Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-05
Chapter 166.


Az Act concerning the Protection of
NElidren and defining certain Acts
when shall be considered as causing,
TnnG,;ouraslng or contributing to the
behhquency or Distress of Infants.
Section 1. 1t shall be considered in
furious TO the physical. mental or moral
welfare of any child. or children within
ane 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 bv a
PHYSICIAN or otherwise used in case of
sickness; and any person selling, giving
or furnishing any such child with Gig
or narcotic drugs in any form or encour-
aging such child to use the same except
as otherWlse provided herein, shall be
oeeiaen guilty OF encouraging. causing or
contributing to the delinquency or dis
tress OF such child. and shall he punished,
on conviction thereof by fine not ex-
ceedlns one hundred dollars or imprison-
1neht Tor term not exceeding thirty
days.
Section >. 1t shall also be considered
dangerous to the welfare of such children
to give, furnish or sell to them any dam
SerouS weapon or firearms, except i'm
cases where the parents, guardians
teachers or instructors of children may
Iufnlsh them with such weapons for
hunting or target shooting outside thf.
limits of amy 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
DC deemed guilty OF causing, encourag ing
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 forbidding the sale of tobacco
i liquor. narcotic drugs or firearms to
protection of children or minors, or to
forbid proceedings under such acts in
cases which may also come within the
proceedings of this act
Section T. The court may suspend any
sentence, stay or postpone the enforce
inent OF execution or release from
tody amy person found guilty in any case
under this act upon such conditions as
shall be imposed by the court.
Section .. 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-
Hided 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
nave 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 of the improper conduct
acts. or the bad example of any person
on persons Whomsoever which may be
calculated to cause. encourage or con-
tribute to the distress or delinquency of
children, although such persons in no
way related to the child.-(Approved
March 29D
Chapter 167.
An Act to amend Section five of Chapter
torty-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 fortyfour 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 land 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 girls. the
State School for boys. the Bath Military
and Naval Orphan Asylum or any person
supported by any town.. 50 that said sec
ton as amended shall read:
Section >. 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. or 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
fit subject for the Maine School for Fee
ble Minded. such Judge may commit such
person to said school by an order OF COM
r,it,nent directed ia the trustees of said
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Chapter 100.
An Act to amend Section 1--WE ni chapter
seventy mine Of the Revised Statutes.
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