SECT. 2. All paupers residing on the territory hereby set off, CHAP. 360. and having acquired a legal settlement on said territory, shall be Support of pausupported by said town of Gouldsborough. pers. provision for. SECT. 3. The inhabitants with the estates so set off, shall be Taxes and debts, holden to pay the arrears of all taxes which have been legally assessed upon them in the same manner as if this act had not been passed, and shall also be holden for all corporate debts due from said plantation, said proportion to be ascertained by the last valuation of said plantation. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 360. An act authorizing the town of Stetson to take stock in the Stetson Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Authorized to take stock in Stetson Manufac turing Company. SECT. 1. The town of Stetson, in the county of Penobscot, in order to promote the benefit and welfare of its citizens and to aid in securing the improvement of the water power within its limits, is hereby authorized in its corporate capacity to subscribe for and take stock in the Stetson Manufacturing Company to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; and said town is further authorized to donate to said company an amount of money or other May donate property not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid to said money or other company at such times and in such manner as the town may determine. and SECT. 2. Said town is authorized and empowered to raise assess upon the polls and estates in said town, as other taxes are assessed, whatever sums of money may be required for the purposes specified in section one. SECT. 3. The authority above given to said town is not to be exercised until so determined by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters of said town present and voting at a meeting called for this purpose. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. property. СНАР. 361. Corporators. Name. By-laws. Powers and liabilities. Capital stock, amount of, and how divided. Authorized to hold read and personal estate. May construct wharves, slips, piers, &c. First meeting, how called. Chapter 361. An act to incorporate the Dresden Ice Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Arthur Berry, George E. Holyoke, G. A. Colburn, Fred A. Berry, Elbridge Berry, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Dresden Ice Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, use a common seal, make by-laws for the management of their affairs, not repugnant to the constitution or the laws of this state, and to have and enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities incident to similar corporations in this state. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less .than fifty thousand, nor more than two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SECT. 3. Said company is hereby authorized to purchase and hold such real and personal estate as a majority in interest of said stockholders may determine to be convenient and necessary to effect the object and carry out the purposes of their corporation, and to sell and dispose of the same as they may deem expedient. SECT. 4. For the purpose of facilitating the cutting and harvesting of ice, and to enable said company to remove, house, pack, load and ship the same, said corporation shall have the right to construct, erect, build and maintain upon their own land, or upon land of others, by the consent in writing of the owners thereof, and in tide waters of the Kennebec river, all necessary wharves, slips, piers and other constructions, upon the margin of said river, in the town of Dresden, and to extend the same below low water mark, but not to interfere with the navigation of said river, or to impair the rights or privileges of any other person or corporation. SECT. 5. Any three of the corporators herein named are hereby empowered to call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving such previous notice as they may think proper, at which meeting any corporate business may be transacted. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 362. An act to anthorize A. L. Frohock and others, to extend a wharf into the tide waters of the Penobscot bay, in the town of Lincolnville. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 362. build and extend wharf. SECT. 1. A. L. Frohock, R. S. Frohock and P. K. Frohock, of Authorized to Lincolnville, in the county of Waldo, their heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build, extend and maintain a wharf in front of their land in Lincolnville, in a southeasterly direction, into the tide waters of the Penobscot bay, two hundred and sixty feet. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 363. An act additional to "an act to incorporate the Calais Railway Company," and the several acts additional thereto and amendatory thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The name of the Calais and Baring Railroad Company, Name changed. is hereby altered and changed to the Saint Croix and Penobscot Railroad Company. increased. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation is hereby in- Capital stock creased to and established at two million dollars, and shares and certificates of stock may be issued under the direction of the stockholders of said corporation for the additional stock hereby created on such terms as they may deem advisable. SECT. 3. Each stockholder in said corporation shall be entitled Stockholders ento as many votes as he has shares. titled to one vote for each share owned. Authorized to take and hold real and personal estate, and lease SECT. 4. The said corporation may puchase, take and hold in any way by which they now are or may be authorized, any estate, real or personal, not exceeding at any one time the amount of one and sell the same. million dollars, and the same from time to time may lease, sell and convey at pleasure. SECT. 5. Said corporation may, and they are hereby authorized to extend their said road up the Schoodiac river to any point in the town of Princeton, and thence to some point on the line of the European and North American Railway, between the north line of the town of Lincoln and the south line of the town of Milford; and to extend from such parts of said road so extended as may be found convenient, such branches as they may deem necessary or useful, no one of which branches shall exceed one hundred rods in Extension of road some point on line Railway. authorized to of E. & N. A. CHAP. 364. length from the main trunk; and may connect their said road so extended with the railroad now constructed from the line of the state near the Baring boom, in Baring, through a portion of the province of New Brunswick, to the line of the state at Sprague's falls, in Baileyville, at each terminus thereof. Authorized to purchase Lewy's &c. SECT. 6. For the purpose of extending their said road as aforeIsland Railroad, said, said corporation is hereby duly and fully authorized and empowered to purchase, take and hold the Lewy's Island Railroad, together with the real estate, fixtures, rolling stock, depot buildings and other property thereunto belonging, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and shall have and exercise the same rights and privileges over said Lewy's Island Railroad, real estate, fixtures, rolling stock, depot buildings and other property thereunto belonging, as though the same were located by said Saint Croix and Penobscot Railroad Company. SECT. 7. Said corporation is hereby invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which may be necessary to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this act. Powers and liabilities. Calais may sell SECT. 8. The city of Calais is hereby duly authorized and empowered to bargain, sell, assign, transfer and convey to the said Saint Croix and Penobscot Railroad Company, said Lewy's Island Railroad, together with the real estate, fixtures, depot buildings and other property thereunto belonging, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, on such terms and conditions as said city of Calais may deem advisable; and said city of Calais is hereby invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which may be necessary to carry into effect the object and purposes of this act. SECT 9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870.. Exclusive right to Chapter 364. An act to authorize Richmond L. Williams to navigate Moose pond. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Richmond L. Williams of Hartland, in the county of Somerset, is hereby vested with the sole and exclusive right of employing and using steam power, for the purpose of navigating upon Moose pond in said county, during the term of ten years from the passage of this act; and if any person, without authori tion of grant. ty of said Williams, shall apply steam power to the purpose of CHAP. 365. propelling or navigating any boat or water craft upon said pond Penalty for violaduring the term aforesaid, he shall for each offence forfeit and pay to said Williams a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars, to be recovered by an action of debt in any court having competent jurisdiction; provided, that if said Wil- Proviso. liams shall fail or neglect to build and put in operation on said pond, within one year from the first day of June next, a good and safe steamboat, for the purpose of towing logs or boats and conveying passengers over said pond, and to keep the same in repair (unusual casualties excepted) during the aforesaid term of ten years, then the exclusive right herein granted to said Williams shall be void. SECT. 2. Said Williams shall have power to deepen the channel, remove obstructions, erect piers, build wharves, and do whatever else may be necessary to the full enjoyment of all rights, and to accomplish all the objects enumerated in the foregoing section. SECT. 3. Said Williams may take such lands as may be necessary for all purposes herein enumerated, under the provisions, conditions, restrictions, and with the same remedies to the owners . thereof as provided in chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, and acts additional and amendatory thereto, relating to railroad corporations. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to remove obstruc tions, build wharves, &c. May take lands poses and under for certain pur certain restric tions. Chapter 365. An act to authorize David Rodick to construct a fish weir in Frenchman's bay, in the town of Eden. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. David Rodick of Eden, is hereby authorized to erect Authorized to and maintain a fish weir at the eastern end of Bar island, in the waters of Frenchman's bay. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. construct fish weir |