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CHAP. 64

Corporators.

-corporate name.

-associate corporators.

May hold real estate and receive donations.

Trustees, how chosen.

Quorum.

-by-laws.

Chapter 64.

An Act to incorporate the Maine Homœopathhic Hospital.

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

SECT. 1. George S. Hunt, John E. DeWitt, W. G. Davis, Fred E. Richards, George W. Woodman, Joseph W. Symonds, S. C. Strout, S. C. Dyer, Charles S. Forbes, A. A. Strout, D. W. Clark, James N. Winslow, Lyman N. Cousins, H. C. Peabody, S. E. Sylvester, M. C. Pingree, J. W. Whidden, E. F. Vose, George A. Clark, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name of the Maine Homœopathic Hospital, and by that name may sue and be sued, have a common seal, and have all the immunities and privileges of like corporations. Said corporators and their associates shall have power to vote in associate corporators, but no personal liability shall attach to said corporators by reason of any acts of said corporation. SECT. 2. Said corporation may take, receive, purchase, hold and possess land and tenements in fee simple or otherwise, and dispose of and sell the same, and may receive of and from all persons and corporations disposed to aid in its benevolent purposes, any grants and devises of real estate and any donations, subscriptions and bequests of money and other property to be used for the erection, support and maintenance of a general homoeopathic hospital for the sick, to be erected within the city of Portland.

SECT. 3. Said hospital shall be under the direction and management of thirteen trustees, who shall be chosen annually and shall remain in office until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. Said trustees shall be chosen by said corporation and all vacancies occurring in the board shall be filled by the corporation.

SECT. 4. One-fourth in number of said corporators shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Said corporation shall have the power to make and establish such regulations and by-laws as may be necessary for the choice of all proper officers; to prescribe their duties and powers, and to provide generally for the internal government and economy of the hospital, such by-laws not being repugnant to the laws of this state.

SECT. 5. The governor of the state, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the mayor of the city of Portland, for the time being, shall be a board of visitors of the said hospital, with the authority to visit the same annually, and as much oftener as they think proper, to inspect the establishment and the actual condition of the sick therein, to examine the by-laws and regulations of the corporation, and generally to see that the design of the institution is carried into effect.

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Board of

visitors, how

constituted.

how called.

SECT. 6. The first meeting of said corporation shall be First meeting, called by any three of said corporators, by publication of the notice of the time and place of such meeting, in one of the daily papers published in Portland, Lewiston, Bath, Augusta and Bangor, said publication to be at least seven days before the time of said meeting.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 16, 1891.

Chapter 65.

An Act to incorporate the Builders' Exchange of Portland.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. Augustine D. Smith, Robert W. Jackson, Corporators. Thomas J. Feeney, James Miller, Charles E. Snow, Daniel W. Mannix, William A. Rowe, George S. Sylvester, William R. Naylor, Sylvester Bourne, John W. Burrows, William H. Scott and George Smith, their associates and successors, are hereby created and constituted a body corporate by the name of the Builders' Exchange of Portland, for the purpose -corporate of promoting the union of builders of recognized ability and integrity and the establishment of uniform methods in transacting their business to the end that the best interest of purposes. mechanics in the building trade may be protected and honorable and fair dealings among themselves and with the public may be secured.

name.

privileges.

SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby vested with all the Powers and powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties, obligations and restrictions conferred and imposed upon cor

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Officers.

May hold real

estate.

By-laws.

First meeting, how called.

porations of a similar character under the general laws of the state relating to corporations.

SECT. 3. The officers of said corporation shall be a president, secretary, treasurer, and board of directors and such other officers as may be provided by its by-laws.

SECT. 4. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, gift, or otherwise, such personal and real estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, as may be deemed necessary for the purposes of the corporation.

SECT. 5. Said corporation may adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the laws of the state, as may be necessary for the proper management of its affairs.

SECT. 6. Either of the three first named persons in the first section of this act may call the first meeting of said corporators by giving each of the other persons named, at least five days' written notice of the time and place of said meeting. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved Februray 16, 1891.

Taking of fish in Goose pond, between Oct. 1 and Feb. 1, prohibited.

-penalty.

Chapter 66.

An Act to protect fish in Goose Pond in the county of Waldo.

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

SECT. 1. No person shall take, catch, kill or fish for, in any manner, any fish of any kind, in Goose Pond in the county of Waldo, between the first day of October and the first day of the following February, under a penalty of not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars, and a further fine of one dollar for each fish thus caught, taken or killed. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 16, 1891.

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Chapter 67.

An Act to amend chapter fifty eight, section two of Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, relating to the Buckfield Village "Corporation.

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

Private Laws,

1887, amended.

Corporation

authorized to

raise money.

Section two of chapter fifty-eight of private and special sec. 2, ch. 58, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "the building, leasing and maintaining of water works and" in the third and fourth lines thereof, and the words "and for the building and keeping in repair side-walks", so that section two shall read as follows: 'SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby invested with power, at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise such sums of money as may be sufficient for the purchase, repair and preservation of one or more fire engines, engine houses, hose, buckets, hooks, ladders or other apparatus for the extinguishment of fire; and for organizing and maintaining within its limits an efficient fire department. Also for the support and maintenance of public and free high schools, within said poration, and lighting the streets; provided, however, that the territory embraced within the limits of the William F. Robinson farm, the Solon C. Tuttle farm, the E. C. Record farm, the Silas Shaw farm, the Captain Jenkins stand and the B. H. Record farm, all situated east of Hall's bridge, so called, the R. B. Waite farm, the N. T. Shaw farm, the Cyrus Dean farm and the Ephraim Lowe farm, together with all personal property belonging on the same and the occupants thereof, are hereby exempted from the provisions of this act except for money raised for educational purposes.'

Approved February 16, 1891.

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Chapter 68.

An Act relating to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

property to

All provisions of law limiting the amount of property May hold which may be taken and held, or the amount of income any amount. which may be received by the President and Trustees of

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Bowdoin College, are repealed, and that corporation may take and hold property and receive income, for the purposes for which it was incorporated, to any amount.

Approved February 16, 1891.

Sec. 1, ch. 120, Special laws of 1872, amended.

-route.

-may take real estate.

Chapter 69.

An Act to amend the charter of the Penobscot Central Railroad Company.

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

SECT. 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and twenty of the special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixteen of the special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and by chapter two hundred and twenty-three of the special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby amended by striking out all of section one of said chapter two hundred and twentythree, after the word "Bangor" in the nineteenth line of said section, and by substituting therefor the following words: 'and from one or more points at or near tide water in said Bangor, thence running northerly, northeasterly and northwesterly through the towns of Bangor, Hermon and Glenburn, or either of said towns of Hermon or Glenburn, Kenduskeag, Corinth, Charleston, Bradford, Atkinson, Orneville, and Milo, to Milo Junction, so as to connect with the Katahdin Iron Works Railroad at said Junction, with the right to cross and connect with the Maine Central Railroad in Bangor, and the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad at Milo Junction; and said corporation shall be, and hereby is invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this act; and shall have the right to purchase or to take and hold so much of the land and real estate of private persons and corporations as may be necessary for the location, construction and convenient operation of said railroad; and they shall also have the right to take, remove and use, for the construction, and repair of said railroad and appurtenances, any earth, gravel, stone, timber or other material, on or from the land so taken.'

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