CHAP. 340 this state, for the efficient management of the municipal affairs of said corporation. Officers, how elected. First election. SECT. 9. All the officers of said corporation shall be chosen by ballot, and sworn to the faithful performance of their duties; the first election to be at the meeting of the legal voters of the corporation called to accept this charter, Annual election. and the annual election of officers shall be in the month of January. Duty of clerk. Collector and treasurer to give bonds. Acceptance of charter. First meeting, how called. Qualifications of voters. Charter binding, when accepted by SECT. 10. The clerk shall keep a record of all the doings and proceedings at the meetings of said corporation. SECT. 11. The collector and treasurer shall each give bonds in such sum as the corporation or the assessors may order, and not less than double the amount of the taxes raised as aforesaid, to the inhabitants of said corporation, for the faithful performance of their duties; and said bonds shall be approved by the assessors and clerk, and kept by the clerk. SECT. 12. This charter may be accepted at any time within five years from its approval by the governor, and Silas Smith, Daniel W. Sawyer, Luther Maddocks and Alonzo R. Nickerson, or either of them, are authorized to call all meetings of said corporation previous to the acceptance of this charter and the election of officers, by publishing the time, place and objects of said meeting, in a newspaper printed in Boothbay, if any, or by posting like notices in two public places within the limits of said corporation; the publication or posting of said notices to be seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, and all subsequent meetings shall be called and notified in like manner by the assessors. SECT. 13. All persons liable to be taxed for polls, residing in the limits of said corporation, shall be legal voters at any meeting of said corporation. SECT. 14. At any meeting prescribed in section twelve of qualified electors. this act, the legal voters shall vote by ballot on the question of accepting this charter, and if two-thirds of all the persons present and voting at said meeting shall vote in favor of its acceptance, then it shall take effect, and the corporation shall proceed to organize and choose its officers. SECT. 15. This act shall take effect when approved by the governor, but shall not be binding on said corporation unless accepted by them as here inbefore provided. Aproved March 10, 1883. J. L. ORCUTT.-AROOSTOOK IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Chapter 341. An Act to make valid the doings of J. L. Orcutt, trial justice. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 439 CHAP. 341 Orcutt, legalized. SECT. 1. All the acts of J. L. Orcutt, done, as trial Doings of J. L. justice, between the third day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty, are hereby made legal and valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1883. Chapter 342. An Act to incorporate the Aroostook Improvement Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Thomas N. Egery, Daniel Hinckley, Frank Corporators. Hinckley, Charles A. Gibson, Charles C. Prescott and Eugene M. Hersey, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Aroostook Improvement Company, with all the Corporate name. powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the laws of this state concerning manufacturing companies. Authorized to manufacture SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to manufacture lumber, starch, and grind grain in the town of Frenchville, in lumber, etc. Aroostook county, in this state, in the vicinity of Long lake, so called; to purchase and hold real estate and personal estate not to exceed the value of one hundred thousand dollars; to build and erect such buildings and machinery as may be necessary and convenient for the above purposes, and to carry on the same by steam or water power and make all necessary rules and regulations for the prosecution of the same, consistent with the laws of the state. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not Capital stock. exceed one hundred thousand dollars, the issue of which, and the value of the shares shall be determined from time to CHAP. 343 time by the directors of said corporation, or otherwise, as the stockholders may determine. First meeting, how called. SECT. 4. Either one of the corporators herein named is. authorized to call the first meeting of said corporators and said corporation, by giving notice of same to other corporators, or by publishing notice thereof in some newspaper published in said Aroostook county, seven days at least before the meeting. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1883. Corporators. Corporate name. May hold real estate. Chapter 343. An Act to incorporate the Saint Joseph's Hospital and Orphan Asylum at Lewiston. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. James A. Healy, Thomas H. Wallace, Edward McSweeney, John W. Murphy, James Dempsey, George Ellard and John A. Donovan, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Saint Joseph's Hospital, Orphan Asylum and School, for charitable, benevolent and educational purposes, in the city of Lewiston, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and requirements of similar corporations by the laws of this state. SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase and hold real and personal property to an amount not exceeding at any one time one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with full power to manage and dispose of the same. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1883. Chapter 344. An Act to confer and limit powers of the town of Brunswick. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The powers conferred upon the town of Brunswick by chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, and by chapter one hundred and sixteen of the public laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, may be exercised by said town at any time within twelve years next after the date of approval of this act, and not afterwards. SECT. 2. The town of Brunswick, within the time aforesaid, may accept from the government of the United States, or from any person or corporation, money to be used for the erection of a post office building; and when such money shall be sufficient in amount for the purpose aforesaid, the town may erect the post office building and the building mentioned in the aforesaid acts in one. SECT. 3. Nothing in this act, excepting the first section, shall abridge or take away any rights of the town under the acts referred to in section one, or under either of them. SECT. 4. Said town may co-operate with the United States government in the erection of a post office, or post office and town building combined, pursuant to any act of congress. CHAP. 344 Powers conferred by ch. 488, pub lic [private] laws public [private] tended. 1870, and ch. 116, laws 1875, ex Town may accept money for erec tion of public buildings. Rights of town abridged. not to be May co-operate with United of post office building. SECT. 5. If the municipal officers of said town and any May issue bonds. committee chosen by said town for the erection of any building or monument, under this act or the former ones herein referred to, constituting a joint board for the purpose of voting upon the question, shall adjudge, by major vote, that the interests of the town would be promoted by so issuing the bonds that one shall fall due each year, so as to relieve the town and its officers of the management and care of a sinking fund; or by making the same bonds, or any of them, subject to call and payment, so as to stop the interest thereon, -payment of. on or after any specified date, the bonds may be issued accordingly. SECT. 6. The discretion conferred on town officers and agents by the last preceding section shall be controlled by Issue of bonds to be controlled by vote of town. CHAP. 345 any vote of the town at a lawful meeting; but in default of such vote, said officers may use their own discretion. Approved March 13, 1883. Corporators. Authority. Chapter 345. An Act to incorporate the Drummond Pond Ice Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That James Andrews, Charles L. Marston, M. G. Palmer, John E. Palmer and Zopher Folsom, their associates and assigns, be and hereby are incorporated a body Corporate name. corporate by the name of Drummond Pond Ice Company, with authority to build and maintain a dam to exclude entirely the tide water from said pond in Phipsburg, near the old dam, used formerly to retain the tide water, used for running saw mill and grist mill, for the purpose of creating an ice pond, with the authority to build suitable wharves, piers and other erections that may facilitate the getting and shipping of ice; and that said dam may be of such height as to flow the fresh water four feet above the original flow of tides on the marshes adjoining the said Drummond Mill creek, so called; and said company may hold real and personal estate to the value of fifty thousand dollars, for the prosecuting of its business. Purposes. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. |