CHAP. 119 that warrants for corporation meetings are therein required to be posted.' Approved February 14, 1883. Sec. 2, ch. 58, public laws 1881, repealed. Chapter 119. An Act to repeal section two of chapter fifty-eight of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in relation to a bounty on bears. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section two of chapter fifty-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in relation to a bounty on bears is hereby repealed. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 14, 1883. Taking herring for canning purposes less than eight inches long, between Dec. 15 and April 15, prohibited. Packing sardines, between 'Dec 15 and April 15, prohibited. Penalty for violation. Chapter 120. An Act relating to the taking of Herring and canning Sardines. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No person shall catch, take, preserve, sell or offer for sale, within the state, any herring for canning purposes, less than eight inches long, measured from one extreme to the other, between the fifteenth day of December and the fifteenth day of April next following. SECT. 2. No person shall pack, or can any sardines, of any description, between the fifteenth day of December and the fifteenth day of April next following. SECT. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for every one hundred cans so packed or canned, and for every one hundred herring taken contrary to the provisions of section one, to be recovered in an action of debt to be brought by any person complaining of the same, one-half to the complainant and the other half to the town in which said offense is committed. Approved February 14, 1883. 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. 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: veying lands in more than one county, lost beall, or recorded in *SECT. 26. If a deed conveying lands in more than one How a deed coucounty 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. fore recorded in lost, may be others. recorded in the 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 Sec. 1. ch. 92. public laws 1875, condensed and amended. CHAP. 121 any alteration, addition or repair which they deem necessary and require. Sixty days shall be allowed after such notice and order, for compliance with the same. Penalty if owner neglects to comply with order for repairs. Municipal officers and engineers cate of sufficiency of safeguards. SECT. 6. Any owner or occupant who neglects or refuses within the time so allowed to comply with such order, forfeits fifty dollars, and an additional sum of five dollars a day for every day's continuance of such neglect or refusal; and the building or part of building so occupied shall be deemed to be a common nuisance, without any other proof thereof than proof of its use; and the keeper shall be subject to the penalties provided in case of other nuisances. And said officers may forbid the use of such building for any public purpose until their order has been complied with. And if the owner or occupant of said building lets or uses the same in violation of such order, said owner or occupant forfeits not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. SECT. 7. Whenever the municipal officers or engineers, shall give certifi- upon inspection, find that proper safeguards and precautions for escape in case of fire, or of alarm, have been provided, it shall be their duty to give to the occupant of such building a certificate under their hands of such fact; and such certificate shall be valid only for one year from its date. It shall be the duty of such officers to return to the clerk's office of their town or city, monthly, a list of such certificates by them issued, which the clerk shall record in a book kept for that purpose. -shall return lists of same to town clerks for record. -fee for inspection. SECT. 8. Every person receiving such certificate shall pay to such officers the sum of two dollars therefor, and shall keep such certificate posted in the building affected thereby. Certificate, posted Such annual certificate, so posted, is to be taken as prima in building, evidence of inspection. -penalty for neglect to procure or post same. Penalty if officers negleet to perform duty. facie evidence of the inspection of such building, and of its provision with the suitable safeguards and precautions hereinbefore mentioned. SECT. 9. Every occupant of such building, who neglects or refuses to procure such certificate, or to have the same posted as aforesaid, forfeits ten dollars for each and every week he so neglects and refuses. SECT. 10. Every municipal officer or fire engineer who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties imposed upon him by this act, forfeits the sum of fifty dollars. 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. Shall render an account of fees CHAP. 124 account of all fees of office as required by law, be responsible for the same whether received or not, and pay the amount over the sum of seven hundred dollars to the treasurer of the county, for the use thereof. of office. Approved February 14, 1883. Debts due state prison, excepted. Chapter 124. An Act additional to chapter seventy-four of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Debts due to the state as entitled to priority under section thirty-six of this act shall not be held to include debts to the state in behalf of the state prison. Approved February 14, 1883. Sec. 1, ch. 60, public laws 1881, amended. Certified copies of record of deeds in land office may be recorded by register of deeds, and copies shall be evidence, when originals would be. Chapter 125. An Act to amend section one of chapter sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Section one of chapter sixty of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one is hereby amended by inserting after the word "commonwealth" in the fourth line, or of said commonwealth of Massachusetts of the lands of said commonwealth of Massachusetts in Maine,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. A copy from the records now in the land office, of a deed from the state, of the land of the state, or of a deed from the state and the commonwealth of Massachusetts of the undivided lands of the state and said commonwealth, or of said commonwealth of Massachusetts of the lands of said commonwealth of Massachusetts in Maine; certified by the land agent or other legal custodian of such records, as a true copy of such record, may be filed and recorded in the registry of deeds, in the county where the land lies, and shall have the |