Act shall dice any action. not preju pending Section 5. This act shall have no effect to abate or preju- CHAP. 188 dice any action, suit, matter or thing now pending in or returnable to said police court, but said municipal court shall have jurisdiction thereof, and full power and authority to issue and renew executions and other processes, and to carry into effect the judgments and decrees heretofore rendered by said police court, tions and and to certify and authenticate the records thereof, as effectually as if this act had not passed. Section 6. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Approved March 17, 1899. -power to issue execu processes. Inconsistent acts, repealed. Chapter 188. An Act to amend Chapter one hundred and four of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, relating to the taking of Herring in the town of Cutler. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Chapter one hundred and four of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended by striking out of the fourth line of said act, as engrossed, the words, "the Double Head Shots," and inserting in place thereof the words 'Libby island;' and by striking out of the fourth and fifth lines of said act, as engrossed, the words "to Little River Head, thence easterly," and inserting in place thereof, the words 'from head land to head land,' so that said act, as amended, shall read as follows: Use of purse or for taking in Cutler, 'Section 1. The use of purse or drag seines or set nets in fishing for herring in the waters of the town of Cutler, northerly of a line commencing at the southern extremity of the southern of herring island called Libby island, and running easterly from head land prohibited. to head land to the eastern line of said Cutler, is hereby prohibited under a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, and the forfeiture of all nets; provided, that it shall be lawful for one boat only from each vessel so employed and for fishermen who use small boats only to use a net or nets, the total or combined length of which shall not be more than seventy-five yards, and not more than five yards in width, but not more than one such described net or nets shall be used at any one time.' Approved March 17, 1899. -penalty. -proviso. CHAP. 189 Part of Frenchville set off and incorporated into a town. -boundaries. Chapter 189. An Act to divide the Town of Frenchville and incorporate the Town of Saint Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. All that part of the town of Frenchville, in the county of Aroostook, and state of Maine, which is described and bounded as follows, namely; beginning in the line between the towns of Madawaska and the said town of Frenchville at the northeast corner of lot number eighty-one, in Frenchville, thence south by the line between the towns of Madawaska and Frenchville, to the margin of Long lake; thence following the said town line and the shore of said lake to its point of intersection with the margin of the westerly cove of said lake; thence across said cove, and southerly by said town line and the westerly shore of said Long lake to the southeast corner of said town of Frenchville; thence westerly by the line dividing said town of Frenchville from township number seventeen range four and range five, to the southwest corner of lot number thirtythree; thence northeasterly by the westerly line of said lot number thirty-three to the base line thereof; thence by said base line and by the westerly line of lot number twenty-six to the northwest corner thereof; thence by a brook and by the westerly line of lot number seventeen to a certain road; thence across said road and by the westerly line of lot number nine to the public road; thence easterly in said road to the point where it touches the base line of lot number six; thence northwesterly by the lines of lots numbers six, five, three, two and one to the northwest corner of lot number one; thence northeasterly by the northerly line of said lot number one to the southwest corner of lot number one hundred and sixty-four; thence, following the westerly and then the northerly boundaries of said lot number one hundred and sixty-four to the northeast corner thereof; thence southerly by the easterly lines of lots numbers one hundred and sixty-four and forty to the northwest corner of lot number one hundred and eighty-eight; thence northeasterly by the line of said lot number one hundred and eighty-eight to the northwest corner of lot number one hundred and eighty-six; thence by the northerly lines of lots number one hundred and eighty-six and one hundred and eighty-seven to the westerly line of lot number seventy-nine; thence by the said line of said lot number seventy-nine to the line between said towns of Frenchville and Madawaska; thence by said town line to the point of beginning, together with the inhabitants thereof, is hereby CHAP. 189 erected and incorporated into a separate town by the name of Saint Agatha; and said town is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties and obliga- Agatha. tions incident to other towns of the state. Section 2. The inhabitants aforesaid shall be holden to pay all taxes which have been legally assessed upon them in the town of Frenchville, and the collectors of taxes for said town of Frenchville are authorized and required to collect and pay all the taxes to them committed, according to their respective warrants. All money now in the treasury of said town of Frenchville, and all sums which shall hereafter be received from taxes heretofore assessed, shall be applied to the several purposes for which they were received, and the town officers of the town of Frenchville shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as they now have, and perform within the limits of the town of Saint Agatha until the organization of said town of Saint Agatha by the choice of like town officers. -corporate name, Saint Taxes already as sessed, shall the town of be paid to Frenchville. All money applied to which re shall be purposes for ceived. Frenchville duties, till new town shall per duties till is organized. and all taxes, shall be divided towns. how sup Section 3. The town debt, if any, and the state and county Town debt taxes, otherwise to be assessed against the town of Frenchville for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen between the hundred, shall be divided between said towns in proportion to the valuation of their respective territories as taken by the assessors in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the state treasurer and the county commissioners of Aroostook county are hereby authorized and required to issue to each of said towns, warrants for the assessment and collection of said taxes in accordance with the provisions hereof. All paupers paupers, now supported or aided by the town of Frenchville, including ported. the insane paupers, if any, shall be maintained and supported by said towns in proportion to the valuation of their respective territories as taken by the assessors in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. And all persons that may hereafter fall in distress or become paupers, shall after the approval of this act be maintained and supported by the town in whose territory they resided when they become paupers and in whose territory their settlements may be established under the laws of the state. The school houses and lots and other school property shall school and belong to the town in whose territory they are situated. All other town property, including the town house and lot, shall belong to the town of Frenchville. Until a new apportionment of the state shall be made, said town shall remain in the same -represenrepresentative district with which the town of Frenchville is now classed. Section 4. Any justice of the peace in the county of Aroostook may issue his warrant to any legal voter in the town of other property, how disposed of. tative district. First meetcalled. ing, how CHAP. 190 Saint Agatha, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof to Ministerial and school funds, how divided. meet at a time and place specified in said warrant, for the choice of town officers and to transact such business as towns are authorized to do at their annual and other meetings. Section 5. The ministerial and school funds of said town of Frenchville shall be divided between said towns in proportion to the number of inhabitants in said towns; to be held by the trustees of the ministerial and school funds of each town. Section 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1899. Section 7, chapter 11, special laws 1899, amended. All city property of city of Deering becomes the property of city of Portland. Portland, subject to all responsibilities. -actions pending, how determined. Chapter 190. An Act to amend Chapter eleven of the Private Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to annex the City of Deering to the City of Portland." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section seven of chapter eleven of the private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to annex the city of Deering to the city of Portland," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: 'and the city of Portland shall become liable for and subject to all the duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of said city of Deering. All actions, causes of action, suits and proceedings which may be pending, or which shall have accrued at the time this act shall take effect, in behalf of or against said city of Deering, shall survive, and be heard and determined as though this act had not passed.' So that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 7. Upon the approval of this act, all the city property of Deering, together with all city moneys in the hands of the treasurer thereof, or under his control, becomes the property of the city of Portland, and the city of Portland shall assume all obligations of the city of Deering then existing, and all indebtedness, both temporary and bonded, and shall provide for the payment thereof according to the terms under which said indebtedness was contracted, and the city of Portland shall become liable for and subject to all the duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of said city of Deering. All actions, causes of action, suits and proceedings which may be pending, or which shall have accrued at the time this act shall take effect, in behalf of or against the city of Deering, shall survive, and be heard and determined as though this act had not passed.' amended. Section 2. Section nine of said act is hereby amended by CHAP. 190 striking out in the fourth, fifth and sixth lines thereof, the Section 9, words; "several collectors to whom warrants for the collection of said taxes have been issued, and said collectors shall pay over the same to the treasurer of the city of Portland," and inserting instead thereof the words, 'collector of the city of Portland who shall be the successor in office of the collector of the city of Deering, and such collections shall be paid into the treasury of the city of Portland,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 9. All persons upon whom taxes have been legally assessed by the city of Deering, and who have not paid the same, shall be required to make payment thereof to the collector of the city of Portland, who shall be the successor in office of the collector of the city of Deering, and such collections shall be paid into the treasury of the city of Portland. Unpaid sidewalk, drain and sewer assessments legally assessed by the city of Deering shall be collected in the manner provided by the Deering charter and ordinances, and the city of Portland shall have the same rights to enforce payment of said taxes, and sidewalk, sewer and drain assessments as the city of Deering would have had but for the passage of this act.' All taxes be paid Portland. due shall to city of -drain and sewer ashow col sessments, lected. Section 11, Section 3. Section eleven of said act is hereby amended by striking out in the eleventh and twelfth lines thereof the words amended. "and as a branch of the present Portland high school," so that said section, as amended shall read as follows: Schools shall the superinschool comPortland. be under tendence of mittee of 'Section 11. Upon the day of the inauguration of the mayor and city council to be elected on the first Monday of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninetynine, as hereinbefore provided, the control and superintendence of the present public schools of Deering shall be vested in the school committee of Portland to the same extent and in the same manner as are other public schools of Portland, and the school facilities now furnished by the city of Deering shall not be here- school shall after curtailed or abridged, and the high school in Deering shall be continued on at least an equality as to privileges and standards with said school as at present maintained.' Section 4. Section fourteen of said act is hereby amended. so that it shall read as follows: 'Section 14. Until the next apportionment of representation for the legislature the inhabitants of the first seven wards shall be entitled to six representatives and the inhabitants of wards eight and nine shall be entitled to one representative, to be elected by said inhabitants at meetings to be held in the respective wards. All the duties heretofore required by law to be -high be continued. Section 14, amended. Representa tives to the ture. legisla |