for and paid over as if the same had been awarded and received CHAP. 325 by a trial justice, and for neglect to do so they shall be subject to like penalties with trial justices. SECT. 36. The city marshal of Calais, or one of his deputies, shall be in attendance on said court when requested so to be by the judge or recorder, for the purpose of preserving order, and he shall execute all legal orders and processes to him directed by said court. City marshal or deputy to, attend the court when requested. court rooms. SECT. 37. The city of Calais shall provide suitable rooms City to provide for said court, and furnish the same in an appropriate manner. SECT. 38. Any trial justice in the county of Washington may take cognizance of any action, matter or thing within his jurisdiction, wherein the judge or recorder of said court is party or interested. a When judge or interested, trial recorder is party justice may take Cognizance of any actions. pending actions. SECT. 39. This act shall have no effect upon any action, Act not to affect suit, matter or thing now pending in or returnable to said municipal court, except that writs and other processes in civil Proviso. actions, issued before and returnable at a term of said court after this act goes into effect, shall be returned and entered at the next term thereof after the return day named in them, and the judge and recorder of said court shall have full power and authority to issue and renew executions and other processes, and to carry into effect the judgments and decrees heretofore rendered by said court, and to certify and authenticate the records thereof as effectually as if this act had not been passed. Inconsistent acts repealed. Proviso. SECT. 40. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Provided, however, the repeal of the said acts shall not affect any act done, or any act accruing or accrued or established, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal case before the time when such repeal shall take effect, and that no offense committed, and no penalty or forfeiture incurred under the acts hereby repealed, and before the time when such repeal shall take effect, shall be affected by the repeal. And provided, also, Proviso. that all persons who, at the time the said repeal shall take effect, shall hold any office under the said acts or ordinances of the city shall continue to hold the same according to the tenure thereof, or until others are elected and qualified in their stead. And provided, also, that all the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city of Calais, which shall be in CHAP. 326 force at the time when the said repeal shall take effect, shall continue in force until the same are repealed. No act which has been heretofore repealed shall be revived by the repeal of the above acts. Approved March 7, 1883. Doings of Stacyville plantation, made legal. Chapter 326. An Act to legalize the proceedings by which Stacyville plantation was organized. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The proceedings by which Stacyville plantation, in Penobscot county, was organized in July, eighteen hundred and sixty, are hereby confirmed, and the organization of said plantation is hereby declared legal and valid. Approved March 7, 1883. Name changed. Chapter 327. An Act to change the name of Maurice Wren. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: That the name of the following person be and is hereby changed as follows, viz: Maurice Wren be changed to the name of Maurice R. Fogg. Approved March 7, 1883. Chapter 328. An Act in amendment of the Act authorizing the erection of a dam across Sheepscot river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 328 laws 1868, height and gates. SECT. 1. In lieu of the piers and flood-gates as authorized Ch. 615, private by the legislature, approved March five, in the year of our amended. Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, there may be constructed and erected, suitable piers of sufficient height Erection of piers, and of such form and dimensions as shall be necessary to shut dimensions. out the flow of water from below the dam; there shall be at least eighty feet of flood-gates between the piers, constructed Width of floodof wood, and to work easy to admit the flood tide; which shall be open to said flood tides from the fifteenth day of March to the fifteenth day of December of each year, and there shall not be more than a depth of five inches of timber under said gates at the highest point of the ledge under each gate; there shall be a passage-way of at least twenty-three feet at and below low-water mark and thirty-three feet at and between high-water mark and low-water mark, and no obstruction shall be placed in said passage-way, which shall be above the highest point of the ledge as it now is in said passageway, but said passage-way may be closed to navigation by gates or other ways from the fifteenth day of December to the fifteenth day of March during each year. Authority is hereby granted to extend into tide waters of said river any wharves or piers at or near said dam which shall not obstruct the navigation of said river. Authority grant wharves and ed to extend piers. repealed. SECT. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the Inconsistent acts provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. in twenty years. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved by the May be amended governor, and at the expiration of twenty years from the passage of this act may be altered or amended, if in the opinion of the legislature, the public interest shall require it. Approved March 7, 1883. CHAP. 329 Corporators. Corporate name. Powers. Authorized to lease property or franchises. May purchase cottages, etc. Chapter 329. An Act to incorporate the Samoset Island Association of Boothbay. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Charles H. Fisher, Gilman A. Lowe, James P. Cash and John H. Blair of Boothbay; Henry Ingalls, Charles Weeks and George B. Sawyer of Wiscasset; William Rogers and Joseph M. Hayes of Bath; Charles E. Dole of Portland; Ruel Smith of Bangor; Joseph E. Moore and Samuel E. Smith of Thomaston, all in the State of Maine; Charles M. Erskine of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Frank F. Fisher of East Saginaw, Michigan, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Samoset Island Association of Boothbay, with all the rights, powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided in the laws of this state thereto applicable. SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to purchase, rent, or in any legal mode acquire and hold; lease, sell and convey real and personal estate and property, in their own right and in trust, as they deem expedient, or for the purpose of said corporation; to make all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations, for the furtherance of the purposes of this act and the government of said corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of the state. SECT. 3. Said corporation is authorized to lease, at any time, any part or all of its property or franchises; purchase, erect or lease cottages, and all other buildings that may be needed or in any way necessary for the comfort or convenience of the proprietors or their lessees; to receive in trust any money or property for the purpose of erecting and leasing cottages and all other buildings that may be in any way necessary for the shelter, comfort or convenience of persons residing or sojourning in Maine, for health, recreation or business, on the land that may be owned or leased by said corporation, or put into its control as trustees as aforesaid, -build and main build and maintain wharves and landings, lay out, improve and ornament roads, walks and any lands of said corporation, may own and operate conveyances by land or water, to and from, and upon any lands owned or leased by said corpora tain wharves. telephone and tion, lay cables under the water, from any islands owned by CHAP. 329 said corporation, to the main land, for telephone or telegraph Lay cables for lines, and may make and establish all rules and regulations telegraph lines. necessary for the protection of said cables. SECT. 4. In order to secure a sufficient and regular supply of lobsters for domestic consumption, on any land or islands under the control of said corporation, it may increase the number of lobsters within said limits by artificial propagation, or other appropriate acts and methods, under the direction of the fishery commission, and shall not be interfered with by other parties, but be protected therein, as said fishery commission shall determine, and shall have the right, by its agents and tenants, to take and catch lobsters within three hundred yards of the low water line of the islands and lands owned or leased by said corporation, during each and every month, for domestic use. May artificially propagate lob. sters, etc. SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be Capital stock. such an amount as the stockholders, by a majority vote of those present and voting, shall determine from time to time, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into the number of shares, and of the par value, as the directors shall determine. how called. SECT. 6. Charles H. Fisher, George B. Sawyer and First meeting, Joseph M. Hayes, named in this act, or a majority of them, may call the first meeting of said corporation for the purpose of organization, by giving written notice thereof to each of the other corporators, fifteen days, at least, before said meeting. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. |