dividing the townships, numbered thirty five and thirty six, forty one and forty two, four and five, to the north line of the Bingham purchase: and said line is hereby declared to be the true boundary line, so far as it extends, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. [PASSED MARCH 17, 1831.] An act to annex the town of Corinna to the county of Penobscot. [EXTRACT.] Be it enacted, &c., That the town of Corinna, in the county of Somerset, be, and the same hereby is, set off from said county of Somerset, and annexed to, and made part of, the county of Penobscot. [PASSED FEBRUARY 10, 1833.] An act to annex the town of Litchfield to the county of Kennebec. [EXTRACT.] Be it enacted, &c., That the town of Litchfield, in the county of Lincoln, be, and the same hereby is, set off from said county of Lincoln, and annexed to, and made part of the county of Kennebec. [PASSED MARCH 10, 1835.] An act establishing the county of Franklin. [EXTRACT.] SECT. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the date of the proclamation of the governor as is hereinafter provided, the towns of New Sharon, Chesterville, Wilton, Temple and Farmington in the county of Kennebec; and Jay, Carthage, Weld, Berlin, Madrid, townships, numbered six, Letter E. and D. in the county of Oxford, thence extending northerly from the northwest corner of Letter D. on the line betwixt townships, numbered three and four, through the several ranges of townships to Canada line, so as to include three tiers of townships west of the west line of the Bingham Purchase in said county of Oxford; and Industry, New Vineyard, Strong, Avon, Phillips, Freeman, Salem, Kingfield, townships numbered four in the first range west of Kingfield, three and four in the second range, and the south half of township, numbered four, in the third range of the Bingham Purchase in the county of Somerset, be and hereby are constituted and made a county by the name of Frank lin, whereof Farmington shall be the shire town; and the inhabitants of said territory, towns and plantations, from and after the date of the proclamation of the governor, as is hereinafter provided, shall have and possess, use and enjoy, all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties which by the constitution and laws of this state, are granted to and imposed upon the inhabitants of other counties. [PASSED MARCH 20, 1838.] An act to establish the county of Piscataquis. [EXTRACT.] SECT. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the last day of April next, all that portion of territory lying north of the south lines of Parkman and Wellington, in the county of Somerset, and lying north of the north lines of the towns of Dexter, Garland, Charleston, Bradford, and south line of Kilmarnock, in the county of Penobscot; and bounded east by the east lines of Milton, Kilmarnock and townships, numbered four, in the eighth and ninth ranges; and thence bounded east by a line running north, from the northeast corner of said township, numbered four in the ninth range, to the north line of the state; and bounded on the west by the west lines of Wellington, Kingsbery, Shirley and township, number two, in the fifth range; and thence bounded west by a line running north, from the northwest corner of said township number two, to the Kennebec river; thence up and by the southerly bank of said river to Moose Head lake; thence bounded westerly by the westerly margin of said lake, to the northwest angle of said lake-and thence bounded west by a line running north to the north line of the state-be and the same is hereby constituted and made a county, by the name of Piscataquis: and the inhabitants of said territory, from and after the last day of April next, shall have, possess, use, and enjoy, all the powers, rights and immunities, and be subject to all the duties, which by the constitution and laws of the state, are granted and imposed upon the inhabitants of other counties. [PASSED MARCH 23, 1838.] An act establishing the county of Aroostook. [EXTRACT.] SECT. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of May next, all that part of the state lying north of the north line of the fourth range of townships, north of the Lottery townships, and east of the dividing line between ranges, five and six, west of the east line of the state, and of a line from the north termination of the said dividing line, and running the same course, to the north line of the state, be and is hereby constituted and made a county by the name of Aroostook, whereof Houlton shall be the shire town: And the inhabitants of the before described territory, from and after the first day of May next, shall have and possess, use and enjoy, all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties which by the constitution and laws of the state are granted to and imposed upon the inhabitants of other counties. [PASSED MARCH 16, 1839.] An act to annex the town of Wales to the county of Kennebec. [EXTRACT.] Be it enacted, &c., That the town of Wales, in the county of Lincoln, be, and the same hereby is, set off from the said county of Lincoln, and annexed to, and made part of, the county of Kennebec. [PASSED JANUARY 27, 1840.] AN ACT CONCERNING ASSIGNMENTS. SECT. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all assignments, made by debtors in this state, for the benefit of their creditors, shall provide for an equal distribution of all their estate, real and personal, among such of their creditors, as, after notice as herein provided, become parties to said assignments, in proportion to the amount of their respective claims; excepting such property of said debtors, as is by law exempt from attachment: and, in all such assignments, the assignor or assignors shall make affidavit to the truth thereof, a certificate of which affidavit shall be made upon said assignment by the magistrate, before whom the same may be taken. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the assignees of such debtor or debtors shall, within fourteen days after any assignment shall have been made to them, give public notice thereof in some newspaper, printed in the county where any of said debtors reside, or, if no newspaper be published at the time of said assignment in the county where any of said debtors reside, in any adjoining county, allowing three months to all creditors to become parties to said assignment: And no assignment, hereafter made by any debtor in this state for the benefit of his creditors, shall be valid, except the provisions of this act be complied with. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That no assignee of any debtor, in an assignment made under the provisions of this act, shall be liable to trustee process for and on account of his having in his possession the property of the assigning debtor, until the expiration of three months from the time notice is given as provided for in the second section of this act; neither shall the property assigned be liable to attachment during said three months. [PASSED APRIL 1, 1836.] NOTE. This act was not revised by the commissioners, who acted under the resolve of February 28, 1837, they having, by order of the legislature of the year 1839, reported a bill for a general insolvent law. As the bill did not become a law, it is deemed proper that this act, continuing still in force, should be republished in this volume. |