Chapter 320. An Act to extend the time for the organization of the Union Accident Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The time for organizing the Union Accident Insurance Company, incorporated by an act approved March four, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is hereby extended to the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eightyfive. Approved March 7, 1883. CHAP. 320 Time for organ izing U. A. Ins. Co., extended. Chapter 321. An Act to authorize the navigation, by steam, of the Range ponds in the town of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. William T. Barton, Hiram W. Ricker and John S. Briggs, their associates and assigns, are hereby authorized to clear channels, dredge bars, and remove stones in the three Range ponds and the streams connecting the same, in the town of Poland, Androscoggin county, and they are hereby vested with the exclusive right, against all other persons and corporations, of employing and navigating every kind of boat or water craft, propelled by steam, for carrying passengers or freight on said ponds and streams for the term of ten years from the time when this act shall take effect. fringement of SECT. 2. Any person or corporation who shall use or Penalty for inemploy, on said lakes or streams, any boat or other water right. craft propelled by steam, as carriers of freight or passengers without being authorized by the persons named in section one of this act, their associates or assigns, shall forfeit, for each offense, not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by and for the use of said corporators, their associates and assigns, in an action of debt. upon highways, SECT. 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed as author- Encroachment izing any encroachment upon the highways and bridges in not authorized. said town; or as imposing any liability or obligation on the CHAP. 322 part of said town to provide draws or passage-ways across said highways and bridges; but all such expenses shall be borne by the persons named in this act, their associates or assigns. When act becomes void SECT. 4. Provided, that if the persons named in this act, their associates or assigns, shall for the term of two years after the passage of this act, fail to navigate said waters by steam and to provide suitable conveyance for passengers and freight over the same, then this act shall be void. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1883. Fayette Shaw et als., authorized to line. Chapter 322. An Act authorizing Fayette Shaw and others, to erect and maintain a telephone line from Princeton to Grand Lake Stream. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Fayette Shaw, Brackley Shaw and Walter D. Shaw are erect a telephone authorized to erect and maintain a telephone wire and poles to support the same, along the highway over Indian township, between Princeton and Grand Lake stream, in the county of Washington. Approved March 7, 1883. Section 18 of the charter of the city of Biddeford, amended. Chapter 323. An Act to amend "An Act to charter the City of Biddeford." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section eighteen of the charter of the city of Biddeford, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "by a majority of the votes given," so that the section, as amended, shall read: and councilmen, election of. 'SECT. 18. The mayor shall be elected from the citizens CHAP. 323 at large, by the inhabitants of the city, voting in their Mayor, aldermen respective wards; one alderman and three common councilmen shall be elected by each ward, being residents in the wards where elected; all said officers shall be elected by ballot, and shall hold their offices one year from the third Monday in March, and until others shall be elected in their places.' SECT. 2. Section twenty is hereby amended by striking Sec. 20, amended. out the words, "if on second balloting for any alderman, common councilman, constable, warden or clerk, a choice shall not be effected by a majority vote, then the person receiving the highest number of votes for any of those offices at the subsequent trial," and inserting in place thereof the words, 'the person receiving the highest number of votes for aldermen, common councilman, constable, warden or clerk,' also, by striking out the words, "by a majority of the votes given in all the wards," and inserting the words, 'in balloting for mayor, the person receiving the highest number of votes, given in all the wards, shall be declared elected;' also by striking out the words, "the said board shall issue their warrants for another election, and in case the citizens shall fail, on a second ballot, to elect a mayor, the said board shall again issue their warrants for a third election, to be held not less than three, nor more than four days thereafter, at which election the candidate having the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected, and notified as aforesaid," so that the section, as amended, shall read: SECT. 20. On the second Monday in March, annually, immediately after a warden and clerk shall have been elected and sworn, the qualified electors of each ward shall ballot for a mayor, one alderman and three common councilmen ; all the votes given for the said several officers, respectively, shall be sorted, counted, declared and registered in open ward meeting, by causing the names of the persons voted for, and the number of votes given to each, to be written on the ward record at length. The ward clerk, within twenty-four hours after such election, shall deliver to the persons elected alderman and common councilmen, certificates of their election, and shall forthwith deliver to the city clerk, a certified copy of the record of such election; provided, however, that if the Annual election, time, votes how counted, declared and certified. Meeting may to day. Proceedings in case of no election. Aldermen to examine certificates and notify mayor elect. CHAP. 323 choice of aldermen and common councilmen, cannot conveniently be effected on that day, the meeting may be adjourned from day to day, to complete such election. The persons receiving the highest number of votes for alderman, common councilmen, constable, warden or clerk, shall be declared elected. If no one shall then have such highest number, the balloting shall be continued from day to day, until a choice is thus effected. In balloting for mayor, the person receiving the highest number of votes, given in all the wards, shall be declared elected. The board of aldermen shall, as soon as conveniently, may be, examine the copies of the records of the several wards, certified as aforesaid, and shall cause the person who shall have been elected mayor, to be notified, in writing, of his election, but if it shall May order further appear that no person shall have been elected, or if the person elected shall refuse to accept the office, further elections shall, in the same manner, be ordered till a choice shall be made by some one having the highest number of votes, and in case of a vacancy in the office of mayor, by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be filled for the remainder of the term by a new election, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the choice of said officer; and in the meantime, the president pro tempore of the board of aldermen shall perform the duties of mayor. The oath prescribed by this act shall be administered to the mayor, by the city clerk, or any justice of the peace in said city. The aldermen and common councilmen Meeting of alder- elect, shall, on the third Monday of March, at ten of the alections. Vacancy to be filled by new election. men and council men elect. Oath of office. clock in the forenoon, meet in convention, when the oath LIVERMORE BRIDGE CORPORATION.-CITY OF CALAIS. Chapter 324. An Act to extend the charter of the Livermore Bridge Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 407 CHAP. 324 Charter of Liver more Falls bridge, extended. East Livermore, purchase. SECT. 1. The charter of the Livermore Falls bridge, approved March eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, is hereby extended twenty-five years from the time of its expiration, with all the rights, privileges and liabilities therein granted, provided the towns of Livermore, East Livermore, Livermore and and the county of Androscoggin, or one or two of them, authorized to shall have the right, at any time, upon payment to said corporation of the sum of nine thousand dollars, to acquire all the franchises of said corporation, its toll bridge, gates, toll house, approaches to the bridge, and all other appurtenances of said bridge; and said corporation, by accepting or assenting to the renewal of its charter, as aforesaid, agrees and is holden to convey the franchises and property aforesaid, upon the receipt of said sum. Any mortgage, attachment or other incumbrances, which may hereafter be put upon said franchises or property, shall be subject to the provisions of this section, and shall not prevent said towns or county from acquiring an unincumbered title; and said towns and county, and each of them, which may desire to acquire said franchise and property, are hereby authorized to appropriate and expend the money aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid, and to maintain said bridge and appurtenances, after the same is acquired, and to determine whether to maintain it as a free bridge or toll bridge. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Future mortgages to be subject to on the franchises, provisions of this act. Towns authorized money for pur to appropriate chase of bridge. Chapter 325. An Act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Calais. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The inhabitants of Calais shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the city of Calais, Corporate name. and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, |