CHAP. 201 seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, on which to place a meeting house, reference to be had to said Sewall's written location and deed thereof, of the date aforesaid for a more particular description. Said Sewall being the duly qualified agent of the commonwealth of Massachusetts therefor by a resolve of February twenty-two, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and resolve of June twenty-two, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-nine." SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 11, 1891. B. A. Swasey, granted exclusive right to navigate Anasagunticook lake. Exclusive right, shall terminate if adequate accommodations are not furnished, etc. Penalty, for infringing on Chapter 201. An Act to authorize Benjamin A. Swasey to navigate Lake Anasagunticook. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Benjamin A. Swasey of Canton is hereby vested with the exclusive right, against all persons, of employing and navigating every kind of boat or water craft propelled by steam, for hire or as a common carrier on lake Anasagunticook in the county of Oxford, for the term of ten years from the approval of this act. SECT. 2. It shall be the duty of the said Swasey and assigns, to furnish adequate and reasonable accommodations for the ordinary travel over said lake in the summer season, and if he shall fail to do so after reasonable notice, within one year from the passage of this act, or if the travel shall so increase as to require another boat, which they shall not supply, the exclusive right aforesaid shall terminate. SECT. 3. Any person who shall use or employ on said exclusive right. lake any boat or water craft propelled by steam, for hire or as common carrier without being authorized by said Swasey or assigns, shall forfeit for each offense not less than fifty and not more than two hundred dollars, to be recovered by and for use of said Swasey and assigns in an action of debt. Toll, established. SECT. 4. A reasonable toll is hereby authorized for transportation of persons and merchandise across said lake, the rate to be established by the county commissioners of Oxford county, from time to time as they may determine. Approved March 11, 1891. CHAP. 202 Chapter 202. An Act to prohibit the taking of land-locked salmon, trout and togue from Squaw Pan or Squaw Pond Lake in the county of Aroostook; also to prohibit the use of dynamite in said lake for the purpose of taking said fish. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: from Squaw prohibited for SECT. 1. No person shall take, catch, kill, fish for, or Taking of fish destroy any land-locked salmon, trout or togue, in Squaw pond, Pan or Squaw Pond lake, so called, in townships numbered two years. ten and eleven, range four, in the county of Aroostook, or any of its tributaries, inlets or outlets, for a period of two years from the approval of this act, except as hereinafter provided. But this section shall not apply to trout or togue caught or taken in the main outlet of said lake known as Squaw pond stream, at a distance of more than three miles from said lake. Any person who violates, or attempts to violate, the provisions of this section, shall be fined twentyfive dollars and costs of each offense, and in addition thereto violation." shall be fined a further sum of one dollar for each land-locked salmon, trout or togue taken, caught, killed or destroyed contrary to the provisions of this section. -penalty, for Certain persons, take fish to determine growth of same. SECT. 2. Upon written application of any five members of the Squaw Pond Fish and Game Association of Presque Isle, the state commissioners of fisheries, or either of them may in writing, authorize two suitable and competent members of said association to take and catch a reasonable number of said fish in said lake, its tributaries, inlets and outlets, at any time during said period of two years, except in annual close time, for the purpose of ascertaining as nearly as they can, the size, growth, and increase of said fish but for no other purpose. Said commissioners may at any time for good cause, revoke such authority. Fish taken as provided by this section, may be lawfully used by the persons taking or catching the same. SECT. 3. No person shall at any time, use dynamite, giant Use of powder, or any other explosive substance in said lake, or any prohibited. of its tributaries, inlets, or outlets, for the purpose of taking, catching, killing or destroying land-locked salmon, trout, or togue. Any person who violates the provisions of this sec-penalty for tion shall be fined one hundred dollars and costs, for each offense, or be imprisoned ninety days in the county jail, or both at the discretion of the court. Prosecution and convic explosives, violation. CHAP. 203 tion under this section, shall be no bar to prosecution and Trial justices, granted jurisdiction. -fines, how disposed of. conviction under section one of this act. SECT. 4. Trial justices in said county of Aroostook, shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed in violation of the provisions of this act, and upon complaint may issue warrants for the arrest of persons charged with violating any of the provisions of this act, and cause such persons to be brought before them for trial, and upon due conviction may sentence such persons to be punished as provided by this act. All fines received under the provisions of this act, shall be paid one-half to the county of Aroostook and one-half to the complainant. Approved March 11, 1891. Company, vested with the right to navigate five years. Chapter 203. An Act to authorize the Lake Hebron Navigation Company to navigate Lake Hebron. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Lake Hebron Navigation Company, its successors and assigns is hereby vested with the right to navigate Hebron pond for Lake Hebron, otherwise known as Hebron pond, in the town of Monson, with every kind of boat propelled by steam, used in carrying passengers or freight for public use for the term of five years, provided, that if said company, its successors and assigns shall neglect for the term of five days between the first day of June and the first day of October of each of said five years, to navigate said lake with a steamboat by making regular daily trips on said lake, this act shall be void unless such neglect shall be caused by some unavoidable accident. Nothing in this act shall be construed as applying to steamboats used by private parties for private purposes. Act, void if company fails to make regular trips between June 1 and October 1 of each year. Penalty, for infringing on right. SECT. 2. Any person or corporation who shall use or employ on said lake, any boat or water craft for public use propelled by steam, without being authorized by said company, its successors or assigns, shall forfeit for each offense not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by and for said company, its successors and assigns, in an action of debt. Approved March 11, 1891. CHAP. 204 Chapter 204. An Act to authorize the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company to place its wires under the surface of streets in the cities of Portland and Lewiston. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Company, may have the right to place wires under the streets of Portland and Lewiston, under municipal SECT. 1. The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company may have the right to place its wires and cables under the surface of streets in the cities of Portland and Lewiston, with the permission and under the supervision supervision of of the municipal officers and subject to such rules and regula- officers. tions as they may from time to time impose, and for that purpose may, when authorized by the board of mayor and aldermen of said cities, construct and maintain its cables, wires, conduits, and man holes in any public way or street designated in such grant of authority. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 12, 1891. Chapter 205. An Act to regulate the taking of fish from Reed's pond in the city of Ellsworth and in the town of Dedham. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No person shall take, catch, kill or fish for any fish of any kind in the pond known as Reed's pond, and sometimes called Green lake, in the city of Ellsworth and town of Dedham, between the first day of October and the first day of May following of each year, for a period of five years from the time when this act shall take effect. Taking of fish from Reed's pond, prohibited between Oct. 1 and May 1. violation. SECT. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act, Penalty for shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars for each offense, and a further fine of one dollar for each fish so taken, one-half of which fines shall be paid to the complainant, and one-half to the county of Hancock. The Ellsworth municipal court or any trial justice in Hancock county shall have jurisdiction of all offenses against this act. Approved March 12, 1891. CHAP. 206 Town, authorized to elect school committee. -tenure. -qualification of. Vacancies, how filled. Members, shall be sworn. Chapter 206. An Act to provide for the election of a School Committee and Superintendent of schools for the town of Farmington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Farmington may at any annual municipal election, held in said town, elect, at the option of said town instead of the superintending school committee or supervisor of schools as authorized by law, either a school committee of five persons, or a committee of three and said committee of three shall elect two more to constitute a school committee of five persons, all of whom shall be residents of said town; said school committee at their first meeting shall designate by lot two of their number to hold office for one year, two to hold office for two years and one to hold office for three years, or until others are elected and qualified in their stead and certify such designation to the town clerk, to be by him recorded; and thereafter, at each annual municipal election in said town, a person shall be elected to fill the place of each one whose term expires, who shall serve three years. No person engaged in teaching in the public schools of said town shall be a member of said committee. Immediately upon the election and qualification of the committee herein provided for, the term of office of the committee then existing in said town shall cease. SECT. 2. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board otherwise than by reason of the expiration of the term of service, the remaining members shall elect by ballot a person to fill such vacancy, and certify such election to the clerk of said town. Such person shall hold office until the next annual election of municipal officers, when the unexpired term, if any, shall be filled by a person chosen at such election. SECT. 3. Before entering upon the duties of their office, the members of said committee shall be duly sworn. They shall meet as soon as may be after their election and organize by the election of a chairman and secretary; which election shall be duly certified to the clerk of said town. The secretary may be one of their own number, or the superintendent of schools elected by said committee, as hereinafter provided. They may appoint such sub-committees, and make such rules |