-all duties of public officers pertaining to elections, CHAP. 191 performed by the mayor, aldermen and city clerk of the city of Deering, or either of them, pertaining to the election of a representative in congress, senators and members of the house of representatives, and all said duties heretofore required by law to be performed by the mayor, aldermen and city clerk of the city of Portland or either of them, shall in like manner devolve upon and be performed by the board of mayor and aldermen and city clerk of the city of Portland.' shall be performed by officers of city of Portland. Approved March 17, 1899. Lawful to take salmon for home consumption in drift nets, in Penobscot river, above waterworks. -nets shall used within Commissioners may suspend operations of this act, if privilege is abused. Chapter 191. An Act pertaining to the taking of Salmon in the Penobscot River, above the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. It shall be lawful for the inhabitants of this state to take salmon for their own consumption in their own homes with drift nets, the meshes of which shall be not less than two and one-half inches square, from six o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday to six o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday of each week, from the waterworks dam at Bangor, to the mouth of the Sebois river, so called, on the east branch of the Penobscot river, during open season, but not within three hundred yards of any dam or mill race. Section 2. If in the judgment of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, the privileges granted by section one are abused, misused, or are detrimental to the proper propagation of the salmon fisheries on any part of the Penobscot river, said commissioners shall have power and are hereby authorized to suspend the operation of this act. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1893. CHAP. 192 Chapter 192. An Act to incorporate the Wilton Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: poration es tablished. limits. -corporate name. to raise money for certain purposes. Section I. The territory in the town of Wilton embraced Village corwithin the following limits, namely: what was formerly school district Number Nine in said Wilton, together with the inhabitants thereon, is hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Wilton Village Corporation. Section 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized at any Authorized legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise by assessment, as hereinafter provided, such sums of money as may be deemed necessary and sufficient, not exceeding the amount provided for in section six of this act, for organizing and maintaining within the limits of said corporation, an efficient fire department; for building, purchasing, renting, repairing, and maintaining engine houses, hook and ladder carriage houses, and lock ups or police stations; for purchasing, repairing and maintaining fire engines, hose, ladders, buckets, machines and other apparatus for the extinguishment and prevention of fire; for building and maintaining and repairing sidewalks; for lighting streets; for setting out, maintaining and caring for shade trees; to pay for the services of one or more police officers, to whom the corporation may remay vote a salary or other compensation; and may receive, hold and manage devises, bequests or gifts for any of the above purposes. ceive bequests, etc. -tenure. Section 3. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a Officers. clerk, treasurer, collector, three assessors, each of said assessors shall be an owner of real estate within the corporation limits and shall serve one year without compensation, and such other officers or agents of the corporation provided for by its by-laws shall be appointed by the assessors; and said officers shall hold office for one year from the date of their election, until their successors are chosen and qualified, and shall severally have exclu- -powers. sively all the power and authority within the limits of said corporation, that similar officers, chosen by towns, now have or may have. Section 4. Said assessors shall be the general municipal officers of said corporation, and shall have charge of its affairs and of the expenditure of money therein. Section 5. Said police officers and night watchman shall have, within the limits of said corporation, the power of constables in matters criminal or relating to the by-laws and ordinances of said corporation. Assessors general shall have charge of affairs. Powers of police of ficers. CHAP. 192 Money may be raised on polls -poll tax. Section 6. All moneys which may be raised for the purposes aforesaid, and for any other purpose for which the corpoand assessed ration may raise money, shall be assessed upon the taxable polls and estates embraced within the limits of said corporation by the assessors thereof, in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment of town taxes, provided that it shall not be legal for this corporation to assess polls exceeding two dollars, nor estates at a rate exceeding three-fourth of one mill on the dollar, and that the total appropriations together with any indebtedness shall not exceed the maximum amount of one assessment based upon the town valuation of the property within corporation limits in any one year, as herein provided, and the said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Wilton, and assess the tax thereon, or may correct said valuation or make a new one thereof, according to the principles established by the last act establishing a state law; and assess the tax on that valuation. -rate of taxation. -valuation. Assessors shall assess tax. -treasurer or collector shall collect, as towns collect taxes. -power to enforce payment. All moneys -collector and treasurer shall give bonds. May adopt by-laws. Section 7. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation by the clerk thereof, of the amount of money 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 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 moneys 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. Section 9. Said corporation, at any legal meeting called for that purpose, may adopt by-laws and make all needful rules and ordinances for the organization and government of said cor- CHAP. 193 poration, 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. F. J. Goodspeed, H. R. Dascomb and J. W. Perkins, 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 meetings of the corporation, a moderator shall in like manner be chosen and have the same power as in town meetings. 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. When charter may be ac cepted. meeting for how called. acceptance, First elec tion, when held. of voters. Section 12. All persons liable to be taxed for polls, residing Eligibility 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 17, 1899. When act effect, but bind inhab shall take shall not itants. Chapter 193. An Act to extend the charter of the Kennebec and Franklin Railway. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The time within which the Kennebec and Franklin Railway, a corporation created by chapter seventy of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may file its locations and commence operations for building its lines, is hereby extended to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one. Charter of and Franklin tended." Kennebec Railway, ex Approved March 17, 1899. CHAP. 194 Abutting owners may be required sidewalk in front of lot. Chapter 194. An Act relating to the construction of sidewalks in the City of Auburn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The city council of Auburn may require the owner of any lot of ground fronting on a street or way in said to construct city to construct a sidewalk in front of said lot, laid with brick, flat stones, concrete or other materials, as the city council may prescribe, with suitable curbs, the same to be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the street commissioner and such sidewalk shall be maintained and kept in repair by the city of Auburn. But no owner shall be required to construct as aforesaid more than two hundred feet in length of sidewalk in front of any unimproved lots in any one street. -limit. Owner shall be reimbursed, onehalf of amount expended. If owner neglects to construct such sidewalk, commissioner shall, in scribed. Section 2. If the owner of such lot shall construct such sidewalk in accordance with the requirement of the city council, he shall be reimbursed by the city of Auburn for one-half the reasonable expenditure incurred by him in constructing such sidewalk, to be certified by the street commissioner and approved by the joint standing committee on streets. Section 3. If the owner of such lot shall neglect to construct such sidewalk as aforesaid, and to provide such curb stones, for the space of twenty days after he or the tenant of such lot shall have been thereto required, in writing, by the street commismanner pre- sioner, it shall then be the duty of said commissioner to construct such sidewalk and provide curb stones in the manner prescribed by the city council as aforesaid, and the city of Auburn shall have a lien on the property for the amount of one-half the expense of said sidewalk and curb, to be enforced in the same manner and with all rights to the parties interested as provided in chapter two hundred and eighty-five of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act relating to the construction of drains and common sewers." -city shall have lien for payment. When act shall take effect. Section 4. This act shall take effect when it shall have been accepted by the city council of the city of Auburn, at any regular meeting thereof. Approved March 17, 1899. |