CHAP. 304 Aeceptance of this act to -not more than four Section 7. Said village corporation shall not proceed under the provisions of this act until after the same shall be accepted by a majority of the voters present at a meeting of said corporation called for that purpose. And there may be held not exceeding four such meetings within two years from the date of shall be held. approval of this act for said purpose of acceptance, the first one to be held within four months from said date of approval, and no subsequent meetings for that purpose to be held within four months of the next previous meeting. meetings -when meetings may be held. Required to Paris Street How property over. Section 8. Said South Paris Village Corporation shall be further required to purchase at a fair cash value of the Norway and Paris Street Railway Company, after this act shall have been legally accepted, all its poles set in the ground, cross arms and insulators thereon, wires strung and transformers, now in use within the limits of said South Paris Village Corporation, which were formerly owned by the Oxford Light Company, but no other property; provided said Norway and Paris Street Railway Company desires to dispose of the same and will deliver the same free of incumbrances; but said purchase shall not include any part of the property as above described not heretofore used and owned by said Oxford Light Company. Section 9. In case said village corporation fails to agree with said Norway and Paris Street Railway Company as the present owners of said property, upon the terms of purchase and value of the property above mentioned within three months after this act shall have been accepted by said village corporation, then the value of said property shall be determined by appraisal by three disinterested men, one to be designated by said Norway and Paris Street Railway Company, another by said village corporation, and the third to be chosen by the two thus designated. Each party shall notify the other in writing of the name of the person so chosen by it, and all subsequent proceedings in arriving at a hearing shall be under the direction of said appraisers, the award of whom, or a majority of whom, made in writing to each party shall be binding on both parties and shall be carried out within sixty days after such award is made. On payment, or tender, within said time by said village corporation of the amount so fixed, said property hereinbefore designated shall become vested in said South Paris Village Corporation and be free from all liens, mortgages, and incumbrances theretofore created by the Oxford Light Company, or the Norway and Paris Street Railway Company. Section 10. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. CHAP. 305 Chapter 305. An Act to amend Section four of Chapter four hundred fifty-five of the Private and Special Laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to incorporate the York Beach Village Corporation." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section four of chapter four hundred fifty-five of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to incorporate the York Beach Village Corporation," is hereby amended by inserting after the word "town," in the seventh line of said section, the words, 'said sum to be not less than onetenth part of said moneys so raised by said town,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: section 4, private and 1901, amended. chapter 455, special laws selectmen of York directed to apportion highways. money for --sum not to be less than one-tenth of by town. --said money, how to be expended. 'Section 4. The selectmen of the town of York are hereby authorized and directed to apportion on or before the tenth day of April annually, out of all the moneys raised by said town for repairs and maintenance of ways and bridges, a sum ample and sufficient for the proper care and maintenance of the ways within the limits of said corporation, the same to be forthwith certified to the treasurer of said town, said sum to be not less than onetenth part of said moneys so raised by said town, to be by him moneys raised set aside and paid out to the assessors of said corporation for maintenance and repairs as aforesaid, on the order of the selectmen in the same manner that money is paid out to road commissioners elected by towns. Sixty-five per cent of said money is to be expended by the corporation by its assessors, or their agent, under the general supervision of said selectmen, prior to the fifteenth day of July, and the balance to be in like manner expended at such time as said assessors deem for the best good of the public; and if such sum, apportioned as aforesaid, is deemed inadequate by the assessors of the corporation for the proper care and maintenance of said ways, and if said select-proceedings men neglect or refuse to apportion further sums, which shall be neglect to by said assessors deemed adequate, for ten days after the same have been requested of them in writing by said assessors, then said assessors may call a meeting of the corporation, at which the corporation may raise money for improvements and repairs upon its ways, to be assessed in the manner provided in section five of this act, to be expended for the purposes for which raised, by the corporation, by its assessors, or their agent, under the general supervision of the selectmen. For the purpose of expending money which has been apportioned by the selectmen as hereinbefore provided, said assessors shall first qualify and give bonds, as road commissioners elected if selectmen apportion further sums. Assessors shall qualify and give bonds. CHAP. 306 -rights, powers and duties of assessors. by towns are required to do, and having so qualified shall have exclusively within the limits of the corporation, the same rights, powers and duties, and shall be under the same obligations as said road commissioners, excepting that they shall not be required to qualify before the first Monday of April, as required by chapter thirty-two, section seven of the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, or to account to the selectmen for money raised by the corporation for said ways. Upon failure of said assessors to so qualify within ten days after their election by the corporation, said money apportioned to the corporation shall be expended by the town upon the highways within said corporation by the proper town authorities, as provided by general law. But this section shall not relieve the town of York of any duty in respect to the proper care and maintenance of said ways within the limits of said corporation.' Approved March 21, 1905. Section 5, chapter 334, charter Augusta Water District amended. Board of trustees. -organiza tion of board of trustees. -tenure of office of trustees. Chapter 306. An Act to amend the charter of the Augusta Water District. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section five of chapter three hundred and thirtyfour is hereby amended by striking out the words "three hundred dollars per annum" in the last sentence thereof, and inserting in place thereof the words 'one hundred dollars per annum,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 5. All the affairs of said water district shall be managed by a board of trustees composed of three members to be chosen by the municipal officers of the city of Augusta, but no member of the city council shall, during the term for which he is elected, be chosen one of said board of trustees. As soon as convenient after the members of said board have been chosen said trustees shall hold a meeting at the city rooms in the city of Augusta, and organize by the election of a president and clerk, adopt a corporate seal, and when necessary may choose a treasurer and all other needful officers and agents for the proper conduct and management of the affairs of said district. At said first meeting they shall determine by lot the term of office of each trustee, so that one shall serve for one year, one for two years and one for three years; and whenever the term of office of a trustee expires the said municipal officers of the city of Augusta shall appoint a successor to serve the full term of three years; and in case any other vacancy arises it shall be filled in like manner for the unexpired term. They may also ordain and establish such by-laws as are necessary for their own convenience and the proper management of the affairs of the district. The term of office of the trustees shall begin on the first Monday of August. Said trustees may procure an office and incur such expenses as may be necessary. Each member shall receive in full compensation for his services an allowance of one hundred dollars per annum.' Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. CHAP. 307 compensatrustees. tion of Chapter 307. An Act to incorporate the Buxton and Hollis Power Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: --corporate name. rights, Section 1. F. H. Hargraves, N. L. Hargraves, and A. W. Corporators. Flint, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate by the name of the Buxton and Hollis Power Company, with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and obligations conferred and imposed on cor- privileges. porations organized to sell, distribute and supply electricity for light, heat and power under the general laws of the state, except as otherwise provided herein. Section 2. Said company is authorized and empowered to carry on the business of manufacturing, generating, distributing, selling and supplying electricity for light, heat and power for all lawful purposes in the towns of Buxton, Hollis, Limington and Standish. powers and supply Authorized to towns of Limington Authorized to supply electricity to certain Section 3. Said corporation is further authorized to transmit, sell and supply electricity to electric light, heat and power or electric railroad companies and to S. D. Warren and Com- corporations. pany and to the Westbrook Electric Light and Power Company at points in the counties of York and Cumberland and for the purposes specified in the first three sections of this act said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to set, build, extend and maintain poles, lines and wires in, upon and over such streets and public ways in the counties of Cumberland and York as it may deem most expedient in carrying out the purpose of this act, under such reasonable restrictions as the municipal officers of the respective towns through which such poles, lines and wires may be established, may impose as to kind of may extend poles. and maintain CHAP. 308 Capital stock. May issue bonds. May develop water power at West Buxton. May sell its property to any other corporation for similar purposes. Notice of first meeting, how given. poles, the manner in which they shall be set and the height at which the wires shall be carried thereon. Section 4. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Section 5. Said company is hereby authorized to issue bonds for the construction of its works upon such rates and time and in such amounts as it may deem necessary, and to secure the same by appropriate mortgages upon its franchises and property, present and future. Section 6. Said corporation is further authorized to develop such water power as it may own or acquire at West Buxton for manufacturing purposes, and to engage in manufacturing through the use of such power. Section 7. Said corporation may sell and convey its rights, privileges, franchise and property to any other electric light, heat, power or electric railroad or manufacturing corporation chartered by this state or may purchase and hold the property, rights, franchises and privileges or capital stock of any such corporation. Section 8. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by any corporator by mailing a written notice, postage prepaid, to each of the other corporators seven days at least before the day of the meeting, and any corporator may act at such meeting by proxy. Section 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. Town of Cornish take up bodies of deceased persons. Chapter 308. An Act to authorize the town of Cornish to remove the bodies of deceased persons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The town of Cornish is hereby authorized to take authorized to up from the village burying ground, so called, in the said town. 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 Riverside cemetery, so called, in said town and there decently bury the same, and properly reset such headstones and markers over such dead bodies and remains, at the expense of said town; provided that |