182. Resolve providing a commission to inquire into the jail system of this state.. 183. Resolves in favor of a common school in Long Island plantation..... 192. Resolve concerning the state valuation of certain towns in York county.. 193. Resolves amending the report of the state valuation commissioners..... 194. Resolve in favor of paying expense of joint special committee to visit College 197. Resolves relating to the state arsenals at Bangor and Portland...... 198. Resolve appropriating the proceeds of the sale of certain lands to the use of 200. Resolve concerning the valuation of certain towns in the county of Kennebec 201. Resolve to pay the expenses of the joint special committee on investigation put into the service, and providing a commission to investigate the same.. PUBLIC LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 1870. Chapter 77. An act relating to evidence. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Certified copies ments, entries consuls, vice commercial of papers, docu and records of SECTION 1. That copies of all papers and documents belonging to or filed, or remaining in the office of any consul, vice consul, or commercial agent of the United States, and of all official entries in the books or records of any such office, shall, when certified under the hand and official seal of the proper consul, vice consul or com- ble in evidence. mercial agent, be admissible in evidence. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 21, 1870. consuls and agents, admissi Chapter 78. An act to increase the salary of the judge of probate for the county of Waldo. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: From and after the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, the salary of the judge of probate for the county of Waldo shall be four hundred dollars, instead of the sum now allowed by law. Approved February 1, 1870. Salary of judge of probate for CHAP. 79. Public laws 1888, ruptcy, amended. Chapter 79. An act to amend section one, chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the public laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, relating to the continuance of actions against parties filing petitions in bankruptcy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and fifty seven of relating to bank the public laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby amended by adding after the word "bankruptcy," in the fifth line, the words, or has been adjudicated a bankrupt on petition of his creditors,' so that the section shall read as follows: 'Sect. 1. In all actions pending in any court or before any justice of the peace for recovery of any debt provable in bankruptcy, or of a character such as would be discharged by bankrupt's certificate, when it shall appear that the defendant or any one of the defendants has filed his petition in bankruptcy, or has been adjudicated a bankrupt on petition of his creditors, either before or after the commencement of the suit, the action shall be continued until the proceedings in bankruptcy are closed, unless the plaintiff shall thereupon strike such bankrupt's name from the suit, which he may do without costs; provided however, such defendant shall use due diligence in the prosecution of his bankrupt proceedings, and if he fail to do so after one term's notice in writing from plaintiff, the court may, in their discretion, refuse a further delay.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. Licenses of inn holders and victualers may be revoked. R. S., chap. 27, amended. Chapter 80. An act additional to chapter twenty-seven of the revised statutes, relating to licenses of innholders and victualers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The municipal officers, treasurer and clerk of any city or town may, at any meeting notified or held in accordance with the provisions of section one of chapter twenty-seven of the revised statutes, revoke any licenses which they may have granted to any innholder or victualer, whenever in their opinion there is sufficient cause for so doing. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 2, 1870. |