CHAP. 89. Judge of probate may cite the assignor to appear before him for examination. -may cite any person before embezzlement of the property of the assignor. SECT. 2. The judge of probate, upon application by the assignee or any creditor who becomes a party to the assignment, may cite the assignor to appear before him, for an examination, on oath, upon all matters relating to the disposal or condition of his property, to his dealings with others, to his accounts concerning the same, to his liabilities and the consideration therefor, and to all other matters pertaining to his property and estate, and may require him to produce for the inspection of the court and parties, all books, papers or other documents within his control relating to his business affairs. SECT. 3. The judge of probate may in like manner cite before him suspected of him for examination, on oath, any person suspected of having concealed, withheld, embezzled or conveyed away any goods, effects or credits of the assignor, or which passed or ought to have passed by the assignment, or of aiding others in so doing, and may require such suspected person to produce for the inspection of the court and parties all books, papers or other documents within his control, relating to the matter under examination. Penalty if any person duly cited SECT. 4. If any person duly cited, as aforesaid, refuses to refuse to appear. appear and submit himself to such examination, or to answer all lawful interrogatories, or to produce such books, papers or documents, the judge shall commit him to the jail of the county, there to remain until he submits to the order of the court, or is discharged by the applicant or the supreme judicial court; and he shall also be liable to any injured party, in an action on the case, for all the damages, expenses and charges arising from such refusal. -in case of fraud on part of the assignor. SECT. 5. If the assignor shall have fraudulently conveyed or transferred any of his property in contemplation of the assignment, or to defraud his creditors, or shall have fraudulently concealed, withheld or kept from his assignee any property which said assignee may be entitled to hold under the assignment, said assignor shall forfeit all rights under any release in said assignment. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 15, 1876. LIME ROCK AND SLATE.-ASSESSMENT OF POLL TAXES. Chapter 90. An act to amend section twenty-six, chapter ninety-one, of the Revised Statutes, in relation to Lime Rock and Slate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 65 CHAP, 90. R. S., amended. Section twenty-six of the ninety-first chapter of the revised Sec. 26, ch. 91, statutes, is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line of said section, after the word "vessel," any person who labors in quarrying, or cutting and dressing granite in any quarry, has a lien for the wages of his labor on all the granite quarried or cut and dressed in the quarry by him or his co-laborers, for thirty days after such granite is cut and dressed, or until such granite is sold, or shipped on board a vessel,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Lien for labor or materials fur nished on lite rock. 'SECT. 26. Any person who digs, hauls or furnishes rock for the manufacture of lime, has a lien thereon for his personal services and the rock so furnished, for thirty days after such rock is manufactured into lime, or until such lime is sold or shipped on board a vessel; any person who labors in quarrying or cutting and dressing granite in any quarry, has a lien for the wages of granite. his labor on all the granite quarried or cut and dressed in the quarry by him or his co-laborers, for thirty days after such granite is cut and dressed, or until such granite is sold or shipped on board a vessel; any person who labors in mining, quarrying or manufacturing slate in any quarry, has a lien for the wages of -slate. his labor on all slate mined, quarried or manufactured in the quarry by him or his co-laborers, for thirty days after the slate arrives at their port of shipment. Said liens shall have precedence of all other claims, and may be enforced by attachment within the times aforesaid.' Approved February 15, 1876. Chapter 91. An act in relation to the Assessment of Poll Taxes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: S., amended. Section forty of chapter six of the revised statutes, is hereby Sec. 40, ch. 6, R. amended by striking out the words "one-sixth part, as nearly as may be, of the whole sum to be raised," and inserting in place thereof the words 'such part of the whole sum to be raised as they may deem expedient,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: CHAP. 92. Rule for assessment of taxes. 'SECT. 40. In the assessment of all state, county, town, plantation, parish or society taxes, the assessors thereof shall govern themselves by the rules contained in this chapter, until otherwise provided by the legislature, except in parishes and societies where a different provision for assessing their taxes is made; and shall assess on the taxable polls therein such part of the whole sum to be raised as they may deem expedient; but the Poll taxes not to whole poll tax assessed in one year upon an individual for town, county and state purposes, except highway taxes separately assessed, shall not exceed three dollars. The same rule shall be observed in the assessment of highway taxes; and the residue of such taxes shall be assessed on the estates according to their value.' exceed $3. Highway taxes, &c. Approved February 15, 1876. Interest on unpaid taxes. Chapter 92. An act to authorize Cities and Towns to charge Interest on certain Taxes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Whenever a city or town has fixed a time within which taxes assessed therein shall be paid, such city, by its city council, and such town, at the meeting when money is appropriated or raised, may vote that on all taxes remaining unpaid after a certain time, interest shall be paid at a specified rate, not exceeding one per centum per month; and the interest accruing under such vote or votes shall be added to, and be a part of such taxes. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Assignment of wages not valid unless recorded. Fee for recording. Chapter 93. An act in relation to the Recording of Assignments of Wages. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No assignment of wages shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, unless such assignment is recorded by the clerk of the city, town or plantation organized for any purpose in which the assignor is commorant, while earning such wages. SECT. 2. The fee to be paid the clerk for any such record shall be twenty-five cents. Approved February 17, 1876. NO. 14, R. 4, W. E. L. S.-S. J. COURT, OXFORD COUNTY. Chapter 94. An act authorizing the sale of certain lots of land in township number fourteen, range four, west from the east line of the state. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Lots of land in township number fourteen, range four, west from the east line of the state, exceeding the quantity allowed to be sold to settlers, may be sold upon the same terms as are prescribed in chapter five, revised statutes. Approved February 17, 1876. Chapter 95. An act to change the place of holding the December Term of the Supreme Judicial Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The term of the supreme judicial court which is now required to be holden at Paris, in and for the county of Oxford, on the first Tuesday of December annually, shall hereafter be holden at Fryeburg, in said county. December term county, changed Fryeburg. S. J. court, Oxford from Paris to provided. SECT. 2. The previous section of this act shall be wholly void, Court room to be and of no effect, unless the town of Fryeburg aforesaid, or individuals therein, shall on or before the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, without expense to said county of Oxford, provide a suitable court room and other accommodations for said court and officers, to the acceptance of a majority of the board of county commissioners for said county of Oxford; and county. shall execute and deliver to them a sufficient lease or other lease of, to instrument to secure the use thereof to the county for the time and purposes aforesaid, for and during such time as said term shall be holden at Fryeburg. made. published. SECT. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a record of such Record of, to be instrument to be made by their clerk, and shall as soon thereafter as may be, cause a notice of the fact that such provision has been Notice to be made, and of its acceptance by them, to be published in the regular issues of the Oxford Democrat and Oxford Register, two newspapers printed in said county of Oxford, three consecutive weeks. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. CHAP. 96 Savings banks, &c., declared corporations. Powers of Perpetual succession. May sue and be sued. Seal. By-laws. May receive deposits. Savings banks, &c, how organized. Three-fourths of corporators to reside in county where the bank, &c. is located. Certificates of organization to be sent to the secretary of state and bank examiner. Notice of intention to organize to be given. Bank examiner, duty of. Chapter 96. An act to provide for the Organization of Savings Banks or Trust and Loan Associations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All savings banks or institutions for savings or trust and loan associations, now existing, or which may hereafter be organized under and by virtue of any law of this state, are hereby declared to be corporations possessed of the powers and functions of corporations generally, and as such shall have power: First. To have perpetual succession, each by its corporate name. Second. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity. Third. To make and use a common seal. Fourth. To make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States, for the management of its property and the regulation of its affairs. Fifth. To receive money on deposit, to invest the same, and further transact the business of a savings bank or trust and loan association, as hereinafter provided. SECT. 2. Any number of persons not less than thirteen, may associate themselves together for the purpose of organizing a savings bank or trust and loan association, in accordance with the provisions of this act; but three-fourths of such number of persons shall reside in the county where the proposed bank or trust and loan association shall be located, and shall have power to fill vacancies and add to their number from time to time as they may desire, all of whom shall be residents of this state. SECT. 3. Such persons shall execute a certificate, sworn to before a justice of the peace, in duplicate, one of which shall be deposited with the secretary of state for record, and the other sent to the bank examiner, in which shall be set forth the name of the bank or trust and loan association; the names of all the corporators, the places where they reside; business occupation; place where its business is to be transacted; together with the reasons why a bank or trust and loan association is needed in such place. SECT. 4 A notice of intention to organize such savings bank or trust and loan association, shall be published once a week for three weeks in some newspaper published in said county where said bank or trust and loan association is to be located, or in some newspaper published in an adjoining county, if none is published in said county, signed by all the corporators. SECT. 5. When the bank examiner shall have received the certificate, together with the published order of notice, if he shall |