CHAP. 106 Chapter 106. An Act to amend sections seventy-five and forty-four of chapter two of the Revised Statutes, relating to State Library. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. R. S., amended. Section seventy-five of chapter two of the revised Sec. 75, ch. 2, statutes is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: 'SECT. 75. All money appropriated by the legislature for the purchase of books for the state library, shall be expended by the librarian under the direction of the governor. He shall procure such number of each volume of the Maine reports and of the acts and resolves when published, and distribute the same to such corporations, officers, institutions and persons within the state as the legislature may designate. He shall also obtain from each department of the state government a sufficient number of its published reports to transmit one copy thereof to each public library in this state and to such schools and other public institutions therein as may desire the same.' Appropriation, reports, how how expended; distributed. amended. Cause public printed in news laws to be SECT. 2. Section forty-four of chapter two of the revised Sec. 44, statutes is hereby amended by striking out all of said section after the word "distributed" in the fifth line of said section, so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 44. He shall cause the public laws passed at each session to be printed within thirty days after the close thereof, on extra sheets, on good paper, by the publisher of each newspaper; and each printer who so publishes and distributes the laws to his subscribers, shall receive ten dollars besides one dollar for every hundred copies so distributed.' Approved March 27, 1891. papers. Chapter 107. An Act to amend section eighty-four of chapter two of the Revised Statutes, relating to the State Library. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section eighty-four of chapter two of the revised statutes Sec. 84, ch. 2, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: 'SECT. 84. The state librarian, under the direction of the governor, may transmit to each department of the United R. S., amended. State librarian laws to the may transmit States, to the several libraries of each state and territory, and to any foreign state, three copies of all the acts and resolves published by order of the legislature, and one copy of all public documents printed and bound by like order, and one copy of the printed decisions of the supreme judicial court.' Approved March 27, 1891. State fire wardens, and their duties. Chapter 108. An Act for the better protection of Timber Lands of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Fish and game wardens are hereby made state fire wardens, and it shall be their duty while in and about the woods, to caution all sportsmen of the danger from fires in the woods, and to extinguish all fires left burning by any one, if within their power; and to give notice to any and all parties interested when possible, of fires raging and beyond their control, to the end that the same may be controlled and extinguished. Approved March 27, 1891. Bec. 17, ch. 70, When creditors make application, setting forth certain allegations, the judge may issue warrant for attachment Chapter 109. An Act to amend section seventeen of chapter seventy of the Revised Statutes, relating to the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section seventeen of chapter seventy of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "resides" in the third line of said section the words or if a non-resident of the state, to the judge of the county in which said non-resident debtor may have personal property or real estate,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 17. When one or more creditors of a debtor makes application under oath, by petition by them signed, to the judge of the county in which the debtor resides, or if a nonresident of the state, to the judge of the county in which property, and payments, sales, transfers and debtor or his contracts, by representatives. said non-resident debtor may have personal property or real CHAP. 109 estate, or from which he has absconded or removed beyond fro the state, within six months before the filing of said petition, leaving property or estate in said county, setting forth that they believe that their aggregate debts provable under this chapter, amount to more than one-fourth part of the debts provable against such debtor, and that they further believe, and have reason to believe, that said debtor is insolvent, and that it is for the best interests of all the creditors that the assets of such debtor should be divided as provided by this chapter, and it shall be satisfactorily made to appear to the judge that the allegations contained in such application are true, and that such debtor is insolvent, the judge shall issue his warrant, under his hand, to the sheriff of the county or either of his deputies, directing him forthwith to attach the real and personal estate of the debtor not exempt by law from attachment and seizure on execution, wherever the same may be situated within the state, and forbidding the payment to or by such debtor of any debt, demand or claim, and the sale, transfer, mortgage, pledge, conveyance, or removal by such debtor, his agents or attorneys, of any of his estate, property, rights or credits, and the making of any contracts for the sale or purchase thereof, or relating thereto, until such warrant ist revoked by said judge. Upon the issuing of such warrant, the register shall cause an attested copy of such application and warrant to be served upon the debtor, or such other notice as the judge may order, to be given, and the debtor thereupon may appear, and a hearing shall be had upon such application by the judge, who may thereupon revoke such warrant, unless such allegations are proved. After service of the copy of the application and warrant upon such debtor, or the giving of such other notice provided by this section, as the judge may order, and until the revocation of such warrant, any payment of a debt, demand or claim, to or by said debtor, and any sale, transfer, mortgage, pledge, conveyance, or contract, for the sale or purchase of any estate, property, rights or credits, of such debtor, by him, or his agent or attorney, shall be null and void. If upon hearing or default, additional the judge finds the allegations of such application to be true and proved, and that said debtor is insolvent, he shall issue. his additional warrant to said sheriff or either of his deputies, register shall warrant to be cause copy of debtor, and a hearing shall be had. payment of ance of contract of such debts, convey. property, or debtor, after notice, and before revoca void. warrant to issue, if allegations are proved. CHAP. 110 and cause such other proceedings to be had as are provided in the preceding section.' Approved March 27, 1891. Sec. 9, ch. 96, In what courts Chapter 110. An Act relating to the jurisdiction of Municipal and Police Courts in actions of Replevin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section nine of chapter ninety-six of the revised statutes. is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "The action may be brought before any municipal or police court in said county, if the value of the goods does not exceed the amount to which the civil jurisdiction of such court is limited,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 9. If the value of the goods exceeds twenty dollars, the action shall be brought in the supreme judicial or superior court for the county where they are detained; if it does not exceed twenty dollars, before any trial justice of said county. The action may be brought before any municipal or police court in said county, if the value of the goods does not exceed the amount to which the civil jurisdiction of such court is limited.' Approved March 27, 1891. Refeated 1893-187 All beneficiary business in the state. Chapter 111. An Act to restore to certain corporations, rights of which they were deprived by the repeal of chapter three hun tred and seventy-three of the Public Laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Fraternal beneficiary corporations, associations, permitted to do or societies, whether incorporated under the laws of this or some other state, which pay disability or death benefits, or both, and also benefits to members or their families, at the ends of such periods of time as are fixed in their by-laws and written in their benefit certificates, and which were transacting business in the state on February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, may continue their work in the CHAP. 112 state in accordance with their respective constitutions, laws and usages, now existing, or as may hereafter be adopted, and increase their membership by instituting new subordinate bodies or branches, and through those already established, by conforming to the provisions of law relating to fraternal beneficiary organizations, not inconsistent herewith, and without incorporating thereunder, and without a license from the insurance commissioner. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. An Act to amend chapter forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to Insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: R. S., amended. SECT. 1. Section seventy-two of chapter forty-nine of the Sec. 72, ch. 49, revised statutes, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "state," in the eighth line thereof the words 'by constituted agents resident therein', so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: insurance No foreign company shall the state exhibiting its do business in without financial condition to commissioner, and receiving a license from him, to be renewed. 'SECT. 72. No foreign insurance company shall transact any insurance business in this state, unless it first obtains a license from the commissioner. Before receiving such license, it shall furnish the commissioner with a certified copy of its charter and by-laws, with a statement under oath, signed by its president or secretary, showing its financial condition according to a form supplied by the commissioner. Upon annually receiving such copies and statement, the commissioner may grant a license authorizing the company to do insurance business in this state by constituted agents resident therein, subject to its laws, until the first day of the next July; and annually thereafter, such license may be renewed, so long as he regards the company responsible and safe, but in all cases to terminate on the first day of the succeeding July. For such license and each renewal, the company shall pay the commissioner twenty dollars.' SECT. 2. amended. Section seventy-three of said chapter is hereby Sec. 73,, amended so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: |