CHAP. 281 clerk of each ward when elected, to be used as provided by the laws in town meetings.

Aldermen authorized to

for sale of wood and bark.

SECT. 17. The board of aldermen shall have authority to make regulations establish and make regulations for the measurement and sale of wood and bark in said city, whether brought by teams or railroad, and may affix suitable penalties for the violations thereof, anything in the public laws of the state to the contrary notwithstanding.

May regulate the erection of wooden build

ings.

May regulate the use of carts, etc.

All powers relating to school

aldermen.

SECT. 18. The board of aldermen are hereby authorized and empowered to pass any ordinance or ordinances regulating or forbidding the erection of wooden buildings on any street or streets in said city, when they may deem it necessary or conducive to the public safety.

SECT. 19. The board of aldermen may make and establish such ordinances or regulations as they may deem for the public good for the regulation of carts, drays or other teams in said city, and prescribing the width of tire that shall be used.

SECT. 20. All the power and authority vested in the districts, vested in inhabitants of any school district in the city of Waterville, by virtue of chapter eleven of the revised statutes relating to the education of youth, and of the amendments thereof and acts additional thereto, shall be, and the same is hereby, invested in the board of aldermen of the city as aforesaid.

When to take effect.

Proceedings at meetings for acceptance of charter.

SECT. 21. This act shall take effect and be in full force when the same shall have been accepted by the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, provided it shall be accepted within five years from the passage of this act; but no more than one meeting for that purpose shall be called in any one year. And at such meeting the inhabitants of said town shall vote by a written ballot, those in favor of accepting this act having on the ballot the word 'yes,' and those opposed having on the ballot the word 'no;' and if a majority of all the ballots received are in favor of accepting the same, it shall then become a law and take effect. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of said town to file a copy of the record of the vote of said town accepting the same, with the clerk of the city of Waterville, when elected, who shall transcribe such copy into the records of the city, and such record shall be conclusive evidence that this act has been accepted.

repealed.

SECT. 22. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this CHAP. 282 act are hereby repealed from and after the time when this act Inconsistent acts shall have been accepted as aforesaid, and the government shall have been organized as herein provided.

Approved February 28, 1883.

Chapter 282.

An Aet to amend an act, entitled "An Act to establish a Municipal Court in the city of Auburn."

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

SECT. 1. Paragraph four of section two of an act entitled "An Act to establish a municipal court for the city of Auburn," approved February seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, is hereby amended by striking out all between the words "and" in the fourth line, and "within" in the fifth line, and inserting instead thereof the words, 'defendant resides,' so that said paragraph, as amended, shall read as follows:

'Fourth. Original jurisdiction, concurrent with the supreme judicial court and the municipal court of the city of Lewiston, of all civil actions in which the debt or damages do not exceed one hundred dollars, and the defendant resides within the county of Androscoggin; provided that any action, civil or criminal, in which the judge is interested, but which would otherwise be within the exclusive jurisdiction of said court, may be brought in and disposed of by the Lewiston municipal court, in the same manner and with like effect as other actions therein.'

Sec. 2, ch. 135,

private laws 1875,

amended.

Original and

concurrent juris

diction of court.

SECT. 2. Section ten of said act is hereby amended so as Sec. 10, amended. to read as follows:

'SECT. 10. The costs and fees allowed to parties, attorneys and witnesses in all civil actions in said court, in which the debt or damages recovered does not exceed twenty dollars, and in actions of forcible entry and detainer, shall be the same allowed by trial justices in like actions before them, except that the plaintiff, if he prevail, shall be allowed two dollars for his writ, and the defendant, if he prevail, two

Costs and fees

to parties, attor

neys and wit

nesses, how

regulated.

CHAP. 283 dollars for his pleadings; but in actions in which the amount recovered exceeds twenty dollars, the costs and fees shall be the same as allowed in the supreme judicial court, in like actions, except that the defendant, if he prevail, shall be allowed two dollars for his pleadings, and that witnesses shall be allowed one dollar per day, and travel, as in other cases.' SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1883.

Sec. 2, ch. 291. private laws 1854, amended.

Authorized to hold real estate,

manufacture gas

for lighting

streets, etc., and

heating buildings.

Proviso.

Sec. 3, amended.

Authorized to lay pipes.

Chapter 283.

An Act to amend the charter of the Brunswick Gas Light Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and ninetyone of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-four is hereby amended, by inserting after the word "works" therein the words and for the heating of buildings by steam,' and by changing the word "purpose" therein to 'purposes,' so that the same section, amended, shall be as follows:

'SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to hold all such real and personal estate as may be necessary and proper to enable them to carry on the manufacture, distribution and sale of gas for the purpose of lighting the streets, factories, and all other buildings and works, and for the heating of buildings by steam, in the town of Brunswick, and to construct such reservoirs, gas holders, gas pipes, and other things, as may be requisite and proper for such purposes; provided the whole amount of the capital stock of said company shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars.'

SECT. 2. Section three of the same chapter is hereby amended by inserting the words, and steam,' after the word "gas," therein, so that the same section, amended, shall be as follows:

SECT. 3. Said corporation shall have the right to lay gas and steam pipes in any of the public streets or highways in said town of Brunswick, the consent of the selectmen of said

town having first therefor been obtained, and relay and repair CHAP. 283 the same, subject to such regulations as the health and safety of the citizens and the security of the public travel may require, and as may be prescribed by the selectmen aforesaid.' SECT. 3. The same chapter is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following sections:

'SECT. 8. All conveyances of real or personal estate, by mortgage or otherwise, given by said corporation, and now held by Elmira M. Owen, as guardian, or in her own right, and all such conveyances now held by her children, or either or any of them, or by her or their assigns, and all notes and undertakings which any such conveyance was given to secure, are hereby made and declared to have been legal and valid, and to be so.

Certain convey

ances of real

estate, made

valid.

SECT. 9. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the May issue bonds. construction and maintenance of its works, upon such rates and time as it may deem expedient, not exceeding in all, including its existing liabilities, one-half of the value of its assets at the time of such issue, and may secure such bonds by mortgage of the franchises and property of said company, without prejudice to the conveyances, notes and undertakings mentioned in the last preceding section, and subject to the same conveyances, notes and undertakings.

SECT. 10. Said corporation is hereby authorized to create

a sinking fund for the payment of any bonds that may be issued under the provisions of this act, and of any of its existing liabilities. Such sums as may be raised or appropriated for said sinking fund, shall be invested and re-invested, as occasion may require, in the name of said company.'

Approved February 28, 1883.

Authorized to fund.

create sinking

CHAP. 284

Corporators.

Corporate name.

Capital stock.

Chapter 284.

An Act to incorporate the Deer Isle Zinc and Silver Mining Company.

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

SECT. 1. Daniel H. Bacon, Christopher Way and James B. Totten, all of Portland, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Deer Isle Zinc and Silver Mining Company, with all the powers, rights and privileges that belong to corporations of a similar character.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed one million of dollars, and shall be divided into shares of such value as may be determined by said corporation. The certificates of stock shall be signed by the president, attested by the secretary, and sealed with the seal of the No stock shall be corporation, provided, however, that this corporation shall not issue any certificates of stock until the treasurer thereof shall have filed with the secretary of state a sworn certificate that twenty thousand dollars in cash have been paid into the treasury of said corporation, by bona fide subscribers to said capital stock.

issued until cer

tain amount has been paid into treasury.

Authorized to buy property of

Company.

SECT. 3. Said corporation is authorized to purchase of Deer Isle Mining the Deer Isle Silver Mining Company, or any person holding property in trust for it, all the property and rights owned by the said Deer Isle Silver Mining Company, or so held in trust · for it, and to pay therefor, in the stock of this corporation or in cash, or partly in said stock and partly in cash. And this corporation may vote and act upon all stock of said Deer Isle Silver Mining Company, transferred to this corporation in exchange for its stock, as individual stockholders may do.

Powers.

Unlimited assessments may be laid upon stock.

-collection of.

SECT. 4. This corporation is empowered to carry on the business of mining and quarrying zinc, and other ores or minerals, smelting, reducing or treating ores, and any manufacturing, mechanical, or other business connected therewith, or incident thereto, and for such purposes may take, hold, and sell all such real and personal property as may be convenient or necessary.

SECT. 5.

Assessments to an unlimited amount may be laid upon all the shares of this corporation, by a vote of stockholders holding a majority of the stock, and in case any stockholder neglects to pay any such assessment on his shares,