Chap. 174 Chapter 174. An Act to regulate the tolls of the Machias Boom. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The fees or tolls of the proprietors of the Machias boom are hereby revised and altered, so that said corporation shall be entitled to receive of the respective owners of logs and timber which shall be rafted and secured at said boom by any person or persons, the following respective fees or tolls: for sorting and rafting logs and lumber, so secured at said boom, a price per stick, not to exceed such prices as the owners of such logs and lumber shall in writing agree to perform such sorting and rafting for, at their own expense, such agreement by them signed to be filed with said corporation before each rafting season shall open, to be for the season then next ensuing, and if accepted, to bind such owners to be responsible for the acts, default or negligence of all persons employed thereunder, and to also provide therein that if at any time the said corporation is dissatisfied with the count of the logs, then it shall be authorized to employ a man to take account of them, and his count shall be final, his wages to be paid one-half by the corporation and one-half by the log owners, such wages to be in addition to the prices aforesaid; for the boomage of each pine, spruce or hemlock mill log or stick, five-eights of a cent; for the boomage of each cedar stick, one-quarter of a cent; provided, however, that all the fees or tolls of said corporation shall at all times hereafter, be subject to the revision or alteration of the legislature. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1891. Tolls of Machias boom, revised and altered. CHAP. 175 Company, authorized to make loans to other corporations. Chapter 175. An Act to authorize the New England Guarantee Company to loan its capital or surplus to other companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The New England Guarantee Company of Maine, is hereby empowered to make loans to any other corporation, person or firm of any part of its capital or surplus, provided, that nothing herein shall authorize the said New England Guarantee Company to carry on a general banking business. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 10, 1891. Limits. -corporate name. Authorized to raise money for for certain purposes. Money raised, shall be assessed upon property and polls. Chapter 176. An Act to incorporate the Pittsfield Village Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The territory embraced within the limits of school districts numbers four and seven in the town of Pittsfield, together with the inhabitants thereon, is hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Pittsfield Village Corporation. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby empowered, at any legal meeting called for that purpose, or at its annual meeting, to raise money for organizing and maintaining a fire department, for the purchase and repair of apparatus, for the extinguishment of fires, for a supply of water from any incorporated company for fire and municipal purposes, and for the purpose of maintaining water works and supplying water for same purposes, for lighting streets, for sewers, for night watch and for a police force. SECT. 3. Any money raised by said corporation for the purposes aforesaid shall be assessed upon the property and polls within the said territory by the assessors of said corporation in the same manner as county and town taxes, and said assessors may copy the last valuation of said property by the assessors of the town of Pittsfield and assess the tax thereon if the corporation shall so direct, and may abate any CHAP. 176 -rate of tax by them assessed. The tax on polls shall not exceed the assessment and SECT. 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the said Taxation, assessors by the clerk of said corporation of the amount of collection of. money raised for the purposes aforesaid at any meeting, it shall be the duty of said assessors as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the polls and estates of the persons residing on the territory aforesaid and upon the estates of non-resident proprietors thereof, and they shall certify and deliver the assessments so made to the collector, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as county and town taxes are by law collected by towns, and to pay over the same to the treasurer of said corporation who shall receive the same and pay it out to order or by direction of said corporation, and keep a regular account of all moneys received and paid out and exhibit the same to the assessors whenever requested; 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 officers. clerk, treasurer, three assessors, collector, agent, fire wardens, and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws thereof; and said officers shall severally have exclusively all the power and authority within the limits of said corporation that similar officers now have or may have, chosen by towns. SECT. 6. Said corporation at any legal meeting thereof may adopt a code of by-laws not repugnant to the laws of this state, for the efficient management of the municipal affairs of said corporation. By-laws. Election and officers. SECT. 7. All the officers shall be chosen by ballot and sworn; the first election to be at the meeting called to accept qualification of this act and the annual election of officers thereafter shall be in the month of March. SECT. 8. The collector and treasurer shall give bonds in double the tax so raised, to be approved by the clerk and assessors. SECT. 9. William Dobson, James F. Connor and Dennison Walker, or either of them, are hereby authorized to call the Collector and give bonds. treasurer shall First meeting, how called. CHAP. 177 first meeting of said corporation and to notify the legal voters thereof to meet at some suitable time and place within the limits aforesaid, by posting like notices in two public places within said limits seven days at least before the time of said meeting, and either of said persons may preside at said meeting until after its organization, and until after a moderator shall be chosen by ballot and sworn, and at all meetings of the corporation a moderator shall be chosen in the manner and with the same powers as in town meetings. Qualification of voters. When act takes effect. Sect. 10. All persons liable to be taxed for polls, residing in the limits of said corporation shall be legal voters at any meeting. SECT. 11. This act shall take effect when approved by the governor so far as to empower the first meeting of said corporation to be called; and this act shall take and have complete effect in all its parts when accepted at any meeting of said corporation by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at said meeting. Approved March 10, 1891. Taking of fish from Brown's Chapter 177. An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from Brown's pond, so called, in the town of Sebago. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are forbidden fishing for or taking fish of any kind from Brown's pond, so called, in the town for three years. of Sebago and county of Cumberland, for the period of three pond, prohibited Penalty for violation. years. SECT. 2. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this act shall forfeit for each and every violation of the same, a sum not to exceed ten dollars, and in addition thereto, one dollar for every fish so taken, to be recovered by complaint before any trial justice in Cumberland county, one-half to the complainant and one-half to the county of Cumberland. Approved March 10, 1891. CHAP. 178 Chapter 178. An Act additional to the charter of the Maine Mutual Accident Association, providing a guarantee capital. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Chapter sixteen of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Maine Mutual Accident Association," as amended by chapter three hundred and five of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended by adding thereto as follows: ch. 16, Private Laws of 1887, amended. capital. may be state treasurer. deposited with 'The board of directors of said corporation may form and Guarantee maintain a guarantee capital, not exceeding at any time the sum of fifty thousand dollars and issue stock therefor, whenever the said directors shall consider such action necessary and advantageous to its interests; and may allow therefor a sum not exceeding six per cent per annum, unless authorized to exceed that rate by a vote of the members of said corporation; and may use said capital only for the purpose of paying the just debts of the corporation. The said capital, or any part thereof, may be deposited with the state treasurer in such interest bearing securities as the governor and council may approve, and be received by him as payment to and a part of the reserve fund of said corporation, to be applied by said treasurer for the benefit and protection of the certificate holders in said association as provided by section five of said act as amended; and if it shall become necessary at any time to call upon and use said capital or any part thereof for payments as aforesaid, the sums so taken and used shall be repaid out of the surplus receipts of said corporation with lawful interest.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. |