SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation May erect steam- may erect Steam Mills upon their own land for the manufacture of any article from wood, iron or other metal, and milis, &c. for this purpose shall have power to take and hold real and personal property not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 7. Be it further enacted, That any two persons named in this Act shall have power to call the first meeting of the proprietors of said Corporation, by publishing a notice in the paper of the printer to the State, or by giving personal notice to each member of said company. SECT. 8. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation be required whenever any logs or timber shall be running in the Kennebec River, to use all reasonable exertion, care and diligence, to tow into and secure in their Boom, all such logs or timber as the said Corporation are by this Act authorized to stop and secure, and shall as soon as practicable thereafter raft and secure such logs or timber, and shall raft in separate rafts, unless otherwise directed by the owners thereof, the logs or timber of each owner or company of owners, who shall seasonably furnish the Agent or Boommaster of said Corporation with his or their respective marks; and the owner or owners of such logs or timber shall make said Corporation a reasonable compensation for the warp or rope used for rafting the same; or shall furnish and substitute his or their own warp for that of the said Corporation. Chapter 175. AN ACT to incorporate the Central Market House Company. Approved March 29, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre Names of corpo- sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That Samuel Hudson, rators. Andrew W. Hasey, John R. Greenough, John Ham, Henry Little, John Hodgdon, William Emerson, Jonathan Farrar, Isaac Farrar, Samuel Farrar, and Ebenezer Gilman Rawson, their associates, successors and assigns be and they hereby are made a body politic and corporate by the name of the Central Market House Company, and by that Corporate name. name shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and requirements contained in the several Acts of this State defining the general powers and duties of Corporations and also to the provisions of "an Act concerning Corporations" passed February sixteenth one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and also an Act additional to an Act concerning Corporations. $50,000. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation. May hold estate may take and hold real or personal estate to any amount to the amount of not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and shall have power to erect a Market House on the flats of Kenduskeag River in the city of Bangor, between the Bridges lately built by Hudson and Greenough, and Samuel Smith and others; Provided, That said Market House shall not be of Proviso. greater dimensions than two hundred feet long by fifty feet wide, and shall be built of stone and bricks and covered with slates the lower story of which to be used exclusively as a Market House; and shall be so constructed as to leave a safe and convenient passage on each side way under bridg of said House, and under said bridges and platforms for the safe and convenient passage way for rafts and boats usually passing up and down said river, and not to interfere with private or corporate property, on the shores of said. stream and said Market House shall be subject to the Mu- Subject to munic nicipal regulations of said City of Bangor, and the property of said Company shall be liable to taxation in the City of Bangor as though this Act had not been passed. 31 To leave passage es, &c. ipal regulations, Corporate name. Chapter 176. AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Wilson. Approved March 29, 1836. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Township number nine in the ninth range, north of the Waldo Patent in the County of Somerset, with the inhabitants thereof, be and the same hereby is incorporated into a Town by the name of Wilson, vested with all the powers and subject to all the duties of other incorporated Towns in this State. Chapter 177. AN ACT to incorporate the Newport Mill Dam and Manufacturing Company, Approved March 30, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That William Martin, Names of Corpo- Benjamin Shaw, Edmund Pilsbury, John Wilson Jr., Otis rators, Briggs Jr., John Stuart, Samuel Pratt, John Benson, Jared Harden, Luther H. Greenlief, Albert Martin, Enoch C. Shaw, James Benjamin, Albert Brooks, John H. Folsom, William F. Fitch, Jeremiah Prescott, Moses Dole, Justus Kirby, Jesse Miles, Joseph Lord, William L. Walker, Edward Rowe, Nathaniel Burrill Junr., L. P. Burrill, and Charles P. Mason, their associates, successors, and assigns, be and they hereby are made a body politic and corpoCorporate name. rate, by the name of the Newport Mill Dam and Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, wool, iron and steel, and all other articles, in the manufacturing of which water power may be used, in the Town of Newport in the County of Penobscot; and said Corporation may erect such mills, dams, works, machines, and buildings, and dig such canals, on their own lands as may be necessary for carrying on these useful manufactories, to amount of 200,- and branches of trade-to have and to hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding two hundred Powers, &c. May hold estate 000 dollars. thousand dollars in value, and to have power to give, sell Chapter 178. AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Waldo Stone Quarry Corporation. Approved March 30, 1836. Names of Corpo May hold estate Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Hall F. Howe, Ebenezer Jones, Lewis C. Kelley, Alfred Herrick, their associates, succes- rators. sors and assigns be and they hereby are made a body. corporate by the name of the Mount Waldo Stone Quarry Corporate name. Corporation for the purpose of quarrying, working, manufacturing and vending Stone on their own land in the Town of Frankfort County of Waldo-and for that purpose said Corporation may take and hold any estate, real to the amount of and personal to an amount not exceeding at any one time, one hundred thousand dollars, with all the powers and privileges granted to similar Corporations, subject to the duties and requirements contained in the several Acts of this State defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing Corporations and also to the provisions of an "Act concerning Corporations," passed the sixteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. $100,000. rators. Chapter 179. AN ACT to establish the Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts Rail Approved March 30, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre Name of Corpo sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That Joseph Adains, Mason Greenwood, Oliver B. Dorrance, Charles M. Davis, William W. Woodbury, Nathan Winslow, Jedediah Jewett, Henry Smith, John Warren, Bryce M. Edwards, Daniel T. Pierce, Noah Mason, Toppan Robie, Joseph M. Gerrish, James Irish, Alexander McLellan, Nathan Elden, Joseph Woodman, Abijah Usher, Joseph Hobson, Ellis B. Usher, Nathaniel J. Miller, Edmund Warren, William Cook, Isaac Dearing, Jeremiah Roberts, Porter Gilman, Jonathan Downing, Ivory Hall, Nathaniel Farnum, John Griffin, Joseph Emerson, Jeremiah Bradbury, William B. Holmes, Abiel Hall, David Hall, Alvah Conant, Jeremiah Goodwin, Benjamin J. Herrick, John Powers, Nicholas E. Paine, John J. Paine, Arthur McArthur, Charles E. Bartlett, Thomas B. Parks, Job Harris, John B. Wood, Frederick Cogswell, their associates, successors and assigns be, and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate, by the name of "the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Rail Road Corporation," and by that name shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities provided and prescribed in an Act passed on the sixteenth of February last, entitled "an Act concerning Corporations," and an Act defining certain rights and duties of Rail Road Corporations, passed the first of March instant, and shall be and hereby are invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this Act as hereinafter set forth. And the said Corporation are hereby author ized and empowered to locate, construct, and finally complete, alter and keep in repair a Rail Road with one or more set of rails or tracks, with all suitable bridges, Corporate name. 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