CHAP. 433. and the enlargement of their church in said parish, and of all meetings and votes therein passed, are hereby confirmed and made valid, notwithstanding any informalities or defects in their proceedings heretofore had. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Name changed. Chapter 433. An act to change the name of the Skowhegan and Bloomfield Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Skowhegan and Bloomfield Village Corporation, shall hereafter be known and called by the name of the Skowhegan Village Corporation. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Corporators. Chapter 434. An act to incorporate the Canada Falls Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry E. Prentiss, T. W. Baldwin, Arad Thompson, G. F. Dillingham, F. H. Dillingham, William H. McCrillis, John Trickey, Samuel Larrabee, E. A. Upton, Edward Conner, John P. Webber, Henry M. Prentiss, Abner Coburn, Philander Coburn, Henry F. Eaton and Charles H. Eaton, their successors and assigns, are created a corporation by the name of the Canada Falls Powers and privi- Dam Company, with all the powers and privileges of similar corporations. Name. leges. Dams, erection of, authorized. SECT. 2. The said corporation may erect a dam or dams at or across the south branch of the Penobscot river, at a place called Canada falls, in the county of Somerset, and may also build wing dams, side dams, rolling dams, remove the rocks, and make any and all other improvements to facilitate the driving of logs over said Canada falls; and said corporation may make all such erecImprovements on tions and improvements on the said south branch and its tributaries above said Canada falls, including the erection of dams to raise a head of water, on any of the ponds, lakes and streams above said Canada falls, on said south branch or its tributaries. south branch. of disagreement, how determined. May take lands poses. for certain pur SECT. 3. The said corporation is empowered to flow contiguous CHAP. 434. lands as far as may be necessary to accomplish its objects, paying Flowage. the owners damage therefor, and if the parties cannot agree upon the amount of damage, any person injured shall have his remedy Damages in case by a complaint for flowing, in which the same proceedings shall be had as where a complaint is made under a statute of this state for flowing lands occasioned by raising a head of water necessary for the working of mills; and said corporation is empowered to take any lands which may be necessary to make and maintain any of its dams, erections or improvements; provided however, that the said corporation shall pay the proprietor or proprietors of said Proviso. land so taken, such price as it or the said proprietor or proprietors may agree upon, and in case said parties shall not otherwise agree, then said corporation shall pay such damages as shall be ascertained and determined by the county commissisners for the county of Somerset in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are by law provided in the case of damage by the laying out of public highways, with the same rights to either party aggrieved by the doings of said commissioners in estimating damages, to have a jury to determine that matter on their petition. Logs and lumber may be sold by auction, for toll Notice of sale due on same. SECT. 4. Said corporation may demand and receive as a toll, Toll. forty cents for each and every thousand feet board measure, woods scale, for all the logs and lumber which may pass through or over its dam and improvements on Canada falls, under the limitations contained in section five; and said corporation shall have a lien Lien. on all logs and lumber, whether the same remain in the possession of said corporation or not, until the full amount of toll due on any logs of any particular mark shall be paid, and if not paid within twenty days after said logs and lumber, or a greater proportion of the same, shall arrive in the Penobscot boom, said corporation may sell at public auction, after twenty days public notice in some 'newspaper printed in Bangor, so much of said logs or lumber as may be sufficient to pay said toll and incidental charges. SECT. 5. It shall be the duty of the corporation to keep an Account of expenaccurate account of the expenditures for said improvements and the place where expended, and record the same on the books of the company, and the logs shall pay a pro rata toll proportionate to the expense of the improvements over which such logs may pass, to be determined yearly by the directors of the company, and their decision shall be final; and in making such decision they shall consider the advantages which such logs may have derived from any head of water raised by any dam of said company, although such logs may not have passed over such dam; and when the said company shall have been reimbursed from tolls the amount of the expenditures, with twelve per cent. per annum interest, the toll is ditures to be kept. Pro rata toll. Expense of im provements, &c., to be determined by directors. CHAP. 435. hereby reduced to a sum sufficient to keep the works in repair, to Reduction of toll. be fixed by the directors of the company. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Corporators. Name. By-laws. Location. Powers and habilities. May receive deposits in money. -how used. Income, how divided. First meeting, how called. Chapter 435. An act to incorporate the Androscoggin County Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Samuel R. Bearce, C. T. Barker, F. O. Sands, E. F. Packard, R. C. Pingree, J. A. Peirce, Thomas Fillebrown, John G. Cook, S. H. Murray, George H. Pillsbury, R. C. Pennell, E. H. Cummings, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Androscoggin County Savings Bank, with full power by that name to prosecute suits at law and in equity, to have and use a common seal, and to establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as are necessary for the government and management of their concerns and not repugnant to the laws of this state. Said corporation shall be established in the city of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin, and shall be subject to all the liabilities and duties and enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred upon similar institutions by the laws of this state. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to receive deposits of money and to issue certificates therefor, and such deposits of money shall be used as it shall deem most for the interest and benefit of said corporation; and such deposits may be withdrawn at such reasonable times and in such manner as said corporation shall appoint, and the net income or profit thereof shall be divided among the depositors, their executors or assigns, in just proportion. SECT. 3. Any two of the corporators named herein are authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving seven days notice in writing to each person named herein, or by publishing a notice in a daily newspaper published in Lewiston of the time and place of said meeting, at which meeting and at every subsequent annual meeting, said corporation may elect by ballot any person or persons as members thereof, may choose such officers as may to them seem proper for their organization and govTenure of office. ernment, who shall continue in office one year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead; and the persons elected treasurer and secretary, before entering upon their official duties, shall Members and officers. Treasurer and secretary. be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and the treasurer CHAP. 436. shall also give bond satisfactory to such corporation for the faith- Bond. ful discharge of his duties; provided, that the offices of treasurer Proviso. and secretary may, if deemed advisable, be held by the same person, and be appointed by the president and directors or trustees of said corporation, and shall hold said offices at their pleasure. ance. SECT. 4. All deeds of conveyance, covenants and grants, made Deeds of conveyin behalf of said corporation, shall be sealed with the corporate seal, and when made in pursuance of any vote of the corporation, shall be valid and effectual to convey real or personal property or bind the corporation. SECT. 5. The annual meeting of this corporation shall be holden Annual meeting. in the month of May, and at that meeting and all other meetings it shall require seven members at least to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and meetings may be directed at other times by the president or the corporation, and said corporation may prescribe in what manner its meetings shall be notified and called. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Chapter 436. An act to incorporate the Calais Branch Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Name. SECT. 1. Benjamin F. Kelley, E. B. Harvey, F. A. Pike, Samuel Corporators. Kelley, James Murchie, James S. Hall, C. R. Whidden and Charles H. Norton, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Calais Branch Railroad Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall enjoy all proper remedies at law or in equity to secure and protect them in the exercise and use of the rights and privileges and in the performance of the duties hereinafter granted, and to prevent all invasion thereof, or interruptions in exercising or performing the same; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to locate and construct, and finally complete, alter and keep in repair a railroad, with one or more sets of rails or tracks, with all suitable bridges, tunnels, turnouts and viaducts, and all necessary appendages, from the lower steamboat wharf in Calais, to any Route. point on the banks of the St. Croix river, at or below Kelley's point, so called, and thence to the boundary line of the state in Connections. Conditions and terms to be de way commission ers. St. Croix river, bridge over, authorized. Toll. Rates may be fixed by county commissioners. May take and hold or purchase land and other real estate. May take, remove and use earth, gravel, stone, &c. CHAP. 436. the St. Croix river; and said corporation shall have the authority to lay a third rail on the track of the Calais and Baring Railroad Company, from their present terminus in Calais to the present passenger station of said Calais and Baring Railroad Company at the lower village in Calais, and to run trains on the same upon such conditions and terms as the railway commissioners of the termined by rail- state may determine; and said corporation shall have authority to build a bridge from the banks of the river St. Croix to the boundary line of the state in said river, in connection with the bridge herein authorized for the purpose of said railroad, for the purpose of general travel either on foot or in carriages, and to take tolls for the same, at such rates as may be fixed by the county commissioners of the county of Washington; and said corporation shall Powers and priv- and hereby is invested with all the powers, privileges and immuniileges. ties, which are or may be necessary, to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this act as herein set forth; and for this purpose, said corporation shall have the right to take and hold, or to purchase so much of the land and other real estate of private persons and corporations as may be necessary for the location, construction and convenient operation of said railroad and bridge; and shall also have the right to take, remove and use for the construction and repair of said road and appurtenances, any earth, gravel, stone, timber or other materials, on or from the land so taken; provided however, the land so taken shall not exceed six rods in width, except where greater width is necessary for the purpose of excavation and embankment; and provided also, in all cases said corporation shall pay for such lands, estate or materials, such price as they and the respective owner or owners thereof may agree upon; and in case said parties shall not otherwise agree, the said corporation shall pay such damages as shall be ascertained and determined by the county commissioners of the county of Washington, in the same manner and under the same conditions as are by law provided in the case of laying out highways; and the land so taken by said corporation shall be held as lands taken and appropriated for highways. And no application to said commissioners to estimate said damages shall be sustained unless made within three years from the time of taking such land and other property. And furthermore, said corporation shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and liabilities, provided respecting railroads, in chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, not inconsistent with the express provisions of this charter, and subject also to all the provisions of chapter thirtysix of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, relating to the safety and convenience of passengers on railroads. Proviso. Damages, how ascertained and determined. Application to be made within three years to commis sioners. Powers and liabilities. Capital stock and shares. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of not less than one hundred shares nor more than one thousand |