278 CHAP. 213 Taking of fish in certain waters in Oxford county, restricted. Penalty for violation of act. PENNESSEEWASSEE AND HOBBS PONDS.-PENOBSCOT RIVER, ETC. Chapter 213. An Act for the better preservation of black bass in Pennesseewassee and Hobbs ponds in Norway. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are forbidden to fish for, take or kill any kind of fish in Pennesseewassee and Hobbs ponds in the town of Norway, county of Oxford, for the term of five years from the passage of this act, during the months of April, May and June in each year. SECT. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall forfeit five dollars for each offense, and in addition thereto, one dollar for each fish so killed or taken, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice in said county, one-half to the complainant and one-half to the town of Norway. Approved February 14, 1883. Corporators. Corporate name. Powers and purposes. Chapter 214. An Act to incorporate the Penobscot River Dam and Improvement Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Eben Webster, John Morrison, J. Fred Webster, Darius Eddy, William H. Strickland, Philo A. Strickland, William T. Pearson, William B. Hayford, Joseph L. Smith, Lysander Strickland, Eben S. Coe, John Cassidy, Charles G. Sterns, Nathan C. Ayer and Joab W. Palmer, their associates and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Penobscot River Dam and Improvement Company, with all the powers and privileges of similar corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation may build dams, side dams, piers, booms, remove rocks, and make any other improvements to facilitate log-driving in that part of the main Penobscot river above Greenbush; and said corporation may take land and material necessary to construct their said works and improvements, and said corporation shall pay the proprietors of the land and material so taken such sum for damages as said corporation and said proprietors may agree upon; and if PENOBSCOT RIVER DAM AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. 279 ascertained. said corporation and said proprietors cannot agree, the dam- CHAP. 214 ages shall be ascertained and determined by the county com- Damages, how missioners for the county of Penobscot in the same mode and manner, and under the same conditions and limitations, as is now provided by law in case of damage by laying out of public highways. SECT. 3. The said corporation may demand and receive a Tolls. toll on logs and lumber intended to be driven into the limits of the Penobscot boom, so called, and that may pass over any of the dams or other improvements made by said corporation, as follows: three cents for each thousand feet, board measure, on all logs and lumber that may come down said Penobscot river from above the outlet of the Mattawamkeag river; two cents for each thousand feet, board measure, on all logs and lumber that may come into the said Penobscot river out of said Mattawamkeag river and between said Mattawamkeag river and the outlet of the Piscataquis river; and one-half cent for each thousand feet, board measure, on all logs and lumber that may come out of said Piscataquis river and between said Piscataquis river and the foot of Passadumkeag falls, so called, into said Penobscot river; and said corporation shall have a lien on all such logs and lumber for Lien for payment the payment of said toll, but the logs of each particular mark shall only be holden for the toll of such mark, and if the toll of any particular mark of logs or lumber shall not be paid. within twenty days after the logs or lumber of such mark, or a major part thereof, shall have arrived within the limits of said Penobscot boom, then the said corporation may sell at Lumber may be public auction so many feet, board measure, sale scale, of such logs and lumber, as may be necessary to pay such toll and incidental charges, the said corporation first giving more than ten days notice of the time and place of sale, in some newspaper published in the city of Bangor. SECT. 4. A separate account shall be kept by the said corporation of its expenditures above the outlet of the Mattawamkeag river, and one cent of the three cents toll shall be expended in constructing works and making improvements above said outlet and paying for them, and when paid for, with ten per cent per annum interest, the said three cents toll is hereby reduced to two cents toll. of tolls. sold. Expenditures keag, how paid. above Mattawam CHAP. 215 Rate of tolls, how established. SECT. 5. The owner of any mark of logs or lumber may furnish to the said corporation, on or before the fifteenth day of June next succeeding the lumbering season, the said mark of logs was cut and hauled, the woods scale of such mark of logs, and in case said corporation deem said woods scale is correct, then the toll shall be according to said woods scale; otherwise the toll shall be according to the woods scale, or the boom scale, at the election of the corporation; or the corporation may estimate the quantity, and the toll shall be according to such estimate. The said corporation may, May discount for according to their discretion, make a discount for prompt payment of toll, but only in case the woods scale has been furnished to the corporation as aforesaid, by the time aforesaid, and to the satisfaction of the corporation as aforesaid. prompt payment of toll. Cost of works and improve SECT. 6. The said corporation may construct works and ments, how paid. make improvements from time to time and from year to year, according to their discretion, and when the tolls shall have reimbursed the corporation for their expenditures, with ten per cent annual interest, the toll shall cease, and the said works and improvements be free for the use of the public. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize said corporation to impair said Penobscot river for the navigation of rafts, or impair the right of individuals or corporations to secure rafts or logs on the shores of said river, as said right has heretofore been used and enjoyed. Navigation of Penobscot river not to be impaired. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Maysville annexed to Presque Isle. Liabilities to be assumed by Presque Isle. Real and personal estate to become property of Presque Isle. Chapter 215. An Act to annex the town of Maysville to the town of Presque Isle. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Maysville, in Aroostook county, is hereby annexed to and made a part of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 2. All the liabilities of the town of Maysville are hereby assumed by the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 3. All the personal and real estate owned by the town of Maysville is hereby conveyed to and becomes the property of the town of Presque Isle. CHAP. 216 Uncollected taxes treasurer of Presque Isle. SECT. 4. The collector of taxes of the town of Maysville is hereby authorized and empowered to collect and pay over to be paid to to the treasurer of the town of Presque Isle all taxes he was directed to pay to the treasurer of the town of Maysville, now assessed and committed to him for collection, not already collected and paid to the treasurer of the town of Maysville. SECT. 5. All taxes which have been assessed for repairs of highways and committed to highway surveyors in the town of Maysville shall be expended and worked out on the highways under the direction of said surveyors, and return of any remaining unpaid shall be made to the assessors of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 6. The treasurer of the town of Maysville shall pay over all moneys, and deliver all books, papers and documents pertaining to his office, to the treasurer of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 7. The town clerk of the town of Maysville shall deliver to the town clerk of the town of Presque Isle all reports and books belonging to the town of Maysville, and all papers, records and documents pertaining to his office. SECT. 8. The selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor of the town of Maysville, shall deliver all books, papers and documents pertaining to their several offices to the selectmen of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect in thirty days after it is approved by the governor. Approved February 14, 1883. Highway taxes raised in Mays ville, to be expended in said town. Treasurer to deetc., to treasurer liver all moneys, of Presque Isle. Clerk to deliver clerk of Presque all books, etc., to Isle. Selectmen to deliver all books, etc, to selectmen of Presque Isle. Chapter 216. An Act to define the width of a wharf authorized by chapter two hundred and fortyeight of the Special Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, being an act to authorize James M. Johnson to extend a wharf into tide waters in the town of Harpswell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: established. The wharf authorized by chapter two hundred and forty- width of wharf, eight of the special laws eighteen hundred and seventy-three, may be maintained by the owner, of a width not exceeding one hundred and sixty-five feet. Approved February 14, 1883. 282 CHAP. 217 Junction Railway Co. authorized to purchase the franchises, etc., of Portland Dry Dock. May issue stock and bonds. JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.-BANGOR AND PISCATAQUIS R. R. Chapter 217. An Act amendatory of and additional to chapter one hundred and fifty-nine of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Junction Railway Company of Portland," approved March eighteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Junction Railway Company of Portland is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise, the franchises and all the property of the Portland dry dock and the land and flats adjoining thereto, and to exercise all the rights, franchises and privileges granted to said company by the provisions of chapter five hundred and forty of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Portland Dry Dock and Ware House Company," approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for the purpose of making said purchases and for construction and other purposes in accordance with the objects of its charter, the said Junction Railway Company of Portland is hereby authorized to issue stock and also its bonds for such an amount, and of such tenor, and upon such rates and time as the stockholders shall determine, and secure the said bonds by mortgages or deeds of trust, of all or any portion of its property, improvements, rights and franchises. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 14, 1883. Time for comple Chapter 218. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Bangor and Piscataquis railroad company R. R., extended. shall have a further time of three years from January twenty tion of B. & P. seven, eighteen hundred and eighty-three within which to locate and complete its line of railroad to Moosehead lake. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 14, 1883. |