CHAPTER 233. AN ACT additional to an Act to incorporate the Penobscot Mill Dam Company. Approved February 11, 1832. the P. M. D. C. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That there be and hereby is allowed to said corporation an extension of time till the twelfth day Time allowed of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight to erect a dam, hundred and thirty five in which to erect a dam and locks, as mentioned in the fifth section of the Act, creating said corporation, passed the twelfth day [of] February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. &c. extended. CHAPTER 234. AN ACT to incorporate the Waldo Bank. Approved February 11, 1832. Names of per rated. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Alfred Johnson Jr., Daniel Lane, Hiram O. Alden, Nathaniel H. Bradbury, sons incorpoJoseph Williamson, Hugh J. Anderson, James White, Philip Morrell, Ephraim T. Morrell, John S. Kimball, Ralph C. Johnson, Thomas Marshall, Reuel Williams, Thomas Pickard, Nathaniel M. Lowney, Rufus B. Allyne, William Vance, John Dole and their associates, successors and assigns be and hereby are created a corporation by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Waldo Bank, and shall so continue until the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty seven. Proviso. Provided, that the persons above named, or such of them as shall be living at the time when said Bank shall go into operation, shall become stockholders in said corporation to the amount of at least fifty per centum of the capital stock, and continue to hold that proportion from said time 362 Capital Stock to be $50,000 -to be divided into shares of $100 each. Said Bank to be located at Belfast. Meetings of Directors. how called. MEADOW BROOK DAMS, &c until the whole amount of the capital stock, named in the second section of this Act, shall have been paid into said Bank. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said Bank shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided in shares of one hundred dollars each, and said Bank shall be established at Belfast in the County of Waldo. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That for the well ordering of the affairs of said Bank, a meeting of the Stockholders shall be called on the first Monday of October annually, and at such other times as the Directors may appoint, by fourteen days previous public notification. At said annual meetings five Directors shall be chosen by ballot. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That any three of the First meeting-above named persons may call the first meeting of the corporation by publishing such notice as they think proper, and at such meeting may choose five Directors and do any other business they are authorized to transact at the annual meeting. Powers, privileges, &c. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities, specified in an Act to regulate Banks and Banking, passed the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. CHAPTER 235. AN ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of the Meadow Brook Dams and Approved February 11, 1832. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Samuel Lowder, Elijah Drummond, Pliny D. Parsons, Daniel Dresser, Joseph Treat, Andrew Webster, Thomas J. Forbes, and Amos Davis, with their associates and successors, be and hereby are created a corporation by the name of the Proprietors of the Meadow Brook Dams and Sluices, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Penjajawock stream in Bangor, with power to remove obstructions and erect, repair and maintain such dams and sluices thereon as may be requisite for said purpose, and by that name may sue and be sued, have and use a common seal, make Privileges, duties, liabilities, by-laws for the management of their concerns, not repug- &c. nant to the laws of the State, and generally have and exercise all the rights and powers incident to similar corporations. Provided, that compensation be paid by said corpo- Proviso. ration to all persons injured by the flowage occasioned by said dams to be estimated and recovered in the same manner as damages are now by law estimated and recovered for flowing lands for the use of mills and that the water be drawn from the Hathorne meadow by the fifteenth day of ' May in each year. And that said meadow shall not be flowed between said fifteenth of May and the fifteenth of September in each year. Rate thereof. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That there be allowed to said corporation a toll upon timber, logs, wood and Toll granted. other articles, transported by any person or persons from the head of said meadow to the Penobscot river, upon said stream; viz, the following rates for each mile of said transportation. Every ton of ton timber or every hundred feet of ranging timber ten cents; mill logs twenty cents per thousand feet board measure; wood twenty cents per cord, and in that proportion for greater or less distances, and other articles at a proportionate rate. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That at the end of ten of this Act the tolls aforesaid shall the future reguyears from the passage be subject to the future regulation of the Legislature, and Legislature. the powers granted by this Act shall be void, unless the dams and sluices, sufficient for the aforesaid purposes, be This Act to be completed in three years. Toll subject to lation of the void unless, &c. 364 sons incorpo rated. For what purpose. STAGE COMPANY.—BOOM CORPORATION, CHAPTER 235. AN ACT to incorporate the Gray, Standish, Hollis and Alfred Stage Com pany. Approved February 11, 1832. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Samuel Dennett, Names of per- Titus O. Brown, Lewis Howe, Abijah Usher Jr, James Ford, Benjamin Chadbourn, Benjamin Poland, James Hasty Jr. and William Hasty, with their associates and successors, be and hereby are created a corporation by the name of the Gray, Standish, Hollis and Alfred Stage Company, for the purpose of establishing a line of stages from Gray in the County of Cumberland through Standish to Alfred, in the County of York, with power to prosecute and defend suits at law, have a common seal, make by-laws for the management of their concerns, not repugnant to the laws of the State, take hold and convey estate real and personal not exceeding five thousand dollars at any one time, and enjoy all the rights and privileges pertaining to similar corporations. Provided, that the powers aforesaid may be enlarged, restricted or annulled, at the pleasure of the Legislature. Powers, privileges, &c. Proviso. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That Benjamin ChadFirst meeting-bourn above named may call the first meeting of said corby whom and poration, giving ten days previous notice thereof in some newspaper printed in Portland. how to be called. CHAPTER 236. AN ACT to incorporate the Penobscot Boom Corporation. Approved February 13, 1832. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Rufus Dwinal, his persons incor- associates and successors, be and hereby are constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Penobscot Boom Names of porated. S shall continue Corporation, and shall so continue for the term of thirty Corporation the Stillwater SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation May erect a may erect and maintain a Boom across the Stillwater Boom across branch of Penobscot river between Birch stream and Eber's branch of Penobscot river Point, for the purpose of stopping and securing logs, masts, for the purpose spars and other lumber, floating upon said river, and may of, &c. erect piers, and side or branch booms, where they may think it necessary, between Hemlock Island and Orson Island, between Birch stream and Pushaw Falls, and between Peacove and the Outlet of the thorough fare between Orson and Marsh Islands-Provided, that said booms Proviso. be so constructed as to admit the safe passage of rafts and boats and preserve the navigation of the river and the branches thereof and Provided also that all persons shall have the same privilege of landing rafts of logs, boards and other lumber, and fastening the same as they have heretofore enjoyed, and that said corporation shall construct, and at all times keep and maintain, their piers and booms, sufficiently strong to secure all the lumber contained therein-but no person shall be allowed at any time to encumber said booms with rafts, either of logs, boards or other lumber. Damages-how SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall suffer damage by the exercise of the powers estimated. herein granted to said corporation, and the amount thereof cannot be agreed upon by the parties, nor some suitable person or persons agreed upon to estimate the same, the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Penobscot shall, on application of the party aggrieved, cause said damages to be ascertained by a committee of three disinterested freeholders of the same County-Provided, how- Proviso. ever, that if either party be dissatisfied with the award of said Committee, and shall, at the term when said award is presented, apply to said Court for a trial by jury in the |