СНАР. Penalty, for corrupting 97 SECT. 10. Whoever shall willfully or maliciously corrupt the water of said river, whether frozen or not, after said cominjuring works. pany shall commence taking the same, so as to render the water or Company authorized to make contracts to supply water. Capital stock. May issue bonds and mortgage property. First meeting, how called. Company, authorized to sell or lease property to Maine Water Company. water taken by said company impure, and whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure any of the works of said company, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and shall be liable to said company in three times the actual damage, to be recovered in an action on the case. SECT. 11. Said company is authorized to make contracts with other corporations and with inhabitants of said towns for a supply of water, and may establish written regulations for the use of the same. The towns of Madison and Anson and any village corporation within said towns now or hereafter incorporated, are authorized to enter into contract with said company for a supply of water for fire and other purposes, for a term of years, and for such exemption from public burden as may be agreed upon, which, when agreed upon, shall be legal and binding upon the parties thereto. The said water company is authorized to sell or lease any power not used by it. SECT. 12. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than thirty thousand dollars, which may, by vote of said company, be increased to one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Said company may hold real or personal estate necessary and convenient for its purposes aforesaid. SECT. 13. For the purpose of carrying out the foregoing provisions or either of them, said company is authorized to issue its bonds from time to time in such form and amount and on such time and rates as it may deem expedient, and secure the same by appropriate mortgages of its property and franchise. SECT. 14. The first meeting of said company may be called by a written notice thereof, signed by any two corporators herein named, and served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand, or by leaving the same at his last and usual place of abode, at least seven days before the meeting. SECT. 15. The said corporation is authorized to sell or lease its property and franchise to the Maine Water Company, subject to all the limitations of the charter of the said Maine Water Company, and with all the privileges thereby conferred. The said Maine Water Company is authorized to make said sale or lease. SECT. 16. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1891. CHAP. 98 Chapter 98. An Act to authorize Henry W. Tucker to dredge and navigate by steam, Medomak Pond in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: et als., H. W. Tucker, authorized to improve and navigate Medomak Henry W. Tucker, his associates and assigns are hereby authorized to clean channels, dredge bars and remove stones in Medomak pond in the county of Knox and are hereby vested with the exclusive right against all persons, of employing pond. and navigating every kind of boat, or water craft, propelled by steam, for carrying passengers on said Medomak pond, for the term of ten years from the passage of this act. Approved February 21, 1891 Chapter 99. An Act to incorporate the Northern Cumberland Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Corporators. -corporate SECT. 1. James H. Hamilton, Joseph Pitts, Frank Green, Cyrus K. Foster, George H. Cummings, Richard J. Chaplin, Joseph S. Chaplin and Thomas D. Emery, all of Harrison in the county of Cumberland and state of Maine, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Northern Cumberland Agricultural Society, to be located in said Harrison, with power by that name to name. sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to make by-laws and all necessary regulations for the management of land their affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this state, and to have all the rights, privileges, bounties and stipends, and be subject to all the liabilities and duties of similar societies in privileges. this state. by-laws. -rights and CHAP. 100 Limits. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. Said society is hereby established within and for the towns of Bridgton, Harrison, Otisfield, Naples, Casco and Raymond, and may take and hold real and personal estate at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars. SECT. 3. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by any three of the persons named in the first section of this act, by giving notice in writing to each of the personsnamed as incorporators in said section one, at least seven days before the date named in such notice for such meeting, and said notice shall set forth the time, place and purpose of said meeting, and at said meeting the officers of said corporation may be chosen, and such other corporate business doneas may be deemed proper. Approved February 21, 1891. Expense of construction of sewers in Rockland, how estimated and assessed. -location of sewers, and assessments, to be recorded. Chapter 100. An Act relating to drains and common sewers in the city of Rockland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. It shall be the duty of the municipal officers of Rockland, when said city has constructed and completed any public drain or common sewer, to determine what lots or parcels of land are benefited by such drain or sewer, and to estimate and assess upon such lots and parcels of land, and against the owner thereof, or person in possession, or against whom the taxes thereon shall be assessed, whether said person to whom the assessment is so made shall be the owner, tenant, lessee or agent, and whether the same is occupied or not, such sum not exceeding such benefit as they may deem just and equitable towards defraying the expenses of constructing and completing such drain or sewer, the whole of such assessments not to exceed three-fourths of the cost of such drain or sewer, and such drain or sewer shall forever thereafter be maintained and kept in repair by said city. Such municipal officers shall file with the clerk of said city the location of such drain or sewer, with a profile description of the same, with the amount assessed upon each lot or parcel of land so assessed, and the name of the owner of such lots or parcels of land or person against whom said assessment shall be made, -notice of assessment, and hearing thereon, how given. and the clerk of said city shall record the same in a book kept CHAP. 100 for that purpose, and within ten days after filing such notice, each person so assessed shall be notified of such assessment by having an authentic copy of said assessment, with an order of notice signed by the clerk of said city, stating the time. and place for a hearing upon the subject matter of said assessments, given to each person so assessed or left at his usual place of abode in said city; if he has no place of abode in said city, then such notice shall be given or left at the abode of his tenant or lessee, if he has one in said city; if he has no such tenant or lessee in said city, then by posting the same notice in some conspicuous place in the vicinity of the lot or parcel of land so assessed, at least thirty days before said hearing, or such notice may be given by publishing the same three weeks successively in any newspaper published in said city, the first publication to be at least thirty days before said hearing; a return made upon a copy of such notice by any constable in said city, or the production of the paper containing such notice, shall be conclusive evidence that said. notice has been given, and upon such hearing, the municipal officers shall have power to revise, increase or diminish any may be revised. of such assessments, and all such revisions, increase or diminution shall be in writing and recorded by such clerk. SECT. 2. Any person not satisfied with the amount for which he is assessed, may, within ten days after such hearing, by request in writing given to such clerk, have the assessment upon his lot or parcel of land determined by four arbitrators, who shall be residents of said city, two of whom shall be selected by the municipal officers of the city and two by the applicant, who shall fix the sum to be paid by him, and if these four are unable to agree, they shall choose a fifth person, and the report of such referees made to the clerk of said city, and recorded by him, shall be final and binding upon all parties. Said reference shall be had and their report made to said clerk, within thirty days from the time of hearing before such municipal officers named in section one of this act. -assessments, Assessments, how determined in case any satisfied. person is not upon which private drains public sewers. may enter SECT. 3. Any person may enter his private drain into any Conditions, such public drain or common sewer, while the same is under construction and before the same is completed, and before the assessments are made, on obtaining a permit in writing from the municipal officers, or the sewer board having the construction of the same in charge; but the person so entering CHAP. 100 shall pay the assessment as soon as the amount is fixed; but after the same is completed and the assessments made, no person shall enter his private drain into the same, until he has paid his assessment and obtained a permit in writing from the city treasurer, by authority of the municipal -permits, to be officers. All permits given to enter any such drain or sewer shall be recorded by the city clerk of said city before the same are issued. recorded. Lien on lots, for payments of assessments. SECT. 4. All assessments made under the provisions of this act shall create a lien upon each and every lot or parcel of land so assessed, and the buildings upon the same, which lien shall continue one year after said assessments are made, and within ten days after they are made, the clerk of said city shall make out a list of all such assessments, the amount of each assessment, and the name of the person against whom the same is assessed, to be by him certified; and he shall deliver the same to the treasurer of said city, and if said assessments are not paid within three months from the date of said assessments, then the treasurer shall proceed and sell such of said lots or parcels of land upon which such assess-how enforced. ments remain unpaid, or so much thereof, at public auction, as is necessary to pay such assessments and all costs and incidental charges; he shall advertise and sell the same in the way and manner that real estate is advertised and sold for taxes under chapter six of the revised statutes, which sale shall be made within one year from the time said assessments are made; and upon such sale, the treasurer shall make, execute and deliver his deed to the purchaser thereof, which shall be good and effectual to pass the title of such real estate ; the sum for which such sale shall be made, shall be the amount of the assessment and all costs and incidental expenses. Lots may be redeemed. If assessments are not paid or enforced by sale, town may SECT. 5. Any person to whom the right by law belongs, may at any time within one year from the date of said sale, redeem such real estate by paying to the purchaser or his assigns the sums for which the same was sold, with interest thereon at the rate of twenty per cent per annum, and the costs of re-conveyance. SECT. 6. If said assessments are not paid, and said city does not proceed to collect said assessments, by a sale of the maintain action. lots or parcels of land upon which said assessments are made, or do not collect, or is in any manner delayed or defeated in collecting such assessments by a sale of the real estate so |