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 Sec. 2, ch. 58, public laws 1881, repealed.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chapter fifty-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in relation to a bounty on bears is hereby repealed.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. Chapter 121. An Act to provide for greater security against fire in buildings used for public purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Every church, theatre, hall, or other building or structure intended to be used temporarily or permanently for any public purpose, and every school house or school room, public or private, shall have all inner doors, intended to be used for egress therefrom, open outwards. SECT. 2. All outer doors of buildings or structures of the kind mentioned in the preceding section shall be kept open when such buildings or structures are used by the public, unless such doors open outwards; except that fly doors opening both ways may be kept closed. SECT. 3. Every public house where guests are lodged, and every shop, mill, factory and other building in which any trade, manufacture or business is carried on which requires the presence of workmen or other persons in any part thereof above the first story, and all halls and other rooms used for public assembly or for public amusement, shall at all times be provided with suitable and sufficient fire escapes, outside stairs or ladders from each story or gallery above the level of the ground, easily accessible to all inmates in case of fire or of an alarm of fire; the sufficiency thereof to be determined as provided in the following section. Municipal officers and fire engineers shall inspect saf repairs. guards and order SECT. 4. In towns or parts of towns where there is no organized fire department, it shall be the duty of the municipal officers annually to make careful inspection of the precautions and safeguards provided in compliance with the foregoing requirements, and to pass upon their sufficiency in respect to arrangement and number, and upon their state of repair; and to direct and order such alterations, additions and repairs as they may adjudge necessary. In towns, cities and villages which have an organized fire department, the duties. aforesaid shall be discharged by the board of fire engineers. SECT. 5. Such municipal officers or fire engineers shall shall give writ give written notice to the occupant of such building, room, hall or other place hereinbefore specified, also to the owner thereof, if known, of their determination as to the sufficiency of said precautions and safeguards, specifying in said notice, ten notice as t sufficiency of safeguards. 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. VILLAGE CORPORATIONS.-CLERK OF JUDICIAL COURTS, PISCATAQUIS CO. 101 SECT. 11. All fines and forfeitures imposed by this act CHAP. 122 shall be recovered by and for the town or city where the Fines, how recovbuilding is located, by an action on the case, or by indictment. ered. repealed. SECT. 12. Chapter seventy of the public laws of the year Certain acts eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and chapter fifty of the public laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, are hereby repealed. Approved February 14, 1883. Chapter 122. An Act to establish the manner of calling meetings of village corporations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The meetings of any village corporation may be notified by the person to whom the warrant is directed by his posting up attested copies thereof, in two or more public and conspicuous places within the limits of the corporation seven days. before the meeting, instead of as now provided by the act creating said corporation, provided that such corporation shall first at a legal meeting, designate at what and how many places such notices shall be posted. Approved February 14, 1883. Meetings of vil lage corporations how called. Chapter 123. An Act regulating the compensation of Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the county of Piscataquis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The clerk of the judicial courts of Piscataquis county shall hereafter receive an annual salary of seven hundred dollars to be paid from the fees of his office only in quarterly payments; said sum shall be in full compensation for the performance of all duties required of him by law, including those performed by him as clerk of the county commissioners, or by clerk pro tem, appointed by him under section seven of chapter seventy-eight of the revised statutes. He shall render an Salary of clerk of courts of County, established. 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 and seventy-eight, relating to insolvency. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 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 eighty-one, in relation to the registry of deeds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 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 |