CHAP. 103 Sec. 4, ch. 51, R. Provisions in railroad charters limiting time in which such railroad is to be completed, shall not affect portion Chapter 103. An Act in addition to section four of chapter fifty-one of the Revised Statutes, relating to railroads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section four of chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: 'Provisions in charters of railroad corporations, whether heretofore or hereafter granted, limiting the time within which such railroad shall be completed, shall not be construed to completed within affect the portion of the railroad completed within the time. limited; and all charters under which railroads have been constructed for a portion of the line authorized thereby, are hereby confirmed and made valid as to such portion.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. time limited. Approved February 3, 1883. Sec. 3, ch. 147, public laws of 1873, amended. Port wardens Chapter 104. An Act to amend section three of chapter one hundred and forty-seven of the Public Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The third section of chapter one hundred and forty-seven of the public laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An Act providing for the appointment of port wardens," is hereby amended by striking out, in the last two lines of said section, the words "and the vacancy thereby created shall be filled by the aforesaid appointing powers until the next annual meeting," and inserting in place thereof the following words: and all vacancies, whether created by removal or caused by death, resignation, inability or any other cause, shall be filled by the aforesaid appointing powers.' So that said section as amended shall read as follows: 'SECT. 3. Said boards of trade, by their managers, and said municipal officers, by themselves, shall have the power, and they are hereby respectively required to remove for cause, forthwith, upon complaint of any person aggrieved, and after hearing the party or parties complained of, any port warden or port wardens by them appointed, and all vacancies whether CHAP. 105 created by removal or caused by death, resignation, inability Vacancies, how or any other cause, shall be filled by the aforesaid appointing powers.' Approved February 3, 1883. filled. Chapter 105. An act to amend chapter seventy-three, section twenty-six, of the Revised Statutes, in relation to the Registry of Deeds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: R. S., amended. SECT. 1. That chapter seventy-three, section twenty-six, Sec. 26, ch 73, of the revised statutes be amended, by inserting after the word "all" in the second line the following words, viz: 'or if any deed is recorded in the wrong county or registry district and lost,' so that the section as amended shall read as follows: 'SECT. 26. If a deed conveying lands in more than one county is lost before recorded in all, or if any deed is recorded in the wrong county or registry district and lost, a certified copy from a registry where it has been recorded, may be recorded in any other county, and have the same effect as a record of the original.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 8, 1883. How a deed con veying lands in more than one fore recorded in County, lost be all, or recorded in others. Chapter 106. An act to condense and amend section one of chapter ninety-two of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter ninety-two of the public laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby condensed and amended by inserting therein, the words, 'and for the erec see. 1. ch. 92. public laws 1875, condensed and amended. CHAP. 107 tion and maintenance of monuments and for the benefit of Cities and towns authorized to receive money in trust for certain purposes. public cemeteries and lots therein, so that the same section, condensed and amended, shall be as follows: 'SECT. 1. Any city or town may receive money by donation or legacy, in trust, for benevolent, religious or educational purposes, and for the erection and maintenance of monuments and for the benefit of public cemeteries and lots therein; provided that the city or town shall lawfully consent.' Approved February 8, 1883. Sec. 1, ch. 22, R. What are legal fences Chapter 107. An act to amend section one of chapter twenty-two of the Revised Statutes, relating to division fences. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter twenty-two of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding after the word "walls," in the second line, the words 'iron or wire,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. All fences four feet high and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber, boards, stone walls, iron or wire; and brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, or other things which, in the judgment of the fence viewers having jurisdiction thereof are equivalent thereto, shall be accounted legal and sufficient fences; provided, however, that all barbed wire fences hereafter built shall not be accounted legal and sufficient fences unless they are protected by an upper rail or board of wood.' Approved February 8, 1883. Chapter 108. An Act to amend section one, chapter twenty-four, of the Revised Statutes, relating to pauper settlements. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 108 S., amended. Chapter twenty-four, section one, specification one, of the sec. 1, ch. 24, R. revised statutes, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: and no derivative settlement shall be acquired or changed by a marriage so procured, but the children of such marriage and their descendants shall have the settlement they would have had if no such marriage had taken place. And the same rule shall be applied in all controversies touching the settlement of paupers between the town by whose officers a marriage is thus procured and any other town, whether the person whose marriage is thus procured is a pauper at the time of the marriage or becomes so subsequently.' So that said specification, amended, shall be as follows: 'I. A married woman has the settlement of her husband, if he has any in the state; if he has not, her own settlement is not affected by her marriage. When it appears in a suit between towns involving the settlement of a pauper, that a marriage was procured to change it by the agency or collusion of the officers of either town or any person having charge of such pauper under authority of either town, the settlement is not affected by such marriage; and no derivative settlement shall be acquired or changed by a marriage so procured, but the children of such marriage and their descendants shall have the settlement they would have had if no such marriage had taken place. And the same rule shall be applied in all controversies touching the settlement of paupers between the town by whose officers a marriage is thus procured, and any other town, whether the person whose marriage is thus procured is a pauper at the time of the marriage or becomes so subsequently.' Approved February 8, 1883. Pauper settle ment of married women. CHAP. 109 Sec. 16, ch. 5, R. When and how school funds are to be paid over. Interest to he aid annually to treasurer of plantation. Chapter 109. An act to amend section sixteen of chapter five of the Revised Statutes relating to lands reserved for public uses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section sixteen of chapter five of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "assessors" in the twelfth and fifteenth lines and inserting in each of said lines the word 'treasurer,' by adding after the words "by the treasurer" in the fifteenth line the words 'of state;' by striking out the word "and" in the seventeenth line and by adding at the end of said section the words and that the treasurer of such plantation has given bond as required by law,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: SECT. 16. The interest shall be added to the principal of such fund, until the inhabitants of such township or tract are incorporated into a town, or organized as a plantation, and establish in such plantation one or more school districts according to law. When any such township is incorporated as a town, said funds belonging to it shall be paid over by the treasurer of state to the treasurer of the trustees of the ministerial and school funds in such town, to be added to the funds of that corporation, and shall be held and managed as other school funds of that town are required by law to be held and managed. If such township or tract is organized as a plantation, the interest of said fund shall be paid annually by the treasurer of state to the treasurer of such plantation, to be applied for the support of schools according to the number of scholars in each district. The interest to be paid shall be cast up to the first day of January in each year, and shall be paid to such treasurer by the treasurer of state on producing satisfactory evidence that such plantation is organized, and school districts established therein according to law; that assessors are duly sworn and qualified and that the treasurer of such plantation has given bond as required by law.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 8, 1883. |