CHAP. 142 Original location, shall be granted for 25 years. Company, shall not lay tracks SECT. 6. The original location of the route when granted shall be for the term of twenty-five years. The same may be renewed from time to time. SECT. 7. Said Waterville and Fairfield Railroad Company shall not lay its tracks upon or over Ticonic bridge, over the bridges, without Kennebec river; or Winslow bridge, over the Sebasticook over Ticonic or Winslow consent of municipa officers. May operate by electric power. -may erect poles, etc., under sanction of municipal officers. -shall not sell electric light. river, and shall not run cars upon or over either of said bridges without first having obtained the written consent of the city council of said city of Waterville, and of the municipal officers of said town of Winslow. SECT. 8. Said Waterville and Fairfield Railroad Company is hereby authorized to equip and operate said extended line of railroad, also its now existing line of railroad extending from the city of Waterville to the village of Fairfield, in the town of Fairfield, by electric power; and said corporation is hereby granted the right to erect and maintain necessary and convenient lines of poles, wires, appliances and appurtenances upon and over such streets, city, town and county ways in said town of Fairfield and city of Waterville, and towns of Winslow and Vassalboro, as shall from time to time be fixed and determined by the city council of said city of Waterville, and by the municipal officers of said towns of Fairfield, Winslow and Vassalboro, and assented to, in writing, by said railroad corporation; and said corporation is hereby authorized to purchase and hold such real estate and other property as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes and management of said railway; and it is hereby authorized to generate electricity for the purposes of operating and lighting its cars and tracks; but nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize said railroad corporation to sell electric light for the purposes of lighting, heating or furnishing power within the limits of said city of Waterville, or within the limits of said towns of Fairfield, Winslow or Vassalboro, except for the purpose of operating and lighting its cars and road as aforesaid. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891. CHAP. 143 Chapter 143. An Act to authorize the town of Skowhegan to perfect its title to the School Property in said town. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: authorized to secure title to and lands in the districts. school houses several school All the school houses, lands, apparatus and other property Town, owned and used for school purposes by the several school districts in the town of Skowhegan, on the seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and which said districts might lawfully sell and convey, shall, before the first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, be appraised under the direction of said town, at the value said property bore on said seventh day of March eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and at the next annual assessment a tax shall be levied upon the whole town, equal to the whole amount of said appraisal, or such part thereof as the town shall vote, and the remainder of said appraisal, if any, shall be levied by tax upon the whole town at the second and third annual assessments thereafter, or at the second alone, as the town shall vote; and there shall be remitted to the tax payers of each district the said appraised value of its property thus taken, in the same proportion, annually, as the tax therefor shall be levied; or the difference in value of the property of the several districts may be adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the parties in interest, so far as the same has not been done under the provisions of section three, chapter eleven of the revised statutes. In case of union districts, formed by said town in concurrence with other towns, the provisions of chapter three hundred and eighty of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five shall be followed. Approved March 4, 1391. 16 CHAP. 144 Gh. 522, Private amended. Corporators. -corporate name. -authorized to construct a horse railroad. -route, shall be -repairs, on bridge, shall be paid by company. Chapter 144. An Act to amend chapter five hundred and twenty-two of the Private and Special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, relative to Gardiner and Randolph Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Chapter five hundred and twenty-two of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Gardiner and Randolph Railroad Company," is hereby amended by inserting the following after the word "corporation," in the sixteenth line of section one; 'but all repairs required on the Gardiner and Pittston bridge and expense incurred therefor in making said bridge safe and convenient for the passage of said company's cars over it, such safety to be determined by an engineer, to be agreed upon by the municipal officers of said city, town of Randolph, and said company, shall be made and paid for by the said railroad company before it shall be allowed to lay its track across said bridge or any part thereof;' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. Joseph S. Bradstreet, Henry Richards, Philip H. Holmes, Arthur L. Berry, William H. Moore, George W. Heselton, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the Gardiner and Randolph Railroad Company, with authority to construct, maintain and use a horse railroad to be operated by horse power, with convenient single or double tracks, from such point in the city of Gardiner, upon and over such streets therein, as shall from time to time be fixed and determined by the municipal officers of said city of Gardiner, and assented to in writing by said corporation, to the boundary line between said city and the town of Randolph, and thence upon and over such streets, town and county roads in said town of Randolph as from time to time may be fixed and determined by the municipal officers of said town of Randolph, and assented to in writing by said corporation, but all repairs required on the Gardiner and Pittston bridge, and expense incurred therefor in making said bridge safe and convenient for the passage of said company's cars over it, such safety to be determined by an engineer, to be agreed upon by the municipal officers of said city, town of Randolph, and said company, shall be made and paid for by said railroad com pany before it shall be allowed to lay its track across said CHAP. 145 bridge or any part thereof; said corporation shall also have authority to construct, maintain and use said railroad over and upon any lands where the land damages have been mutually settled by said corporation and the owners thereof; provided, however, that all tracks of said railroad shall be laid at such distances from the sidewalks of said city of Gardiner and town of Randolph as the municipal officers thereof, respectively, shall in their order fixing the routes of said railroad, determine to be for public safety and convenience. The written assent of said corporation to any vote or votes of the municipal officers of either of said city or town, prescribing from time to time the routes of said railroad, shall be filed with the respective clerks of said city and town and shall be taken and deemed to be the locations 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.' Approved March 4, 1891. assent, shall clerks of city be filed with and town. Chapter 145. An Act relating to the Thomson-Houston International Electric Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: company, SECT. 1. The Thomson-Houston International Electric Powers of Company, a corporation organized under the provisions of confirmed. the general laws of the state, is hereby declared to be possessed of all the authority and powers conferred under its certificate of organization, filed in the office of the secretary-doings, of state; and the acts and doings of its stockholders and directors, so far as the same appear of record and conform to its purposes, as defined in said certificate are hereby ratified and confirmed. ratified. preferred stock. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby empowered to issue May issue preferred stock to such amount as may be approved by vote of its stockholders, not exceeding the authorized capital of said corporation; and all the acts and doings of its stock CHAP. 146 holders and directors relating to the creation and issue of preferred stock, are hereby confirmed, so far as the same appear of record. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891 Taking of fish from Noyes pond, prohibited. Penalty, for violation. Chapter 146. An Act to protect the fish in Noyes Pond in the town of Bluehill in the county of Hancock. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No person shall take, kill, catch, or fish for any trout, or any other fish in Noyes pond in the town of Bluehill in Hancock county, between the first day of October and the first day of May following, in each year. SECT. 2.. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of not less than five, nor more than ten dollars for each fish so taken, caught or killed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891. Camden and Rockport, set off. Chapter 147. An Act to set off a portion of the town of Camden and annex the same to the town of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The following tract of land, together with the inhabitants thereof, is hereby set off from the town of Camden and annexed to the town of Rockport: beginning at a stake and stones at the head of Lily Pond, so called, in the southerly line of the Jacobs farm, so called, thence running south eighty-five degrees east on the westerly line of the Ogier farm about forty rods to land of Gershom F. Burgess ; thence north twenty degrees west by land of said Burgess and land of Carleton, Norwood and Company about seventy rods to the westerly side of Union street, fourteen rods northerly of the northerly side of the quarry of Carleton, Norwood and |