ration, but in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, and said company shall be liable for any injury caused thereby.

SECT. 6. Said company is hereby authorized to purchase the franchises, property, rights, privileges and immunities of the Saco and Biddeford Gas Light Company and of the Biddeford Saco Light and Power Company, or of either of said companies, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; and said Saco and Biddeford Gas Light Company and Biddeford Saco Light and Power Company are both hereby authorized to sell their franchises, property, rights, privileges and immunities to said York Light and Heat Company, and upon such purchase and transfer the said York Light and Heat Company shall succeed to enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities now or hereafter granted to said companies or either of them, in the cities of Biddeford and Saco and town of Old Orchard, and shall thereupon have the right to supply said cities and town with light, heat and power by the manufacture of gas and electricity in the manner provided by sections one, two, three, four and five of this act and by the charters of the said gas light company and all acts amendatory thereof.

contracts to

etc.

SECT. 7. Said company is hereby authorized to make May make contracts with the United States, the state and with corpora- supply light, tions and inhabitants of said cities and town for the purposes of supplying light, heat and power as contemplated by this act; and said cities of Biddeford and Saco, each through its city council, and said town of Old Orchard, through its selectmen, are authorized to contract with said company from time to time as they may deem expedient.

SECT. 8. Said company may issue its bonds for the construction of its works and for the purposes of its incorporation, upon such rate and time as it may deem expedient and in such amount as may be required for the objects of its incorporation and for the purchases authorized by section six of this act, and to secure the same by mortgage upon the franchise and property of said company.

May issue

bonds, and

mortgage

property.

First meeting,

SECT. 9. The first meeting of this company may be called by written notice thereof signed by any two corporators how called. herein named, served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand or by leaving the same at his last and usual place of abode seven days before the time of meeting.

CHAP. 214

SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 12, 1891.

County commissioners, authorized to establish a highway across Atkins bay.

Chapter 214.

An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of Sagadahoc County to locate and establish a highway across Atkins Bay.

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

SECT. 1. Authority is hereby granted to the county commissioners of Sagadahoc county to locate and establish a highway from some point on the road in the town of Phippsburg leading to Cox's Head thence to the point of Little Cox's Head, thence across and over the tide waters of Atkins bay to the land of one Lyman Oliver, and thence to the southwest corner of the land of N. Perkins, by the same proceedings and in the same manner now provided by law for laying out and establishing highways.

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

Approved March 13, 1891.

Taking of fish from Basin

Chapter 215.

An Act to prohibit the taking of land-locked salmon from Basin pond in the town of Fayette, county of Kennebec.

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

SECT. 1. No person shall take, catch, kill, fish for, or pond, Fayette, destroy any land-locked salmon in Basin pond in the town of Fayette, for a period of five years from the approval of this act.

prohibited for five years.

Penalty for violation.

SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall pay the sum of five dollars for each fish taken, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice in said county of Kennebec, one-half to the use of the complainant, and the other half to the use of said county.

Approved March 13, 1891.

CHAP. 216

Chapter 216.

An Act to repeal chapter four hundred and seventy of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from Long and Weeks' pond, and their tributaries, in the town of Parsonsfield, in York county."

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

SECT. 1. Chapter four hundred and seventy of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby repealed.

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

Approved March 13, 1891.

Ch. 470, Private

Laws, 1889,

repealed.

Chapter 217.

An Act to incorporate a hospital in the city of Bangor.

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

SECT. 1. F. A. Wilson, J. F. Snow, A. D. Manson, S. Corporators. B. Morrison, F. H. Appleton, G. F. Godfrey, H. McLaughlin, S. P. Johnson, D. A. Robinson, H. L. Mitchell, F. Ingalls, J. S. Wheelwright, R. A. Jordan, Lysander Strickland, George P. Jefferds, Galen M. Woodcock, I. H. Merrill, L. J. Morse, J. M. Blaisdell, I. W. Coombs, A. L. Boyd, N. C. Ayer, C. D. Bryant, M. Giddings, H. P. Oliver, Charles Hight, J. W. Palmer, N. E. Ayer, Amory Battles, George W. Field, C. H. Cutler, George Stetson, W. S. Dennett, B. A. Burr, D. F. Davis, James Adams, Thomas White, J. W. Porter, B. B. Thatcher, Harriet S. Griswold, Caroline S. Wilson, Lucy M. Field, Lucy F. Griffin, Hattie M. Burr, Marianne Hersey, Mrs. T. N. Egery, Charlotte W. Thatcher, Charles E. Hill, J. Y. Ricker, E. B. Nealley, E. F. Duren, N. H. Dillingham, S. B. Gilman, C. C. Prescott, Harry Merrill, Edward Stetson, Henry Rollins, William H. Rollins, M. C. O'Brien, W. E. Fellows, their associates and successors are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name -corporate of the Eastern Maine General Hospital, and by that name may sue and be sued, and may have a common seal, and shall have all the immunities and privileges and be subject to all

name.

the liabilities of like corporations, for the purpose of estab- -purpose.

By-laws.

CHAP. 217 lishing and maintaining a hospital in the city of Bangor, for the reception and treatment of persons who may need medical and surgical attendance during temporary sickness or injury. SECT. 2. The said corporation shall have the power to make and establish such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the choice of all proper officers, to prescribe their duties and powers, and to provide generally for the internal government of the hospital, such by-laws and regulations not being repugnant to the constitution and laws of this

May hold real estate.

Membership.

Trustees, how chosen.

-tenure.

-vacancies, how filled.

Board of visitors.

May establish training school for nurses.

state.

SECT. 3. Said corporation may receive and hold real and personal estate, to any amount which may from time to time be given, granted, bequeathed or devised to it, and accepted by the corporation for the uses and purposes of said hospital, provided always, that both the principal and income thereof shall be appropriated according to the terms of the donation, devise or bequest.

SECT. 4. The corporation shall consist of the aforesaid incorporators and of such persons as may, at any legal meeting of the corporation, be elected members by ballot.

SECT. 5. The said general hospital shall be under the direction and management of nine trustees, who shall be chosen annually, and shall remain in office until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. Six of said trustees shall be chosen by said corporation, and all vacancies occurring in that part of the board shall be filled by said corporation. And three of the trustees shall be chosen, and all vacancies. in that part of the board shall be filled by the board of visitors, hereinafter provided.

SECT. 6. The governor of the state, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives for the time being, shall be a board of visitors of said hospital, with authority to visit the same annually, and as much oftener as they may think proper, to inspect the establishment and the actual condition of the sick, to examine the by-laws and regulations of the corporation, and generally to see that the design of the institution is carried into effect.

SECT. 7. The said corporation is authorized to establish a training school for nurses, and to issue diplomas as shall be fit and proper.

SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 13, 1891.

CUMBERLAND ILLUMINATING COMPANY-FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.

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CHAP. 218

Chapter 218.

An Act to renew and extend the charter of Cumberland Illuminating Company.

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

extended.

The charter of the Cumberland Illuminating Company, Charter approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, is hereby renewed and extended for a period of four years from February ten, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

Approved March 13, 1891.

Chapter 219.

An Act relating to the Female Orphan Asylum of Portland.

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

SECT. 1. The powers conferred upon the Female Orphan Asylum of Portland by its charter, approved February eighteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and by an act of the legislature entitled "An Act to provide further for the Female Orphan Asylum of Portland," approved January twenty-third, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, are hereby so far enlarged as to authorize and enable its board of managers, in their discretion, to provide for the support, instruction and employment of boys as well as girls; and if the discretion hereby conferred upon said board of managers shall at any time be exercised in favor of the reception of boys at said asylum, then all its corporate powers and duties, and all provisions of law relating thereto, are hereby extended so as to relate, so far as applicable, to male children as well as female children.

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

Approved March 13, 1891.

Managers, may

provide for

support of boys.