8 as he holds shares. And the directors are hereby au9 thorized to call special meetings of the stockholders 10 whenever they shall deem it expedient and proper, 11 giving such notice as the corporation by their by-laws 12 shall direct.

SEC 17. The legislature shall at all times have the 2 right to inquire into the doings of the corporation, 3 and into the manner in which the privileges and fran4 chises herein and hereby granted may have been used 5 and employed by said corporation, and to correct and 6 prevent all abuses of the same and to pass any laws 7 imposing fines and penalties upon said corporation, 8 which may be necessary more effectually to compel 9 a compliance with the provisions, liabilities and duties. 10 hereinbefore set forth and enjoined, but not to impose 11 any other or further duties, liabilities or obligations.

SEC. 18. If the said corporation shall not have 2 been organized and the location according to actual 3 survey of the route filed with the county commission4 ers of the county or counties through which the same 5 shall pass on or before the first day of December, in 6 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 7 fifty-four, or if said corporation shall fail to complete 8 said railroad on or before the first day of December,

9 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred

10 and fifty nine, in either of the abovementioned cases, 11 this act shall be null and void.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, August 1, 1849.

ORDERED, That 350 copies of the foregoing Bill, (reported from the committee on railroads and bridges,) be printed for the use of

the Legislature.

DANIEL T. PIKE, Secretary.

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 35.]

STATE OF MAINE.

[HOUSE.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND

FORTY-NINE.

AN ACT additional for the assessment and collection of taxes in unincorporated places.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECTION 1. When any part or proportion of any 2 state or county tax shall be laid on any plantation not 3 organized, the treasurer of the state may issue his 4 precept to some justice of the peace dwelling near to 5 such plantation requiring him forthwith to grant his 6 warrant directed to some principal inhabitant of such 7 plantation, requiring him to notify and warn the in

Wm. T. Johnson, Printer to the State.