CHAP. 173 --may hold real and personal estate. Board of directors. Proceedings if town desires to take over works of company. -tender. Works to be taken over at fair market value. --arbitration board. May issue bonds. Section 7. The capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twentyfive dollars each. The capital stock may by vote of the corporation be increased to fifty thousand dollars. Said corporation is authorized to hold such real and personal estate as is necessary and proper for the purposes of its incorporation. Section 8. The affairs of said corporation shall be controlled by a board of directors, consisting of not less than three members, who shall be citizens of the town of Milo, and elected annually by vote of the stockholders of the company, and such board of directors shall choose such other officers as may from time to time be required by the by-laws of the corporation. Section 9. Should the town of Milo, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, vote to take over the works of said company, and at any time subsequent to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ten, inform the said company of its intention to take over the said works, then, and in that case, the company will within sixty days after the receipt of said intention of said town, and upon the tender of the fair market value at the time of the said works, including all the rights and franchises of the company, convey and make over to the said town, the said water and sewer works and systems in their entirety as they then exist, and make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver such deeds, conveyances, transfers, or other instruments as may be necessary to secure to said town all and every right, title, and interest, whether in law or in equity, which the said company may have in said water or sewer works or systems. Section 10. Should said water and sewer works and systems be taken over by the town as aforesaid, the consideration to be paid by the town therefor shall be the fair market value of said works at the time of taking, including the rights and franchises of the company, as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto. And should said parties be unable to agree upon the amount, the same shall be left for the determination of three persons to be chosen as follows: one by the town, one by the company, and the third, who shall be a person learned in the law and a resident of Piscataquis county, shall be appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court, and the finding of the aforementioned three parties shall be final and conclusive in the matter as between the parties. Section II. Said corporation may issue bonds for the construction of its works, upon such rates and terms as it may deem expedient, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and secure the same by mortgage of its franchises and property. CHAP. 174 May make Section 12. Said corporation may make contracts with any person, partnership, or corporation, or with the town of Milo, contracts. for the purposes mentioned in the powers above mentioned, and may make such reasonable charge for water for public or private use, or for entering into their sewer system with private drains or sewers as they may deem advisable. Section 13. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 8, 1905. Chapter 174. An Act to extend the charter of the Lily Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The rights, powers and privileges of the Lily Water Company, which were granted by chapter one hundred and two of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and three, are hereby extended for two years from the approval of this act; 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 March 8, 1905. Lily Water charter Company, extended. Chapter 175. An Act to change the name of Lower Stone Pond to Lake Keewaydin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Lower Stone changed. That the name of the pond heretofore known as Lower Stone pond situated in the town of Stoneham, Oxford county, be, and pond, name the same hereby is changed from Lower Stone pond to Lake Keewaydin. Approved March 8, 1905. CHAP. 176 Upper Stone pond, name changed. Chapter 176. An Act to change the name of Upper Stone Pond to Virginia Lake. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: That the name of the pond heretofore known as Upper Stone pond, situated in the town of Stoneham, Oxford county, be, and the same hereby is changed from Upper Stone pond to Virginia lake. Approved March 8, 1905. Sebec Lake Lumber Co., authorized to maintain wharf. Authorized to maintain boom. Chapter 177. An Act to authorize the Sebec Lake Lumber Company, its successors and assigns, to maintain a wharf and boom in Sebec Lake. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The Sebec Lake Lumber Company, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to erect, maintain and control a private wharf from its shore front a few feet westerly from the boat house occupied by Marion F. Atkins, and near the end of the road as traveled to Sebec lake, extending one hundred fifty feet into the waters of said Sebec lake in the town of Foxcroft, in the county of Piscataquis, substantially as now located. Section 2. Said company is hereby further authorized to maintain a boom, one end of which to be attached to the shore of said Sebec Lake Lumber Company, at a point just easterly from said Marion F. Atkins' said boat house; the other end of which to be attached to the shore of said Sebec lake at the point where the east line of lot number nine, range nine, in said Foxcroft touches said shore, and extending into the waters of Sebec lake, also the right to place and maintain buoys in the waters of Sebec lake for the purpose of supporting such boom at distances not exceeding one hundred fifty feet from the shore of --restrictions. Sebec lake at low water mark. Provided, however, that the said Sebec Lake Lumber Company shall not place its piers upon or string its booms over or across the land of any other person or corporation. --authorized to place buoys. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 8, 1905. CHAP. 178 Chapter 178. An Act to set off a part of Plantation Number Seven, and annex it to the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. All that part of plantation number seven in the Sowle tract. county of Hancock, known as the Sowle tract, and described as follows: - boundaries Beginning on the north line of the town of Gouldsboro at the southwest corner of land owned by Bailey and Libby; thence of sowle running north along line of said land of Bailey and Libby, three miles, more or less, to land owned by Goodwin; thence west along the line of land of said Goodwin, one and one-half miles, more or less; thence south along the line of said Goodwin land to West Bay stream, so called; thence by said stream, southerly to the north line of said town of Gouldsboro; thence following said north line of Gouldsboro, generally easterly to the place of Number beginning, is hereby set off from said plantation Number Seven and annexed to the town of Gouldsboro, in Hancock county. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 8, 1905. --set off from Seven. --annexed to Gouldsboro. Chapter 179. An Act to regulate fishing in Marble Brook, Marble Pond, Chase Brook or Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Marble brook and Marble pond, to regulate fishing in. Section I. It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill in any way any kind of fish at any time in Marble brook and Marble pond, so called, tributary waters to the Piscataquis river, situated partly in the town of Blanchard, county of Piscataquis, or in Chase brook, sometimes called Blackstone brook, also situated partly in said Blanchard, or in Bolt brook, in Bald --Bolt brook. mountain township, in Somerset county. Section 2. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided in the general law for illegal fishing. -Chase Penalty for violation of this act. Approved March 9, 1905. CHAP. 180 Shell fish, taking of in town of Freeport, to prohibit. --except on written permit. -inhabitants may take for immediate use. Penalty for violation of this act. Chapter 180. An Act for the better protection of Shell Fish within the town of Freeport in the county of Cumberland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. No shell fish shall be taken from any flats within the limits of the town of Freeport, in Cumberland county, except by written permit of the municipal officers of the said town of Freeport, and payment to the said town for the privilege at such price as said town may establish at any town meeting, any existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, that without such permit, any inhabitant within said town, or any person temporarily resident therein, or the riparian owner of any such flats, may take therefrom for the immediate use of himself or his family, not exceeding one bushel at one tide. Section 2. Any person taking shell fish contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 9, 1905. Close time for scallops. Penalty for violation of this act. Act shall take effect April 1, 1905. Chapter 181. An Act to prohibit scallop fishing in Bluehill Bay from the first day of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. No person shall take, catch, kill or destroy any scallop or scallops in Bluehill bay and the waters adjacent as far east as a line drawn from Bass Harbor light southerly to Placentia island, between the first day of April and the first day of November in each and every year. Section 2. Any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be punished by a fine of one dollar for each and every scallop taken, caught, killed or destroyed contrary to the provisions of the foregoing section. Trial justices and judges of police and municipal courts shall have jurisdiction of all offenses under this act. Section 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five. Approved March 11, 1905. |