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

may be used or held in trust for the pur-
pose or purposes given. 1t may publish
lists and circulars of information and
may cooperate with other state library
commissions and libraries in the publ
cation of documents in order to secure
the most economical administration of
the work for which it was formed. 1t
may conduct courses of schools of libra-
~ instruction and hold librarians insti-
tutes in various parts of the state and
cooperate with others in such schools
be purchased for travelling libraries and
advise the librarian Of the state library
in reference thereto. Said commission
shall perform such other service in be-
half of public libraries as it may con-
slider for the best interests of the state.
-(Approved March 49,
Chapter SO.
An Act to regulate the transportation
of fish and game beyond the limits Of
the State of Maine for breeding, scien-
tHc and advertising purposes.
Section 1. The commissioners of inland
fisheries and game shall have authority
to grant permits to transport beyond the
limits of the state live fish or game
tific and advertising purposes.
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.-(Approved March 49,
Chapter 80.
An Act to provide for the Weekly Pay
ment of Wages.
Every manufacturing, mining or quar-
rying, mercantile, street railway, tele-
graph or telephone corporation, every in
corporated express company or water
company. and every contractor, person
or partnership engaged in any manu-
featuring business, in any of the build
ing trades, in quarrieS or mines, upon
public works or in the construction or re-
pair of street railways, roads. bridges or
sewers or of gas. water or electric light
works. pipes or lines, shall pay week
ly each employee engaged in his or
its business the wages earned by him to
within eight days of the date of said
payment but any employee leaving his
or her employment shall be paid in full
vided, that when an employee is dis
charged he shall be paid the wages due
him on demand and the state its
officers, boards and commissions shall so
pay every mechanic, workman and laborer
who is employed by it or them, and every
county and city shall so pay every en-
ployee who is engaged in its business the
wages or salary earned by him. unless
such mechanic, workman, laborer or en-
ployee requests in writing to be paid in
different manner: and every town shall
SO pay each employee in its business if SO
required by him: but an employee who
is absent from his regular place of labor
at a time fixed for payment shall be paid
thereafter on demand. The provisions of
this section shall not apply to an en-
ployee engaged in cutting and hauling
logs and lumber, nor the driving of same
until it reaches it's place of destination
for sale or manufacture; nor to an en-
ployee of a cooperative corporation or
association if he is a stakeholder therein
unless he requests such corporation to
pay him weekly. No corporation. con-
tractor. person or partnership snail by
a special contract with an employee or
by any other means exempt himself or it
self from the provisions of this act.
Whoever violates the provisions of this
act shall be punished by fine of not
to fiftV
-(Approved March 49,
Chapter 40.
An Act to amend Sections eleven and
thirteen of Chapter two hundred and
twenty-five of the Public Laws of nine
teen hundred and nine relating to
licensing of Dogs.
Section 1. Section eleven Of chapter
two hundred and twenty-five of the pub
lie laws of nineteen hundred and nine is
hereby amended by inserting after the
or wild. animals Section eleven of
chapter two hundred and twenty-five of
the public laws of nineteen hundred and
nine is further amended by inserting
after the word dogs in the eighth line
the words 'or wild animals SO that said
section as amended shall read as follows:
Section II. Whenever any sheep,
lambs, or other domestic animals, owned
by resident of this state are killed or
injured by dogs, or wild animals, such
owner may make complaint thereof to the
mayor of the city, or to one of the munlc-
ipal officers of the town or plantation
where such damage was done, within
seven days after he has knowledge of the
same and thereupon the municipal otfi-
GERS shall Investigate the complaint, and
if satisfied that the said damage was
committed by dogs or wild animals with
in the limits of their city, town or plan
tation, they shall estimate the damage
thereof according to the full value and
fifty per cent additional for which they
are kept, whether as breeders or for
other purposes, and direct that the same
shall be paid from the town treasury.
If the municipal officers and the owner
of the sheep or domestic animals are I'M
able to agree as to the amount of the
damage which shall be paid the amount
shall be determined by three referees to
be selected in manner following. One
referee to be chosen by the municipal Off
GERS one by the owner of the animals
injured or killed, and the third by the
two referees already selected. In case
one party refuses or neglects to select a
referee, the other party, after thirty days
from the time the notice of the aforesaid
damage was given or received, shall Sc
lect two referees and the two selected
shall choose the third. The said referees
shall submit written report, signed by
a majority. within fifteen days from the
date of their appointment, stating the
amount to be paid by the town. The re-
port of said referees shall be final and
the expenses of the referees shall be
divided equally between the owner OF
ton.
Any town paying such damages caused
by dogs may maintain an action on the
case against the owner or keeper of
such dogs to recover the amount paid, not
exceeding the actual damage committed
and fifty per cent. additional.
Any person who keeps a dog that kills
or Injuries sheep or lambs shall be fined
not less than fifty dollars nor exceeding
one hundred dollars and costs, unless
before the final disposition of the case,
the said owner or keeper of the said dog
produces. satisfactory evidence that the
dog has been killed.
Section q Section thirteen of chapter
two hundred and twenty-five is hereby
amended by inserting after the word
identified in the sixth line the words.
or shall have paid such damages for
losses caused by wild animals so that
the section as amended shall read as
follows:
Section 10. When any city, town. or
plantation shall have paid damages to
the owners of sheep, lambs or other do
nestle animals, as provided in section
eleven, for losses caused by dogs, and
the amount of such damages cannot be
collected from the owners or keepers of
said dogs, or the dog or dogs causing
such losses cannot be identified or shall
have paid such damages for losses
caused by wild animals, the mayor of
such city, or the municipal officers of
said town or plantation, shall forward
to the state auditor a statement of facts
in each case, showing the amount so
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