PRIVATE AND SPECIAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 1899. Chapter 1. An Act to change the name of Colby University. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The name of the corporation "The President and Trustees of Colby University" is hereby changed to 'The Colby Uni Name of versity, President and Trustees of Colby College.' changed. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 25, 1899. Chapter 2. An Act ratifying the purchase of the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, and authorizing a mortgage thereof by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Indenture and ratified. Section 1. The indenture between the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company, the city of Bangor and the Bangor and made valid Aroostook Railroad Company dated June twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and recorded in the registry of deeds for Penobscot county, in volume six hundred and seventy-eight, pages two hundred and ninety-one to two hundred and ninety CHAP. Company authorized to issue bonds and mortgage road. 3 six, both inclusive, and in the registry of deeds for Piscataquis county in volume one hundred and twenty-nine, pages one hundred and ninety-three to one hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive, is hereby made valid, ratified and confirmed. Section 2. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company in addition to the bonds which it has heretofore been authorized to issue, is hereby authorized to issue its bonds to the amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars, and to secure said bonds by a mortgage of the railroad, acquired by virtue of the aforesaid indenture, the franchise thereof, and such other of the property acquired by virtue of the aforesaid indenture and the appurtenances thereof, and such additions to and renewals of the same as said Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company may see fit. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Charter of Wiscasset and Waterville rail road company, extended till 1901. Chapter 3. An Act to extend the charter of the Waterville and Wiscasset Railroad Company Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. That the rights, powers and privileges of the Waterville and Wiscasset Railroad Company, which were granted by chapter three hundred and seventeen of the private and special laws of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, are hereby extended to January one, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and one; 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. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 30, 1899. Association may hold estate not exceeding $150,000. Chapter 4. An Act to amend the charter of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association may take and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved January 30, 1899. Chapter 5. An Act to amend Sections two, seven and thirteen of Chapter one hundred and eighty of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, relating to parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church. B. it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section two of "An Act to provide for the organization of parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maine," approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby amended by striking out the last two words, namely: "Easter week," and inserting instead the words 'the first week in advent,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: CHAP. 5 Section 2 of act relating to parishes of Episcopal church, amended. ment shall contain. 'Section 2. Said agreement shall also contain, first, the name What agreeor title by which the parish shall be known, which shall be as follows, namely: The rector, wardens and vestrymen of church in amended. Section 2. Section seven of said act is hereby amended by Section 7, striking out the words "Easter week," and inserting instead the words 'the first week in advent,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Annual 'Section 7. The annual meeting shall take place at such time in the first week in advent as may have been agreed upon, meeting. and at such annual meeting an election of the requisite number of wardens and vestrymen shall be had, to serve until the next annual meeting, and until their successors shall be chosen.' Section 3. amended. Section thirteen of said act is hereby amended Section 13, by striking out the words "Easter week" and inserting instead the words 'the first week in advent,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 13. Upon such execution, acknowledgment and recording of such agreement, such parish shall, without further action, be deemed to all intents and purposes reorganized, and all rights of property and of contract shall remain unimpaired, and the corporate identity of such parish shall continue unchanged. The wardens and vestrymen in office shall continue therein until the annual election in the first week in advent next following such reorganization, and until a new board shall be chosen, and no other meeting or notice shall be necessary to When parish shall be deemed re organized. tenure of wardens and vestrymen. |