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CHAP. 103

Rights of Belfast
Water

Company,

extended.

Authorized to extend pipes, etc., in Northport.

May hold real estate.

May make

contracts to

supply water.

Chapter 103.

An Act additional to Chapter ninety-four of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, incorporating the Belfast Water Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The provisions of chapter ninety-four of the private and special laws of the state of Maine of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, are hereby extended so that the Belfast Water Company shall have and exercise the same rights, powers, and franchises, and be subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and duties, within the town of Northport as it has and exercises or may have and exercise, or is or may be subject to, within the city of Belfast by virtue of said chapter ninety-four.

SECT. 2. Said company is hereby authorized to extend its pipes to and into said town of Northport and to supply the said town and the inhabitants thereof and persons therein, with water for all domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes. SECT. 3. Said company for all its said purposes may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient therefor.

SECT. 4. Said company is hereby authorized to make contracts with the Northport Wesleyan Grove Campmeeting Association or its trustees, and with other corporations and with the inhabitants of or persons in said Northport, for the purpose of supplying water as contemplated by the charter of said company.

SECT. 5.

This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 25, 1891.

B. P. J. Weston et als., authorized to build piers and booms in

Kennebec river.

Chapter 104.

An Act to authorize the erection and maintenance of piers and booms in the Kennebec river, at Madison.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. B. P. J. Weston, his associates, successors and assigns are hereby authorized and empowered to locate, build and maintain in the Kennebec river at Madison, in the county of Somerset, on the easterly shore of said river, on land of

said Weston, near his steam saw mill and the easterly shore CHAP. 105 of said river in said Somerset county, piers and booms for sorting out logs and lumber coming down said river for use and manufacture in his said mill and for holding the same.

impede

But said works shall be so constructed as not to impede the shall not use or navigation of said river, and not to occasion any navigation. unreasonable delay or obstruction in the driving of any other logs and lumber.

duties.

SECT. 2. Said parties by aid of such piers and booms, Powers and may separate or sort out such logs and lumber, coming down said river, as are destined and intended for use and manufacture in their said mill, and may also hold such logs and lumber, so sorted out for their use and manufacture as aforesaid.

May take land.

SECT. 3. Said parties may take such lands as may be necessary for the erection and maintenance of said piers and booms and connecting the same with the river shore, and may, with their agents, servants and teams, pass and repass over said shores, and to and from the same over the land of other persons for the purposes aforesaid and for managing said piers and booms, making compensation therefor as is damages, how provided in the case of damages for lands taken in laying out highways.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 25, 1891.

ascertained.

Chapter 105.

An Act to incorporate the Alumni Association of the Gorham Normal School.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Corporators.

SECT. 1. William E. Ayer, Fannie M. Young, Fred Benson, Alice M. Spear, Alden J. Whitney, Jennie M. Colby, Hubert L. Berry, Mary Alden, Jesse W. Sanborn, Fannie E. Hopkinson, Thomas V. Smith, Edith H. Rowe, John W. Brackett, Grace A. Lord, Lillian G. Pennell, Hallie G. Avery, George Kilgore, their associates, successors, heirs and assigns are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Alumni Association of Gorham Normal School, for the name. purpose of acquiring and holding lands, and erecting build

-corporate

-purposes.

CHAP. 106 ings thereon, for the accommodation of said association, as a place for meeting in reunions of said Alumni; and said corporation for said purposes, may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient therefor, not exceeding in amount fifty thousand dollars.

Capital stock.

Officers.

Treasurer, shall give bond.

Election of officers, how determined.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be two thousand five hundred dollars, but may be increased to fifty thousand dollars, by a vote of said corporation, and said stock shall be divided into shares of five dollars each.

SECT. 3. The officers of said corporation shall be a president, vice president, secretaries, one recording and one corresponding, treasurer, and not less than five nor more than eleven other persons, who, with the president, vice president, secretaries and treasurer, shall constitute the board of directors.

SECT. 4. The treasurer of said corporation shall furnish bonds with sureties in such sum as the board of directors may determine.

SECT. 5. The manner of election of the aforesaid officers, their term of office, their powers and duties shall be determined by said corporation.

SECT. 6. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by any two of the above named corporators, by notice by letter, signed by the two persons calling such meeting, and mailed to each corporator above named, at least fourteen days. before the date of said meeting.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 25, 1891.

Town, authorized to

elect school committee.

-tenure of.

Chapter 106.

An Act to provide for the election of a school committee and superintendent of schools for the town of Skowhegan.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. The town of Skowhegan may, at any annual municipal election hereafter to be held in said town, elect, at the option of said town, instead of the superintending school committee or supervisor of schools authorized by law, a school committee of five persons, all of whom shall be residents of said town; two of their number shall be elected to serve one

CHAP. 106

year, two to serve two years, and one to serve three years, or until others are elected and qualified in their stead; and thereafter, at each annual municipal election in said town, a person shall be elected to fill the place of each one whose term expires, who shall serve three years. No person engaged in teaching in the public schools of said town shall qualification be a member of said committee. Immediately upon the election and qualification of the committee herein provided for, the term of office of the committee then existing in said town shall cease.

of.

how filled.

SECT. 2. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board, Vacancies, otherwise than by reason of the expiration of the term of service, the remaining members shall elect by ballot a person to fill such vacancy, and certify such election to the clerk of said town. Such person shall hold office until the next annual election of municipal officers, when the unexpired term, if any, shall be filled by a person chosen at such election.

be sworn.

SECT. 3. Before entering upon the duties of their office, Members, shall the members of said committee shall be duly sworn. They shall meet as soon as may be after their election, and organize by the election of a chairman and a secretary, which election shall be duly certified to the clerk of said town. The secretary may be one of their own number, or the superintendent of schools elected by said committee, as hereinafter provided. They may appoint such sub-committees, and make such rules and regulations for the government of the board, and the better to facilitate its work, as may be deemed best. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the trans---quorum. action of business; but in case of vacancies occurring in said board, a majority of the members remaining in office may fill such vacancies, in the manner provided in section two of this act. Said committee shall exercise all the powers and powers and perform all the duties, in regard to the care and management of the public schools and the school property of said town, which are now conferred and imposed upon superintending school committees and school agents by the laws of this state, except as otherwise provided in this act. Said committee shall receive no compensation for their services.

duties.

Committee, shall

elect annually, a

SECT. 4. Said committee shall annually, and whenever there is a vacancy, elect a superintendent of schools, who superintendent. shall be duly sworn, and shall act under the direction of and be

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responsible to said committee, and shall exercise such of their powers as they may from time to time confer upon him. They shall determine his compensation and term of service, and may at any time dismiss him, if they deem it proper or -compensation, expedient. His compensation shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was elected. The fact of the election of a superintendent and his compensation shall be duly certified to the clerk of said town. In the case of the election of one of their own number as superintendent, he shall thereby cease to be a member of the committee, and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinbefore provided. SECT. 5.

Rooms, shall be furnished

A suitable and convenient room shall be furnished superintendent. by the town for the superintendent's office and the meetings. of said committee, wherein shall be kept their records, open to the inspection of citizens of the town.

Committee, shall furnish estimate of expense and amount expended.

Inconsistent acts, repealed.

Town, may elect either school committee or supervisor.

SECT. 6. Said committee shall annually, before the spring municipal election, furnish to the selectmen of the town an estimate in detail of the several sums required, during the ensuing municipal year, for the support of public schools in said town, and the expenditures shall not be increased beyond the amount appropriated therefor.

SECT. 7. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, are, as far as the town of Skowhegan is concerned, hereby repealed.

SECT. 8. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the town of Skowhegan at any annual municipal election held after the acceptance of the provisions of this act, and the election of said committee of five persons, at its option, to elect a superintending school committee or supervisor of schools instead of said school committee as herein provided for.

SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 25, 1891.

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