-proviso. CHAP. 287 have all its equal privileges and advantages free of charge of tuition or otherwise in the same manner and to the same extent as in a free high school, provided, said town of Dresden shall vote to empower the trustees of said fund to transfer and deliver to the trustees under this charter, or their associates and successors, said fund and securities as provided in section five of this act. First meeting, how called. SECT. 7. Samuel J. Bridge, Edward H. Barker and Charles W. Bickford, or any two of them, are hereby authorized to appoint the time and place for holding the first meeting of the trustees, by giving all the trustees personal notice thereof in writing, or by publishing a notice in some newspaper in the county of Lincoln, seven days previous to said meeting. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 23, 1891. Sec. 3, ch. 33, 1887, amended. Chapter 287. An Act to amend the charter of the Penobscot Lake Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The word "thirty-five," in the fourth line of section three Sociale of of chapter thirty-three of the special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the word "fifteen" in the ninth line of said section are hereby repealed, and the words 'fifty' and 'twenty-five,' respectively, are hereby inserted in place thereof, so that as amended, said section shall read as follows: Tolls. lien on logs, 'SECT. 3. The said corporation may demand and receive a toll for the passage of logs over their said dams and improvements between Penobscot lake and the gulch below on Penobscot brook, so called, of fifty cents, for each thousand feet, board measure, woods scale, and may demand and receive a toll for the passage of logs over their said dams and improvements between Dole brook pond and the mouth of Dole brook stream, and between Long pond and the mouth of Long pond stream, of twenty-five cents, per each thousand feet, board for payment of measure, woods scale; and said corporation shall have a lien upon all logs which shall pass over any of its dams and improvements for the payment of said tolls, but the logs of each particular mark shall be holden only for the tolls of such CHAP. 288 mark, and unless such toll is paid within twenty days after such logs, or a major part of them, shall arrive at the Penobscot boom, or place of manufacture, said corporation may seize said logs and sell at public auction so many thereof as shall be necessary to pay such tolls, and costs and charges, notice of the time and place of such sale, ten days before such sale, being first given in some newspaper printed at Bangor; and when said corporation shall from tolls be reimbursed for when tolls its expenditures, and eight per cent interest thereon, the tolls shall cease.' Approved March 25, 1891. shall cease. Chapter 288. An Act to authorize School District Number Two in Caribou to make a loan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. School district number two in the town of Caribou is hereby authorized, after vote therefor at any annual or special meeting, to borrow three thousand dollars, in addition to its present indebtedness and in addition to the amount now authorized by law, to be used for the purposes of said district, and to issue such notes or bonds therefor, on such times and rates of interest as may be determined at the meeting authorizing such loan or loans. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 25, 1891. Chapter 289. An Act to extend the charter of the Farmington Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Time for works, extended. SECT. 1. The time within which the Farmington Water Company shall put its works into actual operation, as required completion of by section eleven of chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of the private and special laws for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby extended two years from the approval of this act. CHAP. 290 Town or village, may purchase franchises and property of company. Notice of meetings, how given. Ch. 198, Private revived. SECT. 2. The town of Farmington, or the Farmington Village Corporation, may at any time before said company shall contract for a public supply of water with either of said municipal corporations, vote to assume and purchase the franchises and property of said water company for the amount of money actually expended by it to the date of such purchase. Upon such vote and payment, the said company shall assign and transfer to the municipal corporation so purchasing all the rights and franchises hereby granted, and thereafterwards such municipal corporation shall exercise and enjoy the same as fully as if granted to it direct; provided, however, if such municipal corporation shall not within six months from such transfer, have commenced in good faith the construction of a system of water works, to furnish water for public and domestic purposes for said village corporation and the inhabitants thereof, then the franchises hereby granted shall be revested in the said water company as fully as if no transfer thereof had been made. SECT. 3. Fourteen days notice shall be given of any and all meetings called under section eight of chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of the private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. SECT. 4. Chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of the private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby revived. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 25, 1891. City charter of Augusta, amended. All laws or appropriation bills, shall be presented to mayor. Chapter 290. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section five of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Augusta," approved July twenty-three, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-nine, is hereby amended, so that the same shall read as follows: 'SECT. 5. Every law, act, ordinance, or bill appropriating money, having passed both branches of the city council, shall be presented to the mayor of the city, and if he approve the if not approved. same he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it in seven days, CHAP. 291 with his objections, to that branch of the city council in which it shall have originated, which branch shall enter the objections at large on its journals, and proceed to reconsider proceedings, said law, act, ordinance or bill. If upon such reconsideration, two-thirds of the whole number of that branch shall agree to pass it, it shall be sent, together with the objections to the other branch, by which it shall be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of the whole number of that branch, it shall have the same effect as if signed by the mayor. In calculating said requisite two-thirds, a fraction exceeding onehalf, shall be considered a unit.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 25, 1891. Chapter 291. An Act for the protection of fish in B pond, in Upton, in Oxford county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Taking of fish prohibited for from B pond, six years. It shall be unlawful to take any fish from the waters of B pond in the town of Upton and county of Oxford at any time for six years except as herein provided. Any person may take trout in said waters with a rod, single line, and artificial exceptions. flies or single baited hook, between the twentieth day of May and the twentieth day of July of each year and not otherwise. The fish commissioners of the state of Maine may take fish from said pond to be used for breeding purposes, in the waters of this state at such times as they shall decide to be suitable and convenient therefor. Any person violating the penalty, for provisions of this act shall be punished upon conviction thereof, before any trial justice or other court in said Oxford county by a fine not exceeding thirty dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days for each offense. Approved March 25, 1891. violation. СНАР. 292 Corporators. -corporate name. -purposes. Powers and by-laws. When act shall take effect. Chapter 292. An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Erskine School in China, Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. John K. Erskine, W. J. Thompson, S. C. Starrett, Dana C. Hanson, of China, Maine, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by name of the Trustees of the Erskine Academy in China, Maine, and by that name shall have the power to take and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an academy for the education of youth in common, higher English, scientific and classical studies, in China, and shall be authorized to receive, hold and manage all such gifts and grants as shall be made to them for that purpose. SECT. 2. The said corporation shall have such powers for the accomplishment of the purposes aforesaid, as are or may be granted by law to similar corporations, and may establish by-laws and regulations for the suitable and convenient management of the business. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect from and upon its approval by the governor, and any three of the trustees aforefirst meeding, said may call a meeting of said corporation, by posting a notice on the said school building, fourteen days prior to the time of said meeting. how called. Approved March 25, 1891. Sec. 1, ch. 343, Chapter 293. An Act to amend section one, chapter three hundred forty-three of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, relating to the taking of fish from Spectacle ponds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section one of chapter three hundred forty-three 1889, amended. of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is amended by adding after the word "year," in the fourth line thereof, the words and also from the tributaries of said ponds for a term of three years, and thereafter |