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CHAP. 415.

Occupancy and control of church building, how vested.

By-laws.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 5. That when the rebuilding or improvements of said church building shall have been completed, the right of occupancy and the general control of the same shall be vested in a board of trustees, to be elected or chosen in accordance with the rules and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

SECT. 6. Said corporation may at any regular meeting adopt such by-laws or rules as they may deem necessary for the government of said corporation, and to carry out fully and completely the purposes of this act of incorporation, and as such may elect any person or persons as members of said corporation.

SECT. 7. Any three persons named in section one of this act are hereby authorized to call a meeting of said corporation, by posting a notice of said meeting on the outer door of said Methodist Episcopal Church building in said Biddeford, at least seven days prior to the time of holding said meeting, at which meeting said corporation may elect a president, secretary and treasurer by urer, election of ballot, and such other officers as they may think necessary, which officers shall be sworn to a faithful performance of their respective duties.

President, secretary and treas

Meetings of corporation.

SECT. 8. All other meetings of said corporation may be called in such manner as said corporation may direct.

SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Acts and official doings, made valid.

Chapter 415.

An act to make valid the official doings of the persons elected as selectmen and as assessors of the town of Kennebunk, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The official acts of the persons elected as selectmen and as assessors, of the town of Kennebunk, at the annual town meeting held in said town in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, during the year then next ensuing, are hereby confirmed and made valid, so far as they may be affected by the failure of either of such persons to be sworn, as provided by law.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Chapter 416.

An act authorizing Charles H. Bartlett of Kittery, to build a wharf into tide waters of
Piscataqua river.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis

lature assembled, as follows:

СНАР. 416.

build wharf.

SECT. 1. Charles II. Bartlett, and his associates and assigns, Authorized to are hereby authorized to build a wharf into tide waters of Piscataqua river, thirty feet below low water mark and fifty feet wide; provided however, that the distance between said Bartlett wharf and wharf now owned by David Stimpson, shall not be less than fifty feet.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Chapter 417.

An act to incorporate the Corinthian Hall Association.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. S. Z. Leslie, James Fuller, J. H. Chapman, Harris Corporators. Pushor, R. L. Williams, David Sawyer, John Page, S. A. Hodge, Lyman Cook, Calvin Blake junior, John Blake, George Lancey, A. W. Miller, F. J. Goodspeed, L. H. Webb, John S. Page, S. E. Prescott, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Corinthian Name. Hall Association, for the purpose of building and maintaining in Purpose. the town of Hartland, in the county of Somerset, a building or block of buildings for a public hall and for other purposes.

personal estate.

SECT. 2. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, gift May hold real and or bequest, estate, real and personal, to the amount of ten thousand dollars, may erect and maintain in Hartland village, in said town of Hartland, a building or block of buildings, to be used for stores, halls, and for other purposes, and may use, improve, rent, lease, sell, convey and transfer the corporate property as the corporators may desire, in any manner not repugnant to the laws of the state.

liabilities.

SECT. 3. Said corporation shall have all the powers and privi- Powers and leges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of similar corporations, as defined by the laws of the state.

how called.

SECT. 4. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by First meeting, S. Z. Leslie, or either of the other persons named in the first section of this act, by giving to each of the other corporators written

By-laws.

CHAP. 418. notice of said meeting, stating the time when and the place where such meeting is to be held, seven days previous to said meeting. SECT. 5. Said corporation may establish by-laws, appoint trustrustees, and their tees, and take all such measures as will secure the objects of this grant, not inconsistent with the laws of this state. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved.

May appoint

duties.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Authorized to
lay out town way,

Chapter 418.

An act authorizing the municipal officers of Winthrop to lay out winter roads.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The municipal officers of Winthrop are hereby auwith restrictions. thorized to lay out a town way in said Winthrop, for one or more of its inhabitants, upon petition therefor, for use as such town. way from December first of each year, until April first, following.

Way to be used for winter travel exclusively.

Damages, and proceedings in

SECT. 2. Said town way shall be laid out exclusively for winter travel, and shall be open only from December first to April first of each year, and shall commence at some point near Thomas Dugon's in said Winthrop, and terminate at some point near the foot of Woodcock hill, so called, on the road leading from Winthrop to Augusta.

SECT. 3. Said municipal officers in locating and laying out such making location. Way, awarding damages, and all other proceedings in relation to the same, shall be governed by the provisions of chapter eighteen, revised statutes, in relation to laying out town and private ways. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Corporators.

Chapter 419.

An act to incorporate the Ocean Telegraph Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. S. S. Shaw, James T. Patten, William D. Sewall, Oliver Moses, Edward Sewall, Arthur Sewall, Otis Kimball, George M. Patten, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Ocean TeleRights and privi- graph Company, with all the rights and privileges granted by the laws of this state to corporations, and subject to the limitations

Name.

leges.

May locate and

construct lines.

and obligations therein provided. Said company shall have the CHAP. 420. right to locate and construct its lines upon and along any public highway and bridge from any point at or between the mouth of the Kennebec river, in the town of Phipsburg, and their terminus in the city of Bath, so as to connect with the telegraph lines of Trees may be the state, and for this purpose may cut down trees and remove obstacles when standing within the limits of the highway except cepted." ornamental and shade trees.

removed. Ornamental shade trees ex

May hold real sonal property.

estate and per

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be of suf- Capital stock. ficient amount to construct, maintain and operate the line of telegraph hereby authorized, and said company may purchase, hold, sell and convey real estate and personal property necessary for the purposes contemplated in this charter; the amount of capital stock shall be fixed by a vote of the company.

U. s. government ble use of line, and may connect

to have reasona

with it.

SECT. 3. The governments of the United States and of this state in time of war shall have a reasonable use of this line, and the United States government shall at any time have the right to connect with this line at Fort Popham. SECT. 4. Any two persons named in this act, may call the first First meeting, meeting of this company, by giving a written notice to each of the others seven days at least before the day of meeting, or by publishing notice in some newspaper published in Bath seven days before the day of meeting.

SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

how called.

Chapter 420.

An act authorizing the town of Oldtown to lay out and maintain a town way across the
Upper Stillwater bridge in said town.

Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The votes and doings of the town of Oldtown, and the selectmen thereof, in December last, in relation to laying out a town way from Marsh's island, across the Stillwater branch of the Penobscot over the Upper Stillwater toll bridge, are hereby ratified and made valid, and the way over said bridge as laid out by said selectmen on the twenty-fifth day of December last, and returned and recorded, is hereby established and declared to be a town way; and said town is authorized to pay the damages as allowed by said selectmen, and to maintain said bridge and way, and the corporation holding said bridge shall be released from all liability to maintain said bridge from and after the passage of this act. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.. Approved March 3, 1870.

Votes and doings

of selectmen, in

laying out way,

made valid.

Damages, payized.

ment of, author

released from

Corporation

liability to maintain bridge.

CHAP. 421.

Doings, district

meeting of Sept.

tain acts of build

ing committee, and assessment, made valid.

Chapter 421.

An act making valid the doings of school district number seventeen, in the town of
Bristol.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The doings of school district number seventeen, in 10, 64, and cer- the town of Bristol, at a district meeting holden September ten, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, together with the acts of the building committee chosen at said meeting, in building a school-house, so far as they proceeded in accordance with the vote of said district, and also the subsequent assessment of the money voted at said meeting and the commitment thereof, are hereby made valid.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Name changed.

Chapter 422.

An act to change the name of Edward Warren, and for his adoption.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. That Edward Warren of Hebron, be allowed to take the name of Edward Warren Fuller, and that he is hereby declared to be the adopted son of Rufus P. Fuller and his wife, of Hebron, and that he shall hereafter sustain the same relation to them and their estate, at all times, as if he had been the son of the said Rufus P. Fuller and his wife, born in lawful wedlock. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1870.

Corporators.

Chapter 423.

An act to incorporate the Weld Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Paul Sanborn, William Payne, C. G. Dummer, L. Phillips, A. G. Taft, C P. Snowman, J. A. Witham, A. N. Sanborn, A. D. Russell, L. Storer, B. R. Rollin, John S. Newell, Asa Masterman, William Skofield, J. K. White, Eben Newman, N. Pulsifer junior, George O. Thompson, A. G. Newman, L. E. Payne, D. C. Sanborn, Porter Ladd, E. W. Parlin, Eben Harnden,

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