CHAP. 102 Chapter 102. An Act to create a Lien upon Monumental Work. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Whoever under contract in writing signed by the parties thereto in duplicate, and stating therein the price to be paid, as one of the terms thereof, sells, erects, or furnishes any monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing, or other monumental work shall have a lien thereon to secure the payment of the same. Liens on monumen tal work, payment. to secure Lien shall continue for term of two years. Section 2. Such lien shall continue for the term of two years, after the time the indebtedness for such monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing or other monumental work shall have become due and payable and shall be enforced by attachment within the time aforesaid, and in the manner provided in section forty-two of chapter ninety-one of the revised statutes; which how said attachment shall be recorded in the town clerk's office in the town in which the property subject to the lien is situated. Section 3. The lien provided for in this act shall not apply to any monument, tablet or headstone, sold, erected, or furnished, at a price of thirty dollars or less. Approved March 16, 1899. enforced. Lien shall not apply to work furnished at a less price than $30. Chapter 103. An Act for the better protection of Fish Weirs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I No person, except the owner or person in charge of such weir, shall set any net or seine within five hundred feet of the mouth of any weir under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. Section 2. The owner or person in charge of any weir is Owner of hereby permitted to use nets and seines in such weir. weir is to use nets Section 3. Fines and penalties under this act may be recovered by complaint, indictment or action of debt, for the use of Fines, how the county where the proceedings are commenced and prosecuted. Approved March 16, 1899. recovered. CHAP. 104 Section 1, chapter 135, amended. Bath municipal court, established. -judge and seal. -qualifications of judge. -salary. -may receive fees for copies, etc. -how docket shall be kept. Chapter 104. An Act to amend Chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and acts additional thereto, relating to the Salary of Judge of Municipal Court of Bath. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended by striking out in the eleventh line, the words "eight hundred" and inserting instead thereof the words 'nine hundred,' and by inserting after the words "of the office" in the thirteenth line the words 'provided, however, that he shall receive in addition to said salary the legal fees for all copies of processes and certificates by him made,' so that the said section, as hereby amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 1. A municipal court is hereby established in and for the city of Bath and the towns of Woolwich, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg and West Bath in the county of Sagadahoc, which shall be called the Bath Municipal Court and have and use a seal on all original processes, and shall consist of one judge who shall be appointed, commissioned and qualified as provided by the law and constitution of the state. Said judge shall be a member of the bar of Sagadahoc county and shall reside during his continuance in office in the city of Bath, and who shall receive from said city an annual salary of nine hundred dollars per year, to be paid him in quarterly payments. Said salary shall be in full for all the fees and emoluments of the office; provided, however, that he shall receive in addition to said salary the legal fees for all copies of processes and certificates by him made. The present judge shall continue in office until the end of the term for which he was appointed. The said judge shall enter, or cause to be entered on the docket of said court all civil and criminal actions, with full minutes of the proceedings in and disposition of the same, which docket shall be at all times open to inspection, and he shall perform all other duties required of similar tribunals in this state.' Approved March 16, 1899. CHAP. 105 Chapter 105. An Act to prevent Immoral Exhibitions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: using a Penalty for phonograph tion with tainment, in connec Section I. Whoever in connection with any show or entertainment, whether public or private, either as owner, manager or director, or in any other capacity, uses or causes or permits to be used, a phonograph or other contrivance, instrument or device, which utters or gives forth any profane, obscene or impure language, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five scene lanhundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 2. Whoever as owner, manager, director, agent or in any other capacity, prepares, advertises, gives, presents or participates in any obscene, indecent, immoral or impure show or entertainment, or in any show or entertainment manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of youth, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved March 17, 1899. any enterwhich utters profane or ob guage. Punishment for giving any obscene show. or impure Chapter 106. An Act additional to Chapter two hundred and thirty-seven of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, relating to Life and Casualty Insurance on the Assessment Plan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. No corporation transacting business under the provisions of chapter two hundred and thirty-seven of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof shall hereafter issue in this state, any endowment, limited payment life, installment or annuity policy or any contract containing any provision for or reference to extended insurance, or a paid up or cash surrender value, or any payment to the policy holder, provided, always, that this act shall not apply to any such corporation issuing endowment, limited payment, installment, or annuity policies with extended, paid up insurance or cash surrender values, when the contract or determinate reserve under such policies is charged or carried on the books of such corporation as a liability. CHAP. 107 Policy hereafter issued shall bear Section 2. Hereafter in every policy or certificate issued to a resident of Maine by any casualty or accident insurance company doing business on the assessment plan, there shall be these words: printed in bold type, making one of the principal lines near the on the face, "This policy is subject to assessment. Licenses of any corporation violating this act, shall be revoked. Act shall not conflict with provisions of special charters. When act shall take effect. top thereof, the words 'this policy is subject to assessments' and in or upon every application, circular, card, advertisement, and printed document issued by such corporation within this state there shall be printed conspicuously the words 'assessment plan.' Section 3. When upon investigation, the insurance commissioner is satisfied that any such corporation has violated the provisions of this act it shall be his duty to revoke the license issued to such corporation and its agents. Section 4. Nothing in this act shall in any way conflict with special provisions of the charters of companies heretofore granted. Section 5. This act shall take effect July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Approved March 17, 1899. Personal property at- -property and keeper must be removed if owner re-. quests. -defendant may give bond, when Property may remain on premises. Chapter 107. An Act additional to Chapter eighty-one of the Revised Statutes, relating to the sale, on writ, of Personal Property attached. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Personal property attached may be kept upon the premises. where the same is found and the attaching officer may appoint a keeper thereof; but if the owner of said property or the occupant of said premises requests the officer, in writing, to remove said keeper, the officer shall remove the property attached or the keeper without unreasonable delay. If the defendant, in writing, requests the officer making the attachment to allow said property attached to remain upon the premises where found until he may give a bond dissolving said attachment, the officer shall not remove said property until the defendant has had a reasonable opportunity to give said bond. Approved March 17, 1899. CHAP. 108 Chapter 108. An Act to increase the Salary of the County Attorney of the County of Hancock. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: county attorney. Hancock county, increased. Section I. On and after the first day of January in the year Salary of cf our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the salary of the county attorney of Hancock county shall be five hundred dollars per annum, instead of the sum now established by law. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1899. Chapter 109. An Act to amend Sections fifty-five, and fifty-six of Chapter six of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter seventy-two of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty seven, Chapter two hundred and thirty-five of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and Chapter forty-nine of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, relating to licensing Transportation Companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 55, chapter 6, amended by public laws R. S., as chapter 72, 1887, and chapter 235, laws 1893, further amended. Companies sons doing and per ness, shall nually for express busi apply an license. Section I. Section fifty-five of chapter six of the revised statutes as amended by chapter seventy-two of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and chapter two hundred and thirty-five of the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-tice, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 'Section 55. Every corporation, company or person doing express business on any railroad, steamboat or vessel in the state, shall, annually, before the first day of May, apply to the treasurer of state for a license authorizing the carrying on of said business, and any such corporation, company or person, reglecting to make application for a license as aforesaid, forfeits fifty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the state; and every such corporation, company or person shall for neglect. annually pay to the treasurer of state, one and one-half per cent of the gross receipts of said business for the year ending on the first day of April preceding. Said one and one-half per cent shall be on all of said business done in the state, including a pro rata part on all express business coming from other states or countries into this state, and on all going from this state to other states or countries, provided, however, that nothing herein applies to goods or merchandise in transit through the state.' -penalty -shall pay tax. |