The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-04-06

hereunder shall be consummat tee. Dap
proved March 29.)
Chapter 1870.
An Act to provide for the further analy-
sis Of Commercial Fertilizers
Section l. Any person within the state
may send to the director of the Maine
agricultural experiment station samples
of commercial fertilizers sold or offered
for sale within the state for the purpose
of analysis under the following condi-
tons: Said samples shall be taken in
the presence of a witness from not less
than five packages of properly stored
commercial fertilizer in accordance with
directions to be furnished by said direc
tor; copy of all marks upon or affixed
to the package, including the brand or
trademark, the name of the manufacturer
and the guaranteed chemical analysis,
shall accompany the sample or be de-
posted with the secretary of the grange
or the selectmen of the town where the
sample is taken.
Section 2. On receipt of a sample of
commercial fertilizer accompanied by %
a certified statement signed by the wit
ness that the sample was taken as pro
vided in section one of this act, (2) a
copy of the marks on or affixed to the
package from which the sample was pro-
secretary of a grange or a selectman
that the copy of the marks upon the
package have been deposited with him,
and go an analysis fee of ten dollars for
agricultural experiment station shall!
make or cause to be made an analysis of
the fertilizer and shall forthwith report
the results of said analysis to the sender.
Section 8. If on receipt of the copy
of the marks upon the package from
which the sample of commercial fertilizer
was taken, it shall be found that not
more than one sample of the same brand
has been analyzed by said director within
the year, or if the actual analysis shall
differ materially from the guaranteed
analysis. the analysis made by said
director shall be deemed to be of public
Importance, and the analysis fee shall be
returned to the person who sent the sam
pie If the actual analysis agrees rea-
sonably with the guaranteed analysis
and more than one sample of the brand
from which said sample was taken shall
have been examined within the year, said
director shall pay said analysis Zee to
the treasurer of the Maine agricultural
experiment station and it shall be used
for the enforcement of the inspection
laws of which the said director is the ex
ecutive. And the said director shall pub
lsh the official bulletin. giving the results
of analyses that are deemed to be of
public Importance, annually in the month
of October.-(A March 29)
Chapter 1871.
An Act relating to taxing Insurance in
Companies not authorized 10 90 busi-
ness in Name
Section 1. All persons, companies, as
sociations or corporations residing or do
ing business in this state that enter into
any agreements with any insurance com
pany, association, individual, firm. under
writer or Lloyd, not authorized to 90
business in this state, whereby said per-
son, company, association or corporation
covering risks within this state. with
said unauthorized association, individual.
firm. underwater or Lloyd, for which
there is a premium charged or collected
corporation so insured shall, annually on
the first day of December or within ten
days thereafter. return to the insurance
commissioner of this state statement
under oath of all actual cost of indemni-
ty and gross premiums paid or payable
for the twelve months preceding on poli7
cies or contracts OF insurance taken by
the said person, company, association or
corporation and shall at the same time
pay to the state treasurer tax of five
per centum of the actual cost of indemni-
ty or payable to any such association,
firm or Individual, or a tax OF nVe per
centum of the gross premiums paid or
payable to any such insurance company,
underwater or Lloyd.
Section 8 ANY person, company, assO-
citation or corporation failing or refusing
to make the report required in section
one of this act and to furnish all the data
and information that may be required by
the insurance commissioner to determine
the amount due shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be
fined not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than five hundred dollars for
each offenSe.
Section g. No provision of this act shall
be construed as extending to fraternal
beneficiary associations, or members
thereof Nor shall any provision of this
act be construed as extending to 1nsur-
ance in unauthorized companies. written
by special insurance brokers, under sec
ton ninety nine. chapter forty-nine, re-
vised statutes of Maine.-(Approved
March 29D
Chapter 1872.
An Act to amend Section sixteen of
Chapter eighty-siX of the Revised Stat
utes relating to sale of shares of the
capital stock of a Corporation on Ex-
ecution.
Section sixteen of chapter eighty-slx of
the revised statutes is hereby amended by
inserting after the word "dwelr' In the
fourth line of said section the words
otherwise by forwarding it to him by
mail, if his residence is known to such
office, postage paid, whether within or
of said section after the word paper in
the tenth line, so that said section shall
read as follows:
Section is. In selling said shares or
interest, the officer holding the execu-
ton shall give notice in writing of the
time and place of sale to the debtor, by
leaving it at his last and usual place of
abode if within the county bv Wmere me
it to him by mail. if his residence is
known to such officer, postage paid.
whether within or without the state; and
public notice thereof by posting it in one
or more public places in the town where
the sale is to be made. and in two adjoin-
ing towns, if there are SO many, thirty
DAYS at least before the day of sale; and
shall publish an advertisement of the
same import, naming the judgment
debtor for three weeks successfully be-
fore the day of sale, in some public news
paper printed in the county. if any, if
not, in the state paper.'-(Approved
March 29)
Chapter 1873.
An Act to amend Section four Of Chap
ter tifty-seven of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to the organization OF
Libraries and Charitable Societies.
Section four of chapter fifty-seven Of
the revised statutes is hereby amended
so that said section, as amended, shall
read as follows:
Section 4. Before commencing BUSH
ness the president. treasurer and ma
jority of the directors or trustees of
every corporation organized under the
foregoing sections shall prepare a GER
tificate setting forth the name and pur-
poses of the corporation, the town
where located. the number and names
of the officers, and shall sign and make
oath to it: and after it has been ex--
amned by the attorney general, and
been by him certified to be properly
drawn and signed and to be confOrma-
BILE to the constitution and laws, it shall
the county where said corporation is
1ocatal in hook kant for that pJlrnOSe.