204 Vinalhaven, certain doings of town of, made valid. VINALHAVEN.-NARRAGUAGUS RIVER.-WISCASSET BRIDGE. Chapter 253. An act to Legalize the Doings of the town of Vinalhaven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The doings of the inhabitants of the town of Vinalhaven, in the county of Knox, in voting money to build a bridge across tide waters, near Freeman Coombs' house, to Lane's island, near the terminus of the old bridge, are hereby made legal and valid; and said town is hereby authorized to keep and maintain said bridge in repair. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Ch. 508, special laws 1874, repealed. Act of 1828, for protection of fish in Narraguagus river, revived. Chapter 254. An act to repeal chapter five hundred and eight of the Special Laws of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, relating to the protection of Fish in the Narraguagus river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The five hundred and eighth chapter of the special laws of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, approved February eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, is hereby repealed. SECT. 2. The act of the legislature approved January thirtyfirst, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled "an act to regulate the taking of Fish in Narraguagus river," is hereby revived and made in full force. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Wiscasset bridge, to reduce width of. Chapter 255. An act in addition to and to amend "an act to incorporate The Proprietors of Wiscasset Bridge," approved June thirtieth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The corporation of The Proprietors of Wiscasset Chapter 256. An act additional to "an act to amend an act to incorporate the Bangor aud Calais Shore Line Railroad Company," approved February seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section one of the act entitled "an act to incorporate the Bangor and Calais Shore Line Railroad Company," approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby further amended by inserting between the words "Lubec" and "and," the following: 'And also to locate, construct and complete, alter, operate and keep in repair, a branch railroad from the trunk line aforesaid, at or near Pembroke, through the towns. of Perry and Eastport, to the tide waters on the south-easterly side of said town of Eastport;' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: СПАР. 256. Sec. 1, ch. 140, special laws of 1872, amended. 'SECT. 1. S. P. Strickland, S. II. Blake, George W. Ladd, Corporators. James Dunning, C. P. Brown, Henry A. Wood, George C. Pickering, A. L. Simpson, Seth Tisdale, H. M. Hall, John D. Hopkins, N. K. Sawyer, Robert Gerry, junior, John F. Whitcomb, Charles H. Macomber, John West, William H. Card, John U. Hill, Gilbert E. Simpson, William L. Guptill, Handy Leighton, George L. Baker, Joseph W. Sawyer, Mariner S Fickett, James W. Moore, Alexander Campbell, D. W. Campbell, James A. Milliken, William Freemau, junior, Samuel Campbell, John W. Coffin, Harrison Hume, Melbourn H. Willey, Samuel Ray, B. F. Willey, Albert M. Nash, Holmes W. Ramsdell, Joseph W. Coffin, Joseph Crandon, James L. Bucknam, John H. Crandon, Daniel J. Sawyer, John Plummer, J. C. Nash, Horace C. IIall, William B. Elwell, John F. Harmon, George Walker, Ignatius Sargent, John K. Ames, Edwin Longfellow, Hiram Gardiner, George W. Drisko, Mason H. Wilder, Stephen Longfellow, William II. Hemenway, S. H. Talbot, John C. Talbot, William H. Pope, George W. Pope, Jeremiah Foster, T. W. Allen, Peter E. Vose, N. S. Allen, D. K. Hobart, W. T. Hobart, George K. Hatch, Horace Harmon, Charles H. Haskell, A. G. Buck, Charles Deering, N. B. Nutt, Charles Paine, Samuel D. Leavitt, Samuel Adams, W. W. Bragdon, Enoch Fisher, Gideon Mayo, F. A. Pike, E. C. Gates, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Bangor and Calais Corporate name. Shore Line Railroad Company, and by this name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have and enjoy all proper General powers, remedies at law and in equity, to secure and protect them in the exercise of the rights and privileges hereinafter granted, and to prevent all invasions thereof, or interruptions in the exercise privileges, &c. Location, construction, &c., of railroad. Line of road. CHAP. 256. and enjoyment of the same; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct and complete, alter and keep in repair, a railroad, with one or more sets of rails or tracks, and of a gauge not less than three feet or more than four feet eight and one-half inches, with all suitable bridges, tunnels, viaducts, turnouts, culverts, drains and all other necessary appendages, from some point in the city of Bangor, so as to connect with any railroad in said city, and thence to some point above the Penobscot river toll bridge, crossing the Penobscot river at Brewer, thence extending easterly through Brewer, Orrington or Holden, Dedham or the north part of Bucksport and Orland to Ellsworth, or from some point in the town of Bucksport or Verona, on the Penobscot river, thence easterly through the towns of Verona, Bucksport, Penobscot, Orland, Bluehill, Surry, or either of said towns, to Ellsworth; thence easterly through Hancock, Franklin, Sullivan or Gouldsborough, Number seven plantation and Steuben, to Cherryfield, with the right to pass through Milbridge if found expedient so to do; thence easterly through either Harrington, Columbia, Columbia Falls, Jonesborough, Centerville, Whitneyville, Marshfield, to Machias; thence northeasterly through East Machias, Marion, Edmunds or Whiting, and either of the towns of Dennysville, Pembroke, Charlotte, Robbinston, Meddybemps and Baring, to the city of Calais, and with the right to construct a branch from the trunk line at or near East Machias, to Lubec; and also to locate, construct and complete, alter, operate and keep in repair a branch railroad from the trunk line aforesaid, at or near Pembroke, through the towns of Perry and Eastport, to the tide waters on the southeasterly side of said town of Eastport. And said corporation shall be and hereby is invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this act; and for this purpose said corporation shall have the right to purchase or to take and hold so much of the land and real estate of private persons and corporations as may be necessary for the location, construction and convenient operation of said railroad; and they shall also have the right to take, remove and use for the construction and repair of said railroad and appurtenances, any earth, gravel, stone, timber, or other material, on or from the Proviso; width of land so taken; provided however, that said land so taken shall not exceed six rods in width, except where greater width is necessary for the purposes of excavation or embankment; and provided also, that in all cases said corporation shall pay for such Corporation shall lands, estate or material so taken and used, such price as they and the owner or owners thereof may mutually agree upon; and May construct branch roads. Powers. privileges, &c. May take and hold real and personal estate. Materials for construction may be taken. land to be taken. Proviso. pay for land and materials taken. greement, dama Application for damages to be made within three years. in case said parties shall not otherwise agree, the said corporation CHAP. 257. shall pay such damages as shall be ascertained and determined In case of disaby the county commissioners of the several counties in which ges, how adjusted such lands or estates or materials may be situated, in the same manner and under the same conditions as are by law provided in the case of laying out highways; and the land so taken by said. corporation shall be held by it in like manner as lands taken and appropriated for highways. And no application to said county commissioners to estimate said damages shall be sustained unless made within three years from the time of taking such lands or other property; and in case such railroad shall pass through any woodland or forests, the said company shall have the right to fell or remove any trees standing therein within four rods of May remove said road, which by their liability to be blown down, or from their natural falling might obstruct or impair said railroad, by paying Damages, how a just compensation therefor, to be recovered in the same manner as provided for the recovery of other damages in this act.' 'SECT. 2. The clerk of said corporation may have a further time of twenty days from the approval of this act, in which to file the certificate of his election with the registry of deeds, in the district where said corporation is established, and former acts and Doings of corpodoings of said corporation are hereby made valid and legal.' Approved February 11, 1876. trees. ascertained. Extension of time for filing certifi cate of election of clerk. ration, legalized. Chapter 257. An act to extend the time for the location and construction of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Thd Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Company may have an extension of the time for the location and completion of their railroad, to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and all the powers and privileges granted to said company or by them acquired from any source shall continue and be in force during said term of extension of time. Approved February 11, 1876. 208 CHAP. 258. Blaine, doings of school district in SCHOOL DIST. NO. 2, BLAINE.-BANGOR WATER POWER CO. Chapter 258. An act to legalize the doings of School District Number Two, in Blaine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The acts and votes of school district number two, in town of, legalized Blaine, held in April, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to raise money to build a school-house, and the notice calling said meeting, are hereby made legal and valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 11, 1876 Grants of power. -further extended. Proviso. Company shall pay damages by reason of flowage Damages, how ascertained. Chapter 259. An act to amend and extend the Charter of the "Bangor Water Power Company," approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The grants of power in an act approved on the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "an act additional to an act to incorporate the Penobscot Mill Dam Company," and which have been assigned to the Bangor Water Power Company, under the authority of an act approved on the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "an act to incorporate the Bangor Water Power Company," is hereby further extended to the term of four years from the date of the approval of this act; provided however, that said Bangor Water Power Company, their assigns, grantees or donees, pay such damages as may be sustained by the owner or owners of the sawmills and the dams, and other real property connected with said mills, situated in the town of Veazie, in the county of Penobscot, by reason of flowage by means of any dam erected or to be erected across the Penobscot river, at or near Treat's falls, or below said mills, any provision contained in the act to incorporate the Penobscot Mill Dam Company, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and the act to incorporate the Bangor Water Power Company, approved February nineteenth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and "an act for supplying the city of Bangor with water," approved February twenty-second, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the several amendments or acts additional to either of said acts, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all of said damages shall be ascertained and determined in the same |