Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-14

shall require the petitioner to furnish
security for such payment and for
an additional penalty not less than
double the amount to be received
from such sale and shall include in
ditfonal sum shall be paid to said
owner as damages if the dam is not
completed and the land flowed with
in a time to be therein specified; pro-
vided, however, that such time may
be extended for good cause shown.
Sec. 2. Damages caused by f1owage
of lands from which timber or other
property shall have been removed un-
der section one of this act shall be
assessed as though there had been
no severance. and the amount paid
for such timber or other property
with interest to the date of the judg-
ment shall be credited thereon, pro-
yided that the owner of the land shall
damages shall be assessed for flow
age as of the time of taking or of
fiowing.-(Approved April 81
CHAPTER 1s7.-
Shares of Stock of Trust Companies
Organized Under the Laws Of this
State and Banking Institutions
Formed Under the Laws of the
Sec. 1. On or before April fifteenth
OF each year, the treasurer of every
trust company organized under the
laws OF this state, and the cashier of
every banking institution formed UNI
der the laws of the United States
shall send to the state assessors a
certified list of oil stockholders and
their residences, showing the number
Of shares owned by each on the first
day OF April, together with the value
OF the real estate. vaults, and safe
eff
company or banking institution which
Is taxed as other real estate is taxed
in the town in which it is located
and the amount for which said real
was valued by the assessors of such
municipality for the year previous.
Sec. z. The board of state assess
ors shall thereupon determine the
deduct therefrom the proportionate
part of the assessed value of such
real estate, vaults and safe deposit
plant. Upon the value of said shares
so determined after making said de-
auctions, the board of state assessors
mills for each dollar of such assessed
value so determined, and shall on or
before the first day of June, certify
said assessments to the treasurer of
state, who shall forthwith notify said
trust companies and banking institu-
lions. All taxes SO assessed shall be
paid by said trust companies and
bankin: institutions to the treasurer
of state, on or before, the first day
of July, and said tax shall be in lieu
of all municipal or other taxes upon
laid stock, and said trust companies
and banking institutions may charge
the tax so paid pro rata to the indi-
Vidual stockholders thereof.
Any party in interest aggrieved by
the valuation of the shares of any
trust company or banking institution
made by the board of state assessors
may claim an appeal to the supreme
first day of July. Such appeal shall
be filed in the office of the clerk of
said court in the county where such
trust company or banking institution
determined at the next term thereof
held after said date. Notice and
hearing of such appeal shall be given
and held in the manner provided by
section eighty-one of chapter ten of
the revised statutes: The decision of
certified by the clerk to the board of
state assessors who shall thereupon
assess tax of fifteen mills upon the
valuation of such shares as fixed by
the court, and shall forthwith certify
such assessment to the treasurer of
state who shall give notice thereof
to the trust company or banking in
stitution whose shares, are affected
tHtIcpy, dHO the ldN So assessed Win
interest at six per cent from July
first of the year for which the tax
is assessed shall be paid to the treas
urer of state within thirty days
thereafter.
Sec. 8. The tax so assessed upon
the shares of, nonresident stock
holders of such trust company or
banking institution shall be returned
by the treasurer of state, on or be-
fore the first day of August, to the
mn nj nj ina in, tob
company or banking institution is To-
Gated; and the tax so assessed upon
the shares of resident stockholders of
such trust company or banking insti-
tuition shall be returned by the treas
urer of state, on or before the first
day of August. to the municipality in
which such stockholders reside.
Sec. A. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.-(Approved April 81
CHAPTER 19s.
An Act Additional to Chapters Two
Hundred and Nineteen and Two
Hundred and Forty-four of the
Public Laws of Nineteen Hundred
and Seventeen, as Amended by
Chapter. One Hundred and Ninety
six of the Public Laws of Nineteen
Hundred and Nineteen, Relating to
Ice Fishing in China Lake. tnclud-
ing that Portion Of Said Lake
Sec. 1. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to fish for, take, catch
or kill any kind of fish at any time
on or through the ice in China lake,
or in that portion of said lake known
as Mud pond. which lake is situated
in the Town of China and in the
Town of Vassalboro. in the County of
kennebec. except on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday of each week, dur
ing which days it shall be lawful to
through
in accordance with the general law
of the state governing ice fishing.
Sec. 2. Whoever violates any pro-
vision of this act shall be subject to
more than thirty dollars and costs
for each offense.-(Approved April 81
CHAPTER 100.
An Act to Apportion Representatives
to Congress.
Sec. 1. Representatives to con-
greSS on and after the fourth day of
March, nineteen hundred and twenty
three. shall be apportioned as fol-
lows: The Counties of York ana
Cumberland shall compose the first
district and be BE ENTITLED to one rep
scoggin, Oxford, Franklin. Sagadahoc.
Lincoln and Knox shall compose the
second district and be entitled to one
representative. The Counties of Ken
nebec. Somerset. Waldo, Hancock and
Washington shall compose the third
district and be entitled to one repre-
sentative. The Counties of Aroos-
took, Penobscot and Piscataquis shall
compose the fourth district and be
entitled to one representative.
Sec q The election of representa-
tives to congress shall take place and
be on the second Monday of Septem-
Der, nineteen hundred and twenty
two, and thereafter biennially.
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