HOWARD'S POND-WINNEGANCE MILL-DAM COMPANY. Chapter 271. An act to prevent the taking of Trout from Howard's Pond and its tributaries, in the town of Hanover. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are forbidden to take trout, in any manner, from Howard's pond and its tributaries, in the town of Hanover, county of Oxford, for the term of four years from the passage of this act. 219 СПАР. 271. Howard's pond, to protect trout in. violation. SECT. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of this act, Penalty for he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each trout so taken, to be recovered by complaint before any trial justice; one-half to the use of complainant, and the other half to the use of said town of Hanover. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 15, 1876. Chapter 272. An act to amend "an act to incorporate the Winnegance Mill-dam Company," approved Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: rate, amended. The first section of said act is hereby amended by adding there- Act to incorpoto the words, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Winnegance Mill-dam Company, and, for the purpose aforesaid, shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and requirements of the laws of this state defining the general duties and powers of similar corporations,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. Winslow Morse, Frederick J. Parks, R. S. Hunt, Corporators. James Oliver, Obadiah Trask, James H. Oliver, John G. Morse, Bradford Sprague and William Rogers, their associates and successors, assignees of William M. Rogers, late of Bath, in the county of Sagadahoc, deceased, and proprietors of the mills erected on Winnegance creek, at the dam erected pursuant to a special act of the legislature authorizing the said William M. Rogers, his heirs and assigns to erect and maintain a dam for the purpose of raising a water power to propel the machinery of mills and other manufactories across Winnegance creek from land of said Rogers in the town of Bath to land of said Rogers in Phipsburg; said act approved the tenth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty-five; are hereby constituted a body politic CHAP. 273. and corporate by the name of the Winnegance Mill-dam Company, and for the purpose aforesaid, shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and requirements of the laws of this state defining the general duties and powers of similar corporations.' Corporate name. Powers, duties and requirements Approved February 15, 1876. Livermore Falls Bridge Company, doings of, made legal. Chapter 273. An act to make valid the doings of the Livermore Falls Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislalure assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The doings of the Livermore Falls Bridge Company at its meeting on the eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and at all subsequent meetings to the present time, are hereby ratified and made legal. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 15, 1876. Godfrey Falls Dam Company, charter of, amended. May omit certain requirements. Toll. Chapter 274. An act to amend the charter of the Godfrey Falls Dam Company, approved February second, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. An act entitled "an act to incorporate the Godfrey Falls Dam Company," approved February second, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended, as follows: SECT. 2. The said corporation may, at their election, omit to erect and maintain a dam or dams above Godfrey falls below said lakes, and may also, at their election, omit to erect and maintain a dam or dams, and side dams, on said falls, and remove rocks and other obstructions in said falls and below the same, as is provided in said act of incorporation. SECT. 3. The said corporation may demand and receive as a toll the same toll as is provided in section third of said act of incorporation, for all logs and lumber that may pass down and -rigl ts and rem- Over Godfrey falls, so called, with the same rights and remedies for the collection of the same as is provided in said section third of said act of incorporation. edies for collection of. pended. SECT. 4. When said corporation shall, from tolls received by CHAP. 275. them, be reimbursed for all costs, expenses and incidental charges Tolls, how exfor erecting and maintaining their dams and other improvements, with twelve per centum interest, then the tolls thereafter received by them shall be expended in erecting and maintaining a dam at or near the head of said Godfrey falls, and in erecting and maintaining dams and side dams, and making other improvements on said Godfrey falls, and in keeping and maintaining all the works of said corporation in suitable repair. Approved February 15, 1876. Chapter 275. An act creating the Hartland Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The territory embraced within the limits of school district number one, in the town of Hartland, together with the inhabitants thereof, meaning the entire district of said number one, be, and the same is hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Hartland Village Corporation. Corporate name. purposes. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby invested with power, at Powers and any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise such sums of money as may be sufficient for the purchase, repairs and preservation of one or more fire engines, engine houses, hose, buckets, ladders or other apparatus for the extinguishment of fire, for the construction of reservoirs and aqueducts, for the procuring of water, and for organizing and maintaining within the limits of said territory an efficient fire department. SECT. 3. Any money raised by said corporation for the purpose aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property and polls within the territory aforesaid by the assessors of said corporation, in the same manner as provided by law for the assessment of county taxes, and said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Hartland, and assess the tax thereon, if said corporation shall so direct; may correct said valuation, or make a new valuation thereof, according to principles of the valuation established the present year, and assess the same on that valuation. SECT. 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation by the clerk thereof, of the amount of money raised at any meeting for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount Money to be ments. raised by assess -manner of. Clerk to file cer tificate of amount of money raised with assessors. CHAP. 276. upon the estates and polls of persons residing on the territory tion. aforesaid, and upon the estates of non-resident proprietors thereof, and the assessors to certify and deliver to the treasurer or colManner of collec- lector of said corporation, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as county and town taxes by law are collected by towns; and said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of town taxes. Officers. -powers and authority of. May adopt a code of by-laws. First meeting, how called. SECT. 5. The officers shall consist of a clerk, treasurer, assessors, collector, fire wardens, and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation; said fire wardens shall have exclusively all the powers and authority within the limits of said corporation that fire wardens now have or may have, chosen by towns in town meeting. SECT. 6. Said corporation, at any legal meeting thereof, may adopt a code of by-laws for the government of the same, and for the efficient management of their fire department aforesaid, provided the same are not repugnant to the laws of the state. SECT. 7. That A. W. Miller may call the first meeting, by publishing notice in some paper printed in the county of Somerset, for the time and place of said meeting, fourteen days before the meeting; or either of said corporators is hereby authorized to issue a warrant directed to some member of said corporation, requiring him to notify the members thereof to assemble at some suitable time and place in said Hartland village, by posting up notices in two public places within said village, seven days at least before the time of said meeting. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 15, 1876. Chapter 276. An act to legalize the doings of the town of Cornish. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The doings of the town of Cornish at its annual meetin March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and also the doings of the town since, in relation to establishing school district number five in said town, are hereby made valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 15, 1876. FERRY FROM N. HAVEN TO VINALHAVEN.-FREE BRIDGE. Chapter 277. An act to protect George Dyer in running his Ferry from North Haven to Vinalhaven, in Knox county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: 223 CHAP. 277. a line. SECT. 1. George Dyer, of North Haven, in the county of Authorized to run Knox, is hereby granted the right and privilege of running a line from shore to shore, between North Haven and Vinalhaven, where said Dyer is already granted the privilege of running a ferry, for the purpose of operating a scow for the transportation -purpose. of passengers and teams, to and from said North Haven and Vinalhaven; provided, said line be sunk on the bottom, and the Proviso. situation of said line be marked by at least four buoys, placed at equal distances from shore to shore; and said line shall not be maliciously cut or disturbed under penalty of five dollars for each Penalty for disoffence. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. turbing. Chapter 278. An act to authorize the town of Georgetown to build a Free Bridge over tide waters. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Georgetown, in the county of Sagadahoc, is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain a free bridge, with or without draws, over and across tide waters separating Long Island from the main land in said town of Georgetown. SECT. 2. The powers of the municipal officers of the town of Georgetown, relating to said bridge, shall be the same as are established by law in regard to town and private ways; but said bridge shall not be established unless the town so vote at its annual meeting. Approved February 17, 1876. |