BELGRADE HILL MEETING HOUSE.-ME. WESLEYAN SEMINARY. 253 as is provided in the case of damages for lands taken in CHAP. 194 laying out highways if compensation therefor cannot be satisfactorily arranged with the owners of any lands so taken or flowed, by mutual agreement with such owners. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 8, 1883. Chapter 194. An Act to authorize the sale of the Belgrade Hill Meeting House in North Belgrade, in the town of Belgrade. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The pew-holders of the Belgrade Hill meeting house, situate at North Belgrade, in the town of Belgrade, are hereby empowered to sell and convey all the interest of said pew-holders in said house and lot. Pew-holders authorized to sell meeting house. conducted. SECT. 2. Samuel E. Judkins, Thomas Eldred, Charles B. Sale of, how Crowell, or either of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to call a meeting of said pew-holders at the said meeting house. Said meeting is hereby authorized to appoint a suitable person or persons to sell and convey the property in said house and lot, at public or private sale, as said meeting shall determine. Notice of said meeting shall be posted in two public places in said town of Belgrade, and on the outer door of said meeting house, two weeks at least before said meeting. Approved February 8, 1883. Chapter 195. An Act relating to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: That the act incorporating the trustees of the Readfield Religious and Charitable Society, passed February twentyeight, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, with all subsequent acts additional thereto and amendatory thereof, said corpora Special laws of Feb. 28, 1821, and subsequent acts, amended. CHAP. 195 tion being now known as the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, is hereby altered and amended, so that as altered and amended it shall read as follows, viz: Trustees. Corporate name. -powers and privileges. Property to be used for promo SECT. 1. Eliphalet Clark, John L. Blake, Reuben B. Dunn, Stephen Allen, Henry P. Torsey, Daniel B. Randall, Charles F. Allen, Anson P. Morrill, Thurston W. Stevens, John J. Perry, David R. Sampson, Francis A. Robinson, Joseph L. Morse, William Deering, John W. Munger, John N. Houghton, Ransom C. Pingree, John Ayer, Edwin R. French, Everett R. Drummond, Henry M. Blake, Guy C. Goss, Joseph A. Locke, Moses French, Ammi S. Ladd, Alden J. Blethen, Roscoe Sanderson and R. Wesley Dunn, being the present board of trustees, their associates and successors, are hereby continued and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, and by that name shall have power to prosecute and defend suits at law, to have and use a common seal and to change the same at pleasure, to take and hold for the objects of their association by gift, grant, donation, devise, bequest, purchase or otherwise, any estate, real or personal, the net 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 institution may require to be exchanged, and all donations, gifts, grants, devises or bequests made to said corporation for specific purposes shall be appropriated according to the will and design of the donor, and in no other way. SECT. 2. All property and estate, real and personal, tion of education. which may at any time by gift, grant, donation, devise, bequest, purchase or otherwise, come into the possession of the said board of trustees, in their corporate capacity, shall be faithfully applied to the promotion of the cause of education by maintaining a seminary for males and females and a college for females at Kent's Hill, in Readfield, in the county of Kennebec, in this State. Trustees may adopt by-laws. -establish course of study. SECT. 3. The board of trustees aforesaid may adopt such rules, regulations and by-laws, the same not being repugnant to the laws of this state, as they may deem expedient for the management of their affairs, for the proper discipline and order, and for the general prosperity of said seminary and college; they shall have power to establish in the said seminary and college such departments and courses of study as elect officers from their mem bership. elect faculty and remove same. they may elect to establish; they shall fill by ballot all CHAP. 195 vacancies occurring in their board; they shall annually elect Fill vacancies. from their membership a president, secretary and treasurer, and the treasurer shall give bond to the satisfaction of the trustees for the faithful discharge of his duties; they shall annually elect the president of said seminary and college, and all necessary professors and teachers, and shall have power to remove the same at pleasure; but the president or any professor or teacher so elected shall not be removed during his term of office until reasonable notice shall have been given him in writing, specifying the grounds of removal, and a full hearing upon the specifications shall have taken place before the board of trustees, and a majority of the whole of said board is required to effect such removal; they shall have power to confer upon females graduating such confer degrees. degrees as are usually conferred by colleges or universities established for the education of youth. trustees fixed. may appoint SECT. 4. The number of said board of trustees shall not Number of at any time be less than twenty nor more than twenty-five, except that the president of the faculty shall, ex-officio, be a member of the board for the time being and as hereinafter provided in section six, two-thirds of whom shall be members of the Methodist Episcopal church in regular standing, and -quorum. nine shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SECT. 5. Whenever any one person shall give to this Certain persons corporation for educational purposes, as aforesaid, the sum additional trusof five thousand dollars in real or personal estate, the said person shall have the privilege of appointing one additional trustee to the existing number, four of said trustees above named having already been appointed under the provisions of this section, and also of directing how and in what way and manner his successor shall be elected and appointed forever, which shall be as valid as if the way and manner had been provided in this act. tees. be removed. SECT. 6. The said board of trustees shall have power How trustees may to remove any trustee from their corporation whenever in the judgment of two-thirds of the remaining trustees for the time being, he shall become morally, or by age or otherwise disqualified from performing the duties of his office, and in filling any vacancy, cannot elect any person not a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in regular standing, unless CHAP. 195 after said election, two-thirds of the said board of trustees shall then be members of the Methodist Episcopal church as aforesaid. Bequests, etc., heretofore made to trustees in another name, shall be deemed property of this college. Inconsistent acts repealed. SECT. 7. All donations, gifts, grants, conveyances, devises, and bequests heretofore made to the trustees of the Readfield Religious and Charitable Society; to the trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary; to the trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute; to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, or that shall hereafter be made to either of said corporations or to the trustees thereof, shall be deemed good and valid and shall be and become the property of said Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College as if made to the said seminary and college, or to the trustees thereof, and shall be held by said trustees as if made to them, and the said trustees shall have the same right to prosecute in their corporate name any action at law or in equity upon any contract or liability heretofore made or existing with the trustees of the Readfield Religious and Charitable Society; the trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary; the trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute; or with the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, as the said body politic, under whatever name, might have done if the name thereof had not been changed; and also to defend any suit which may be brought against them upon any such contract or liability; and all acts of said trustees in their corporate capacity are hereby ratified. SECT. 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECT. 9. The legislature shall have power to alter or amend this act at any time. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved.' Approved February 8, 1883. Chapter 196. An Act to authorize the erection and maintenance of piers and booms in the Aroostook Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 196 Hiram Stevens et als. authorized to erect piers and booms in Aroos took river. SECT. 1. Hiram Stevens and Levi W. Stevens, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby authorized and empowered to locate, build and maintain in the Aroostook river, at Fort Fairfield, in the county of Aroostook, between the mill of said Hiram and Levi W. Stevens, and the west line of said town of Fort Fairfield, piers and booms, for sorting out logs and lumber coming down said river for use and manufacture in their said mill, and for holding the same. But said works shall be so constructed as not to impede the shall not imuse or navigation of said river, and not to occasion any unreasonable delay or obstruction in the driving of any other logs and lumber. SECT. 2. Said parties by aid of such piers and booms, may separate or sort out such logs and lumber, coming down said river, as are destined and intended for use and manufacture in their said mill, and may also hold such logs and lumber, so sorted out for their use and manufacture as aforesaid. SECT. 3. Said parties for the purpose of erecting, repairing and maintaining such piers and booms and connecting the same with the river shores, may, with their agents, servants and teams, pass and repass over said shores, and to and from the same, but for no other purpose. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 8, 1883. pede navigation. -powers. May pass over lands to erect and repair. |