The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-08
CHAPTER 1865.

Children. and defining certain Acts
which shall be considered as causing,
encouraging contributing TO the
Delinquency or Distress of Infants.
Section /. 1t shall be considered In
furious to the physical, mental or moral
welfare of any child. or children within
the age defined by the statutes of this
state concerning infants in distress, to
smoke or use tobacco in any form, or to
use or drink alcoholic or intoxicating
LIQUORS, or to use narcotic drugs of any
kind or description unless prescribed by
physician, or otherwise used In case of
sickness; and any person selling, giving
or furnishing any such child with Gig
arettes. cigarette papers. tobacco. liquor
or narcotic drugs in any form or encour-
aging such child to use the same, except
as otherwise provided herein. shall be
deemed guilty of encouraging, causing or
contributing to the delinquency or dis
tress of such child, and shall be punished,
ceeding one hundred dollars or imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding thirty
days.
Section 9. II shall also be considered
dangerous to the welfare of such children
to give, furnish or sell to them any dan
gerous weapon or firearms, except in
cases where the parents. guardians
teachers or instructors of children may
furnish them with such weapons for
hunting or target shooting outside the
limits OF any incorporated town or city
or where the same may be used IN any
regular licensed shooting gallery, and any
person violating this provision shall also
be deemed guilty of causing, encouraging
or contributing to the DELINQUENCY or dis
tress of children, and may be similarly
proceeded against and punished as under
the foregoing section.
Section g. This act shall not be con-
strued to repeal any criminal law of this
state forhiddng the sale of tobacco
liquor. narcotic drugs or firearms to
minors, or any law of this state for the
protection of children or minors. or to
forbid proceedings under such acts i'll
cases which may also come within the
proceedings of this act
Section 4. The court may suspend any
sentence, stay or postpone the enforce
ment of execution, or release from GUS
tody any person found guilty in any case
under this act upon such conditions as
shall be imposed by the court.
Section 5. In order to find any person
guilty of violating this act it shall not be
necessary to prove that the child is ac-
tually in delinquency or distress, pro-
vided it appears from the evidence that
through any act or neglect or omission
of duty or by any improper act or con-
duct on the part of any such person the
distress or delinquency of any child may
have been caused or merely encouraged
This act shall always be. literally con-
strued In favor of the state for the pur-
pose of the protection of the child from
neglect or omission of parental duty to-
ward the child by the parents, as well
also to protect the children of the state
from the effects ot the imprope. conduct.
ACTS, or the bad exam re-.
= or persons whomsoeYer which may be
calculated 10 cause, encourage Vi tUl-
tribute to the distress or delinquency of
children, although such persons are In no
way related to the child.-(Approved
March 29)
Chapter 167.
An Act to amend Section five of Chapter
forty-four of the Public Laws of nine
teen hundred seven, TO provide for the
Care and Education of the Feeble
Minded
Section five of chapter forty -four of the
public laws of nineteen hundred seven is
hereby amended by striking out after the
word county" in the third line of said
section. the words and who is not al
ready in any almshouse, the industrial
school or hospital in Maine or supported
by any town. and inserting in place
thereof the words, or any inmate of the
Maine Industrial School for gals, the
State School for boys, the Bath Military
and Naval Orphan Asylum, or any person
supported by any town. so that said sec
ton as amended shall read:
Section 5. Whenever 1t is made to APP
pear, upon application to the judge of
probate for any county and after due
notice and proper hearing, that any
person resident in said county, or any in
mate of the Maine Industrial School for
Military and Naval Orphan Asylum, or
any person supported by any town, is
fit subject for the Maine School for Fee
BILE Minded. such judge may commit such
person to said school by an order of com
mitment directed to the trustees of said
School for Feeble Minded accompanied by
IL telllllcdlC VI tND piS SltldIlS nv ''it
graduates of some legally organized
medical college and have practiced three
years in this state, that such person is
a proper sub ject for said institution
Whenever upon such application. there is
occasion for the judge of probate TO at
tend a hearing on days other than days
fixed as the regular dav for holding the
probate court, said judge of probate shall
he allowed five dollars per day for his
services and expenses. which shall be
paid by the county treasurer upon the
pprtifpatp nf the county commissioners
-tApproVed March 30
Chapter 1863.
An Act to amend Section five OF Chapter
Seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes
relating to the signing of Writs and
other papers by deputy clerks of court.
Section five of chapter seVenty-nine of
the revised statutes, Is hereby amended
by adding to said section the following
words and the signature of any duly
appointed and qualified deputy clerk OF
said court or the courts mentioned in
sections seventy mine and eighty of this
chapter, followed by the designation
deputy clerk shall be n sufficient sigma
ture to any writ precept. instrument or
process. in law or equity: issuing from
said courts or either of them.'-(Ap-
proved March 20
Chapter 1862
An Act to amend Chapter ninety-throe,
Section ffty-ive of the Revised Stat
utes of Maine, relating to liens for
pressing Hay.
Chapter ninety-three. section ffty-five
of the revised statutes is hereby amended
by inserting after the third word in the
first line of said section the words or
straw and by inserting after the tenth
word in said first line of said section the
words or straw so that said section
shall read as follows:
Section 50. Whoever presses nay or
straw has "A lien on all hay or straw so
pressed for the amount due for such
pressing. which takes precedence of all
other claims except liens reserved to the
state and the liens specified in the pre-
ceding section, continues for thirty days
after said pressing Is completed and may
be enforced by attachment '-(Approved
March 29)
Chapter TO.
An Act in relation to Equity Procedure.
Section |. Section nineteen of chapter
seventy mine of the revised statutes is
hereby amended by striking out the word
sixty" I'm the seventh and ninth lines of
thereof the word thirty and also by
adding after the word ''replication' in the
eighth line the words unless by consent
so that the said section as amended
shall read as follows:
Section 49, When demurrer is filed
the court upon motion of either party
may set the cause for hearing upon bill
and demurrer at any time. When plea
or answer is filed the court upon motion
of the plaintiff may set the cause for
hearing upon bill and plea, or answer at
any time. When a replication Is filed the
set the cause for hearing upon bill.
answer or plea, and evidence; but such
hearing shall not he had until after
thirty days from the filing Of the re-
plication. unless by consent. When jury
trial is ordered ii shall be had at the next
term after such thirty days. Any time
fixed for hearing or trial may be eX-
tended for good cause shown