CHAP. 216. Corporators. Corporate name. Powers, privileges, &c. By-laws. May hold real and personal estate. First meeting, how called. Chapter 216. An act to incorporate the Masonic Temple Association of Belfast. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Hiram Chase, Alden D. Chase, William O. Poor, N. F. Houston, Jacob Y. Cottrell, Henry L. Kilgore, George E. Wight, Robert Burgess, Lewis W. Pendleton, J. W. Frederick, A. D. Bean, Jones S. Davis, W. C. Tuttle, I. M. Boardman, C. E. Johnson, George F. Ryan, A. B. Mathews, Fred A. Carle, Oscar W. Pitcher, C. T. Richards, J. F. Wight, A. A. Howes, C. H. Mitchell, Albert C. Burgess, R. P. Chase, William F. Triggs, J. E. Davis, C. R. Davis, A. D. French, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated into a body politic, by the name of the Masonic Temple Association of Belfast, for the purpose of procuring a lot and erecting a masonic building thereon. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby vested with all the rights, privileges and immunities incident to similar corporations; may use a common seal, prosecute and defend suits, make and establish by-laws and regulations for the management of its affairs and the well ordering of said society, not repugnant to the laws of this state, and hold estate, real and personal, that it may hereafter acquire by gift, grant, or otherwise, for the purposes set forth in section one, not to exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. SECT. 3. Hiram Chase is hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving three days personal notice to each of the corporators herein named. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 29, 1876. Corporators. Corporate name. Seal. Officers and bylaws. Rights and liabilities. Chapter 217. An act to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Association of Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry A. Shorey, Byron Kimball, James N. Reed, Nathaniel G. Cummings, George A. Callahan, Samuel W. Lane and A. L. Brown, their associates and successors in continual succession, are hereby created a corporation under the name of the Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Association of Maine, for the purpose of mutual life assurance and relief, and may have a common seal; elect all necessary officers, adopt by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the state, and enforce the same by suitable penalties; have the same rights, and be under the same liabilities BATES COLLEGE-ROCKLAND AND MT. DESERT STEAMBOAT CO. 185 as other corporations, in prosecuting and defending suits at law, CHAP. 218. and have and enjoy all other rights, privileges and immunities of a legal corporation. personal estate. Dues and liabili SECT. 2. Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, gift, May hold real and devise or bequest personal or real estate, in all not exceeding fifty thousand dollars owned at any one time, and use and dispose thereof for the purposes for which the corporation is organized. SECT. 3. Said corporation shall not sue any of its members for dues or contributions of any kind, or be sued by any member for any benefit or sum due him, but all such rights and benefits, dues and liabilities shall be regulated and enforced only in accordance with its by-laws. ties, how regu lated. SECT. 4. The first meeting of the corporation may be called First meeting in accordance with section two, chapter forty-six of the revised statutes. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved January 29, 1876. Chapter 218. An act to amend "an act granting a charter to the Alumni Association of Bates College." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section five of chapter six hundred and twenty-three, of special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby repealed, and the following inserted in its stead: 'SECT. 5. The said association shall not admit to its membership any person who has not regularly graduated from said college, and received the degree of A. B.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1876. Sec. 5, ch. 623, repealed. special laws 1874, Graduates, only, association. admitted to Chapter 219. An act to incorporate the Rockland, Mt. Desert and Sullivan Steamboat Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. T. S. Lindsey, David Robinson, Francis Cobb, May- Corporators. nard Sumner, A. K. Spear, John S. Case, William A. Farnsworth, N. A. Farwell, D. N. Mortland, their associates, successors and CHAP. 220. assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by Corporate name. the name of the Rockland, Mt. Desert and Sullivan Steamboat Purpose of. Company, for the purpose of carrying freight and passengers, by steamboats, on any of the waters of Maine, or from point to point on the coast of Maine, or from said coast to Massachusetts, with all the powers, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and obligations of similar corporations, according to the general laws of the state. Powers, privi leges, duties and obligations. Capital stock and shares. May increase capital. Additional shares, how disposed of. May purchase and hold real estate. Act, when to take effect. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be not less than twenty thousand dollars, nor more than one hundred thousand dollars in shares of one hundred dollars each; and said company may at any time, by vote of its stockholders, increase its capital stock to any amount not exceeding said one hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 3. Whenever such additional shares, or any part thereof, shall be issued, the same shall be offered, with due notice, to the existing stockholders, and if not taken by them, any such shares may be disposed of in such manner as the company, at a legal meeting, may determine. SECT. 4. The company is hereby authorized to purchase and hold real estate, including wharf privileges, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its approval by the governor, and any person named in this act may call the first meeting of said corporation for the purpose of organizing the same, by giving notice thereof by publication in some newspaper printed in Rockland, at least fourteen days before such meeting. Approved February 1, 1876. John Neal authorized to build a wharf. Proviso. Chapter 220. An act to authorize John Neal to build and extend a Wharf into tide waters in the town of Kittery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. John Neal of Kittery, in the county of York, his associates and assigns, are hereby authorized to build and extend a wharf into the tide waters of Piscataqua river, in the town of Kittery, fifteen feet from low water mark, in a southerly direction from land owned by them, and known as Neal's ship yard; provided, the construction of such wharf does not obstruct navigation. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1876. TROUT IN LITTLE POND AND BROOK.-EQUITY INSURANCE CO. Chapter 221. An act to encourage and protect the breeding of Trout in Little pond and Little pond brook, in Fryeburg Academy grant. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Nathan G. Mills of Mason, and Edmund J. Mains of Fryeburg Academy grant, are hereby granted full and exclusive power during ten years, to stock, cultivate and take trout from Little pond and Little pond brook, belonging to said Mills and Mains, in Fryeburg Academy grant, in this state. SECT. 2. Said Mills and Mains, their heirs or grantees, shall be protected in breeding and cultivating trout in said pond and brook, and may prosecute any person taking or destroying any such fish without written permission of the owners aforesaid; and the penalty for every such offence shall be ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, one-half to the use of said Fryeburg Academy grant, and one-half to the person prosecuting. enforcing this act SECT. 3. But said Mills and Mains shall give three weeks' Notice before notice before enforcing the provisions of this act, by publishing to be given. the same three consecutive weeks, in some newspaper printed in Oxford county. Approved February 1, 1876. Chapter 222. An act to incorporate the Equity Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legis ature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Israel Washburne, J. S. Winslow, Josiah H. Drum- Corporators. mond, Nathan Webb and Daniel W. Fessenden, with their asso ciates and successors are hereby made a body corporate and politic privileges. by the name of the Equity Fire Insurance Company, and may Corporate name. exercise all the powers and privileges which are now held by Powers and similar companies incorporated in this state, and may make insurance against losses by fire, and may make such by-laws as By-laws. they may deem advisable, not inconsistent with the laws of this state in relation to such insurance companies. SECT. 2. The capital stock of this company shall be one hun- Capital stock. dred thousand dollars, with liberty to increase the same to a sum not exceeding the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SECT. 3. The business of this company shall be managed by a Directors. board consisting of not less than seven nor more than fifteen CHAP. 223. directors with such other officers as said directors may elect. Four directors shall constitute a quorum for doing business. Any director or officer of other insurance companies shall be eligible as director or officer of this company. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 1, 1876. Corporators. Purpose of. Chapter 223. An act to incorporate the Southgate Dyking Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. That Ezra Carter, Seth Scamman, Morris M. Moulton, Horatio Hight, C. F. Moulton, Ephraim Harmon, Hugh Milliken, Sewell Milliken, Thomas Seavy, Ira Milliken, G. W. Carter, Frederic Waterhouse, James Andrews, G. H. Boothby, Aaron McKenney, Samuel Snow, James McKenney, E. T. Nutter, W. B. Nutter and other owners of salt marsh and fresh meadows on Dunstan river so called, and the streams running into said river, lying north of the P. S. & P. railroad in the town of Scarboro', in the county of Cumberland, and in Saco, York county; and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body Corporate name. corporate by the name of the Southgate Dyking Company, for the purpose of building, erecting and maintaining a good and sufficient dyke and water sluices in said Scarboro' river and gap, where the said P. S. & P. railroad crosses, or near it, to shut out the salt water and dyke the marshes and fresh meadows above, and Right to take and for this purpose said corporation shall have the right to purchase or to take and hold so much of the marsh as may be necessary on which to construct the dyke and water sluices; and provided that Compensation for in all cases said corporation shall pay for such marsh, such price as they and the owner or respective owners thereof may mutually agree upon; and in case said parties shall not otherwise agree, then said corporation shall pay such damages as shall be ascertained and determined by the county commissioners for the county wherein such marsh may be situated, in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are by law provided in the case of damages by the laying out of highways; and with all the rights and privileges and subject to all the duties and liabilities of such corporations as defined by the laws of this hold real estate. Proviso. marsh taken. -how determin ed, in case of disagreement. Rights, privi leges, duties and liabilities. Expenses, how paid. state. SECT. 2. To defray the expenses of building, constructing, maintaining and repairing the dyke and water sluices, and all |