The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-30

such county, who shall include there
in a reasonable compensation for such
judge, which fees and costs shall be
paid by the state and county respectively
Section z. The superintendent of the
insane hospital at Augusta shall visit
the insane department of the state pris-
on not less than once in each month to
advise with the prison physician and
warden as to the proper care, treatment
and disposition of the convicts in said de
partment. and whenever in the judg-
ment of said superintendent and prison
physician and warden any person COM
mitted to the insane department of the
state prison as hereinbefore provided
can be better treated at either of the in
sane hospitals, they shall recommend the
transfer of such person to either of said
hospitals and report their conclusion to
the governor and council. and thereupon
the governor and council may order
such transfer.
Section 8. Any inmates of county jails
and persons under Indictment becoming
insane before final conviction may be
committed to either insane hospital by
amy judge of the supreme judicial court,
of judge of the superior court in the
county where such person is to be tried,
or the case is pending for observation
under such limitations as such judge
may direct
Section 9. Section six of chapter one
hundred and thirty eight of the revised
statutes is hereby amended, so as to read
as follows:
Section 6. Insane persons transferred
from the insane department of the state
prison to either of the insane hospitals,
upon satisfactory proof that such deten-
ton in such hospital will have a dele
terious influence on the other patients,
may be returned by the order of the
governor and council setting forth the
circumstances under which they have
been detained in said hospital to the in
sane department of the state prison, to
be there detained until discharged as
hereinDetOre provided for
Section 10. A friend of any person ad-
Judged insane and committed to the in
sane department of the state prison I'M
der the foregoing proceedings thinking
such person is unreasonably detained,
may apply in writing to any justice of
the supreme judicial court, who shall
inquire into the case and summon before
him such witnesses as in his Judgment
may be necessary and upon such applica-
ton vacate such commitment, and if the
original sentence mas expired discharge
such person. He shall tax legal costs
and shall decide whether they shall be
borne by the petitioner or by the state
If such application is unsuccessful it
Shall not be made again until the eXpir-
alton of one year.
Section II. The judge of the municipal
court of the city of Rockland is hereby
authorized for the purposes provided
in this act, if he shall see fit, to hold his
court in the town of Thomaston in the
county of Knox, and the Judge of any
municipal court to which application is
made by. any jailer, and which court is
located IN town other than that in
which the Jail is situated, may hold his
count for the purposes he1ein provided
in the town where such Jail is located.
lApproved March q, 1901
Chapter 1o5.
An Act to amend Chapter one hundred
ard twenty six of the Revised Stat
utes. relating to Gambling.
S"ction l, Section one Of chapter one
hundred and tWenty-six of the revised
statutes. is hereby stricken out aud the
following section is hereby inserted in it's
stead:
Section l. Whoever keeps or assists
IN Keeping, - milling house. or tene--
mont on other place occupied, used kept
or rcsortcd to for the purposes described
in section eleven of chapter one hundred
and twenty-siX of the revised statutes
rs amended by section two of this act
or is found gambling or present as de-
s"r1'}ed in said section eleven so amended
as aforesaid, or permits any person to
s7mhle in any way in any tenement or
q her place under his care or control,
snail be punished by a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars or By imprison-
Ine1t for not more than four months; and
the municipal officers, constables and
police officers of towns and cities, and
the assessors of plantations, are required
PROMPTLY to enforce the laws against
gambling rooms, and to make complaint
against any person in their respective
cause TO believe such person to be guilty
Of Il violation of this section. Trial JUS
tees and judges of municipal or police
courts. shall have jurisdiction in all pros
ecutiunS for violations of this section
Section 2. Section eleven of chapter
one hundred and twentysiX of the re-
vised statutes is hereby stricken out and
the following section is hereby inserted in
its stead:
Section II. When a person makes oath
before trial justice or judge of a mu-
niclpal or police court that he has reason
To suspect and does suspect that any tene-
ment or other place is unlawfully used as
and for common gambling house, for
the purpose of gambling for money or
other property, or is kept, used or occu-
pied for promoting a lottery, or for the
sale of lottery tickets, or for promoting
the game known as policy lottery or pol
icy, or for the buying or selling of pools
or registering of bets upon any, race,
game, contest, act or event. and that
persons resort to the same for any such
purpose, such magistrate, whether the
names of the persons last mentioned are
known to the complainant or not, shall
issue warrant commanding the Snerlff
or any of his deputies or any constable
or police officer TO enter such tenement
or other place, and to arrest the Keepers
thereof, all persons in any way assisting
in keeping the same, whether as janltOr
door keeper, Waterman, or otherwise,
all persons who are there found partici-
pating in any form of gambling and all
persons present whether So participating
or not, if any lottery, policy or pool tick
cts Slips, checks, manifold books or
Sheets memoranda OF any bet, or other
implements, apparatus or materials OF
any form of gambling are found in saiG
place, and to take into their custody al
the implements, apparatus or materials OF
gambling, as aforesaid, and all the per-
Sonal property, furniture and fixtures, SC
that they may be forthcoming before
some court or magistrate. to be dealt witt
according to law. All articles and prop
erty seized under the provisions of this
section. or found in the possession OF
under the control of any person arrested
for keeping or assisting in Keeping 9
gambling house or for gambling, shall be
following section for the disposal OF
collnterfeiting and burglars tools; ant
the finding in any tenement or other place
of any lottery, policy or pool tickets, slips
checks manifold books or sheets. memo
randa of any bet, or other implements
apparatus or materials of any form Of
gambling shall be prima facie evidence
that said tenement or other place is DC
cupied, useo, kept and resorted to for the
purpose of gambling.
Section 8. Section twelve or chapter
one hundred and Jwenty-siX OF the re-
Vised statutes is hereby amended by
striking out in the fourth, fifth and sixth
lines thereof the words ''all lottery tick
cts or materials for Il lottery OF procured
for the purpose of a lottery, all gambling
apparatus or implements used, procured
or kept to be used in gambling, and by
striking out in the eighth and ninth lin,
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