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Sec. 2. Funds received from sale to be permanent "temperance fund"; how disbursed. Funds received from the sale of said property shall be deposited in the town treasury of Dexter to be invested by said trustees and to be called the temperance fund, to which donations may be added from time to time by other parties. The town of Dexter shall be responsible for the safe custody of the funds. The income from such fund shall be paid semi-annually to the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Dexter, or its successors, for use in the promotion of the cause of temperance.

Approved March 16, 1923.

Chapter 63.

An Act Relating to Taking of Clams in Machiasport.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Sec. I. Limited to Residents. It shall be unlawful for any person not a resident of the town of Machiasport, in the county of Washington, to dig clams for commercial purposes within the limits of said town.

Sec. 2.

Non-residents may dig clams for bait or home consumption; limit one bushel. Persons not residents of the town of Machiasport may be permitted to dig for clams for fish bait or home consumption within the limits of said town; provided, however, that no person shall dig for purposes mentioned in this section during any one day more than one bushel of clams.

Sec. 3. Penalty for violation. Whoever violates the provisions of sections one and two of this act shall for each offense be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.

Approved March 16, 1923.

Chapter 64.

An Act to Amend the Act of Incorporation of the Trustees of Fryeburg Academy in the Town of Fryeburg and County of Oxford.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Preamble. Whereas, by the act of incorporation of said trustees of Fryeburg Academy, enacted by the general court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the ninth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it was therein provided that the trustees thereof shall be

"capable of having, holding and taking in fee simple by gifts, grants, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal,

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provided the annual income of the same shall not exceed one thousand pounds, and shall apply the rents, issues and profits thereof in such manner as that the design of the institution of the academy may be most effectually promoted," and also further provided

"that the number of said trustees and their successors shall not at any one time be more than thirteen nor less than nine, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum for transacting business, and a majority of members present at a legal meeting, shall decide all questions proper to come before the trustees; that a major part shall be laymen and reputable free-holders; also that a major part shall consist of men that are not inhabitants of the town where the seminary is situated,"

Act of incorporation amended. Now, therefore, said act of incorporation is hereby amended by striking out the first paragraph above recited and inserting in place thereof the following:

'Amount of property which may be held by trustees fixed. That the trustees thereof shall be capable of having, holding and taking in fee simple by gifts, grants, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal, provided the annual income of the same shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars, and shall apply the rent, issues and profits thereof in such manner as that the design of the institution of the academy may be most effectually promoted,'

and by striking out the second paragraph above recited and inserting in place thereof the following:

'Trustees may be free-holders of either sex. That the number of said trustees and their successors shall not at any one time be more than thirteen nor less than nine, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum for transacting business, and a majority of members present at a legal meeting shall decide all questions proper to come before the trustees; that a major part shall be men and women and reputable free-holders; also that a major part shall consist of men and women that are not inhabitants of the town where the seminary is situated.'

Approved March 16, 1923.

Chapter 65.

An Act to Provide for the Better Protection of Clams Within the Limits of the Town of Roque Bluffs.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Sec. 1. Limited to residents. It shall be unlawful for any person not a resident of the town of Roque Bluffs in the county of Washington to dig clams for commercial purposes within the limits of said town.

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Sec. 2. Non-residents may dig clams for bait or home consumption; limit one bushel. Persons not residents of the town of Roque Bluffs may be permitted to dig for clams for fish bait or home consumption within the limits of said town; provided, however, that no person shall dig for purposes mentioned in this section during any one day more than one bushel of clams.

Sec. 3. Penalty for violation. Whoever violates the provisions of sections one and two of this act shall for each offense be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.

Approved March 16, 1923.

Chapter 66.

An Act to Authorize the Register of Deeds of the Southern Registry District for the County of Aroostook to Certify Records.

Emergency preamble. Whereas, the register of deeds in and for the Southern Registry District of Aroostook county for the years 1922 and 1923 died after having entered upon the discharge of his duties for the year 1923, and whereas instruments entitled to record in said registry and recorded therein, or recorded during the lifetime of the said register, and many of which said instruments have, after being recorded, been delivered from said office to the parties entitled thereto, and whereas by reason of the death of the said register as aforesaid, said records so made during his lifetime were not certified by him on said records, or any certificate of the records thereof made by him as required by law, and whereas it is necessary that said records should be certified or certificate of the records thereof should be made as by statute in such cases made and provided, and whereas these facts render the passage of this act immediately necessary for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety, and constitute an emergency within the meaning of the constitution, now therefore:

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Sec. 1. Register of deeds of southern district of Aroostook county authorized to certify records of predecessor. The register of deeds in and for the Southern Registry District of Aroostook county, appointed and qualified to fill the vacancy created by the death of the former register of deeds, is hereby authorized and empowered to certify any record or certificate required by law which the former register neglected or failed to certify, and any certificate so made by the said newly appointed register of deeds so far as it relates to instruments recorded during the lifetime of the former register of deeds, and any records made during his lifetime.

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and certified by the newly appointed register, shall have the same force and effect as if certified by the aforesaid deceased register during his lifetime.

Sec. 2. Present register granted same authority to certify records of predecessor as he would have had if living. The said present register of deeds is hereby given the same authority to certify records made during the lifetime of the former register as the former register would have had if now living, and to make the same certificate of record affecting instruments recorded during the lifetime of the former register of deeds, as provided by section seventeen of chapter twelve of the revised statutes.

Sec. 3. Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this act shall take effect on approval.

Approved March 16, 1923.

Chapter 67.

An Act Directing the State Board of Veterinary Examiners to Issue Certificate to Joseph R. Waller to Practice Veterinary Surgery, Medicine or Dentistry.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Joseph R. Waller authorized to practice veterinary surgery, medicine or dentistry; conditions. Joseph R. Waller of St. Stephen, county of Charlotte, province of New Brunswick, may, on or before sixty days from the time this act shall take effect, pay to the treasurer of the state board of veterinary examiners a fee of five dollars, register his name and address with said board with proof that he was engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery, medicine or dentistry, or any branch thereof, in this state on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, and thereupon, said board shall issue to said Joseph R. Waller a certificate signed by the president and secretary, authorizing said Joseph R. Waller to practice veterinary surgery, medicine, or dentistry, or any branch thereof, within the state and said certificate shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the supreme judicial court for the said county of Washington and in the absence of the original certificate an attested copy of such record shall be received as evidence in all courts within the state of the right of said Joseph R. Waller to practice veterinary surgery, medicine or dentistry, or any branch thereof, within the state.

Approved March 20, 1923.

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Chapter 68.

An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Calais Providing for Biennial Elections.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows:

Sec. I. Biennial elections provided for. The municipal election for the choice of mayor, aldermen, constables of the city of Calais and wardens and ward clerks of the several wards in said city shall be held once in two years instead of annually beginning with the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five and all officers chosen by vote of the electors shall, beginning with the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five, hold office for a term of two years. Any officer chosen at a special election to fill a vacancy shall hold his office during the unexpired term and until his successor is elected and qualified in his place.

Sec. 2. Local referendum; election, how called and conducted; form of ballot. Section one of this act shall take effect only when accepted, as hereinafter provided, by the electors of said city qualified to vote in a municipal election. Said section shall be submitted to be voted upon by the qualified electors of said city at the regular annual election to be held on the first Monday of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. Said election shall be called, advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections in said city. The ballots to be used in said election shall be in such form as to permit said first section of this act to be voted upon by an expression of the voter's opinion on the following question: "Shall the municipal elections in the city of Calais for the election of the mayor and the ward officers be held biennially beginning with the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five?" Opposite and to the right of said question shall be printed the two words "Yes" and "No" with the usual squares in which the voter is to mark in the manner required by law to express his opinion. Other brief and suitable explanations of the subject matter submitted may be printed on the ballots which in other respects shall conform with all the requirements of law. If said section shall receive more affirmative than negative votes at said election it shall be deemed to have been accepted and shall thereupon be in full force and effect. The result of said election shall be declared by the mayor and aldermen, and due certificate thereof filed with the city clerk and with the secretary of state. A printed copy of the full text of this act shall be posted with each notice of said election, and two copies shall be kept posted in each voting place in said city during said election.

Sec. 3. Inconsistent acts modified to conform. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, and all provisions of the charter and ordinances of said city of Calais inconsistent with this act are hereby modified so