CHAP. 330 Corporators. Purposes. Chapter 330. An Act to incorporate the Chalk Pond Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. J. C. Robinson, E. R. Adams and J. O. Robinson, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a Corporate name. corporation by the name of the Chalk Pond Company, for the purpose of digging and raising the deposit under the waters of Chalk pond, so called, in the town of Beddington, and township twenty-two, east division, in the county of Hancock, known as infusorial earth, and of manufacturing and selling any article of commerce made therefrom. Authorized to hold real estate. May raise and sell deposit, erect machinery and wharves. Capital stock. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount twenty-five thousand dollars. SECT. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized, for the purposes aforesaid, to take, hold, raise and sell the deposit of infusorial earth lying under the waters of said pond, and to erect and maintain such machinery and wharves as may be necessary therefor. SECT. 4. The capital stock and the number of shares thereof may be fixed by the directors, but not to exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into shares of not less than ten dollars each. SECT. 5. Either person named in this act may call the first meeting by giving at least seven days' notice therefor before the meeting. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Organization of Connor plantation, made valid. Chapter 331. An Act to confirm the organization of Connor Plantation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The organization of Connor plantation, in the county of Aroostook, is hereby confirmed and made valid, notwithstanding any defects in the proceedings had for such organization, and all its proceedings as such plantation are hereby legalized. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Chapter 332. An Act to incorporate the Peoples' Electric Light and Power Company of Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 332 SECT. 1. Charles A. Brown, James H. McMullan, Fred N. Corporators. Dow, Francis K. Swan, John B. Coyle, Junior, Elias B. Denison, Alpheus G. Rogers, Charles D. Brown, Sidney W. Thaxter, Prentiss Loring, William L. Longley, William W. Bolster, A. M. Pulsifer, E. W. Gross, Jeremiah Dingley, Junior, George S. Woodman, Wallace H. White, J. L. H. Cobb, Charles Greenwood, H. C. Little, Frederick Robie, Stephen Hinkley, Amos Wilder, C. C. Burrill, George W. Kimball, Junior, A. F. Crockett, John S. Case, S. D. Bailey, H. E. Palmer, J. S. Wheelwright, J. H. Crosby, S. D. Thurston, A. A. Strout, Augustus Bailey, J. Maxcey, J. R. Bodwell, W. F. Richards, F. E. Heath, N. G. H. Pulsifer, William B. Hayford, F. A. Wilson, C. V. Lord, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Peoples' Electric Corporate name. Light and Power Company of Maine and by that name shall have and enjoy all rights, powers and privileges necessary to effect the objects of their association, and shall be entitled to all the rights and subject to all the duties and liabilities now or hereafter provided by the laws of this state as to corporations, so far as applicable, and subject to the provisions of this act. Powers, priviliabilities. leges, duties and SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be three Capital stock. hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Authorized to by electricity. light cities, etc., SECT. 3. Said company is authorized and empowered for the purpose of carrying on the business of lighting, by electricity, cities, towns, villages, public streets, parks, buildings and places, private houses, manufactories, places and buildings, places of business, worship and amusement, cars, steamboats and vessels, within this state; and the business of furnishing motive power, by electricity, within said places and limits: furnish power. and the business of manufacturing and providing machinery, apparatus and appurtenances for the supply of said light and said power, to acquire, hold and alienate real and personal to hold real estate to the amount of one million dollars; to build and estate. To build manufactories. --to lay lines of wire, etc. CHAP. 332 operate manufactories and works for the providing and supply of electricity; to construct, lay, maintain and operate lines of wire or other material for the transmission of electricity, submarine, under ground, upon, under and along and over any and all streets, ways and public places in such manner as not to endanger the appropriate public use thereof, railroads, bridges, canals and lands and buildings of any individuals, society or corporation, with all necessary posts, pipes, supports and appurtenances, and terminating at such points as May confer power may be expedient; and to confer this power upon licensees of upon licensees. Company not liable for torts of licensees. May erect or lay wires or pipes by permission of municipal officers. Damage to streets, how paid. Company not permitted to obstruct any street, or impair use of drains or sewers. Damages for land taken, how esti said company who shall be deemed agents of said company for said purposes, but said company shall not be liable for the torts or negligence of such licensees, nor upon contracts made by them, except as mutually agreed by said company and its licensees. SECT. 4. For the erecting said wires above ground, and for the laying the same, or pipes therefor submarine or under ground, and for taking up, replacing and repairing the same, said company or its licensees in any city or town shall first obtain the consent of the municipal officers thereof, and perform said acts as directed by them; and said company or its licensees in any city or town shall repay to any city or town any sum of money which such city or town may have been compelled to pay on any judgment for any damage occasioned by the aforesaid doings of said company or its licensees through defect or want of repair in the streets thereof. SECT. 5. Said company or its licensees in any city or town shall, at their own expense, without unnecessary delay, remove any obstructions in any street, made for erecting or laying the lines for such purposes, and cause earth or pavements disturbed to be properly replaced. They shall not be allowed to obstruct or impair the use of any public or private drain, pipe or sewer, but may cross, or, when necessary, change the direction of any private pipe, drain or sewer in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, being responsible to the owner or other person for any injury occasioned thereby, in an action on the case. SECT. 6. Damages for any land taken for the purposes of mated and paid. erecting or laying said lines, if the parties cannot agree, shall be estimated, secured and paid as in the case of lands taken for railroads. how called. SECT. 7. The first meeting of said company may be called CHAP. 333 by any three of the corporators giving seven days' written First meeting, notice, by mail, to their associates, stating the time and place thereof, seven days before the time of said meeting. Approved March 9, 1883. Chapter 333. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Hallowell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: of Hallowell, The charter of the city of Hallowell is hereby amended by Charter of city striking out the thirteenth section thereof, and substituting amended. therefor the following: appoint recorder duties. 'SECT. 13. The said judge shall appoint, in writing, a Judge shall recorder, who shall be a justice of the peace for the county of Kennebec, duly qualified, who shall be sworn by said. judge, who shall keep the records of said court when requested Powers and so to do by the judge, and in case of absence from the court room or sickness of the judge, or when the office of judge shall be vacant, the recorder shall have and exercise all the powers of the judge, and perform all the duties required of said judge by said charter, and shall be empowered to sign and issue all processes and papers, and to do all acts as fully and with the same effect as the judge could do were he acting in the premises, and the signature of the recorder, as such, shall be sufficient evidence of his right to act instead of the judge. When the office of judge is vacant, the recorder shall be entitled to the fees, in all other cases he shall be paid by the judge.' Approved March 9, 1883. CHAP. 334 Corporators. Rights and privileges. Chapter 334. An Act to incorporate the Bethel and Umbagog Telegraph and Telephone Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. W. F. Lovejoy, Enoch Foster and F. H. Lovejoy, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby Corporate name. created a body politic by the name of the Bethel and Umbagog Telegraph and Telephone Company, with all the rights and privileges and subject to all the duties provided by the general laws of this state relating to corporations, with power by that name to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to establish all by-laws and regulations for the management of its affairs not repugnant to the laws of this state, and to do any and all lawful acts incident to similar corporations. Authorized to construct lines of telegraph. Route. Capital stock. May hold real estate. May connect with other lines. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to own, construct, maintain and operate a line or lines of telegraph or telephone, and to change from either to the other as said corporation may determine, from Bethel Hill, through Bethel, Newry, Grafton, Upton, to Cambridge, New Hampshire, or upon any part of said route upon and along any public highway or bridge, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof, and said corporation may cut any trees standing within the limits of any highway, except ornamental or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use or safety of its lines. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be of such amount, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as they may from time to time determine to be necessary for the sole purpose of owning, constructing, maintaining and operating the line or lines of telegraph or telephone hereby authorized and contemplated, and they may purchase, hold and dispose of such personal and real estate as may be necessary for these purposes. SECT. 4. This company shall have power, by agreement with other persons or person, or bodies corporate, to connect their lines with other lines of telegraph or telephone within and without the state. SECT. 5. Any two persons named in this act of incorporation may call the first meeting of the company, by giving written and seasonable notice thereof to each of their associates. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1883. |