The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-04-04

therein. Not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars shall be deposited in any one
per cent of the sum of its capital stock
and surplus exceeds said amount, in
which case said deposit may be in
creased to an amount equal to said ff-
shall not apply to deposits actually
made to meet the payment of the bond
ed debt of the state and the interest ac-
eruing thereon. Deposits for this pur-
pose may be made in any bank when
bonded debt as above is about to ma
turc where by terms of the contract such
debt and interest are made payable
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved.
[Approved February Is, 1901
Chapter 10.
An Act to amend Section seventy-seven of
Chapter ten of the Revised Statutes
relating to the sales of land for Taxes
in Incorporated places.
Section seventy-seven Of chapter ten of
the revised statutes is hereby amended
by striking out the word twenty in the
twelfth line of said section ana substi-
tutins in place thereof the word ten,
SO that said section as amended, shall
read as follows:
Section II. When real estate is so sold
for taxes, the collector shall, within
thirty days after the day of sale, lodge
with the treasurer OF his town a GER
tificate under oath designating the guam
tity of land sold. the names of the own
ers of each parcel and the names of thu
purchaser; what part of the amount Of
each was tax. and what was cost and
charges; also a deed of each parcel sold
running to the purchasers. The treasurer
shall not deliver the deeds to the grant
eeS. but put them on file in his Office,
to be delivered at the expiration of two
years from the day OF sale. ir the case
OF lands of resident owners. and one
year from the day of sale in the case of
lands OF resident owners if the
er does not within such time redeem his
estate from the sale, by payment of the
taxes, and all charges, and interest on the
whole at the rate of ten per cent from
the day of sale to The time of redemp-
ton, and costs as above provided with
SlXty-SeTen cents for the deed and Ger
tifcate of acknowledgment and all
sums paid for internal revenue stamps
affixed to such deed. If the deed of land
of Q nonresident owner is recorded with
in thirteen months after the day of sale,
no intervening attachment or conveyance
shall affect the title. If so redeemed, tha
treasurer shall give the owner a certifi-
cate thereof, cancel the deed, and pay to
the grantee, en- demand, the amount so
received for him. If not so paid, he
shall deliver to the grantee his deed. on
payment of the fees as aforesaid for
the deed and acknowledgment, and thirty
cents more for receiving and paying out
the proceeds of the sale. For the fidel-
lty of the treasurer in discharging the
duties herein required, the town is re-
sponsible, anG has a remedy on his bond
in case of default.
approved February 10. 1907
Chapter 10.
An Ac. to amend Section sixty of Chap
ter four of the Revised Statutes, re-
lating to dangerous Dogs.
That section sixty of chapter four OF
the revised statutes be amended by ir-
sertinG after the word "city" in tho
limo of coj1 section the words
at the option of said owner or keeper
so that said section shall read as fol-
lows:
Section co. Whoever is so assaulted or
finds q dog strolling outside of the
premises or immediate care of its owner
or keeper. may. within fortyeight hours
thereafter. make written complaint be-
fore the municipal or police court having
jurisdiction in the city or town where
the owner or keeper resides, or in case
there is he such court, before a trial JUS
tice in said town, that he really believes
and has reason to believe that said dog
is dangerous or vicious; whereupon said
court or trial justice shall order said
owner or keeper to appear and answer
TO said complaint by serving said owner
or keeper of said dog with a copy of said
complaint and order a reasonable time
before the day set for hearing thereon;
and if urcn hearing, the court or trial
Justice is satisfied that said complaint
is true, he shall order said owner or
ter either to kill Or coniinc said dog or
remove and keep the same beyond the
limits of said town CT city. at the option
of said owner or keeper; and if said
said order, he shall forfeit to the use of
the city or town aforesaid not less than
one, nor more than ten dollars, TO be re-
covered in an action on the case
[Aprrcved February 49, 1901
Chapter 20.
An Act to amend Chapter one hundred
and siXtNthre2, Public Laws of nine
teen hundred and i've. relating to the
exemption of solGiers and sailors from
Pol Tax.
Section /. An act to amend chapter
one hundred and sixty-three, public laws
of the state of Maine, passed by the
sevcnty-second legislature, in the year of
lating to eXempting soldiers and sailors
of the civil war from poll tax, by strik-
ing out the words in the sixth, seventh
and eighth lines, who is not assessed
five hundred dollars" so that said sec
ton as amended, shall read as follows:
Section l.. Every soldier or sailor
'Who, served in the army or navy of the
hundred and sixty-one and five, and who
has an honorable discharge from such
service, resident within the state of
Maine, is hereby forever exempt from
tax within any city, town or planta ton
III this state, provided, however, that
any such sailor or soldier who desires
to ray said tax may, on or before tho
first day of April, in each year, notify
in writing the assessors of the city, town
or plantation in which he resides of his
desire to pay said. tax, whereupon said
assessors shall assess said tax against
said soldier or sailor, and said soldier or
sailor shall be legally holden to pay said
tax
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved.
[Approved February 10, 1901
Chapter 21.
An Act to amend Section fifty, Chapter
ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of
the State Of Maine, relating TO Liens.
Section fifty of chapter ninety three Of
the revised statutes is hereby amended
hy adding after the word "cordwood' in
the second line or pulp-wood or any wood
used in the manufacture of pulp and by
striking out that portion of the section
after the word attachment in the sixth
line, so that the section as amended,
Shall read as follows:
Section 50. Whoever labors at cutting,
peeling OF. hauling henllock bark or cut
ting, yarding or hauling cordwood or
pulp-WOOd or aQv wood l1Sed in the man