The Republican journal., 1907-04-04
Section 8. Every licensed person shall

Section 8. Every licensed person shall
give to- each applicant for employment
from whom a fee or other valuable thing
ployment, which fee or other valuable
thing shall in no ease exceed the valua
of one dollar, said fee being in full COM
pensation for all services of said licensed
person, a receipt in which shall be stated
the name of the applicant, the amount of
the fee or other valuable thing, the date
the nam name or nature Of the employment
rate receipt il which shall be stated the
name and address of the person, firm or
corporation. to whom, the applicant is re-
ferred or sent for work or employment.
" the applicant does not obtain Situa-
ton or employment through the agency
or such licensed person, without fault on
the part of said applicant, within six
said employment agency shall return to
such applicant IN demand the full
amount of the fee OF other valuable
thing so paid and delivered by said ap-
plicant to said licensed person If "a per-
agency, as aforesaid, is discharged from
his employment within six days after en-
shall leave. said employment within said
six days without fault on the part of the
employer, the amount paid to said agency
by either the employer or the employees,
same, upon demand made within ten
days after said employee ceases TO labor
provided the party claiming said return
shall be the one without fault.
Said employment agency shall exhibit
In a public and conspicuous place in his
place or office the license which he has
obtained from the municipal officers of
the city or town wherein said agency is
Section q. The term person in this
act shall include persons, company, So
ciety,, association, firm or corporate ton
and the term employment agency shall
include the business of keeping the in
telligence office, employment bureaus or
other agencies by procuring: work or en-
ment, or for acting as agent for procur-
ing such work or employment where a
fee or other valuable thing is exacted.
charged or received, or for procuring or
a situation of amy kind or for procuring
or providing hereby for any person.
Section 5. This act shall not apply to
the employment of seamen.
Section 6. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Section T. Whoever violates any of the
provisions of this act shall be fined not
less than ten or more than one hundred
dollars to be recovered by complaint or
indictment for the use of the state
Section s. This act shall take effect
iApproved March 20. 1901
Chapter as.
An Act for the protection of Gray squir-
rels and Black squirrels. so called.
squirrels and black squirrels, 50 called,
for a period Of four years from May first
i'll the year of our Lord nineteen hundred
and seven. during which time it shall be
unlawful to hunt. chase, catch. kill or
have them in possession, except alive.
under il penalty of twenty dollars and
costs of prosecution for each offense.
fApproved March 20, 1907
Chapter Sc.
An Act to amend Section seven of Chap
ter forty-seven of the Revised Statutes,
relating to Corporations.
Section l. Section seven of chapter
forty-seven Of the. revised statutes is
hereby amended by inserting in the elev-
enlh line of said section after the word
directors the words a presidents; so
that said section as amended, shah read
as follows:
Section l. Their first meeting shah be
called by one or more of the signers of
said articles, by giving notice thereof.
stating the time, place and purposes OF
the meeting to each signer, in writing,
or BY publishing ii in some newspaper
days prior to the time appointed there
for.
If all the signers of said articles shall
in writing waive. notice and fix Il tina
and place of such meeting, no notice or
publication shall be necessary. At such
meeting they may organize into i cor
poration. adopt a corporate name, define
lIC purposes VI TIE TX Inc
amount of the capital stock. which shall
not be less than one thousand dollars,
divide 1t into shares, and elect not les;3
than three directors, a president. a clerk,
treasurer, and any other necessary OFF,
GERS, and may adopt a code of bylaws
Section 2. This act shall take effect
when approved
Improved March 20, 1901
Chapter 81.
An Act in relation to Public Landings.
Section l. Towns may lay out public
or common landings and may alter or
out under the provisions of this act or
now or hereafter established by dedica-
ton or otherwise.
All procedure shall be in substance the
same as is provided by law in the case
Section 2. This act shall take effect
Improved March 20, 1907
Chapter SO.
An Act to encourage the compiling and
teaching of LEGAL History and Local
Geography in the public schools
Section l. The governor, with the adj
vice and consent of the council, shall APP
point state historian, who shall be d
member of the Maine Historical Society
and whose duty it shall be to compile his
torlcal data Of the state of Maine and en-
courage the teaching of the same i'm the
public schools. 1t shall also be his duty
~ S'icooldSc tHe CoiuplllIlS ana PUBLISH
ing of town histories, combined with local
geography. 1t shall further be his duty
To examine, and when he decides that TIKI.
material lis suitable, approve histories of
towns compiled as provided in section
two of this act
Section g Whenever any town shall
present to the state historian materia.
which he considers suitable for publication
as history of the town presenting the
same, then he may approve of the publ
cation of a history with the local geog-
raphy which will be suitable for the uso
in the grammar and high school grades
of the public schools.
Section 8. Whenever material for
been approved by the state historian, and
the same has been published by the town,
and provision has been made for its regu-
lar use in the public schools of said
town; then the state treasurer shall pay
the town so publishing a sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred and fifty dollars.
provided that the state shall not paw to
any town, to exceed one-half the amount
PAID by said town for printing and bind
ing said histories.
Section 4. The experimenting school
committee, and the superintendent of
schools, shall elect some citizen of the
sons shall constitute q board to compile
q history and the local geography of the
town in which they reside. Two or more
towns may unite in compiling and pub
fishing history and the local geography
OF the towns forming the union. It shall
be the duty of the SUPERINTENDENT of
schools to forward two copies of said
history to the Maine state library and
notify the, superintendent Of public