СНАР. 243 Chapter 243. An Act to incorporate the Southern Maine Telephone and Telegraph Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: -corporate name. -may construct telegraph and all kinds of telephone lines. SECT. 1. Frank W. Dana, William Dickey, C. I. Barker, Corporators. John N. Wood, E. W. Gross, W. H. Miles, Charles Gay, W. E. Riker, and F. L. Hoyt, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the Southern Maine Telephone and 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 carry on the business of practical telephonic and telegraphic communication, within the territory hereinafter described, by proper methods; and in the prosecution of said business, to locate, construct, maintain, and operate, molecular, acoustic, magnetic and electric, telephone and telegraph lines; to sue and to be sued, to have a common seal, to pass by-laws and regulations for the management of their affairs, not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Maine, to do and perform any and all other lawful acts incident to corporations of a similar character. Said company shall have the right to locate and construct its lines upon and along any public highway, bridge or private land, or along and upon the line of any highway, etc." railroad, and carry on said business, in, through and about, all the towns and cities in Audroscoggin, Cumberland and York counties, in such 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 any highway except ornamental, fruit or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use or safety, of its lines. -may construc lines along any may be SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to con- Where lines struct, maintain and operate, telephone and telegraph lines constructed. throughout the length and breadth of Androscoggin, Cumberland and York counties, 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, and subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and with the power to establish and collect tolls. CHAP. 243 Authorized to connect with other lines. Persons or corporations purchasing rights, shall be powers of corporation. SECT. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to connect its line or lines with those of any other telephone or telegraph company or corporation, to sell or lease its line or lines and other property, in whole or in part, either before or after completion, to any person or persons or to any other telephone or telegraph company or corporation, upon such terms as may agreed upon by the contracting parties; and may purchase or lease any other line or lines of telephone or telegraph upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto. SECT. 4. Any person or corporation purchasing from the corporation hereby created, the right to use its telephone for invested with all any part or parts of the counties of Androscoggin, Cumberland and York, is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges by this act conferred upon the Southern Maine Telephone and Telegraph Company, subject to all duties and liabilities hereby imposed in said part or parts of said county of Androscoggin, Cumberland and York; and the said corporation is hereby authorized to assign and transfer so much of the franchise hereby granted, as may be necessary for the purpose of this section. May erect posts, Municipal officers, may locate line. Capital stock. SECT. 5. Said corporation shall have the right to erect and construct the posts, piers, abutments and other fixtures necessary, to sustain the wires of its lines upon, along and across any public way, road, street, bridge or private land, or along, upon and across the line of any railroad, in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; first having obtained the consent of the municipal officers of any city or town where these lines are to be built and subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. SECT. 6. The municipal officers of a place in which the said posts, piers, abutments and fixtures, are to be erected, shall, on written application, specify where the same may be located. SECT. 7. The capital stock of said company shall be of such an amount as the stockholders may determine, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; and it may purchase, hold and dispose of, such real and personal estate, as may be necessary for the corporate purposes, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and shall have power by agreement with May hold real estimated. other persons, or bodies corporate, to connect its lines with CHAP. 244 other telephone or telegraph line, within or without the state. estate. . SECT. 8. If the land of any individual or corporation is Damages, how taken under this act, and the parties cannot agree on the damages occasioned thereby, they shall be estimated, secured and paid in the manner provided in case of land taken for railroads. how called. SECT. 9. Any one of the corporators named in this act, First meeting, may call the first meeting of the corporation, for organization, by mailing a written notice, signed by him, to each of the other corporators, seven days at least, before the day of the meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting; and at such meeting, by-laws may be adopted, the amount of capital stock fixed and any other corporate business transacted. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1891. Chapter 244. An Act to extend the rights, powers and privileges of the Dover and Foxcroft Light and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Charter, extended for SECT. 1. The rights, powers and privileges of the Dover and Foxcroft Light and Heat Company, which were granted four years. by chapter twenty-five of the private and special laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, are hereby extended for four years additional; and the persons named in said act shall have all the rights, powers and privileges that were granted them by said act, to be exercised in the same manner, and for the same purposes, as provided in said act. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1891. CHAP. 245 City of Bath, may elect school committee. -tenure. -mayor, shall be ex-officio, chairman. -vacancies, how filled. Shall employ a superintendent. Powers and duties. Chapter 245. An Act to provide for the election of a School Committee and a Superintendent of Schools in the city of Bath. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. At the annual municipal election in the city of Bath, next after the passage of this act, the qualified voters in each ward of said city shall be called upon to give in their ballots for two inhabitants of the ward to be members of the school committee, one-half of said number elected to serve for two years and one-half for one year. The members elected shall decide by lot their respective terms of office. Thereafterwards at each annual municipal election one inhabitant from each ward shall be elected to hold office for two years. The mayor of said city shall be chairman, ex-officio, of said committee. The said committee shall serve without compensation and no teacher in the public schools shall be a member of said committee. Vacancies occurring in said board otherwise than by expiration of term of office, shall be filled by the city council of said city for the remainder of the unexpired term. SECT. 2. Said school committee shall employ a superintendent of schools who shall also be secretary of the board. They shall fix his compensation and term of service and may remove him upon a majority vote of said committee. Said superintendent of schools shall act under the direction of and be amenable to said school committee of the city of Bath. SECT. 3. Said school committee shall have all the power and perform all the duties as regards the public schools of said city, which are now conferred or hereafter may be, upon superintending school committees by the laws of the state. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved, and accepted by the city of Bath. Approved March 17, 1891. CHAP. 246 Chapter 246. An Act to incorporate the Blunt's Pond Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: -corporate SECT. 1. John Shoenbar, Joseph D. Prescott, W. H. Corporators. Couillard, and such persons as they may associate with themselves in the enterprise, and their successors, are hereby incorporated into a corporation by the name of the Blunt's Pond Water Company, for the purpose of supplying the town of Lamoine, in the county of Hancock, and the inhabitants of said town with pure water for domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes including extinguishment of fires. name. from Blunt's SECT. 2. Said company for said purposes may flow, detain, May take water collect, take, store, use and distribute water from Blunt's pond." Pond in said Lamoine, and streams flowing in and out of the same, and may locate, construct and maintain dams, cribs, reservoirs, locks, gates, sluices, aqueducts, pipes, hydrants and all other necessary structures therefor. along highways. SECT. 3. Said company is hereby authorized to lay, con- May lay pipes struct and maintain in, under, through, along aud across the highways, ways, streets, railroads and bridges in said town and to take up, replace and repair all such sluices, aqueducts, pipes, hydrants and structures as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, under such reasonable restrictions and conditions as the selectmen of said town may impose. And said company shall be responsible for all responsible damages to persons and property occasioned by the use of such highways, ways and streets, and shall further be liable to pay to said town all sums recovered against said town for damages from obstruction caused by said company, and for all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees incurred in defending such suits, with interest on the same. for all damages. May cross any sewer. water course or SECT. 4. Said company shall have power to cross any water course, private or public sewer, or to change the direction thereof when necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, but in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, and said company shall be liable for any injury caused thereby, whenever said company shall lay down any fixtures in any highway, or street; or make any alterations shall not or repairs upon its works in any highway, way or street, it obstruct travel. |