Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-05


that it has no policies in force and al
its obligations TO policy holders have beer
fully satisfied, the treasurer shall return
its securities on demand.
Section S. If any such company fails
while its securities are so on deposit, said
treasurer shall demand of it's secretary
or clerk, and he shall furnish a full and
complete list of the names and residences
of all policy holders and others having
claims upon the company; and they shall
be notified forthwith through the post
Office by said treasurer, of the condition
of the company; and he shall state in the
win be disposed of, and the proceeds
after paying expenses, paid over in a
ratable proportion upon their claims
properly authenticated; and the time n,s
such company which has made such de-
post, or the insurance commissioner, or
any creditor of such company may AT any
time bring, in the supreme judicial court
for the state of Maine, suit in equity
against the state and other parties prop
erIy Joined therein to enforce. administer
or terminate the trust created by Such
deposit. The process in such suit shall be
served on the treasurer and attorney
general, who shall appear and answer on
behalf Of the state and perform such
orders and DEGREES as the court may
make therein.-(Approved March 24)
Chapter 1925.
An Act to amend Section one Of Chapter
one hundred and seyenty-one OF the
Public Laws of nineteen hundred and
seven relating to the state superih-
tendent Of Public Schools.
Section ]. Section one of chapter one
hundred and seventy-one of the public
laws of nineteen hundred and seven is
hereby amended by inserting after the
word purpose" in line five of said sec
ton the words he shall employ clerk,
who may serve as his deputy, at a salary
rot to exceed fifteen hundred dollars an
nually, with necessary expenses When on on
other clerical assistance at cost not TO
exceed one thousand dollars annually SO
that said section, when amended, snail
read as follows:
perintendent of schools is hereby estab-
lished at twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum. He shall receive in addition his
actual cash expenses incurred in the per-
Torrance of his official duties which sum
shall be paid ont Of the specific appro-
priation for that purpose. He snail en-
ploy clerk, who may serve as his
deputy, at a salary not to exceed fifteen
hundred dollars annually, with necessary
expenses when on official business within
the state, and other clerical assistance
Jars annually. He Shall perform his
official duties at the Office provided for
him at the seat of government and not
elsewhere. not meaning. however. to
prohibit him from making such necessary
journeys and performing such duties as
are necessary or incidental to the i'm
mediate object Of such journey.
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act, are hereby
repealed.-(ApprOved March 24)
Chapter 1876.
An Act relating to the powers of the
Board Of Prison and Jail Inspectors.
Section twelve of chapter one hundred
and forty-one of the revised statutes Is
hereby amended by adding to said section
the following:
Said inspectors may. from time to
time, make such recommendations as to
them seem reasonable and proper, to the
sheriff thereof, or to the keeper of the
jail therein, as to enlargement, alteration
or repair of the jail or workshop situated
in the county in which said commission
as to improvements in sanitary, heating
or lighting conditions of said jail or
workshop. or az to the clothing, food,
care. discipline. >classflcation and methods
of feeding prisoners in said Jail or work.
shop, which recommendations said COM
tnissioners. sheriff or jailer shall imme-
such commissioners, sheriff or jailer re-
fuse or neglect to comply with such
recommendations then said inspectors
shall submit such recommendations to the
governor and council. Should the gov
ernor and council approve of such
recommendations and said county COM
mssioners, sheriff or jaler still refuse or
neglect to comply with the same, then
mendationS into effect. Any expense IN
CURED by said inspectors in carrying such
recommendations into effect shall. in the
first instance, be paid from the state
treasury out of any money not otherwise
appropriated, and the county in which
such recommendations are carried into
effect shall forthwith reimburse the state
treasury for all such expenses. Should
any county neglect or refuse to reimburse
the state treasury as herein provided the
attorney general shall bring an action
Uuin n
state of Maine to recover such expenses,
said action to be entered and prosecuted
in any county which the attorney general
may select.'-(Approved March 24D
Chapter 1877.
An Act relating to Corporations.
Section J. The secretary of state shall
prepare a list of all corporations, giving
the corporate name. the name of
the treasurer last filed in the
office of the secretary Of state.
and the amount of the annual fran
chise tax due for the year nineteen hum
dred and seven, except those which have
been duly excused as provided by statute
or dissolved by decree of court. which
have not paid their franchise tax for the
year nineteen hundred and seven, which
list shall be published three times for
three consecutive weeks in the month OF
July, nineteen hundred and nine, in three
places within the state of Maine namely,
Bangor, Augusta and Portland, in such
newspaper in each place as the secretary
OF state may select. Inc CharteT OF any
corporation SO advertised which shall fail
to pay said franchise tax, and the eX-
penses Of advertising the same on or be-
fore the first day of December, in the
year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and
nine shall be suspended, and such cor
poration shall have no right to use the
same. A charter so suspended may be
revived by payment of all franchise taxes
and expenses of advertising as aforesaid
due from the corporation at the time of
such payment. Any corporation where
the charter shall have become suspended
as aforesaid. shall continue liable for it's
yearly franchise tax. but while its char
ter Is suspended aforesaid no notice
relating to said franchise tax need be
sent to the corporation by any state
officer. The data covering the avoiding
of said charter, to wit: The fact of the
publication of the same and the dates
thereof. and the avoidance of said charter
by reason of such publication. and the
failure to pay said overdue franchise tax
as herein provided, shall be so entered
upon the corporation records of the state
and be certified by the secretary of state
as evidence of the suspension of the char
ter of such corporation. That the sum OF
five hundred dollars be and hereby is APP
propriated to pay the expense thereof
Section 2. Any person or persons who
shall undertake to do business. or do
business of any kind in behalf of any
such corporation, or shall hold out such
corporation as doing business, or shall
sell, transfer or put upon the market any