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CHAP. 190 this state, pursuant to the laws thereof, except so far as controlled by patent rights.

First meeting, how called.

When act may be accepted.

SECT. 5. Any two of the persons named in this act of incorporation, may call the first meeting of the company, by giving written notice thereof to each of their associates.

SECT. 6. This act may be accepted at any regular meeting of said associates, by a majority of the members present, and shall take effect from and after its approval by the governor.

Approved March 11, 1891.

Corporators.

-corporate name.

-rights and privileges.

Authorized to construct lines of telephone.

-route.

Authorized to

erect lines along highway, etc.

Chapter 190.

An Act to incorporate the Gardiner and Rangeley Telegraph Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives: in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. A. B. Gilman, George M. Goodwin, WestonLewis, A. M. Spear and F. E. Timberlake, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Gardiner and Rangeley Telegraph Company, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties provided by the general laws of this state, relating to corporations; 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 legal and lawful acts incident to similar corporations.

SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby empowered and authorized to own, construct, maintain and operate from some point in the city of Gardiner, a line or lines of telephone and telegraph through the cities of Hallowell and Augusta and the towns of Litchfield, West Gardiner, Manchester, Monmouth, Winthrop, Readfield, Fayette, Wayne, Mount Vernon, Vienna, New Sharon, Chesterville, Farmington, Strong, Avon, Phillips, Madrid, Redington Plantation, Dallas Plantation and to any point in the town of Rangeley, or through such of said cities and towns as the corporation may deem advisable.

SECT. 3. For the purposes of this act, the said corporation: shall have, and the power is hereby granted, to erect and

locate its lines along and upon the highways, streets and CHAP. 191 bridges, and along the line of any railroads in said cities and towns, 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 limits of said highways or streets, except fruit, ornamental or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use and safety of its lines.

-may cut down trees.

with other lines.

SECT. 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empow- May connect ered to connect its lines with the lines of any other telegraph

or telephone company, by contract with said company, or to sell or lease its own lines at any time.

SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be of Capital stock. such an amount, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, as said corporation may from time to time deem necessary for all purposes contemplated by this act and said corporation may purchase, hold, sell and convey all real and personal property necessary for said purposes.

how called.

SECT. 6. The first meeting of said corporation shall be First meeting called by any one of said corporators, by giving to each of said corporators personal notice of the time, place and purpose of said meeting.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 11, 1891,

Chapter 191.

An Act to amend "An Act relating to the Knox and Lincoln Railway."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Knox & Lincoln

Ry., amended.

SECT. 1. The last clause of section two, of "An Act relat- Act relating to ing to the Knox and Lincoln Railway," approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby amended by striking out all after the words "provided, however," in said clause, and inserting instead thereof the following that no contract as herein provided, and no sale, lease or consolidation of the Knox and Lincoln Railway shall be made, except on a stock vote of not less than two-thirds of the whole amount of the issued capital stock of said railway,' so that said clause in said section two, as amended, shall read as follows:

CHAP. 192

How contract, sale or lease may be made.

'Provided, however, that no contract as herein provided, and no sale, lease or consolidation of the Knox and Lincoln Railway shall be made, except on a stock vote of not less than two-thirds of the whole amount of the issued capital stock of said railway.'

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 11, 1891 ·

B. & S. R.R. Company, authorized to

issue bonds and mortgage property.

Chapter 192.

An Act to authorize the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company to issue bonds.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

The Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company is hereby authorized to issue its second mortgage bonds to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the amount heretofore issued under its charter and it may secure the payment of the same by a second mortgage of its property and franchise.

Approved March 11, 1891.

Oorporators.

-corporate

name.

-purpose.

Capital stock.

Chapter 193.

An Act to incorporate the Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. E. K. O'Brien, Herbert L. Shepherd, J. Manchester Haynes, George E. Macomber and H. M. Heath, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway, for the purpose of constructing, operating, buying and leasing the railroads hereinafter named and referred to.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, to be fixed from time to time as required, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

SECT. 3. The said corporation is authorized to hold for its purposes aforesaid, so much real and personal estate as may be necessary and convenient therefor.

SECT. 4. The said corporation is further authorized to purchase or lease the property, capital stock, rights, privileges, immunities and franchises of the Camden and Rockport Street Railroad Company and the Thomaston Street Railway Company, or of either of them, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; and upon such purchase or lease the said Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway shall have, hold, possess, exercise and enjoy all the locations, powers, privileges, rights, immunities, franchises, property and estates which at the time of such transfer shall then be had, held, possessed or enjoyed by the corporations so selling or leasing, or either of them, and shall be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities which they, or either of them, shall then be subject by reason of any charter, contract, or general or special law, or otherwise.

CHAP. 193

hold real estate.

Authorized to

May purchase property of

or lease

other roads.

Company, may prosecute

SECT. 5. All proceedings, suits at law or in equity which may be pending at the time of such transfers, to which either pending suits. of said corporations may be a party, may be prosecuted or defended by the said Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway in like manner and with like effect as if such transfer had not been made. All claims, contracts, rights and causes of action of or against either of said corporations so selling or leasing, at law or in equity, may be enforced by suit or action to be begun or prosecuted by or against the said Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway.

C. & R. St. R.

R., and T. St.

Ry. Companies,

authorized to

make sales, etc.

SECT. 6. The Camden and Rockport Street Railroad Company and the Thomaston Street Railway Company are authorized to make the sales, transfers and leases authorized by section four of this act. SECT. 7. The said Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Company, may Street Railway may issue stock in payment and exchange for the stock, franchises and property of the corporations making the transfers authorized by this act, but in no event shall the amount of stock so issued exceed the authorized capital stock of such corporations.

SECT. 8. The said corporation is further authorized to purchase or lease the railroad of any corporation with which it may connect, subject to all the limitations of this act and with all its privileges.

issue stock in payment for property.

May purchase or

lease other

railroads."

CHAP. 194

May issue bonds, and mortgage property.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 9. The said corporation may issue its bonds, from time to time, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient and in such amounts as may be required for the purposes of this act, and secure the same by appropriate mortgages upon its franchise and property.

SECT. 10. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by a written notice thereof signed by any two corporators herein named, served upon each corporator by copy in hand or mailed postage prepaid, in either case at least seven days prior to the day named therein for such meeting. SECT. 11. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 11, 1891.

Corporators.

-corporate name.

-rights and privileges.

Authorized to

of telegraph or telephone.

-route.

Chapter 194.

An Act to incorporate the Casco Bay Telegraph Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Albion Little, C. W. T. Goding, Henry S. Osgood, Stephen R. Small, Charles J. Chapman, Fred N. Dow and Seth L. Larrabee, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Casco Bay Telegraph and Telephone Company, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties provided by the general laws of this state relating to corporations, with power by that name to sue and be sued; to have and use a common seal, and the same to be changed 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 legal and lawful acts incident to similar corporations.

SECT. 2. Said corporation, is hereby empowered and construct a line authorized to own, construct, maintain and operate from some point in the city of Portland a line or lines of telegraph and telephone along the shores of Casco bay on the mainland to any desired point or points, with as many wires and branches in and about the county of Cumberland as it may deem necessary or desirable; also to construct, maintain and operate a line or lines of telegraph and telephone upon any of the islands in Casco bay, with the right to connect its lines

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