Section 10. Said company for all of its said purposes may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient therefor, not exceeding in amount one hundred thousand dollars. Section II. Said company may issue its bonds for the construction of its works of any and all kinds, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the amount of capital stock subscribed for and secure the same by mortgage of the franchise, income and property of said company. Section 12. The first meeting of said company may be called by a written notice thereof, signed by any one incorporator herein named, served upon each incorporator by giving in hand or leaving the same at his place of last and usual abode seven days before the time of meeting. Section 13. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1899. CHAP. 109 estate to May issue mortgage bonds and property. First meet ing, how called. Chapter 109. An Act to extend the charter of the Bluehill Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The rights, powers and privileges of the Bluehill Water Company which were granted by chapter three hundred and fifty-three of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and amended and extended by chapter four hundred and ninety-nine of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby extended for two years additional; and the persons named in said act and amendment, their associates and successors, shall have all the rights, powers and privileges that were granted them by said act, to be exercised in the same manner and for the same purposes as specified in said act. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1899. Charter ex tended, two years. CHAP. 110 Chapter 280, special laws of 1883, repealed. Chapter 110. An Act to repeal Chapter two hundred eighty of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred eighty-three, relating to the use of rafts or floats in fishing for Smelts in Bagaduce River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Chapter two hundred eighty of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred eighty-three is hereby repealed. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1899. Society authorized to apply interest of ministerial fund to support of minister. Inconsistent acts, repealed. Chapter 111. An Act authorizing the Trustees of the Ministerial Fund in the Congregational Society in Buxton to apply the interest of said fund toward the payment of the minister's salary, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. From and after the passage of this act the trustees of the ministerial fund in the Congregational society in Buxton, in the county of York, and their successors are hereby authorized to apply the annual interest only, accruing from said. ministerial fund, to the annual support of the Congregational minister, who may now be settled in said society, or who may hereafter be settled there; and so long as said society shall remain without a settled minister the annual interest aforesaid shall be put out at interest until there be à settlement of a minister in that society, in accordance with the provisions of an act of the general court of Massachusetts, approved February eighteen, eighteen hundred and fourteen. Section 2. All acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the above acts, are hereby repealed. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1899. Chapter 112. An Act to extend and amend the charter of the Castine Railway and Navigation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The time within which the Castine Railway and Navigation Company shall actually commence business under its charter, is hereby extended to two years from and after February eighteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Section 2. Section four of chapter three hundred and fiftyseven of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended by adding the following words; ‘and to build and maintain a bridge across said Union river and to construct and operate its railroad thereon, and to a connection with the Washington County Railroad at some convenient point east of said Union river, but not in a manner to unnecessarily obstruct navigation.' Section 3. Section one of chapter one hundred thirty-eight of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eightyseven, is hereby amended by striking out of said section the following words, beginning with the word "Orrington" in the thirty-sixth line of said section, namely; "Orrington and Brewer or Dedham, Holden and Brewer, thence to some point above the Penobscot river toll bridge at Bangor, crossing the Penobscot river at Bangor so as to connect with any railroad at Bangor or Brewer," and inserting in lieu thereof the following words, 'Dedham and Holden to a connection with the Bar Harbor branch now operated by the Maine Central Railroad in said Holden.' Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1899. Chapter 113. An Act to incorporate the Monmouth Center Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: of corpora tion. Section 1. The territory in the town of Monmouth, known Boundaries as Monmouth Center, which includes all that part of Monmouth, including the residences named, within the following boundaries, namely: Monmouth Academy, and the residence of C. C. Richmond on North Main street, on the north; the residence of Mrs. N. C. Clifford on Clifford street, on the west; the residence CHAP. 113 of Messrs. Haynes and Litchfield on South Main street, on the south; and the residence of Augustus Blaisdell on Maple street and the north line of the land of Charles Bragdon on the East Monmouth road, on the east; with the inhabitants therein, is hereby created a body politic by the name of the Monmouth Center Village Corporation, with all the rights and privileges granted by the laws of the state to corporations. -corporate name. Powers and rights. How money shall be assessed. -valuation, how fixed. How taxes shall be assessed. -how collected. -powers of the collec tor. Section 2. Said corporation, within its territorial limits, is hereby authorized and vested with power, at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise money to defray the expense of a police and all other necessary regulations for the better security of property and the promotion of good order within its limits; for the purchase of apparatus for the extinguishment of fires; for the construction of reservoirs to supply water; and the maintenance of a fire department. Said corporation may receive, hold and manage gifts and devises for the purpose of public improvements within said territory. Section 3. Money raised by said corporation for any lawful purpose, including that to pay any loan obtained by section two, shall be assessed upon the property and polls, within the territory aforesaid, by its assessors, in the same manner in which the town taxes are assessed. The assessors may copy the last valuation of said property made by the assessors of the town of Monmouth, and assess the tax thereon; or if the corporation. shall so direct, may correct said valuations, or make a new valuation thereof according to the principles established by the last state tax, and assess the tax on that valuation, and may make abatements on taxes assessed in the same manner as assessors of towns may do. Section 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of the corporation by the clerk thereof, showing the amount of money lawfully raised at any meeting, they shall proceed as soon as may be to assess the same upon the polls and estates of the persons residing, or embraced within the limits of the territory aforesaid, and upon the estates located therein of non-resident proprietors, and the assessment so made as well as the assessment of money to repay any loan of said corporation, with interest thereon, shall be certified and delivered to the collector of said corporation, who shall collect the same as town taxes are collected, and pay the same within such time as his warrant shall prescribe, to the corporation treasurer; and said collector shall have the same power and authority in collecting the taxes so assessed as a constable, or town collector, has by law for collecting town and county taxes, and shall enforce payment of the same in the same manner as a town constable, or town collector, is re quired to do by law, and the said corporation shall have the same CHAP. 113 powers to direct the mode of collecting taxes as towns have in the collection thereof. All moneys shall be paid to the treas urer. Section 5. All moneys received by said corporation from taxation or loan, or from any other source, shall be paid to the treasurer, and he shall receive the same and pay it out on the orders of the assessors, for legitimate expenses of the corporation, and other purposes for which it may be obtained, and shall keep regular accounts of all his official transactions, and exhibit the same to the assessors when requested, and make report to each meeting of the corporation at which officers are chosen. Section 6. Said corporation may issue its bonds for money May issue obtained under the provisions of the second section of this act, or may issue its notes therefor; such bonds or notes shall be signed by the assessors and treasurer, and shall be upon such time, and bear such rate of interest as said corporation may find expedient. bonds. Officers, and tenure. Section 7. Said corporation at any legal meeting may adopt By-laws. a code of by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of this state, nor to its charter, for the efficient management of its affairs. Section 8. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a clerk, treasurer, collector, three assessors and such other officers election as its by-laws may provide for, and said officers shall hold office for one year from the date of their election, and afterwards until their successors are chosen and qualified, and shall severally have all the powers and authority within the limits of said corporation -powers. that similar officers chosen by towns now have or may have; said officers shall be chosen by ballot at an annual meeting to be how held in the month of April, at a place and time to be designated by the by-laws of said corporation. chosen. clerk. Section 9. The clerk shall record all the doings and proceed- Duty of ings at the meetings of the corporation. Collector and treas give bonds. Section 10. The collector and treasurer shall each give bond with such sureties as the assessors of the corporation may urer sha approve of, in a sum not less than double the amount of the taxes raised as aforesaid, to the inhabitants of the corporation, for the faithful performance of their duties, and said bonds shall be approved in writing by the assessors, and thereafter deposited and retained by the clerk. Section II. This charter may be accepted at any time within three years from its approval by the governor, and its rejection in any calendar year shall not prevent its acceptance in any later calendar year during the time aforesaid. H. M. Blake or C. J. Bragdon, or either of them, may call all meetings of the inhabitants of said territory previous to the acceptance of this Acceptance of this charter. -meetings, called. for, how |