ACTS AND RESOLVES PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1862. [The Chapters are numbered continuously from the Revised Statutes.] CHAPTER 414. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 129, OF THE REVISED It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Auditor Insurance sioner. SECTION 1. The State Auditor is hereby constituted The State SEC. 2. All the powers conferred by existing laws His salary. Agents of foreign in surance companies conferred upon the Insurance Commissioner appointe by this act; and all the duties required of the forme board of Insurance Commissioners, shall be performe by him. SEC. 3. No agent of any foreign insurance company doing business in any town or city of this State, shal not to estab- be allowed to establish branch any in agency any othe in the State. town or city in this State. lish agencies The Insur ance Com visit foreign insurance companies in SEC. 4. In case any insurance company, when theret notified by the Insurance Commissioner appointed by this act, shall neglect to appoint an attorney, agreeabl to the provisions of existing laws, such company shal not be entitled to recover any premium or assessmen made by it on any contract of insurance with any citi zen of this State, until such company shall have com plied with the law requiring the appointment of such attorney. SEC. 5. The said Insurance Commissioner may, wher missioner to he shall deem it important for the safety of the policy. holders, visit foreign insurance companies doing busi certain cases. ness in this State, and examine the condition of such companies; and such companies so visited, shall pay to said Commissioner his expenses of such examinations. SEC. 6. Sections 18 and 23 of the act amended, and so much of any other section of existing laws, as may conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. Suits at law under the boundary act. CHAPTER 415. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT REGU It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever, anterior to the 1st day o March last, final judgment or decree shall have beer rendered in the proper courts of the Commonwealth o Massachusetts, in any case at law or in equity, affecting rights of person or property, in territory which by de cree of the Supreme Court of the United States, ceased on that day to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and became subject to the jurisdiction of this State; and execution had not anterior to that day, been issued or fully served and returned, in every such case, the judgment or decree shall be deemed to have the same legal force as if no such change of jurisdiction had taken place; and any bail taken in the said case, or lien acquired, or attachment made, shall be deemed in law to continue and be held as effectually as if such suit had been prosecuted in, and such judgment had been rendered by, the proper courts of this State; and if on such decree or judgment, no execution had issued anterior to the said 1st day of March, then the party or parties interested therein, may enter the same in the Supreme Court in the county of Providence, and sue out execution or any other lawful process therein, in the same manner and under the same conditions, and to the same effect, as is provided in respect to other judgments of the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the third section of the act to which this act is in addition; provided, that to secure liens or attachments, or any such judg ment in which execution has not issued anterior to said 1st day of March, said judgment shall be entered as aforesaid, and order for execution obtained within three months of this date; and if execution has already issued, the same shall be entered in the time and manner hereinafter prescribed for giving effect to such executions in this State. SEC. 2. If execution or other process shall have been issued on any such judgment by the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, prior to the said 1st day of March, the same may be served, or service thereof completed, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and levy or sale under such execution shall be deemed to have the same legal effect, to pass title and for all other purposes; and rights against bail may be enforced as effectually as if no change of jurisdiction had occurred, and the said execution had been served, and all rights under said judgment consummated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; provided, that the party or parties interested in such execution shall within three months from this date Return of execution. Of residence. enter the same in the clerk's office of the Supreme Cou of the county of Providence, and obtain an order of tl said Court, or any justice thereof, in term time, or v cation, authenticating the said execution, and givir effect to the same within this State; and provided, als that the said execution or a copy thereof, shall be dul returned to the clerk's office of the courts of the Cor monwealth of Massachusetts, from which it issued; an also of the Supreme Court of this State, for the count of Providence; and the execution and return shall b duly recorded, as required by the laws of this State. SEC. 3. Residence in the territory which becam part of this State by the aforesaid decree, shall b deemed to have been residence in this State for a purposes. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Of Grand and Petit Jurors. CHAPTER 416. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE XXV., CHAPTER 172, OF TH It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Section 15, of Chapter 172, Title XXV., of the Re vised Statutes, shall be amended so as to read a follows: There shall be drawn in the county of Providence thirteen grand and sixty petit jurors, that is to say Providence, one grand and thirteen petit jurors; Smith field, two grand and seven petit jurors; Scituate, on grand and five petit jurors, Glocester, one grand and three petit jurors; Cumberland, one grand and five petit jurors; Cranston, one grand and four petit jurors Johnston, one grand and four petit jurors; North Provi dence, one grand and five petit jurors; Foster, one grand and four petit jurors; Burrillville, one grand and four petit jurors; Pawtucket, one grand and three petit jurors; and East Providence, one grand and three petit jurors, for each of said courts. CHAPTER 417. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE VALUATION OF THE PROPERTY It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: sioners to be make a valu taxable the newly territory. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Governor to Commisappoint three commissioners, who shall make an esti-appointed to mate of the property within the territory over which ation of the the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hath, before the property of 1st day of March last, exercised jurisdiction; and which acquired since said 1st day of March last, has been deemed a part of the State of Rhode Island. And in making such estimate, the commissioners shall conform in their proceedings to the law of this State, passed May, A. D. 1855, under which the valuation of the towns in this State, in Chapter 12, Title III., of the Revised Statutes, was made. And the report of said commissioners, or of two of them, agreeing, shall be returned to the General Treasurer, as soon as may be; and the appraisal so reported by them, shall be deemed and taken to be the To be retaxable valuation of said territory. And said report the General shall also specify and distinguish between the property within the territory heretofore called Pawtucket, in Massachusetts, and that part of the town heretofore called Seekonk, in said State, over which the jurisdiction of this State is hereafter to be exercised. turned to Assembly. SEC. 2. All taxes heretofore or hereafter ordered by Taxes, how the General Assembly, shall be assessed according to assessed. the estimate so reported, until a new general estimate be made; and shall be collected in manner provided by the general laws of this State. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |