ration shall appoint, and the net income or profit thereof shall be divided among the depositors, their executors or assigns, in just proportion. CHAP. 407. Income, how applied. how called. SECT. 3. George A. Fletcher, named herein, is authorized to First meeting, call the first meeting of said corporation by giving seven days notice in the North Anson Advocate, a paper published at said North Anson, of the time and place of such meeting, at which meeting and at every subsequent annual meeting, said corporation may elect by ballot any person or persons as members thereof, Members. may choose such officers as may to them seem proper for their officers. organization and government, who shall continue in office one year Tenure of office. 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 faithful discharge of his duties; provided that the offices of treasurer and secretary may if deemed advisable, be held by the same person, and be appointed by the trustees of said corporation, and shall hold said offices at the pleasure of the trustees. 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. Bonds of treas urer. Proviso. treasurer. ance. SECT. 5. The annual meeting of this corporation shall be holden Annual meeting. in the month of April, and at that meeting and all other meetings it shall require seven members 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. rate members. by-laws. SECT. 6. The number of corporate members of the North Anson Number of corpoSavings Bank shall not be less than five nor more than twelve, and such corporation at any legal meeting may establish by-laws May establish providing that members removing from the state or failing to attend the annual meetings for two successive years, unless excused by said corporation, shall cease to be members thereof. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1870. CHAP. 408. Authorized to erect fish weirs. Chapter 408. An act to authorize Gilbert Longfellow to erect fish weirs in the tide waters of Jonesboro', at Shorey's Island. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Gilbert Longfellow is hereby authorized to erect fish weirs in the tide waters of Jonesboro', around Shorey's island, below low water mark; provided, that all weirs authorized by this act, shall be so constructed as not to obstruct navigation of the waters aforesaid, and that suitable beacons be placed upon the said weirs. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1870. Corporators. Chapter 409. An act to incorporate the Bangor Mutual Life Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry A. Wood, James Dunning, George W. Snow, Isaac Danforth, Thomas Mason, William H. Perry, Lewis Barker, Charles E. Dole, John E. Godfrey, Charles Buffum, and all others who may hereafter become members of said company in manner herein prescribed, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of the Bangor Mutual Life Insurance Company, for the purpose of insuring the lives of the members thereof, and May hold real and may hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary to effect the object of this association, and may sell and convey the same at pleasure. Name. personal estate. By-laws may be established. First meeting, how called. Officers of company. SECT. 2. They may make, establish and put in execution, such by-laws, not contrary to the laws of the state, as may seem necessary and convenient for the regulation and management of their affairs, and do and execute all such acts as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes intended by this act. SECT. 3. The first meeting may be called by any three persons named in this act, by a notice published seven days before the time of meeting, in some paper printed in the city of Bangor. Said notice shall state the time and place of meeting; at which meeting the officers of said company may be chosen, and such other proceedings had for a full and complete organization, as a majority of the members present may determine. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1870. Chapter 410. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Farmingdale. 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 Farmingdale, in the county of Kennebec, at a town meeting held in said town on the eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, whereby they voted to abate the tax assessed on ice in said town for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and also voted to exempt from taxation all ice that shall be stored in said town for the term of ten years next succeeding the date of said meeting, are hereby made valid and legal. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1870. Chapter 411. An act to amend "an act to supply the people of Bangor with pure water," approved Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section five of "an act to supply the people of Ban- Amended. gor with pure water," approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is amended, by striking out of the second line of said fifth section, the words "six hundred thousand," and inserting instead thereof the words one million.' SECT. 2. Section fifteen of the same act, is hereby amended, by striking out of the second line of said fifteenth section, the words "within one year from the date of approval," and inserting instead thereof the words within six years from March first, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy,' and by inserting after the word "act," in the sixth line of said fifteenth section, the words 'and ten per cent. additional.' SECT. 3. Section three of the same act, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: 'Sect. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized for the purpose aforesaid, to take and hold the water of Hat Case pond, so called, in the town of Dedham, and the streams tributary thereto in said town, and the water of Fitz pond, so called, in the town of Clifton, and the streams tributary thereto in said town of Clifton; and may also hold by purchase or otherwise, any land or real estate necessary for erecting dams and reservoirs, and for laying and Authorized to take and hold water of Hat Case pond and of Fitz pond. May hold land or real estate for certain purposes. CHAP. 412. maintaining aqueducts for conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing of water, and for forming reservoirs thereof.' Approved March 2, 1870. Acts and doings, made valid. Chapter 412. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Bucksport. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The acts and doings of the town of Bucksport at a meeting held on the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in raising and appropriating money to survey the route for a railroad from said town to Bangor, are hereby made valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 2, 1870. Authorized to raise money for How applied. Chapter 413. An act to authorize the city of Rockland to raise and expend money for certain pur poses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The city of Rockland is hereby duly authorized and certain purposes. empowered to raise by taxation such sum or sums of money as the city council may deem expedient, for the purpose of paying the same to the owner or owners of wagons, used for the transportation of limestone, in such sums as the city council may determine, as a portion of the expense incurred by said owners in altering the width of wheels of wagons to conform to the requirements of an ordinance of said city. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 3, 1870. Chapter 414. An act to incorporate the First Methodist Episcopal Society of Biddeford. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 414. SECT. 1. Horace Ford, Leonard Andrews, Daniel Pond, James Coporatorrs. Andrews, Robert Adams, Silas P. Adams, Stephen Locke, William K. Fogg, George W. Hatch, trustees of the First Methodist Name. Episcopal Church in Biddeford, and their successors in office as trustees, together with the pew owners in said meeting-house, are hereby incorporated by the name of the First Methodist Episcopal Society of Biddeford. personal estate. SECT. 2. Said corporation may take and hold real or personal May hold real and property for the use of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in said Biddeford, and as such may appear and prosecute or defend in any court of record in this state. Authorized to rebuild and en large church. and notice. Expenses of rement for. SECT. 3. Said corporation are hereby authorized to rebuild and enlarge their present church building on the site of the present church building if they shall so determine, and for that purpose may have the present church building or the pews thereof appraised by three disinterested persons not members of said church Pews, appraisal or society; and the value of each pew thus appraised shall be allowed to the owner of such pew or pews for any interest he or they shall purchase in the new church building; provided, said purchase shall be made within sixty days after notice that the Sale of pews, pews are ready for sale, and such pew owners neglecting to appear and purchase shall have no further lien on said corporation, Lien. and when the said appraisal of the pews shall have been completed the corporation may then proceed to assess upon the pews according to that appraisal such sum or sums of money as in their judgment may seem necessary to pay the expenses of such repairs or rebuilding, and the sum so assessed may be collected and appropriated as the corporation shall provide and direct. SECT. 4. Said corporation are hereby authorized, if they shall so determine, (after such appraisal shall have been made,) to sell or dispose of the present church building and lot, or any part thereof, as they shall determine, at any meeting called for that purpose, excepting the bell in the tower and the organ in the Organ and bell, orchestra, which in case of the sale of said house and lot shall be reserved and not sold, and the money received from such sale shall be at the disposal of the corporation to aid in the building of Proceeds of sale, a new church building for the use of the said Methodist Episcopal Church when and where said corporation may determine, and each pew owner shall be allowed to transfer his or her interest from the old to the new church building as provided for in section three of this act. . pairs, and assess Authorized to ing and lot. sell church build reservation of. how applied. May transfer inchurch. terest to new |