right other roads upon terms may connect agreed upon Section 10. No other person or corporation shall be per- CHAP. 158 mitted to construct or maintain any railroad for similar purposes Exclusive over the same streets or ways that may be lawfully occupied by granted. this corporation, but any person or corporation lawfully operating any horse or electric railroad to any point to which this corporation's tracks extend, may enter upon, connect with and use the same on such terms and in such manner as may be agreed upon between the parties, or if they shall not agree, to be determined by the railroad commissioners for the state of Maine. Section II. Said corporation is hereby authorized to issue May issue bonds in such amount, and on such time as may from time to time, be determined, in aid of the purposes specified in this act, and to secure the same by a mortgage of its franchises and property. It is also hereby authorized to lease all of its property and franchises upon such terms as it may determine. Section 12. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by any two of said corporators giving actual notice in writing to their several associates, and said corporation may make such by-laws as are proper and not contrary to the laws of the state. Section 13. This charter shall be null and void unless operations for building said railway shall have been actually commenced within two years from the passage of this act. Section 14. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1899. by parties. bonds and mortgage property. First meet ing, how called. When charvoid. ter becomes Chapter 158. An Act to amend Chapter seventy-two, Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in relation to the taking of fish in Nequasset Lake. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Chapter seventy-two of the special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be and is hereby amended by inserting after the words "Back river" in the eighth line of said section the following; 'nor in the waters of Nequasset lake or the tributaries thereof.' Also by inserting after the word "stream" in the twelfth line of said section the words; 'or in the waters of said lake or its tributaries,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 1. No person without license and authority of the town of Woolwich shall, by any weir, hedge, pound, seine, drift net, dip net or other apparatus, device or contrivance take any weir, etc., without license, be tween April 15 and August 1, forbidden. CHAP. 159 alewives in the waters of Nequasset stream at any place between the bridge of the Knox and Lincoln railroad and the point at low water where the channel of said stream makes its junction with the Sassanoa river, commonly called Back river, nor in the waters of Nequasset lake or the tributaries thereof, nor shall any person without such license and authority, between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of August in each year, construct, have or maintain any weir, hedge, pound or other device or contrivance capable of taking alewives in the channel of said stream or in the waters of said lake or its tributaries or the flats thereto ⚫ contiguous within the limits aforesaid.' Approved March 15, 1899. Corporators. -corporate name. Powers, rights and privileges. Trustees. -quorum. Chapter 159. An Act to incorporate the Wiscasset Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Clarence A. Peaslee, Richard T. Rundlett, Emerson Hilton, E. Fred Albee, Sol Holbrook, Charles S. Sewall and Wilbur F. Merrill, their associates and successors, are hereby created a corporation and body politic by the name of the Wiscasset Academy, to be established and maintained in the town of Wiscasset in the county of Lincoln, for the purpose of the promotion of education, literature and science, the same to be nonsectarian in character. Section 2. Said corporation is hereby vested with all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities incident to similar corporations, may have and use a common seal, prosecute and defend suits at law, make and establish by-laws and regulations for the management of its affairs and the proper government of the academy, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state, and hold estate, real and personal, which it may now have, or may hereafter receive by gift, grant, devise, purchase or otherwise, to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars. Section 3. The number of trustees of said academy shall not at any time be more than nine nor less than five, a majority of said board to be at all times citizens of Wiscasset. A majority of the trustees shall constitute quorum to do business, and the persons above named, with such others as they may associate with them, not exceeding nine in all, shall be the trustees of said corporation, and said trustees or their successors may fill all vacancies in their board, and may remove any trustee when inca- CHAP. 160 pable through age or otherwise to discharge the duties of said office. Section 4. All deeds or conveyances of said real estate made under the direction of the trustees, in behalf of said corporation, and sealed with its seal, and signed and acknowledged by its treasurer shall be valid in law. Section 5. All children between the ages of ten and twentyone years, having their usual and legal residence in said town of Wiscasset shall have the right to attend said academy, and have all its equal privileges and advantages free of charge of tuition or otherwise in the same manner and to the same extent as in a free high school. Section 6. Clarence A. Peaslee, Richard T. Rundlett and E. Fred Albee or any two of them, are hereby authorized to appoint the time and place for holding the first meeting of the trustees, by giving to all the trustees personal notice thereof in writing or by publishing a notice in some newspaper published in the county of Lincoln seven days previous to said meeting. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved. (This act was presented to the Governor on the ninth day of March and retained by him for more than five days, Sundays not included, when it was forwarded to the office of the Secretary of State, without approval, and took effect March 15, 1899.) Conveyances of trustees valid. shall be Children of Wiscasset shall have attend with right to out tuition. First meet ing how called. Chapter 160. An Act to provide for insurance on the Gorham Normal School buildings, Farmington Normal School building, Castine Normal School building, and Madawaska Training School buildings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The trustees of the state normal schools are hereby authorized and empowered to insure for a sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars the Gorham Normal School buildings, Farmington Normal School building, Castine Normal School building, and Madawaska Training School buildings for a term of three years. Approved March 16, 1899. CHAP. 161 Charter extended, for two years. -restrictions. Organization, confirmed. Authorized to hold stocks and bonds of other curporations. Chapter 161. An Act relating to Chapter three hundred and sixty-six of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Livermore Falls Water Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The rights, powers and privileges granted by chapter three hundred and sixty-six of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Livermore Falls Water Company," as amended by chapter five hundred and fifty-two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven are hereby extended for and during the term of two years from February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, subject, however, to all the restrictions, limitations and conditions contained in said original charter as amended by chapter five hundred and fifty-two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the time within which said corporation may commence actual business under its charter is hereby extended for the term of two years from February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Section 2. The organization of said The Livermore Falls Water Company is hereby confirmed, ratified and made valid. Section 3. The said The Livermore Falls Water Company is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, hold and dispose of shares of the capital stock and mortgage bonds of other similar corporations located and doing business in Livermore, East Livermore and Jay, provided the same are acquired in the usual course of business of said corporation. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1899. CHAP. 162 Chapter 162. An Act granting the Dennysville Lumber Company additional rights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Company authorized to maintain dam across Dennys river. Section 1. The Dennysville Lumber Company of Dennysville in the state of Maine is hereby authorized to maintain their dam across the Dennys river at Dennysville, for the purpose of raising a sufficient head of water to drive logs and run its mills at said Dennysville, also to maintain their dam across said Dennys river at Gilman's rips in the town of Charlotte, and their dam at the outlet of Meddybemps lake in the town of Meddybemps, and their dam on Stony brook in the town of Baileyville, and to build and maintain wing dams where the same may be necessary in said Dennys river, and to clear out rocks and other obstructions. obstructions in said Dennys river for the purpose of facilitating the passage of logs and lumber down said Dennys river, with all the powers, privileges and immunities and subject to all the duties, liabilities and obligations under the general laws of the state, of corporations to which similar powers and rights are granted. Section 2. Said company may demand and receive a toll of one and a half cents on each log or stick that may be driven down said river from Meddybemps lake, and a toll of one cent on each log or stick that may be driven down said river from below said Meddybemps lake and above the Gilman rips dam, and a toll of three-fourths of a cent on each log or stick that may be driven down said river from below said Gilman rips dam. And shall have a lien on all logs and lumber for the payment of the tolls. And if the said toll is not paid within thirty days after the passage of the logs or lumber or a major part of the same, the company may advertise such logs and lumber for sale in some newspaper printed in Calais or Eastport, giving ten days' notice of the time and place of sale, and sell at public auction so many of the said logs and lumber as shall be necessary to pay charges and tolls. Section 3. An account of the cost of all improvements and repairs made subsequent to the passage of this act shall be kept by the clerk or treasurer of said corporation, and when the corporation shall be reimbursed with interest, by said tolls, then the tolls shall be reduced to a sum sufficient to keep said dams and other improvements in repair. Approved March 16, 1899. -remove Tolls granted for driving logs. -lien on logs to sement. cure pay When tolls shall be reduced. |