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lease its line or lines of telephone and property and telegraph CHAP. 276 and property in whole or part, either before or after completion, to any other telephone or telegraph company or corporation, upon such terms as may be agreed by the contracting parties, which sale or lease shall be binding upon the parties; or may purchase or lease any other line or lines of telephone or telegraph upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed by the parties thereto.

SECT. 4. Any person or corporation purchasing from the corporation hereby created, the right to use its telephones for any part or parts of the county of Sagadahoc is hereby invested with all the power and privileges by this act conferred upon the Sagadahoc Shaver Molecular Telephone and Telegraph Company, subject to all the duties and liabilities hereof imposed, in said part or parts of said county of Sagadahoc, the said corporation is hereby authorized to assign and transfer so much of the franchise hereby granted as may be necessary for the purposes of this section.

Persons right to use

purchasing

telephones, invested with

all the rights of

the company.

necessary

appliances.

SECT. 5. Said company may use such telegraphic appliances May use as may be necessary or convenient for the dispatch of their telegraphic business. SECT. 6. The capital stock of said company shall be of Capital stock. such an amount as they may from time to time determine to be necessary, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, for the exclusive purpose of purchasing, constructing, maintaining and operating telephone and telegraph lines hereby authorized and contemplated, and they may purchase, hold and dispose of such personal and real estate, as may be necessary for that purpose, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, and shall have power by agreement with other persons or bodies. corporate to connect its lines with other telephone or telegraph lines, within or without the state.

SECT. 7. 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.

Damages, how

estimated in

case of

disagreement.

how called.

SECT. 8. Any two of the corporators named in this act First meeting, may call the first meeting of the corporation, by mailing a written notice signed by both, to each of the other corpoators, seven days at least before the day of the meeting,

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naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting, and at such meeting by-laws may be adopted, present amount of capital stock fixed, and any corporate business transacted. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 21, 1891.

Taking of fish from

Chapter 277.

An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from Gardner Brook in the towns of Minot and
Oxford.

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

SECT. 1. All persons are prohibited from fishing for, or Gardner brook, taking fish of any kind, in any manner, from Gardner brook in the towns of Minot and Oxford, for the period of three

prohibited.

Penalty, for violation.

years.

SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for the offense, and a further penalty of one dollar for each fish taken in violation of the provisions hereof, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice in any county where the offense is committed, one-half to the complainant and one-half to the county in which the penalty is recovered.

Approved March 21, 1891.

Corporators.

Chapter 278.

An Act to incorporate the Lewiston, Augusta and Camden Railroad Company.

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

SECT. 1. Peleg O. Vickery, John W. Chase, Elias Milliken, George E. Macomber, Horace H. Hamlen, M. V. B. Chase, James W. North, William H. Williams and Frank E. Southard, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate, to be known as the Lewiston, Augusta and Camden Railroad Company, with power to locate, con-authorized to struct, keep in repair and equip a railroad from some point in the city of Lewiston or of Auburn in the county of

-corporate name.

build a railroad.

Androscoggin, pursuing the most direct and feasible route through said cities and the towns of Webster, Wales, Bowdoin, Litchfield, West Gardiner, Farmingdale, the cities of Gardiner, Hallowell and Augusta, the towns of Windsor, China, Somerville, Palermo, Liberty, Appleton, Union, Hope, Washington and Camden, or such of said cities and towns as the stockholders of said corporation shall determine, to a point in said town of Camden on Penobscot bay. And said corporation shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the statutes of this state applicable to railroads.

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-route.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of this corporation shall not Capital stock. exceed one million dollars and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; the immediate administration of its affairs shall be vested in a board of not less than five or board of directors, how more than nine directors who shall be chosen by the stock- chosen. holders of this corporation by ballot, each of said stockholders to be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him; said directors shall hold their offices until others are term. chosen and qualified in their stead; a majority shall constitute a quorum; they shall elect one of their number to be presi- quorum. dent of the board and he shall also be president of the corporation; they shall choose a clerk and a treasurer and such other clerk and officers and agents of the corporation as they shall deem advisable; the directors, clerk and treasurer shall be sworn to faithfully discharge their duties and the directors shall require the treasurer to give bond to the corporation, in such sum and with such sureties as they shall approve, for the faithful discharge of his trust.

treasurer.

SECT. 3. A toll is hereby granted, for the benefit of said Toll, granted. corporation, upon all passengers and property which may be conveyed or transported on or over its railroad, at such rates as may be established by its directors, subject to such general laws in relation to railroad companies as are, or may be from time to time established by the legislature.

SECT. 4. This corporation is authorized to make connections with any other railroad or railroads on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and to lease its road and property or any part thereof at such times and upon such terms as the stockholders may determine.

May connect with other railroads.

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Shall file plans commissioners.

of location with county

-act null, if operations are not begun prior to Jan., 1894.

May issue bonds, and mortgage property.

By-laws.

First meeting, how called.

Location of bridge across

shall be fixed by railroad commissioners.

-right to build a road to

SECT. 5. Before proceeding to construct any part of its railroad in any county, the corporation shall file with the county commissioners thereof plans showing its location, courses and distances therein, and unless operations for building this railroad shall have been actually commenced prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, this charter shall be null and void.

SECT. 6. This corporation may issue its bonds in such denominations as the directors, and in such an amount not exceeding one million dollars, as the stockholders may deem advisable, and may secure the same by a mortgage on its road, franchise and property, or any part thereof, or in any other lawful manner.

SECT. 7. This corporation may make by-laws not inconsistent with law for the government of any of its affairs.

SECT. 8. A majority of the corporators named in this act, at a meeting held for that purpose, on seven days' notice in writing, given by any three of such corporators to each of the others, may accept this charter and organize this corporation.

SECT. 9. The place of crossing the Kennebec river shall Kennebee river, be at some point north of the highway bridge across the same at Augusta; and its particular location shall be fixed after hearing by the railroad commissioners, upon application of said corporation. Before fixing said location, said commissioners shall give at least ten days' notice of the time and place of said hearing by publication in the state paper. The location of said railroad shall not be within one mile of the treasurer's house, at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in Chelsea; and this charter shall not be construed as giving the corporation the right to build a line of railroad between Augusta and said Home only. And if said road shall be built between Augusta and said Home only, without being extended to some point beyond for a bona fide business purpose, this charter shall be forfeited.

Soldiers' Home, denied.

SECT. 10.

This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 21, 1891.

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Chapter 279.

An Act to incorporate the Springfield Water Company.

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

Corporators.

-corporate

SECT. 1. Emery Johnson, John D. Thornton, and Pitt H. Jones, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Springfield Water Company, for the purpose of furnishing the people of Springfield, in the name. county of Penobscot, a supply of pure water for domestic, mechanical and sanitary purposes and for the extinguishment of fires and other public uses, with all the rights, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations incident to similar corpo

rations.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not capital stock. exceed fifty thousand dollars; it may acquire and hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid; and it may issue bonds and other obligations, issue bonds secured by a mortgage of its franchise and other property to carry out the purposes for which it is created, not exceeding the amount of its capital stock.

and mortgage property.

May take real

-may lay pipes.

SECT. 3. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase or may take as for public uses, any real estate or easement estate. therein, including the water of any ponds, streams, springs or wells necessary for obtaining a sufficient supply of water, for the construction of reservoirs, standpipes and hydrants; and may lay its pipes through the lands of any person or persons and having first obtained the permission of the municipal officers of said town, and under such restrictions and regulations as they may prescribe along the streets and ways of said town and may lay its pipes under any private way and across any drain or sewer; and it may enter upon and dig up any such real estate, street or way for the purpose of laying pipes or erecting hydrants or constructing reservoirs or other fixtures and maintaining and repairing the same; and it may do any other act or thing necessary, convenient and proper to carry out the purposes of providing a supply of water, and distributing the same to the inhabitants of said. town for the uses aforesaid; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall give authority to said company to take water from any spring now used as the source of supply for any private aqueduct.

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