CHAP. 206 Powers and privileges. Bridge to be suitable for teams, foot passengers and electric cars. -may make contracts for certain purposes. Section 6, amended. Notice for how given. 'Section 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be fixed from. time to time by the corporation.' Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to erect, maintain and operate manufacturing establishments, and to own and operate sailing or steam vessels. The right of eminent domain authorized by its charter shall not be exercised by said company for any of the purposes of this section. Section 4. In the erection and maintenance of the bridge authorized by its said charter said company is authorized to so build and maintain the same that it will also be suitable for teams, foot passengers, and electric cars. The said corporation, its successors and assigns, may make all necessary contracts with street railroad companies for their appropriate use thereof, and such street railroad companies are hereby authorized to enter into such contracts. It may also contract from time to time with the city of Waterville and the town of Winslow, or either of them, for the public use of that portion of said bridge suitable for teams and foot passengers. Said city and town may execute such contracts through their municipal officers hereby authorized so to do, and moneys may be raised and appropriated therefor as for other necessary town charges. Section 5. Section six of said charter is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 'Section 6. The first meeting of said corporators shall be first meeting, called by either of them by notice by him signed, given in hand or mailed, postage prepaid, to the others, at least seven days. before such meeting. Any corporator may act at said meeting by proxy.' Act shall take Section 6. This act shall take effect only when the directors of the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, shall file a written assent hereto in the office of the secretary of state, and to empower the filing of such assent it shall take effect when approved by the governor. Approved March 15, 1905. CHAP. 207 Chapter 207. An Act to legalize and make valid the acts of Phillips Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The acts and doings of Phillips Village Corporation in their corporation meeting of February fourth, nineteen hundred and five, relating to obtaining from the legislature an amendment to section ten of chapter four hundred and ninety of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eightyfive; and relating to obtaining from the legislature authority to purchase the entire works of the Phillips Water Company, are hereby legalized and made valid. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. Doings of village made valid. Corporation Phillips Chapter 208. An Act to authorize the removal of bodies of deceased persons from the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The town of Freedom is hereby empowered to authorize some suitable person to take up from the old cemetery in the town of Freedom, known as Freedom cemetery, the bodies and remains of all deceased persons buried therein, and all headstones and markers at the graves therein, and remove the said bodies and remains to the Pleasant Hill cemetery, so called, in said town, and there decently inter the same, and properly reset such headstones and markers over such dead bodies and remains at the expense of said town. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. Chapter 209. An Act to confirm the organization of the Sebec Power Company and amend its charter extending its corporate powers and purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: made valid. Section I. The proceedings of the incorporation and organ- Organization ization of the Sebec Power Company are hereby confirmed and made valid. CHAP. 209 May take lands, etc. May erect poles, etc. May pass and repass over shores. Section 2. Said company is hereby authorized and empow ered to transmit, distribute, supply and sell electricity for lighting, heating, manufacturing or for mechanical purposes, in the following places in the state of Maine. Sebec, Barnard, Milo, Brownville, Atkinson, Dover, Foxcroft, Sangerville, Dexter, except said company shall not engage in the distribution of electricity for lighting purposes within any town where an existing corporation is selling and distributing electricity for lighting purposes, provided, however, the Sebec Power Company may sell electricity to such corporations. The Sebec Power Company is hereby authorized and empowered to take as for public uses, such lands as may be necessary to erect, construct, maintain and operate transmission lines, lines of wire or other material, for the transmission of electricity in and through the towns and places named in this section for the purpose of transmitting, distributing, supplying and selling electricity in such places in accordance with the provisions of this act. Section 3. Said company is hereby further authorized and empowered to construct and maintain the transmission lines and wires aforesaid, under and across any stream or river, and under, along, upon and over streets, ways and bridges in said towns. In erecting poles and locating said lines of wire, upon, along and over the streets, ways and bridges, and under any stream or river, said corporation shall be subject to the laws of the state applicable to corporations which are authorized to make, generate, sell, distribute and supply electricity for manufacturing purposes, and shall have all the rights and powers of such corporations in the erection of poles and conduits and the constructing, laying and maintaining lines of wire. Section 4. Said Sebec Power Company, its successors and assigns, shall have all the rights and privileges enumerated in chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes of the year nineteen hundred and three, and be subject to all the conditions and liabilities specified in said chapter, and in addition thereto may take as for public uses such lands as may be necessary for the location, construction and maintenance of dams on and canals near Sebec river in the county of Piscataquis at Half Mile Rips, so called, and maintain piers and booms in said river, and connect said booms with the shores of said river, and may with their agents pass and repass over said shores to and from the same over the lands of other persons, for the purposes aforesaid, and for the operation and management of said booms. Said company shall be held liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any person or persons by the taking of any lands or rights of way, and for any other injuries resulting from said acts, and if any person sustaining damage as aforesaid shall not agree with the said company upon the sum to be paid therefor, either party on petition to the county commissioners of Piscataquis county, may have said damage assessed by them, and subsequent proceedings and right of appeal thereon shall be had in the same manner and under the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as are by law prescribed in case of damages by the laying out of highways. CHAP. 210 bonds. Section 5. Said Sebec Power Company is hereby authorized May issue and empowered to issue its bonds for the purposes of its business in such amounts, and on such rates and time as it may deem expedient, and to secure the payment of principal and interest on such bonds by proper mortgages or deeds of trust on any or part of its property, franchises, rights and privileges now owned or to be hereafter acquired by it. Section 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. Chapter 210. An Act to amend Chapter three hundred and ninety-one of the Private and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. Chapter three hundred and ninety-one of the private and special laws of Maine for the year nineteen hundred and three is hereby amended by striking out the word "and" in the third line of section two in said chapter and adding after the word "Guilford," the words 'and Sebec, adjoining places,' so that said section two, shall read as follows: Chapter 391, private and amended. special laws 1903, Territorial limits of 'Section 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct, own, maintain and operate a telephone line or lines any franchise. where in the towns of Foxcroft, Guilford and Sebec, adjoining places in Piscataquis county, along and upon any public highway or bridge in said towns, subject to the control of the municipal officers of said towns, but in such a manner as not to incom- restrictions. mode or endanger the customary public use thereof, and said company may cut down any trees standing within the limits of any highway except ornamental or shade trees, where necessary, for the erection, use and safety of its lines.' Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. --powers and CHAP. 211 Close time for oysters in Dyer's and Sheepscot rivers. Chapter 211. An Act to prohibit the taking of Oysters from Dyer's and Sheepscot Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. No person shall, between the date of the approval of this act and the first day of April in the year nineteen hundred and seven, take or in any manner destroy, or interfere with the growth of oysters in the waters of Dyer's and Sheepscot rivers in the county of Lincoln, under a penalty of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every violation of this section. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. Repeal of act forbidding ice fishing in Narraguagus lake. Chapter 212. An Act to repeal the first clause of sub-division entitled "In Washington County" of Section one, Chapter four hundred seven of the Private and Special Laws of nineteen hundred and three entitled "An Act to consolidate and revise certain laws relating to closing certain lakes and ponds to ice fishing." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legisiature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The first clause, namely: "It shall be unlawful to fish through the ice for any kind of fish in Narraguagus lake in Beddington," of sub-division entitled "In Washington County," of section one of chapter four hundred seven of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred three is hereby repealed. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. All persons forbidden to put mill waste, etc., into tributaries Chapter 213. An Act for the protection of Fish in the tributaries of Upper Kezar Pond, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. No person shall put, or allow the same to be done by any person within his employ, into any of the tributaries of Upper Kezar pond, in Lovell, Oxford County, any mill waste, slabs, edgings, sawdust, or any other mill waste of a fibrous |