riages on such railroad, or in any way spoil, injure or destroy CHAP. 395. or persons assisting, aiding or abetting such trespass, shall forfeit Penalties. SECT. 11. Said corporation shall keep in a book for that purpose, a regular account of all their disbursements, expenditures and receipts, and the books of said corporation shall at all times be open to the inspection of the governor and council, and of any committee duly authorized by the legislature, and at the expiration of every year the treasurer of said corporation shall make an exhibit, under oath, to the legislature, of the profits derived from the income of said railroad. Disbursements account of. and expenditures, property. Shares deemed and taxable as personal estate, such. SECT. 12. All real estate purchased by said corporation for the Tax on corporate use of the same under the fourth section of this act, shall be taxable to said corporation by the several cities, towns and plantations in which said land lies, in the same manner as lands owned by private persons, and shall in the valuation list be estimated the same as other adjacent lands of the same quality in such city, town or plantation, and not otherwise; and the shares owned by the respective stockholders shall be deemed personal estate and be taxable as such to the owners thereof in the places where they reside and have their homes. And whenever the net income of said corporation shall have amounted to ten per centum per annum Income, and reupon the cost of the road and its appendages and incidental expenses, the directors shall make a special report of the fact to the legislature, from and after which time, one moiety, or such other portion as the legislature may from time to time determine, of the net income of said railroad, accruing thereafter over and above ten per centum per annum first to be paid to the stockholders, shall annually be paid over to the treasurer of said corporation, as a tax in the treasury of the state, for the use of the state; and the state State may mainmay have and maintain an action against said corporation there port to legislature. tain an action to CHAP. 395. for, to recover the same; but no other tax than herein is provided shall ever be levied or assessed on said corporation or any of their privileges or franchises. recover excess over ten per cent. Annual meetings. of. SECT. 13. The annual meeting of the members of said corporation shall be holden on the first Monday in January, or such other day as shall be determined by the by-laws, at such time and place as the directors for the time being shall appoint, at which meeting Directors, choice the directors shall be chosen by ballot, each proprietor by himself or proxy being entitled to as many votes as he holds shares; and Special meetings the directors are hereby authorized to call special meetings of the may be called by directors. stockholders, whenever they shall deem it expedient and proper, giving such notice as the corporation by their by-laws shall direct. SECT. 14. The legislature shall at all times have the right to doings of corpora- inquire into the doings of the corporation, and into the manner in which the privileges and franchises herein and hereby granted may have been used and employed by said corporation, and to correct and prevent all abuses of the same, and to pass any laws imposing fines and penalties upon said corporation which may be necessary, more effectually to compel a compliance with the provisions, liabilities and duties hereinbefore set forth and enjoined, but not to impose any other or further duties, liabilities or obligations. Legislature may inquire into tion. Organization, location, &c., SECT. 15. If the said corporation shall not have been organwhen to be made. ized, and the location, according to actual survey of the route, filed with the county commissioners of the county through which the same shall pass, on or before the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, or if the said corporation shall fail to complete at least eighteen miles of said railroad on or before the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in either of the above mentioned cases, this act shall be null and void. Authorized to connect with other roads. Other railroad companies may SECT. 16. The corporation is hereby invested with power to make connections with any other road or roads, and on such terms as the members may deem expedient and proper; and it is hereby authorized to lease the road, either before or after it shall have been completed, on such terms and for such time as the members at a meeting regularly called for that purpose shall determine. SECT. 17. Other railroad companies now incorporated or hereconnect with P. & after to be incorporated in this state, shall have the right to connect their railroads with the railroad of the Penobscot and Union River Railroad Company, in any town along the line of its road; and no discrimination in the rates of freight or passengers shall be made by said company, nor by any party who may operate its line of railway or any part thereof, between railroads having the right to connect with its railroad as aforesaid; but all passengers and all freight coming from or going to any other road U. Riv. R. R. Co. Rates. Passengers and freight. having such right to connect, shall be transported promptly and CHAP. 396. on terms alike favorable by said company over its own road, or by any party operating the same, and on terms as favorable as the like service is or shall be performed for transportation commencing and terminating on the line of railway of said company. SECT. 18. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 1, 1870. Chapter 396. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to prevent the destruction of alewives in Dennys river," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The second section of said act, is hereby amended, by Amended. inserting between the word "week" and the word "from," in the fourth line, the words, 'in all that portion of the river below the fishway at Lincoln's mills, in the town of Dennysville; and between the hours of sunset on Thursday and sunset on Saturday of each week, in that portion of the river between said fishway and the town of Meddybemps; and between the hours of sunset on Monday and sunset on Friday of each week, in the town of Meddybemps,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Sect. 2. The use of any means or implements for the taking or destroying of alewives, or obstructing their passage in said river, except between the hours of sunrise on Monday and sunset the following Thursday of each week, in all that portion of the river below the fishway at Lincoln's mills, in the town of Dennysville; and between the hours of sunset on Thursday and sunset on Saturday of each week, in that portion of the river between said fishway and the town of Meddybemps; and between the hours of sunset on Monday and sunset on Friday of each week, in the town of Meddybemps, from the first day of January till the first day of August, every year, is hereby prohibited.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 1, 1870. Alewives, preser vation of. СНАР. 397. Names changed. Chapter 397. An act to change the names of certain persons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That George W. Patch of Shapleigh, be allowed to take the name of George West; Victoria Fenlason to take the name of Victoria Chase; John W. Fogg of Freeport, to take the name of Charles Fogg; Jennie Cookson of Benton, to take the name of Jennie Roundly; Thomas Stearns of Paris, to take the name of Thomas Eaton Stearns; Frederic E. Tucker of Skowhegan, to take the name of Frederic E. Daggett; Alphonso Dolloph of Gray, to take the name of George Dolley; Abijah Crane to take the name of Abijah Milton; William O. G. Campbell of Hallowell, to take the name of William O. Grant; and Ira A. Sidlinger of Union, to take the name of Ira A. Hudson. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 1, 1870. Names changed. Chapter 398. An act to change the names of certain persons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The child of Elizabeth Harrington named Fred M. Strout, now called Fred M. Britt, is allowed to take the name of Fred M. Britt; the child of Rebecca W. Britt named Martha Britt, is allowed to take name of Martha Love Britt; and said Fred M. Britt and Martha Love Britt are hereby declared to be the adopted children of John B. Britt and Charlotte C. Britt of Waterville, and shall sustain the same relation to them and each other, and the estates of each other, including the right of inheritance, at all times, as if they had been the children of said John B. Britt and Charlotte C. Britt, born in lawful wedlock. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 1, 1870. Chapter 399. An act to establish the Stetson High School and Library Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 399. Powers and priv ileges. SECT. 1. Lewis Barker, John Rogers, William Plaisted, Mat- Corporators. thias E. Rice, Paul F. Clark, David E. Parsons, and the superintending school committee of the town of Stetson, for the time being of each succeeding year, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the Stetson High School and Library Name. Association, and by this name may sue and be sued, have a common seal, make such by-laws not repugnant to the laws of this state as they may deem expedient for the management of their affairs, fill all vacancies occurring in their number, except vacancies of the superintending school committee, take and hold real and personal estate, the annual income of which shall not May hold real and exceed two thousand dollars, said income to be faithfully applied to promote the cause of education, and the trustees aforesaid are entrusted with all the powers and privileges incident to similar corporations. personal estate. Income, how applied. school money. SECT. 2. It shall be lawful for such corporation at all times to Expenditure of make such arrangements with the school district number two, in the town of Stetson, on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, by virtue of which such portion of the school money and the use of such of its school-rooms as the the district may direct may be applied to the support of the high school; such arrangements shall not be binding on said district after it shall in pur- Arrangement, suance of a previous vote, have given six months previous notice in writing by its clerk to the secretary of the corporation or to any member thereof of its intention to terminate the same; and the corporation may by a similar six months notice to the clerk of the district also terminate the same. how terminated. how called. SECT. 3. John Rogers is hereby authorized to call the first First meeting, meeting of said corporation, by posting up a notice thereof at the post office in Stetson, seven days at least before the meeting of said corporation. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 1, 1870. |