CHAP. 43 or pending until he can attend, when said actions may be entered or disposed of with the same effect as if it were the first day of the term; and it may be so adjourned without day when necessary, in which event pending actions shall be considered as continued, and actions then returnable may be returned and entered at the next term with the same effect as if originally made returnable at said term. The rules of the supreme judicial court together with all the provisions of law relative to pleadings, practice, and proceedings in civil actions in the supreme judicial court, are hereby made applicable to this court, except so far as they are modified by the provisions of this act. -proceed ings in supreme judicial court, made applicable. Records, how kept. How fines shall be disposed of. Fees of the judge. Writs and processes, form of. Costs and fees. Section 8. It shall be the duty of the judge of said court to make and keep the records thereof in a permanent manner, or to cause the same to be so kept, and to perform all other duties required of similar tribunals in this state; and copies of the records of said court, duly certified by said judge, shall be legal evidence in all courts. Section 9. All fines and penalties awarded and received by said judge shall be accounted for and paid over, as if the same had been awarded and received by a trial justice. Section 10. The fees of the judge which he shall demand. and receive for his services shall be as follows: For every blank writ signed by him, five cents; for entry of each civil action, fifty cents; for every warrant issued by him, one dollar; for the trial of an issue in a civil or criminal case, two dollars, and the same for every day occupied in the hearing of a case after the first day; and all fees not herein specified he shall receive the sums allowed for similar services to trial justices. Section II. Writs and processes issued by said court shall be in the form provided by law, and shall be served as like precepts are required to be served when issued by trial justices except that writs in which the debt or damages demanded, exceed twenty dollars shall be served at least fourteen days. before the sitting of the court at which they are made returnable, and no writ shall be made returnable at a term of the court to begin more than three months after the commencement of the action. Section 12. Costs and fees allowed to parties and attorneys in all actions before said court, in which the debt or damages recovered does not exceed twenty dollars, shall be the same as are allowed in actions before trial justices, except that the plaintiff if he prevail shall be allowed one dollar for his writ, and the defendant if he prevail one dollar for his pleadings; but in cases where the damages do exceed twenty dollars, the fees and costs shall be the same as in the supreme judicial CHAP. 43 court. ing to attachments, applicable to actions this court. brought in Section 13. All the provisions of the statutes of this state Laws relatin relation to attachments of real and personal property, and the levy of execution on the same shall be applicable to actions brought in this court, which shall have authority to issue execution to be satisfied in the same manner as though issuing from the supreme judicial court, except that no such execution shall be levied on real estate unless the debt or damages therein exceed the sum of twenty dollars. Section 14. The Norway Municipal Court, and trial justices of the county of Oxford, shall have power and jurisdiction over all actions and suits pending before them at the time this act shall take effect, or commenced previous to that time and returnble before them on a day subsequent thereto, to the same extent as if this act had not been passed; and in like manner shall have the same authority and jurisdiction to issue any execution on any judgment recovered, or which shall be recovered before. them as aforesaid, in any action as if this act had not passed. Section 15. The Norway Municipal Court, or any trial justice in the town of Rumford, may take cognizance of any action, matter or thing within their jurisdiction, wherein the judge of said Rumford Falls Municipal Court is a party or interested. Section 16. Said judge shall render to the county treasurer, semi-annually, on the second Tuesdays of April and October, a true statement in writing signed and sworn to by him, of all sums of money received or which he is entitled to receive by virtue of his said office, for the six months ending on the last days of March and September of each year, and pay to said treasurer all money due said county; and on said second Tuesdays of April and October, he shall produce and exhibit his civil and criminal dockets to the court of county commissioners of said county for their examination, and also the original papers on file in his court, if they shall so require. Section 17. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1899. Jurisdicpending tion over actions. When judge is a party, other courts cognizance may take of any action within their jurisdiction. Moneys judge, how received by accounted for and disposed of. CHAP. 44 Corpora tors. Corporate name. -purposes. -may make by-laws. Capital stock. May hold real estate. Police pow ers conferred. First meeting. Chapter 44. An Act to incorporate the Madawaska Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. John Cyr, Joseph Pelletier, Arthur Daigle, Charles Dufour, Alexis Dufour, Ubald Dufour, Alexis Cyr, Eloi Albert, David Dufour, Joseph Daigle, Ubald Daigle, Regis Hebert and their associates, successors and assigns, be and hereby are made a body politic and corporate by the name of Madawaska Agricultural Society, with its principal place of business located at Madawaska, in the county of Aroostook and state of Maine, for the purpose of promoting and improving generally agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, breeding and raising of all animals, the mechanic arts and manufactures connected therewith. Said corporation shall have the power to make such by-laws and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state of Maine as it may deem necessary, for the management of its affairs and in general shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges incident and generally granted to similar corporations. Section 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, and shall be fixed at the first meeting of the corporation, and may be thereafter increased to a sum not exceeding said sum of one thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one dollar each. Section 3. Said corporation shall have power to hold by purchase, lease, devise, bequest or gift real estate not exceeding in value, exclusive of improvements, the sum of eight hundred dollars, and personal property not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred dollars. Section 4. Said corporation shall have all the police powers together with all other powers and privileges, at all its exhibitions of whatever kind, which are conferred upon agricultural societies by sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of chapter fifty-eight of the revised statutes, and any amendments thereof and additions thereto; and the prohibitions, restrictions, forfeitures and penalties provided by section nineteen of said chapter fifty-eight shall be applicable to all exhibitions of the corporation. Section 5. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by written notice thereof, signed by any corporator therein named, served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand, or by leaving the same at his last and usual place CHAP. 45 of abode seven days at least before the time of meeting. Section 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1899. Chapter 45. An Act to incorporate the South West Harbor Dam and Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Corporate -authorized to erect breakwater. dam or -location. structed. Section 1. Charles E. Cook, Henry Clark, Walter Stanley, J. Corporators. B. Mason, A. I. Holmes, George Harman, Joseph D. Phillips, George R. Fuller, S. W. Herrick, Pedrick D. Gilley, Robie M. Norwood, Junior, George E. Street, Cyrus Lurvey, Stephen M. Gilley, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the South West Harbor Dam and Bridge Company, for the purpose of building, erecting and maintaining a dam or breakwater across the mouth or out- name. let of Norwood's cove in tide waters in the town of Tremont, county of Hancock and state of Maine, at such place as said corporation may deem convenient and practicable, near the site of the old mill dam, near the mouth or outlet of said Norwood's cove and extending such distance above or below the high tides as may be desirable, with an opening therein with such tide-how congates and locks, if any, as may be required to let the tide waters into and retain the same in said Norwood's cove. Said dam or breakwater to be constructed of such size and material and in such manner as said company may determine. Said corporation -authorized may construct and maintain a bridge across the outlet or mouth of said Norwood's cove in tide waters, said bridge shall have a draw of such width as the county commissioners shall approve. Said company may occupy any land necessary for its dam or breakwater and bridge, piers and abutments for its construction and maintenance. It may enter upon such land to make surveys and locations, and shall file in the registry of deeds of Hancock, plans of such location and lands and within thirty days thereafter, publish notice thereof in some newspaper in said county, such publication to be continued three weeks successively. Should the said company and the owner of such land be case of unable to agree upon damages to be paid for such location, occupation and construction, the land owner may, within two years after filing of plans of location, apply to the commissioners of to construct bridge. -shall file plans of location registry of -damages, how determined in disagreement. -may hold real estate. CHAP. 46 said county and have such damages assessed as is provided by law in cases wherein land is taken by railroads. Failure to apply for damages within said two years shall be held as waiver of the same. Said company for all its said purposes may hold real and personal estate sufficient, necessary and convenient therefor. The capital stock of said company shall be four thousand dollars and shall be divided in shares of fifty dollars each. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by a notice signed by any two of the corporators, posted for five days before the day fixed for the meeting, in the post office in the village of South West Harbor, in said town of Tremont. -capital stock. -first meeting. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1899. Corporators. -corporate name. -purposes. May take Paris and -construct dams, etc. -height of dam fixed. May lay pipes, etc., along highways. Chapter 46. An Act to incorporate the Hebron Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. William E. Sargent, Henry K. Stearns, A. R. Crane, Frank R. Glover, Percival Bonney, Sylvanus Bearce and W. S. Bearce, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation under the name of the Hebron Water Company, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the town of Hebron with suitable water for industrial, domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes, including the extinguishment of fire; with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities and obligations of similar corporations under the laws of this state. Section 2. For any of the purposes aforesaid, the said corporation is hereby authorized to take and use water from Hall's pond in the town of Paris, or from any spring, brook or other waters in the town of Hebron; to conduct and distribute the same into and through the said towns of Paris and Hebron; and to survey for, locate, construct and maintain suitable and convenient dams, reservoirs, buildings, machinery, lines of pipes, aqueducts, structures and appurtenances. It is expressly provided that any dam constructed at the outlet of Hall's pond shall not exceed three and one-half feet in height measured from the present bed of the outlet from said pond. Section 3. The said corporation is hereby authorized to lay, construct and maintain in, under, through, along, over and across the highways, ways, streets and bridges in the said towns |