CHAP. 441. Acts of T. W. Herrick, as jus tice of peace, legalized. Chapter 441. An act to legalize the acts of Thomas W. Herrick as a justice of the peace and quorum, in and for Kennebec county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The acts of Thomas W. Herrick of Waterville, county of Kennebec, as a justice of the peace and quorum, are hereby legalized. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1870. Authorized to purchase Androscoggin bridge. empowered to contract for purchase. Price, disagreement in relation to, how determined. Chapter 442. An act giving further authority to the towns of Brunswick and Topsham to purchase the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The towns of Brunswick and Topsham are authorized to purchase the Androscoggin Bridge, and for that purpose may Selectmen may be empower their respective boards of selectmen to enter into a contract with the proprietors for such purchase, at a price to be agreed upon between the proprietors and a majority of each of said boards. If the parties do not agree upon the price, the proprietors and the respective boards of selectmen, by a majority of each board, may select not less than three disinterested appraisers, who shall determine the sum to be paid, and their determination shall Payment and con- be binding upon the parties, and upon payment of the same the proprietors shall convey the bridge and all the land and appurtenances used in connection therewith to the two towns. And the towns shall pay the price, determined by agreement or by appraisal, in proportions corresponding to their respective state valuations for the present year. veyance of bridge, &c. Towns to pay in proportion to valuation. Maintenance and repair of bridge. Tolls authorized. SECT. 2. After the conveyance to the two towns, the bridge and the ways and approaches appurtenant thereto shall be maintained and kept in repair by each of said towns, according to the dividing line between the same, with all the privileges and subject to all the liabilities which are provided by law for the maintenance and repairs of town ways. SECT. 3. After such conveyance, if the inhabitants of said towns, at legal meetings called for that purpose, shall determine that it is expedient that tolls be collected upon said bridge for a term of years, and shall, by their respective concurrent votes fix the term, not exceeding the term of ten years from the passage of this act, the towns shall be authorized to collect and receive tolls thereon, CHAP. 443. during such term, and may authorize their selectmen, acting jointly, to adopt and carry into effect all necessary regulations therefor. be modified. Tolls, manner of division and ap plication of. But such toll shall not, in any case, exceed the rates which the Rates, they may present proprietors are authorized to collect, and the joint boards of selectmen may, from time to time, modify the rates within that limitation. And all of such tolls, after defraying the expenses of collecting the same, shall be divided between the two towns, in proportion to their respective state valuations for the present year, and shall be applied exclusively to the maintenance, repairs and insurance of the respective parts of the bridge which each town is obliged to maintain; and if, in any year there shall be any Surplus tolls, surplus of tolls, the same shall be kept and reserved for such repairs and insurance as may become necessary in any subsequent years. SECT. 4. The second and third sections of an act relating to the sale and purchase of said bridge, passed March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, are hereby repealed. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1870. appropriation of Sections 2 and 3 of act of March 12, 1869, repealed. Chapter 443. An act to incorporate the Schwartz Machine and Saw Manufacturing Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Michael Schwartz, Joseph S. Wheelwright, Joseph M. Corporators. Hodgkins, Jonathan G. Clark, Charles G. Stearns, Daniel Sargent second, Abram Moor, John T. Hoskins, James T. Buzzell, Charles L. Chalmers and Elisha A. Clifford, their associates, successors and assigns, are created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Schwartz Machine and Saw Manufacturing Corporation, for Name. the purpose of manufacturing saws and machinery of all kinds, Purpose. including manufactures of wood and metals in their various combinations, at Bangor, in the county of Penobscot, with all the Location, powers and privileges and subject to the liabilities and require- Powers and ments of similar companies under the laws of the state. liabilities. estate for certain purposes. SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real estate so far as may May hold real be requisite for the successful prosecution of their business, with power to purchase, sell and convey the same, and to grant and receive leases thereof. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1870. CHAP. 444. Sect. 2, chap. 15, special laws 1861, amended. Chapter 444. An act to amend section two of the fifteenth chapter of the special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, relating to Sebec Lake Steamboat Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section two of chapter fifteen of the special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby amended, by adding thereto the words: 'But if said Sebec Lake Steamboat Company shall hereafter fail to run a steamboat upon said lake as contemplated by the provisions of this section, any person who may be the owner of a steamboat thereon, on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy, may run the same upon said lake for the transportation of freight and passengers during such time as said company shall fail to run such steamboat upon said lake for that purpose. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1870. Corporators. Name. Authorized to borrow money. Tenure of office. of. Chapter 445. An act to incorporate the Masonic Trustees of Lewiston. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry H. Dickey, William J. Burnham, Ward M. Emerson, Isaac G. Curtis, Dennison Harden, Augustus Callahan, Joseph P. Gill, Theodore M. Varney, Fessenden I. Day, Charles A. Coombs, and their successors, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Masonic Trustees of Lewiston, for the purpose of leasing, fitting up, furnishing and managing halls and other apartments for the use of the different masonic bodies in Lewiston, and for that purpose may borrow money if they deem it necessary. SECT. 2. Said Burnham, Curtis, Callahan, Varney and Coombs, shall hold their office until the first day of January, anno domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and the remaining corporators until the first day of January, anno domini eighteen hundred Trustees, election and seventy-two. The place of each trustee shall be filled by election, by ballot, by the body which he represents in said board. The elections, except to fill vacancies, shall be for two years, so that one-half of said board, as near as may be, shall go out of office on the first day of January annually; at the first meeting of said board after the first day of January annually, the board shall determine who have been legally elected members thereof in the place of those whose terms have then expired, and their determination CHAP. 445. shall be final; vacancies occurring at any other times shall be filled Vacancies, manin like manner. ner of filling. secretary. SECT. 3. Said trustees shall annually choose a chairman and Chairman and secretary, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary, and make by-laws for their own government and the orderly con- By-laws. duct of their affairs, not inconsistent with the laws of the state. The secretary shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties, Oaths and shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board. Record of proceedings. Leases, insurance and management of property. SECT. 4. Said trustees are empowered to take leases, effect insurance, and manage the property as they deem most for the interest of all concerned; they shall hold the furniture, fixtures, and other personal property, in trust for the bodies furnishing the means to buy them, in proportion to the amount furnished by each body; shall issue certificates to each body showing the amount furnished by it, and in making up the quarterly expenses shall add Expenses. such a rate per cent. per quarter upon the amount furnished as they may judge reasonable, taking into account the wear and deterioration of the property, and shall credit each body on its share of the quarter's expenses the same per cent. upon the amount of the certificate held. by it. Trustees may allow use of halls to any other masonic bodies. SECT. 5. The trustees may allow other masonic bodies not represented on the board such use of the halls and on such terms as may be deemed reasonable; and whenever any other body desires to be represented upon said board, its representative may be ad- Representation of mitted by vote of the board; after being once admitted it shall have the same rights as those originally represented, and its representative become a member of the corporation. SECT. 6. The trustees shall quarterly apportion the rent and other expenses among the bodies represented on the board in such manner as they may deem just. other bodies. Rent and expenment of. ses, apportion of. SECT. 7. Whenever the trustees deem it just, they shall reap- Certificates, issue portion the certificates among all the bodies using the hall and desiring to hold such certificates, and issue new certificates upon such an adjustment as they shall determine to be proper. how called. SECT. 8. Joseph P. Gill or William J. Burnham, may call the First meeting, first meeting of said corporation, by giving each trustee, or leaving at his usual place of business or residence, a written or printed notice of the time and place of meeting two days at least before the time fixed. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1870. CHAP. 446. Corporators. Name. leges. Location and construction. Chapter 446. An act to incorporate the Sebec Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. William H. Smith, Joseph L. Smith, George M. Weston, Dudley F. Leavitt, George K. Jewett, Jeremiah Fenno, George R. Smith, Hiram H. Fogg, David Dole, Eben S. Coe, Abraham Sanborn, Frank A. Wilson and Thomas N. Egery, their assigns, associates and successors, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Sebec Railroad Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and Powers and privi- be impleaded, and shall enjoy all proper remedies at law and in equity to secure and protect them in the exercise and use of their rights and privileges and in the performance of their duties; and 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 iron or wooden rails or tracks, with all suitable bridges, tunnels, viaducts, turnouts, culverts, drains, and all other necessary appendages, from some point in Sebec village, along or by the way of Sebec river, in Piscataquis county, to some point on the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, in the town of Milo; and said corporation shall be and is hereby invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this act. Said corporation shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to the duties and liabilities, contained in chapter fiftyone of the revised statutes. Capital stock and shares. Directors. Term of office. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall consist of not less than one thousand and not more than two thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, and the immediate direction of the affairs of said corporation shall be vested in five, seven or nine directors, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall hold their office until others are chosen and qualified in their places, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, and they shall elect one of their number to be president of their board, and he shall also be president of the corporation. And they shall have authorClerk and treas- ity to choose a clerk and treasurer; and a majority of the persons named in section one are hereby authorized at a meeting holden for that purpose, with or without notice, to accept this act and organize this corporation. President. urer. By-laws. President and directors authorized to exercise all necessary powers of locat SECT. 3. Said corporation shall have power to make, ordain and establish all necessary by-laws. SECT. 4. The president and directors for the time being, are hereby authorized and empowered by themselves or their agents, to exercise all the powers herein granted for the purpose of locat |