........ Kennebunkport. Thirty three hundred eighty six dollars and fifty nine cts. 3,386 59 cents 2,341 73 Androscoggin.. Sixty six thousand fifty one dollars and two cents... Aroostook. Eighteen thousand one hundred twelve dollars and seventy two cents..... Cumberland One hundred eighty three thousand seven hundred thirty one dollars and eighty three cents.... 66,051 02 18,112 72 183,731 83 Franklin...... Twenty one thousand seven hundred sixty three dollars CHAP. 314. Oxford........ Thirty seven thousand one hundred eleven dollars and six cents...... 37,111 06 Penobscot..... Eighty five thousand two hundred seventy seven dollars 85,277 98 Piscataquis.... Eighteen thousand one hundred ninety eight dollars and ten cents. 18,198 10 ..... Waldo........ Thirty seven thousand nine hundred ninety dollars and Somerset...... Forty one thousand two hundred ninety dollars and nine Sagadahoc Forty one thousand four hundred fifty one dollars and 41,451 72 41,290 09 37,990 11 Washington... Thirty five thousand nine hundred forty eight dollars and 35,948 41 York ........ Eighty four thousand two hundred ninety nine dollars and 84,299 12 Eight hundred forty three thousand six hundred eight 843,608 21 Warrant and tax act to be sent to towns. Warrant of treas urer, requirements of. Towns to return names of collectors. Delinquent collectors, proceedings in case of. Warrant, how directed. SECT. 2. The treasurer of this state shall, in the month of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventysix, send his warrant, with a copy of this tax act, directed to the mayor and aldermen, selectmen or assessors of each city, town or plantation taxed as aforesaid, requiring them respectively to assess in dollars and cents the sums so charged according to the provisions of the law for the assessment of taxes, and to add the amount of such tax to the amount of county and town taxes to be by them assessed in each city, town, plantation or other place, respectively. SECT. 3. The treasurer in his said warrant shall require the said mayor and aldermen, selectmen or assessors, respectively, to pay or to issue their several warrant or warrants requiring the collectors of their several cities, towns and plantations to pay the said treasurer on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the sums against said cities, towns and plantations, respectively, in this act contained, and said mayor, selectmen and assessors, respectively, shall return a certificate of the names of such collectors, with the sums which each may be required to collect, to said treasurer, some time before the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. SECT. 4. Whenever for the period of sixty days after the time fixed for the payment of this tax, there shall be any delinquency to pay the same on the part of the collector of any city, town or plantation, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the state to issue his warrant for enforcing the collection of the same against such collector. The warrant shall be directed to the sheriff or his deputies of the appropriate county, and made in accordance with the laws already existing on that subject, except that it shall be TOWN OF KOSSUTH.-LOAN MOUNTAIN AQUEDUCT CO. 271 how paid. returned in ninety days from its date, and in addition to the tax CHAP. 315. itself, it shall require the officer to collect interest thereon at the Interest and cost, rate of six per centum yearly, from the day when the tax became payable, with fifty cents more for the warrant and lawful fees of such sheriff or deputies arising thereon. SECT. 5. When any state tax assessed upon any city or town remains unpaid, such city or town is precluded from drawing from the state treasury the school funds set apart from such city or town, so long as such tax remains unpaid. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 23, 1876. Delinquent towns precluded from drawing school fund. Chapter 315. An act to incorporate the town of Kossuth, in the county of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: to incorporate. SECT. 1. The township now comprising number seven plan- Town of Kossuth' tation, range two, in the county of Washington, with the inhabitants thereof, is hereby incorporated into a town, by the name of powers and Kossuth, with all the powers, and subject to all the duties of incorporated towns in this state. SECT. 2. The present board of assessors of number seven plantation, range two, are hereby authorized and required to call the first meeting of the town under this act, for the choice of town officers, by issuing their warrant for the same seven days prior to the time of said meeting, which shall be holden in the month of March next. SECT. 3. The town hereby created shall be possessed of all property and effects belonging to said plantation, and shall assume all the liabilities thereof. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 23, 1876. liabilities. Town meeting to how called. choose officers, Town to take liabilities of plan effects and assume tation. Chapter 316. An act to incorporate the Lone Mountain Aqueduct Company of Andover, Oxford county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Sylvanus Poor, Elbridge Poor, Henry W. Poor, Corporators. William W. Taylor, Olcott B. Poor, Edwin S. Poor, Fred S. 272 Corporate name. -may hold real and personal estate. ST. CROIX GAS LIGHT CO.-FRANKLIN CENTRAL AG. SOCIETY. CHAP. 317. Smith, Edwin B. Houghton and H. D. Purington, their associates and assigns are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Lone Mountain Aqueduct Company of Andover, with power to hold real and personal property not to exceed in value one thousand dollars, and to exercise the general powers of corporations for the purpose of laying and constructing an aqueduct in the town of Andover, in the county of Oxford. Powers and purpose. Selectmen of Andover to appraise land damages. SECT. 2. The selectmen of said town of Andover are hereby authorized and empowered upon petition of said corporators, to enter and appraise damages to any and all land over which such aqueduct is proposed to be constructed, and assess the damages upon said corporation as in the case of public ways. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 23, 1876. Gas pipes autho rized in the pub of Calais. Chapter 317. An act respecting the authority of the Saint Croix Gas Light Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: That the Saint Croix Gas Light Company, now organized under lic streets of city the general law, is authorized to maintain, repair and lay gas pipes in the public streets of the city of Calais, subject to such regulations as the health and safety of the citizens and the security of the public travel may require, and as may be prescribed by the authorities of said city. -regulations. Approved February 23, 1876. Corporators. Chapter 318. An act to incorporate the Franklin Central Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Alex. P. Porter, Jeremiah Pottle, Daniel Brackley, Samuel Philbrick, Stephen Morrell, Silas Burbank, Elias H. Porter, Andrew J. Norton, James L. Boston, Elisha G. Jones, Charles F. Gilkey, James H. Bell, James F. Worthley, Adam Hunter, Augustus G. Streeter, David Gilman, Benjamin E. Delano, George H. McLery, John Will, Eben J. Gilkey, Denis E. Clark, William W. Smith, Charles F. Thompson, James J. Morrell, William W. Bates, James T. Skillings, George W. Keen, CHAP. 318. By-laws. personal estate. SECT. 2. The Franklin Central Agricultural Society hereby May hold real and established, shall have power to hold and possess any real and personal estate, not exceeding nineteen hundred dollars in value, with power to sell or lease the same, and for the purposes afore- Powers and said, shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges usually granted to similar corporations. privileges. SECT. 3. No animals, or articles of produce or manufacture, Restrictions. which shall have been presented for premium at the meetings of the Franklin or North Franklin Agricultural Society, shall be presented for premium at the meetings of the Central Franklin Agricultural Society, the same year. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the governor. Approved February 23, 1876. 35 |