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CHAP. 123

Husband and
father living
apart from
his family
may be
compelled

to contribute
to support
of wife or
minor

children.

-execution may issue.

Punishment for allowing children

under 16 years of age in disorderly house,

house of ill fame, etc.

Punishment for offering for sale, selling or giving Intoxicating liquors

'Section 7. Whenever a man, having a wife, a minor child, or children, residing in this state, and being of sufficient ability, or being able to labor and provide for them, wilfully and without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to provide suitable maintenance for them, the supreme judicial court, the superior courts, the probate courts and any municipal court, in term time or vacation, in the county where the wife or such minor child or children reside, on petition of the wife for herself and for such child or children, or of such child or children by their guardian, after such notice to the husband or father as it may order, and hearing, may order him to contribute to the support of his wife and such minor child or children or either of them such sums payable weekly, monthly or quarterly, as are deemed reasonable and just, and may enforce obedience by appropriate decrees. Execution may also issue for said sums, when payable and for costs.'

Section 7. Whoever admits or allows to remain in any disorderly house, house of ill fame, gambling place or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or other place injurious to health. or morals, owned, kept, maintained, managed or controlled by him in whole or in part, any child under the age of sixteen years, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days.

Section 8. Whoever by himself, his clerk, servant or agent, directly or indirectly has in his possession with intent to sell, offers for sale, sells or gives away to any child under the age of sixteen years, or to any such child for any other person, any years of age. intoxicating liquors, and whoever by himself, his clerk, servant

to children

under

Punishment

children

or agent, directly or indirectly employs or permits any such child to aid or assist him in the illegal keeping or the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, shall be punished in addition to the penalties otherwise provided against the illegal keeping for sale or illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, by fine not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not less than sixty days. Section 9. No person shall employ or cause to be employed, for exhibiting exhibit, use or have in custody, or train for use, employment or exhibition, any child under sixteen years of age, and no parent, guardian or other person, having care, custody and control of such child, shall procure or permit the training, use, employment or exhibition of any such child, in begging or soliciting or receiving alms in any manner or under any pretence, or in any illegal, indecent or immoral exhibition or practice, or in any exhibition of any such child when insane or idiotic, or when possessing any deformity and unnatural physical formation, or

under 16

years of age, or for

permitting begging by

the same.

in any practice, exhibition or place dangerous or injurious to the life, limb, health or morals of such child. Whoever offends against the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days.

Section 10. All fines or penalties provided for by the terms of this act may be recovered or enforced by complaint or indictment, and in all prosecutions under this chapter and the amend ments and additions thereto, trial justices and judges of municipal and police courts within their counties shall have by complaint, original and concurrent jurisdiction with the superior and supreme judicial courts.

Section II. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 21, 1905.

CHAP. 124

Fines and penalties, how

recovered

or enforced.

Chapter 124.

An Act to provide for the better collection of Collateral Inheritance Taxes.

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

Chapter eight of the revised statutes is hereby amended by Chapter 8, R. adding thereto the following sections:

'Section 86. The registers of probate in the several counties shall deliver to the county attorneys for their several counties, on or before the first day of June in each year, a list of all estates in which it appears from the record that some part of said estate may be liable to a collateral inheritance tax, and in which a will has been offered for probate or administration granted for more than one year prior to the time of filing such list, and in which no collateral inheritance tax has been assessed or paid.

Said list shall contain the name of the deceased, the date of the administration granted, and the name and residence of the administrator or executor.

The county attorney shall promptly investigate all cases so reported, by notifying the executor, administrator, trustee, heir or devisee, and in such other manner as he may determine, and if it appears to him that in any such case a collateral inheritance tax is due the state and has not been paid to the state, he shall, unless said tax is paid to the state, within thirty days after notice from him to the executor, administrator, trustee, heir or devisee that the same is due, cite the executor, administrator, trustee,

S., amended.

Registers of annually county attorneys list

probate shall deliver to

of estates be liable to inheritance

appearing to collateral

tax.

what said contain.

list shall

--county investigate reported.

attorney shall

all cases

unless tax days cite probate

is paid in 30

parties into

court.

CHAP. 125

--costs, how recovered and how disposed of.

Proceedings when estate liable to pay collateral inheritance tax is not before

probate court within 6 months.

heir or devisee, whose duty it is to pay said tax, before the probate court in such manner as is provided for the citation of trust officers in probate proceedings, and shall take all other action necessary to secure the payment of said tax.

In such proceedings the county attorney shall recover costs to be fixed and determined by the judge of probate in his discretion, which costs may be retained by said county attorney for his own use and shall be additional to any salary allowed to him by law.'

'Section 87. If, upon the decease of a person leaving an estate liable to pay a collateral inheritance tax, a will disposing of such estate is not offered for probate, or an application for administration made within six months after such decease, the proper probate court, upon application by the county attorney of the county where such court is located, shall appoint an administrator for such estate, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney, when such case is brought to his attention to petition for administration on such estate, and the judge in his discretion may appoint such county attorney or other suitable person as such administrator, and said county attorney shall be entitled to costs as in other probate proceedings.'

Approved March 21, 1905.

Section 16, chapter 11, R. S., amended.

Books for

records and plans to be

furnished at expense of county.

of books to be furnished.

Chapter 125.

An Act to amend Section sixteen of Chapter eleven of the Revised Statutes, relating to the recording of plans in Registries of Deeds in the several counties.

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

Section sixteen of chapter eleven of the revised statutes is hereby amended so that said section shall read as follows:

'Section 16. The county commissioners at the expense of the several counties shall provide suitable books at least twentyfour by thirty-three inches in dimension, of the best quality of strong linen drawing paper, alternated with pages of the best --description quality of tracing cloth, substantially bound, for the recording of such plans presented for record as may be traced or redrawn upon its pages, and shall provide other books of substantial binding with stubs for the inserting and preservation of such plans as may be presented for record drawn in ink upon muslin backed paper or parchment, that it may not be expedient to copy into the first book mentioned; no plan shall be accepted for record

except to be redrawn upon the pages of said books, except said plan shall be drawn with ink upon strong linen paper or tracing cloth, and shall cause a suitable index of all plans on record to be made.'

Approved March 21, 1905.

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Chapter 126.

An Act to provide for the employment of Male Prisoners upon public ways or in preparing materials for the construction or repair thereof.

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

Upon written application by the county commissioners of any county, or by the municipal officers of any town, the board of prison and jail inspectors may direct and require that any male prisoner under sentence in any jail shall be employed in labor upon the public ways or in preparing materials for the construction or repair of such ways in such place, and under such regulations as the inspectors may provide. Such county commissioners and municipal officers shall have authority to make such contracts as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions. Prisoners employed as aforesaid shall be subject to all laws and penalties provided for escapes or attempts escape from jails or workshops.

Approved March 21, 1905.

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Chapter 127.

An Act to amend Section thirty of Chapter fifty-one of the Revised Statutes, relating to Railroad Branch Tracks.

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

Section I. Section thirty of chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the word "tracks," being the last word in the second line of said section, the following words, 'to any railroad station of another corporation or to connect with another railroad, or,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows:

'Section 30. Any railroad corporation, under the direction of the railroad commissioners, may locate, construct and maintain branch railroad tracks to any railroad station of another corporation or to connect with another railroad or to any mills,

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CHAP. 128

mines, quarries, gravel pits or manufacturing establishments erected in any town or township, through which the main line of said railroad is constructed, but not within any city without the consent of the city council and for that purpose said corporation shall have all the powers and rights granted and be subject to all the duties imposed upon it by its charter.'

Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 21, 1905.

Bridge

commission created.

Chapter 128.

An Act to create a Bridge Commission to investigate the bridges connecting the state of Maine and the state of New Hampshire.

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

Section 1. A bridge commission consisting of three members is hereby created to act in conjunction with a like commission appointed by the state of New Hampshire, whose duty it --duty of com shall be to consider all questions relating to the freeing of all toll bridges between the state of Maine and the state of New Hampshire, and shall ascertain the cost of freeing such bridges, number of same and where located.

mission.

--shall ascertain

number of free bridges.

--shall
ascertain

where new
bridges
would best
accommodate
the public.

--shall decide
equitable
division of

cost of

bridges.

-shall consider the

freeing of all toll bridges.

--shall decide equitable division of cost.

Commission shall be appointed within 60 days from passage of this act.

They shall also ascertain the number of free bridges, cost of same, amount paid by towns in Maine to free the same, and where located.

It shall be their duty also to ascertain where new bridges, if any, shall be built to best accommodate the general public of Maine, and cost of same.

They shall also decide what shall be the equitable division of the cost of such bridges and their maintenance, as divided between the states of Maine and New Hampshire.

It shall be the duty of said commission also to consider all questions relating to the freeing of all toll bridges between the state of Maine and the state of New Hampshire, and they shall ascertain the cost of freeing such bridges, the number of the same, and where located.

They shall also decide what shall be the equitable difference of the cost of such bridges and their maintenance as divided between the states of Maine and New Hampshire.

Section 2. It shall be the duty of the governor to appoint the members of such bridge commission within sixty days from the time of passage of this act, and to notify the governor of New Hampshire of their appointment.

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