386 Oath or affir mation to, and by whom administered. Clerk. CITY OF PORTLAND. Mayor, the City Council in convention shall, from the four highest candidates voted for and returned, elect a Mayor for the ensuing year; and in case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be filled for the remainder of the term by a new election, in the manner herein before provided for the choice of said officer. The oath, or affirmation, prescribed by this Act, shall be administered to the Mayor by the City Clerk, or any Justice of the Peace in said city. The Aldermen and Common Councilmen, elect, shall, on the second Monday in April, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, meet in convention, when the oath or affirmation, required by the second section of this Act, shall be administered to the members of the two Boards present, by the Mayor, or any Justice of the Peace, and thereupon the two Boards shall separate, and the Board of Common Council shall be organized by the election of a President and Clerk. SECT. 12. Be it further enacted, That the City Clerk Duties of City shall be Clerk of the Board of Aldermen. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Board of Aldermen, or Common Council, and shall perform all the duties, and exercise all the powers by law incumbent upon, or vested in, the Town Clerk of the town of Portland. He shall give notice in two of the papers printed in said city, of the time and place of regular Ward meetings; but the place of regular Ward meetings, and also the day and hour, when not fixed by law, shall be determined by the Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen may, in the absence of men may choose the Mayor, choose a President pro tempore, who shall prePresident pro side at joint meetings of the two Boards. Each Board shall keep a record of its proceedings, and judge the election of its own members and in case of failure of election, or of vacancy by death, resignation, or otherwise, may order new elections. A quorum for the transaction of business, shall, in each Board, consist of a majority of the members thereof. Board of Alder tempore. Record. Quorum. SECT. 13. Be it further enacted, That for all the purposes of the election of Governor, Senators, and Representatives, in the Legislature of this State, and Register of Portland to con certain pur officers. Deeds, and Treasurer for the County of Cumberland, and of Representatives in Congress, and Electors of President and Vice President, the inhabitants of said town of Portland shall, however, remain and continue a town, and shall pos- tinue a town for sess all the rights and powers, and be subject to all the poses. duties, obligations and liabilities of other towns in this State, so far as regards the election of the officers aforesaid. And the Aldermen of said city shall, ex officio, be the Duties of Selectmen of said town for the purposes of all such elections; and the election of persons to the office of Aldermen of said city, shall be taken and deemed, and is hereby declared, an election to the office of Selectmen of said town; and the city Clerk and city Assessors shall, ex officio, be town Clerk and town Assessors for all the purposes of such elections; and the election of any person to the office of city Clerk, or to the office of city Assessor, shall be taken and deemed, and is hereby declared an election to the office of town Clerk and Assessor of the town, respectively; and the said Officers, in addition to their oath of office as city officers, shall respectively be sworn, as Selectmen, town Clerk, and Assessors of the town of Portland, as now required by law; and they shall be required to perform all the duties, shall be under all the obligations, and shall be subject to all the liabilities, that the Selectmen, town Clerk, and Assessors of other towns are, for all the purposes of the election of Governor, Senators, and Representatives in the Legislature of this State, and Register of Deeds, and Treasurer for the County of Cumberland, and of Representatives in Congress, and Electors of President and Vice President; and the city Constables shall be Constables of the town for the purpose of notifying all town meetings for such elections, and of maintaining order in said meetings. SECT. 14. Be it further enacted, That general meetings General of the citizens, qualified to vote in city affairs, may, from meetings. time to time, be held to consult upon the public good-to instruct their Representatives, and to take all lawful measures to obtain redress of any grievances according to the right secured to the people by the Constitution of this 388 Duty of the Se lectmen of the town of Portland, Selectmen shall the purpose of choosing offi cers, CITY OF PORTLAND. State, and such meetings may, and shall be, duly warned by the Mayor and Aldermen upon the requision of thirty qualified voters of said city. SECT. 15. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Selectmen of the town of Portland, as soon as may be, after this Act shall have been accepted, as hereinafter provided, to cause a division of the said town to be made into seven Wards, in such manner as to include, as nearly as conveniently may be consistently with well defined limits to each Ward, an equal number of voters in cach Ward, SECT. 16. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of organizing the system of Government hereby established, and putting the same into operation in the first instance, the Selectmen of the town for the time being, shall, seaissue their war- sonably, before the second Monday of April, issue their rant for calling meetings for Warrants for calling meetings of the said citizens, at such place and hour as they shall think expedient, for the purpose of choosing a Warden and Clerk for each Ward, and also to give in their votes for a Mayor to be taken from the city at large, and one Alderman and three Common Councilmen for each Ward; and the transcript of the records of each Ward, specifying the votes given for a Mayor, one Alderman and three Common Councilmen, certified by the Warden and Clerk of such Ward, shall at said first election be returned to the said Selectmen of the said town of Portland, whose duty it shall be to examine and comAnd in case said elections shall not be pare the same. complete at the first election, then to issue a new Warrant until such election shall be completed, and to give notice thereof in the manner herein before directed, to the several persons elected. And at said first meeting, any inhabitant of said Ward, being a legal voter, may call the citizens to order and preside until a Warden shall have been chosen. And at said first meeting, a list of voters in each Ward, prepared and corrected by the Selectmen of the town of Portland for the time being, shall be delivered to the Clerk of each Ward, when elected, to be used as provided by law in town meetings; and it shall be the duty of the city New warrants in case, &c. council in convention, immediately after their first organization, to elect by ballot a city Clerk, and all other necessary city officers, who shall hold their offices respectively Term of office. until the second Monday in April then next. take effect SECT. 17. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in full force when the same shall have been This Act to accepted by the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote when, &c. in town affairs, at a legal town meeting called for that purpose, and by such a majority of all the votes given on the question of its acceptance, that the number in favor of such acceptance shall be to the number against it, in the proportion of, at least, four to three: Provided it shall be so Proviso. accepted within three years from the passing of this Act; but not more than one meeting, for that purpose, shall be called in the same year. And the vote on such acceptance shall be taken by written or printed ballot. SECT. 18. Be it further enacted, That all Acts, and parts of Acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, Acts repealed. be and the same are hereby repealed, from and after the time when this Act shall have been accepted as aforesaid, and the new system of government organized, as herein provided. CHAPTER 249. AN ACT to incorporate the Exchange Bank. Approved February 29, 1832. sons incorpo SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That James C. Churchill, William P. Preble, Jacob Knight, Hezekiah Winslow, Sol- Names of peromon H. Mudge, Luther Jewett, Levi Cutter, Ashur Ware, rated. Nathaniel Mitchell, John Chandler, John Dunlap, James B. Cahoon, Ezekiel Day and their associates, successors and assigns be and hereby are made a Corporation by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Corporation Exchange Bank, and shall so continue until the first day of shall continue 390 1847. Proviso. OXFORD CANAL CORPORATION. until the year October one thousand eight hundred and forty seven; Provided, that the persons above named, or such of them as may be living when said Bank shall go into operation, shall become Stockholders therein to the amount of at least fifty per centum of the capital stock, and continue to hold that proportion of said stock until the whole capital, named in the second section of this Act, shall have been paid into said Bank. Capital Stock to be $100,000 SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock -to be divided of said Bank shall be one hundred thousand dollars in gold into shares of and silver, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. $100 each. And said Bank shall be established in the town of Portland in the County of Cumberland. Bank to be established in Portland. Powers, privileges, &c. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities and duties specified in an Act to regulate Banks and Banking, passed the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That James C. Churchill, Luther Jewett and Solomon H. Mudge, or a major part First meeting. of them, may call the first meeting of said corporation to be holden in Portland, by an advertisement, in the Eastern Argus printed in said Portland, seven days at least before the time of said meeting. CHAPTER 250. AN ACT to establish the Oxford Canal Corporation. Approved March 1, 1822. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That W. B. Norton, CyNames of per- rus Shaw, Samuel A. King, Ezra F. Beal, William Reed, sons incorporat- Nathaniel Bennet, Levi Whitman, David Noyes, and Henry Rust, with their associates and successors, be, and they hereby are created a corporation and body politic forever, by the name of the Oxford Canal Corporation, with all the ed. |