CHAP. 122 Section 1, chapter 119, special laws 1881, amended. Close time Chapter 122. An Act to amend Section one of Chapter one hundred nineteen of the Private and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section one of chapter one hundred nineteen of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one is hereby amended by striking out all the words after the word "bay" in fifth line to the words "under a penalty" and inserting the following; 'and other waters above a line drawn from Petit Manan light house to Cape Split in the town of Addison,' so said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 1. The taking of herring or fishing therefor by the use of purse and drag seines or nets from the first day of July to the first day of November, is hereby prohibited in the waters lying within the jurisdiction of the state in Milbridge or Narraguagus bay and other waters above a line drawn from Petit Manan light house to Cape Split in the town of Addison, under a penalty upon the master or person in charge of said seines or nets, or upon the owner or owners of the vessels, steamers or boats engaged in taking said herring, of not less than one hundred dollars, and no more than three hundred dollars, and there vessels, etc., shall be a lien upon said vessels, steamers, boats and apparatus used in such unlawful pursuit until said penalty, with costs of prosecution is paid.' -penalty for violation. -lien on for payment of penalty. Approved March 11, 1899. Section 3, chapter 180, Chapter 123. An Act to amend Chapter one hundred and eighty of the Private and Special Laws of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, establishing the Police Court of the City of Belfast, as amended by chapter four hundred and twenty-eight of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section three of chapter one hundred and eighty of the private special laws and special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine is hereby amended so that it shall read as follows: 1879, amended. Court shall keep record. 'Section 3. It shall be the duty of said court to make and keep its own records, which records shall be such as would be legal records in a trial justice's court. And certified copies of -terms. fees of witnesses. parties and the records of said court shall be evidence in the courts of this CHAP. 124 state. And said court shall be holden on the first and third Mondays of each month, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, at such place in the city of Belfast as said city shall provide, for the transaction of civil business; and all civil processes shall be made returnable accordingly. And in all actions wherein the debt or damages recovered by the plaintiff, or wherein the amount claimed if the defendant prevails, exceeds twenty dollars, the fees of the court, parties and witnesses shall be the same allowed by law in the supreme judicial court, except that there may be taxed for the trial of an issue the same fee as is legally taxable by trial justices, and the prevailing party shall recover two dollars and fifty cents for attendance each term. other civil actions and in criminal matters the fees and costs shall be the same as are legally taxable by trial justices, except that in such civil actions the plaintiff, when he prevails, shall recover two dollars for his writ, and the defendant, when he prevails, one dollar for his pleadings; provided, that the price of blank writs signed by the judge of said court shall be two cents, and no more. And all fines, penalties and costs awarded by fines and said judge in criminal cases shall be accounted for and paid over by said judge in the same manner as required of trial justices.' Approved March 11, 1899. In all penalties shall be accounted for. Chapter 124. An Act to authorize the town of Skowhegan to perfect its title to the school property in said town. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The town of Skowhegan, by its assessors, is hereby authorized to appraise all school houses, lands, apparatus and other property owned or used by the several school districts in said town, which were abolished by the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, chapter one hundred and twenty, and at the first annual assessment hereafter a tax shall be levied upon the whole town, or such part thereof as is included within the districts abolished, equal to the whole of said appraisal, and there shall be remitted to the tax payers of each of said districts. the said appraised value of its property so taken. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Town may raise money for payment property. of school 158 CHAP. 125 Charter extended. LEWISTON, AUGUSTA & CAMDEN R. R.-WISCASSET & QUEBEC R. R. Chapter 125. An Act to extend the charter of the Lewiston, Augusta and Camden Railroad Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in The time within which the Lewiston, Augusta and Camden Railroad Company, a corporation created by chapter two hundred and seventy-eight of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by chapter six hundred and twenty-six of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and chapter two hundred and forty-two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, may file its locations and commence operations for building its lines, is hereby extended to December thirty-one, nineteen hundred and one. Approved March 11, 1899. Location of Wiscasset and Quebec railroad, ratified. Authorized to extend construction. Chapter 126. An Act relating to the charter of the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The railroad location of the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad Company through the towns of Wiscasset, Alna and Whitefield in the county of Lincoln, Windsor, China, Albion and Unity plantation in the county of Kennebec, Burnham in the county of Waldo and Pittsfield in the county of Somerset as now on file in the offices of the county commissioners of said counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, Waldo and Somerset is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed as legal and valid, and all of the acts of said railroad company in heretofore mortgaging its property and franchises are hereby ratified, approved and confirmed as legal and valid. Section 2. Said Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad Company is hereby authorized to extend, by lease of existing railroads in whole or in part, or by construction, its road from any point in its line aforesaid, which is hereby made legal and valid, in a northerly direction, by way of Hartland, to some convenient point on Moosehead lake or to a junction with the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad now operated by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company or to a junction with the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Said company is hereby given two years from -time ex years. the date of the approval of this act for the location and construc- CHAP. 127 tion of its road as aforesaid, and said company shall have the same rights, privileges, powers and immunities, and be subject tended, two to the same duties and liabilities in respect to the location, construction, maintenance, use and management of the portion of the road hereby authorized to be extended and constructed as are granted and imposed by the original act incorporating said company and all acts amendatory thereof and in addition thereto. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1899. Chapter 127. An Act relating to the Wiscasset and Moosehead Lake Telegraph and Telephone Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in company extended for two years. The time in which the Wiscasset and Moosehead Lake Tele- Charter of graph and Telephone Company may organize and commence business under its charter granted by chapter five hundred and fifty-four of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby extended for a term of two years from the approval of this act; and the persons named in said act, 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. Approved March 11, 1899. Chapter 128. An Act to set off part of Township Number Seven, in the County of Hancock, and annex the same to the town of Sullivan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: set off from Town ship No. 7 to Sullivan. Section I. All the following described territory, now a part of township number seven in the county of Hancock, together with the inhabitants and estates included in said territory, is hereby set off from said township number seven and annexed to and made a part of the town of Sullivan, namely: Beginning at the east line of the town of Sullivan at the southwest corner of -boundaries. land of Edward Noyes; thence by the south line of said land of said Noyes easterly to the southeast corner thereof; thence by the eastern line thereof northerly to the southwest corner of land CHAP. 129 of heirs of William Johnson; thence by the south line of said last mentioned land easterly to the southwest corner of the lot called the Hovey lot; thence by the west line of said Hovey lot and by the production of said west line northerly to the south line of plantation number ten in said county of Hancock; thence by the said south line of said plantation number ten westerly to the northeast corner of the town of Sullivan; thence by said east line of said town of Sullivan southerly to the place of beginning, containing about two thousand three hundred acres and comprising twenty-three original lots in said township number Rights of inhabitants. State and county taxes of town, assessed. seven. Section 2. The inhabitants of said annexed territory are hereby vested with all the powers and subject to all the duties of other inhabitants of said town of Sullivan. Section 3. There shall be added to the state and county taxes assessed against the town of Sullivan for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, a sum equal to one-fifth of the amount of state and county taxes assessed against the north one-half of township number seven, south division, Hancock county for said years respectively, and onefifth of the amount of the state and county taxes assessed against the said north one-half of township number seven, south division, Hancock county for the years eighteen hundred and ninetynine and nineteen hundred, shall be deducted from the state and county taxes of said township for the said years, respectively. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1899. Charter of and Im provement Company, revived and extended. Chapter 129. An Act to extend the rights, powers and privileges of the Mopang Dam and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The rights, powers and privileges of the Mopang Mopang Dam Dam and Improvement Company which were granted by chapter five hundred and forty-five of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, are hereby revived and extended for and during the term of two years from the first 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 act may and shall be exercised in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided in said act. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1899. |