CHAP. 167 Corporators. -corporate name. -purposes. May elect officers, hold real estate and adopt by laws. First meeting how called. Chapter 167. An Act to incorporate the Maine State Bar Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. James W. Bradbury, Charles F. Libby, Andrew P. Wiswell, Sylvester J. Walton, Frederick A. Powers, Erastus C. Ryder, Joseph B. Peaks, Louis C. Stearns, Albert R. Savage, Oliver B. Clason, Franklin C. Payson, Addison E. Herrick, Benjamin F. Chadbourne, William T. Haines, Jesse M. Libby, Henry W. Mayo, Charles A. Harrington, Frank L. Noble, Josiah H. Drummond, Junior, Morrill N. Drew, Oscar H. Hersey, George R. Fuller, Edgar F. Gentleman, Albert M. Spear, Treby Johnson, Charles P. Allen, James Archibald, Charles M. Ham, Charles E. Littlefield, William L. Putnam, Henry L. Whitcomb, Charles F. Woodward, Seth M. Carter, Ansel L. Lumbert, George C. Wing, George D. Bisbee, A. A. Strout, George C. Yeaton, Orville D. Baker, Lendall C. Titcomb, Herbert M. Heath, Joseph H. Manley, Fred E. Beane, Lemuel G. Downes, William P. Thompson, William E. Hogan, William H. Hilton, and all persons who may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Maine State Bar Association, for the purpose of promoting the interests of the legal profession, and of instituting legal reforms, and by that name shall have power to sue and be sued, and possess all the rights and privileges of corporations under the laws of this state. SECT. 2. Said corporation may elect such officers as it may deem necessary, and may take, hold and convey real and personal property to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars in value, and may adopt such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws. of this state, as they may deem proper, for the management of their affairs, including the admission, government and expulsion of members. SECT. 3. The first meeting of the corporation may be called by any one of the persons named in this act, by publishing notice of the time and place of such meeting in the Kennebec Daily Journal, for one week prior to such meeting. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 6, 1891. BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD-OXFORD VILLAGE CORPORATION. 271 CHAP. 168 Chapter 168. An Act relating to the Boston and Maine Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: B. & M. R. R., authorized to increase its capital stock. -how proceeds SECT. 1. The Boston and Maine Railroad may increase its capital stock in addition to all amounts heretofore authorized, by an amount not exceeding five million dollars. The new stock hereby authorized shall be issued from time to time in accordance with the laws existing at the time of such issue, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied to providing shall be applied additional property and equipment for the railroad of said company; to the improvement of said railroad, and of other property owned or leased by it; to the construction of such additional railroad as it may be authorized by law to construct; and to the payment and reduction of its debts. This act shall not affect nor impair the rights, powers and privileges granted to the Boston and Maine Railroad by the act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled, "An Act relating to the Boston and Maine Railroad." SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1891. act shall not impair former rights. Chapter 169. An Act creating the Oxford Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Limits. SECT. 1. The territory embraced within the limits of school district number three, in the town of Oxford, together with the inhabitants thereon, be, and the same hereby is created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Oxford Vil- name. lage Corporation. -corporate money for certain purposes. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby invested with power, May raise at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise such sums of money as may be sufficient for the purchase, repair and preservation of one fire engine, engine house, hose, buckets, ladders, or other apparatus for the extinguishment of fire for the construction of reservoirs and aqueducts for the procuring of water, and for organizing and maintaining within the limits of said territory an efficient fire department. CHAP. 169 SECT. 3. Any money raised by said corporation for the Money raised, shall be assessed purposes aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property and upon property and polls. Taxes, assessment and collection of. Officers. By-laws. First meeting, how called. polls within the territory aforesaid by the assessors of said corporation, in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment of county taxes, and said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Oxford and assess the tax thereon, if the said corporation shall so direct, may correct said valuation, or make a new valuation thereof, according to the principles of the valuation established the present year, and assess the same on that valuation. SECT. 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation by the clerk thereof, of the amount of money raised at any meeting for the purposes aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the estates and polls of persons residing on the territory aforesaid, and upon the estates of non-resident proprietors thereof, and the assessment to certify and deliver to the treasurer or collector of said corporation, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as county and town taxes are by law collected by towns, and said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of town taxes. SECT. 5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a clerk, treasurer, assessors, collector, fire wardens, and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation; which said fire wardens shall have, exclusively, all the power and authority, within the limits of said corporation, that fire wardens now have, or may have, chosen by towns in town meeting. SECT. 6. Said corporation, at any legal meeting thereof, may adopt a code of by-laws for the government of the same, and for the efficient management of the fire department aforesaid, provided, the same are not repugnant to the laws of the state. SECT. 7. Either of said corporators is hereby authorized to call the first meeting, by issuing a warrant directed to some member of said corporation, requiring him to notify the members thereof to assemble at some suitable time and place in said Oxford village, by posting up notices in two public places within said village seven days at least before the time CHAP. 170 of said meeting. take effect. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force after When act shall the same shall be accepted by two-thirds of the voters present at a meeting of said corporation, called agreeably to the seventh section of this act. Approved March 10, 1891. Chapter 170. An Act to incorporate the Phillips Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. F. E. Timberlake, W. A. D. Cragin, Joel Wil- Corporators. bur, J. H. Byron, N. U. Hinkley, Samuel Farmer, E. M. Robinson, C. M. Davis, T. M. Parker, J. W. Butterfield, N. B. Beal, Harry F. Beedy, Henry B. Palmer, Harry P. Dill, N. P. Noble, F. N. Beal, J. W. Brackett, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation under the name of the Phillips Water Company, for the purpose of corporate supplying the inhabitants of the towns of Phillips and Avon with suitable water for industrial, manufacturing, domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes, including the extinguishment of fire; with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities and obligations of similar corporations under the laws of this state. SECT. 2. For any of the purposes aforesaid, the said corporation is hereby authorized to take and use water from the Sandy river, or from any spring, pond, brook or other waters in the towns of Phillips and Avon; to conduct and distribute the same into and through the said towns of Phillips and Avon; and to survey for, locate, construct, and maintain suitable and convenient dams, reservoirs, buildings, machinery, lines of pipes, aqueducts, structures and appurtenances. SECT. 3. The said corporation is hereby authorized to lay, construct and maintain its lines of pipe under, in and over the Sandy river and any tributaries thereof, in the said towns of Phillips and Avon, and to build and maintain all necessary structures therefor, at such places as may be necessary for name. May take water from Sandy river, etc. May lay pipes over Sandy under, in and river. CHAP. 170 the said purposes of the said corporation; and to cross any -cross any private or public sewer. May lay pipes along highway, etc. -responsible water course, private or public sewer, or to change the direction thereof, where necessary for their said purposes of incorporation, but in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, and the said corporation shall be liable for any injury or damage caused thereby. SECT. 4. The said corporation is hereby authorized to lay, construct and maintain in, under, through, along, over and across the highways, ways, streets, railroads and bridges in the said towns of Phillips and Avon, and to take up, replace and repair, all such aqueducts, pipes, hydrants and other structures and fixtures, as may be necessary and convenient for the said purposes of said corporation; and the said corpofor all damages. ration shall be responsible for all damages to the said towns and to all corporations, persons and property, occasioned by such use of the said highways, ways and streets. Whenever the said corporation shall lay down or construct any fixtures in any highway, way or street, or make any alterations or repairs upon its works in any highway, way or street, it shall cause the same to be done with as little obstruction to public travel as may be practicable, and shall at its own expense. without unnecessary delay, cause the earth and pavement then removed by it, to be replaced in proper condition. -shall not obstruct public cravel. May take land. SECT. 5. The said corporation is hereby authorized to take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any lands necessary for flowage, and also for its dams, reservoirs, gates, hydrants, buildings and other necessary structures, and may locate, erect, lay and maintain aqueducts, lines of pipe, hydrants and other necessary structures or fixtures, in, over and through any land for the said purposes, and excavate in and through such land for such location, construction and erection. And in general to do any acts necessary, convenient or proper, for carrying out any of the said purposes of incorporation. It -shall file plan may enter upon such lands to make surveys and locations, and shall file in the registry of deeds for the county of Franklin, plans of such locations and lands, showing the property taken, and within thirty days thereafter publish notice of such filing in some newspaper in said county, such publication to be continued three weeks successively. Not more than two rods in width of land shall be occupied by any one line of pipe or aqueduct. of location in the registry of deeds in Franklin county. |