356 HEMP MANUFACTURING COMPANY. tants thereof, in legal meeting shall designate. And said Selectmen, Treasurer and Clerk, on making said payment, shall be entirely discharged from the trust aforesaid. ed. Powers, privileges, &c. CHAPTER 227. AN ACT to incorporate the Livermore Hemp Manufacturing Company. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That John Fuller, NaNames of per- than Soule and William A. Emmons, with their associates sons incorporat- and succsssors, be and hereby are created a corporation by the name of the Livermore Hemp Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of growing and manufacturing hemp, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and requirements, contained in an Act, passed the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations; and in an additional Act, passed the fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, exempting from taxation manufacturing companies of cotton, wool, iron and steel for limited times. and shall be exempted from taxation, according to said Act. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation May purchase may purchase and hold estate, real and personal, to a amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, at any on time. and hold real estate, &c. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the powers grant Powers granted ed by this Act may be enlarged, restricted or annulled a may be changthe pleasure of the Legislature. ed. CHAPTER 228. AN ACT to incorporate the St. Albans Academy. Approved February 11, 1832. lished. Names of per sons incorpo SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That there be and hereby is established in the town of St. Albans, in the County of Where estabSomerset, at, or near, Stafford's mills, so called in said town, an Academy by the name of the St. Albans Academy for the education of youth and the promotion of morality and religion, and that Henry Warren Sewall Prescott Augustus J. Brown George Lancey Levi Johnson Ebenezer rated. Hutchinson Cleopas Boyd Ambrose Finson Abraham Bean Calvan Blake Peleg C. Haskell Thomas Smith Joseph Roberts and Nathan Douglass, and their successors be and hereby are incorporated into a body politic by the name of the Trustees of the St. Albans Academy, with power by that name, to prosecute and defend suits at Powers, priv ileges, &c. Law, to have a common seal, to make by-laws not repugnant to the laws of the State, to take and hold any estates, real or personal, the annual income of which shall not exceed three thousand dollars, to be so applied as most effectually to promote the design of said institution, and to sell and convey the same at pleasure, and all deeds or conveyances, signed by the Treasurer of said Trustees, and under the seal of said corporation, shall be good and valid in law Provided such sale or conveyance be authorized by Proviso. the Trustees. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Trustees are hereby made capable in law to take hold and possess all May hold lands, moneys or other property heretofore given, granted lands, &c. or subscribed, for the purpose of erecting or establishing an Academy as aforesaid, or which may hereafter be given, granted or assigned to said Trustees, for the uses expressed in such gift, grant, subscription or assignment. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the number of said Trustees shall never exceed fifteen, nor be less than nine, Number of 358 Their powers, duties, &c. ST. ALBANS ACADEMY. seven of whom shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, but a less number may adjourn from time to time. And a majority of those present shall be sufficient to decide all questions, except that a majority of all the Trustees shall be necessary to remove any member of, or fill any vacan cy in said Board. And said Trustees shall have power t remove any Trustee from office, who, from age or an other cause shall become incapable of discharging the du ties thereof, and to fill all vacancies that may occur in sai Board by death, resignation or otherwise, by written vote And said Trustees for the time being, shall be visiters an governors of said institution, and may elect such officer thereof, as they shall judge necessary, and the tenure their respective offices shall be during the pleasure of sai Trustees but not beyond the term of four years. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That Henry Warre First meeting. may fix the time and place for holding the first meeting said Trustees, giving them personal notice thereof in wri ing, three days prior to such meeting. Powers SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That the powers gran may be changed by this Act may be enlarged, restrained, or annulled the pleasure of the Legislature. ed. SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That unless said Tru tees shall within one year from the passing of this Act in possession of funds, or property, for the use of sa Academy, or shall have vested in a building, for the sam purpose, which, together shall amount to the sum of si This Act to be teen hundred dollars, at least, and have also commence void unless, &c. the business of instruction within eighteen months from t passage of this Act the powers granted by this Act shall null. CHAPTER 229. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Hodgdon. Approved February 11, 1832. described. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That the plantation called Hodgdon in the County of Washington, bounded North Boundaries by the town of Houlton, East by the East line of the State, West by the township of Linneus and South by the half township of land granted to Westford Academy, with the inhabitants thereof, be and hereby is incorporated into a town by the name of Hodgdon. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That any Justice of the Peace for said County may issue his warrant directing Meeting for the some inhabitant of said town to notify said inhabitants choice of offito meet, at a time and place in said warrant specified, to choose all necessary town officers. cers. CHAPTER 230. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Lagrange. Approved February 11, 1832. described. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That the plantations called Oxford and Hammond, adjoining each other, and lying in the County of Penobscot, bounded on the North by Boundaries Kilmarnock, on the East by Howland and township numbered one, on the West by Bradford and Milton and on the South by township numbered three, with the inhabitants thereof, be and hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Lagrange. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That any Justice of the Peace for said County is hereby authorized to issue his 360 Meeting for choice of officers-how notified. LUMBER—PORTER AND BROWNFIELD. warrant directing any inhabitant of said town to notify the inhabitants thereof to meet at a time and place in said warrant specified for the choice of town officers. No logs, masts, ing in length, put into the butary streams CHAPTER 231. AT ACT respecting Lumber in the Mattawamkeag River. Be it enacted by the Legislature assembled, Approved February 11, 1832. Senate and House of Representatives, in That no person or persons, after the first day of April in the year one thousand eight hunspars or other dred and thirty three, shall draw or put into the Mattimber, exceed-tawamkeag river or its tributary streams, in the County 32 feet, shall be of Penobscot, for the purpose of being run or driven Mattawamkeag through a place called Slew-gunda, any log, mast, spar or river, or its tri- other timber exceeding thirty two feet in length. And for the purpose any person or persons, offending against the provision aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dollars for violating the each log, mast, spar or other piece of timber, exceeding provisions of this Act. the length aforesaid, by him or them drawn or put into the river or streams aforesaid, to be recovered by complaint before a Justice of the Peace, one half to the complainant and the other half to the use of the State; and such person or persons shall also forfeit to the use of the complainant the said log, mast, spar or other piece of timber, to be recovered by the same complaint. &c. Forfeiture for How to be recovered. Lot of land an CHAPTER 232. AN ACT to set off land from Porter to Brownfield. Approved February 11, 1832. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That so much of a lot of land numnexed to the bered twenty, owned by John Quint, as lies in the town of Porter be and hereby is annexed to the town of Brownfield. town of Brownfield. |