OF THE

FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

OF THE

STATE OF MAINE.

1876.

Published by the Secretary of State, agreeably to Resolves of June 28, 1820,
February 28, 1840, and March 16, 1842.

AUGUSTA:

SPRAGUE, OWEN & NASH, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

1876.

L 6251

AUG 13 1932

CONTENTS OF PUBLIC LAWS.

SESSION OF 1876.

CHAP.

PAGE.

58. An act to amend section one of chapter thirty-four of the Revised Statutes,

relating to Auctioneers.....

47

59. An act to amend section one, chapter ninety-seven, of the Public Laws

of eighteen hundred seventy-three.....

47

60. An act relating to Administrators, Executors and Trustees.....

48

61. An act amendatory of and additional to chapter thirty of the Revised

Statutes, in relation to Deer and Caribou.......

48

62. An act to amend section five of chapter seventy-eight of the Revised

Statutes, relating to election returns.....

49

63. An act to amend section three of chapter ninety-one of the Revised Statutes

relating to mortgages on personal property....

64. An act to amend section thirty-four of chapter ninety-one of Revised

Statutes, relating to liens on Logs and Lumber.....

65. An act to provide for the organization of Business Corporations......

66. An act to repeal charters of Savings Banks and Banking Institutions

which have not organized or shall not have organized previous to August

first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.......

50

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51

67. An act additional to chapter forty of the Revised Statutes, to prevent the

destruction of certain fish in the upper waters of the Penobscot river

68. An act in relation to Fiscal School returns of towns to be made to the

state Superintendent of Common Schools......

53

69. An act permitting the Defendant to give bond in Trustee Process...

70. An Act authorizing Insurance Companies to divide their Directors into

Classes

71. An act to amend chapter fifty-five, section one, of the Revised Statutes, in

relation to Libraries, Charitable Societies, and Public Cemeteries.... ...

72. An act to amend section eighteen of chapter eighty-eight of the Revised

Statutes, relating to Partition of Real Estate......

54

55

73. An act to amend section three of chapter seventy of the Revised Statutes,

in relation to the time in which Assignees shall file an inventory in Pro-

bate Court

74. An Act to amend "An Act to amend sections sixty-three and sixty-four

of chapter forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to Foreign Insurance

Companies.".....

75. An act to enable non-resident Guardians to obtain property in this state

belonging to their Wards residing in other states or territories of the

United States....

76. An act relating to Normal Schools......

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77. An act to amend section sixteen of chapter seventy-seven of the Revised

Statutes, relating to Judicial Courts....

58

78. An act in relation to the erection of Wharves and Fish Weirs in Tide Waters

79. An act to authorize the Sale of Islands belonging to the State......

58

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