Room, shall be superintendent. SECT. 4. A suitable and convenient room shall be furnished CHAP. 112 by the town for the meetings of said committee, wherein shall be kept their records, open to the inspection of the citizens of the town. shall furnish expenses; also, amount expended. SECT. 5. The said committee shall annually, before the Committee, spring election, furnish to the selectmen of said town, an estimate of estimate in detail of the several sums required during the ensuing municipal year, for the support of said public schools, and they shall not increase the expenditures beyond the amount appropriated therefor. acts, repealed. SECT. 6. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with the Inconsistent provisions herein contained, as far as the town of Westbrook is concerned, are hereby repealed. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when accepted by the When act shall town of Westbrook. take effect. Approved February 25, 1891. Chapter 112. An Act to prohibit the taking of fish in the tributaries of Long and Great Ponds in the county of Kennebec. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Taking of fish of Long and from tributaries Great ponds, prohibited. SECT. 1. No fish of any kind except minnows for bait, shall be taken from the tributaries of Long and Great ponds situated in the county of Kennebec during the fishing season, for a period of six years. SECT. 2. Any person violating the provision of this act Penalty, for shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for such fish taken, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice or municipal court in said county of Kennebec, one-half to the complainant, and one-half to the town where the offense is committed. Approved February 25, 1891. violation. 196 CHAP. 113 RUTHERFORD'S ISLAND GUT-SANFORD AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. Inhabitants of Bristol authorized to maintain a bridge. Chapter 113. An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the town of Bristol to construct and maintain a bridge across the tide waters of Rutherford's Island Gut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The inhabitants of the town of Bristol, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge over the tide waters of Rutherford's island gut, so called, in the town of Bristol, to extend from the southerly shore of the main land to the northerly shore of said Rutherford's island, of such width, and at such point as they may consider most practicable. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 25, 1891. Corporators. -corporate] name. -powers. Chapter 114. An Act to incorporate the Sanford Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Howard Frost, Irving A. Butler, Edmund G. Murray, A. W. Low, R. A. Kempton, Frank A. Clark, William M. Roache, James H. Makin, Charles H. Ogden, C. L. Hamilton, I. B. Stiles, E. E. Goodwin, Edward Holmes, Lewis Butler, Lewis B. Weeks, Edward K. Bennett, Frank O. Goodwin, Samuel Nowell, Harley Witham, William H. Nason, Joseph Ridley, Jeremiah Moulton, second, Joel B. Ricker, Fred Hobbs, Isaac Lord, George Getchell, George Tebbetts, Isaac Hanscom, T. F. Russell, Bradford Russell, B. P. Hamilton, A. D. Carroll, their associates and successors be and are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Sanford Agricultural and Mechanical Association, and by that name shall have power to sue and be sued, prosecute and defend suits at law and equity, to have and use a common seal, to pass any regulations or by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the state, which they may deem necessary for the management of their affairs, and shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges granted to and exercised by agricultural societies and similar corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation shall have power to hold real CHAP. 114 and personal estate not to exceed the value of ten thousand May held real dollars, to be used for the purpose of fair grounds, driving park and exhibitions. estate. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be ten Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into one thousand shares of the value of ten dollars each, and the stockholders in the voluntary association known as the Sanford Agricultural and Mechanical Association, shall become stockholders in this corporation to the amount of their respective stock, and this corporation shall succeed to all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities of said voluntary association. SECT. 4. Said corporation shall have all of the police Police powers, powers, together with all other powers and privileges at all conferred. their exhibitions of whatever name or nature, which are conferred upon agricultural societies by sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of chapter fifty-eight of the revised statutes. SECT. 5. The prohibitions, restrictions, forfeitures and Restrictions of penalties provided by section nineteen of chapter fifty-eight Revised of the revised statutes, shall be applicable to all exhibitions applicable. of said corporation. sec. 19, ch. 58, Statutes, Penalty for entering fair grounds unlawfully. SECT. 6. Whoever contrary to the regulations of said corporation, shall enter and pass within the enclosure of its fair or exhibition grounds shall forfeit to said corporation a sum not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered on complaint. SECT. 7. The officers of this corporation shall consist of a Officers. president, secretary, treasurer and board of directors not to exceed ten in number, and such other officers as said corporation may deem necessary, who shall hold office for one year and until others are chosen in their stead. how called. SECT. 8. The first meeting shall be held at the town house First meeting, in Sanford, and shall be called by any three of the within named corporators by publishing notice of the time, place and object thereof in the Springvale Advocate at least fourteen days before the time of holding said meeting, and at said meeting the officers of said corporation may be chosen and such other corporate business done as may be deemed proper. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 25, 1891. CHAP. 115 Bangor Street Railway, authorized to extend its line. May issue bonds and mortgage property. Company authorized to extend line to Veazie, if fails to build road within Chapter 115. An Act to authorize Bangor Street Railway to extend its system. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Bangor Street Railway is hereby authorized to lay and maintain its rails, set poles, and place wires, and operate such cars upon the streets within the towns of Hampden, Orrington and Veazie, or any of said towns, the license of the municipal officers of such town or towns to occupy such streets for such purposes having been first obtained. SECT. 2. Said Bangor Street Railway may issue additional stock, and its bonds secured by a mortgage or mortgages of such additional track, equipments, poles, wires, and other additional property as may be necessary. SECT. 3. If the Old Town, Orono and Veazie Railway shall fail to construct its line of railway from Old Town to the 0.0. & V. Ry. junction of Main and Olive streets in the town of Veazie within two years from the approval of this act, then said Bangor Street Railway is authorized to extend its railway with all the privileges granted in the act incorporating said Old Town, Orono and Veazie Railway. two years. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Corporators. Chapter 116. An Act to incorporate the Old Town, Orono and Veazie Railway Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. A. J. Durgin, B. E. Doniga, E. N. Mayo, M. D., A. F. Lewis, Albert White of Orono; and A. J. McPhetres, A. Lambert, E. K. Stuart, J. E. Kent of Veazie, Penobscot county, and J. Manchester Haynes of Augusta, Kennebec county, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the Old Town, Orono and Veazie Railway Company, with authority -authorized to to construct, maintain and operate by electricity or animal power, a street railway with convenient single or double tracks, side tracks, switches or turnouts, with all necessary -corporate name. maintain a street railway. CHAP. 116 -route. officers, may determine location. or convenient lines of poles, wires, appliances, appurtenances and conduits, to connect with the Old Town Street Railway Company, from such points in said Orono, and thence through Main street, Island avenue, Mill street, Bridge street, Summer and Oak streets, College road, Old Town road, Main street, Marsh island, Penobscot street, Water street, Broadway and Pine street, Crosby street and across the bridge over the Stillwater river in said town of Orono, and upon and over the direct lines of highway as traveled, and upon and over such other streets and roads in said towns as may from municipal time to time be fixed and determined by the municipal officers of said towns and assented to in writing by said corporation, to the junction of Main and Olive streets in the town of Veazie. Said corporation shall have authority to construct, maintain and operate said railroad upon and over any lands where the land damages have been mutually settled by said corporation and owners thereof; provided, however, that all tracks of said railroad shall be laid at such distances from the sidewalks of said towns as the respective municipal officers thereof respectively, shall in their order fixing the routes of said railroad determine to be for the public safety and convenience. The written assent of said corporation to any vote or votes of the municipal officers of said towns, prescribing from time to time the routes of said railroad shall be filed with the respective clerks of said towns, and shall be taken and deemed to be the location thereof. Said corporation shall have power from time to time to fix such rates of compensation for transporting persons or property as it may think expedient, and generally shall have all the powers and be subject to all the liabilities of corporations as set forth in the forty-sixth chapter of the revised statutes. SECT. 2. The municipal officers of said towns shall have power at all times within their municipal limits to make all such regulations as to the rate of speed, and removal of snow and ice from the streets, roads and highways by said company as the public safety and convenience may require. SECT. 3. Said corporation shall keep and maintain in repair such portions of the streets, town or county roads, as shall be occupied by the tracks of its railroad, and shall make all other repairs of said streets or roads which shall be rendered necessary by the occupation of the same by said rail -company, fix rates. may Municipal officers, may regulate speed, snow and ice. and removal of Company, shall keep streets in repair. |