CHAP. 114 charter, by posting a notice, stating the time, place and objects of said meeting, in at least three public and conspicuous places in said territory, at least seven days before the time of holding said meeting, and all subsequent meetings shall be called and notified by the assessors as town meetings are called and notified, unless said corporation shall otherwise define the manner of calling and notifying its meetings. Section 12. Every person residing within the limits of said corporation, qualified to vote for governor, senators and representatives, shall be a legal voter at any meeting of said corporation. Section 13. At any meeting prescribed in section eleven of this act the legal voters shall elect a moderator and clerk, both of whom shall be sworn by some justice of the peace, for the faithful discharge of their duties, and thereupon said meeting shall proceed by ballot to vote on the question of accepting this charter, and if two-thirds of all the legal voters present and voting at said meeting, shall vote in favor of its acceptance, then it shall take effect, and said corporation may immediately after said vote is declared, proceed to the election of officers and the adoption of by-laws as provided by sections seven and eight of this act. Section 14. This act shall not destroy or abridge any right, power or duty of the town of Monmouth. Section 15. This act shall take effect when approved by the governor, but shall not bind the inhabitants of the territory aforesaid until its acceptance by them as hereinbefore provided. Approved March 10, 1899. Company authorized to establish a branch. Chapter 114. An Act authorizing the Manufacturers Trust Company to establish a branch at Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. The Manufacturers Trust Company is hereby authorized to establish a branch at Old Orchard in the county of York. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1899. CHAP. 115 Chapter 115. An Act to amend section six of chapter five hundred and sixty-two of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, said chapter being entitled "An Act to incorporate the Buxton and Hollis Savings Bank." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section six of chapter five hundred and sixtytwo of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby amended by striking out the word "March" in the second line of said section six and inserting instead therein, the word 'May,' so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: when held. 'Section 6. The annual meeting of said corporation shall be Meetings, holden in the month of May, and at that meeting, and all other meetings, it shall require at least seven persons to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and meetings may be directed at other times by the president of the corporation. At --quorum. any legal meeting of said corporation the members thereof may establish a by-law providing that any member who shall remove from or reside beyond the limits of the state, or who shall fail to attend the annual meeting for two successive years, shall cease to be a member.' Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1899. -by-laws. Chapter 116. An Act to extend the time for construction of the Boothbay Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The time within which the Boothbay Railroad Company may commence construction is hereby extended to March first, in the year nineteen hundred and one, and the acts of the corporation in organization and location are hereby ratified and approved. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved Approved March 10, 1897. Doings of railroad Boothbay company, ratified. CHAP. 117 Powers of Eastport street railway extended, two years. When act shall take effect. Chapter 117. An Act to extend the rights, powers and privileges of the Eastport Street Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The rights, powers and privileges of the Eastport Street Railway, which were granted by chapter four hundred and sixty-five of the laws of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby extended for and during the period of two years, from the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and all the rights, powers and privileges, that were granted by said aet may and shall be exercised in the same manner and for the same purpose as provided in said act. Section 2. This act shall take effect on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. Approved March 10, 1899. Additional state tax, assessed on Peru and Rumford. County taxes. Chapter 118. An Act to apportion State and County taxes for the years eighteen hundred ninety-nine and nineteen hundred on township formerly known as Franklin Plantation in the County of Oxford. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. That for the years eighteen hundred and ninetynine and nineteen hundred there shall be paid by the town of Peru in Oxford county, the sum of forty-six dollars and fifty cents each year; and by the town of Rumford in said county the sum of thirty dollars each of said years, in addition to the state taxes assessed on said towns upon the valuation made by the board of state assessors for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Section 2. The county taxes assessed for the years eighteen. hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, shall be assessed upon the towns of Peru and Rumford on the same basis as state taxes. Approved March 10, 1899. Chapter 119. An Act providing for the appointment and compensation of Recorder of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint the recorder of the municipal court of the city of Saco, who shall be an attorney at law, a resident of said Saco, duly qualified, who shall be sworn by the judge of said court, who shall keep the records of said court when requested so to do by the judge; and in case of absence from the court room or sickness of the judge, or when the office of judge shall be vacant, the recorder shall have and exercise all the powers of the judge, and perform all the duties required of said judge, as fully and with the same effect as the judge could do were he acting in the premises; and the signature of the recorder, as such, shall be sufficient evidence of his right to act instead of the judge; said recorder shall hold his office until another is qualified in his place. Section 2. When the office of judge shall be vacant the recorder shall receive the compensation of the judge, but for all services rendered except when there is a vacancy in the office of judge, the recorder shall be paid by the judge. Section 3. All acts or parts of acts, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1899. CHAP. 119 Recorder of municpal court of pointment of. Saco, ap Compensation. Inconsistent acts, repealed. Chapter 120. An Act to establish a Municipal Court in the town of East Livermore. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. A municipal court is hereby established in and for the towns of Livermore, East Livermore and Leeds, in the county of Androscoggin, to be denominated the Livermore Falls Municipal Court; said court shall consist of one judge, who shall reside during his continuance in said office, in said town of Livermore, East Livermore or Leeds, and who shall be appointed, qualified and hold his office as provided in the constitution, and who shall be, ex-officio, a justice of the peace and of the quorum, and have and exercise a concurrent authority and Livermore Falls municestablished. ipal court, -judge and qualifications. CHAP. 120 jurisdiction with trial justices over all matters and things by law. within their jurisdiction, and such authority and jurisdiction additional thereto as is conferred upon him by this act. Jurisdiction. -original ju- actions, with su preme judicial court, of certain offenses. Section 2. Said court shall have jurisdiction as follows: exclusive jurisdiction of all such criminal offenses and misdemeanors committed within said towns of Livermore, East Livermore or Leeds as are cognizable by trial justices. Exclusive original jurisdiction of all civil actions wherein the debt or damages demanded do not exceed twenty dollars, and both parties, or any plaintiff, and a person summoned as a trustee, resides in either of the towns of Livermore, East Livermore or Leeds, including prosecutions for penalties in which either of said towns are interested, and actions of forcible entry and detainer arising therein; provided, that any civil action, in which the judge is interested, but which otherwise would be within the exclusive jurisdiction of said court, may be brought in and disposed of by the municipal court of the city of Auburn or the municipal court for the city of Lewiston in the same manner and with like effect as other actions therein. Original juris-jurisdiction diction concurrent with the supreme judicial court, of the offenses committed in Livermore, East Livermore or Leeds described in sections one, six, seven and nine of chapter one hundred and twenty of the revised statutes, when the alleged value of the property exceeds twenty dollars, but does not exceed fifty dollars; of the offenses described in section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and eighteen of the revised statutes; of the offenses described in sections one and four of chapter one hundred, and twenty-six of the revised statutes, when the alleged value of the property fraudulently obtained, mortgaged or sold, or fraudulently removed or concealed, does not exceed fifty dollars, and on conviction may punish for either of said offenses by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months; and also of the offense described in section six of chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the revised statutes, and on conviction may punish therefor by fine not exceeding fifty dollars and by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days; and also of the offenses described in section four of chapter one hundred and forty-one of the revised statutes, and on conviction may sentence therefor to imprisonment in the county jail not more than sixty days, and of the offenses described in sections seventeen and twenty-two of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the revised statutes, as amended relating to tramps, and on conviction may punish therefor as therein provided. Original jurisdiction concurrent with the supreme judicial court and the |