An act providing for the expenses incurred for the relief of persons falling into distress in unincorporated places, in certain cases.

At head of title: State of Maine. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven

[Augusta, Maine?] : Stevens & Blaine, Printers, [1857]

1 online resource (3 pages, 1 unnumbered page).

Document (Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives) ; 36th Legislature, 1857, no. 46.

"All persons standing in need of relief, living without the bounds of any incorporated town, or plantation, shall be under the care of the overseers of the poor, appointed in the nearest town; and the said overseers may bind out the children of such poor persons, as if they were inhabitants of the town in which such overseers are appointed; and may set to work, and bind out, in the manner described in the twenty-fourth section of this chapter, persons of like description dwelling in such unincorporated place, as if in their own towns; such persons to be entitled, also, to similar remedy and relief, if aggrieved thereby."--Page 2.

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