CHAP. 471. to the amount of such judgment, and the interest of the holder may be taken and sold by the company on execution in the same manner as other chattel property. Certificate, when it may issue, &c. SECT. 21. No certificate shall issue unless claimed within two years from the declaration of the dividend whereof it may be evidence; but the amount shall be carried to the contingent fund of said company. Approved March 16, 1870. Bickford C. Math ews, in aid of. Chapter 471. An act in relation to a certain claim of Bickford C. Mathews. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The county commissioners of Waldo and Kennebec counties, are hereby authorized severally to examine the claim of Bickford C. Mathews for constructing the highway between Belfast and Augusta, called the south county road, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and allow and pay him such sum as in their judgment justice may require; each board shall act by itself and shall allow him such sum as in its judgment the county they represent ought to pay. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1870. Authorized to change name of road. Extension of line authorized. Chapter 472. An act in addition to "an act to incorporate the Portland and Rutland Railroad Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Portland and Rutland Railroad Company, incorporated by act approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, is hereby allowed to take the name of the Portland, Rutland, Oswego and Chicago Railway Company, by vote of the stockholders thereof, at the time of the organization of the company, or at any meeting of the stockholders duly called for such purpose. SECT. 2. Said railroad company shall have authority to extend its line to Chicago, through the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, in case authority therefor is granted by said states, or either of them, with the May unite its line with line of any other railroad and issue its bonds. further right to extend its line across the peninsula of Ontario, CHAP. 473. in the dominion of Canada, from the Niagara river to St. Clair river, in case authority therefor is granted by the parliament of Canada, or the province of Ontario, with the further right to unite its line with the line of any other railroad company in either of said states or said province of Ontario, and to issue its bonds to aid the construction of any other connecting line of railway in either of said states or said province of Ontario, or lease or purchase any connecting line in this state, or in either of said states or said province of Ontario, or sell its line and all its rights and franchises to any other railroad company in either of said states or said province of Ontario, so as best to form a connected line of railway from Portland, Maine, to Chicago, in the state of Illinois. SECT. 3. Said company is hereby authorized to increase its Capital stock may capital stock to an amount sufficient to complete said line from Portland to Chicago, as the different sections thereof are from time to time completed, but not to exceed the actual cost of the line, or more than three hundred thousand shares. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1870. -or lease or be increased. Chapter 473. An act to incorporate the Waldoborough Woollen and Cotton Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Charles Comery, William F. Storer, Augustus Welt, Corporators. George D. Smouse, James Schwartz second, Alfred Storer, Joseph Clark, S. W. Jackson, M. M. Rawson, Alden Jackson, John Sides, L. L. Kennedy, George W. Caldwell, B. B. Haskell, H. H. Lovell, Joseph Miller and S. M. Morse, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Waldoborough Woollen and Cotton Manu- Name. facturing Company, with all the powers and privileges, and sub- Powers and ject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the laws of this state concerning manufacturing corporations. liabilities. Authorized to manufacture woollen and cot ton fabrics, &c. May purchase personal estate. SECT. 2. Said corporation is authorized to manufacture woollen and cotton fabrics and other articles, necessarily or conveniently connected therewith, in the town of Waldoborough, county of Lincoln; to purchase and hold real and personal estate, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to build and erect such dams, buildings and machinery as their convenience may and machinery. require; to lease, sell and convey the same, and make all necessary by-laws consistent with the laws of the state. and hold real and CHAP. 474. shares. First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. Their capital stock shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and each share shall be entitled to one vote, by person or proxy, at any regular meeting of said company. SECT. 4. The first meeting may be called by any two of the corporators, by giving notice in writing to each of the others, of the time and place, seven days previous to said meeting. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1870. Annexation. Liabilities assumed by Presque Isle. Corporate prop erty conveyed to Presque Isle. Taxes collected in Maysville to be of Presque Isle. Chapter 474. An act to annex the town of Maysville to the town of Presque Isle. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Maysville is hereby annexed to and made a part of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 2. All the liabilities of the town of Maysville are hereby assumed by the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 3. All of the personal and real estate owned by the town of Maysville, is hereby conveyed to and to be owned by the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 4. The collector of taxes, of the town of Maysville is paid to treasurer hereby authorized and empowered to collect and pay over to the treasurer of the town of Presque Isle, all taxes he was directed to pay to the treasurer of the town of Maysville, now assessed and committed to him for collection, not already collected and paid to the treasurer of the town of Maysville. Assessments for repair of highways in Maysville. Treasurer of . transfer moneys, Town clerk to make similar transfer. SECT. 5. All taxes which have been assessed for the repairs of highways and committed to highway surveyors in the town of Maysville, shall be expended and worked out on the highways under the direction of said surveyors, and return thereof made to the selectmen of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 6. The treasurer of the town of Maysville shall pay over all moneys and deliver all books, papers and documents pertaining to his office, to the treasurer of the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 7. The town clerk of the town of Maysville shall deliver to the town clerk of the town of Presque Isle all reports and books belonging to the town of Maysville, and all papers, records and Assessors, &c., to documents pertaining to his office. The assessors, selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Maysville shall deliver all books, papers and documents pertaining to their several offices to the assessors, selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Presque Isle. transfer books, papers, &c. OFFICIAL ACTS OF J. E. HOBBS LEGALIZED.--TROUT AND PICKEREL. 431 upon acceptance. respective towns to decide acceptance of act. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and CHAP. 475. after its acceptance by a majority of said towns in the manner Act to take effect following. Within fifteen days after this act is approved by the governor, the selectmen shall call a meeting of their respective Meetings of towns to decide on the acceptance of this act, and the following question shall be submitted to the towns at said meeting: "Shall the town of Maysville be annexed to the town of Presque Isle ?" And if a majority of the legal votes so cast in each town are in the affirmative, this act shall be in force, otherwise not. If the selectmen of either of the towns of Presque Isle or Maysville shall neglect to call the meeting as aforesaid, the said town shall be regarded as assenting to said annexation. SECT. 9. The annual meeting in the town of Presque Isle for Elections, regulathe choice of town officers and the transaction of town business for eighteen hundred and seventy, may be in the month of April instead of the month of March as now provided by law, and also in the town of Maysville, provided it shall not by this act be annexed to the town of Presque Isle. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1870. Neglect of officers to call meeting, effect of. tions as to. Chapter 475. An act to legalize the official acts of John E. Hobbs of North Berwick, as trial justice. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All acts performed by John E. Hobbs of North Berwick, in his official capacity of trial justice, within and for the county of York, since October twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, are hereby legalized and made valid and of full force and effect. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 16, 1870. Acts of John E. justice, legalized. Chapter 476. An act to prevent the destruction of trout and pickerel in the town of Turner. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. If any person shall, within three years from date of approval of this act, take or destroy any trout or pickerel in any Trout and pickprotection of erel in Turner, CHAP. 477. of the streams, ponds or rivers, in the town of Turner, he shall forfeit two dollars for each trout or pickerel so taken and destroyed, to be recovered by complaint or by action of debt, before any trial justice having jurisdiction, one-half to the use of the town, and half to the use of the complainant. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1870. Authorized to build wharf and place buoy in tide water. Chapter 477. An act to authorize G. W. Berry to extend a wharf and place a buoy into the tide waters of Owl's Head bay, in the city of Rockland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT 1. G. W. Berry of Rockland, in the county of Knox, his heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build, extend and maintain in front of his land and privilege near Commercial wharf, in the said city of Rockland, a wharf composed of wood or granite, and extending in a southerly direction into the tide waters of Owl's Head bay, three hundred feet, and to place a dolphin or spar buoy in a southerly direction from same about five hundred feet. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1870. Extension of road authorized. Route. Wharves, piers and slips. Chapter 478. An act additional to and to amend the acts incorporating the Knox and Lincoln Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Knox and Lincoln Railroad Company is hereby authorized to extend its road from the point where it strikes the eastern side of the Kennebec river, across said river to a point on the western side of said river, at or near the terminus of the Portland and Kennebec Railroad, by a ferry between the points aforesaid, to construct, maintain and extend into the tide waters of said river all necessary and convenient wharves, piers and slips for the use and accommodation of said ferry and the boats and business connected therewith, both on the east and west sides of said river, and to purchase, build, maintain and keep in repair all necessary |