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'Yes' then said act of the legislature shall be in full force, and CHAP. 91 the city council shall have full authority to act under it and lay

out and establish such highway and build such a bridge. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1899.

Chapter 91.

An Act relating to the Young Men's Christian Association of Portland, Maine.

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

Section 1. The Young Men's Christian Association of the city of Portland, Maine, a corporation organized under the laws of this state and located at said Portland in the county of Cumberland, which organization is hereby ratified, confirmed and declared to be legal and valid, is authorized and empowered for the purposes of its organization to receive, take and hold by deed, devise, bequest or otherwise, property, personal and real, to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars.

Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 3, 1899.

Doings of
Young Len's

Christian
Association,

made valid.'

Chapter 92.

An Act to incorporate the Ogunquit Sewerage Company.

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

-corporate

Section 1. W. F. Cousens, N. P. M. Jacobs, A. H. Little- Corporators. field, G. H. Littlefield, E. T. Weare, J. H. Littlefield, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Ogunquit Sewerage Company, for the purpose of providing in the town of Wells a system of public sewers and name. drainage for the comfort, convenience and health of the people of said Wells, with all the rights, privileges and immunities inci- -purposes. dent to similar corporations.

May hold estate to amount of $25,000.

Section 2. Said corporation may acquire and hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount twenty-five thousand dollars; may sell and convey the same; may issue certificates of stock to an amount not exceeding the amount of its capital stock actually and bonds. paid in; and may issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceed

-issue stock

CHAP. 92 ing one-half of its capital stock, so paid in to aid in the construction of works.

Authorized to take land.

May construct con

duits through streets.

-other powers.

-may cross any water

course or drain.

Shall file in registry of deeds, description of land taken.

Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any land or real estate, or easement therein, necessary for forming basins, reservoirs and. outlets; for erecting buildings for pumping works, and for laying and maintaining conduits for carrying and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewerage matter and waters, and for any other object necessary, convenient and proper for the purposes of this act.

Section 4. Said corporation may construct conduits in manner aforesaid, in and through said town of Wells to and into the Webhannet and Ogunquit rivers or their tributaries or the Atlantic ocean, the discharge therefrom to be at, such points in said rivers or said ocean, as is most convenient and convey through the same sewerage, surface water and the natural flowage of existing water courses, and secure and maintain basins, reservoirs and outlets; may construct and maintain flush tanks, man holes, lamp holes, and all usual appliances, public and private, may build and maintain pumping stations and buildings, constructions and appliances for collecting, holding, distributing and disposing of sewerage matter; may establish regulations for the use of sewers, and fix and collect the prices to be paid for entering the same, and also the annual rentals for using thereof; and said corporation is hereby authorized, for the purposes aforesaid, having first obtained the permission of the municipal officers of said town, and under such restrictions and. regulations as said officers may prescribe, to lay down, in and through the streets, highways and lands of said town, and take up, replace and repair all such conduits, pipes and fixtures, as may be necessary for the objects of its incorporation; to carry and lay conduits and pipes under any water course, railroad or private way, and to cross any drain or sewer, or, if necessary, to change its direction in such a manner as not to obstruct the use thereof; and to enter and dig up any such street, road or way, for the purpose of laying down pipes beneath the surface thereof, for placing man holes or other fixtures, and for maintaining and repairing the same, and in general to do any other act or things necessary, convenient and proper to be done for the purpose of this act.

Section 5. Said corporation shall file in the registry of deeds. of York county, a certificate containing a description of land. taken, or in which an easement may be taken, under the provisions of this act, and a statement of the purposes for which it is

taken, to be recorded by the register, and such land or easement CHAP. 92 shall be deemed to be taken upon the filing of such certificate.

all damages.

Section 6. Said corporation shall be liable to pay all damages Liable for that shall be sustained by any person in his property by the taking of any land or easement therein, under the provisions of this act; and if any person sustaining damage as aforesaid, and said corporation shall not mutually agree upon the sum to be how ascerpaid therefor, such person may cause his damages to be ascertained in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are by law prescribed in the case of damages by the location of railroads.

tained, in case of disagreement.

shall at all facilities to owners to

times give

abutting

enter pipes.

Penalty for

injuring

works.

Section 7. Said corporation, at all times, after it shall commence receiving pay for the facilities supplied by it, shall be bound to permit the owner of all premises, abutting upon its lines of pipes and conduits, to enter the same with all proper sewerage, upon conformity to the rules and regulations of said company, and payment of the prices and rentals established therefor. Section 8. Any person who shall place or leave any offensive or injurious matter or materials in the conduits, catch basins, or receptacles of said corporation, contrary to its regulations, or shall willfully injure any conduit, pipe, reservoir, flush tank, catch basin, man hole, lamp hole, outlet, engine, pump or other property heid, owned or used by said corporation for the purposes of this act, shall pay the amount of damages to said corporation, to be recovered in any proper action; and every such person, on conviction of either of said acts of willful injury aforesaid, shall be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding one year. Section 9. The affairs of said corporation shall be controlled Board of by a board of directors, consisting of not less than five members, who shall be citizens of the town of Wells, and elected annually by a vote of the stockholders of the corporation; and the board of directors shall choose such other officers as may from time to time be required by the by-laws of the corporation.

Section 10. Any two of the persons mentioned in the first section of this act, may call the first meeting of said corporation by publishing notice therefor two weeks in a newspaper printed in the county of York. Section II.

This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 7, 1899.

directors, how chosen.

First meetcalled.

ing, how

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CHAP. 93

Section 19,

chapter 242, laws of 1895. amended.

Aldermen

shall not

receive any compensation.

Chapter 93.

An Act to amend Section nineteen of Chapter two hundred and forty-two of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, relating to the charter of the city of South Portland.

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

Amend section nineteen of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyfive by substituting the word 'intrusted' for the word "instructed" in the sixth line of said section, so that said section as amended, shall read as follows:

'Section 19. The aldermen shall not be entitled to receive any salary or other compensation during the year for which they are elected, nor be eligible to any office of profit or emolument, the salary of which is payable by the city, during said term; and all departments, boards, officers and committees, acting under the authority of the city and intrusted with the expenditure of public money, shall expend the same for no other purpose than that for which it is appropriated, and shall be accountable therefor to the city in such manner as the city may direct.'

Approved March 7, 1899.

Territory.

-corporate name.

Purposes,

powers

and duties.

Chapter 94.

An Act to incorporate the Andover Village Corporation.

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

Section 1. The territory embraced within the limits of what was known as school district number one, as last constituted in the town of Andover, together with the inhabitants thereon, be, and the same is hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Andover Village Corporation.

Section 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise by assessment or by loan, as hereinafter provided, such sums of money as may be deemed necessary and sufficient for organizing and maintaining within the limits of said corporation, an efficient fire department; for building, renting, purchasing, repairing and maintaining engine houses, hook and ladder carriage houses and lockups or police stations; for purchasing, repairing and maintaining fire engines, hose, ladders, buckets, machines and other apparatus for the extinguishment and prevention of fire; for the location, con

struction, and repair of reservoirs and aqueducts; for the procuring of water and pumps, pipes, hydrants and machinery for handling and distributing the same; for building, repairing and maintaining sidewalks; for building, repairing and maintaining sewers; for setting out, maintaining and caring for shade trees; for maintaining and improving the common lands, for the purchasing and renting of real estate for any of the above purposes; to pay for the services of one or more police officers, night watchmen or any other officers to whom the said corporation may vote a salary or other compensation; to erect and maintain lamp posts and lamps, and provide for lighting the streets within. the limits of said corporation; for school purposes, and may receive, hold and manage devises, bequests or gifts for any of the above purposes.

Section 3. Any money raised by said corporation for the purposes aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property and polls within the territory, by the assessors of said corporation, in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment of county and town taxes, and said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Andover, and assess the taxes thereon, if said corporation shall so direct, and may abate any tax by them so assessed, the tax on polls not to exceed the sum of one dollar to any one person in one year.

Section 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation by the clerk thereof of the amount of money raised at any meeting for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the polls and estates of the persons residing on the territory aforesaid and upon the estates of non-resident proprietors thereof, and lists of the assessment so made, to certify and deliver to the collector, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as county and town taxes are by law collected by towns, and to pay over the same to the treasurer of said corporation, who shall receive the same and pay it out to order or direction of the said corporation, and keep a regular account of all moneys received and paid out, and exhibit the same to the assessors whenever requested; and said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of town taxes.

CHAP. 94

Money raised, how assessed.

Taxes, how collected.

Section 5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of Officers. a clerk, treasurer, assessors, collector and such other officers as

may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation.

Section 6. Said corporation at any legal meeting thereof, By-laws. may adopt a code of by-laws for the government of the same, and for the efficient management of the fire department afore

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