TOWN OF LYNDON.-NORTHWEST AND HARLOW PONDS. SECT. 2. The unincorporated territory situated in the county of Cumberland, in the eastern part of Sebago lake, known as the Dingley islands, being thirteen in number, is hereby annexed to, and made a part of the town of Casco, in said county. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. 179 CHAP. 208. annexed to town of Casco. Chapter 208. An act to authorize the town of Lyndon to loan its credit in aid of the Aroostook River Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Lyndon authostruction of rized to aid con Aroostook Rail road. SECT. 1. The town of Lyndon, in Aroostook county, is hereby authorized to aid in the construction of the Aroostook River Railroad, to the amount of three per cent. of its last state valuation, in addition to the amount already raised, if so much shall be needed; and to raise money to said amount by loan or by sale of town scrip; provided, that said town of Lyndon, at any legal Proviso. meeting within one year from the time of the approval of this act, by a vote of two-thirds of its legal voters present and so voting, shall agree thereto. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. Chapter 209. An act for the preservation of Pickerel in Northwest and Harlow ponds, in the towns of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are forbidden to take pickerel in any manner from the North-West pond in the towns of Parkman and Sangerville, in the county of Piscataquis, and from Harlow pond in said Parkman, before the twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and thereafter between the first day of October and the twentieth day of June following, in each year. tlon. SECT. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of this act, Penalty for violahe shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each pickerel so taken, to be recovered by complaint before any trial justice; CHAP. 210. one-half to the use of complainant, and the other half to the use of said towns of Parkman and Saugerville. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. Corporators. Corporate name. Purpose. Rights, privileges, duties, &c. Capital stock. Right to take land Shall not retain or discharge others. Chapter 210. An act to incorporate the Piper Reservoir Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Jotham Works, his associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a corporation by the name of the Piper Pond Reservoir Dam Company, in the town of Abbot and county of Piscataquis, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining reservoir dams and embankments upon the waters of said Piper pond and its tributaries and outlet, for the use of mills and machinery; with all the rights, privileges and powers, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and obligations of similar corporations, by the general laws of the state. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of such value as the company may decide. SECT. 3. Said company shall have the right to take and hold any lands necessary for erecting or abutting their dams, by paying damage therefor, as in the case of lands taken for railroads; but shall not unreasonably, as to time or quantity, retain the water in water to injury of their dams, or discharge it therefrom, to the injury of mill owners above or below the same water; and they shall be subject to the general laws in relation to flowage the same as individuals are; Not to change the and nothing herein contained shall change the riparian rights or obligations of mill owners on the waters of said pond or tributaries, in their relations to each other. rights of mill owners. Majority of stockholders to have control of water. Proviso. SECT. 4. A majority of the stockholders in said company shall determine the time when and the amount of water to be drawn from said reservoirs for the use of mills on said waters. SECT. 5. Provided however, that the rights and privileges herein granted shall not in any way limit, curtail or impair the rights, privileges and power already granted to John G. Mayo, S. O. Brown, and others, by virtue of an act entitled " an act to incorporate the Piscataquis reservoir dam company," approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Approved January 28, 1876. WHARF IN ST. GEORGE.-FISH IN SUNDAY POND. Chapter 211. An act authorizing Mark Marshall to build and maintain a wharf in the waters of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Mark Marshall, of St. George, Knox county, his heirs and assigns are hereby authorized to build and maintain a wharf, extending from his own land in Marshall's cove, into the tide waters, one hundred and fifty feet from low water mark. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. 181 CHAP. 211. Mark Marshall authorized to build a wharf. Chapter 212. An act to encourage and protect the breeding of Trout and land-locked Salmon in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Samuel F. Gibson of Bethel, and Thomas S. Flint of township number five, range one, Oxford county, are hereby granted full and exclusive power during four years, to stock, cultivate and take fish from Sunday pond, belonging to said Gibson and Flint, in lots number two and three, township number five, range four, Oxford county, in this state, and for the additional period of five years, provided the said Gibson and Flint continue the legal proprietors thereof. Samuel F. Gibson and Thomas S. Flint authorized to cultivate fish in Sunday pond. and powers. SECT. 2. Said Gibson and Flint, their heirs or grantees, shall Rights, privileges be protected in breeding and cultivating in said pond, trout, landlocked salmon or black bass, and may prosecute any person taking or destroying any such fish, without written permission of the proprietor or proprietors aforesaid; and the penalty for every Penalty for violasuch offence shall be ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, one-half to the person prosecuting, and one-half to the use of the county in which the offence is committed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. tion of. 182 CHAP. 213. Drew plantation, certain doings of, made valid. DREW PL.-PENOBSCOT LOG DRIVING CO.-BRIDGTON TELEGRAPH CV. Chapter 213. An act to make valid the doings of Drew plantation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The acts and doings of Drew plantation during the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and all assessments made by the assessors of said plantation during said years, are made valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Act of March 21, 1864, amended. Company under no obligation to drive logs from certain streams. Chapter 214. An act additional to "An act to incorporate the Penobscot Log Driving Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That an act additional to "an act to incorporate the Penobscot Log Driving Company," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be so amended, that the second section shall read as follows, namely: 'SECT. 2. Said company shall be under no obligation to drive any logs coming into the Chesuncook lake at any other point than from the Main West Branch or the Caucomgomoc stream, unless seasonably delivered to it at the head or outlet of said lake, or at the mouth of said stream.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. Corporators. Chapter 215. An act to incorporate the Bridgton Telegraph Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Benjamin T. Chase, Owen B. Gibbs, Charles E. Gibbs, William F. Perry, George Taylor, Luther Billings, Perley P. Burnham, Richard H. Davis, William A. Stevens and Joseph A. Bennett, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby Corporate name. created a body politic by the name of the Bridgton 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, to establish all by-laws and regulations for the management of its affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this state, and to do any and all lawful acts incident to similar corporations. CHAP. 215. privileges, &c. Authorized to construct and maintain tele graph lines. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to own, construct, maintain and operate a line or lines of telegraph from the town of Bridgton, in the State of Maine, through any intervening town or towns in Cumberland or Oxford counties, to any point on Route of line. the line of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad, upon and along any public highway or bridge, or along and upon the line of any railroad between said points, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; and said corporation may cut down any trees standing within the limits of Authorized to any highway, except ornamental or shade trees, when necessary tions. for the erection, use or safety of its lines. remove obstruc May purchase and hold personal and real estate. Authorized to connect lines with SECT. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be of such Capital stock. amount as they may from time to time determine to be necessary for the sole purpose of owning, constructing, maintaining and operating the line or lines of telegraph hereby authorized and contemplated, and they may purchase, hold and dispose of such personal and real estate as may be necessary for these purposes. SECT. 4. This company shall have power by agreement with other persons or person, or bodies corporate, to connect their lines with other lines of telegraph within and without the state. SECT. 5. The doings of the persons herein named, in building Certain doings of, a line of telegraph from Bridgton to a point on the line of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad, in the town of Brownfield, and connecting at that point with the line of telegraph owned by said railroad, are hereby confirmed and made valid. other companies. confirmed. how called. SECT. 6. Any two of the persons named in this act of incorpo- First meeting, ration, may call the first meeting of the company, by giving written and seasonable notice thereof to each of their associates. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 28, 1876. |