pose specified in section one, such sum as is so agreed upon shall SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1870. CHAP. 454. Record of proceedings and of votes. Assessments, colpropriation of lection and ap money. Chapter 454. An act additional to the acts which constitute the charter of the Portland and Oxford Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The following sections are additional to the acts which constitute the charter of the Portland and Oxford Central Railroad Company: SECT. 1. The said company is empowered, upon land it shall have acquired in the mode prescribed in the acts to which this is additional, to construct a railroad, with one or more sets of rails, extending from Canton mills on the line of its present location, along the southerly side of the Androscoggin river, through the towns of Canton and Peru, (or across the said Androscoggin river through the town of Mexico,) to Rumford falls in the town of Rumford. Empowered to from Canton mills construct railroad to Rumford falls. and liabilities. SECT. 2. In relation to this authorized road, the company is Rights, privileges hereby vested in all respects with the same rights, privileges and immunities, and made subject in all respects to the same obligations and liabilities that were attached to it in relation to its existing road, either by the general railroad act, (chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes,) or by the acts to which this is additional. SECT. 3. Two years after the passage of this act are allowed the company in which to locate said road, and five years to construct the same. SECT. 4. The legislature shall at all times have the right to inquire 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 Location and conallowed for. struction, time Doings of corpoinquired into by ration may be legislature. CHAP. 455. 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 herein set forth and enjoined, and subject to the general laws regulating railroads now upon the statute book, or which may hereafter be passed by the legislature of this state. Approved March 10, 1870. Authorized to erect and maintain wharf. Chapter 455. An act to authorize Frederic Spofford to build a wharf in the tide waters of Bucksport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Frederic Spofford, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a wharf on his land in Bucksport village, between land of A. Colby and others and the Parker railway lot, and to extend the same into the tide waters of Penobscot river, to a line drawn from the southwest corner of steamboat wharf, occupied by A. Colby and others, to the southeast corner of the old steamboat wharf of said Spofford, but not to build further east than thirty feet from the western side of a wharf now occupied by Colby and others. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1870. County attorney authorized to appoint suitable persons to enforce the provisions of chap. 448 of pri vate and special laws of 1868. Such persons to be paid by county Chapter 456. An act to procure the enforcement of "an act to prevent the throwing of slabs and other refuse into Penobscot river." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The county attorney of Penobscot county is authorized to appoint some suitable person or persons and to remove them at his pleasure, whose duty it shall be to procure the enforcement of the provisions of chapter four hundred and forty-eight and of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight of the amendments thereto, relating to preventing the throwing of slabs and other refuse into Penobscot river, and to make complaints against and prosecute any persons violating the same. SECT. 2. Persons appointed as aforesaid shall be paid by the county of Penobscot for their personal services in performing the of Penobscot for their services. aforesaid duties, and their expenses connected therewith, such CHAP. 457. sums as shall be approved and certified by said county attorney to the treasurer of said county. SECT. 3. The penalties recovered under chapter four hundred Penalties, how and forty-eight of the private and special laws of .eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be paid into the treasury of Penobscot county for the benefit of said county. SECT. 4. This act shall not be so construed as to prevent any other person from making complaints for the violation of said laws. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1870. disposed of. Complaints for laws. violation of said Chapter 457. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Temple. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The action of the town of Temple, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in voting to abate one-half of the war taxes assessed upon the property of Silas Wilder, Daniel A. Conant, George A. Frederick and John Plaisted, while those persons were in the military service of the United States, is hereby ratified and made valid, the same as if such action had been previously authorized by law. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1870. Action of town of Temple in voting to abate certain taxes, made valid. Chapter 458. An act to change the name of the Association for the Relief of Aged Indigent Women. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The corporation entitled the Association for the Relief of Aged Indigent Women, is hereby authorized to take and use hereafter the name of the Home for Aged Women. SECT. 2. Any gift, donation, legacy or bequest, made to said corporation by the name heretofore existing, shall inure and pass to the same, as if no change had been made in its title. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1870. СНАР. 459. Corporators. Name. Capital stock and shares. Chapter 459. An act to incorporate the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Thomas J. Southard, Charles H. T. J. Southard, B. F. Tallman, Franklin Houdlette, Daniel Clark, F. B. Torrey, John T. Robinson, Charles B. Foster, Joshua Gray, Augustus Bailey, H. W. Jewett, N. O. Mitchell, Arthur Berry, J. C Bartlett, N. M. Wood, Oliver Moses, William Ingalls, James Wakefield, James W. Wakefield, J. Henry Sears, Benjamin S. Wright, Thomas S. Lang and J. D. Lang, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Company, for the purpose of carrying on the business of towing to and from any point on the Kennebec river in this state, or to and from any other port in America, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the general laws of this state. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less than two hundred, nor more than five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, and any person subscribing to said stock shall be personally liable to pay the assessments thereon, not exceedholders therefor. ing one hundred dollars per share. Assessments, liability of stock First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. Any person named in this act, may call the first meeting of said corporation, for the purpose of organizing the same, by giving notice by publication in some newspaper printed in Bath, at least fourteen days before the time appointed for such meeting. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1870. Sect. 2 of chap. repealed. Chapter 460. An act to repeal section two of chapter two hundred and sixty-four of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “an act to amend an act to incorporate the city of Belfast." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and sixty-four of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby repealed. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1870. Chapter 461. An act to authorize the town of Minot to create a sinking fund. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Minot is hereby authorized to fund its debt by issuing bonds, payable within twenty years, with coupons attached bearing interest at six per cent., payable semi-annually. SECT 2. And said town shall raise by taxation each year, commencing with the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, a sum equal to the interest upon said bonds and a further sum equal in amount to one-half of one per cent. of the taxable valuation of said town, to be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the ordinary town taxes are assessed and collected, and in addition thereto, said sums so raised, to be pledged CHAP. 461. Authorized to issue bonds, pay able in 20 years, at 6 per cent. and held as a sinking fund, to be invested as hereinafter provided, Sinking fund, and applied to the payment of the principal of the bonds herein- provision for. before authorized. invest same. SECT. 3. The town treasurer, as said tax shall be received into Town treasurer to the treasury, shall invest the same, as also the income of said sinking fund as it may accrue, in any bonds of said town or of the State of Maine, or of the United States, and the proceeds of such investments, as they may fall due, and be paid into the treasury, shall be reinvested in like manner and be held by the said treasurer for the purpose mentioned in the second section of this act. SECT. 4. The treasurer shall pay the coupons of said bonds as they fall due, and on the approach of the maturity of said town bonds, for the payment of which the said sinking fund is pledged, the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, shall sell or dispose of the securities belonging to said fund, and shall apply the proceeds thereof to the payment of said town bonds, as contemplated in this act. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1870. Coupons, pay ment of, and bonds. Chapter 462. An act to confirm the organizations of certain plantations in Aroostook county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The organizations of the plantations of Hamlin, Cyr, Van Buren, St. John, St. Francis, Wallagrass and Eagle Lake, in Aroostook county, are hereby confirmed and made valid, as though all the requirements of the statutes had been fully complied with Organizations of St. Francis, Wal lagrass and Eagle Lake, confirmed |