CHAP. 259 the duties and obligations conferred and imposed on corporations by law, except as otherwise provided herein. Location. Purposes. May take water. -erect dams, etc. SECT. 2. The place of business of said corporation shall be at Mechanic Falls in Poland or in Minot, in the county of Androscoggin and state of Maine, and its business shall be confined to the towns of Poland and Minot, in said county. SECT. 3. The business to be carried on by said corporation shall be to furnish water for the extinguishment of fires and for public and private uses to said village of Mechanic Falls and vicinity, and the inhabitants thereof, and to furnish electric lights for lighting streets of said village, and to dispose of electric light and power to individuals and corporations. SECT. 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized, for the purposes aforesaid, to take, detain and use the water of the Waterhouse brook or of any other suitable source of water supply in said Minot or Poland, or the towns of Oxford or Hebron, in Oxford county, and to erect and maintain reservoirs and dams, and lay down and maintain pipes and aqueducts necessary for the proper accumulating, conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing of water, and forming -may take land. proper reservoirs thereof; and said corporation may take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate necessary therefor, and may excavate through any lands, when necessary for the purposes of this incorporation. Liable for all damages, and how ascertained, in ment. SECT. 5. Said corporation shall be held liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any person by the taking case of disagree of any land or other property, or by flowage, or by excavating through any land for the purpose of laying down pipes and aqueducts, building dams and reservoirs, setting posts and extending wires, and also damages for any other injuries. resulting from said acts; and if any person sustaining damages as aforesaid and said corporation cannot mutually agree upon the sum to be paid therefor, such person may cause his damages to be ascertained in the same manner and under the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as are by law prescribed in the case of damages by laying out of railroads. Capital stock. SECT. 6. The capital stock of said corporation shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, which may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars by a vote of said corporation, and said stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. May lay down pipes and extend wires in and through streets. SECT. 7. Said corporation is hereby authorized to lay CHAP. 259 down pipes, and to set poles and extend wires, in and through the streets and ways in said towns of Poland and Minot, and to take up, replace, and repair all such pipes, aqueducts, poles and fixtures as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, under such reasonable restrictions as may be imposed by the selectmen of said towns, and all provisions of this act relating to the construction, repairs, maintaining or operating works for furnishing electric light or power, shall be subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. And said corporation shall be responsible responsible for all damages to persons and property occasioned by the use of such streets and ways, and shall further be liable to pay to said towns all sums recovered against said towns for damages from obstruction caused by said corporation, and for all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees incurred in defending such suits, with interest on the same. any for damages. furnish towns and any village with water or towns may contract for SECT. 8. Said corporation is hereby authorized to make May contract to contracts with said towns of Poland and Minot, with village corporations that now or hereafter may exist in said light. towns or either of them, and with other corporations and individuals for the purpose of supplying water or electric light or power, as contemplated by this act; and said towns by their selectmen, and said village corporations by their assessors, are hereby authorized to enter into contracts with said company for the supply of water and electric lights or power, and for such exemption from public burden as said towns and such corporations and said company agree upon, which, when made, shall be legal and binding upon all parties thereto. water and light, from taxation. and exempt May cross any public or private sewer. SECT. 9. Said corporation shall have power to cross any water course or public or private 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 corporation shall be liable for any injury caused thereby; whenever the company shall lay down -shall not any pipes in any street, or make any alterations or repairs upon its works in any street, it shall cause the same to be done with as little obstruction to public travel as may be practicable, and shall at its own expense, without unneces obstruct travel. CHAP. 259 May lay pipes under river and brook. Penalty for corrupting water or injuring works. May issue bonds, and mortgage property. Act null, unless works have been sary delay, cause the earth and pavement removed by it to be replaced in a proper condition. SECT. 10. Said corporation is hereby authorized to lay, construct and maintain its pipes under, in and over the Little Androscoggin river and Waterhouse brook, and to build and maintain all necessary structures therefor. SECT. 11. Any person who shall willfully injure any of the property of said corporation, or who shall knowingly corrupt the waters from which said corporation shall take its supply, in any manner whatever, or render them impure, whether the same be frozen or not, or who shall throw the carcasses of dead animals or other offensive matter into said waters, or who shall willfully destroy or injure any dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant, poles, wires, dynamos or other property held or owned by said corporation for the purposes of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, and shall be liable to said corporation for three times the actual damage, to be recovered in any proper action. SECT. 12. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the construction of its works, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, and secure the same by mortgage of the franchise and property of said company. SECT. 13. In case no portion of the works of this corpoput in operation ration shall have been put into operation within four years from the date of the approval of this act, the rights and privileges herein granted shall be null and void. within four years. First meeting, how called. SECT. 14. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by a written notice thereof, signed by any three corporators herein named, served upon each corporator by giving him the same in hand, or by leaving the same at his last usual place of abode seven days before the time of meeting. SECT. 15. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. TOWN OF WEBSTER-CAMDEN AND ROCKPORT ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 403 CHAP. 260 Chapter 260. An Act to legalize the calling of the annual town meeting in the town of Webster, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: made valid. SECT. 1. The warning and calling of the annual town Doings of town, meeting in the town of Webster, held March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, so far as relates to the informality or insufficiency of the copies of the warrant therefor posted by the constable of said town, are hereby made legal and valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. Chapter 261. An Act to increase the capital stock of the Camden and Rockport Electric Light Company, and to confirm and make valid the acts and votes of the stockholders of said corporation in issuing the bonds of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Sec. 5, ch. 395, Special Laws of 1889, amended. SECT. 1. Section five of chapter three hundred and ninetyfive of private and special laws of eighteen hundred eightynine, is hereby amended by striking out the word "twenty," in the third line, and inserting in the place thereof the word 'fifty,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be Capital stock. twelve thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and may be increased to fifty thousand dollars by a vote of the stockholders.' SECT. 2. All the acts and doings of the stockholders of said corporation in issuing bonds for the construction and enlargement of its plant and works, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, and securing the same by mortgage or deed of trust upon the franchise, property and estate of said corporation are hereby confirmed and declared legal and valid, so far as the same appears on record and conforms to the charter of the company. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. Acts of stockholders, made valid. CHAP. 262 Corporators. -corporate name. -powers. Location. -purposes. Capital stock. May issue bonds and mortgage property. First meeting, how called. Chapter 262. An Act to incorporate the Narraganset Manufacturing, Loan and Trading Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Frederick Robie, John A. Waterman, Stephen Hinkley, George B. Emery, Humphrey Cousens, William P. F. Robie, Edward Harding, George P. Wescott, Fred E. Richards, John E. DeWitt, and Henry A. Millet, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic by the name of Narraganset Manufacturing, Loan and Trading Company, with power to adopt a common seal, to sue and be sued, to hold real and personal estate, to build houses and other buildings, and to sell and convey, lease, and otherwise dispose of the same, to elect a suitable number of directors and other necessary officers, adopt a code of by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the state, and do and perform such acts and things as may be necessary for the successful prosecution of the business of said company. SECT. 2. Said company shall be established in the town of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, and is authorized to manufacture wood, brick, leather, or any article not prohibited by the laws of the state, and to engage in a general mercantile, loan and trading business; and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges incident to corporations under the laws of this state. SECT. 3. The capital stock of the company shall not be over five hundred thousand dollars; but the company is hereby authorized at any time to open subscription to stock to the amount of ten thousand dollars, for business and loan purposes, which amount may be increased from time to time as the directors of the company may deem advisable for its best interests. Said capital stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. SECT. 4. The company may issue its bonds to an amount not exceeding its capital stock, on such terms and conditions as it may see fit, and secure said bonds by a deed of trust, or mortgage of its entire franchise and property, real and personal, or any part thereof. SECT. 5. The first meeting of the company may be called by either of the corporators by serving suitable notice on each of the others, of the time and place of said meeting. |