropriation.
THE GREATER PORTLAND.
No new piece of machinery runs
smoothly at first and it is often found
necessary to make slight alterations.
That is the case in relation to the act an
nexing the city OF Deering to the city Of
Portland. Since the passage of the act it
has been found that some things OF minoi
Importance were overlooked in drafting
1t. Today MR. Webb of Portland intro
duced a bill to make amendments to th'
act to cover these points. 1t will be seer
that the amendments were matters o
form and do ot affect the main pro
visions of the measure.
Ia section seven, providing for the
transfer of Deering property to the cit,
of Portland, 1t is further provided tina
"the oity of Portland shall become liabl
for and subject to all the duties, respon
sibilities and liabilities OF said city 0
Drering. All actions, causes OF actions
} suits and proceedings which may +
pending or which shall have accrued IA
the time this act shall take effect, in be
half of or against said city Of Deerin
shall survive"
In section nine, relating to the collec
ton of Deering taxes, due aud unpaid Il
the time of annexation, it is proyideC
that these shall be paid TO the collector O
the city OF Portland instead Of the seyera
collectors to whom the warrants were is
sued.
} In section eleven, relating to schools
the provision that the Deering higl
school shall be maintai ed "as u brane!
of the present Portland high school, "
stri cken out. This is done 10 make clea
the intent of the act that tho two school!
are to be maintained as distinct ant
equal. 1t was thought that the descrip
, tion OF the Deering school as a branch oil
the Portland might give the impression
that it was under the control of The prin
cipal of the Portland school.
Under the constitution it is neosssar.
to provide that the Deering terri tor.
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