Chapter 294. An act to incorporate the proprietors of Solon Village Cemetery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: СНАР. 294. SECT. 1. Mortimer Bodwell, Sumner Webb, Samuel Curtis, Corporators. Charles B. McIntire, Jonah S. McIntire, Silas Maynard, Samuel H. Felker, Greenleaf R. Brown, J. M. Brown, Andrew Hunnewell, John Whipple, William M. Drury,, John Maynard, their associates, successors and assigns, and all the owners of lots in the cemetery near the union meeting-house in Solon village, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the proprietors of Solon Village Cemetery, for the purpose of enlarging, holding, Corporate name. conducting and controlling the burying ground near the union Purpose. meeting-house in Solon village, and with the right to hold for May hold real such purposes real estate in said town to an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars. Said corporation may have a common Seal and by-laws. seal, and establish by-laws not conflicting with the laws of this state, and may sue and be sued. estate. chosen. SECT. 2. The immediate government and direction of the affairs Trustees, how of said corporation shall be vested in five trustees, who shall be chosen by the members of said corporation, and hold their office during such term as the by-laws provide. But in all cases, until others are duly elected to take their places, a majority of whom shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, they shall elect one of their number to be president of the corporation, and shall choose a clerk and treasurer. The treasurer shall collect all taxes or assessments, and may be required to give bond to the satisfaction of the trustees. President, clerk and treasurer. Bond of treasurer and collection of taxes. Fencing and cemetery. ornamenting May raise money same upon the and assess the SECT. 3. For the purpose of fencing, ornamenting and protecting said cemetery, said corporation may at any meeting duly notified for that purpose, by a majority vote of those present and voting, raise such sum as may be deemed necessary, and the same shall be assessed upon the lots in said cemetery by the trustees, and committed to the treasurer for collection; and if any proprietor or owner of a lot in said cemetery shall refuse or neglect to Assessment, how pay his tax or assessment within fourteen days after notice and demand in writing, the treasurer may sue for the tax in his own name, and recover it in an action of debt. SECT. 4. No part of said cemetery or lots in the same shall be liable to be taken on execution or be subject to taxation, so long as it shall be used and dedicated exclusively to the purposes aforesaid. SECT. 5. The lots in said cemetery shall be indivisible, and on the death of any proprietor, whether his estate be solvent or insolvent, the devisee of such lot, or if no devisee, the heir at law, lots. collected. Not liable to be taken on execu tion, nor subject to taxation. Lots indivisible. Rights of propriemined. tors, how deter CHAP. 295. shall be the owner and proprietor thereof; and if there be more than one devisee or heir at law, and they shall not agree which shall be the owner thereof, the proprietors, at a meeting duly notified, may by vote designate which of said devisees or heirs at law shall become the proprietor and owner of such lot, and such designated proprietor shall be considered the owner of such lot as fully as if he had purchased the same; but in making such designation, the proprietors shall, as far as they conveniently may, give preference to makes over females and to proximity of blood and priority of age, having however due regard to proximity of residence. And the supreme judicial court shall have power to correct abuses or to compel the due execution of any of the trusts hereby created, upon a bill in chancery filed by any proprietor, heir or devisee. S. J. court may compel execution of trusts, and correct abuses. First meeting, how called. SECT. 6. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by Mortimer Bodwell, by posting up notices of the same in the post office and on the outer door of each of the meeting houses in Solon village, seven days at least before the meeting. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. Extension of Chapter 295. An act to authorize Robert Crockett to extend a wharf into the tide waters of Rockland harbor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Robert Crockett of Rockland, in the county of Knox, wharf authorized. his heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build, extend and maintain, in front of his land known as the Perry wharf and privilege in the city of Rockland, a wharf composed of granite or wood, and extending in a southerly direction into the tide waters of Rockland harbor four hundred feet. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. Chapter 296. An act additional to an act entitled "an act for the extension of the charter of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 296. additional. SECT. 1. Joab W. Palmer, Benjamin Johnson, Eben Blunt, Corporators, Richard G. Hinman, Charles G. Stearns, and Daniel Sargent second, are hereby constituted and declared corporators in the Bangor Boom Company, a corporation named in an act entitled "an act for the extension of the charter of the Bangor Boom Company," Act of 1869, approved February eleventh, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. amended. Chapter 297. An act to incorporate the Baptist Meeting-House Society in Belgrade. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. John S. Minot, Stephen Smith, John Tibbets, John A. Corporators. Rockwood, Emery Tillson, John W. Greeley and Charles A. Yeaton, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby incorporated by the name of the Baptist Meeting-House Society in Name. Belgrade, for the purpose of repairing the Baptist meeting-house in Purpose. said town, now owned by them in part, and maintaining religious worship therein, with all the powers of similar corporations under the general laws of the state; and either of them may call the First meeting, first meeting of the corporation, by posting notice thereof on the how called. door of said house, at least seven days prior thereto, stating the time, place and object of said meeting. May raise and assess money for Tax, mode of collection. SECT. 2. Said corporation may raise money to repair said house at any legal meeting called for the purpose, by a vote of a majority certain purposes. of the pew holders present and voting at said meeting, and may assess the amount so raised on the pews; and if any pew holder neglects to pay the tax on his pew for sixty days after demand by the collector of the corporation, said collector may sell said pew at public auction, by giving notice thereof thirty days at least before said sale, and posting it on the door of said house; and the proceeds of such sale shall be applied to pay said tax and expenses Proceeds, how of sale, and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the owner of the applied. CHAP. 298. pew, if demanded in one year, and if not it shall be forfeited to said corporation. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. Corporators. Chapter 298. An act to incorporate the East Livermore Campmeeting Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Stephen C. Tuck and Daniel Waterhouse of Fayette, Jacob Randall and Francis W. Billington of East Livermore, John W. Eaton, Orrin Haskell, Stephen Allen of Livermore Falls, John Allen, Jeremiah Ellsworth and David C. Morrill of Farmington, Jesse Bishop of Wayne, Elias H. Brown, Cyrus Parker and Moses Stone of Jay, their associates and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the East Livermore Campmeeting Association, with power to take by gift or purchase, and May hold real and to hold real and personál estate to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, and with all other powers usually vested in similar corporations. Name. personal estate. Exercise of civil jurisdiction. May appoint police. SECT. 2. Said association shall have the right to exercise civil jurisdiction for the protection of said campmeeting, in both the towns of Fayette and East Livermore, by a police appointed by the authorities of either of said towns, according to the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-four, section eighteen, of the public laws of the state. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. Corporators. Chapter 299. An act to incorporate the Thomaston Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Edward K. O'Brien, James M. Beverage, William A. Campbell, John W. Small, Edward L. Dillingham, Edward B. Carleton, John C. Levensaler, William C. Burgess, Samuel Watts, Edward O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien, H. C. Levensaler, William Whitney, J. E. Moore and Edwin Smith junior, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Thomaston Savings Bank, with CHAP. 299. power by that name to prosecute and defend suits at law and in Name. equity; to have and use a common seal; to make all such by-laws, By-laws. rules and regulations as are necessary to the government and management of their concerns, and not repugnant to the laws of the state. Said corporation shall be established in the town of Location. Thomaston, in said state, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities incident to such corporations. May receive de posits of money; how used. SECT. 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized to receive deposits of money, and to issue certificates therefor, and such deposits of money shall be used as they shall judge most for the benefit of said corporation, and such deposits may be withdrawn at such reasonable times and in such manner as a majority of the corporators named in this act shall appoint, and the net income or Income, how profit thereof shall be divided by them among the persons making such deposits, their executors, administrators or assigns, in just proportions. applied. how called. bers. Officers, election SECT. 3. Edward K. O'Brien, named herein, is authorized to First meeting, call the first meeting of said corporation by giving seven days notice in writing to each of the other corporators, at which meeting and every subsequent annual meeting, said corporation may elect, by ballot, any person or persons as members thereof; may Election of memchoose such officers as to them may seem proper for their organization and government, who shall so continue one year and until of. others are chosen in their stead; and the persons elected treasurer and secretary before entering upon their official duties shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and the treasurer shall Treasurer shall also give bonds satisfactory to said corporation for the faithful discharge of his duties; provided however, that the offices of treasurer and secretary may, if deemed advisable, be united in one person. SECT. 4. All deeds of conveyance, covenants and grants made Deeds of conveyin behalf of said corporation shall be sealed with the corporate seal, and when made in pursuance of any vote of the corporation, shall be valid and effectual to convey property or bind the corporation. give bonds. Offices of treasmay be united. urer and secretary ance. Corporate seal. SECT. 5. The annual meeting shall be holden in the month of Annual meetings. March, and at that meeting and all other meetings, it shall require seven persons at least to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and meetings may be directed at other times by the president or the corporation. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1870. |