CHAP. 155 three times the actual damage, to be recovered in any proper May issue bonds and mortgage property. First meeting, how called. action. SECT. 10. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the construction of its works, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and may secure the same by mortgage of the franchise and property of said corporation. Sect. 11. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by written notice thereof, signed by any three of the corporators, by mailing the same to each corporator at his usual place of abode, postage prepaid, at least ten days before the time of said meeting. SECT. 12. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891. Company, authorized to use electricity as Chapter 155. An Act to authorize the Lewiston and Auburn Horse Railroad Company to use electricity as a motive power. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Lewiston and Auburn Horse Railroad Company is hereby authorized and empowered to use electricity a motive power. as a motive power for propelling its street cars over and upon its lines of track as now constructed and hereafter to be constructed, within the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, first obtaining the consent of the municipal officers of said cities, and subject to such terms and conditions as the cities of Lewiston and Auburn may impose. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891. CHAP. 156 Chapter 156. An Act to incorporate the Hartland Town Hall Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. James Fuller, Prince W. Thompson, Greenville Corporators. J. Shaw, Albert W. Miller, Henry C. Fuller, Amasa J. Moore, Edwin A. Bean, Charles F. Pratt, Milton L. Merrill, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic, by the name of the Hartland Hall Association, corporate with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and obligations granted and prescribed by the general laws of this state relating to corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to own, construct and maintain a public building, or buildings in the town of Hartland, adapted to, and to be used as a town hall, masonic hall, odd fellows' hall, and other like purposes, with all privileges incidental thereto. name. Authorized to construct a public building. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be of Capital stock. such amount as said corporation may from time to time determine to be necessary, but not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. And said corporation may may hold real purchase, hold, sell and convey all real estate and personal property necessary for the purposes contemplated in this charter. and personal property. SECT. 4. The town of Hartland is hereby authorized to Town, may subscribe to the capital stock of said corporation to the extent take stock. of two thousand dollars, and to make such arrangements as the corporation and the town may mutually agree upon, in relation to the use and occupancy of such part of the building for town purposes as may be convenient to the town. how called. SECT. 5. Any two of the corporators named in this act First meeting, may call the first meeting of the corporation by mailing a written notice signed by both, postage paid, to each of the other corporators, seven days at least before the day of the meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting, and at such meeting a president, secretary, treasurer and directors may be chosen, by-laws adopted, present amount of capital stock fixed, and any corporate business transacted. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1891. CHAP. 157 Doings of Magalloway plantation, made valid. Chapter 157. An Act to legalize the proceedings by which Magalloway Plantation was organized. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The proceedings by which Magalloway Plantation in Oxford county was organized on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-three are hereby confirmed and the organization of said plantation is hereby declared legal and valid. Approved March 4, 1891. Corporators. -corporate name. -authorized to build dam across tide waters in Tremont. -exclusive right, granted, May hold real estate. Chapter 158. An Act to incorporate the Tremont Ice and Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry H. Clark, William N. Abbott, Gilbert L. Lurvey, Elias H. Genn, John T. R. Freeman, Wesley Ober, Arthur T. Richardson, John C. Ralph, R. J. Lamont, E. L. Higgins, J. T. Clark, J. F. Young, W. E. Mason, S. W. Herrick, Henry Clark, S. H. Clark, Clarence Clark, Augustus Clark, Nathan Clark, O. W. Cousins, James A. Freeman and A. I. Holmes, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Tremont Ice and Dam Company for the purpose of building and sustaining a dam, not subject to tide gates or locks, across the tide waters of Norwood's Cove in the town of Tremont, county of Hancock, state of Maine, for the purpose of making a fresh water pond, also for the purpose of making, storing, selling, shipping, and erecting buildings for the purpose of carrying on the ice business, and all other means necessary to carry on said business, and to have exclusively all the rights and privileges of said pond and incident to corpora tions of a similar nature. SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal property to an amount not exceeding sixty thousand dollars. -capital stock. The capital stock shall not be less than six thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, which may, by vote of the company be increased so as not to exceed sixty thousand dollars. May issue bonds and mortgage property. SECT. 3. Said company may issue its bonds or other obli- CHAP. 158 gations secured by a mortgage of its franchise and other property to carry out the purpose of its corporation, upon such rates and time as it may deem expedient, and not to exceed the amount of its capital stock. estate. -damages, how SECT. 4. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, May take real or may take as for public use, any real estate, easement or right of way in said town of Tremont necessary for the purpose of its incorporation, and any person sustaining damage thereby may have the same determined in the manner pro- determined. vided by law for the assessment of damages for land taken by railroads within three years of such taking. But if proceedings are not commenced by the party so injured within said three years, they shall be deemed to have waived their right thereby to any damages for such injury. SECT. 5. Any person who shall willfully corrupt or in any Penalty for water or corrupting injuring way render impure the waters of said ice pond of said corporation, or who shall throw into it, or leave in said pond property. or upon said ice of said pond when frozen over any offensive or unwholesome matter, or who shall willfully injure any of the property of said corporation, shall pay three times the amount of the damages occasioned thereby to be recovered by an action on the case, and any person convicted of any such offense shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. SECT. 6. Said corporation is hereby authorized and Authorized to empowered to build piers and extend wharves into the tide wharves. waters if necessary for the prosecution of its business. SECT. 7. The first meeting for the purpose of organization First meeting, of said corporation shall be called by any one of said incorporators, by written notice stating time and place given to the other said incorporators in hand, or left at their last and usual abode at least seven days before the date of said meeting, and at said meeting the officers of said corporation may be chosen. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1891. build piers and how called. СНАР. 159 Corporators. -corporate name. Authorized to stream. Chapter 159. An Act to incorporate the Alder Stream Dam and Improvement Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. George A. Phillips, Elias Milliken and Charles M. Phillips, their heirs, associates and assigns, are hereby created a corporate body by the name of the Alder Stream Dam and Improvement Company, with all the rights and privileges of similar corporations. SECT. 2. Said company may deepen, widen, and otherwise Improve Alder improve said Alder stream, and erect and maintain dams thereon in township number two, range four, and townships number one and two, range five, west of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase, in Franklin county, for the purpose of making said stream floatable, and raising a head of water to drive logs and other lumber. May take land and materials. SECT. 3. Said company may take lands and materials for building said dams and making said improvements; and if the parties owning said lands and materials cannot agree upon the damages therefor, then said damages shall be estimated -damages, how by the county commissioners for the county of Franklin as provided by law, in cases where lands are taken for highways. estimated. May demand tolls. -shall have lien on logs. When tolls SECT. 4. Said company may demand and receive as a toll the sum of twenty-five cents for every thousand feet of logs, board measure, woods scale, on all logs landed above the falls on said stream and the sum of twelve and one-half cents on all logs landed below said falls which may pass over said improvements and dams on said streams, and said company shall have a lien on all logs that shall pass over said improvements, until the full amount of said toll is paid, but the logs of each particular mark shall only be holden to pay the toll on such mark, and if said toll is not paid within twenty days after said logs or a major part of them shall arrive at the Dead river, said company may seize such logs and sell at public auction so many thereof as shall be necessary to pay such tolls, costs and charges, ten days' notice of the time and of such sale being given in some newspaper printed in the county of Somerset. SECT. 5. When said corporation shall have received from shall be reduced. tolls its outlay on dams, improvements and repairs made up |