CHAP. 381.

directors.

Proceedings.

SECT. 10. If the said company shall after notice of possession Neglect to choose as aforesaid, neglect to choose directors thereof, or other necessary officers, or none such shall be found, the mayor and aldermen of the city shall appoint a board of directors, consisting of not less than seven persons, or any other necessary officers, and the persons so appointed shall have all the power and authority of officers chosen or appointed under the provisions of the act establishing said company, and who shall, upon their acceptance of such offices, be subject to all the duties and liabilities thereof.

Liabilities incurred or assumed

by city to create a lien on road, &c.

City may appoint two directors.

Act, when to take effect.

SECT. 11.

As an additional or cumulative protection for said city, all liabilities which by said city may be assumed or incurred under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, shall at the time, and by force thereof, and for the security and payment of the same, create in favor of said city, a lien on the whole of said road, its franchise, and all its appendages, and all real and personal property of said company, which lien shall have preference, and be prior to all other liens and incumbrances whatever, except as hereinbefore excepted in behalf of said city, on all of said road, wherever the same is now, or may hereafter be located, and on said franchise, and on all other property, real and personal; of said company, and said lien shall be enforced and all the rights and interests of said city shall be protected, when necessary, by suitable and proper judgments, injunctions or decrees of the supreme judicial court in a bill or bills in equity which power is hereby specially conferred on said court; and it is hereby provided that the said lien provided for in this section shall not be deemed waived or ineffectual by the acceptance on the part of said city, of any mortgage or other securities contemplated by the provisions of this act or otherwise.

SECT. 12. The city may appoint under this act two directors of said company from among the stockholders, who shall be annually chosen by the city council, in joint ballot before the annual meeting of said company for the choice of officers, who shall have the same authority in transacting the business of said company, and who shall be entitled to like compensation from said company, as any other director. But the right to choose such director shall cease when the loan contemplated shall be extinguished.

SECT. 13. This act shall not take effect or be of any force until the city council of said city, by a concurrent vote of at least twothirds of the members of each branch of the city council, present and voting, shall submit the same to a vote of the legal voters of the city, and the legal voters of the city in legal ward meetings, shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the votes thrown in the city at such meetings, adopt the same. But if within one year from the approval of this act, said city shall accept said act by such con

current vote of said city council, and of said legal voters as afore- CHAP. 382. said, then said act shall be in force thereafter, and be binding upon said city according to its true tenor and effect, but not otherwise. Said ward meetings shall be called, notified, held, Ward meetings, returns made, declared and recorded, agreeably to the provisions of the city charter of said city for calling and holding ward meetings for the choice of city officers, and returns thereof. SECT. 14. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 28, 1870.

how called.

Chapter 382.

An act to establish the Ridge School District from the towns of Dexter and Corinna.

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

twenty-five years.

trict.

SECT. 1. The following described territory in the towns of Dexter and Corinna, is hereby established into a school district, to be called the Ridge School District, viz: Lots numbered respectively Name. one, three, four, five, six and seven, in the eleventh range; lots Territory. numbered respectively one, two, three, four, five, six, and the east half of seven, in the twelfth range, in the town of Corinna; and lots numbered respectively eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, in the first range, in the town of Dexter, to continue for the term of twenty-five years from the thirty-first day To continue for of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. All school-houses and school district property in Property of dissaid territory shall be the property of the Ridge School District. SECT. 2. The superintending school committee, municipal officers, assessors, treasurer, collector and constables of the town of Corinna, shall have all the powers and perform all the duties relating to said district that they have and perform relating to districts wholly in their own town, but in case the district or the proper authorities shall decide that the school-house shall be located, or that the school shall be kept in the town of Dexter, then said officers of Dexter shall have similar powers and perform similar duties; and such assessors shall assess all taxes voted by such district, according to a valuation made by them, uniform throughout the district.

SECT. 3. The powers specified in section twenty-seven of chapter eleven of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, may be exercised in said district by the concurrent votes of said towns, or the joint acts of the municipal officers or superintending school committees thereof, and application shall be made

Powers and duties

of committee and

other officers.

Powers specified 11, R. S., how

in sect. 27, chap.

and by whom exercised.

CHAP. 383 to each of them accordingly. The provisions of sections twentyeight and twenty-nine of said chapter shall also apply to said district.

School money, how apportioned.

School agent, choice of.

SECT. 4. The assessors of each town shall annually apportion to said district a share of the school money of their town according to the number of scholars in said district living in their town.

SECT. 5. Said district shall annually choose its agent, and his contracts shall bind each town in proportion to and not exceeding the amount which it is required to pay to him as aforesaid; and Powers and privi- all agents and officers thereof shall have the same powers and privileges and perform the same duties as in districts wholly in one town.

leges.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 6. The first meeting of said district may be called by the selectmen of Dexter, on the written application of three or more legal voters residing in said territory, stating the reasons and objects thereof, in the months of March or April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, or if no such application is made, then without such application in the months of May or June in the same year, the selectmen stating the reasons and objects of said meeting in the call.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 28, 1870.

Extended for twenty years.

May increase capital stock.

Change of name authorized.

Chapter 383.

An act to extend the charter of the Rockland Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The act approved February seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, chartering the Rockland Fire and Marine Insurance Company, is hereby extended for the term of twenty years from that date.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars at any time after the passage of this act, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting duly called for that purpose.

SECT. 3. From February second, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the above company may take the name of the Rockland Marine Insurance Company.

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

Approved February 28, 1870.

Chapter 384.

An act to incorporate the Casco Bay Steamboat Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis

lature assembled, as follows:

CHAP. 384.

SECT. 1. William Mitchell, Walter Hatch and William Batty, Corporators. their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a

body politic and corporate by the name of the Casco Bay Steam- Name. boat Company, for the purpose of running a steamboat or steam- Purpose. boats in Casco bay, with all the powers and privileges, and Powers and subject to the duties and liabilities provided by the general laws of this state respecting similar corporations.

liabilities.

personal estate.

SECT. 2. The said corporation may purchase and hold real and May hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars, with full power to manage and dispose of the same.

Authorized to

withdraw steam

ers at certain

seasons of the

year.

SECT. 3. The said corporation shall have authority to withdraw its steamboat or steamboats from service in Casco bay from the first day of October to the first day of June, annually, and to employ them wherever it may be found expedient. SECT. 4. Any one of the corporators named in this act may First meeting, call the first meeting of said corporation at such time and place as he may see fit, by giving five days notice in some paper published in the city of Portland, for the purpose of organizing said corporation.

SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 28, 1870.

how called.

Chapter 385.

An act to incorporate the Russell Stream Dam Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis

lature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Manuel S. Drummond, Frank H. Drummond, Gorham Corporators. L. Boynton, Levi Bradley, Eben S. Coe and James N. Chandler, their associates and successors, are created a corporation by the name of the Russell Stream Dam Company.

Name.

build dam, &c.

SECT. 2. Said corporation may build, complete and maintain a Authorized to dam at some suitable place below and near the foot of Russell stream pond, on township number four, range fifteen, in the county of Piscataquis, for the purpose of raising a head of water Purpose. to facilitate the driving of logs down said Russell stream.

SECT. 3. Said corporation shall have a right to demand and Toll. receive as a toll the sum of twenty-five cents for each thousand

CHAP. 386. feet board measure, woods scale, for all logs and lumber which may pass through or over their said dam, and a less sum as toll, not to exceed ten cents for each and every thousand feet board measure, woods scale, for all logs driven out of Russell stream below said dam, and the directors of said company shall determine in each year what advantage said logs put in below the dam have enjoyed from said head of water, and fix the toll each year which they ought to pay, not exceeding the said ten cents for each thousand feet board measure, woods scale, and said corporation shall have a lien on all the aforesaid logs, whether the same remain in the possession of the corporation or not, until the full amount of the toll due on all the logs of any particular mark is paid, and if not paid within twenty days after said logs or a greater proportion of them have arrived at the Penobscot boom, said corporation may sell at public auction, after ten days notice, published in some newspaper in Bangor, so much of said logs as may be sufficient to pay said toll and incidental charges.

Lien.

May sell logs at auction for nonpayment of toll.

Damn, management of.

lect of duty.

SECT. 4. The dam shall be managed so as to accommodate and preserve the head of water for all logs put into Russell stream or its tributaries above said dam, but said corporation shall not be Damages for neg- liable for damage for any neglect of duty beyond a forfeiture of the tolls herein provided. The cost and completion of the dam shall be deemed and called three thousand dollars; and when a sufficient amount of tolls have been received to pay said three thousand dollars, and all repairs and incidental expenses, and nine Toll to be reduced. per cent. interest, the toll is hereby reduced to a sum sufficient to keep said dam in repair.

Flowage of land, &c.

SECT. 5. The corporation shall first obtain the consent of the owners of the land upon which said dam is built, to build the same, and the consent of the proprietors of land flowed by said dam to flow the same.

SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 28, 1870.

Authorized to build fish weir.

Chapter 386.

An act to authorize Edward Hilton to build a fish weir in the tide waters of Pigeon Hill bay, in the town of Steuben.

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

SECT. 1. Edward Hilton is hereby authorized and empowered to construct a fish weir in the tide waters of Pigeon Hill bay, in front of his own land, in the town of Steuben; provided, that said weir shall not obstruct navigation in said bay, and that suitable