CHAP. 494 weeks successively in some public newspaper printed in the county of Knox or. Waldo, and if at such meeting, which shall be organized by the choice of a chairman and clerk, the latter to be duly sworn, it shall be made to appear that such failure to pay as aforesaid continues, the municipal officers thus assembled may proceed to choose by ballot, a board of managers consisting of not more than nine members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall organize by the choice of a secretary and president, and may choose any other officers which under the charter and by-laws of said company may be chosen by a board of directors, and said board of managers shall be authorized to take possession of said road and all its property and rights of property therewith connected, and operate the same, and shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a board of directors, and shall hold their offices for one year from the time of their election and until others are chosen in their stead. Said managers shall make a report of their doings and of the amount of money they have received and paid out on account of said railroad to a meeting of the municipal officers of the cities and towns aforesaid, at least once in every year, which meeting shall be called by the president and secretary of said board of managers. When sufficient money has been received by said board of managers, over when money suffi- and above what is actually necessary to pay the expenses of operating said road, including necessary repairs and improvements, to pay all coupons and bonds then due and unpaid, it shall surrender said road with all its property and rights of property to said company. In the election of said board of managers, the municipal officers aforesaid shall be entitled to one vote for every hundred dollars in bonds issued by their respective cities or towns, and the major part of the municipal officers of each city or town shall control the vote thereof. While in their possession, said road shall be operated in the name of the managers of the Georges Valley Railroad Company. If the failure to pay said coupons or bonds shall continue for the space of twenty full years after possession shall have been taken under the mortgage as aforesaid, the same shall be thereby fully foreclosed, unless prior to that time a sufficient tender of payment shall have been made by or on behalf of said company. Managers shall surrender road, eient to pay expenses, bonds and coupons, has been received. Board of managers, election of. Road to be operated in name of managers. Foreclosure of mortgage. Bonds shall be signed by mayor and treasurer of cities, and one of the selectmen and SECT. 23. The bonds herein authorized to be issued, shall be signed by the mayor and treasurer of cities, and one of the selectmen and treasurer of the towns issuing them, and countersigned by the president of said railroad company, and shall contain this countersigned by endorsement, "Issued for the benefit of the Georges Valley Rail treasurer of towns issuing them, and president of company. Chapter 495. An act to incorporate the Kennebunk Building Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 495. May purchase and hold real and personal estate. SECT. 1. Nathaniel L. Thompson, Joseph Titcomb, Edward W. Corporators. Martin, Joseph Dane, Stephen Perkins, all of Kennebunk, their associates, successors and assigns, are constituted and made a body politic and corporate by the name of the Kennebunk Build- Name. ing Association, for the purpose of building and maintaining a Purpose. block of buildings in Kennebunk, for a hall, stores and other uses. SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase and hold real and personal estate to the amount of ten thousand dollars, may erect and maintain a block of buildings in Kennebunk, to be used for stores, halls and other purposes, and may improve, rent, lease, sell, convey and transfer the corporate property as may be necessary, and shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of corporations as defined by the laws of the state, and may divide their stock into as many shares shares. as they may deem proper of not less than fifty dollars each. Powers, privi leges and liabili ties. Capital stock and SECT. 3. Said corporation may make such by-laws for its gov- By-laws. ernment, the regulation of its affairs and transaction of its business as it may deem proper, not repugnant however to existing laws. how called. SECT. 4. Either of the persons herein named may call the first First meeting, meeting of the corporation by giving three days personal notice to the other corporators. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 22, 1870. Chapter 496. An act to amend sections one and fifteen of chapter two hundred and eighteen of the special laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "an act to incorporate the Saco River Railroad Company," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The charter of the Saco River Railroad Company is Amended. hereby amended so that said road may be located and constructed up the valley of the Saco river and connect with the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad at Steep Falls, in the town of Standish or Limington. SECT. 2. The time for making location and filing survey of Saco River Railroad is hereby extended to the first day of March, in the Making location, time for, extended to March 1, 1873; CHAP. 497. year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and the time for its completion is extended to the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventysix. and for completion, to July 1, 1876. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 22, 1870. Extension of wharf authorized. Chapter 497. An act to anthorize Davis Tillson and others to extend a wharf into the tide waters of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Davis Tillson, Patrick McNamara, Garrett Coughlin, John Hogan, of Rockland, in the county of Knox, their heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby authorized to build and extend a wharf and breakwater into the tide waters of Hurricane Island harbor in the county of Knox, for the purpose of shipping their granite from said island. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 22, 1870. Part of town of annexed to city Taxes, collection and payment of. Chapter 498. An act to set off a part of the town of Manchester and annex the same to the city of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All that part of the town of Manchester, in the county of Kennebec, adjoining the city of Hallowell and described as follows, viz: beginning at the northeasterly corner of land belonging to the heirs of the late John Hubbard, thence running westerly to the northwesterly corner of said Hubbard's land, thence southwesterly by lands of said Hubbard and lands of J. R. Bodwell, about two hundred and forty rods to the town line of Manchester as now existing, is hereby set off from the town of Manchester and annexed to the city of Hallowell. SECT. 2. All uncollected taxes legally assessed on the inhabitants and estates hereby set off, shall be collected by the present collector of the town of Manchester, or his successor, and he shall be held to collect, pay over and account for the same, as if this act had not passed. SECT. 3. The city of Hallowell shall support all paupers whose CHAP. 499. legal residence is upon said territory set off by this act to the city Paupers, support of Hallowell, until they shall acquire a settlement elsewhere. of. estates set off, assessment of. SECT. 4. Said territory, by this act set off from Manchester Inhabitants and and annexed to Hallowell, and the inhabitants thereon, with their estates, shall pay to the said Manchester the sum of eighty-three dollars, the same being three per cent. of the present indebtedness of Manchester, and interest thereon from April first, eighteen hundred seventy, until paid, and the said sum shall be assessed by the assessors of Manchester upon the valuation of the polls and estates made by the assessors of Hallowell, and the same shall be collected by the collector of Manchester, in the same manner as if this act had not passed. SECT. 5. The city of Hallowell is hereby authorized and empowered to assume the liability of the territory and inhabitants, with estates set off by this act, to wit, eighty-three dollars, and pay the same to the treasurer of Manchester, and if they so assume said liability, then section four of this act shall be void and of no effect. SECT. 6. The valuation of the estates hereby set off, being three per cent. of the valuation of the estates of said town of Manchester, a corresponding sum shall be deducted from the valuation of Manchester and added to the valuation of the city of Hallowell, in the apportionment of state and county taxes, till a new state valuation shall be made. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 22, 1870. Liabilities assum ed by city of Hallowell. Valuation of estates set off to be deducted from valuation of Man chester and added to Hallowell. Chapter 499. An act to incorporate the Seboois Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Thomas N. Egery, Eben S. Coe, Samuel F. Hersey, Corporators. St. John Smith, Samuel Larabee, Samuel H. Blake and Charles B. authorized. SECT. 2. The said corporation may for the purpose of raising a Dams, erection of, head of water to drive logs, erect and maintain a dam and dams on the Seboois lakes in townships numbered seven and six in range CHAP. 499. seven, west from the east line of the state, in the county of Penob May take land or material neces sary to construct works, and flow lands. Proviso. Damages in case of disagreement, how ascertained. scot, and also a dam above Godfrey's falls, so called, below said lakes, and dams and side dams on said falls, and remove rocks and other obstructions from said falls; and the said corporation are authorized to enter upon and take such land, property or material upon said townships as they may find it necessary to construct their dams and works, and locate the same, and also to flow contiguous lands; provided that said corporation shall pay to the proprietor or proprietors of the land, property and materials so taken or flowed such damages, unless the parties agree, as shall be ascertained and determined by the county commissioners for the county of Penobscot, in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are by law provided in case of damages by laying out of public highways, with the same right to have a jury to determine the damages. Said corporation may demand and receive as a toll the sum of thirty cents for each and every thousand feet board measure of all logs and lumber which may pass over their said dam at or near the head of said Godfrey's falls, to be ascertained by the woods scale, and the corporation shall have a lien upon all logs and lumber which may pass over said last named dam until the full amount of the toll due on all the logs of any and each particular mark shall be paid, and if not paid within ten days after said logs and lumber arrive at the Penobscot Logs and lumber boom, said corporation may sell at public auction in Bangor, after ten days notice in some newspaper printed in Bangor, so much of said logs and lumber as may be sufficient to pay said toll and incidental charges. Toll granted. Lien. may be sold by auction, if tolls are not paid. Notice of sale. When tolls shall be reduced. Bills and expenses shall be audited by land agent. SECT. 3. When the cost of all of said dams and improvements, and all expenses with twelve per cent. annual interest is received by said company, said tolls shall be restricted to a sum sufficient only to keep said works up and in repair and take care of them. SECT. 4. The land agent shall be a commissioner to audit the bills and expenses of said company, which shall be kept by the treasurer of such company whose decision shall be conclusive as to when the tolls may be reduced under the provisions aforesaid. Approved March 23, 1870. |