or make a new one thereof; according to the principles estab- CHAP. 151 lished by the last act establishing a state law, and assess the tax on that valuation. are to be -how col Section 7. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors How taxes of said corporation by the clerk thereof, of the amount of money assessed. raised at any legal meeting of the inhabitants thereof for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the taxable polls and estates embraced within the limits of said corporation, and the assessment so made to certify and deliver to the treasurer or collector of said corporation, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as town and county taxes are collected lected. in towns, and the said corporation's collector or treasurer shall have the same power and authority in collecting the tax 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 required to do by law, and the said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of taxes. Section 8. All money payable to said corporation for any purpose, as well as all moneys derived from taxation, or any source, shall be paid to the treasurer of the corporation and received and held by him for the use of the corporation. The treasurer shall pay therefrom upon written order of the assessors, and no such order shall be drawn by them except upon a properly avouched bill of items. The collector, and when required, the treasurer, shall give bonds in such sums as the corporation may direct, to be approved by the assessors. All moneys held for shall be the use of the cor poration. collector urer shall and treas give bonds. Section 9. Said corporation, at any legal meeting called for By-laws. that purpose, may adopt by-laws and make all needful rules and ordinances for the organization and government of said corporation, not repugnant to the laws of the state. Section 10. This charter may be accepted at any time within five years from its approval by the governor, by a majority vote of the voters present at a meeting of said corporation, called for the purpose of accepting this charter. Henry C. Brewer, J. W. Amick and Winthrop C. Fogg, or either of them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, and to notify the legal voters thereof to meet at some suitable time and place, within the limits aforesaid, by posting 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 after a moderator shall be chosen by ballot and sworn, and at all when char ter may be accepted. CHAP. 152 meetings of the corporation, a moderator shall in like manner be chosen and have the same power as in town meetings. First election of officers. Eligibility of voters. When act shall take effect. Section II. The first election of the officers of this corporation shall be at the meeting of the legal voters of the corporation, called to accept this charter, and the annual election of officers shall be in the month of March. Section 12. 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 13. 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 15, 1899. Call for meeting by corporation, made valid. Chapter 152. An Act to legalize the call issued for holding the meeting of the Methodist and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The call issued for the purpose of holding a meeting of the Methodist and Baptist Meeting House Corporation, of Whitefield, on January twenty-one, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, which referred to said corporation as the Methodist and Baptist Church Corporation, is hereby made valid. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Chapter 153. An Act to authorize the City of Lewiston to take water for Municipal and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. The city of Lewiston is hereby authorized and empowered to take water from Lake Auburn, or any pond in Androscoggin county, except Sabattus pond, sufficient for all municipal, public and domestic purposes in said city, including a sufficient quantity for extinguishing fires, supplying hotels, livery stables and laundries, for sprinkling streets, for running elevators and for motors, providing that such motors shall not --may con through the streets and across Androscoggin be used for manufacturing purposes; and the said city of Lewis- CHAP. 153 ton is further authorized and empowered to take and convey the water of Lake Auburn, or any pond as aforesaid, through any or all the towns of said county, as may be necessary, and across the Androscoggin river by an aqueduct or pipe sunk to any vey water depth desirable for the purpose, and may also take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any land necessary for laying and maintaining said aqueduct or pipe line, with all necessary locks, river. gates, dams or other structures, necessary to convey the water from Lake Auburn, or any pond as aforesaid, to the pumping -take land. station of said city of Lewiston, provided that such taking of land shall not interfere with any existing system of municipal water supply. Authorized to lay pipes under reimposed by officers. strictions municipal -may cross railroad any rai manner as commisdetermine. railroad sioners shall Section 2. Said city of Lewiston is hereby authorized to lay down and maintain in and through the streets and ways and under any steam railroad within the limits of the county of Androscoggin and to take up, replace and repair all such pipe, aqueduct, gates and fixtures, as may be necessary for conveying the water taken under the provisions of this act to the pumping station of the city of Lewiston, under such reasonable restrictions as may be imposed by the municipal officers of any town or city within their respective limits, provided that in the case of any crossing of steam railroad within the county of Androscoggin, unless said city of Lewiston shall agree with the company owning and operating said railroad, as to the place, manner and conditions of crossing, the railroad commissioners. shall determine the place, manner and condition of such crossing, and all work within the limits of said railroad location shall be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the officers of said railroad company, but at the expense of said city-city reof Lewiston, and said city of Lewiston 'shall be responsible for all damages. all damages to any streets or ways, and to persons or property occasioned by such use of said streets and ways, and shall further be liable to pay to any town or city all sums of money recovered against said town or city for damages from obstructions or defects in said streets or ways caused by said city of Lewiston. sponsible for Board of missioners land. water com may take Section 3. The board of water commissioners of said city of Lewiston may enter upon any land within the limits of Androscoggin county not occupied for the maintenance of any system of municipal water supply, for locating the necessary aqueducts, pipes, locks or other structures, doing no unnecessary damage, and said city of Lewiston may take and hold the quantity of land necessary in the opinion of said water commissioners for plan of -shall file such lands CHAP. 153 in registry of deeds. -may then enter upon lands so taken. -shall file notice of such taking. City liable for all damages. -how assessed, in case of disagreement. any of the purposes above named; and within thirty days after determining the quantity of land and the boundaries thereof to be taken and held, said city of Lewiston shall file in the registry of deeds for the county of Androscoggin, notice of said taking, together with plans and descriptions of said land, with the purposes for which it is taken, signed by the aforesaid water commissioners, and after filing said plans and descriptions and purposes, may enter upon, take and hold the land included in said descriptions for the purposes designated therein, and may use any portion of the land so taken and held, with any materials thereon, in the erection of any structure, making any grade, fill or embankment, the damages therefor to be assessed as provided in section four of this act, and whenever said city of Lewiston shall, under the provisions of this act, take water from any of the sources therein named, it shall file in the registry of deeds in said county of Androscoggin, a notice of said taking, describing the size, location and depth of the pipe or pipes through which water is to be taken from said sources. Section 4. The city of Lewiston shall be liable for the damages sustained by any persons or corporations in their. property by the taking of any land for pipes, aqueducts, gates, dams or other structures used by said city in conveying the water as aforesaid, and shall be liable for damages for any land taken under the provisions of this act, and said city of Lewiston shall also be liable for all legal damages sustained by any persons or corporations by the taking of any water, water sources, water rights, privileges or easements by said city under any of the provisions of this act. Should said city of Lewiston be unable to agree upon the damages to be paid for said location, taking and holding, with any person or corporation claiming damages by reason of the taking of any land, water, water source, water right, privilege or easement under the provisions of this act, any such person or corporation or said city of Lewiston may, within twelve months after the filing of said notices, plans and description, apply to the commissioners of the county of Androscoggin, who shall cause such damages to be assessed in the same manner and under the same restrictions, conditions, limitations and rights of appeal, as are by law prescribed in the case of damages for the laying out of highways, so far as such law is consistent with the provisions of this act. Section 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1899. Chapter 154. An Act to amend Chapter two hundred and twenty-six of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, as amended by Chapter five hundred and two of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, relating to the free bridge across Salt Pond in Bluehill. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. Section two of chapter two hundred and twentysix of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, as amended by chapter five hundred and two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby amended by striking out all of said section after the word "pass" in the third line thereof, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: How bridge constructed. 'Section 2. Said bridge shall be constructed of good mate- shall be rials, the abutments and pier to be of stone or wood, six feet above common tides in that part where gondolas may pass.' Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1899. Chapter 155. An Act to amend Chapter four hundred and nineteen of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Penobscot East Branch Log Driving Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 2, chapter 419, 1897, special laws amended. shall keep account of expenses. Section I. Section two of chapter four hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended by adding to said section the following words: 'Said corporation shall keep a true and itemized account of all the expenses incurred in making all the improvements herein provided and a separate account shall be kept for each place so improved. For removing obstructions, building dams and side dams, erecting piers and booms and making all the improvements to improve the navigation of said river as hereinbefore provided, all the logs or other lumber driven in said river between Grand Lake dam and the West branch at said Medway, whether driven by said corpo- for improveration or by the owners of said logs or other lumber, shall be assessed for the payment of said improvements as hereinafter set out; and there shall be a lien upon all said logs or other lumber for the payment of the assessments so made to be enforced as hereinafter provided. The members of said corporation owning -owners of logs shall be assessed ments. lien on payment. logs for |