Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-30

| determine the questions raised by SAID
appeal, so that said section as amended
shall read as follows:
Section Is. The municipal officers OF
| any town shall have power at all times
to make all such regulations as to tho
| mode or use of tracks of any street rail.
way, the rate of speed and the remova
and disposal of snow and ice from tht
! Streets roads and ways by any street rail
way company as the public safety and
| convenience may require. Any street rail-
| way company may appeal from the de-
cision of such municipal officers making
any regulation under this section to the
board of railroad commissioners who shall
upon notice hear the parties and finally
| appeal Approved Feb. 28].
Chapter 16.
| An Act concerning Attorneys at Law.
! Section l. Sections twenty seven, TWEEN
ty-eight, twentynine and thirty of chap
ter seventy-nine of the revised statutes of
hereby amended so as to give any justice
of the supreme judicial court, in term
time or in vacation, the powers therein
conferred upon the court and said sec
tons, as amended, shall read as follows:
Section q. If an attorney at law re-
ceiveS money or any valuable thing on a
claim left with him for collection or set
Element. and fails to account for and pay
over the same to the claimant for ten
! days after demand, he is guilty of a
breach of duty as an attorney; and such
claimant may file in the office of the clerk
of the supreme judicial court in the coun-
ty where such attorney resides, motion
in writing. under oath, setting forth the
facts and thereupon any justice of the
supreme judicial court in term time or
in vacation shall issue a rule, requiring
the attorney to appear on a day fixed
and show cause why he should not so
account and pay, and to abide the order
of such justice in the premises; which
shall be served by copy in hand at least
fha flny-
Section %. If he then appears, he shall
file an answer to such motion, under OATH
and such Justice may examine the par
ties and other evidence pertinent there
to- If he does not appear and answer
the facts set forth in the motion shall be
taken as confessed; and in either case
such justice shall render such decree as
equity requires
ceptions to any ruling or decree of such
Justice: and they shall be allowed unless
deemed frivolous 4
Section 80. If the attorney does not per
form the decree of such justice, he shall be
committed for contempt until he does, or
is otherwise lawfully discharged; and his
name shall be struck from the roll of at
t0rneyS.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved [Approved Feb 24l.
Chapter II.
An Act for the protection of Railroad
Signals.
Whoever Intentionally and without right
INJURIES, destroys. or molests any signal
OF railroad corporation, or any line
wire, post, lamp or other structure or me-
chaniSm used in connection with any
signal on railroad, or destroys or in any
manner interferes with the proper work.
punished by fine not exceeding five hun
dred doSlars, or by Imprisonment not ex-
ceeiing two years, or BOTH
[Approved Feb. PSI
Chapter is.
An Act to amend Section forty-one of
Chapter seventy-seven, of the Revised
Statutes, relating to the Supreme Judici-
al Court
Section forty-one of chapter seventy
seven, of the revised statutes as enact
ed III section five of chapter two hundred
forty-siX of the public laws of nineteen
hundred and one. is amended by adding
after the words and a reasonable COM
pensation for making dockets in the
words and for certifying decisions so
that said section as amended, shall read
as follows:
Section II. The clerks of court in the
counties of kennebec, Penobscot and
Cumberland shall be the clerks of the
terms of the law court held in their re-
spective counties, and each shall, upon
the adjournment of a term thereof holden
in his county, transmit to the clerk of
the next term all dockets. together with
all exhibits and documents in his custody
relating to pending causes The dockets
OF the law court shall be made from time
to time and kept as the court may di-
rect.
The chief justice, or in his absence, the
senior justice present, may allow the sew
eral clerks for attendance, not exceeding
two and one~half dollars per day, and a
reasonable compensation for making
dockets and certifying decisions, which
shah be paid by the state; but no entry
fee shall be charged
lApproved Feb. 81
Chapter 10.
An Act extending sundry existing statutes
to Street Railroads.
Section /. Section ten of chapter two
hundred and sixty-eight of the public
laws of one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three, as amended by section three
of chapter two hundred and forty-nine
of the public laws of one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-seven, is further
amended by inserting the words eighteen
as amended by chapter one hundred and
twenty-nine of the public laws of one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one
between the words Seventeen" and
nineteen by inserting the word TWEEN
ty-one' between the words twenty and
TWENTY-FIVE" by striking therefrom the
word sixty eight" by inserting the
words 'seventy-eight. seventy nine, eigh-
ty. one hundred and nine between the
words sixty eight and one hundred ana
fourteen" and by inserting between the
words statutes" and "shall' the words
chapter two hundred and thirty~six of
the public laws of one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-three' so that the
said section as hereby amended, shall read
as follows:
Section TO- So far as applicable the
provisions of sections seventeen, eighteen
as amended by chapter one hundred and
twenty-nine of the public laws of one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one,
nineteen. twenty. twenty-one. twenty-five,
twenty-three, twenty-four. twenty-five,
twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-six, thir-
ty-seven. thirty-eigh thirty-nine, fifty
four, fifty-iive, fiftysix, fifty-seven, sixty
six. sixty-seven, seventy-eight, seventy
nine, eighty, one hundred and nine one
hundred and fourteen, one hundred and
fifteen, one hundred and sixteen ore hun
dred and seventeen. one hundred and
eighteen, one hundred and twenty-six
one hundred and thirty-fve, one hun
dred and thirty-six as amended. one hun
dred and thirty-seven. one hundred and
thirty-eight. one hundred and thirty
nine, one hundred and forty of chapter
fifty-nne of the revised statutes, and chap
ter two hundred and thirty-six of the pub |
lie laws of one thousand eight hundred |
and ninety-threei shall apply to street |
railways
Section 2. In all proceedings now pend |
ing or hereafter brought before the coun- |
ty commissioners for the estimation of |
damages for the taking of land by any
street railroad company described in the |
location of such company now on file, as |
required by law, section twenty-one CT |
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