CHAP. 112 License may be person to act as domestic insurance company, upon his filing power of attorney from the company, or certificate that 'SECT. 73. The commissioner may issue a license to any person to act as an agent of a domestic insurance company an agent of any upon his filing with the commissioner a duplicate power of attorney from the company or its authorized agent empowering him so to act; or a certificate from the company setting forth that such person has been duly appointed and authorized as agent thereof, and to any resident of the state to act as an agent of any foreign insurance company which has received a license to do business in this state as provided in section seventy-two upon his filing such power of attorney or certificate; and such license shall continue until the first day of the next July, and may be renewed from year to year on producing a certificate from the company that his agency is continued. For each such license or renewal the commissioner shall receive two dollars. And if any person solicits, receives, or forwards any risk or application for insurance to any company, without first receiving such license, or fraudulently assumes to be an agent, and thus procures risks and receives without license, money for premiums, he forfeits not more than fifty dollars for each offence; but any policy issued on such application binds the company, if otherwise valid. Agents of duly authorized insurance companies may place risks with agents of other duly authorized companies when necessary, for the adequate insurance of property.' -fees of -penalty. -policy issued valid. Sec. 74, Commissioner insurance brokers. SECT. 3. Section seventy-four of said chapter is hereby amended so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 74. The commissioner may license any person as broker to negotiate contracts of insurance for others than himself for a compensation, by virtue of which license he 1893-17/ may effect insurance with any domestic company; or any -fees. -penalty, for license. resident of the state to negotiate such contracts and effect insurance with the agents of any foreign company who have been licensed to do business in this state, as provided in sections seventy-two and seventy-three but with no others. For such license he shall pay five dollars, authorizing him thus to act until the first day of the next July; and on a payment of a similar fee his license may be renewed from year to year, ending on the first day of each July. Whoever, without such license, assumes to act as such broker, forfeits not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not more than sixty days for each offence, and licenses of insurance agents and brokers may be revoked by the commissioner, upon convic- CHAP. 113 tion for the violation of any of the provisions of this and the preceding section.' License of any foreign company shall SECT. 4. The commissioner shall have power to revoke the license of any foreign insurance company authorized to insurance do business in this state, that shall violate any of the provi- be revoked if sions of sections seventy-two and seventy-three of chapter forty-nine of the revised statutes, as hereby amended. SECT. 5. The commissioner shall issue a license to any person to act as an agent of any assessment life or casualty insurance company or association, or steam boiler insurance company, authorized to do business in the state, upon his filing with the commissioner a certificate of his appointment as such agent, and upon payment of the fee provided in section two of this act. Approved March 28, 1891. provisions of Chapter 113. An Act to amend chapter seventy of the Revised Statutes, relating to the Insolvent Law. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives -in Legislature assembled, as follows: Chapter seventy of the revised statutes is hereby amended ch. 70, R. 8., by adding thereto the following sections: 'SECT. 1. In all cases wherein the insolvent estate is insufficient to pay the fees and expense of the court and its officers, the judge in his discretion may order the petitioner at any time during the pendency of the proceedings, upon petition of any party interested, to deposit a specified sum of money with the register to be used in payment of the expense of the insolvent proceedings; and, upon the failure of the insolvent to comply with the order of court, the judge may order the proceedings dismissed.' amended. when estate is insufficient to pay fees, petitioner may be ordered to money with the payment of deposit a sum of register, for expenses. SECT. 2. All acts of parts of acts inconsistent with the Inconsistent provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.' acts, repealed. Approved March 28, 1891. СНАР. 114 Provisions of marks, applicable to labels, etc., of associations of working men. Chapter 114. An Act relating to Labels and Trade Marks of Unions and Associations of Working Men. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The provisions of sections thirty-seven to forty-three inclurelating to trade sive of chapter thirty-nine of the revised statutes are hereby made applicable to labels and trade marks of unions and associations of working men. The certificate therein named shall be signed and sworn to by the treasurer of such union or association, for and in behalf of such union or association. Such treasurer, upon vote of such union or association may in his own name commence and prosecute for the use and benefit of such union or association, the action named in section forty-one of said chapter, and all sums recovered in any such action shall be the property of such union or association. Approved March 28, 1891. Duty of midwite, etc., in Chapter 115. An Act for the Prevention of Blindness. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Should one or both eyes of an infant become charge, to report reddened or inflamed at any time within four weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse or person having charge of said infant to report the condition of the to qualified practitioner, if eyes of any infant become inflamed within birth. four weeks after eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or district in which the parents of the infant reside. Penalty for failure. SECT. 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Approved March 28, 1891. CHAP. 116 Chapter 116. An Act relating to the salary of the chairman of the Railroad Commissioners and the clerk of the board. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Commencing with January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the salary of the chairman of the board of railroad commissioners, shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and that of the clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Approved March 28, 1891. Salary of chairman and clerk, increased. Chapter 117. An Act additional to that part of chapter twenty-two of the Revised Statutes, relating to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: amended. -owners may SECT. 1. In addition to the provisions of law for repair- Ch. 22, R. S., ing dikes and dams, as now provided in the forty-third and the eighteen following sections of the twenty-second chapter of the revised statutes, the proprietors of any meadow, swamp, marsh, beach or other low lands, after the completion of the dams, dikes, and removal of obstructions as provided in said twenty-second chapter, may hold regular meetings when they adjudge proper, make such rules for the maintenance and preservation of such dikes and dams as their common interest require. hold meetings, and make rules for maintenance of dikes. called. SECT. 2. Upon written application of any three or more Meetings, how of said proprietors to any justice of the peace, he shall issue his warrant to one of the applicants requiring him to call a meeting of the proprietors, expressing in said warrant the time, place and purposes thereof. meetings, how SECT. 3. Notice of said meeting shall be served at least Notice of fourteen days previous to the time appointed therefor, when given. all the proprietors reside in the town where the land lies, by reading the warrant to each proprietor, or giving him a copy in hand, or by leaving a copy at his usual place of anode; and in case one or more of the proprietors reside without the town or plantation, notice of such meeting shall be given CHAP. 117 them by publishing a copy of such warrant in some newspaper Votes each proprietor may have. Officers, election and qualification. printed in the county, or in the state paper three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least fourteen days before the time appointed for said meeting. SECT. 4. At such meeting and all other meetings of said proprietors, each shall have one vote for every acre owned by him and one vote for a fraction of an acre greater than onehalf. Absent proprietors may vote by written proxy. SECT. 5. At such meeting said proprietors may by vote elect a clerk, three or five assessors, a collector and such other officers and committees as may be deemed needful, and may adopt such needful by-laws and standing regulations as are not inconsistent with law; and may determine the manner of calling and notifying future meetings. The clerk, assessors and collector shall each be sworn. The clerk may be sworn by the moderator presiding at the meeting of his election. Officers, elected at the annual or other meetings shall continue in office until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. SECT. 6. At or immediately after the first meeting the number of acres clerk shall enter in a suitable book, the names of the several land owned by proprietors and the number of acres owned by each, and the subsequent transfer of interest shall also be entered by him, within three months after it is made, if known to him. Record of proprietors, and each. Committee may be chosen to ascertain what repairs are needed, etc. Proprietors may raise money and assess same. SECT. 7. At any meeting called for the purpose, a committee of not less than three may be chosen to investigate the condition of such dikes and dams, to ascertain what repairs are needful, and report at an adjourned meeting, at which meeting the same or any other committee chosen therefor may be authorized to make needful repairs, and report the expense thereof at an adjourned or other meeting. SECT. 8. At any meeting called for that purpose, said proprietors may raise money for defraying common charges and for the payment of cost and expenses of such repairs as may have been incurred under the preceding section, which shall be assessed upon the proprietors by the assessors in proportion to their several interests, and which they shall commit to the collector for collection by an appropriate warrant for its collection, directing him to pay it over to the clerk or other proper officer designated by vote of the proprietors, and the collector shall have the same power and shall collect the same. as collectors of towns are authorized to collect town taxes. |