CONTENTS. 48 An Act to establish the boundaries of the town of Surry, as they existed pre- vious to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine. 49 An additional Act respecting the Episcopal Church in the town of Portland. 51 50 An Act to regulate the Fishery in Damariscotta River,in the county of Lincoln. ib. An Act establishing the town line between Bucksport and Orrington. 52 An Act concerning the Eastern River Lock, and Sluice Company. 53 An Act revoking the charter of the Hallowell and Augusta Bank, and pro- viding for the collection and payment of the debts of the corporation, 54 An Act in addition to an Act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Passamaquoddy. 55 An Act to annex James Lord and others to the town of Denmark. 56 An Act to incorporate the Maine Medical Society. 57 An Act restricting the Wiscasset Bank in negociating business as a Banking Corporation, and providing for the collection of their debts, and for other 58 An Act to set off Jonathan Moody with his family and estate from the town 70 An Act to authorize George Reid to build a Wing Dam on Damascotta river. 79 An Act to set off a part of the town of Hartland, and annex the same to the An Act to change the names of certain persons. 74 An Act to establish the Cumberland and Oxford Canal Corporation. 75 An Act to establish a corporation for the purpose of diking a certain tract of marsh in the towns of Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough. 76 An Act to set off a part of the town of Warsaw, and annex the same to the twenty-five mile pond Plantation. 77 An Act to prevent the destruction of Trout or Pickerel in Sebago Pond, in 78 An Act to divide the town of Northyarmouth, and incorporate the westerly part thereof into a town by the name of Cumberland. An Act to regulate the Fishery of Alewives in the town of Mount Desert. An Act to cede to the United States the Jurisdiction of sites for Light Houses. ib, 33 An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the School and Ministerial Fund, in 84 An Act restricting the Castine bank in negotiating business as a Banking Cor- poration, & providing for the collection of their debts, and for other purposes. 98 85 An Act to apportion and assess on this State a Tax of fifty thousand dollars. 101 SPECIAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE, PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE, AT THEIR SESSIONS, HELD IN JUNE 1820, AND JAN. 1821, CHAPTER I. AN ACT to incorporate the Augusta Union Society, SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That Amos Nichols, PersonsIncorpo James Loring Child, Elias Cobb, Samuel R. Nason, William rated. A. Brooks, Albert A. Dillingham, Benjamin Davis, Mark Nason, Edmund T. Bridge, Daniel Williams, Artemas Kimball, Henry Gage, George W. Morton, William H. Dillingham, Rufus C. Vose, Joseph P. Dillingham, Allen Lambard, Eben Fuller, Elias Craig, Junior, Hannibal Dillingham, Luke N. Barton, Moses F. Davis, William Dewey, Lewis B. Hamlen, Abishai Soule, E.J. Vassal Davis, James Bridge, Jun. Richard H. Vose, George H. Vose, Henry Williams, William Pilsbury, Asaph Nichols, John Cony Brooks, Charles Keen, together with such other persons as may hereafter associate with them, be and they hereby are created a body corporate by the name of the Augusta Union Society; and by that name may sue, prosecute and defend in any Court whatever; and may take, hold and possess, any estate, real and person- To hold property al, the yearly income whereof shall not exceed one thousand not exceeding dollars, and may sell and convey or lease the same. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That all the estate of said Corporation shall be held and used, exclusively for the improvement of morals and the diffusion of useful knowledge. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation may have a common seal and may change the same at pleasure, and may make any by-laws, for its government, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the State. 2 certain amount. 6 Legislature may EAST ANDOVER-KENNEBUNK. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Legislature may, alter the charter. from time to time, examine the affairs of said Corporation, and may at any time, alter, amend or repeal the charter of the same; and upon the dissolution of said Corporation, all the Funds to go to estate, appertaining thereto, shall vest in the town of Augusta, Augusta in cer- to be applied to the sole purpose of establishing and maintaining a town Library therein. 1ain cases. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That James Loring Child, Esq. be, and he hereby is authorized to fix the time and place of holding the first meeting of said Corporation, by publishing a notification thereof in any newspaper printed in the county of Kennebec, seven days at least before said meeting. [This Act passed June 10, 1820.] CHAPTER II. AN ACT to change the name of the town of East Andover, in the BE it enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the name of the said town of East Andover shall cease, and the said town shall henceforth be called and known by the name of Andover, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair any rights of the said corporation. [This Act passed June 13, 1820.] bebunk. CHAPTER III. AN ACT to divide the town of Wells, and incorporate the northeasterly part thereof as a town by the name of Kennebunk. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That all that part of the town of Wells, in the county of York, lying northeasterly of the followingly line, viz.: beginning at the sea, at the mouth of Bons of Ken- Little river; thence running up the middle of said river to the mouth of the Branch river; thence up the middle of said Branch river, to the line between said Wells and Sanford, with the inhabitants thereon, be, and the same hereby are incorporated into a separate town, by the name of Kennebunk; and vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and requisitions of other corporate towns, agreeably to the constitution and laws of this State. KENNEBUNK. pay arrears of taxes. 7 SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of Inhabitants to the said town of Kennebunk, shall be holden to pay the arrears of all taxes, which have been legally assessed on them, together with their proportion of all assessments, which may have been voted by, and debts due from said town of Wells at the time this act may take effect; said proportion to be ascertained by the last valuation of the respective towns. And said inhabitants of Kennebunk shall be entitled to receive their pro- their proportion. portion of all assessments voted by, and debts and taxes due to said town of Wells at that time; and also their proportion of the personal property, (except as hereinafter mentioned,) to be divided according to the valuation aforesaid. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That all persons, belonging to said town of Wells, who shall be chargeable, as paupers, when this act may take effect, or shall afterwards become chargeable, shall be considered as belonging to, and having their settlement in said town of Wells or Kennebunk, respectively, according as their settlement may have been gained on the territory of the one, or the other, at the time this act may take effect, and in future, shall be chargeable to such town only; and the unascertained expenses, up to said time, of all paupers, residing out of said town of Wells, but belonging thereto, shall be paid by said towns, in proportion to the valuation before mentioned. And to receive Paupers Real estate divi SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the real estate, owned by said town of Wells, shall belong to said Wells or Kenne- ded. bunk, according to the local situation thereof within their respective boundaries; and the town stock of powder, balls, Powder, &c. flints, guns and camp equipage on hand, at the time this act may take effect, shall be divided between said towns, in proportion to the number of men borne on the rolls of the militia of the respective towns, at said time. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That the privileges of Rights reserved obtaining clams, sea-weed, and rock-weed from the beaches and flats in said towns, which the inhabitants have been accustomed to use from time immemorial, shall continue in common as heretofore. ered to issue bis SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That any Justice of the Justice empow Peace for the county of York, is hereby empowered, upon warrant. application therefor, to issue his warrant, directed to any freehold inhabitant of said town of Kennebunk, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at such convenient place and time, as shall be appointed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers, as towns are by law authorized and required to choose and appoint, at their annual meetings. SECT. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of July next, [This Act passed June 14, 1820.] 8 rated. GRAND LODGE OF MAINE.-BOWDOIN COLLEGE. CHAPTER IV. AN ACT to incorporate the Master, Wardens and Members of the Grand SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of PersonsIncorpo. Representatives in Legislature assembled, That William King, Simon Greenleaf, William Swan, Nathaniel Coffin and their associates and successors, be, and they hereby are incorporat ed into a body politic by the name of the Master, Wardens and Members of the Grand Lodge of Maine; with power to sue and be sued; to have a common seal and to change the same; to make any by-laws for the management of their affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this State, nor to ancient masonic To hold proper usages; to take and hold, for charitable and benevolent uses, ty not exceeding any real estate to the value of twenty thousand dollars, and any personal estate to the value of sixty thousand dollars; and to give and grant, or bargain and sell the same: and with all the privileges usually granted to other Societies instituted for purposes of charity and beneficence. acertain amount Legislature may alter or repeal this act. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the first meeting of said Corporation, shall be holden at such time and place, and be notified in such manner, as the majority of the persons herein named may direct. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the powers granted by this act, may be enlarged, restrained or repealed, at the pleasure of the Legislature. [This Act passed June 16, 1820.] CHAPTER V. AN ACT to modify and limit the terms and conditions of the Act for Separation relative to Bowdoin College and encourage Literature and the Arts and Sciences. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Terms of act of in Legislature assembled, That provided the Legislature of separation con- the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall agree thereto, the ditionally annulled. President and Trustees and the Overseers of Bowdoin College, having already assented thereto, the terms and conditions mentioned in the Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, passed on the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act relating to the Separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into a separate and Independent State," be and they hereby are so far modified, |