Chap. 227.

Chap. 228.
Chap. 230.

Chap. 231.

and banking. Chap. 232.

or the day of

Chap. 235.

Chap. 236.
Chap. 257.

An additional act providing for payment of costs in criminal proceedings.
An act in addition to an act regulating judicial process.

An act for the further regulation of the state prison.

An act to prohibit agencies for banks out of the state, private banking, and to regulate banks

An act prohibiting arrests, and holding courts to try civil causes, on the fourth day of July, state elections, trainings or review.

An additional act concerning the limits of highways.

Chap. 238. Chap. 239. An act additional to an act to prevent fraud in fire wood, bark or coal, exposed for sale. Chap. 241. An additional act for the punishment of felonious assaults and attempts to poison. Chap. 242. An act to provide for the repair of highways in certain unincorporated townships. Chap. 243. An act in addition to an act, entitled an act to secure to owners their property in logs, masts, spars and other timber.

An act additional to an act to organize, govern and discipline the militia of this state.
An act allowing additional pay to the justices of the supreme judicial court.
An act to encourage the culture of silk within this state.

Chap. 244.

Chap. 245.

An additional act to promote the sale and settlement of the public lands.
An act supplementary to an act for the relief of poor debtors.

An act altering the time of a term of the supreme judicial court in the county of Lincoln.
An act to regulate the sale of rye and indian meal.

Chap. 248.

Chap. 249.

An act further to regulate the fees of county attorneys.
An additional act regulating elections.

Chap. 250.

An act to authorize the collection of interest on executions.

Chap. 251. tain cases.

An act to authorize the cession of jurisdiction and real estate to the United States, in cer

Acts passed in the year 1837.

An act to increase the salary of the register of probate in the county of Penobscot.
An act additional to an act establishing salaries for judges and registers of probate.
An additional act to provide for the education of youth.

Chap. 259.

An act to regulate the sale of oats.

Chap. 261.

An act to encourage the destruction of wolves.

Chap 262.

Chap. 266.

An additional act concerning the assessment and collection of taxes.
An act relating to municipal courts.

Chap. 269. An act constituting the records of towns, plantations and school district clerks, evidence in

certain cases.

Chap 270. An act to prevent fraud in the purchase and sale of hay.

Chap. 272.

An act authorizing attorneys in the court of common pleas, to practice law in the supreme judicial court in certain cases.

Chap. 273. An act to secure to mechanics and others, payment for their labor and materials, expended in erecting and repairing houses and other buildings with their appurtenances.

An act additional to an act to organize, govern and discipline the militia of this state.
An additional act regulating the admission of attorneys.

Chap. 280.

An act to provide for certain returns from banks and other corporations.
An act to regulate elections within the city of Portland.
An act additional to an act regulating judicial process and proceedings.
An act further providing for the redemption of mortgages.
An act relative to tenants in common.

Chap. 289. An additional act concerning corporations.

Chap. 290. An act authorizing the appointment of commissioners out of the state, to take the acknowl edgment of deeds and other instruments of writing under seal, and to admit the same to record in this state, and also to take affidavits.

Chap. 292. An act additional to the several acts concerning capital crimes, and to an act regulating judicial process and proceedings.

Chap 296. An act in addition to an act, entitled an act to regulate the jurisdiction and proceedings of the courts of probate.

Chap. 297. An act in addition to an act, ascertaining what shall constitute the legal settlement, and providing for the relief, support, employment and removal of the poor.

Chap. 298. An act supplementary to an act to secure to mechanics and others, payment for their labor and materials, expended in erecting and repairing houses and other buildings with their appurtenances. Chap. 300. An act additional to the several acts in force regulating elections.

Chap. 301. An act additional to acts giving remedies in equity.
An act additional relative to the state prison.

An act supplementary to an act, entitled an additional act regulating the admission of attorChap. 306. An act additional to an act for the due regulation of weights and measures. Chap. 307. An act exempting farming tools and other articles from attachment on mesne process er execution. Chap. 309. An act establishing the standard weight of ruta baga and mangel wurtzel. Chap. 310. An act giving to one justice of the supreme judicial court jurisdiction in cases of divorce. Chap. 313. An act additional relating to the assessment and collection of taxes. Chap. 315. An additional act concerning the collection of taxes.

Chap. 316. An act to encourage industry and promote civilization among the indians of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes.

Chap. 318. An additional act authorizing attorneys in the court of common pleas, to practise law in the supreme judicial court in certain cases.

Chap. 320. An act to prevent fraud in the pressing of hay.

Chap. 321. An additional act regulating judicial process.
Chap. 322.

Chap. 323.

Chap. 325. Chap. 327. Chap. 330. justice.

An additional act to regulate the jurisdiction and proceedings of the courts of probate.
An act against kidnapping or selling for a slave.

An act in relation to the mode of transfer of shares of capital stock of corporate bodies.
An additional act concerning meeting houses.

An act providing for the appointment of agents, for demanding and receiving fugitives from Chap. 331. An act, additional to the several acts, for the better regulation and management of the Penobscot tribe of indians.

Chap. 332.

other purposes.

An act authorizing manufacturing corporations to redeem lands sold on execution, and for Chap. 333. An act additional to an act respecting mortgages and the rights in equity of redemption. Chap. 336. An act further regulating judicial proceedings. Chap. 337. Chap. 333.

estates.

Chap. 339.

An additional act to define the powers, duties and restrictions of insurance companies.
An act additional respecting wills and testaments, and regulating the descent of intestate

Chap. 340.

Chap. 342.

An additional act to prevent the introduction of paupers from foreign ports or places.
An act additional to an act to establish town lines.
An additional act regulating divorces.

An additional act relating to the assessment and collection of taxes, and partition of real

Chap. 313.

Chap. 344.

Chap. 345.

estate.

An act additional to an act for the limitation of actions real and personal, and writs of error.
An act concerning the attachment of real estate.

Chap. 347. An act additional to an act, entitled an act, to apportion and assess on the inhabitants of this state a tax of fifty thousand, three hundred and ninety eight dollars, and sixty six cents. Chap. 348.

An act additional to an act regulating elections.

Chap. 349. An act additional to the several acts now in force to organize, govern and discipline the militia of this state. Chap. 350. An act additional to an act, entitled an additional act concerning the assessment and collection of taxes. Chap. 353. An act to repeal the first section of an act, entitled an additional act regulating the practice of physic.

Chap. 354. An act additional to promote the sale and settlement of the public lands.

Acts passed in the year 1839.

Chap. 357. An act additional to the several acts now in force relating to the partition of real estate.
An additional act exempting [certain] goods and chattels from attachment, execution and

Chap. 358. distress.

Chap. 359.

An act additional to an act to regulate the jurisdiction and proceedings of courts of probate.
An act for the limitation of criminal prosecutions.

Chap. 360.

An act additional to promote the sale and settlement of the public lands.
An additional act respecting the repair and amendment of highways.

Chap. 361.

Chap. 362.

Chap. 363.

An act additional to an act concerning dower.

An act additional to provide for the packing and inspection of pickled and smoked fish.
An ast additional for the support and regulation of mills.

An act for the relief of sureties on poor debtors' bonds in certain cases.
An act limiting the powers of county commissioners.

Chap. 368.

An act further regulating judicial process and proceedings.

Chap. 370. An act additional to the several acts to secure to owners their property in logs, spars, masts and other timber.

Chap. 371. An act additional to an act for the protection of the Mattanawcook and military roads. Chap. 372. An act additional to an act respecting mortgages and the rights in equity of redemption. Chap. 373. An act to abolish the court of common pleas and establish district courts, excepting the ninth, twelfth and thirteenth sections.

Chap. 374. An act regulating the fees for justices' writs.

Chap. 375.

An act additional to an act for the due regulation of weights and measures. Chap. 376. An additional act relating to trespasses on the public lands.

Chap. 377. An act relating to divorces.

Chap. 379. An act to regulate the inspection and packing of clams.

Chap. 380. An act to alter the times of holding the supreme judicial court in the counties of Somerset, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock and Waldo within this state.

Chap. 382. An additional act regulating judicial process and proceedings.

Chap. 383. An act establishing the salaries of the judge and register of probate for the county of Piscataquis.

An act requiring toll bridges which are or may be covered, to be suitably lighted.
An act relating to days of grace on commercial paper, in certain cases.
An act additional to an act to regulate the inspection of beef and pork.
An act additional to an act relating to the Passamaquoddy tribe of indians.
An act additional to an act concerning stud horses.

An act to establish the salary of the judge and register of probate in the county of Franklin. Chap. 396. An act additional to the several acts for the better regulation and management of the Penobscot tribe of indians.

Chap. 398. An act in addition to an act to abolish the court of common pleas and establish district

courts.

Chap. 399. An act additional to an act to organize, govern and discipline the militia of this state.

Chap. 400. An act additional to an act concerning corporations, passed on the sixteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.

Chap. 401. An act additional to an act regulating towns, town meetings and the choice of town officers, approved March nineteenth one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.

Chap 402.

An act in relation to a state library.

Chap. 403. An act to regulate the manufacture and inspection of lime and lime casks. Chap. 404. An act to limit the compensation of sheriff in the county of Piscataquis. Chap. 406. An act imposing additional duties upon the surveyor general. Chap. 407. An act in addition to an act, providing for the government of the state prison, and for the punishment of convicts. Chap. 408. An act in addition to an act respecting the offices and duties of the attorney general and county attorneys.

Chap. 409.

Chap. 410.

Chap. 411. Chap. 412. debtors. Chap. 413.

Chap. 3.

An act in addition to an act further to regulate the fees of county attorneys.
An act in addition to the several acts now in force regulating ferries.
An act for assessing and taxing turnpikes in the towns through which they pass.
An act additional to, and explanatory of the several acts now in force for the relief of poor
An act to encourage the rearing of oxen within this state.

Acts passed in the year 1840.

Section, three, of an act in addition to an act establishing the county of Aroostook. Chap. 8. An act to remedy certain defects in existing laws.

Chap. 11.

An act additional to an act for the limitation of criminal prosecutions.

Chap. 16. An act regulating the taking of fish, and for the preservation thereof in the several rivers and streams emptying into rivers in this state.

Chap. 21. An act additional to the several acts to regulate the jurisdiction and proceedings of courts of probate.

Chap. 24. An act to limit the tenure of military office.

Chap. 26. An act additional to prevent obstruction to ferries.

Chap. 49.

ment.

Chap. 50. named. Chap. 52.

Chap. 56.

Chap. 58.

Chap. 60.

Chap. 66.

An act additional to the several acts now in force exempting certain articles from attach

An act repealing part of an act, establishing the duties to be paid by certain officers therein

An act additional to an act to organize, govern and discipline the militia of this state.
An act to provide for furnishing blank books to the cities, towns and plantations in this state.
An act in addition to the several acts for the relief of poor debtors.
An act additional to an act concerning the election of representatives.
An act to prevent disturbances in schools.

Chap. 67. An act additional to an act establishing and regulating the fees of the several officers and other persons therein named.

Chap. 73.

An act to establish the compensation of surveyor general.
An act further regulating judicial process and proceedings.
An additional act relating to the militia.

Chap. 70.

Chap. 77.

Chap. 80. Chap. 87. townships.

An act additional to an act relating to the Passamaquoddy tribe of indians.
An act additional to an act to provide for the repair of highways in certain unincorporated

SECT. 2. All the acts and parts of acts, mentioned in the first section of this act, and therein and thereby repealed, shall be and remain in full force, so far as they respect the trial and punishment of all crimes and offences therein mentioned, which shall have been committed, and the recovery of all penalties and forfeitures which shall have been incurred, before the time when this act shall become a law and saving also, to all persons, all rights of action in virtue of any act repealed as aforesaid, and all actions and causes of action which shall have accrued in virtue of, or founded on any of said repealed acts, in the same manner as if such acts had never been repealed; but the proceedings in every such case shall be conformed, when necessary, to the provisions of the revised

statutes.

SECT. 3. No act, which has heretofore been repealed, shall be revived by the repeal of the acts described in the first section of this act.

SECT. 4. All the provisions of the laws, described in the first section aforesaid, which are contained in the revised statutes, shall be deemed to have remained in force, from the time when such previous laws began to take effect, so far as they may apply to any office or trust, or any transaction or event, or any limitation, or any right or obligation, or the construction of any contract, already effected by such'previous laws, notwithstanding the repeal of the statutes, as mentioned in the first section aforesaid.

SECT. 5. No private act, or act of local application, now unrepealed, shall be affected by any provision of the revised statutes inconsistent therewith. unless such provision be different from the former public or general law on the same subject.

SECT. 6. In all cases where any provisions of the revised statutes are made to go into operation at any time after the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, the corresponding provisions, if any, of the said repealed statutes shall continue in force until the said new provisions shall go into operation, unless where otherwise expressly provided.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, except as provided in the preceding section.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, October 21, 1840. This bill, having had three several readings, passed to be enacted.

HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Speaker.

IN SENATE, October 21, 1840.

This bill, having had two several readings, passed to be enacted.

STEPHEN C. FOSTER, President.

October 22, 1840. Approved.

JOHN FAIRFIELD.

Chap. 69.
Chap. 94.
Chap. 108.
justice.
Chap. 153.

Chap. 63.
An act directing and regulating the process of outlawry.

An act rendering valid the doings and acts of coroners in certain cases.
The fourth section of an act for the safe keeping of the records of the

Chap. 180.

An act for the better making and measuring of malt.
An act repealing certain acts therein named.

UNREPEALED ACTS.

TITLES of statutes of the state of Maine, heretofore published with the public laws, not included in the revised code, nor enumerated in the first section of the repealing act; and supposed by the publishing commissioners to be still in force, unless in their nature obsolete. It is not deemed important to include in the list a large number of acts, which simply repeal former acts.

Chap. 49. An act directing the manner of giving notice in certain cases.
June 17, 1820.
An act prescribing the forms of writs and other processes in the cases therein mentioned.

March 19, 1821. February 24, 1821. March 17, 1821. several courts of March 19, 1821. February 28, 1821. March 21, 1821.

Chap. 181.

An act providing for the further limitation of certain actions and for other purposes.

January 19, 1822.

Chap. 204.

Chap. 194. An act to provide for carrying into effect certain stipulations in the act for erecting the district of Maine into a separate state.

February 6, 1822.

An act to secure to owners, their logs, masts and timber.
An act respecting academies incorporated within this state.
An act additional to an act respecting academies incorporated within this state.

February 9, 1822. February 10, 1823.

An act to authorize the selectmen of Gardiner to appoint an additional

men.

Chap. 255. An act additional to an act to regulate the herring fishery. Chap. 314. An act providing for the distribution of copies of the constitution of this state and of the United States to be used in schools. Chap. 320. Chap. 321. An act concerning streets and ways in the town of Portland. Chap. 322. An additional act to provide for carrying into effect certain stipulations ing the district of Maine into a separate state. Chap. 336.

February 12, 1824.
February 12, 1824.

February 26, 1825.

number of engine February 10, 1826. February 14, 1826. in the act for erectFebruary 17, 1826.

Chap. 360. An act to authorize the selectmen of Portland to appoint an additional number of engine men and for other purposes.

Chap. 345. coln county.

An act to establish a registry of deeds for the western district of Lincoln county.

March 6, 1826. An act additional to an act to establish a registry of deeds for the western district of Lin

Chap. 354. An act establishing the county of Waldo.

Chap. 362. An act explanatory of the act establishing the county of Waldo. Chap. 366. An act fixing the place of the permanent seat of government, and prescribing where the legislature shall hold its sessions.

February 16, 1827.
February 17, 1827.

Chap. 370. The second section of an additional act respecting highways.
Chap. 372. An act additional to an act, entitled "an act establishing the county of Waldo.”

January 22, 1828.

February 24, 1827.
February 24, 1827.

Chap. 390. An additional act to provide for carrying into effect certain stipulations in the act for erecting the district of Maine into a separate state.

Chap. 366. An act to authorize the selectmen of Portland and Bath to appoint an additional number of engine men.

An act enlarging the powers of constables within the town of Eastport.
An act to authorize the removal of prisoners from the jail in the county of Penobscot to
county of Waldo.

February 13, 1829.

March 6, 1830.

men.

An act authorizing the selectmen of Portland to appoint an additional number of engine
March 15, 1830.

Chap. 490. An act making valid the acts and resolves passed by the legislature of the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and for other purposes.

February 17, 1831. Chap. 492. An act to modify the terms and conditions of the act of separation. February 19, 1831. Chap. 496. An act enlarging the powers of constables in the towns of Calais, Robbinston, Perry and Lubec.

March 4, 1831. Chap. 510. Section, four, of an additional act to promote the sale and settlement of the public lands.

March 28, 1831.

Chap. 4. An act for the choice of register of deeds in the north district of Washington county.

February 11, 1832
February 11, 1832.

Chap. 5. An act ceding to the United States jurisdiction of certain lots of land. Chap. 8. An act in addition to an act, entitled an act to secure to the owners their property in logs, masts, spars and other timber.