CHAP. 169

Penalty for polluting water or injury to works.

Capital stock.

SECT. 6. Whoever shall, in any way wilfully pollute the water of said pond or stream, whether frozen or not, after said company shall have commenced taking the same, and whoever shall wilfully injure any of the works of said company, shall be punished by imprisonment not over two years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and shall be liable in an action for damages.

SECT. 7. The capital stock of said company shall be the amount fixed by said company at its first meeting, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.

SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved January 25, 1883.

Ch. 294, special laws of 1833, as

535, special laws of 1868, further amended.

Chapter 169.

An Act to amend the charter of the Freewill Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Chapter two hundred and ninety-four of the amended by Ch. private and special laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Freewill Baptist Foreign Mission Society," as amended by chapter five hundred and thirty-five of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is amended as follows: Said corporation shall have the power to take, hold and convey any estate, real or personal, the annual income of which shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

May hold real
and personal
estate.
dimit.

May establish schools in foreign countries.

Name changed.

Property rights not to be affected.

SECT. 2. In addition to the power granted in the foregoing section the said corporation shall have the right to take, hold and convey estates real or personal for the purpose of establishing and managing a school, college or other institution of learning in any foreign country.

SECT. 3. Said corporation shall hereafter be known and designated as the Free Baptist Foreign Mission Society, but no rights of property shall be disturbed or affected by said change of name, and all gifts, bequests, conveyances or proceedings in which the corporation is described as the Freewill Baptist Foreign Mission Society, shall be as valid and effect

ual as if the said corporation was described as the Free CHAP. 170 Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

take effect.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved by the When act shall governor and adopted by vote of said corporation.

Approved January 26, 1883.

Chapter 170.

An Act to incorporate the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Mary A. Davis, Arcy C. Hayes, Marietta S. Corporators. Waterman, Marilla M. H. Hills, Vienna G. Ramsey, Emily S. Burlingame, Laura A. De Meritte, Julia A. Lowell, Marilla M. Brewster, Susan A. Porter, Frances S. Mosher, Mary R. Wade, Hannah D. Chamberlain, Clara C. Dexter, Emily C. Jenness, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a corporation under the name of the Free Baptist Woman's Corporate name. Missionary Society, and by that name shall have power to -powers. prosecute and defend suits at law, have and use a common seal and change the same at pleasure, take and hold for the may hold objects of their association, by gift, grant, bequest, purchase or otherwise, any estate, real or personal, the annual income of which shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, and to sell and convey any estate, real or personal, which the interests of said society may require to be sold and conveyed. SECT. 2. All property and estate, real or personal, which -purposes. at any time may come into the possession of the said corporation shall be faithfully applied to the promotion of the cause of missions, both in home and foreign lands, and to establishing schools therein.

property.

SECT. 3. The said corporation may adopt such rules and By-laws. by-laws, the same not being repugnant to the laws of this state, as they may deem expedient for the management of their affairs. They may choose all necessary officers, and officers. they shall be and they are hereby invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities incident to similar corporations.

CHAP. 171
Meetings of.

First meeting.

SECT. 4. The said corporation may hold its meetings, annual or special, in any of the states or territories of the United States, and may choose its officers therefrom.

SECT. 5. The first meeting of the said corporation may be held in the Paige street Free Baptist church in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, or at such other place and time as Mary A. Davis, Arcy C. Hayes and Marietta S. Waterman, or any two of them, may determine by giving seasonable notice of said meeting to all the persons named as corporators.

SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved January 26, 1883.

Corporators.

Corporate name.
Purposes.

Authorized to take, convey and distribute water in Lamoine.

May locate and construct dams, reservoirs,

Chapter 171.

An Act to incorporate the East Lamoine Water Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. E. G. Desisle, William H. Desisles, Charles L. Young, John D. Hopkins, Isaac B. Desisle, William C. Huckins, Jaman Perry, and such persons as they may associate with themselves in the enterprise, are hereby incorporated into a corporation by the name of the East Lamoine Water Company, for the purpose of supplying the village of East Lamoine, in the town of Lamoine, in Hancock county, and the vicinity of said village, with pure water for domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes.

SECT. 2. Said company for said purposes may detain, take, store and distribute water from Blunt's pond in said town of Lamoine and from any streams flowing out of the same, and may locate, construct and maintain dams, reservoirs, sluices, aqueducts and pipes therefor. Such aqueducts ducts and pipes. and pipes may be located and constructed along and across any highway or town-way in said town, in such manner as the municipal officers of said town may approve.

sluices, aque

Authorized to occupy lands.

SECT. 3. Said company may occupy any lands necessary for its dams, reservoirs and other necessary buildings, and lay down pipes. may locate and lay and maintain pipes in and through any

Shall file in reg

istry of deeds,

plans of location.

lands for said purposes, and excavate in and through such CHAP. 171 lands for such location, construction and maintenance. It may enter upon such lands to make surveys and locations and shall file in the registry of deeds, in said county of Hancock, plans of such location and lands, and within thirty days thereafter publish notice thereof in some newspaper in said county, such publication to be continued three weeks successively. Not more than two rods in width of land shall be occupied by any pipe or aqueduct and not more than two acres by any reservoir.

how assessed.

non-payment.

SECT. 4. Should the said company and the owner of such land be unable to agree upon the damages to be paid for such location and occupation and construction, the land owner may, within twelve months after such filing of plans of location, apply to the commissioners of said county and have Land damages, such damages assessed by a committee or jury, as in the case of petitions for increase of damages for land taken for highways. If said company shall fail to pay such land owner, or deposit for his use, with the clerk of the county commissioners, such sum as may be finally awarded, as damages, with costs, within sixty days after notice of final judgment shall have been received by the clerk of courts, the said location shall be thereby invalid, and the company forfeit all penalty for rights under the same. If such land owner recovers more damages than were tendered by said company, he shall recover costs, otherwise the company shall recover costs. In case said company shall begin to occupy such lands before the rendition of final judgment, the land owner may require said company to file its bond to him with the county commissioners, in sum and with such sureties as they approve, conditioned for said payment or deposit. Failure to apply for damages within said twelve months, shall be held to be a waiver of the same. No action shall be brought against said company for such taking and occupation, until after such failure to pay or deposit as aforesaid. Damages caused by flowage are to be ascertained and paid in the same manner. SECT. 5. Any person suffering damage by the taking of Damages for water by said company as provided by this act, may have his damages ascertained in the manner provided in the preceding section, and payment therefor shall be made in the same manner and with the same effect. No action shall be brought for the same until after the expiration of the time of payment.

Failure to apply

for damages in

given time, held

to be waiver of

same.

taking water.

CHAP. 172

Penalty for polluting water or injury to

works.

Capital stock.

SECT. 6. Whoever shall, in any way wilfully pollute the water of said pond or stream, whether frozen or not, after said company shall have commenced taking the same, and whoever shall wilfully injure any of the works of said company, shall be punished by imprisonment not over two years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and shall be liable to an action for damages.

SECT. 7. The capital stock of said company shall be the amount fixed by said company at its first meeting, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.

SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved January 27, 1883.

Name changed to Cary plantation.

Chapter 172.

An Act to change the name of Plantation number Eleven, Range One, in Aroostook

County.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

That from and after the passing of this act, the Plantation heretofore called "Number Eleven, Range One," west from the east line of the state of Maine, in the county of Aroostook shall be called and known by the name of Cary Plantation. But nothing in this act shall be construed to impair any rights of said plantation.

Approved January 27, 1883.

School committee to consist of

mayor and ten other persons.

Chapter 173.

An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate the city of Auburn."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The superintending school committee of the city of Auburn, shall consist of the mayor of said city, who shall be ex-officio chairman, and ten other persons to be elected as hereinafter provided.