The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-30
hundred dollars additional for clerk

supreme judicial, superior and county
commissioners courts, or by clerks pro
tempore, employed by them under section
quarterly under oath to the county treas
urers for all fees received by them or
payable to them by virtue of the Office,
specifying the items, and shall pay the
whole amount of the same to the treas
urers of their respective counties quarter
~ on the first days Of January, April,
July and October of each year.
On the first day of January Of each
year the clerks receiving. the sums above
specified for clerk hire shall make under
oath to the county treasurers Of their
respective counties q statement specify
purpose and to whom paid during the
year next preceding, and shall pay to
said treasurers any unexpended balance
of such sums in their hands.
the first day of July, one thousand nine
Approved March q. 1861
Chapter 119.
An Act relating to the compensation Of
County Attorneys.
Section 1. The county attorneys are
entitled to receive annual salaries from
ments on the first days Of January, April.
July and October, as follows: For the
counties of
Androscoggin. one thousand dollars.
Cumberland, fifteen hundred dollars.
Franklin, four hundred dollars.
Hancock, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
kennebec, one thousand dollars.
Knox, six hundred dollars.
Lincoln, four hundred dollars.
Oxford, six hundred dollars.
Penobscot, one thousand dollars.
PiscataQuis, five hundred dollars.
Sagadahoc, five hundred dollars
Somerset, seven hundred dollars.
Waldo, five hundred dollars
Washington, eight hundred dollars.
York, one thousand dollars; and no other
lowed them unless otherwise expressly
provided. The assistant county attorney
for the county Of Cumberland. seven hum
dred dollars. He shall hold his office
during the term of the county attorney
by whom he is appointed, subject to re-
moval at any time by the justice of the
superior court for said county.
Section g. So much of this act as re-
duces the salary Of any county attorney
shall not take effect while the present
incumbent continues to hold office; and
except as aforesaid, said act shall take
sand nine hundred and five
[Approved March q. 1861
Chapter 120.
An Act to amend Paragraph twenty of
Section one of Chapter one hundred and
sixteen of the Revised Statutes, rela ting
to the salary of the commissioner Of
S3el anu oIlOI0 FISHERIES.
Section l. Paragraph twenty of section
one of chapter one hundred and sixteen is
hereby amended by striking out the words
zone thousand dollars and inserting in
dollars and actual travelling expenses SO
that said paragraph, as amended, shall
read az follows:
Commissioner Of sea and shore fish
cries, fifteen hundred dollars and actual
travelling expenses
Section 2. This act shall take effect the
first day of April, nineteen hundred and
five.
[Approved March p. 1861
Chapter 1921.
An Act to amend Section ninety-five of
Chapter forty-nine of the Revised
Statutes, relating to notice of injury to
Casualty Insurance Companies.
Section l. Section ninety-fiVe of chap
ter fOrty-nine of the revised statutes is
hereby amended, SO as to read as fol-
lows:
Section 95. No conditions, stipulations
or agreements contained in any applica-
ton for insurance in any foreign or do
nestle casualty or accident insurance
company, or contained in any policy is
sued by any such company, or any way
made by any such company, limiting the
time within which notice of the accident
or injury, sickness, CT death. shall be
less than thirty days after the happening
of the accident or injury, or death, or less
than ten days after the beginning of the
sickness. shall be valid. Said notice may
any time within thirty days after the
happening of the accident or injury, or
death, or within ten days after begin
ming Of the sickness, and shall be valid
that if the insured becomes unconscious
during and by reason of his sickness, and
his family or physician are ignorant OF
the fact that the insured holds q policy
IN a IN cfP sol
shall be valid and binding upon the COM
pany if given to the company within
ten days after the insured RECEIVERS con-
seriousness; or in case of the death of the
insured from sickness, without recovering
consciousness, said notice shall be bind
ing upon the company II given to the
company within ten days after any men,
Der of his family or his physician, learns
against sickness.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved.
Improved March q, 1861
Chapter 1922.
An Act to amend Section twentyfour,
Chapter forty-eight, Revised Statutes.
relating to real estate investments Of
savings banks.
Section twenty-four of chapter forty
eight of the revised statutes is hereby
amended by adding to said section the
following words. 'or to an amount not
CASCCbiHS It's IOSGlNo 1uuuy So lIldI StilO
section, as amended, shall read as fol-
lows:
Section "a Any such bank or institu-
ton may hold real estate in the city or
town in which such bank or institution
Is located, to an amount not exceeding
five per cent of its deposits OR to an
amount not exceeding its reserve fund
Approved March q, 1905.
Chapter 1923.
An Act for the Protection of Children.
Section l. Upon application by the
mayor and aldermen of any city, the
selectmen Of any town, or the president
and a majority of the directors of any
society for the protection Of children, or
prevention of cruelty to the same, the
governor and council shall issue a badge
and a commission to any suitable person
designated in said application, author
charged with violating any of the pro-
visions of this act or any other act or
law concerning the protection of chill
dren or prevention of cruelty to the same,
in the same manner and with the same
powers and jurisdiction in the premises
as any sheriff, deputy sheriff, police
officer or constable, and to perform such
other duties as may be provided for by
this aQt.
Section Q. Any officer or agent COM
missioned under the provisions of the
preceding section and all sheriffs, deputy
sheriffs, police officers and constables
shall investigate all cases of cruel or in
furious treatment of children coming to
their knowledge, and shall cause offend
erS against any provisions of this act