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PUBLIC LAWS

OF THE

OF MAINE.

STATE OF

1905.

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An Act to amend Section nineteen of Chapter one hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, relating to Disclosure Commissioners.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Section nineteen of chapter one hundred and fourteen of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "five" in the ninth line and inserting in place thereof the word 'four,' and in the twelfth line after the word "shown" inserting the words 'or fraction thereof,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows:

Section 19, chapter 14.

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'Section 19. The governor shall from time to time appoint Disclosure disclosure commissioners in different localities within and for sioners, appointment each county of the state who shall have jurisdiction within the of county for which they are appointed. Such commissioners shall be attorneys at law and shall hold office for the term of seven years. They shall have an official seal which shall have engraved shall have thereon the name of the commissioner, the words 'Disclosure

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Commissioner' and the word 'Maine' and the name of the county and the town or city where the commissioner resides. Each town or city of not more than four thousand inhabitants as shown by the last preceding census of the United States, shall be entitled to one such commissioner and not more than one, and for every additional hye thousand inhabitants thus shown, or fraction thereof, an additional commissioner shall be allowed, provided that the total number of commissioners in any one town or city, shall in no case exceed six. Any commissioners appointed under this section shall have power to renew executions issued by any former commissioner within and for the Same, county, and executions issued by himself."

Approved January 31, 1905.

Section 115, chapter 4, R. S., amended.

Chapter 2.

An Act to amend Section one hundred and fifteen of Chapter four of the
Revised Statutes, relating to the Organization of Plantations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
Legislature assembled, as follows:

Section one hundred and fifteen of chapter four of the revised statutes is hereby amended by substituting in the place of the word "township," wherever it appears in said section, the word, 'place.'

Approved February 8, 1905.

Persons
suffering
from use of
opiates may
be committed
to general
hospital.

Chapter 3.

An Act to provide for the treatment of persons suffering from the effects of the habitual use of Narcotics.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Section 1. A person alleged to be suffering from the effects of the use of an opiate, cocaine, chloral hydrate, or other narcotic may be committed to the care of any general hospital receiving aid from the state, or any legally qualified physician of not less than five years' actual practice, for treatment; and the medical authorities of said hospital or said physician to whom said patient is committed shall have the power and authority to restrain said be restrained. patient, so committed, in such manner as may be necessary for his protection for a period not exceeding ninety days.

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