The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-05

ton the following: ~
Section 8. 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
the channel. measured rom the nrst
margin Of the channel marked and made
the tide SO that said section as amend
ed, shall read as follows:
Section 8. No weir for the taking of
salmon, shad and alewives. or either.
shall extend into more than two feet
ter, or occupy more than one-eighth Of
the channel, measured from the first
margin of the channel marked and made
bare at low water at the usual ebb OF
with gate or passage way at least
three feet wide, and extending from the
bottom or floor thereof to high water
line. which gate or door shall be in the
are secured and taken. And the said
gate shall be left open without impede
ment to the passage of said fish. from
sunrise on Saturday Of each week, to
tween the first day of April and the If
tenth day of July. in each year; and
any weir that shall be made without
such gate or door, or if any such gate
required, the owner or occupant of such
weir shall forfeit for each offence, ten
dollars
Section 8. Section twelve Of chapter
one hundred twenty-six 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 trial justice for 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
any person convicted and sentenced by
such justice, or judge, shall neglect or
refuse to pay such penalty with cost Of
prosecution. the justice, or judge, by his
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.-m 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. '-tApproved March 81, 1919
CHAPTER 14a.
An Act to make uniform the law Of
warehouse receipts.
Section l. Warehouse receipts may be
issued by any warehouseman.
Section >. Warehouse receipts need
not be i'll any particular FORM but every
such receipt must embody within its
written or printed terms:
(a) The location of the warehouse
where the goods are stored,
CD The date of issue of the recent
Co The consecutive number Of the
receipt,
I'D A statement whether the goods
received will be delivered to the bearer.
to a specified person, or to specified
person or his order.
(e) The rate of storage charges,
60 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,
(h) If the receipt is issued for goods
OF which the warehouseman Is owner,
with other. the fact of such ownership
and
G A statement of the amount of ad-
vances made and Of liabilities incurred
for which the warehouseman claims a.
lien. If the precise amount of such adj
vances made or OF such liabilities in
Cured is, at the time of the issue of the
receipt, unknowa to the warehouseman
or to his agent who issues it, a 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 ali dam
age caused by the omission from nego-
table receipt of any of the terms herein
required.
Section 3. A warehouseman NAV in
seft IN a receipt, issued by him., any 9TH
such terms and conditions shall not:
la) Be contrary to the provisions of
this act,
OBJ In any wise impair his obliga-
tlon to exercise that degree of care in
the safe-keeping of the goods entrusted
to him which a reasonably careful man
would exercise in regard to similar
goods of his own.
stated that the goods received will be
delivered to the. depositor, or to anv
other specified person, is a non-negotia,
BILE receipt. Z
stated that the goods received will be-
delivered to the bearer, or to the or1er
or any person named in such recent ia
negotiable receipt.
NO provision shall be inserted in a ma
gotiable receipt that it is non-negotiahle
Such provision. if inserted, shall be void
Section 6. When more than one neeo.
table receipt is issued for the saIna
goods, the word duplicate" shall he
plainly placed upon the face of every
such receipt, except the one first issnei
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 PURCHASE
be after the delivery of the goods NV ~
warehouseman to the holder Of the orig.
inal receipt. '-Ae
Section Z. A non-negotiable RECENT
s have plainly placed upon it's face
by the warehouseman Issuing n rnono
negotiable" or "not-negotiable "
case of the warehouseman's fatlure On
to do. holder of the receipt who nuro
chased 1t for value supposing it to be
negotlaole may, at his option, treat
such receipt as imposing upon the
Warehouseman the same liabilities hs
been negotiable
This section shall not apply. however
to letters, memoranda, or written 60
acknowledgements of an informal cbaran-
ter. oiaf ac-
Section 8. A warehouseman. IN +ba
absence , or some lawful excuse provided
by this act is bound to deliver the goods
upon demand made either by the hold
er OF a receipt for the goods or by the
depositor, if such demand is accomna,
MED with: 'oeoiipa-
(a) An offer to satisfy the ware-
houseman's lien,
=. (b) An offer to surrender the receipt
II negotiable, with such Endorsements az
would be necessary for the nerotiatton
Of the receipt, and
(C) A readiness and rpjIIr~r.. A.