February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred seventy-three, are hereby repealed. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1891. CHAP. 185 Chapter 185. An Act to amend section two of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the mode of collecting tolls and making assessments by the Mattawamkeag Log Driving Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: amended. SECT. 1. Section two of an act entitled "An Act to pro- Sec. 2, vide for the mode of collecting tolls and making assessments by the Mattawamkeag Log Driving Company," is amended so as to read as follows: 'SECT. 2. A toll is hereby granted to said Mattawamkeag Toll, granted. Log Driving Company of four cents for each thousand feet of logs, board measure, boom scale, so called, which may pass over their dam and works formerly owned by the Mattawamkeag Dam Company, except logs that come out of Mattakeunk stream which last named logs shall be subject to a toll of one cent for each thousand feet by said scale, but the said log driving company each year may require less than said four cents toll for that year; and said log driving company shall have a lien on each mark of logs for the payment of all the lien on logs, toll of such mark, and if the toll be not paid within ten days after the logs or a major part of them arrive at the Penobscot boom, the said company may advertise and sell so much of said lumber of any mark as may be necessary to pay the toll and expenses of said mark, the notice of such sale to be published in some newspaper in Bangor at least ten days before the sale.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1891. for payment of. CHAP. 186 Corporators. -corporate name. -purposes. Powers. First meeting, how called. Chapter 186. An Act to incorporate the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Parke Godwin, Fred C. Lynam, William H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, DeGrasse Fox, Luere B. Deasy, Edward Coles, Serenus H. Rodick, Henry Sayles, William B. Rice, David A. Bunker, Elihu T. Hamor, Addie B. Higgins, Mary G. Dorr, Augustus Gurnee, A. W. Morrill, Iphigenia Z. Place, Frances E. Wood, George W. Vanderbilt, Gertrude S. Rice, Louisa S. Minot, F. G. Peabody, Walter Kane, Edmund Pendleton, F. H. Peabody, Abbie A. Potter, Frances M. Connors, John E. Clark, George M. Wheeler, Eugene B. Richards, and their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated under the name of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining public improvements in the village of Bar Harbor and other parts of Mount Desert Island. SECT. 2. For the purposes of its incorporation this association may receive and hold real and personal property not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in amount; make contracts to be binding upon itself, but not upon its individual members; and to make by-laws not inconsistent with law for the regulation of its membership and its government. SECT. 3. The first meeting of this corporation may be called by any one of the above associates, by a notice published two weeks successively before the time of said meeting, in any newpaper published at Bar Harbor. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1891. Jurisdiction of Chapter 187. An Act to cede to the United States, jurisdiction over certain land in Houlton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That there be, and hereby is ceded to the United land in Houlton, States of America, the jurisdiction of such lot or parcel of land as may be selected in the town of Houlton, as a site for ceded to the United States. -concurrent jurisdiction, state. a public building in said town; provided, always, that this CHAP. 188 cession of jurisdiction is granted and made upon the express condition that the state of Maine shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said tract retained by the of land and every portion thereof, so far that all process, civil or criminal, issuing under the authority of said state, or any officers thereof, upon any persons amenable to the same, within the limits and extent of said tract of land, in like manner and to like effect as if the said jurisdiction had not been ceded, saving, however to the United States security as to their property within the limits and extent of such lot as may be selected, and exemption of the same and of the said tract of land from any taxation under the authority of said state or town while the same shall continue to be owned, held used and occupied by the United States of America as a site for a public building, and not otherwise. how determined. SECT. 2. If compensation for such land is not agreed Compensation, upon, the estate may be taken for the intended purpose by payment of a fair compensation, to be ascertained and determined in the same manner as, and by proceedings similar to those provided for ascertaining damages in locating highways in chapter eighteen of the revised statutes. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1891. Chapter 188. An Act to incorporate the Bath, Small Point and Popham Beach Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1 Joseph H. Manley and Peleg O. Vickery of Augusta, Herbert G. Foster of Waterville, David T. Percy, John O. Shaw, George W. Hunt, Albert H. Shaw, Edwin M. Fuller, Fritz H. Twitchell, Walter G. Webber, John W. Ballou and Franklin P. Sprague of Bath, Melville B. Spinney of Phippsburg, Thomas P. Shaw and Lincoln W. Tibbetts of Portland, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate by the name of the Bath, Small Point and Popham Beach Railroad Company, with all the rights, Corporators. -corporate name. CHAP. 189 duties, privileges and liabilities of railroad corporations under the general laws of the state. Authorized to construct a railroad. -route. Capital stock. Board of directors. Toll, granted. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. This corporation shall have the further right to construct, equip, maintain and operate a railroad from such point in the city of Bath, to such points at Popham Beach and Small Point in the town of Phippsburg, and of such gauge as the stockholders shall determine. SECT. 3. The capital stock of this corporation shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. It may issue bonds, not exceeding the amount of its capital stock, for such amount as the stockholders shall determine and secure the same by a mortgage on its property and franchise. SECT. 4. There shall be a board of not less than five nor more than seven directors who shall be chosen by the stockholders of said corporation. Said board of directors shall choose a president who shall be president of the corporation. The administration of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested in said president and board of directors, and they shall choose such other officers and agents of the corporation as may be necessary. SECT. 5. A toll is hereby granted for the benefit of the corporation upon all passengers and property which may be transported upon its railroad at such rates as the president and directors shall determine, subject to such general laws in relation thereto as are or may be established by the legislature. SECT. 6. The first meeting of the corporation may be called by any two of the corporators above named, by notice thereof in writing, given or mailed to each corporator at least ten days before said meeting. Approved March 11, 1891. Corporators. -corporate name. Chapter 189. An Act to incorporate the Sunderland Maine Telephone Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. J. Z. Westervelt, N. S. Gardiner, E. P. McGillicuddy, J. J. Lynch, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the Sun rights and privileges. derland Maine Telephone Company, of the state of Maine, CHAP. 189 with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties provided by the general laws of this state, relating to corporations, and subject to all the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight, public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, with power by that name to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, and the same to change at pleasure; to establish any and all by-laws and regulations, for the management of their affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this state, and to do and perform any and all other lawful acts incident to corporations of similar character; and said company shall have the right to locate and construct its lines upon and along any public highway or bridge or upon and along the line of any railroad, but in such a manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; and the company may cut down any trees standing within the may cut down limits of any highway, except ornamental, fruit or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use and safety of its lines. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, operate, let or sell short distance telephone lines throughout the length and breadth of this state, the communicating power being vibration, and not electricity, with as many wires and branches as they may see fit, commencing and terminating at such point or points as they may select hereafter, within the limits aforesaid. Poles shall not be erected in cities. authorized to lines along any construct its highway. trees. May construct telephone lines and operate by vibration. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be of Capital stock. such an amount as they may, from time to time, determine to be necessary, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, for the exclusive purpose of purchasing, constructing, maintaining, letting or selling short distance telephone lines hereby authorized and contemplated, and they may purchase, hold and dispose of such personal and real estate, as may be necessary for that purpose not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, and shall have power, by agreement with other persons or bodies corporate, to connect its lines with other telephone or telegraph lines, within or without the state. SECT. 4. Nothing in this act shall authorize the Sunderland Maine Telephone Company to interfere with any existing rights or lines or prevent any other parties from building, maintaining and operating lines of telephone in any part of Shall not inter fere with rights of parties. |