CHAP. 94 said, provided, the said by-laws are not repugnant to the laws of Officers, how chosen. Collector shall give bonds. First meet ing, how called. Who are legal voters. When act takes effect. Vote on acceptance of charter. the state. Section 7. All the officers of said corporation shall be chosen by ballot and sworn to the faithful performance of their duties; the first election to be at the meeting of the legal voters of said corporation, at which this charter is accepted, and the annual election of officers shall be in the month of March. Section 8. The collector and treasurer shall give bonds in double the amount of the tax so raised, to the inhabitants of said corporation, which bonds shall be approved by the assessors and clerk. Section 9. O. B. Poor, R. L. Melcher, F. P. Thomas, F. M. Thomas, Stephen Cabot and John F. Talbot, or either of them are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of the said corporation, and to notify the legal voters thereof to meet at some suitable time and place within the limits aforesaid, by posting up notices in two public places within said limits, seven days at least before the time of said meeting; and either of said persons are authorized to preside at said meeting until after its organization, and until after a moderator shall have been chosen by ballot and sworn, and at all meetings of said corporation a moderator shall be chosen in the manner and with the same powers as in town meetings. Section 10. All persons liable to be taxed for polls residing in the limits of said corporation, shall be legal voters at any meeting of said corporation. Section II. This act shall take effect when approved by the governor, so far as to empower the first meeting of said corporation to be called. Section 12. In the meeting prescribed in section nine of this act for the first meeting of said corporation, the legal voters shall vote by ballot on the question of accepting this charter; and if the majority shall vote in favor of its acceptance then it shall take effect in all its parts, and the corporation shall proceed to organize and choose its officers as provided in section seven of this act. There shall be but one meeting called each year for the purpose of the acceptance of this charter. Approved March 7, 1899. CHAP. 95 Chapter 95. An Act to incorporate the Dixfield Fire Engine Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Dixfield nre engine incorpor Section 1. The organization known as the Dixfield Fire Engine Company, located in the town of Dixfield, in the county company, of Oxford, is hereby made a body politic and corporate. It ated. shall have all the rights and privileges of corporations organized under chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes, as well as authority to take and hold real and personal estate to be used rights and privileges. by said company in providing itself with buildings, halls, fire apparatus and other means of protection of property against damage or loss by fire and for the purposes of mutual relief and benevolence among its members. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1899. Chapter 96. An Act to incorporate the Van Buren Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. James Crawford, Thomas J. Cochran, Peter C. Corporators. Keegan, Simeon Cyr, Michael A. Barrett, Allan E. Hammond, Joseph F. Theriault, Abraham J. Dubay, their associates, suc cessors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate and -corporate politic by the name of the Van Buren Water Company, for the name. purpose of conveying to and supplying the village of Van Buren and vicinity with pure water. to hold Section 2. Said corporation for said purpose is hereby Authorized authorized to hold real and personal estate, necessary and convenient therefor, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. real estate to amount of $50,000. May take Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, the several springs or streams on the water. height of land overlooking said village, or so much of the Violette Brook stream, or any of its tributaries, as may be necessary for the purposes to be attained by this act, and to erect and maintain reservoirs and dams, and lay down and maintain all dams, etc. pipes and aqueducts necessary for the proper accumulation, conduct, discharge, distribution and disposition of water and forming proper reservoirs thereof; and said corporation may take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate -erect CHAP. 96 -take lands. Liable for necessary therefor, and may make excavations through any lands whatever when necessary for the purposes of this corpo ration. Section 4. Said corporation shall be held liable to pay all all damages. damages that may be occasioned to any person by the taking of -how assessed in case of disagreement. Capital stock. Authorized to lay pipes. any land or other property, or by the flowage, or by excavation through any land for the purpose of laying down pipes and aqueducts, building dams and reservoirs, and also damages for any other injuries resulting from said acts; and if any person, sustaining damage as aforesaid, and said corporation cannot mutually agree upon the sum to be paid therefor, such person may cause his damages to be ascertained in the same manner and under the same limitations, conditions and restrictions as are by law prescribed in the case of damages by the laying out of railroads. Section 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, which may be increased to twenty-five thousand dollars by a vote of said corporation, and be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and said corporation may issue bonds to raise money for the construction of said works and their extension and repair, to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, to be secured by mortgage upon its real estate, works and franchise. Section 6. Said corporation is hereby authorized to lay down, in and through the streets and ways, in said town of Van Buren, and take up, replace and repair all pipes, aqueducts and fixtures as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, under such reasonable restrictions as may be imposed by -responsible the selectmen of said town. Said corporation shall be responsible for all damages to persons and property occasioned by the use of such streets and ways, and shall also be liable to said town for damages from obstructions caused by said corporation, and for all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees incurred in defending such suits with interest on the same. for all damages caused by use of streets. May con ply water. Section 7. Said corporation is hereby authorized to make tract to sup- contracts with the town of Van Buren, Van Buren Village Corporation, whenever such a corporation shall be formed, and with any or all other corporations or individuals for the purposes of supplying said corporations with water for fire and other municipal purposes, or any other corporations or individuals with water for any other purposes whatsoever; and said municipal corporations, by its selectmen or assessors, shall have the legal right to contract with said water company; and in consideration of supply of water for public buildings, school houses and -town may contract for water and exempt from taxation. other public places, said town may contract with said corporation CHAP. 96 to remit its taxes and other public burdens. obstruct travel. Section 8. Said corporation in making any changes, addi- Shall not tions or improvements on its works in any streets of said Van public Buren village, shall cause the same to be done with as little obstruction to public travel as may be practicable, and shall at its own expense, without unnecessary delay, cause the earth and pavements removed by it to be replaced in proper condition. Section 9. Any person who shall willfully injure any of the property of said corporation, or who shall knowingly corrupt the springs or streams or its tributaries out of which said water company's water is obtained, in any manner whatever, or render them impure, whether the same be frozen or not, or who shall throw the carcasses of dead animals or other offensive matter into said waters, or who shall willfully destroy or injure any dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipes, hydrant or other property held or owned by said corporation for the purposes of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment less than one year, and shall be liable to said corporation for three times the actual damage, to be recovered in any proper action. Section 10. In case the works of said corporation shall not be put in actual operation within six years from the date of the approval of this act, the rights and privileges herein granted shall cease. Penalty for works or water. injuring corrupting When act void. becomes First meet called. Section II. The first meeting of said corporation may called by a written notice thereof, signed by three corporators ing, how herein named, served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand, or by leaving the same at his last and usual place of abode, seven days before the time of meeting. Section 12. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1899. CHAP. 97 Doings of company, made valid. Chapter 97. An Act in reference to Boston Auction Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Boston Auction Company, a corporation legally organized and existing under the laws of the state of Maine which organization is hereby ratified, confirmed and declared to be valid, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue any portion of its stock as preferred stock on such terms as its stockholders may vote. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 7, 1899. Part of annexed to Taxes due, shall be in town of Trescott. -money in treasury shall be applied to which ap propriated. Town of Chapter 98. An Act to set off a part of the town of Trescott and annex the same to the town of Edmunds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. All that part of the town of Trescott, in the county of Washington and state of Maine, lying westerly of Whiting river and Cobscook bay, so called, together with the inhabitants thereof, is hereby set off from said town of Trescott and annexed to the town of Edmunds. Section 2. The inhabitants aforesaid shall be holden to pay all taxes which have been legally assessed upon them in the town of Trescott, and the collectors of taxes for said town of Trescott, are authorized and required to collect and pay all the taxes to them committed, according to their respective warrants. All money now in the treasury of said town, and all sums which purposes for shall hereafter be received from taxes heretofore assessed, shall be applied to the several purposes for which they were received. Section 3. The town of Edmunds shall pay two hundred Edmunds re- and fifty dollars of the town debt of said town of Trescott into the treasury thereof on or before the first day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred, and said town of Edmunds is hereby authorized to assess said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars upon the property of that part of said town of Trescott hereby annexed to said town of Edmunds in addition to the regular current assessment of said town of Edmunds for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the town of Edmunds shall pay to the town of Trescott one eleventh part of the state quired to pay part of town debt and assess same upon part set off from Trescott. |