Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-09


hereby amended by prefixing to said Sec
ton the following:
Section s. No weir for the taking OF
salmon, shad and alewives. or either,
shall extend into more than two rect
OF water. in depth. at ordinary low wa
ter, or occupy more than one-elghtn OF
margin of the channel marked and made
bare at low water at the usual ebb OF
the tide so that said section as amend
ed, shall read as follows:
Section s. No weir for the taking of
= salmon, shad and alewives. or either,
shall extend into more than two feet
: of water in. depth, at ordinary low wa
ter. or occupy more than one-eighth OF
, margin of the channel marked and made
? bare at low water at the usual ebb OF
the tide. Every weir shall be provided
with a gate or passage way at least
bottom or floor thereof to high water
. line. which gate or door shall be in the
pound or apartment wherein said hsh
are are secured sSs d ana nf taken And the sald
ment to the passage of said fish. from
sunrise on Saturday of each week. to
sunrise on the succeeding Monday, be-
tween the first day of April and the fff-
teenth day of July. in each year; and
any weir that shall be made. without
such gate or door. or If any such gate
or door shall not be kept open as herein
required, the owner or occupant Of such
weir shall forfeit for each offence. ten
dollars
Section g. Section twelve Of chapter
one hundred twenty-sX of the public
laws of eighteen hundred forty-four is
hereby amended by striking out all Of
SAID section and by substituting there
for the following section:
section II. All forfeitures prescribed
by this act. exceeding twenty dollars,
shall be recoverable by indictment in SUI
preme judicial court. and all forfeitures
not exceeding twenty dollars. shall be
recoverable by complaint in behalf of
the State before a trial justice for the
county of Knox, or the judge of the
police court for the city Of Rockland
And such Justice or Judge, is hereby
empowered, on conviction, to impose
penalties to. an amount not exceeding
the sum of twenty dollars, and in case
any person convicted and sentenced by
such Justice. or judge, shall neglect or
prosecution, the justice, or judge, by his
mlttlmus, may cause said offender to
be committed to the jail of the county.
there to be detained, till discharged by
order of law. reserving however to every
person accused, the right to appeal to
the supreme judicial court, on entering
INTO recogniZance as in other cases of
appeal from trial justices or said police
court IN criminal suits. Complaints for
any OF the offences mentioned in this
act, may be made by any fish warden, or
deputy warden, or. any other person, and
all forfeitures and penalties recovered
for any such offences, shall go to the
use Of the town in which the same was
committed. -(Approved March 81, 1919
CHAPTER 14s.
An Act to make uniform the law of
warehouse receipts.
Section ]. Warehouse receipts may be
issued by any warehouseman.
Section 3. Warehouse receipts need
"a = n lOrtr Low. for hat
such receipt must embody within it's
written or printed terms
(D The location of the warehouse
where the goods are stored,
OBJ The date of issue Of the receipt
(c) The consecutive number of the
receipt,
(D A statement whether the goods
received will be delivered to the bearer.
TO specified person, or to specified
person or his order.
te) The rate of storage charges.
N) A description of the goods or of
the packages containing them,
CD The signature of the warehouse
man. which may be made by his author
lied agent,
of which the warehouseman is owner,
either solely or jointly or in common
with other, the fact of such ownership
and
G) A statement of the amount of adj
vances made and Of liabilities incurred
for which the warehouseman claims a
lien If the precise amount of such ad-
vances made or of such liabilities NJ
CURED is, at the time of the issue of the
receipt, unknown to the WarehouSeman
or to his agent who issues it. state
ment of the fact that advances have been
made or liabilities incurred and the pur-
pose thereof. is sufficient.
A warehouseman shall be liable to
any person injured thereby, for all dam
age caused by the omission from a nego-
table receipt OF any of the terms herein
required.
Section 3. A warehouseman may in
sert in receipt, issued by him, any 9TH
such terms and conditions shall not:
this act, ''' " - '"e PROVISIONS OF
% In any wise impair his obliga-
ton to exercise that degree of care in
the safe-keeping of the goods entrusted
to him which reasonably careful man
would exercise in regard to similar
goods of his own.
Section 4. A receipt in which II ia
stated that the goods received will be
delivered to the depositor, or to any
other specifled person, is a non-negotia-
BILE receipt
Section 5. A receipt in which It is
stated that the goods received will be
delivered to the bearer. or to the order
OF any person named in such receipt is
negotiable receipt.
No provision shall be inserted in a me-
Eotiable receipt that it is non-negotiable.
Such provision. if inserted. shall be void.
FpeClIoH y. w men more than one neRO-
table receipt is issued for the same
goods, the word duplicate" shall he
plainly placed upon the face Of every
such receipt, except the one first issued
A warehouseman shall be liable for ali
damage caused by his failure so to do
to any one who purchased the subse-
quent receipt for value supposing it to
be an original even though the purcha az
be after the delivery of the goods by the
warehoussman to the holder Of the orig
inal receipt.
Section 7. A non-negotiable recent
shall have plainly placed upon its face
by the warehouseman issuing II mon
negotiable" or "not-negotiable" In
case OF the warehouseman's failure go
to do, a holder of the receipt who pur-
chased It for value supposing It to be
negotiable, may. at his option, treat
such receipt as imposing upon the
Warehouseman the same liabilities he
would have incurred had the receipt
been negotiable.
This section shall not apply, however
TO letters. memoranda, or written ac.
acknowledgements of an informal charac-
ter.
Section s. warehouseman. in the
absence or some lawful excuse provided
by this act, is bound to deliver the goods
upon demand made either by the hold
er or a receipt for the goods or by the
depositor. II such demand is accompa-
MED with:
{D An offer to satisfy the ware
houseman's lien
- 90 An offer. to surrender the receipt