markers shall be placed upon it, said markers to be ten feet above CHAP. 387. the tide at high water. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. Chapter 387. An act to incorporate the Sebec Lake Slate Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: slate quarries, &c SECT. 1. Jeremiah Fenno, George R. Smith, Horatio P. Blood, Corporators. their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Sebec Lake Slate Com- Name. pany, and by that name may sue and be sued, adopt a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. The said company may Seal. acquire by purchase, one or more slate quarries in township eight, May purchase in the eighth range, north of the Waldo patent, commonly called Howard, lying on Sebec lake, and any lands and personal property necessary and convenient for working said quarry or quarries, and may sell, lease, pledge and dispose of the same, or may work the same for the production of marketable slate, and in general may have and exercise all such rights, powers, facilities and privi- Powers and leges as belong to manufacturing corporations in this state. privileges. SECT. 2. Said company may hold real and personal property, May hold real and personal propnot exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars in amount. ersy. shares. By-laws. First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. Said company may divide their capital into such num- Capital and ber of shares, and provide for the sale and transfer thereof in such manner and form as said company shall from time to time determine, not repugnant to the laws of this state, and may make, establish and alter their by-laws, but so as not to be repugnant to the laws of this state. The first meeting of the company may be called by either of the persons named in the first section, giving written notice to each of the other persons so named, at least seven days before the day of meeting, of the time and place of such meeting. The office of said company shall be at the city of Location. Bangor, and there all books of record and transfer shall be kept. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. CHAP. 388. Authorized to improve Kennebec river. May erect dams, locks, with booms, &c. Land may be taken for certain purposes. Damages, how ascertained, &c. Proviso. Conditions. Chapter 388. An act to promote the improvement of the navigation of the Kennebec river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Joseph Clark junior, is hereby authorized to improve the navigation of the Kennebec, river above Carratunk falls, and for this purpose is authorized to deepen the channel thereof, to cut down and remove any gravel or ledge bars, or rocks, or other obstructions in the bed thereof; to erect in the bed and upon the shores or banks of said river suitable dams and locks, with booms, piers, abutments, breakwaters and other erections, to protect the same. SECT. 2. He is authorized to take and hold so much land along the banks and shores of said river, or in the bed thereof, as may be necessary for the location, construction and repair of his aforesaid improvements, and to take and use the gravel, stone and earth upon the lands so taken; and the damages for the real estate so taken, when not agreed upon by the parties, shall be ascertained and determined by the county commissioners of the county of Somerset, under the same limitations and restrictions as are by law provided in case of damages in laying out highways; and the damage created by any dam erected for the above specified purpose, shall be ascertained and determined in the same manner as is provided in the one hundred and twenty-sixth chapter of the revised statutes for flowage created by mill dams; provided that no claim for damage shall be sustained unless made and prosecuted within two years from the time of the alleged injury. SECT. 3. The above grant is upon the condition that the said Approved February 28, 1870. Corporators. Chapter 389. An act to incorporate the Mechanic Falls Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Benjamin P. Butler, A. C. Denison, A. Q. Denison, D. S. Perkins, Joseph Magoon, C. R. Pulsifer, D. B. Waterhouse, J. D. Curtis, M. Robinson, Sullivan Woodman, A. B. Dwinal, Nathaniel Cushman, O. B. Dwinal, Jason Hall, J. A. Buckman, C. E. Stevens, F. E. Dwinal and A. H. Dwinal, their associates, suc cessors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and CHAP. 389. corporate by the name of the Mechanic Falls Savings Bank, with Name. power by that name to prosecute and defend suits at law and in equity, to have and use a common seal, and make all such by- By-laws. laws, rules and regulations as are necessary to the government Corporate seal. and management of their concerns and not repugnant to the laws of the state. Said corporation shall be established in the town of Minot, in the county of Androscoggin, and shall be subject to all Location. the duties and liabilities, and enjoy all rights and privileges con- &c. ferred upon similar institutions by the laws of this state. Duties, liabilities, SECT. 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized to receive Deposits. deposits of money and to issue certificates therefor, and such deposits of money shall be used as they shall judge most for the benefit of said corporation, and such deposits may be withdrawn at such reasonable times and in such manner as said corporation shall appoint, and the net income or profits thereof shall be Income, how divided among the persons making such deposits, their executors, administrators or assigns in just proportion. divided. how called. Members. SECT 3. And Benjamin P. Butler, named herein, is authorized First meeting, to call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving seven days written notice to each of the other corporators of the time and place of such meeting, at which meeting and every subsequent annual meeting, said corporation may elect by ballot any person or persons as members thereof; may choose such officers as to them may seem proper for their organization and government, Officers. who shall so continue in office one year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead; and the persons elected treasurer and secretary, before entering upon their official duties, shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and the treasurer shall also give bonds satisfactory to such corporation for the Bonds. faithful discharge of his duties; provided however, that the offices Proviso. of treasurer and secretary may, if deemed advisable, be united in one person. ance. SECT. 4. All deeds of conveyance, covenants and grants, made Deeds of conveyin behalf of said corporation, shall be sealed with the corporate seal, and when made in pursuance of any vote of the corporation, shall be valid and effectual to convey real or personal property or bind the corporation. SECT. 5. The annual meeting shall be holden in the month of May, and at that meeting and all other meetings, it shall require seven persons at least to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and meetings may be directed at other times by the president, or the corporation; and said corporation may provide in what manner their meetings shall be notified and called. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. Meetings. CHAP. 390. City authorized to aid Bangor Water Company. Proviso. Two-thirds vote required to make contract. Chapter 390. An act authorizing the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor Water Power Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The mayor, aldermen and common council of the city of Bangor, are authorized to make a contract in behalf of said city, with the Bangor Water Power Company, to pay to said company upon the completion of their proposed dam, a sum which shall not exceed two-fifths of the cost of the same, including the necessary lands and damage paid for flowage, and not to exceed, in any event, one hundred thousand dollars; provided that the location and description of such dam shall conform to a plan to be prescribed by said city authorities. SECT. 2. No such contract shall be made, except by a twothirds vote of said aldermen, and a two-thirds vote of said common council, nor shall such contract be finally binding upon said city, until it is ratified by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters thereof, to whom it shall be submitted, and their decision taken thereon in ward meetings, to be called and held in such manner as said city authorities may prescribe. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. Authorized to build dam or dyke. Chapter 391. An act to authorize the building of a dyke or dam across Branch stream in Addison, in the county of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. David Wass, David Davis, J. C. Nash, Henry Nash, Nathaniel N. Wass, John D. Page, William Nash and John B. Hall, their heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build and maintain, or repair and maintain, a good and sufficient dam or dyke across a branch emptying into the Branch stream, so called, in the town of Addison, in the county of Washington, near where the bridge crosses said stream, on the road leading from Addison point to the town of Columbia. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. MADISON MANUFACTURING CO.-FISH IN ALDER STREAM, CORINNA. Chapter 392. An act to incorporate the Madison Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 357 CHAP. 392. Name. May hold real and personal estate. Purpose. SECT. 1. Nathan Wood, John M. Wood and David M. Wood, Corporators. their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Madison Manufacturing Company, and are authorized to take and hold real and personal estate to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of manufacturing wool, cotton, flax, silk, lumber, iron, steel, flour from wheat or other grain, or other kinds of manufacturing business, with all the privileges and subject to all the liabilities conferred by the general laws of the state relating to manufacturing corporations. SECT. 2. Said company is authorized to erect dams, mills, or other structures necessary, for the purpose of manufacturing the articles aforesaid, at one or more places in the towns of Anson and Madison, in the county of Somerset. Authorized to &c. erect dams, mills, how called. SECT. 3. The first meeting of said company may be called by First meeting, either of the persons named in this act, by giving written notice to his associates seven days at least before the time of meeting. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 28, 1870. Chapter 393. An act to regulate the taking of fish from Alder stream in Corinna. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: fish in Alder stream and tributaries, protection. If any person take or destroy any trout or other fish in Alder Trout and other stream or its tributaries, in the town of Corinna, above the sawmill on the said stream, before the first day of April, in the year of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, for each fish so taken or destroyed, and the sum so for- Penalties. feited shall be recovered by an action of debt, one-half to the use of the prosecutor and the other half to the use of the town of Corinna. Approved February 28, 1870. |