CHAP. 334. the city public buildings and the custody and management of all They shall cause to be published an account of receipts and ex schedule of city property. city property, with power to let or sell what may be legally let or sold, and to purchase in the name of the city such real or personal property not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, including the property now owned by the town, as they may deem of public utility. And the city council shall as often as once a year cause to be published for the information of the in penditures, and a habitants an account of receipts and expenditures and a schedule of the city property, and no money shall be paid from the city treasury unless the same be appropriated by the city council and upon a warrant signed by the mayor, which warrant shall state the appropriation under which the same is drawn.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to build wharf. Chapter 334. An act to authorize Charles B. Sanford to build a wharf in the town of Winterport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Charles B. Sanford, his heirs, executors, successors and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to erect, build and maintain a wharf upon his own land in the town of Winterport, and extend the same into tide water. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Corporators. Name. Purposes, &c. Chapter 335. An act to incorporate the Penobscot Valley Steamship Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Samuel F. Hersey, William McGilvery, S. S. Lewis and Joseph P. Bass, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Penobscot Valley Steamship Company, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws of this state, which now are or may hereafter be in force and applicable to such corporations. SECT. 2 Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to build, purchase, charter, hold and convey one or more steam ships or propellers, and to navigate the ocean therewith, and CHAP. 336. employ the same in transporting freight and passengers between the city of Bangor, and Boston, Massachusetts, and any intermediate port or ports on Penobscot bay or river; and said company may let by charter, one or more of their steamships or propellers to any persons, provided such charter does not prevent said company from complying with the terms of this act. Capital stock. the same may be increased and divided into shares. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to pay in and increase the same by adding thereto from time to time an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; said corporation shall have power to assess from time to time upon said shares such sums as Assessments. may be deemed necessary to accomplish the object, not exceeding the par value of said shares. No certificates of stock shall be Certificates of issued until the par value thereof shall have been actually paid in, and no steamship or propeller shall be run until at least thirty thousand dollars of its capital shall have been subscribed; the stockholders shall annually choose a board of directors, (not ex- Directors and ceeding five in number,) president, treasurer, and clerk, and such other officers as they may deem expedient, all of which shall be stockholders, to manage the affairs of said corporation, and each share of one hundred dollars shall be entitled to one vote. stock, &c. officers. SECT. 4. Said corporation may hold real estate to an amount May hold real not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. estate. Chapter 336. An act for the preservation of fish in Ossipee lake and its tributaries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No person shall take any pickerel or other fish from Ossipee lake, in the town of Waterborough, or its tributaries, between the first day of November each year and the first day of the following June, during the term of five years, under a penalty of ten dollars for each fish so taken. SECT. 2. The penalties imposed by this act may be recovered Penalties. in an action of debt in the name of the person suing therefor, onehalf of said fine to be paid to the person prosecuting and the other half to the town in which the offence is committed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. CHAP. 337. Authorized to extend wharf. Chapter 337. An act to authorize Erastus C. Simpson, Alpheus P. Simpson and George L. Garland, to extend their wharf into tide waters at West Harpswell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Erastus C. Simpson, Alpheus P. Simpson and George Approved February 26, 1870. Throwing of certian refuse into Medomak river prohibited. Penalty for violation of this act. Damages, how recovered. Chapter 338. An act to prevent the throwing of edgings and other refuse into the waters of the 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 on the Medomak river, in the town of Waldoborough, in the county of Lincoln, or any person or persons employed in or about said mills, to cast or throw any buttings, edgings of staves, shingles or other lumber, and the shavings and waste made in the sawing and manufacturing of shingles and staves, into the waters of said Medomak river, in said town of Waldoborough, or to so place or pile the same upon the banks of said river or elsewhere that they shall be liable to fall or 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 dollars nor less than five dollars, upon complaint and conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction. A SECT. 3. Any person who may suffer any damage or injury in his lands or crops thereon, or mills and machinery on said river, by reason of said violation of provisions of section one, may recover for said damage or injury, by an action on the case, of any one so violating said section and causing said damage. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. SHIN BROOK DAM COMPANY.-PRESERVATION OF FISH IN SAND POND. Chapter 339. An act to incorporate the Shin Brook Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 311 CHAP. 339. SECT. 1. Simeon Carpenter, Samuel M. Kimball, their associ- Corporators. ates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Shin Brook Dam Company, and Name. SECT. 2. Said company is hereby authorized to take by purchase, or erect and maintain, a dam, at or near the outlet of lower Shin pond, on Shin pond brook, in township number five, range seven, in the county of Penobscot, and make other improvements in said stream to facilitate the driving of lumber therein. Authorized to take by purchase, or erect, &c., dam. enforced. SECT. 3. A toll is hereby granted for the use of said corpo- Toll. ration of fifty cents for each and every thousand feet, board measure, of logs and other lumber, woods scale, which passes through and over said dam; and the corporation shall have a lien Lien, how on all such logs and lumber as security for the payment of said. toll; and if the same be not paid within ten days after the arrival of said logs or lumber within the limits of the Penobscot boom or other place of destination for sale or manufacture, the corporation may advertise the sale of so much of said logs or lumber as may be necessary to pay said toll and expenses in one of the newspapers printed in Bangor, the publication to be at least ten days before the day appointed for the sale; and if payment be not made before the day appointed may proceed to sell so much of said logs or lumber as may be necessary to pay said toll and expenses. reduced. SECT. 4. After the original cost of the dam and erections with Toll, when to be ten per cent. interest per annum has been paid, there shall be only such toll assessed as will keep the dam and erections in repair. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 340. An act for the preservation of fish in Sand pond in the town of Parsons field. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The taking of pickerel, trout and smelts, from the waters of the Sand pond, meadows, mill-pond below, or any of its Certain fish in Sand pond, pres ervation of. 312 WHARVES AND FISH WEIRS IN EASTPORT.-MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL. CHAP. 341. tributaries, in the town of Parsonsfield, for the space of three years, is hereby prohibited and made unlawful. Penalties, how recovered and appropriated. SECT. 2. Any person who shall take from the waters described in section one of this act, any pickerel, trout or smelts, within the time named in the foregoing section of this act, any of the above named fish, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each offence, to be recovered by complaint before a trial justice on action of debt, one-half to go to the prosecutor and the other half to the town of Parsonsfield, York county. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to build wharves and fish weirs. Chapter 341. An act giving authority to Oliver Emery and others of Eastport, to build wharves and fish weirs below low water mark in said town. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Oliver Emery, Frederic A. Emery and Ivory T. Emery, their successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain wharves and fish weirs in Johnson's cove, in the town of Eastport, below low water mark in the waters of said cove, in front of their own land, within the limits of an extension of the side lines of their land; provided, that no weirs shall be erected in said waters that shall interfere with regular navigation, and that suitable signals shall be placed thereon, to be not less than ten feet above the tide at high water. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Directors, duties, term of office of. Chapter 342. An act to amend "an act to incorporate the Maine General Hospital." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The executive affairs and general management of the number, election, hospital shall be under the direction of a board of nine directors, six of whom shall be chosen by the corporation, and shall be designated at the first election to hold their offices, two of them for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years. At the expiration of each of said terms, and |