CHAP. 394 celled; and all other liabilities and indebtedness, not secured How enforced. Proviso. Directors to be chosen annually. -authority and compensation. When to take effect. by prior mortgages on said road and property, which lien shall have preference and be paid prior to all other liens and encumbrances whatever, except as hereinbefore excepted in behalf of said city, on all of said road wherever the same is now or may hereafter be located, and on said franchise, and on all other property, real and personal, of said company, and said lien shall be enforced and all the rights and interests of said city shall be protected, when necessary, by suitable and proper judgments, injunctions or decrees of the supreme judicial court, in a suit or suits in equity, which power is hereby specially conferred on said court; and it is hereby provided that the said lien provided for in this section shall not be deemed waived or ineffectual by the acceptance on the part of said city of any mortgage or other securities contemplated by the provisions of this act or otherwise. SECT. 13. The city may appoint, under this act, two directors of said company, who shall be annually chosen by the city council in joint ballot, before the annual meeting of said company for the choice of said officers, who shall have the same authority in transacting the business of said company, and who shall be entitled to like compensation from said company as any other director. But the right to choose such director shall cease when the loan contemplated shall be extinguished. SECT. 14. This act shall not take effect or be of any force until the city council of said city, by a concurrent vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each branch of the city council, present and voting, shall submit the same to a vote of the legal voters of the city, in ward meetings, and the legal voters of the city, in legal ward meetings, shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the votes thrown in the city for and against said act at such meetings, adopt the same. But if within three years from the approval of this act, said city shall accept said act by such concurrent vote of said city council, and of said legal voters, as aforesaid, then said act shall be in force thereafter, and be binding upon said city according to its true tenor and effect, but not otherwise. Said ward meetings shall be called at such time or times as the mayor and aldermen may appoint, and be notified and warned, held, returns made, declared and recorded, agreeably to the NO. 18, MIDDLE DIVISION.-J. B. TRAFTON. 361 provisions of the city charter of said city for calling and CHAP. 395 holding ward meetings for the choice of city officers, and returns thereof. . SECT. 15. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 9, 1877. Chapter 395. An act to reduce the valuation of township number eighteen, Middle Division, county of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: township reduced SECT. 1. That the state valuation of township number Valuation of eighteen, middle division, Washington county, be and is hereby reduced in the sum of ten thousand dollars, so that the valuation of said township shall stand for future state and county assessments at fifteen thousand dollars. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Chapter 396. An act to legalize the acts of John B. Trafton, as Justice of the Peace and Quorum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: acts of, made SECT. 1. The acts of John B. Trafton, of Fort Fairfield, John B. Trafton, in the county of Aroostook, as a justice of the peace and valid. quorum, within and for the county of Aroostook, from the twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, to the twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, are hereby ratified and made legal and valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 9, 1877. CHAP. 397 Charles A. J. Farrar authorized Chapter 397. An act to authorize Charles A. J. Farrar to dredge bars, blast rocks, and navigate Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Charles A. J. Farrar, his associates and assigns, to navigate Rich are hereby authorized to clear channels, dredge bars, and ardson's lakes. -duties and rights. Penalty for other persons using any steamboat as common carriers. Interference with booms or logs not authorized. Remedy for damage. Act not to prevent the use of steamboat for lumbering purposes. blast rocks in Richardson's lakes and intervening waters, in Oxford county, and are hereby vested with the exclusive right, against all persons, of employing and navigating every kind of boat or water craft propelled by steam, as common carriers, on said Richardson's lakes and intervening waters, for the term of five years from the passage of this act. SECT. 2. It shall be the duty of said Farrar, his associates and assigns, to furnish adequate and reasonable accommodation for the ordinary travel over said lakes, and if he shall fail to do so, after reasonable notice, and the travel shall so increase as to require another boat, which he shall not supply, the exclusive right, aforesaid, shall terminate. SECT. 3. Any person who shall use or employ on said lakes any boat or water craft propelled by steam, as a common carrier, without being authorized by said corporator or his assigns, he shall forfeit, for each offense, not less than fifty and not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered by, and for the use of said corporator, his associates and assigns, in an action of debt. SECT. 4. Nothing in this act shall authorize any interference with any booms or logs, or with the driving, floating or booming of logs upon any of the waters aforesaid; and any and all boats used under this act shall be provided with suitable spark arresters, properly adjusted to prevent the escape of sparks and fire. For any damage done by reason of any violation of these premises, a lien shall attach to the boat, to be enforced by attachment, which attachment, made within three months after the damage done, shall have priority over all other claims. SECT. 5. It shall be the duty of said corporator, his associates and assigns, to carry passengers for a reasonable toll, and nothing in this act shall prevent any person interested in lands or lumbering operations from placing upon said waters a steamboat for the purpose of transporting supplies for such CITY OF LEWISTON.-EXPENDITURES OF GOVERNMENT. 363 operations, or for towing logs, and that the legislature shall CHAP. 398 have the right at any time to repeal this act. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 9, 1877. Chapter 398. An act authorizing the city of Lewiston to loan the credit of the city for the purpose of introducing pure water into the city. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The city of Lewiston is hereby authorized to loan its credit for a sum not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of introducing pure water into the said city, and make all necessary arrangements therefor, and issue the bonds of said city in payment therefor, payable at such times as said city may determine. Approved February 9, 1877. city of Lewiston authorized to loan credit to introduce pure water into the city. Chapter 399, An act to provide in part for the Expenditures of Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: tion. SECT. 1. In order to provide for the several acts and Act of appropriaresolves 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: Balance due on roll of accounts, five hundred dol lars, $500 00 Soldiers' allotment and interest, two hundred dollars, 200 00 1,000 00 Maine state year book, one thousand dollars, Theodore C. Woodman, receiver of the Bucksport savings bank, eight hundred thirty-one dollars and one cent, 831 01 CHAP. 399 Publishing house journal, two hundred and fifty dollars, $250 00 Publishing senate journal, two hundred and fifty 250 00 Sabattis Dana, one hundred dollars, Tomah Peol Tomah, (Joseph) one hundred dol- Crystal plantation, twelve hundred fifty dollars, 100 00 100 00 1,250 00 73 00 1,751 76 600 00 Clerk hire in adjutant general's office, three hun dred dollars, 300 00 Salary of steward of insane hospital, two hundred 200 00 600 00 Clerk in treasurer's office, six hundred dollars, Pay roll of house of representatives, thirty-one 8,681 00 31,999 00 3,000 00 150 00 150 00 600 00 Reports of judicial decisions, twenty-one hundred 2,100 00 Salary of deputy warden of state prison, one thou- 1,000 00 Salary of clerk of state prison, six hundred dollars, 600 00 Salary of guards of state prison, seven, at five hundred dollars each, 3,500 00 |