CHAP. 279. Monsweag bay, protection of smelts in. Penalty for violation. Chapter 279. An act for the protection of Smelts in Monsweag bay and river, in the towns of Wiscasset and Woolwich. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are forbidden to catch smelts with nets in Monsweag bay, within one-half of a mile of the outlet of Monsweag river, or near the outlet in said river in the towns of Wiscasset or Woolwich. SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each offence, how recovered. to be recovered by complaint before any trial justice, one-half to the complainant and the other half to either of the towns of Wiscasset or Woolwich where the complaint shall be made. Approved February 17, 1876. Act of 1875, amended. Time for accept ance by city of Chapter 280. An act to amend "an act to authorize the City of Bangor to aid the construction of a railroad into Aroostook county," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred seventy-five, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The time specified in section fourteen of an act entitled "an act to authorize the city of Bangor to aid the construction of a railroad into Aroostook county," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, within which said act shall be accepted by said city of Bangor, as provided in said section fourteen, is hereby extended to two years from the date of the approval of said act, to wit, to the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; and if said act as amended by an act approved by the governor, February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be so accepted as is provided in said section fourteen of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, within the Act, as amended, extended time above named, then the said act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended by the act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be in force thereafter, and binding upon said city of Bangor, according to its true tenor and effect, but not otherwise. to be in force, if accepted. Approved February 17, 1876. Chapter 281. An act to authorize the extension of the Aroostook River Railroad to Fort Kent. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 281. sion authorized. The Aroostook River Railroad Company are hereby authorized Railroad extento extend their railroad from the point designated as its westerly terminus, in the act incorporating said company by the most feasible route to such point in the town of Fort Kent in Aroostook county, as said company may designate; and all the powers and privileges granted in the act incorporating said company shall apply to said extension, provided, said location according to actual survey of the route shall be filed with the county commissioners of Aroostook county on or before the thirty-first day of commissioners. December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and said road shall be completed on or before December thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty. Approved February 17, 1876. Proviso. Location to be filed with county Chapter 282. An act to extend the time for the location and completion of the Aroostook River Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Company to file location with sioners. description of county commis SECT. 1. The Aroostook River Railroad Company may file, with the county commissioners of Aroostook county, a description of the location of the Aroostook River Railroad, so as to conform to that part of said railroad already constructed, and to that part being constructed, within three months from the approval of this bill, and such description and filing shall be as effectual as though it had been done within the time prescribed in the act incorporating said company; and all acts of said company which have Acts of company been done in the construction of said railroad are hereby made as valid and legal as though said description of location had been filed in due season. SECT. 2. The Aroostook River Railroad Company may have a further time of one year from and after the time fixed in the act incorporating said company, for the completion of their railroad, and all privileges and powers granted to said company shall continue and be in force during said term of extension of time. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. made legal. Time for compleextended. tion of railroad, 226 CHAP. 283. Winnegance MillDam Company, doings of, made valid. WINNEGANCE MILL-DAM.-MASONS' MUTUAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION. Chapter 283. An act to make valid the doings of the Winnegance Mill-Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All the business and doings of the Winnegance MillDam Company transacted at its meetings in and for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventythree, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and eighteen hundred and seventy-five, are hereby legalized and made valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Corporators. Corporate name. Seal. Privileges and liabilities. May hold real and personal estate. Collection of dues and contributions Chapter 284. An act incorporating the Masons' Mutual Relief Association, of Mechanic Falls, Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. John M. Eveleth, Edward F. Ross, D. B. Perry, J. S. Merrill, H. B. King, D. W. McCann, Nathaniel Gammon, John Richardson, E. F. Stevens, A. J. Weston, and their associates and successors in continual succession, are hereby created a corporation, under the name of the Masons' Mutual Relief Association, of Mechanic Falls, Maine, for the purpose of mutual life assurance and relief; and may have a common seal, elect all necessary officers, adopt by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the state, and enforce the same by suitable penalties; have the same rights, and be under the same liabilities as other corporations, in prosecuting and defending suits at law, and have and enjoy all other rights, privileges and immunities of a legal corpo. ration. SECT. 2. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, gift, devise or bequest, personal or real estate, in all not exceeding thirty thousand dollars owned at any one time, and use and dispose thereof for the purpose for which the corporation is organized. SECT. 3. Said corporation shall not sue any of its members for dues or contributions of any kind, or be sued by any member for any benefit or sum due him, but all such rights and benefits, dues and liabilities shall be regulated and enforced only in accordance with its by-laws. SECT. 4. The first meeting of the corporation may be called in CHAP. 285. accordance with section two, chapter forty-six, of the revised First meeting, statutes. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. how called. Chapter 285. An act to provide in part for the Expenditures of Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: government. SECT. 1. In order to provide for the several acts and resolves Expenditures of of the legislature, requiring the payment of money from the treasury, and also to provide for the necessary expenditures of government for the current fiscal year, the following sums are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, and the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized at any time prior to the first day of January next, to draw his warrant on the treasury for the same: Public debt, thirty-one thousand dollars. $31,000 00 Interest on public debt, one year, three hundred sixty five thousand dollars... 365,000 00 Sinking fund, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, eighty thousand four hundred seventy-nine dollars and ninety-five cents'..... 80,479 95 1,066 49 Balance due on school funds, one hundred eighty-six Balance due on school mill tax number four, two hun- .... 1,290 04 15,134 98 .. 223,500 17 Soldiers' pensions, twenty-three thousand dollars..... 5,045 43 23,000 00 dollars..... 13,500 00 CHAP. 286. Support of paupers in unincorporated places, five thou Presque Isle academy, one hundred eighty dollars.... 180 00 60 00 Maine Central Institute, six hundred dollars. 600 00 Oak Grove seminary, six hundred dollars..... 600 00 East Maine Conference Seminary, ten thousand dollars 10,000 00 42 00 Military pensions, fifteen hundred dollars.... 1,500 00 ... 2,500 00 2,000 00 Lands reserved for public uses, fifteen hundred dollars 1,500 00 1,000 00 3,500 00 Railroad tax due towns, thirty-five hundred dollars... 8,063 53 Amounting to nine hundred eighty-one thousand eight Approved February 17, 1876. clared to be duly organized. -authorized to increase capital Chapter 286. An act in relation to the Sebago Wood Board Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Sebago Wood Board Company, a manufacturing corporation organized in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Corporation de hundred seventy-five, under the general laws of this state, is hereby declared to be a duly organized corporation, and is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock from time to time, by vote of its stockholders, until the same amounts to three hundred thousand dollars, and is hereby authorized to hold all real estate necessary for the purposes of its organization. stock. May hold real estate. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. |