CHAP. 352. ration and its acts and contracts are made valid and binding on Authorized to borrow money for said corporation. SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to borrow money for certain purposes. the payment of its debts and to complete and repair its buildings, and may mortgage its real and personal estate to secure the same. SECT. 3: Said corporation is authorized to assess the subscribers to its stock for the purposes specified in section two, and the assessment shall create a lien on the stock subscribed for. May assess subscribers to stock. Notice of assessment, how given. SECT. 4. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said corporation to give notice in writing to each subscriber of the assessment made on his stock within ten days after the assessment is made, by giving said notice to him in hand or leaving it at his office or dwelling house, if he lives in Fairfield; if he does not reside in said town he may send the notice by mail. He shall also publish a list of said assessments in some newspaper published in Skowhegan or Waterville three weeks successively, the first publication to be within two weeks after the assessment is made. If Stock may be sold any assessment shall remain unpaid for sixty days after said first publication, the stock on which it was made shall become forfeited to the corporation to be disposed of as it may see fit. to pay assess ment. Evidence of notice. SECT. 5. The affidavit of the treasurer stating the facts recorded in the records of the corporation shall be sufficient evidence of the notice.. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Corporators. Corporate name. May build and maintain dam. Location and purpose. Chapter 352. An act to incorporate the Goose Pond Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Hollis R. Mountfort, Samuel Mountfort, A. F. Winslow, William H. Wilson, Joseph Wilson, N. H. Wilson, L. H. Wilson, Rufus Morrison, G. L. Mountfort, L. L. Morrill, Otis A. Mountfort, J. W. Mountfort, I. W. Morrison, John F. Copp, Adam Purvis, John Hulit, D. H. Mountfort, Silas Russel, A. M. Sewall, Eben Hulit and Joseph Mountfort, their associates and successors, are created a corporation by the name of the Goose Pond Dam Company. SECT. 2. Said corporation may build, complete and maintain a dam at the outlet of Goose pond, in the town of Gray, in the county of Cumberland, for the purpose of raising a head of water for the benefit of mills situated on the stream coming from said pond. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 353. An act to incorporate the Lincoln Woollen and Cotton Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 353. SECT. 1. M. B. Pinkham, D. A. Murray, Wm. C. Clark, George Corporators. Cutler, D. S. Plumly, Michael Keef, Leonard R. Marsh, A. W. Huntress, A. W. Wetherbee, F. E. Nute and D. W. Lindsay, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Lincoln Woollen and Cotton Name. Manufacturing Company, with all the powers and privileges, and Privileges and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the laws of this state concerning manufacturing corporations. liabilities. Authorized to manufacture cer tain articles. May hold real SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to manufacture woollen and cotton fabrics, and other articles necessarily or conveniently connected therewith, in the town of Lincoln, county of Penobscot; to purchase and hold real and personal estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; to build and erect such buildings and machinery as their convenience may require; to lease, sell and convey the same, and make all necessary by-laws consistent with the laws of By-laws. the state. and personal estate. how divided. SECT. 3. Their capital stock shall be fifty thousand dollars, Capital stock, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and each share shall be entitled to one vote, by person or proxy, at any regular meeting of said company. SECT. 4. The first meeting may be called by any two of the First meeting. corporators, by giving notice in writing to each of the others, of the time and place, seven days previous to said meeting. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 354. An act to authorize the First Freewill Baptist Parish of Augusta, to borrow money to pay its debt, and mortgage its church and lot in Augusta to secure the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The First Freewill Baptist Parish of Augusta, is hereby authorized to borrow money to pay its debt, and to mortgage its church and lot in Augusta to secure the payment of the same. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to &c. borrow money, CHAP. 355. Amended. and disbursement of. Chapter 355. An act to amend "an act to incorporate the city of Bangor," passed February twelve, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The fourth section of the city charter of the city of Bangor, is amended, by striking out the words "one hundred thousand" in the twenty-seventh line of said section, and inserting in place thereof the words 'five hundred thousand,' so that the sentence, as amended, shall read as follows: "The city council Money, payment shall take care that money shall not be paid from the treasury unless granted or appropriated, and shall secure a prompt and just accountability by requiring bonds with sufficient penalty and surety or sureties, from all persons entrusted with the receipt, custody or disbursement of money, and shall have the care and superintendence of city buildings, and the custody and management of all city property, with power to let or sell what may be legally let or sold, and to purchase and take in the name of the city, such real or personal property, not exceeding the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, as they may think useful to the public interest.' City property, custody and management of. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Proprietors to vote upon sale of house. Meeting of pew owners, how called. Chapter 356: An act to authorize the sale of the Christian Meeting-House in Albion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That upon the written application to any justice of the peace of the county of Kennebec, by three or more of the pew owners or proprietors of the old Christian Meeting-House in Albion, for a meeting of its pew owners or proprietors to vote upon a sale of said house, said justice may issue his warrant to any one of said applicants requiring him to call a meeting of said pew owners or proprietors, at some convenient time and place, by posting up notices of the time and place and object of the meeting, in three public and conspicuous places in said town of Albion, one at the Albion post office, one at the South Albion post office and one on said meeting-house, fourteen days before the time of Action of majori said meeting; and at a meeting of said pew owners or proprietors, held pursuant to said notice, said pew owners or proprietors are ty binding. Authorized to choose committee to sell house and land by auction. authorized to act upon the subject of a sale of said house, and a CHAP. 357. vote of a majority of those present and voting, is hereby declared to be valid and binding, and they are authorized to choose a committee of three to sell said house and lot at public auction, after giving fourteen days notice thereof by posting notices of the time and place of sale at the same places where the notices for calling Notice of sale. said meeting are required to be posted, and to convey the same and to dispose of the net proceeds among the pew owners or proprietors in proportion to their interest in said house. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 357. An act to incorporate the Lewiston and Auburn Ice Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Increase B. Kimball, William H. Washburn, Seth P. Corporators. Miller, John T. Randall, John C. Symmes, Abram Atwood, Horace Goff, Charles E. Bigelow, Calvin G. Skinner, Nathaniel Knight, Lydia A. Baker, and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of the Lewiston and Auburn Ice Company, with power to sue and be sued, to have a common seal and alter the same, and with all the powers, immunities and liabilities of like corporations under the laws of the state. Name. Powers and liabilities. SECT. 2. Said corporation may have a capital stock not to ex- Capital stock. ceed twenty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of such amount as a majority of the corporators shall determine. SECT. 3. Said corporation may purchase, lease and hold such real and personal estate as it may deem necessary for the transaction of its proper business, and may sell, lease and convey and manage the same, and may adopt such rules and regulations for conducting its affairs as it shall determine upon, not repugnant to the laws of the state. May hold real estate. and personal Rules and regu lations. SECT. 4. Said corporation may carry on the business of cutting, Purposes. storing and vending ice in the cities of Auburn and Lewiston, and to that end may erect and maintain such buildings and provide and keep such machinery, implements, teams and vehicles as it may deem necessary. SECT. 5. At all meetings of said corporation each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of the stock therein by him owned and held. 322 CHAP. 358. First meeting, how called. HIGHLAND SLATE CO.-PART OF PLAN. NO. 7 ANNEXED TO GOULDSBORO'. SECT. 6. Any two persons herein named are authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation by giving three days notice to each of the other corporators. . SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Corporators. Name. Purpose. Powers and liabilities. May hold real and personal estate. Chapter 358. An act to incorporate the Highland Slate Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Walter G. Morrill, Richard Hughs, Henry Jones, Charles H. Chandler, William Arnold, John H. Rice, David Bugbee, Charles P. Brown, Franklin Muzzy, L. J. Morse and Eugene F. Sanger, their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Highland Slate Company, for the purpose of quarrying and manufacturing slate in its various forms, and for any other purpose necessary therefor, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and requirements of similar corporations by the laws of the state. SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding at any one time one hundred thousand dollars, with full power to manage and dispose of the same. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Certain farms, &c., annexed to Chapter 359. An act to set off a part of plantation number seven and annex the same to the town of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The farms and lots of land lying on "West-bay Gouldsborough. stream," so called, owned by Emerson G. Guptill, Sherman Smith, Jonathan Rolf, Eben Young, Gowen Whitaker, Eri Tracy, Marshall Guptill and Annie Guptill, situated in plantation number seven, in the county of Hancock, are hereby set off from said plantation number seven, and are annexed to the town of Gouldsborough, in said county. |