Vacancies, how Visitors author ized to appoint directors. thereafterwards annually, two directors shall be chosen for a term CHAP. 343. of three years. Any vacancy occurring shall be filled in such Annual election. manner, as the by-laws shall prescribe, until the expiration of the filled. term in which the vacancy occurred. At such time as the visitors may determine, they shall be authorized to appoint in writing, under their hands, three persons to be directors, to hold their offices respectively for terms of one, two and three years, corresponding to the terms of the directors chosen by the corporation, and at the expiration of such terms, and thereafterwards annually, one person to be a director for three years. The secretary of the corporation shall enter upon its records all appointments of direc- Appointments to tors made by the visitors, and the directors so appointed shall have like powers and perform like duties with the other directors. If the place of any one of them shall become vacant, the secretary shall immediately certify the same to the visitors, and they shall be authorized to appoint in writing, under their hands, a person to supply such vacancy, until the expiration of the term in which the vacancy occurred. be recorded. Secretary shall notify in case of vacancy; visitors may fill same. SECT. 2. The third section of the act to incorporate the hospital Repealed. is hereby repealed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect wher approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 343. An act to incorporate the Annebescook Steamboat Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Phillip C. Bradford, Henry Penniman, T. L. Page, J. Corporators. T. Putnam, Luther Whitman, and their associates, shareholders in an association known as the Winthrop Boat Company, and Name. SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of ten thousand dollars in value, and shall have all the privileges and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of corporations as defined by the laws of this state. May hold real and personal estate. SECT. 3. All the acts of the said Winthrop Boat Company in Organisation. organization are hereby made valid, and this act of incorporation may be accepted by a majority vote of the stock in said company. CHAP. 344. First meeting, how called. SECT. 4. Either of the persons named herein as corporators, may call the first meeting for organizing the company, by giving three days notice to the others. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to construct fish weirs. Chapter 344. An act to authorize William Godfrey, Franklin Brown and Handy Hinkley, to construct a fish wier in the tide waters of Pigeon Hill bay, in the town of Steuben, also one in the tide waters of Dyer's bay in same town. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. William Godfrey, Franklin Brown and Handy Hinkley, shall have the privilege, and are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a fish weir in the tide waters of Pigeon Hill bay, in front of their own land in the town of Steuben; also one in the tide waters of Dyer's bay, in front of their own land, in the afore'said town of Steuben; provided, that said weirs shall not obstruct navigation, and that suitable signals shall be placed upon them, said signals to be ten feet above water at high water. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Corporators. Name. Chapter 345. An act to incorporate the Searsport Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Robert Porter, William McGilvery, W. H. Mathews, Charles Gordon, D. S. Goodale, William Butman, Phineas Pendleton junior, J. A. Clement, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Searsport Manufacturing Company, with power by that name to sue and be sued, and to have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities, contained in the laws of the state relating to manufacturing corporations, and are authorMay hold real and ized to take and hold real and personal estate to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of manufacturing wool, cotton, flax, silk, lumber, iron, tin, steel, and other materials. personal estate. Purpose. Authorized to erect dams, mills, &c. SECT. 2. Said company is authorized to erect dams, mills, or other structures necessary, for the purpose of manufacturing the articles aforesaid, at one or more places in the town of Searsport, CHAP. 346. in the county of Waldo. how called. SECT. 3. The first meeting of said company may be called by First meeting, either of the persons named in this act, by giving written notice to his associates seven days at least before the time of meeting. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 346. An act to regulate the gathering of cranberries in the town of Lubec. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: gathering of, regulated. SECT. 1. No person shall gather either highland or heath cran- Cranberries, the berries, on any land or lands within the town of Lubec, of which he or she is not the lawful owner, or in lawful possession, at any time before the first day of September of each year, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offence. SECT. 2. This penalty may be recovered in an action of debt, Penalties. by any person in any court competent to try the same; one-half to the use of the plaintiff, the other half to the county. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 347. An act to change the name of the Gardiner District Campmeeting Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Gardiner District Campmeeting Association shall Name changed. hereafter be called and known as the Empire Grove Campmeeting Association. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. CHAP. 348. Sidewalks and footways, construction of. City may construct sidewalks or footways, laid with brick or stones, and assess adjacent lots. Proviso. Estimates and assessments shall be made wi.hin the year. Assessment not void by reason of error. Proviso. Chapter 348. An act additional to chapter two hundred and seventy-five, private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, conferring certain powers on the city of Portland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The city of Portland may at their option require the owners of adjacent property to construct footways or sidewalks, as now provided in the act to which this is additional, notwithstanding anything herein contained. SECT. 2. The city of Portland may at their option, without notice and under such regulations or orders as they may have established or passed, or may hereafter establish or pass, construct sidewalks or footways, laid with brick or flat stones with suitable curbs, on any street or portion thereof, and direct one-half the cost thereof to be assessed on the adjacent lots, and for that purpose may direct the curb to be set at any time previous to the construction of the walk, and cause the cost of the curb and the cost of the paving of the walk to be assessed separately as each is or may be done; provided, that no owner or proprietor shall be assessed for more than two hundred feet in length of sidewalk or footway, on any one street in front of any unimproved lots or parcels of land. SECT. 3. The expense of said walks complete, or of said curbs, or of said paving, shall be estimated and assessed within one year by the mayor and aldermen of said city on the several lots chargeable therewith, and by them certified to the city treasurer in the manner and with all the rights to the parties interested, as provided in section twenty-four of the act to which this is additional, and may be enforced as therein provided, but said assessment shall at any time be corrected on due notice, and certified anew by the mayor and aldermen aforesaid, and no assessment shall be void by reason of error in the name of the owner or occupant of the lot assessed, provided the lot assessed is so described that the same may be distinctly known. SECT. 4. The provisions of the last section shall apply to all assessments of the cost of constructing any sewer heretofore or hereafter made in the city of Portland. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. FISH WEIR IN MILLBRIDGE.-TOWN OF WAYNE.-SOMERSET HALL CORP. Chapter 349. An act to authorize Rufus Fickett to construct a fish weir in the tide waters in front of his own land on Pinkham's island, in the town of Millbridge. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 317 CHAP. 349. construct fish SECT. 1. Rufus Fickett is hereby authorized and empowered to Authorized to construct a fish weir in tide waters in front of his own land, on weir. Pinkham's island, in the town of Millbridge, provided that said weir shall not obstruct navigation, and that suitable markers shall be placed upon it, said markers to be ten feet above water at high water. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 350. An act to authorize the town of Wayne to appropriate money to encourage manufactures. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: and encourage manufactures. SECT. 1. The town of Wayne may, at any legal meeting duly Authorized to aid notified and held for that purpose, raise by tax or loan the sum of two thousand dollars, and may appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to aid in the erection of a factory valued at fifteen thousand dollars or upwards, and situated at North Wayne; and one thousand dollars to aid in the erection of a factory valued at fifteen thousand dollars or upwards, and situated at Wayne village; provided, two-thirds of the legal voters present and voting Proviso. at such meeting shall vote therefor. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 351. An act to make valid the organization of the Somerset Hall Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: made valid. SECT. 1. The organization of the Somerset Hall Corporation, Organization located at Somerset mills, Fairfield, is hereby declared to be valid notwithstanding any informalities in its organization, and said Somerset Hall corporation is hereby declared to be a valid corpo |