MADAWASKA AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Chapter 251. An Act to incorporate the Madawaska Agricultural and Horticultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 323 CHAP. 251 SECT. 1. Alexis Cyr, Charles Morneault, Remi Plourd, Corporators. Dennis Cyr, Regis Thibodeau, Cook Hammond, Charles Farrell, Joseph Martin, Xavier Cyr, Peter Charles Keegan, Narcis Dufour, Luc Albert, Maxim Martin, Joseph Daigle, Gilbert Pickard, Jean Cyr, Baptiste Fournier, John A. Nadeau, James W. Bolton, Peter Gangon, Alexander Martin, William Dickey, Levi Sears, Daniel Hafford, Henry Nadeau, W. M. Cyr, J. J. Wheelock, Martin Savage, Cyrille Pelkie, their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Madawaska Corporate name. Agricultural and Horticultural Society, to be located at Grand Isle and Madawaska, in the county of Aroostook, with power Powers, priviby that name to sue and be sued; to have and use a common ties. seal; to make by-laws and all necessary regulations for the management of their affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this state; and to have all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities of similar societies in this state. SECT. 2. Said society is hereby established within and for Limits of society. the towns of Grand Isle, Madawaska, Van Buren, Hamlin, Cyr, Frenchville, Fort Kent, Saint John, Saint Francis, Wallagrass and Eagle Lake, and may take and hold real estate at a cost of five thousand dollars, including grounds for fairs and race-course, and personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars. reges and liabili how called. SECT. 3. The first meeting of said corporation may be First meeting, called by any three of the persons named in the first section of this act, by giving such notice of the time, place and objects thereof, as they think proper; and at said meeting, the officers of said corporation may be chosen, and such other corporative business done as may be deemed proper. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. CHAP. 252 Ch 149, private laws 1862, revived, and sections 2, 3 and 4, amended. Capital stock. Chapter 252. An Act to revive and amend chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the private acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Weskeag Manufacturing Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the private acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-two is hereby revived, and sections two, three and four thereof are amended so as to read as follows: SECT. 2. The capital stock of the corporation shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; to be divided into shares of not less than ten dollars each, to be fixed by the directors; and no share shall be issued for less Certificates, how than its par value. Certificates of stock shall be issued and numbered, signed by the president and clerk, and at all legal meetings of said company, each stockholder of said company shall be entitled to one vote for every share held by him.' issued. Corporation authorized to etc. 'SECT. 3. The corporation may and is hereby authorized manufacture oil, to engage in and carry on the manufacture of any kind of oil, and of fertilizers and dressings for land, of every description, and of any other substance connected therewith, in the counties of Knox and Lincoln, and said corporation may, and is hereby authorized to purchase, hold, improve, lease or sell real and personal estate not exceeding at any one time the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and may erect any buildings and fixtures necessary for said manufacture, and may build and operate mills for the purposes aforesaid, as may be deemed expedient.' First meeting, how called. 'SECT. 4. Either of the persons above named may call the first meeting of the corporation, by giving such previous notice therefor, as he may deem proper; at which meeting any corporate business may be transacted.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1883. Chapter 253. An Act to incorporate the Winterport Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 253 SECT. 1. The territory included within the school districts Boundaries. numbers two and sixteen in Winterport, in the county of Waldo, together with the inhabitants thereon, be, and the same are hereby made a body politic and corporate by the name of the Winterport Village Corporation. Corporate name. May raise money for certain pur poses. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and vested with power, at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise money to defray the expenses of a night watch, a police force, and all other necessary measures for the better security of life and property, and for the promotion of good order and quiet within its limits; for the purchase, lease, repair and preservation of one or more fire engines, engine houses, hose, buckets, ladders, or other apparatus for the extinguishment of fires, for the construction of reservoirs and aqueducts to supply water, for organizing and maintaining an efficient fire department, for the improvement of streets and sidewalks, and for the support of schools; for the purchase and improvement of lands for village parks or commons, for the planting of shade trees, for the purchase or lease of lands for and the building of a village hall and library, for the lighting of the streets, for the building and maintaining of a slip and landing place for boats, and for any acts necessary for the prevention of infectious diseases and the preservation of the public health, within its limits; provided, that no sum shall be raised Proviso. or appropriated during any one year, exceeding three hundred dollars, unless two-thirds of the voters present, and voting at any legal meeting called therefor, vote to raise a larger sum. SECT. 3. Any money raised by said corporation for the Assessments, how purposes aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property and the polls within the aforesaid territory, by the assessors of said corporation, in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment of town taxes; and said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Winterport, and assess the tax thereon, if said corporation shall so direct, and may abate any tax by them so assessed, the tax on polls not to exceed, at any one assessment, the sum of one dollar to each poll. made. CHAP. 253 SECT. 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation, by the clerk thereof, of the amount of the money raised at any meeting for the purposes aforesaid, Duty of assessors. it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the polls and personal estates of persons residing on said territory, and upon all real estate of resident and non-resident proprietors thereof, within said territory, and of the assessors to certify and deliver to the treasurer or collector of said corporation, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as town taxes, by law, are collected by towns, and to pay it out to the order or direction of the corporation, and exhibit all accounts thereof to the assessors when requested; and said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of town taxes. Power in regard to collection of taxes. Officers, powers and authority. By-laws. SECT. 5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a clerk, three assessors, treasurer, collector, three fire wardens, board of police officers, and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation, and said officers shall severally have, exclusively, all power and authority within the limits of said corporation, that similar officers now have, or may have, chosen by towns; the said board of police officers to consist of such a number as the corporation may, from time to time, decide, who shall be duly sworn and have power to execute all warrants, and have the same power to preserve the public peace and prevent public disturbances within said corporation, as is given by the laws of this state to constables and police officers in cities in this state, and to restrain all infractions of and carry into effect such by-laws as said corporation shall adopt in pursuance of this act. SECT. 6. The said corporation, at any legal meeting thereof called for the purpose, may adopt such by-laws and provisions not inconsistent with the constitution and the laws of the state as they may deem expedient and necessary for the better government and regulation of municipal affairs within said corporation, in which case such by-laws and provisions so adopted shall extend to said corporation as fully to all intents and purposes as the other provisions of this act, subject only, to such alterations or additions by a two-thirds vote, at any legal meeting of said corporation called for the purpose. I ད་ called. SECT. 7. All meetings of said corporation, after the first, CHAP. 253 shall be notified by warrant of the assessors, notices of which Meetings, how shall be posted up in three public places within its limits seven days prior to the meeting, stating the time, place and purposes of the meeting; and a meeting shall at any time be called on written application of seven legal voters to said assessors, stating the time, place and purposes for which said meeting is requested. how called. SECT. 8. Albert E. Fernald, Frank W. Kelley, and David First meeting, H. Smith, or either two of them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, and for that purpose to notify the legal voters thereof to meet at some suitable time and place within its limits, the notice to be posted up in three public places within said limits, seven days prior to the time of said meeting; and either of said persons is authorized to preside at said meeting until it is organized, and afterwards, at all meetings, a moderator shall be chosen in the same manner and with the same power as in town meetings. SECT. 9. The qualification of voters at any meeting of Qualification of said corporation shall be the same as is required at town meeting; and the assessors shall annually make a list of the legal voters in said corporation in the month of April, and shall post a copy of such list of voters in the clerk's office on or before the first day of June in each year, and it may be corrected at any time, including the day of election. voters. charter. SECT. 10. At the first meeting, prescribed in section eight Acceptance of of this act, the legal voters shall vote by ballot on the question of accepting this charter, and if two-thirds of the voters present shall vote in favor of its acceptance, then this act shall take effect, and they shall proceed to organize and choose its officers. effect. SECT. 11. This act shall take effect when approved by the when to take governor, but shall not be binding on said corporation, unless accepted by them as hereinbefore provided. Approved February 21, 1883. |