CITY OF BANGOR.-BAPTIST SOCIETY, WARREN. Chapter 287. An act to amend chapter nineteen of the Special Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The time named in section two of an act entitled "an act additional to an act entitled an act to enable the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company," approved January twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for the completion of the line of said company to Moosehead lake, shall be extended to January twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and eighty; and the time named in the fourth section of said act of January twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, within which the said act shall be accepted as provided for in said fourth section, shall be extended to two years from and after the date of the approval of this act. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Chapter 288. An act to authorize the Baptist Society in Warren, to transfer all its real and personal property to the Baptist Church in said Warren, and to discontinue the corporate existence of said society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: real and personal property. SECT. 1. The Baptist society in Warren, Knox county, in this Authorized to sell state, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey all its real and personal property to the Baptist church in said Warren. corporate exis SECT. 2. At any time after the transfer of the property author- May discontinue ized in the first section, said society, at a meeting legally called tence. for that purpose, may, by unanimous vote of those present, dis continue its corporate existence. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. 230 Time for completion of railroad, extended. BANGOR AND PISCATAQUIS R. R. CO.-BOSTON AND MAINE R. R. Chapter 289. An act to extend the time for the completion of the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company shall have a further time of three years from January twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, within which to complete its line of railroad to Moosehead lake. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Ch. 222, sec. 1, special laws 1873, amended. Location confirmed. Amendment to former location. Proviso. Chapter 290. An act to amend "an act to confirm the location of the railroad of the Boston and Maine Railroad through the towns of Berwick and North Berwick, subject to certain restrictions," approved February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the special laws of Maine, of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, "an act to confirm the location of the railroad of the Boston and Maine Railroad through the towns of Berwick and North Berwick, subject to certain restrictions," is hereby amended, by adding thereto, 'except as is hereinafter provided,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: SECT. 1. The location of the railroad of the Boston and Maine Railroad, a corporation chartered by the laws of this state, from Berwick, and thence through North Berwick, as heretofore filed with the county commissioners of York county, and as said railroad has been constructed, is hereby confirmed and made valid, subject to the provisions of this act, as hereinafter stated. And said corporation is allowed until the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, to make and file, as required by law, an amendment to its former location, so as to make the same conform to its railroad as now constructed; provided nevertheless, that it shall not be lawful, and it is hereby forbidden, to construct, maintain or use any track across the highway known as Main street, at North Berwick village, other than the one now constructed, being one hundred and seventy-two feet from the present passenger depot of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Company, at that place, and a side track, the southerly rail of which shall not be nearer the depot of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Company than one hundred and fifty-eight feet, except as is hereinafter CHAP. 291. provided.' SECT. 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended as follows: Sec. 2, amended. 'Provided however, that it shall be lawful for the Boston and Maine Railroad to unite with the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Company in constructing, maintaining and using jointly a union depot or way station easterly of the highway known as Main street, at North Berwick village. And if said corporations shall so jointly construct, maintain and use a union depot or way station easterly of said highway, it shall be lawful for said Boston and Maine Railroad to maintain and use the track of its original location across said highway, so long as said corporations jointly maintain and use a union depot or way station, and no longer,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 2. And it is further provided that it shall not be lawful for said corporation, and it is hereby forbidden, to construct, maintain or use any depot or way station easterly of said highway, at North Berwick village, nor within seven hundred feet of the westerly side thereof; provided however, that it shall be lawful for the Boston and Maine Railroad to unite with the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Company in constructing, maintaining and using jointly a union depot or way station, easterly of the highway known as Main street, at North Berwick village. And if said corporations shall so jointly construct, maintain and use a union depot or way station, easterly of said highway, it shall be lawful for said Boston and Maine Railroad to maintain and use the track of its original location across said highway, so long as said corporations jointly maintain and use a union depot or way station, and no longer.' SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Location of depot at North Berwick. Proviso. Chapter 291. An act additional to and amendatory of "an act to enable the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company in the extended construction of its railroad," approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. A further time of three years from January twentyseven, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby conceded and granted to the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company, within which to complete its line of railroad from its present Time for compleextended. tion of railroad, CHAP. 292. terminus in Abbot, to some point at or near Moosehead lake, and the provisions of an act entitled "an act to enable the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company in the extended construction of its railroad," approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, are hereby continued in force and made applicable in all particulars, to any extension of said line of railroad, which shall be constructed and completed to the satisfaction of the mayor and aldermen of the said city of Bangor, within the time specified above. Act continued in force. SECT. 2. This act shall not take effect or be of any force, unless within one year from the date of its approval it shall be accepted by each branch of the city council of the city of Bangor, and by the legal voters of the city of Bangor, in the manner, in all respects and in all particulars, prescribed in section fourteen of the aforesaid act of February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, for the acceptance of that act. But if it shall be so accepted within one year from its approval, then it shall be in force thereafter, and be binding upon said city of Bangor according to its true tenor and effect, but not otherwise. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1876. Time of filing location of railroad, extended. Chapter 292. An act granting further time to the Northern Aroostook Railroad Company to make and file the location of its line of railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: A further time of one year from January one, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby conceded and allowed to the Northern Aroostook Railroad Company, within which to make and file a location of its line of railroad, as provided in the act chartering said company, approved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Approved February 17, 1876. TOWN OF HAYNESVILLE.-MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD. Chapter 293. An act to incorporate the town of Haynesville in the county of Aroostook. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 233 CHAP. 293. town of, to incor SECT. 1. Haynesville plantation, composed of township number Haynesville, two, range two, Leavitt plantation, composed of township number porate." three, range two, and Greenwood plantation, composed of the west one-half of township number nine, Greenwood's survey, in the county of Aroostook, are hereby incorporated into a town, by the name of Haynesville, and the inhabitants of said town are hereby invested with all the powers, privileges, immunities and liabilities of other towns. how called. SECT. 2. Any justice of the peace within the county of Aroos- First meeting, took, is hereby empowered to issue his warrant to some inhabitant of said town, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof to meet at such time and place as he shall appoint, to choose such officers as other towns are empowered to choose. and obligations. SECT. 3. The town hereby created shall take the property and Property, effects effects belonging to the several plantations or townships composing said town, and shall assume all the obligations thereof, and any collector of taxes for either of the plantations is hereby empowered to collect any unpaid part of any commitment in his Uncollected taxes hands, and pay the same into the treasury of said town. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 18, 1876. Chapter 294. An act to authorize the Maine Central Railroad Company to connect its track with the track of the Androscoggin Railroad Company, in the city of Lewiston. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Maine Central R. R. Co. authorized to connect with Androscoggin R. R. in Lewiston. SECT. 1. The Maine Central Railroad Company is hereby authorized to locate and build a railroad track or tracks, for the use of said company, connecting its road in the city of Lewiston, with the track of the Androscoggin Railroad in said city, and to take and hold the land necessary therefor, in the same manner as May take real is now provided by law for taking land for building railroads ; provided however, that before said land is taken and the road built, a plan of the contemplated location, describing the route over which it is to be built, shall be submitted to the city government government. estate. Location to be submitted to city |