CHAP 181 -board of parole. -shall cause books of ac discipline and education of the inmates thereof. Said board of county commissioners together with the superintendent shall constitute a board of parole and shall have power to parole or discharge inmates as hereinafter provided. They shall cause counts to be to be kept regular and complete books of accounts of all property, expenses and income of the farm and shall publish the same together with a report of the superintendent in their annual report now required by law. kept. Officers of the farm. -superintendent, how appointed. -bond of superintend ent. -residence of superintendent and duties. Salary of superintendent and assistants. Section 4. The officers of the county farm shall be a superintendent and as many assistants as the superintendent and county commissioners shall deem necessary; all of such officers shall be males, one of whom shall act as deputy superintendent during the absence of the superintendent. The superintendent shall be appointed by the county commissioners and shall hold office during their pleasure and he shall have and exercise all of the powers of a deputy sheriff in criminal matters. Before entering upon his duties he shall give a bond to the treasurer of the county of Cumberland in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) with sureties approved by the county commissioners for the faithful performanec of his duties. He shall reside at all times within the precincts of the county farm, appoint all necessary assistants for whom he shall be responsible; keep the names of all prisoners committed in a suitable book, a record of the conduct of each, have control of them, govern and employ them according to the rules of the farm, and shall have the management and direction of the farm, its inmates, its employees and affairs, subject to the approval of the county commissioners. Section 5. The superintendent shall receive a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, and each assistant a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600) per annum, to be determined by the county commissioners, to be paid monthly by the county treasurer upon orders drawn by the county commissioners. No other perquisite, reward or emoluward allowed. ment shall be allowed or received by any of them except that all of such officers shall reside on said farm at the public charge and each shall be allowed a vacation of fourteen days, without loss of pay. -no perquis ite or re -vacations. -books and papers for prisoners. The superintendent may employ at the expense of the county a suitable person to act in their place during such vacation. He shall provide for the use of the prisoners at the expense of the county a copy of the Bible, or of the New Testament, books, papers and magazines not exceeding in cost one hundred dollars in one year. CHAP. 181 -instruction in reading He shall in conjunction with the county commissioners, furnish instruction in reading and writing one hour each day, except Sunday, to prisoners in his charge who may be benefited and writing thereby and shall provide such moral and religious instruction as they may be able to obtain without expense. provided. victed of con drunkenness, sentenced to etc., may be farm. Section 6. The judge of the superior court of the county of Persons Cumberland and the judges of the municipal courts and trial justices in the several cities and towns in said county may sentence male persons convicted of drunkenness, vagrancy or nonsupport, in said courts to imprisonment and labor on said county farm, in accordance with section fifty-seven, chapter twentynine, of the revised statutes of nineteen hundred and three and any act additional thereto or amendatory thereof, instead of in the county jail or in any house of correction. Section 7. When a man is sentenced to be imprisoned on the county farm, the judge or trial justice imposing sentence shall not prescribe the length of sentence other than it shall not be for less than three months or more than one year. When a man is so sentenced to be imprisoned on the county farm, he shall be held and employed thereon for not more than one year. Section 8. When a prisoner has been confined on the farm for the term of three months, if it appears to the superintendent and county commissioners that he has reformed, they may issue to him a permit to be at liberty during the remainder of his term of sentence, which may be revoked by them at any time previous to its expiration, subject to such rules as they may prescribe and he shall report to them or any probation officer in said county at such times as they may require for a period not longer than the maximum period of his original sentence. Section 9. If the holder of a permit to be at liberty from the county farm shall faithfully fulfill all of the requirements of the superintendent, county commissioners and probation officers and in no way violate the same, the charge against him shall be dropped and he shall not be liable to be re-arrested on the same charge. Section 10. If the holder of a permit to be at liberty from the county farm violates the provisions thereof or it is revoked by the superintendent and county commissioners, they or any one of them may issue an order for his return to the farm and he may be returned by any one of them or any officer qualified to serve civil or criminal precepts. A prisoner who has been so returned to the county farm shall be detained thereon according to the term of his original sentence. In computing the period of his confinement, the time Length of sentence to farm pre scribed. Reformed prisoners may be pamainder of roled for re sentence. All charges dropped when ments are prisoner. shall be all require fulfilled by Holder of permit to be at liberty turned to lation of pro may be re farm on vio isions there of. prisoner farm shall sentence. returned to serve out CHAP. 182 -service of order for return when holder of permit is in jail or prison Prisoner may be punished if refractory or refuses to work. Prisoner escaping from returned. between his release upon a permit and his return shall not be considered as any part of the term of his original sentence. If at the time of the order of return to the farm or of the revocation of his permit to be at liberty he is confined in any jail or prison, service of such order shall not be made until his release therefrom. Any person so returned may be again permitted to be at liberty after the expiration of three months. Section 11. If a prisoner serving sentence at the county farm is refractory or if during the term of his sentence he refuses or neglects without reasonable cause to labor in a suitable manner when required, he may be kept in solitary confinement and fed on bread and water so long as he remains refractory or refuses to labor. Any person so punished shall not be eligible to receive a permit to be at liberty until three months from date of such punishment. Section 12. If a prisoner serving sentence at the county farm shall be farm escapes or attempts to escape or goes away from said farm without permission he shall when recaptured be returned, subject to such rules and regulations as said county commissioners and superintendent shall deem necessary to keep him at the farm. Reimbursement of county commissioners expenses. Section 13. The county commissioners, in addition to the salary allowed them by law, shall be reimbursed by the county for necessary treasurer for such necessary expenses as are incurred for travel to and from the county farm or in connection with the business thereof. They may provide prisoners with clothing whenever they shall deem it necessary and may furnish transportation to their homes. Approved March 22, 1911. Corporate name changed. Chapter 182. An Act to change the Corporate name of the Maine Association of Opticians. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The corporate name of the Maine Association of Opticians, a corporation organized under chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby changed to Maine Association of Optometrists. Approved March 22, 1911. LITTLE MADAWASKA IMPROVEMENT Co.-GEORGES RIVER LAND CO. Chapter 183. An Act to render valid the doings of the Little Madawaska Improvement Co. 463 CHAP. 183 and doing Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The incorporation of Little Madawaska Improvement Co., a Incorporacorporation organized under the provisions of chapter one hun- tion, and acts dred sixty-nine private and special laws of nineteen hundred made valid. and seven, is hereby made and declared to be valid and all the acts and doings of said Little Madawaska Improvement Company as a corporation are hereby legalized and made valid. Approved March 22, 1911. Chapter 184. An Act to ratify the organization, acts and doings and extend the powers of the Georges River Land Company. and acts and Georges Riv er Land Comvalid. pany made Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. The organization of the Georges River Land Organization Company, a corporation created by chapter two hundred and doing of twenty-three of the private and special laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, duly existing under the laws of the state of Maine, is hereby ratified, confirmed and declared to be legal and valid, and the surviving members and officers have authority to hold a meeting on call of the president giving seven days' notice, and then elect new officers, and amend or make new by-laws; and the clerk elected at such meeting shall have authority to complete the records of the deceased clerk. Section 3, special laws, chapter 223, 1891, amend ed. powers tended. and ex Section 2. Section three of said act is hereby amended by striking out the words "or for those desiring to use the same" after the word "property" in the twenty-fifth line. The rights, powers and authority of the said corporation as granted in rights said chapter two hundred and twenty-three of private and special laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one as amended, are hereby extended and granted to the new officers and members and their associates and successors; and said may issue corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds secured by its property. bonds. Approved March 22, 1911. CHAP. 185 Section 11, chapter 289, 1907, amend ed. Chapter 185. An Act to amend the charter of the Livermore Falls Sewer District, for the better Collection of Taxes. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section eleven of chapter two hundred eighty-nine of the special laws, private and special laws of nineteen hundred and seven is hereby amended by inserting in the sixth line, of said section, after the word "collected," the words, 'the valuation of said. property, within the district, may be assessed by the trustees, or taken from the assessor's book within the district of the town of East Livermore, for the year said property is to be assessed. The trustee's may appoint a collector for the collection of all taxes assessed on the property within said district, and the collector may bring suit, in the name of the inhabitantsof said district on any unpaid taxes within ten days, after notice is given to the property holder of the amount of said Deficit may taxation. -taxes, assessed and collected. tax. The assessment of a tax on any property within the district, will create a lien on said property for one year from assessment, and said property may be advertised and sold for the payment of said taxes', so that said section when amended, shall read as follows: 'Section II. At any time should the income of said district be raised by be insufficient to meet all the obligations set forth in section ten of this act, the whole or any part of this deficit may be how raised by taxation; which tax shall be assessed and collected, on the property within the district, in the same manner as municipal taxes are assessed and collected, the valuation of said property within the district, may be assessed by the trustees, or taken from the assessors books, within the district, of the town of East Livermore, for the year said property is to be assessed. -trustees may appoint collector of taxes. -lien on property for taxes assessed. The trustee's may appoint a collector for the collection of all taxes assessed on the property, within said district, and the collector may bring suit, in the name of the inhabitants of said district, on any unpaid taxes within ten days after notice is given to the property holder, for the amount of taxes due. The assessment of a tax on any property within the district, will create a lien on said property for one year from assessment, and said property may be advertised and sold for the payment of said taxes.' Approved March 22, 1911. |