The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-08
CHAPTER 166.

WHICH pe COHSlueTeQ as causing,
encouraging or contributing to the
Delinquency or Distress of Infants.
Section l. 1t shall be considered in
furious to the physical, mental or moral
welfare Of any, child, or children within
state concerning infants in distress, to
smoke. or use tobacco in any form, or to
use or drink alcoholic or Intoxicating
kind or description unless prescribed by a
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 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,
on conviction thereof. by a fine not eX-
ceeding one hundred dollars or imprison-
ment for term not exceeding thirty
days.
Section Q 1t 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 s. This act shall not be. con-
strued to repeal any criminal law of this
state forbidding the sale of tobacco,
minors or any law of this state for the
protection of children or minors, or to
forbid proceedings under such acts in
cases which may also come within the
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Section a. 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 con-
duct on the part of any such person the
distress or delinquency of any child may
have been caused or merely encoura ged.
This act shall always be literally con-
stl'ued 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 of the improper conduct
acts, or the bad example of any person
or persons whomsoever which may be
calculated TO cause, encourage or con-
tribute to the distress or delinquency of
children. although such persons are in no
way related to the child.-(Approved
March 29)
Chapter 1867.
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
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 girls, 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 it is made to APP
pear. upon application to the Judge of
probate for any county and after due
notice and a proper hearing, that any
person resident in said county, any in
mate of the Maine Industrial School for
Girls, the state School for boys, the Bath
Military and Naval Orphan Asylum. or
any person supported by any town, is a
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
certificate of two physicians who are
medical college and have practiced three
years in this state that such person is
a proper subject for said Institution.
Whenever upon such application, there is
occasion for the judge of probate to at
tend hearing on days other than days
fixed as the regular dav for holding the
probate court, said Judge of probate shall
be allowed five dollars per day for his
services and expenses, which shall he
paid by the county treasurer upon the
certificate of the county commissioners
-(ApproVed March 29)
Chapter 1863.
An Act to amend Section five Of Chapter
Seventy mine 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 a 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 29)
Chapter 1863.
An Act to amend Chapter ninety-three,
Section fifty-tive of the Revised Stat
utes of Maine, relating to liens for
pressing Hay
Chapter ninety three section hfty-flFe
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 follows:
Section 55. Whoever presses hay or
straw has lien on all hay or straw
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
Chapter ITO.
An Act in relation to Equity Procedure.
Section l. Section nineteen of chapter
seventy-nine of the revised statutes is
hereby amended by striking out the word
sixty in the seventh and ninth lines of
the section and inserting in the place
thereof the word thirty and also by
adding after the word replica ton in the
eighth line the words unless by consent
so that the said section as amended
shall read as follows:
Section 10. 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 a 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
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