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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1864
Page
8
A historical act outlines remedies for stockholders and bondholders regarding payments and interest, with provisions for disputes resolved by the supreme judicial court. It notes rights of redemption, proportional contributions, and procedures following approvals by the governor on March 25 1864.
An act alters the Penobscot county supreme judicial court criminal term from the first Tuesday in August to the second Tuesday each year. Appeals and matters returnable on the first Tuesday of August 1864 now proceed on the second Tuesday in August of that year. No person is excused from obligations by this change.
The text outlines that actions between residents of a county returnable before a trial justice must be commenced in the town where one party resides or in the town of common residence, with provisions for cases to be heard elsewhere or before the county, and repeats sections of prior acts. approved by governor in 1864.
The act, passed by the Legislature, governs petitions for review, details on entering judgments if the original is reversed, and costs as allowed by justice. It references amendments to the Revised Statutes and signals changes approved in 1864 with sections on plantation wording and procedural alignment.
Chapter AN ACT amending an act penning pant ies for soldiers, Reenacted by the Senate and House in Legistature assembled. It states no naval recruit shall claim full bounty unless enlisted during war, serving the period, and receiving a pro rata portion of the bounty. The act becomes effective on approval.
Chapter 270 sets forth provisions for appointing officials in the supreme judicial court and outlines annual term meetings in Augusta. It fixes justice salaries at two thousand two hundred dollars payable quarterly from the state treasury with first payment on July 1 1864. The act takes effect from March 31 1864 after passage by the legislature.
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