BAPTIST SOCIETY. Trustees may be altered by the Legislature. limited or annulled, as that the said President and Trustees Powers of the and the Overseers of Bowdoin College shall have, hold and enjoy their powers and privileges in all respects, subject, however, to be altered, limited, restrained or extended by the Legislature of the State of Maine, as shall by said Legislature be judged necessary to promote the best interests of said institution. [This Act passed June 16, 1820.] CHAPTER VI. AN additional ACT respecting the first Baptist Society in Portland. come or cease to giving notice. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Persons may besentatives in Legislature assembled, That any persons belong- be members by ing to the town of Portland, desirous to become members of the first Baptist Society in Portland, by giving notice thereof in writing to the Clerk of the Parish or Society they intend to leave, seven days at least before the annual meeting thereof, and being accepted by said first Baptist Society, shall from and after such acceptance, be members of the same. any person may cease to become a member of said Society, by giving notice in writing to the Clerk of the same in manner aforesaid Provided, however, That in both the cases aforesaid, such persons shall be holden to pay all taxes lawfully assessed on their polls and estates at the time of their joining or leaving said Society. And have the other religious same powers as societies in Portland. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That all the powers and To privileges given to the other religious societies and proprietors of meeting houses in Portland, by an Act passed on the fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall be, and they hereby are extended to the first Baptist Society in Portland, and to the proprietors of the meeting-house by them occupied. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the transactions of Doings of the sosaid Society while acting as a voluntary association under the city confirmed. style of the first Baptist Church and Society in Portland, so far as the same are not repugnant to law, be, and they hereby are confirmed and held valid and effectual to all intents and purposes whatever. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the second and third Part of former sections of an Act, entitled "An Act incorporating the first ct repealed. Baptist Society in Portland," be, and they are hereby re pealed. 10 ALNA.-LITERARY AND THEOL. INSTITUTION. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That said Society may make any by-laws for the management of their affairs: Provided, The same are not contrary to the laws of this State. [This Act passed June 17, 1820.] CHAPTER VII. AN ACT establishing part of the north line of the town of Alna. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That the southward line of the town of Whitfield, on the westward side of Sheepscot river, beginning at an elm tree, a corner of Whitfield, on said river; from thence west northwest, one mile and eighty poles to Pittston line, be established as the northward line of the town of Alna; and the said town of Alna is hereby declared to extend to, and to be bounded on, the said line of the town of Whitfield. [This Act passed June 19, 1820.] Proviso CHAPTER VIII. AN ACT to enlarge the powers of the Maine Literary and Theological Institution. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That the President and Trustees of the Maine Literary and Theological InstituAuthorized to tion are hereby authorized and empowered to confer such confer degrees. degrees as are usually conferred by Universities established for the education of youth: Provided, That the said Corporation shall confer no degrees other than those of Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Arts, until after the first day of January, which will be in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty. And provided also, that the said Corporation shall not make or have any rule or by-law requiring that any member of the Trustees shall be of any particular religious denomination. Provided, That no Student belonging or who may hereafter belong to said Institution, sustaining a fair moral character, shall be deprived of any privileges of said Institution, or be subjected to the forfeiture of any aid which has been granted by said Institution, for the purpose of enabling him to prosecute his studies, or be denied the usual testimonials on closing his studies, or be denied admission to said Institution on the WILLIAMSBURG.-EASTPORT MECHANIC ASSO. ground that his interpretations of the scriptures differ from those which are contained in the articles of faith adopted, or to be adopted by said Institution. 11 alter the charter. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, Legislature may That the Legislature of this State shall have the right to grant any further powers to, alter, limit or restrain any of the powers vested in said Corporation, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests thereof. [This Act passed June 19, 1820.] CHAPTER IX. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Williamsburg. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That the Plantation of Williamsburg, being township number six, in the eighth Bounds. range, in the county of Penobscot, as the same was surveyed by Samuel Weston, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and bounded south by the town of Sebec, east by the plantation of Brownville, north by township number six in the ninth range, and west by township number seven in the eighth range, with the inhabitants thereof, be and hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Williamsburg; and the inhabitants of said town are hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which the inhabitants of towns within this State do or may by law enjoy. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That Moses Greenleaf, Esq. 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 at their annual town meetings. [This Act passed June 21, 1820.] First meeting. CHAPTER X. AN ACT to incorporate the Eastport Mechanic Association. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That Daniel Garland, Persons incorCharles Peavey, Darius Olmstead, Ethel Olmstead, John porated. Swett, Thomas Haycock, and Joshua Veazie, and their asso 12 EASTPORT MECHANIC ASSOCIATION. ciates, together with such others as may become subscribers to the same Institution, in the manner hereinafter provided, be, and they are hereby incorporated into a Society by the name of the Eastport Mechanic Association; and by that name shall be a Corporation forever; with power to have a common seal; to make contracts relative to the objects of their Institution; to sue and be sued; to establish by-laws and orders for the regulation of the said Society, and the preservation and application of the funds thereof: Provided, The same be not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this Authorized to State; to take, hold, and possess any estate, real or personal, by subscription, gift, grant, purchase, devise or otherwise; and the same to improve, lease, exchange, or sell and convey, for the sole benefit of said Institution: Provided, That the value of the real estate of said Society shall never, at any one time, exceed twenty thousand dollars; and the annual income of the whole estate of said Society, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. hold property. Proviso. How persons may beco me members. To meet annualty. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That every person, who shall subscribe and pay to the funds of said Society, a sum not less than one dollar and a half, annually, shall by such subscription and payment, become a member of said Society; liable, however, to be removed therefrom on neglect or refusal to pay the annual subscription aforesaid. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Society shall meet, annually, in Eastport, in the month of December, at the time and place their committee may appoint, and shall elect from their members, by ballot, a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three other persons, who, together with the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, shall constitute the Standing Committee, who shall meet discretionally, to make pecuniary appropriations, and transact such other business as may require their attention; all which officers shall hold their respective offices one year, and until others shall be elected to succeed them; except in cases of vacancy by death or resignation, in which case, the Committee shall have power to fill such vacancy until the ensuing annual election; and four of them shall form a And quarterly. quorum. The Society shall also meet quarterly at the time and place the Committee shall appoint, who shall give notice of all meetings of the Society, in such manner as may be directed in the by-laws. Donations. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Committee, for the time being, shall have the management and application of the subscriptions, donations, funds, and estate of the Society, to be appropriated solely for the uses of said Society: Provided, Such regulations are not repugnant to the laws of this State, or the by-laws of this Society; and no sale or transfer TAXES ON SOMERSET, &c. of any real or personal estate of the Society shall be valid, unless approved by the Committee. served. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That any writ or process Process how against said corporation, may be served by the officer leaving an attested copy thereof with the treasurer of said Society, thirty days before the return day thereof. And the said treasurer, or any person appointed for that purpose, by the Society, or by the committee, may appear by attorney and defend or prosecute any suit in behalf of said Society. And all instruments of conveyance or contract, which may lawfully be made by the Society, shall be approved by the committee, and signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary; and, if necessary, sealed with the common seal of said Society; and when so executed, shall be binding thereon and valid in law. 13 SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That Daniel Garland, be, First meetingand he is hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said Society, by giving public notice of the time and place of meeting, by advertisement in the Eastport Sentinel, printed in the town of Eastport, at least seven days prior to such meeting; and at which meeting the officers of the Society before mentioned, shall be elected, and shall hold their offices until the first annual election of officers shall be holden, agreeably to the provisions of this act. [This Act passed June 21, 1820.] CHAPTER XI. AN ACT relating to the collection of County Taxes, in the Counties of sue warrants to towns and plan. tations BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That the respective Treasurers of the Treasurers to is counties of Somerset, Oxford, Hancock, Penobscot and Sheriffs to colWashington, be, and they hereby are, empowered to issue their lect taxes on warrants respectively to the respective Sheriffs of said counties, in the last requiring them to collect the said county taxes within said valuation. counties respectively, which have been assessed upon the several towns and unincorporated plantations, and other tracts of land unimproved, lying within said counties respectively, since the first day of September, A. D. 1819, or which may hereafter be assessed upon the same; but upon which townships, or other tracts of unimproved land, there was not, at the settlement of the last valuation, any person residing or Assessors chosen, to whom the said Treasurers could issue their warrants for the assessing and collecting thereof. All which sums are |