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purposes of supplying water as contemplated by said act; CHAP. 180 and any city or town in which the pipes of this corporation shall be laid are hereby authorized, by its city council or selectmen, to enter into contract with said company for a supply of water, and for such exemption from public burden as the towns and cities herein named and said company may agree, which, when made, shall be legal and binding upon all parties thereto.

SECT. 8. Said corporation shall have power to cross any private or public sewer, or to change the direction thereof, where necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, but in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof; and said corporation shall be liable for any injury caused thereby; whenever the company shall lay down any pipes in any street, or make any alterations or repairs upon its works in any streets, it shall cause the same to be done with as little obstruction to public travel as may be practicable, and shall at its own expense, without unnecessary delay, cause the earth and pavements removed by it to be replaced in proper condition.

SECT. 9. Any person who shall wilfully injure any of the property of said corporation, or who shall knowingly corrupt the waters of said Kennebunk pond, Swan's pond, Saco river, or any of their tributary streams, in any manner whatever, or render them impure, whether the same be frozen or not, or who shall throw the carcasses of dead animals or other offensive matter into said waters, or who shall wilfully destroy or injure any dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant or other property held or owned by said corporation for the purposes of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one year, and shall be liable to said corporation for three times the actual damage, to be recovered in any proper

action.

May cross and

change direction

of sewers.

Penalty for injur

ing property or

corrupting

waters.

SECT. 10. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the May issue bonds. construction of its works, upon such rates and time as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and secure the same by mortgage of the franchise and property of said company.

SECT. 11. In case the works of this corporation shall not have been put into actual operation within three years from

Charter null and

void, unless

works completed

in given time.

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CHAP. 181 April one, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the rights and privileges herein granted shall become null and void.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 12. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by a written notice thereof, signed by any seven corporators herein named, served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand or by leaving the same at his last usual place of abode seven days before the time of meeting.

SECT. 13. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

G. M. Railway authorized to

Chapter 181.

An Act to authorize the Green Mountain Railway to change its gauge.

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

SECT. 1. The Green Mountain Railway is hereby authorchange its gauge. ized to change the gauge of its road to any gauge not less than two feet nor more than six feet.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

K. and K. R. R.
Co authorized to
lease its road to
B. and M. R. R.

Chapter 182.

An Act to permit the Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Railroad to lease its road.

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

SECT. 1. The Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Railroad is hereby authorized and empowered to lease or grant the use and control of its road either before or after completion, and all its improvements, to the Boston and Maine Railroad, which latter corporation is hereby authorized to enter into such contract or lease, and the directors of the two corporations may enter into such contract for the use and running of the said road or lease thereof as the directors of the two corporations in the exercise of their best judgment and discretion may deem to be for the advantage of their respective corporations. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 3, 1883.

WHARF IN BOWDOINHAM.-BETHEL.-GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

Chapter 183.

An Act to authorize Converse Purington to erect a wharf in tide waters in the town

of Bowdoinham.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

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authorized to

SECT. 1. Converse Purington, his associates or assigns c. Purington are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a wharf from erect a wharf. their own land into the tide water of Cathance river in the town of Bowdoinham, said wharf not to extend into said

river more than twenty feet below low water mark. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

Chapter 184.

An Act to legalize the doings of the town of Bethel.

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

Bethel, legalized.

SECT. 1. The doings of the inhabitants of the town of Doings of town of Bethel at their annual meeting held on the sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two whereby they voted to refund the town debt, known as the bridge bonds, and authorized their treasurer to issue the bonds of the town for the purpose of retiring the old bridge bonds as they should become due, are hereby made legal and valid.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February 3, 1883.

Chapter 185.

An Act additional to and amendatory of chapter two hundred and sixteen of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Rockland and Thomaston Gas Light Company."

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

SECT. 1. The Rockland and Thomaston Gas Light Company may, by a majority vote of its stockholders at any legal meeting called therefor, assess and levy a tax on each and

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CHAP. 186

How collected.

every share of the capital stock of said corporation for the purpose of paying its debts and incidental expenses of collecting such tax; but said stock shall not be liable to assessment for more than thirty dollars a share in the aggregate.

SECT. 2. The directors of said corporation are authorized and empowered to direct how and by whom said tax, so levied by said stockholders shall be collected, and to appoint a collector, who may be one of their own number, to collect said tax, and in case of neglect or refusal of any stockholder to pay the sum assessed on his shares within twenty days after demand made upon him, his legal representatives, agent or attorney, the said collector is authorized to sell at public auction the share or shares of any delinquent stockholder to the highest bidder, first giving public notice of the time and place of sale by publishing the same three weeks successively in some newspaper published in the county of Knox, state of Maine, and in some newspaper published in Boston, state of Massachusetts, the last publication to be five days at least prior to the day of sale.

SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

Certain persons set off from Hartland village corporation.

Chapter 186.

An Act to set off T. B. Rowell and Walter D. Butterfield from Hartland village corporation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. T. B. Rowell and Walter D. Butterfield and their several estates embraced within the limits of Hartland village corporation created by chapter two hundred and seventy-five of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, are hereby set off from said Hartland village corporation and released from all liabilities to said corporation occasioned by the act aforesaid, which may arise after the approval of this act.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

Chapter 187.

An Act to change the name of the town of Howard, in Piscataquis county.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

CHAP. 187

Howard changed

SECT. 1. The name of the town of Howard, in the county Name of town of of Piscataquis, shall be changed to that of Willimantic. to Willimantic. Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights or liabilities

of said town.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 3, 1883.

Chapter 188.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the National Bell Telephone
Company of the State of Maine," passed in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, and being chapter two hundred and seventy-one of the Private and
Special Laws of said year.

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

SECT. 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and seventyone of the private and special laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty is hereby amended by adding to said section the following: 'And said corporation is also authorized to lease, purchase, construct, maintain and operate telephone lines, and to carry on so much of their business as may be convenient beyond the limits of the state, and may there lease, purchase and hold any real and personal estate deemed necessary for conducting the same,' so that said section as amended, may read as follows:

Sec. 2, ch. 271, amended.

special laws 1880,

and maintain

'SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to con- May construct struct, maintain and operate telephone lines throughout the lines in the state. length and breadth of this state, with as many wires and branches as they may see fit, commencing and terminating at such point or points as they may select hereafter, within the

lines out of the state.

limits aforesaid. And said corporation is also authorized to May lease, etc., lease, purchase, construct, maintain and operate telephone lines, and to carry on so much of their business as may be convenient beyond the limits of the state; and may there lease, purchase and hold any real and personal estate deemed necessary for conducting the same.'

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