CHAP. 394

Sect. 2. The treasurer of this state shall, in the month of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, send his warrant with a copy of this tax act, directed to the mayor and aldermen, selectmen or assessors of each city, town or plantation, taxed as aforesaid, requiring them respectively to assess, in dollars and cents, the sum so charged, according to the provisions of the law for the assessment of taxes and to add the amount of such tax to the amount of county and town taxes, to be by them assessed in each city, town and plantation or other place, respectively.

Sect. 3. The treasurer of state in his said warrant, shall require the said mayor and aldermen, selectmen or assessors, respectively, to pay or to issue their several warrant or warrants requiring the collectors of their several cities, towns and plantations, to collect and pay in to the treasurer of their respective cities, towns and plantations, the sum against said cities, towns and plantations, respectively, in this act contained, which said respective treasurer shall pay to the state treasurer on or before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and said mayor, selectmen and assessors, respectively, shall return a certificate of the names of such collectors, with the sums which each collector may be required to collect, to said state treasurer, sometime before the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

Sect. 4. When the time for the payment of a state tax to the treasurer of state has expired, and it is unpaid, the treasurer of state shall give notice thereof to the municipal officers of any delinquent town, and unless such tax shall be paid within sixty days, the treasurer of state may issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county, requiring him to levy, by distress and sale, upon the real and personal property of any of the inhabitants of the town; and the sheriff or his deputy shall execute such warrants, observing the regulations provided for satisfying warrants against deficient collectors, as prescribed by chapter ten of the revised statutes.

Sect. 5. When any state tax assessed upon any city or town remains unpaid, such city or town is precluded from drawing from the state treasurer the school funds set apart for such city or town, so long as such tax remains unpaid.

Sect. 6. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 24, 1905.

CHAP. 395

Chapter 395.

An Act to provide in part for the Expenditures of Government for the year nineteen hundred and five.

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

tures of

1905.

Section 1. In order to provide for the several acts and Expendi 1esolves of the legislature, requiring the payment of money from government, the treasury, and also to provide for the necessary expenditures of government for the current fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, the following sums are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, and the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is authorized at any time prior to the first day of January next, to draw his warrant on the treasury for the same.

Maine state year book, one thousand three hun