GREAT MARSH RIVER.-OAKLAND.-MOUNT VERNON CHAPTER. Chapter 335. An Act to prevent the throwing of sawdust and refuse lumber into the Great Marsh river, in the town of Harrington, Washington county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 433 CHAP. 335 Throwing of refuse into Great Marsh river, forbidden. No person shall cast or throw into the Great Marsh river, at or below the mills on said river, any slabs, bark, buttings, sawdust or stave edgings, or rufuse lumber of any kind, or shall place, pile or deposit the same on the bank of said river, in such negligent manner that portions thereof may fall or be washed into said river, under a penalty of twenty dollars for Penalty for the first offense, and for a second and every subsequent offense fifty dollars; one-half of said penalty to be paid to the person prosecuting and the other half to said town. Approved March 9, 1883. violation. Chapter 336. An Act to change the name of the town of West Waterville. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The name of the town of West Waterville is Name of West Waterville hereby changed to Oakland. changed to Oakland. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1883. Chapter 337. An Act to authorize the trustees of the charity fund of Mount Vernon Chapter to hold real estate to the amount of twenty thousand dollars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The trustees of the charity fund of Mount Vernon Chapter, a corporation existing at Portland, in the county of Cumberland, by virtue of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Charity Fund of Mount Vernon Chapter," Mt. Vernon chap ter authorized to hold real estate. CHAP. 338 approved January twenty-nine, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, are hereby authorized to take and hold any real and personal estate to the value of twenty thousand dollars in the manner and for the purposes specified in said act. Approved March 10, 1883. Governor and council authorized to adjust taxes of Home Ins. Co. Chapter 338. Au Act authorizing the Governor and Council to adjust certain state taxes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The governor and council are hereby authorized and empowered to adjust, upon such terms as they may deem advisable for the interests of the state, all controversies and suits existing between the state of Maine and the Home Insurance Company, relating to the assessment and collection of its taxes. SECT. 2. This act shall take affect when approved. Approved March 10, 1883. Corporators. Corporate name Rights and privileges. Chapter 339. An Act to incorporate the Atlantic Telegraph Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. John Quimby, A. G. Prentiss, George F. Owen, S. I. Abbott, Fred Atwood, Weston Thompson and W. S. Dennett, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the Atlantic Telegraph 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, and the same to change at pleasure; to establish any and all by-laws and regulations for the management of their affairs, not repug nant to the laws of this state, and to do and perform any and CHAP. 339 all other legal and lawful acts incident to similar corporations; and said company shall have the right to locate and construct its lines upon and along any public highway or bridge, or along or upon the line of any railroad, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; and the company may cut down any trees standing within the limits of any highway, except fruit, ornamental or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use or safety of its lines. construct lines of SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to con- Authorized to struct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph between the telegraph. eastern and western boundaries of this state, with as many wires and branches as they may see fit, commencing and Limits. terminating at such point or points as they may select hereafter, within the limits aforesaid. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be of Capital stock. such an amount as they may, from time to time, determine to be necessary, for the exclusive purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating the lines of telegraph hereby authorized ; and they may purchase, hold and dispose of such personal and real estate as may be necessary for that purpose. other lines. SECT. 4. This company shall have power, by agreement May connect with with other persons or bodies corporate, to connect their lines with other lines of telegraph within and without the state; but no sale or transfer of this charter shall be made to any Sale of charter, other company without authority from the legislature of this state. forbidden. how called. SECT. 5. Any two of the persons named in this act of First meeting, incorporation may call the first meeting of the company, by giving written notice thereof to each of their associates. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1883. CHAP. 340 Ch. 117, private laws 1869, revived. Boundaries. Chapter 340. An Act reviving, with amendments, chapter one hundred and seventeen of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, incorporating the Boothbay Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Chapter one hundred and seventeen of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine is hereby revived and re-enacted, with amendments, as follows: The territory in the town of Boothbay, comprising school district numbered one of said town, together with the inhabitants thereon, is hereby created a body politic and corporate Corporate name. by the name of the Boothbay Village Corporation, with all the rights and privileges provided by the laws of the state relating to corporations. Corporation authorized to raise money for certain purposes. Rights and powers of school district No. 1. vested in corporation. Graded schools. Assessments, how made. 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 police, harbor master, and all other necessary regulations for the better security of property and the promotion of good order and quiet within its limits; for the purchase and repair of engines and all other apparatus for the extinguishment of fires; for the construction of reservoirs and aqueducts to supply water; for the erection and repair of suitable engine houses; for organizing and maintaining an efficient fire department; for the improvement of streets, sidewalks and public grounds, and for the support of schools. SECT. 3. The organization, rights, powers and duties now held and exercised by said school district numbered one, under the laws of this state, are hereby merged and vested in, and shall be held and exercised by the corporation hereby established; and there shall be no other or separate organization thereof as a school district. Said corporation shall have all the rights and powers, and be subject to all the liabilities of other school districts; and in addition thereto may establish and maintain a system of graded free schools, subject to the provisions of law applicable to the same. SECT. 4. Any money raised by said corporation for the purposes aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property and polls within the territory aforesaid, by the assessors of said corporation, or in the same manner as is by law provided for made. the assessment of town taxes. And said assessors may copy CHAP. 340 the last valuations of said property by the assessors of the Valuations, how town of Boothbay, and assess the tax thereon; or if the corporation shall so direct, may correct said valuation, or make a new valuation thereof, according to the principles established by the last state tax, and assess the tax on that valuation. SECT. 5. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors Duty of assessors. of said corporation, by the clerk thereof, of the amount of money raised at any meeting for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount according to law upon the polls and estates of the persons residing on the territory aforesaid, and upon the estates of non-resident proprietors thereof, and lists of the assessments so made to certify and deliver to the collector, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as county and town taxes are by law collected by towns, and to pay over the same to the treasurer of said corporation, who shall receive the same and pay it out to order or direction of the corporation, and keep a regular account of all moneys received and paid out, and exhibit the same to the assessors whenever 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. SECT. 6. The officers of said corporation shall consist of officers, powers a clerk, treasurer, collector, assessors, fire wardens, three school directors, and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation; and said officers shall severally have exclusively all the power and authority within the limits of said corporation, that similar officers now have, or may have, chosen by towns. Power of corpo ration to collect taxes. and authority. School directors, and tenure of office. SECT. 7. The school directors shall, at their first meeting, designate by lot one of their number to hold office three years, and another two years. The third member shall hold office one year, and each member elected to fill the place of one whose term expires, shall hold office three years. They shall fill all vacancies in their number until the next annual Vacancies, how meeting. Two members shall constitute a quorum, but if Quorum. there is but one in office, he may fill vacancies. filled. SECT. 8. Said corporation, at any legal meeting thereof, Corporation may may adopt a code of by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of adopt by-laws. |