CHAP. 271 -penalty, for putting pike or fake. trout in said lake or its tributary brooks or streams during the time aforesaid, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each trout so taken or destroyed, and if any person shall put into said lake or its tributary brooks or streams, any pike or pickerel in said pickerel or any other fish destructive to trout, he shall forfeit fifty dollars, said penalties to be recovered in action of debt, one-half thereof to the town or plantation where the offense is committed and one-half to the complainant; and in default of payment he shall be committed to the county jail for a term of six months, or until the same be paid.' Approved March 21, 1891. Corporators. -corporate name. -powers. Shall perform all duties imposed any legacy. Chapter 271. An Act to incorporate the New Sharon Cemetery Improvement Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. H. B. Prescott, Z. A. Dyer, W. W. Norcross, Rosetta A. Curtis, James W. Smith, Frederick Swan, Jabez S. Mooers, Charles W. Thompson, and Horace Soule, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of New Sharon Cemetery Improvement Association, and under that name shall have power to prosecute and defend suits at law, take and hold for the objects of their association, by gift, grant, bequest, purchase or otherwise, any estate, real or personal, and to sell and convey the same, as the interests of the said association may require. SECT. 2. Having accepted any donation or legacy, said by acceptance of association as trustee shall be legally bound to perform the duties specified in the writing creating the trust, or as required by law, if not so specified, and as in cases of public charity. How trust funds sha 1 be invested. First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. All trust funds authorized by this act shall be safely invested in legal securities and depositories, and the annual income only shall be expended in the performance of the requirements of the trust unless otherwise designated. SECT. 4. The first meeting of said association shall be called by any two persons named in the first section of this act, by giving each person named in the act, a notice in writing at least seven days before said meeting. Said notice shall give the time and place and purposes of said meeting. CHAP. 272 Such officers shall be chosen and such other proceedings had officers. for a full and complete organization, as a majority of the members may determine, and such by-laws adopted as may be necessary and not inconsistent with the laws of the state. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. Chapter 272. An Act to incorporate the town of Dyer Brook. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: name. SECT. 1. The township now comprising the plantation of Limits. Dyer Brook being township number five, range four, west from the east line of the state in the county of Aroostook, with the inhabitants thereof, is hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Dyer Brook, with all the powers and corporate subject to all the duties of incorporated towns in this state. SECT. 2. The assessors of said Dyer Brook plantation are First meeting, hereby authorized and required to call the first meeting of said town under this act for the choice of town officers by issuing their warrant for the same, seven days prior to the time of said meeting which shall be holden within thirty days after the date of the approval of this act. how called. assume all SECT. 3. The town hereby created shall be possessed of Town, shall all the property and effects belonging to said plantation and liabilities of shall assume all the liabilities thereof. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. plantation. Chapter 273. An Act to change the name of Cyrus Hurd of Carmel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The name of Cyrus Hurd of Carmel, is hereby changed to Name changed. Cyrus Edward Hurd. Approved March 21, 1891. CHAP. 274 Corporators. -corporate name. Authorized to construct lines of telegraph. -route. Chapter 274. An Act to establish the Limington and Standish Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. James O. Bradbury, Charles E. Dimmock, Frank M. Bradbury, Frank A. Hobson, W. S. Small, James F. Pillsbury, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic by the name of Limington Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and obligations granted and prescribed by the general laws of this state relating to corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct, own, maintain and operate a line or lines of telegraph and telephone from Steep Falls in the town of Standish, Maine, to the northern terminus of the Saco River Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in the town of Hollis, by way of Limington Corner, so called. Said Standish being in the county of Cumberland, and said Limington and Hollis being in the county of York, upon and along any public highway, -may construct railroad, bridge or private lands, and subject to the provisions. along any highway. Damages, how estimated, in case of disagreement. May connect with or lease to other corporations. of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use. thereof, with the right to cut down trees and remove obstacles, when necessary, within the limits aforesaid, except ornamental, fruit and shade trees, and the power to establish and collect tolls on said line or lines. SECT. 3. If the land of any individual or corporation is taken under this act, and the parties cannot agree on the damage occasioned thereby, they shall be estimated, secured and paid in the manner provided in case of land taken for railroads. SECT. 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to connect its line or lines with those of any other telegraph or telephone company, or to sell or lease its line or lines of telegraph and property and telephone and property either before or after completion to any other telegraph or telephone company upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, which sale or lease shall be binding upon the parties, or may purchase or lease any other line or lines of telegraph or telephone upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. CHAP. 275 SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be of Capital stock. such amount as said corporation may, from time to time. determine to be necessary but not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, for the sole purpose of owning, constructing, maintaining and operating the line or lines of telegraph or telephone hereby authorized and contemplated. And the said corporation may purchase, hold, sell and convey all real estate and personal property necessary for the purposes contemplated in this charter. how called. SECT. 6. Any two of the incorporators named in this act First meeting may call the first meeting of the corporation by mailing a written notice signed by both, postage paid, to each of the other corporators, seven days at least before the day of the meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meet ing, and at such meeting a president, secretary, treasurer and directors may be chosen, by-laws adopted, present amount of capital stock fixed, and any corporate business transacted. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 21, 1891. Chapter 275. An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from Sabbath Day Pond in the town of New Gloucester. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: from Sabbath Day pond, restricted for SECT. 1. All persons are hereby prohibited from fishing Taking of fish for, or taking fish of any kind, in any manner from Sabbath Day pond in the town of New Gloucester in the county of five years." Cumberland, between the fifteenth day of June and the fifteenth day of May following of each year for the period of five years. Penalty, for SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for the violation. offense, and a further penalty of one dollar for each fish taken in violation hereof, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice or municipal or police court in said county of Cumberland, one half to the complainant and one half to said county of Cumberland. Approved March 21, 1801. СНАР. 276 Corporators. -corporate name. -rights and privileges. Chapter 276. An Act to incorporate the Sagadahoc Shaver Molecular Telephone and Telegraph Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. William T. Donnell, A. H. Shaw, Jerry Shannon, H. A. Huse, E. P. Donnell, J. F. Hayden, Daniel E. Pierce, F. W. Weeks, F. H. Twitchell, Joseph K. Huse, James W. Wakefield, A. J. Snow, C. H. Greenlief, W. L. White, Peter Kennedy, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by name of the Sagadahoc Shaver Molecular 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 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, to do and perform any and all other lawful acts incident to corporations of similar character; and said company shall have the right to locate and construct its public highway. lines upon and along any public highway or bridge, or along and upon the line of any railroad, in, through and about all the towns and cities in Sagadahoc county, but 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 construct lines along any May construct lines in Sagadahoc county. May connect with or lease to other corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate telephone and telegraph lines throughout the length and breadth of Sagadahoc county, 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 on said line or lines. 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, or to sell or |