John Robertson, G. W. Butterfield, Samuel Peary, David T. CHAP. 424. Jones, G. W. Lufkin, S. E. Wheeler, Calvin McLaughlin, S. H. Dolley, Samuel Dolley, O. F. Conant, N. Ranger junior, Samuel McLaughlin, Moses Rand, E. P. E. Foster, James Masterman, Albert Perkins, Jacob E. Holman, Ephraim Taft, James Snowman, E. H. Skofield, William S. Robertson, J. E. Houghton, A. H. Heald, Stinson Masterman, M. A. Phillips, and all others who may hereafter become members of said company, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name of the Weld Name. Mutual Fire Insurance Company, for the purpose of insuring in Purpose. the town of Weld only, their respective dwelling houses, stores, shops, barns and other buildings, household furniture and merchandise, against loss or damage by fire, whether the same happen by accident, lightning, or by any other means, excepting that of design in the insured, and may purchase and hold such real and May hold real and personal estate as may be necessary to effect the object of their association, and may sell and convey the same at pleasure. personal estate. SECT. 2. Said company may make, establish and put in execu- By-laws. tion such by-laws not contrary to the laws of the state, as may seem necessary or convenient for the regulation and management of its affairs, and do and execute all such acts as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes intended by this act. how called. SECT. 3. The first meeting may be called by any three persons First meeting, named in this act, by posting up in three public and conspicuous places, in said town of Weld, notice of the time and place, at least ten days before such meeting, at which time and place the members present may elect all needful officers, fix their compensation Officers and and manage their own affairs, in any way not repugnant to the general laws of this state relating to such companies. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 3, 1870. compensation. Chapter 424. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Kenduskeag. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The doings of a town meeting in Kenduskeag, holden April nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in exempting the foundery property of V. S. Palmer and his associates from taxation for five years, are hereby made valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Doings of town meeting of April 19, 69, made valid. CHAP. 425. Corporators. Name. May hold real and personal estate. Powers and liabilities. First meeting, how called. Chapter 425. An act to incorporate the Lubec Hotel Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Samuel Staples, P. Gillise, S. Ryarson, H. Harmon and John Durant, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name of the Lubec Hotel Company, for the purpose of erecting, owning and maintaining a hotel or house of entertainment in the town of Lubec. SECT. 2. The said corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of eight thousand dollars in value, and shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of similar corporations, as defined by the laws of this state. SECT. 3. Either of the persons named in this act is hereby authorized to call the first meeting of these corporators by causing a written notice of the same to be posted in a public place in the village of said town seven days before said meeting. Action of Porter, on 10th Sept., '66, to G. W. Ridlon, made valid. Chapter 426. An act to make valid the doings of the town of Porter in voting a bounty to George W. Ridlon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The action of the town of Porter on the tenth day of in voting bounty' September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in voting one hundred and twenty-five dollars to George W. Ridlon, to make his bounty equal to that of others who went on the quota of Porter, is hereby made valid and legal. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 3, 1870. Pickerel in Pattee's pond, pro tection of. Chapter 427. An act to regulate the taking of pickerel from Pattee's pond in the town of Winslow. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. If any person shall take from or destroy any pickerel in Pattee's pond in the town of Winslow, between the first day of December and the first day of June, he shall forfeit three dollars CHAP. 428. for each pickerel so taken or destroyed, to be recovered by com- Penalties. plaint on action of debt, half to said town of Winslow, and half to the prosecutor. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 4, 1870. Chapter 428. An act to change the names of certain persons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis lature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Caroline M. Fish of Augusta, be allowed to take the Names changed. name of Caroline M. Plummer; that Florance M. Heald of Peru, take the name of Florance M. Dunn; that James S. Coombs of Cape Elizabeth, take the name of James H. Thayer; that Jesse A. Meader of Gardiner, take the name of William B. Johnson, and his wife, Catharine Meader, shall take the name of Catharine Johnson, and their son, Andrew Jackson Meader, take the name of Andrew Jackson Johnson; that Isabella A. Ray of Lewiston, take the name of Isabella A. Barrett. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Chapter 429. An act to incorporate the Corinna Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Power. SECT. 1. Josiah Burrill, Robert Knowles, W. S. Allan, W. W. Corporators Nutter, Emery Southard, V. A. Sprague, Charles H. Morse and Seth Morse, with their associates, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Corinna Fire Insurance Company, with Name. power to sue and be sued, to choose all necessary officers, to make rules and regulations, to take, hold and convey real estate and personal property, to insure the property of its members on the mutual principle, and to do its business at Corinna in this state. SECT. 2. Either of the persons named in the first section, may call a meeting of this corporation, by giving notice to the others. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. May hold real property. and personal Authorized to in- CHAP. 430. Corporators. Corporate name. Location. Rights and privileges. May receive deposits of money. Such deposits may be used and profit divided. First meeting, how called. Members. Chapter 430. An act to incorporate the Bucksport Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. George W. Herbert, Phineas E. Heywood, William H. Pilsbury, Sewall B. Swazey, H. S. Lanpher, John Wentworth, William Ross, Joseph B. Bradley, Sewall B. Homer, G. W. McAlister, John Silsby, Hezekiah Gilley, James F. Moses, E. S. Wardwell, William S. Homer, A. S. Emerton, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Bucksport Savings Bank, with power by that name to prosecute and defend suits at law and in equity, to have and use a common seal, and make all such by-laws, rules and regulations as are necessary to the government and management of their concerns and not repugnant to the laws of the state. Said corporation shall be established in the town of Bucksport, in the county of Hancock, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities, and enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred upon similar institutions by the laws of this state. SECT. 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized to receive deposits of money and to issue certificates therefor, and such deposits of money shall be used as they shall judge most for the benefit of said corporation, and such deposits may be withdrawn at such reasonable times and in such manner as said corporation shall appoint, and the net income or profit thereof shall be divided among the persons making such deposits, their executors, administrators or assigns, in just proportion. SECT 3. George W. Herbert, named herein, is authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving seven days written notice to each of the other corporators of the time and place of such meeting, at which meeting and every subsequent annual meeting, said corporation may elect by ballot any person or persons as members thereof; may choose such officers as to them may seem proper for their organization and government, who shall so continue in office one year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead; and the persons elected treasurer and secretary, before entering upon their official duties, shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and the treasBond of treasurer. urer shall also give bonds satisfactory to such corporation for the faithful discharge of his duties; provided however, that the offices of treasurer and secretary may, if deemed advisable, be united in one person. Tenure of office. Treasurer and secretary. Proviso. Deeds of conveyance, &c., to be sealed with corporate seal. SECT. 4. All deeds of conveyance, covenants and grants, made in behalf of said corporation, shall be sealed with the corporate seal, and when made in pursuance of any vote of the corporation, FERRY ACROSS PASSAMAQUODDY RIVER.-FIRST PARISH IN BETHEL. 387 shall be valid and effectual to convey real or personal property or CHAP. 431. bind the corporation. SECT. 5. The annual meeting shall be holden in the month of Annual meeting. May, and at that meeting and all other meetings, it shall require seven persons at least to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and meetings may be directed at other times by the president, or the corporation; and said corporation may provide in what manner their meetings shall be notified and called. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Chapter 431. An act to establish a ferry across the Passamaquoddy river between the towns of Lubec and Eastport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: for five years. SECT. 1. Samuel Staples and John Durant, their associates, Ferry authorized successors and assigns, are hereby vested with the right to ply a ferry across the Passamaquoddy river, at any point between the towns of Lubec and Eastport, to be propelled by steam, for the term of five years, to the exclusion of all other persons, and may collect tolls not to exceed twenty-five cents for each person pass- Tolls. ing singly thereon, one dollar for each horse, ox or cow, and one dollar and fifty cents for each horse and carriage; and they are empowered to build and maintain a wharf or breakwater for the protection of the same in Lubec at the place now used for this purpose. May build wharf and breakwater. requirements of. SECT. 2. Every keeper of this ferry is subject to the require- Keeper of ferry, ments of section three, chapter twenty, of the revised statutes. SECT. 3. This act shall not exclude any person or persons from ferrying or conveying passengers, beasts or merchandise, by sail or row boats. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 5, 1870. Sail and row excluded. Chapter 432. An act to legalize the doings of the first parish in Bethel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The doings, proceedings and votes of the first parish in Bethel, during the past year, since March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in regard to the settlement of their pastor, |