CHAP. 366. Acts, votes and proceedings, made valid. Chapter 366. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Dalton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All acts, votes and proceedings of the qualified voters of the town of Dalton, in the county of Aroostook, at a meeting held in said town as an annual town meeting in the month of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, are hereby made valid and binding. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to extend wharf. Chapter 367. An act to authorize George L. Snow to extend his 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. George L. Snow of Rockland, in the county of Knox, is hereby authorized to extend his wharf two hundred feet in an easterly direction into the tide waters of Rockland. harbor. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Amended. Wards. Chapter 368. An act to amend "an act amendatory of and additional to an act to incorporate the city of Calais," approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The first section of said act, is hereby amended, by striking out in the tenth line the words "second day," and inserting in place thereof the words 'first Monday,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Sect. 1. Said act is hereby amended, by striking therefrom all of section sixteen, and inserting in place thereof as follows: Sect. 16. For the purpose of holding elections said city shall be divided into five wards, to contain as near as conveniently may be an equal number of legal voters, and ward five shall be divided into two election districts, to be designated as districts number one and two; and it shall be the duty of the city council once in CHAP. 368. Wards reviewed once in ten years. Warden and clerk, how chosen, and term of office. side at meetings. Proceedings in warden. the absence of ten years, and not oftener than five years, to review and, if it be needful, to alter said wards and districts in such manner as to preserve as nearly as may be an equal number of legal voters in each. In each of said wards, except ward five, and in each of said districts, there shall annually, on the first Monday of April, be chosen by ballot, a warden and clerk who shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall have been chosen and qualified in their places. Said warden and clerk shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their respective duties, by any justice of the peace of said city, or by the person presiding in said ward meeting, or by the clerk of said ward, and a certificate of such oaths having been administered, shall be entered by the clerk on the records of the ward. The wardens shall preside at all the ward and district Warden shall premeetings, with the power of moderators of town meetings, and if at any meeting the warden should not be present, the clerk of such ward or district shall call the meeting to order and preside until a warden pro tempore shall be chosen. If neither of them should be present, any legal voter in the ward or district may preside until a clerk pro tempore shall be chosen and qualified. The clerk shall record all the proceedings, and certify the votes given, and deliver over to his successor in office all such records and journals, together with all other documents and papers held by him in said capacity. The inhabitants of each ward and district may choose two persons to assist the warden in receiving, sorting and counting the votes. The list of the names of the legal voters in each ward and district shall be prepared by the assessors and board of aldermen, in the same manner and under the same restrictions as are imposed by the laws of this state on the assessors and selectmen of towns; and all regular ward and district meetings shall be notified and called by the mayor and aldermen in the manner prescribed by the laws of this state for notifying and calling town meetings by the selectmen of the several towns, excepting that ward and district meetings for the election of mayor after the second trial, may be called within the time provided in such cases in said act.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Clerk to make record of votes, &c. Persons to assist chosen. warden, may be List of votes, how prepared. and by whom District meetings, how and by whom called. CHAP. 369. Amended. Chapter 369. An act to amend "an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The first section of said act, is hereby amended, by striking out in the sixth and twentieth lines the words "shall be a member of the bar in Washington county, and," so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Sect. 1. The act incroporating the city of Calais, approved August twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, is hereby amended, by inserting in section eleven, after the word "Calais," in the third line, the words 'which shall be a court of record with a seal,' and after the word "judge" in said line, the words 'who shall reside in said city of Calais during his continuance in said office;' and by striking out all of said section eleven, after the word "constitution," in the fourth line, and inserting the words, and shall, except when interested, exercise concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace, justices of the peace and quorum, and trial justices, over all such matters and things, civil and criminal, within the county of Washington, as are by law within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, justices of the peace and quorum, and trial justices, in said county,' so that said section eleven, as amended, shall read: 'a police court shall be and hereby is established in and for the city of Calais, to be denominated the municipal court of the city of Calais, which shall be a court of record with a seal, to consist Judge shall reside of one judge, who shall reside in said city of Calais during his continuance in said office, who shall be appointed and commissioned in the manner provided in the constitution, and shall, except when interested, exercise concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace, justices of the peace and quourm, and trial justices, over all such matters and things, civil and criminal, within the county of Washington, as are by law within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, justices of the peace and quorum, and trial justices in said county.' Municipal court established. in Calais while in office. Jurisdiction. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Chapter 370. An act to incorporate the Sagadahoc Ice Company of Richmond. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 370. SECT. 1. J. Hathorn, George H. Theobald, J. B. Umberhind, Corporators. I. A. Merriman, Samuel Odiorne junior, Jacob Elwell, William Thurlow, Daniel Clarke, Robert Rowe, John H. Stuart, A. P. Jewett and J. W. Spaulding, their associates and assigns, are hereby made and incorporated a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Sagadahoc Ice Company of Richmond, for the pur- Name. pose of carrying on the ice business, by cutting, storing, packing Purpose. and stacking ice for sale, and to this end said company may take by purchase, lease or otherwise, real and personal estate, and hold, May hold real and convey and transfer the same, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. The capital stock of said corporation shall not ex- Capital stock, ceed one hundred thousand dollars, and may be fixed by a vote of said corporation; it shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. personal estate. how divided. SECT. 2. This corporation may have and use a common seal, Corporate seal. shall have the power to sue and be sued, prosecute and defend suits in law and equity, may make and ordain a constitution and by-laws for their government, not repugnant to the constitution By-laws. and laws of this state, and shall have all the powers and privileges Powers and and be subject to all the duties and liabilities applying to similar corporations in this state. liabilities. wharves, &c. SECT. 3. For the purpose of facilitating the cutting and harvest- May construct ing of ice, and to enable said company to remove, house, pack, load and ship the same, said corporation shall have the right to construct, build and maintain upon their own lands or upon the lands of others, by the consent in writing of the owners thereof, and into the tide waters of the Kennebec river, all necessary wharves, slips, piers and other constructions, and to extend the same so far below low water mark as to attain a depth of water of ten feet at low tide. how called. SECT. 4. Daniel Clarke, one of said corporators, shall call the First meeting, first meeting of said corporation, by giving the other corporators herein named, two days notice of the time and place appointed for said meeting. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. CHAP. 371. Corporators. Name. Powers and liabilities. Authorized to quarry and man other materials. May hold real and personal estate. Chapter 371. An act to incorporate the Mayfield Slate Company. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Joseph B. Hall, Alpheus S. C. Hall, Winslow Hall, Nahum Morrill, Alfred W. Hall, Virgil P. Hall and Levi Cushman, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and coporate by the name of the Mayfield Slate Company, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the laws of this state concerning manufacturing companies. SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to quarry and manuufacture slate and facture slate and other minerals in Mayfield, in the county of Somerset, and may purchase and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding at any one time the value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars May erect dams, each; may erect such dams, buildings, mills and machinery as their convenience may require; may have and use a common seal, and may make all necessary by-laws and regulations for the prosecution of said business not inconsistent with the laws of this state. &c. By-laws. First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. The first meeting of said company may be called by any one of the said corporators, by giving written notice to each of the other corporators, at least seven days previous to such meeting. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. Authorized to extend wharf. Chapter 372. An act relating to the extension of the wharf of Joshua and Benjamin C. Adams in Camden. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Joshua Adams and Benjamin C. Adams of Camden, in the county of Knox, their heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build and maintain upon their own land in the tide waters of Camden harbor, in said Camden, on the western side of said harbor, an addition to their wharf known as the Adams' wharf, by extending said wharf in an easterly direction into tide waters of said Camden harbor, forty feet beyond where it now is. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 26, 1870. |