396 Rates. OXFORD CANAL CORPORATION. corporation, according to the rates following, on all goods, lumber or other commodities passing through said canal or canals actually cut and made navigable; viz. for all planks, boards, joist or other sawed stuff, and for all board logs floated on rafts or otherwise, six cents a mile for each thousand feet, board measure; for clapboards and staves six cents a thousand; for shingles, two cents a thousand; for cordwood and bark, six cents a cord, for each mile; for all timber and masts, six cents a ton for each mile, and for other lumber in proportion to the above rates; for all kinds of goods or provisions carried in boats or on rafts six cents a ton for each mile; for all boats or rafts, six cents for each lock the same may pass in addition to the toll aforesaid. And toll shall commence and be payable as soon as any mile of such canal is completed for the passage of suitable boats and rafts.-And said corporation Goods may be shall have power to detain any goods or lumber transported on said canal or canals until the toll due therefor is paid: and after twenty days from the time such toll became due, may sell at public auction, or otherwise so much of such goods or lumber as may be necessary to pay such toll and other incidental charges; or said corporation may sue for said toll by action of debt in any Court proper to try the Toll may be al- same: Provided, That when twenty years from the first detained until toll is paid. tered in 20 years. This to be deemed in legal Public Act-and opening the same shall have expired, the Legislature from thence forward may regulate the rate of toll; and the same shall be collected in such manner as shall be prescribed by the said corporation. SECT. 10. Be it further enacted, That this Act in all proceedings a legal proceedings shall be deemed a public Act; and if said corporation shall not complete said Canal, within five not be complet-years from the passage of this Act, then this Act shall be to be void if said Caual shall ed in 5 years. void. Corporation SECT. 11. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said corporation to make and keep in good repair, at all times, good and sufficient bridges, with draws over said canal or canals, where any County or town roads with draws, &c. now cross the land which may be taken for the same, for shall make and keep in good repair, bridges Stock exempt until, &c. the passage of teams, mail stages and carriages, and every thing else necessary for the public convenience toll free. SECT. 12. Be it further enacted, That the stock and property of said corporation shall be exempted from all from taxation public taxes, until a dividend shall be made, on the shares of said corporation equal to an annual income of six per centum on the money actually expended by said corporation in making said Canal or Canals and other works connected with and appertaining to the same. First meeting. SECT. 13. Be it further enacted, That any four of the persons named in the first section of this Act, may call the first meeting of said corporation to be holden at such time and place as they may judge proper, of which meeting they shall give notice by publishing the same in one of the newspapers printed in Portland and in one of the newspapers printed in the County of Oxford, the first publication to be at least fourteen days previous to said meeting. And at all meetings of said corporation, one vote shall be allowed to a share and one vote for every additional two shares owned by the same proprietor: Provided, no one No proprietor Proprietor shall be allowed more than ten votes; and ab- shall have more sent proprietors may vote by proxy duly authorized in writing. than ten votes. missioners to mittees to examine said SECT. 14. Be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the County Commissioners, in each County County Comthrough which said Canal may pass, a committee or com- appoint Committees of three disinterested and discreet men, whose duty it shall be to examine, ascertain and report from time Canal. to time to said County Commissioners, when said canal or canals or any part thereof shall be completely navigable, and also to ascertain the number of miles in length, and the number of locks completed according to the intent of this Act. 398 COUNTY ROAD.-BOOM CORPORATION. lay out a county road. Location. CHAPTER 251. AN ACT giving power to the County Commissioners for the County of Approved March 3, 1832. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreCounty Com- sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That the County Commissioners may missioners for the County of Cumberland shall have power, in case they deem it expedient, to lay out a County road, leading from Freeport to North Yarmouth, over Cousin's river or its branches and the tide waters of the same. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, in case they deem said road of public benefit and exShall have pow-pediency, shall have power to fix the kind and width of any draw in the bridge over said river necessary to accommodate the navigation thereof, and also the width of such bridge. er to fix the width of any draw, &c. > CHAPTER 252. AN ACT in addition to an Act, entitled An Act to establish the Kennebec Approved March 3, 1832. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That in addition to the places specified in said Act, at which said corporation are by said Act, authorized to erect, maintain and keep Booms on the Kennebec river, the said corporation are hereby empowered to erect, maintain, and keep a boom on the east side of Places at which said river at Clinton, and also, side booms at any place or Booms may be places at and near the shores of said river, on either side, within the present limits of the towns of Gardiner and Pittston where it may be necessary for the securing logs and Proprietors first other lumber, the proprietors first agreeing with the ownagreind ers of lands on the shores of said river, before they erect agreeing with for the same. side booms, and the booms to be so constructed as not to additional erected injure the navigation of said river, with all the rights and powers, and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities, pertaining to the booms authorized by the Act to which this is additional. CHAPTER 253. AN ACT to incorporate the Lubec Manufacturing Company. Approved March 3, 1822. rated. purpose. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Jeremiah Fowler, Names of perWilliam Fowler, and Sanford M. Hunt, their associates sons incorpoand successors be, and they hereby are, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Lubec Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing wood, For what cotton, wool, iron, steel, and other metals, and grinding gypsum and other articles of manufacture, such as may be necessarily and conveniently connected therewith, in the town of Lubec. And said corporation may dig such canals Corporation and sluice ways, build such dams to include tide waters, and sluice may dig canals erect such wharves, mills, works, machinery, and buildings, ways-build on their own land and flats, as may be necessary for the carrying on these useful manufactures, and branches of trade, and for these purposes shall have all the powers and Farther powers, privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements expressed in the several Acts of this State, defining the general powers and duties incident to manufacturing Companies. dams, &c. privileges, &c. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporaCorporation tion may take and hold any real or personal estate, to an may hold real or personal amount not exceeding, at any one time, in the whole, the estates, &c. value of one hundred thousand dollars, and the property, which shall or may be invested in said corporation, shall be exempt from taxation in the same manner as manufacturing companies of cotton, wool, iron and steel now are, by an Act entitled "An Act to exempt manufactures of Property to be exempt from cotton, wool, iron and steel from taxation for limited times" taxation, &c. 9 400 GARDINER BANK.-LUBEC MINING COMPANY. passed the seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and an Act additional thereto passed March the fourth--one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. Capital Stock to be reduced $50,000. Proviso. CHAPTER 254. AN ACT authorizing the reduction of the Capital Stock of the Gardiner Approved March 3, 1832. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That the President, Directors and Company of the Gardiner Bank be and hereby are authorized, at any time before the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three to reduce the Capital Stock of said Bank by the sum of fifty thousand dollars; so that, after said reduction, the capital stock of said Bank shall consist of fifty thousand dollars divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Provided that the Stockholders at a legal meeting, called for the purpose, shall vote that such reduction is expedient. Names of per rated. CHAPTER 255. AN ACT to incorporate the Lubec Mining Company. Approved March 3, 1832. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Solomon Thayer, sons incorpo- Uriah Coolidge, James W. Ripley, Horatio G. Balch, and William Featherstonehaugh, their associates and sucessors, be, and hereby are, constituted a corporation by the name of the Lubec Mining Company, for the purpose of searching and digging for lead, and other ores, fossils, and mineral substances, on land which may be owned, or held by For what purpose. |