Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14

March g. 1872
Chapter 81.
An Act to amend Sections two and eight
of Chapter one hundred lightweight OF
the Public Laws of nineteen hundred
eleven providing for the encourage
ment of industrial education.
Section l. Section two of chapter one
hundred lightweight of the public laws
of nineteen hundred eleven is hereby
amended by striking out the wosds
-four thousand" in the twelfth and thir-
teenth lines thereof and substituting in
place thereof the words six thousand,
so that said section when amended shaii
read as follows:
normal schools shall cause to be intro
duced into all of said normal schoois
such courses in manual arts aoihestile
science and agriculture as will enable
their graduates TO teach elementary
courses i'm those subjects in the rural
and grade schools. In not more than
one of said schools the course IN manual
training shall be so extended as TO oItr
opportunity to persons desiring TO qnan-
fy rs special teachers of that brancfl,
and IN not more than one the course IN
domestic science shall be so extendes as
to offer similar opportunity to persons
desiring to qualify as special teachers
thereof For the two special courses
thus offered the trustees are authorized
to expend annually not 10 exceed SIX
thousand dollars, which shall be add
tional to other sums appropriated Tor th'
support of said normal schools ana
which the treasurer of state shall deduct
from any funds raised for the support
of common schools
Section p Section eight of chapter one
hundred eighty Eight of the pubic laws
of nineteen hundred eleven IS hereby
amended by striking out the words
twenty thousand FIVE hundred
in the third line thereof and substituting
in place thereof the words forty thoas,
and. SO that said section when amended
Section s. For the purpose OF TINS act
there shall be deducted annually by ths
treasurer of State from the school ana
mill fund the sum of forty thousand dol,
lars and any of this amount so deducted
that is not apportioned during the man
cial year shall at its close be added 10
the permanent school fund All reports
required under this act shall be filed an
nualy with the state superintendent OF
public schools on or before the first day
of July and State aid shall be payable
during the month of December next sue
ceeding '-tApproved March T., 1879
Chapter 80.
An Act to amend Section five of Chapter
twenty-one of the Revised statutes.
relating to liens upon lots or parcels of
land benefited by the ctQstraction OF
public sewer.
That Section five of chapter twenty
one of the Revised Statutes OF Maine IS
hereby amended by adding at the end or
said section the following words Tn
lien herein created shall take effect
city clerk the completed assessment, so
that said section as amended, snail READ
as follows:
structed and completed a public drain or
common sewer, the municipal ofncers
shall determine what lots or parcels OF
land are benefited by such drain or
sewer, and shall estimate and assess
upon such lots and parcels OF lana, ana
against the owner thereof, or person III
possession. or against whom the taxes
thereon shall be assessed, whether SAID
person to whom the assessment IS so
made shall be the owner, tenant, lessee
or agent, and whether the same Is &C.
cupied or not. such sum not exceeding
such benefit as they may deem just and
equitable towards defraying the ex-
renses of constructing and completing
such drain or sewer. the wnoie OF sucn
assessments not to exceed one-half OF
the cost of such drain or sewer, anu
such drain or sewer shall forever there
after be maintainsdb and kept IN o afparF
shall file with the clerk OF the town the
location of such drain or sewer, with a
profile description of the same, and a
statement of the amount assessed upon
each lot or parcel of land SO assessed
and the name of the owner of such lots
or parcels of land or person against
whom said assessment shall De mace.
and the clerk of such town shall record
the same in book kept for that pur-
pose and within ten days after ming
such notice, each person + SO assessed,
shall be notified of such assessment by
having an authentic copy OF SAID assess
ment with an order of notice signed py
the clerk of said town, stating the time
and place for hearing upon the sub
iect matter of said assessments, gwen
to each person so assessed or lett az ms
usual place of abode III said town; II ne
has no place of abode in said town.
then such notice shall be given or lett
at the abode of his tenant or lessee II
he has one in said town; if he has no
such tenant or lessee in said town,
then by posting the same notice in some
conspicuous place in the vicinity or the
lot or parcel of land so assessed, at least
thirty days before said nearing. or su asa
same three weeks successfully in any
newspaper published In SAID town lhe
first publication to be at least thlrly
upon copy of such notice by. any con-
stable in said town or the production OF
the paper containing such notice, shali
be conclusive evidence that SAID notlce
has been given, and upon such hearing
the municipal officers shall nave power
to revise, increase or diminish any OF
increase or diminution shall be in writ
ing and recorded by such clerk me lien
herein created shall take erect When the
municipal officers file with the city clerk
the completed assessment -tApproVeo
Chapter 80.
An Act to amend Sections forty-one and
forty-two of Chapter forty-nine of the
Revised Statutes, relative to the or
ganiZation of insurance Companies.
Section l. Sections forty-one ana
forty-two of chapter forty-nine of the
Revised Statutes are hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section Al. Any ten or more persons,
residents of the State, associated by
such an agreement in writing as IS mere
matter described, with the intention OF
constituting corporation for the tran
saction of insurance business shall upon
complying with section forty-nlne, ne
come and remain a corporation with an
the powers, rights and privileges and be
subject to all the duties, liabilities and
restrictions set forth in all the general
laws relating to insurance corporations.
Corporations may be organized as here
in provided, upon the stock or mutual
principle for the following purposes:
!. To insure against loss or damage
pancy by fire: explosion, fire ensuing
explosion, no fire ensuing; except explo-
sion of steam boilers and fly wheels;
lightning or tempest and tornadoes Oh
land; by water and breakage or leakage
of sprinklers, pumps or other apparatus
erected for extinguishing fires. and OF
water pipes or against accidental in
jury to such sprinklers, pumps or other
apparatus.
q To insure vessels, freights, goods,
money effects, and money lent on bot
tomry or respondentia, against the perils
of the sea and other perils usually in
sured against by marine insurance COM
panies, including risks of inland navga-
ton and transportation; also to insure
against loss or damage to motor We
hicles, their fittings and contents,