Name.

CHAP. 318. and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Cumberland Bone Company, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities contained in the laws of the state, relating to manufacturing corporations; and said corporation is authorized to engage in the manufacture of bone dust and superphosphate of lime, and in such other branches of trade and manufacture as are usually connected therewith, in the county of Cumberland, and to sell the product of such manufactures there or elsewhere.'

Purpose.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February 7, 1870.

Dolphin or buoy authorized to be placed in Rockland harbor.

Purpose.

Chapter 318.

An act to authorized Albert F. Ames to place a dolphin or spar buoy near the head of

his wharf.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Albert F. Ames of Rockland, in the county of Knox, is hereby authorized and empowered to place a dolphin or spar buoy a suitable distance from the head of his wharf, known as the Crockett wharf and privilege, into the tide waters of Rockland harbor, for the purpose of moving vessels from his wharf into the

stream.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Certain territory set off from Trenton.

Lamoine, incorporation of. Boundary.

Chapter 319.

An act to set off part of the town of Trenton, and incorporate the same into a town by the name of Lamoine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. That so much of the town of Trenton, in the county of Hancock, as is described by this act, be and the same is hereby set off from said Trenton, and incorporated into a town by the name of Lamoine; beginning at the point of junction of the south line of the town of Hancock, with the easterly line of the town of Ellsworth; thence in a southeasterly direction, following the line between school districts numbered eight and ten, in said Trenton, to the head of "Long creek," so called; thence southerly, follow

ing the middle of Jordan river to the southern limit of said town CHAP. 320. of Trenton, and including all that part of Trenton lying east of said named division line. The inhabitants of said town are hereby Powers and privileges. invested with all the powers, privileges, immunities and liabilities of other towns.

SECT. 2. The inhabitants, with the estates so set off, shall be holden to pay the arrears of all taxes which have been legally assessed upon them, together with their proportion of all corporate debts, owed by said town of Trenton at the time this act takes effect; said proportion to be ascertained by the last town valuation of said town of Trenton, in the same manner as if this act had not been passed.

Arrears of taxes,

&c., inhabitants

liable for pay

ment of.

appropriation of.

SECT. 3. The inhabitants so set off shall be entitled to their just Certain moneys, proportion of all moneys, the payment of which has been assumed by the state for expenses incurred by said town of Trenton for war purposes, prior to the passage of this act, and shall be entitled to their just proportion of all moneys which shall hereafter accrue, and be paid to said town of Trenton from the state or national government for reimbursement of expenses incurred by said town of Trenton for war purposes.

pers, how

SECT. 4. All paupers now chargeable to the town of Trenton Support of paushall be supported by said towns of Lamoine and Trenton so long adjusted. as such persons continue to be paupers, in proportion to their respective taxable property, as shown by the assessors' books of said town of Trenton for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

called.

SECT. 5. Joel E. Young, of said town of Lamoine, is hereby Meetings, how empowered to notify the inhabitants thereof to meet on the first Monday in March next, at such time and place as he shall appoint, to choose such officers as other towns are empowered to choose at their annual meeting.

SECT. 6. This act shall take effect on and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Chapter 320...

An act to prevent the throwing of edgings, &c, into the waters of Pleasant river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. It shall be unlawful for any owner or owners of mills at Columbia, in the county of Washington, or any person or persons employed in or about said mills, to cast any edgings or trim

Throwing of

refuse lumber, &c., into river, prohibited.

CHAP. 321. mings of deal, boards, lathes, or shingle butts, or refuse bark from shingle rift, into the waters of Pleasant river, or to so place or pile the same upon the banks of said river that they shall be liable to fall or to be washed into said river.

SECT. 2. If any of the persons designated in section one of this act shall violate the provisions of said section, he or they shall be subject to a fine or penalty of not more than twenty nor less than five dollars, upon complaint and conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction.

SECT. 3. Any person who may suffer damage to his marsh lands, or his grass growing upon said marsh lands, by reason of the violation of the provisions of section one, may recover for said damage, by an action on the case, of the person or persons so violating said section and causing said damage.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Chapter 321.

An act additional to "an act to incorporate the Bangor Water Power Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

The grants of power in an act approved on the nineteenth of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled " an act additional to an act to incorporate the Penobscot Mill Dam Company," and which have been assigned to the Bangor Water Power Company, under the authority of an act approved on the nineteenth of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen Act extended for hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an act to incorporate the Bangor Water Power Company," shall be extended to the term of three years from the date of the approval of this act.

the term of three years.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Charter extended

Chapter 322.

An act further defining the powers of the Ocean Insurance Company of Portland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The charter of the Ocean Insurance Company of Portand continued in land is hereby extended and continued in force, without limitation of time, except under the general laws of the state; and the said

force.

company shall be subject to such duties, and shall enjoy such CHAP. 323. privileges as are defined and prescribed in any special law relating

to the same, and by the general laws of the state in relation to

similar corporations.

SECT. 2. The third section of an act relating to said company, Repealed. passed January twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, being chapter four hundred and sixty-three of the special acts of that year, is hereby repealed.

SECT. 3. At the meetings of the stockholders of said company, every stockholder shall be entitled, by himself or by his legal proxy or attorney, to cast one vote for every share held by him, as recorded on the stock books of the company at the time of voting.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Stockholders may

cast one vote for

each share held

or owned.

Chapter 323.

An act to amend section one of chapter one hundred and seventy of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, authorizing Union School District in Cherryfield to raise money.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

. SECT. 1. Section one of an act approved February twenty-four, Amended.
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "an act authorizing the
Union School' District in the town of Cherryfield to raise money
for the repair of the high school building in said district," is here-
by amended, by inserting after the word "repair," in the second
line, the words, 'enlargement or alteration of any part of, or the
remodeling of the entire,' also by striking out the words "of the"
in the beginning of the third line, so that as amended said section
shall read as follows:

'Sect. 1. The Union School District in the town of Cherryfield,
is hereby authorized and empowered to raise money for the repair,
enlargement or alteration of any part of, or the remodeling of the
entire academy or high school building in said district, in the same
way and manner as they are by law authorized to raise money for
the repair of school houses owned by said district.'
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February 11, 1870.

District authormoney for repairs,

ized to raise

&c.

40

CHAP. 324.

Certain teams to have wide rimmed

roads.

Chapter 324.

An act to prevent the use of narrow rimmed wheels for the hauling of lumber over the streets of Cherryfield.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. No person or persons shall haul or cart lumber from wheels on certain the mills to the landings or place of shipment over the roads or streets of the town of Cherryfield, with a team of three or four horses or four oxen, upon wheels of less than five inches tread or breadth of rim, nor with a team of two horses or two oxen upon wheels of less than four inches tread or breadth of rim.

Penalty for violation.

Jurisdiction of offences.

When to take effect.

SECT. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of the foregoing section, he shall pay a fine of ten dollars for every such offence, with costs of prosecution, to be enforced before any court of competent jurisdiction, one-half of said fine to go to the complainant and one-half to the county of Washington.

SECT. 3. Trial justices of the town of Cherryfield shall have jurisdiction for the trial of offences against the provisions of this act in the same manner and to the same extent as if not residents of said town.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Approved February 11, 1870.

Trout and other fish in Gross

pond, protection of.

Chapter 325.

An act for the preservation of trout and other fish in Gross pond in the town of

Waldoborough.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. That no person shall take any trout or other fish from Gross pond, so called, or its tributaries, situated in the town of Waldoborough, for the term of three years from the passage of Penalty for viola- this act, under a penalty of five dollars for each trout or other fish so taken, the same to be recovered in an action for debt, one-half to the use of the town where the offence is committed and onehalf to the person prosecuting therefor.

tion of this act.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 11, 1870.