CHAP. 317 Only citizens of the United States and residents of city eligible to office. Superintend. ing school committee. duties. thereafter as may be, and their term of office shall be for one year, and until others are qualified in their places. Section 22. No person shall be eligible for election or .appointment to any office established by this act, unless at the time of election he shall have been a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city for at least three months. Any office established by or under this act shall become vacant if the incumbent thereof ceases to be a resident of the city. Section 23. The members of the school committee first elected under the provisions of this charter, at their first meeting shall designate by lot, one of their number to hold office for three years, one for two years, and one for one year. Each member elected thereafter to fill the place of one whose term expires, shall hold office three years. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They --powers and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties in regard to the care and management of the public schools of said town which are now conferred upon superintending school committees by the laws of this state, including the employment of all teachers. They may annually, and whenever there is a vacancy, elect a superintendent of schools, who may be a member of the committee, for the current municipal year, who shall have the care and supervision of said public schools under their direction, and act as secretary of their board; they shall fix his salary at the time of his election, which shall not be increased nor diminished during the year for which he is elected, and may at any time dismiss him if they deem it proper or expedient. A suitable and convenient room shall be furnished by the city for the meetings of said committee, wherein shall be kept their records open to the inspection of the citizens. The said committee shall annually, before the spring election, furnish to the city council an estimate in detail of the several sums required during the ensuing year for the support of said public schools, and they shall not increase the expenditures beyond the amount appropriated therefor. City council may have charge of sewers. General meetings of citizens. Section 24. The city council may lay out, maintain and repair all main drains or common sewers in said city, in manner and form prescribed by statute. Section 25. General meetings of the citizens, qualified to vote in the city affairs may, from time to time, be held to consult upon the public good, to instruct their representatives and to take all lawful measures to obtain redress of any grievances according to the rights secured to the people by the constitution. of this state; and such meetings shall be duly warned by the mayor and aldermen upon requisition of twenty qualified voters. The city clerk shall act as clerk of such meetings and record the proceedings upon the city records. CHAP. 318 Title of municipal Section 26. When the city of Brunswick shall be duly constituted, the title of the municipal court for said town shall be changed to the municipal court for the city of Brunswick; and said court shall remain otherwise unaffected by this act. Section 27. When the organization of the government shall Title to be perfected as aforesaid, the title to all property of the town of Brunswick shall be transferred and vested in the city of Brunswick without any conveyance or ceremony. Section 28. This act shall take effect and be in full force when the same shall have been accepted by the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, provided, it shall be accepted within five years from the passage of this act; but no more than one meeting for that purpose shall be called in any one year. And at such meeting the inhabitants of said town shall vote by a written ballot, those in favor of accepting this act having on the ballot the word 'yes,' and those opposed having on the ballot the word 'no'; and if a majority of all the ballots received are in favor of accepting the same, it shall then become a law and take effect. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of said town to file a copy of the record of the vote of said town accepting the same, with the clerk of the city of Brunswick, when elected, who shall transcribe such copy into the records of the city, and such record shall be conclusive evidence that this act has been accepted: Approved March 21, 1905. property. This act shall take effect accepted by of town. Chapter 318. An Act to incorporate the Peaks Island Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Corporators. Section I. Arthur H. Moulton, Edgar E. Rounds, George F. Kavanough, George C. Ricker, Wilbur C. Whelden, all of Portland, and H. Herbert Sturgis of Standish, in the county of Cumberland, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated into a corporation, under the name of the Peaks Island --corporate Railroad Company, for the purpose of building, constructing, maintaining and operating by electrical, steam, animal, water or other power, a railroad for passenger and freight transportation, with such single or double tracks, side tracks, switches, name. CHAP. 318 May lay tracks under direction of municipal officers. --may hold lands as for public uses. Rates for transporta tion. Capital stock. Company may issue bonds. Road may not be operated at all times. Notice of first meeting, how given. turnouts, stations and appurtenances, and with such poles, wires, appliances and appurtenances as may seem advisable and desirable to said company in that part of said city of Portland known as Peaks Island. Section 2. Said company shall have the right to lay its tracks, switches and turnouts in the streets and ways of said Peaks Island in such manner and under such conditions as may be permitted and allowed by the municipal officers of said city of Portland, and said company may acquire and hold property by purchase, grant or gift, and it may take and hold lands as for public uses, in such manner and under such conditions as is provided by law in the case of steam railroads in chapter fiftyone of the revised statutes of nineteen hundred and three, and all damages therefor shall be estimated and paid as in the case of taking lands for steam railroads. Section 3. Said company shall have power, from time to time, to fix such rates of compensation for transporting persons. and property as it may deem expedient. Section 4. The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of the par value of twenty-five dollars each. Section 5. Said company shall have the power to issue its bonds for the construction of its works, maintenance or operation of the same of any or all kinds, upon such rates and terms as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per mile and not exceeding in total amount the amount of capital stock of said company at the time of the issuance of said bonds, and to secure the same by mortgage of any property and franchise of the said company. Section 6. Said company shall be relieved of the duty of running its road whenever the convenience and wants of the public do not demand it, unless it shall be ordered otherwise by the municipal officers of said city. Section 7. The first meeting of said company may be called by any two of said corporators giving actual notice in writing to their several associates at least seven days before the date named in said notice for such meeting, and said company may make such by-laws as are proper and not contrary to the laws of the state. Section 8. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.-TRIAL JUSTICES IN FAYETTE. Chapter 319. An Act to extend the charter of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The rights, powers and privileges of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company which were granted by chapter five hundred and thirty-four of the private and special laws for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and extended by chapter seventy-one of the private and special laws of eighteen hun. dred and ninety-nine and again extended by chapter two hundred and ninety of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and one, and again extended by chapter ninety-two of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and three are hereby further extended for two years from the approval of this act. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. 397 CHAP. 319 Charter extended for two years. Chapter 320. An Act to restore the jurisdiction of Trial Justices in the Town of Fayette, in the County of Kennebec. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. That so much of chapter four hundred and twenty-nine of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and one as relates to the powers and jurisdiction of trial justices in the town of Fayette in the county of Kennebec is hereby repealed. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. Portion of chapter 429, private and special laws, 1901, repealed. Chapter 321. An Act to incorporate the Union Cemetery Improvement Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. Warren Hills, Herbert A. Hawes, Elvira Cobb, Corporators. Dora Comery, Lovey Jones, Margaret Thompson, Harriet Miranda Robbins, Lucy Daniels, Vienna C. Walker, James Fossett, Elisha Mero, Edgar Wolcott, Anna Jones, Samuel G. Hills, Hampton Robbins, Fred A. Alden, L. Roscoe Morse, George W. Bachelder, Patience M. Rice, Elias H. Burkett, CHAP. 322 --corporate name. Powers of the company. --first meeting, how called. Corporation shall organize within two years. Ellen Wiley, Lizzie Eliott, Hamelin Bowes, William Green, Charles Lucas, Ann Mossman, William Bessey, Izora Gleason, John L. Bradford, Adelbert P. Robbins and F. Ellen Burkett, all of Union in the county of Knox and state of Maine, and C. I. Burrows, Lucy E. Burton, Charles E. Barnard and C. M. Walker, all of Rockland in said county of Knox and state of Maine, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby incorporated by the name of the Union Cemetery Improvement Company, for the purpose of caring for, beautifying and keeping in order generally, the cemetery situated in the town of Union aforesaid, a short distance from Union common and generally known as the Union cemetery. Section 2. Said company is hereby authorized to receive from any person, corporation or other source, money or property and to hold and use the same for the purposes set forth in section one of this act. Said company is hereby authorized to make such by-laws as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. The first meeting of said company may be called by a notice thereof, signed by any five of the corporators herein named and served upon each corporator by publishing the same for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper printed in said county of Knox, the last publication to be at least seven days before the time of meeting. Section 3. This act shall become null and void in two years from the time when the same takes effect, unless the corporation shall have organized under this charter. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1905. Charter extended for two years. Chapter 322. An Act to extend the charter of the Meduxnekeag Light and Power Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. The rights, powers and privileges of the Meduxnekeag Light and Power Company which were granted by chapter one hundred and sixty-two of the special laws of one thousand nine 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 21, 1905. |