Section 10. All individuals, firms, and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall pay to the treasurer of said water district the rates established by said board of trustees for the water used by them, and said rates shall be uniform within the territory supplied by the district. Said rates shall be so established to provide revenue for the following purposes: I. To pay the current running expenses for maintaining the water system and to provide for such extensions and renewals as may become necessary. II. To provide for payment of interest on the indebtedness to provide of the district. III. To provide each year a sum equal to not less than one nor more than five per cent of the entire indebtedness of the district, which sum shall be turned into a sinking fund to provide for the final extinguishment of the funded debt. The money set aside for the sinking fund shall be devoted to the retirement of the obligations of the district, or invested in such securities as savings banks are allowed to hold. for payment of interest --to provide fund. for a sinking powers Section II. All incidental powers, rights and privileges Incidental necessary to the accomplishment of the main object herein set granted. forth are granted to the corporation hereby created. This act shall take effect when approved by voters within district. date of holding election, how Section 12. This act shall take effect when approved by a majority vote of the legal voters within said district, voting at an election specially called and held for the purpose, by the municipal officers of the city of Old Town, to be held at the voting places in each ward in said city; the date of holding said election to be determined by said municipal officers, upon the written request of twenty legal voters in said district. The board of registration shall make and provide a determined. separate check list for such voters within wards four and five of said city as are then legal voters of said city, and all warrants issued to said wards shall be varied accordingly to show that only such voters therein are entitled to vote thereon. Such special election shall be called, advertised and election. how conducted according to the law relating to municipal elec- advertised tions; provided, however, that the board of registration shall conducted. not be required to prepare nor the city clerk to post a new list of voters; and for this purpose said board of registration shall be in session on the three secular days next preceding said election, the first two days thereof to be devoted to registration of voters and the last day to enable the board to verify the corrections of said list and to complete and close up its records of said sessions. The city clerk shall reduce the subject matter of this act to the following question: "Shall the act to incorporate the Old Town Water District be accepted?" and the -special called, form of question to be voted on. CHAP. 366 -method of voting. Sections 2, 3 and 4 of this act inoperative unless said water district acquire voters shall indicate by a cross placed against the words 'yes' or 'no' their opinion of the same. The result shall be declared by the mayor and aldermen and due certificate thereof filed with the secretary of state by the clerk of said city. This act shall take effect when approved by the governor so far as necessary to empower the calling and holding of such election. Section 13. Sections two, three and four of this act shall be inoperative, null and void, unless said water district shall first acquire by purchase, or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain as in this act provided, the plant, property Public Works and franchise, rights and privileges now held by the Public Works Company within said district and said towns of Milford, Bradley and said city of Old Town. franchises of Co. within its own limits. Costs and expenses, borne. Section 14. All costs and expenses arising under the prohow paid and visions of this act shall be paid and borne as follows: All costs and expenses arising under or by reason of the call for special election provided for in section twelve, shall be paid and borne by the city of Old Town and all other costs and expenses shall be borne and paid as directed by the court in the final decree. Approved March 23, 1905. Sandy River plantation organized. Existing plantation, organization of, made valid. Chapter 366. An Act to organize the Plantation of Sandy River, in the county of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. Township number two, range one, west of Bingham's Kennebec purchase, in the county of Franklin, state of Maine, bounded as follows, north by Dallas plantation; east by Madrid; south by Letter E, and west by Rangeley plantation, is hereby organized into a plantation to be known as Sandy River Plantation, and is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges, and subjected to all the duties and obligations incident to other plantations. Section 2. The organization of the existing plantation of this name is hereby confirmed and made valid; and the first annual meeting called by the assessors thereof, after the passage of this act, shall be the first meeting of the plantation hereby organized; and the present officers of said plantation are hereby confirmed and their election made valid. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 23, 1905. CHAP. 367 Chapter 367. An Act to repeal acts incorporating Skowhegan Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. All acts heretofore enacted for the incorporation of Skowhegan Village Corporation within the present town of Skowhegan in the county of Somerset are hereby repealed; provided, that the corporate existence, powers, duties and liabilities of said Skowhegan Village Corporation shall survive for the purpose of prosecuting and defending all actions and causes of action to which said Skowhegan Village Corporation. is a party, and collecting payment of all claims and demands now existing in favor of or against said Skowhegan Village Corporation and all needful processes growing out of the same. Section 2. The town of Skowhegan may, at a meeting legally called by a warrant and containing an article for that purpose, by vote, assume all the outstanding liabilities of said Skowhegan Village Corporation on the day when this act takes effect, and in case said town so votes, they shall have authority to raise money by loan upon town orders, notes or bonds which shall be valid claims upon said town, with which to discharge such liabilities, and thereupon all the property and assets of said Skowhegan Village Corporation shall become the property of and vested in said town. This act shall take effect Section 3. This act shall take effect when accepted by a majority of the legal voters of Skowhegan present and voting at when any annual meeting of said town, the warrant containing an article for that purpose. accepted Approved March 23, 1905. Chapter 368. An Act to amend a Special Act, enacted and approved March eight, nineteen hundred and five, amending the charter of the Geo. A. Young Co., organized May three, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Title of act approved Section I. The special act amending the charter of the Geo A. Young Co. passed and approved March eight, nineteen hun- March 8, 1905, dred and five, is hereby amended so that the title of said special act shall read 'Geo. A. Young Co.' in place of "George A. Young Company." CHAP. 369 Section 1 of special act amended. Section 2. Section one of said special act is hereby amended in the first line thereof by substituting the words 'Geo. A. Young Co.' in place of "George A. Young Company." Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 23, 1905. City council of Portland authorized to Chapter 369. An Act authorizing the payment of an annuity by the City of Portland to Charles D. Skillin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The city council of the city of Portland may annually hereafter appropriate and pay to Charles D. Skillin, a D. Skillin for. former member of the fire department of said city who, in the pay Charles injuries. year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, received injuries while in the discharge of his duty, a sum not exceeding three hundred sixty dollars. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 23, 1905. Throwing mill waste into Break Neck brook and tributaries, forbidden. Penalty for violation. Chapter 370. An Act to prohibit the throwing of Sawdust and other Mill Waste into Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. No person shall put, or allow the same to be done by any person within his employ, into Break-Neck brook, or in any of its tributaries, in the county of Cumberland, any mill waste, slabs, edgings, sawdust, or any other mill waste of a fibrous nature created in the manufacture of any sawn or planed lumber, or to place or deposit the same on the banks of any of these waters in such negligent or careless manner that the same shall fall or be washed into any of said waters, or with the intent that the same shall fall or be washed into any of said waters. Section 2. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. Trial justices, municipal and police courts shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction for offenses arising under this act, and all fines recovered shall be paid to the treasurer of state for the benefit of the fund for the protection and propagation of fish. Section 3. This act shall take effect August first, nineteen This act shall hundred and five. take effect Aug. 1, 1905. Approved March 23, 1905. Chapter 371. An Act to provide for the representation of the State of Maine at the Lewis and Clark and Jamestown Expositions, without State appropriation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. To enable citizens of the state to most effectively provide by private subscription for the reproduction of the birthplace or home of the poet Longfellow as the Maine state build ing at the Lewis and Clark and Jamestown Expositions, the governor is hereby authorized to appoint a commission of five to represent the interests of the contributors and the state at the above named expositions, to arouse public interest in them, and encourage the making of exhibits by citizens of Maine. Section 2. The said commission shall serve without compensation from the state, have no authority to contract bills on the credit of the state, and have no allowance for expenses from the state. Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 23, 1905. Commission Clark and of expositions, authorized. of Lewis and Jamestown appointment Commission shall serve without pay and have no allowance for expenses. Chapter 372. An Act for the protection of Clams in parts of the County of Sagadahoc. No clams shall be taken from the flats at Small Point Harbor or from Sprague's or Morse's rivers in the town of Phippsburg Sagadahoc county, excepting by the inhabitants of the town of any person temporarily resident therein, who may take therefrom for the immediate use of himself or his family not exceeding one bushel at any one tide, or may sell the same for consumption within the said town. Approved March 23, 1905. Protection of clams in parts of Sagadahoc county. |