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

feres with or obstructS such officer or
ae o a. any sheriff deputy Put
Of his duty. IL guilty Of q misdemeanOrs
and shall be punished by fine not exceed
ing five hundred dollars or by imprison-
Section 4. Sections forty-fve and forty.
six of chapter sixty-one of the revised
statutes of nineteen hundred and thres
are hereby amended so that said sections
Section As. When complaint in writing,
signed by any such officer or agent Of
any society for the protection Of children
or the prevention Of cruelty to the same.
or city. is made under oath to the judge
Of any court held within and for the
county in which said town or city is
1 to alleging ,fg that any child in SAID
fully neglected by ITS parents, or parent
or by the wilful failure Of such parents
or parent Is not provided with suitable
ton. Or is kept at or allowed to frequent
any disorderly house. house of Ill fame.
gambling place or place where intoxi-
eating liquors are sold, or other place
such child is an orphan without means
of support or kindred of sufficient ability
VINO vii! furnish such support, and pray
Ing that suitable and proper provision
port and education of the child named IN
such complaint; the magistrate or Judge
to whom such complaint Is made shall Is.
sue his warrant and cause such child and
before him, and If upon hearing vt APP
pears that the allegations of said COM
plant are true, and that It is suitable
and proper that such child shall be sup
parents or parent, he shall order It into
the care and custody of such place or
institution as is provided therefor by
such town or city. or to such charitable
1nGftflfinn q ho
suitable. provided that such institution or
person consents to receive. support and
educate said child: but such order shall
child arrives at the age of twenty-one
years. II a male. or at the age of eighteen
years If a female; and until such instttu-
ton or person can be found. the magis-
trate or judge may in his discretion, IL
the circumstances appear to require It,
order said child temporarily into the Gus
tody OF any such officer or agent, or Of
any such institution or suitable person
consenting to receive said child. and the
expense of the support of said child dur.
ing such period until permanent pro-
vision can be made therefor, in the man
n 1el,, above specified. shall be paid by the
town may recover the amount thereof
from the parents or parent of said child.
II any, as provided in section fifty Of this
chapter
Section 4e; Upon petition Of the super
institutions asking for the care and GUS
tody of any such child, an order to the
same erect. as provided for in the pre-
ceding section, may be made by the Judge
OF the probate court In any county where
either OF the parents or the parent Of
such child resides. If written consent be
gwen as provided in section thirty-two
Of 1a cnapter sixty-seven. Such orders and
DEGREES provided for in this and the pre-.
cedlng section shall have the same effect
70 dlvest the parents or parent Of oil
lega! rights in respect tn such child as
chapter sixty-seven, and said institution
snail nave full custody and control over
SAID child thereafter for said time, and
nave authority alone to give the con-
Section 5. Section forty-eight Of chap
ter siXty-one of the revised Statutes Of
nineteen hundred and three Is hereby re-
pealed
Section s. Section seven of chapter
sixty-three of the revised statutes Of
nineteen hundred and three is hereby
amended SO that the same shall read a.
follows: 90
~, Section Z. Whenever a man. having q
ability. or being able to labor and mo-.
vide for them, wilfully and without
n reas9nap PIE cause, refuses or neglects to
the supreme judicial court. the superior
courts. the probate courts and any mu.
nilclpaI court. in term time or vacation,
IN the county where the wife or such
minor child or children reside on petit
ton of the wife for herself and for such
child or children, or of such child or chill
dren by their guardian, after such notice
To- 10 me husband n; or father as it may order.
tribute to the support of his wife and
such minor child or children or either Of
ahem SUCH sums payable weekly. monthly
or quarterly, as are deemed Reasonable
and Just, and may enforce obedienca by
appropriate DEGREES. Execution may also
for COSTS -''o
Section Z Whoever admits or allows
OF III fame: gambling place or place
Wnere Intoxicating liquors are sold or
otner place injurious to health or morals.
oWn t;, Kept. maintained, managed or
any child under the age Of sixteen years
shali be punished by fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars or by imprisonment
not exceeding sixty days
Section 8. Whoever by himself, his
r1ectly has in his possession with intent
to sell, offers for sale, sells or gives away
to any child under the age Of sixteen
years years or to any such child for any other
person, any intoxicating liquors and
whoever by himself, his clerk, servant
or agent, directly or indirectly employs
p or permits It. any such child to aid or assist
I'LL IL tIt Illegal keeping Or the Illegal
sale or Intoxicating liquors, shall be pun
lsned IN addition to the penalties other
wise provided. against the illegal keeping
1 Ior sale or Illegal sale Of Intoxicating
liquors, by fine not less than one hun
dred dollars or by imprisonment not less
than sixty days. 400.
Section 9. No person shall employ or
cause to be employed, exhibit, use or
n1ih ve IN custody, or train for use, EN-
pioyment or exhibition, any child under
sixteen years of age, and no narent
guardian or other person, having care.
custody and control Of such child. shall
procure or permit the training, use. en-
pioymont or exhibition of any such child.
IN begging or soliciting or receiving aims
IN any manner or under any pretence. or
in any illegal. indecent or immoral ex-
hloltion or practice, or in any exhibition
of any such child when insane or idiotic.
or When possessing any deformity and
unnatural physical formation, or In any
practice, exhibition or place dangerous
or injurious to the life, limb, health or
morals OF such child. Whoever offends
against the provisions of this section
snail be punished by a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars or by imprisonmenf
not exceeding sixty days
Section 10. All fines or penalties pro.
v1ded for by the terms of this act NAV
pc recovered or enforced by complaint or
indictment, and in all prosecutions under
this chapter and the amendments and
ADDITIONS thereto, trial justices and
Judges Of municipal and police courts
within their counties shall have by COM
plant, original and concurrent jurisdic-
tion with the superior and supreme