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pose of quarrying, manufacturing, transporting and vending Granite, Marble and other Stone situated in the town of Wells in the County of York, which may be owned by said Corporation and said Corporation may engage in, and carry on any other branch of trade which may be necessary to aid in carrying on the quarrying, manufacturing, transporting and vending as aforesaid, with power to hold May hold estate real and personal estate not exceeding at any one time two hundred thousand dollars; and the same or any part thereof to sell, lease or convey at pleasure.

to the amount of 200,000 dollars.

ties.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the purposes Powers and du- mentioned in the first section of this Act, the said Corporation shall have all the privileges and be subject to all the duties and requirements expressed in the several Acts defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing Corporations, and also to the provisions of the several Acts concerning Corporations, passed at the present session of the Legislature.

First meeting.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That any three of the persons named in this Act shall have power to call the first meeting of said Corporation by giving personal notice of the time and place of said meeting to each of the Corporators, or by publishing said notice in one newspaper printed in the County of York and one newspaper printed in the County of Cumberland fourteen days at least prior to said meeting.

rators.

Chapter 187.

AN ACT to establish the Maine Manual Labor High School and Pattern
Farm Company.

Approved March 31, 1836.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreNames of Corpo- sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That Reuel Williams, Charles Williams, James Bridge, Sandford Kingsbury, John Agry, William M. Vaughan, Charles Vaughan, Sandford Howard, Samuel Wood, Elijah Wood, Samuel Chand

ty to the amount

ler, Cyrus Knapp, Samuel P. Benson, Stephen Sewall, Joseph Additon, Ezekiel Holmes, Orrin Shaw, Nathan Foster, Gustavus A. Benson, Peleg Benson Jr., A. M. Shaw, David Thurston, Seth May, Samuel Benjamin, their associates successors and assigns be and they hereby are created a body corporate by the name of the Maine Manual Corporate name. Labor High School, and Pattern Farm Company, with power to make by laws, to elect all needful officers and define their powers; to take and hold estate, real, per- May hold propersonal and mixed, by gift, grant, bequest or otherwise to of $50,000. an amount not exceeding in the whole at any one time fifty thousand dollars, which shall be used for the purpose of promoting agriculture, horticulture, the breed and management of domestic animals, and instruction in those sciences which form the basis of practical and productive arts, which they may sell or lease at pleasure, and said Corporation shall be entitled to all the benefits of the first and second sections of "an Act concerning Corporations," passed February sixteenth one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, but exempted, from the provisions contained in the remaining sections of said Act.

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SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That any gift or bequest Any gift, &c. to of money, lands or other property, specially made for one of the objects contemplated by this Act, shall be applied solely to the promotion of such object by the Corporation, and if not so applied may be recovered back by the Corporation in action on the case in any Court proper to try the same- but all gifts or, bequests to the Corporation, not specially made, shall be added to the general fund.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That whenever the Legislature shall require it, the said Corporation shall cause to be made out and certified, a detailed statement of the doings of said Corporation, the improvements made or proposed to be made in any of the objects which it is the design of this institution to promote, with a minute account of its receipts and expenditures, and whatever else may be necessary to a full knowledge of the operations of the

institution.

Corporation to

make statement

of its operations

to Legislature,

when required.

Location.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That said High School and Farm shall be located in the Town of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec.

Names of Corpo

rators.

Corporate name.

Chapter 188.

AN ACT to incorporate the Perry Plaster Company.

Approved March 31, 1836.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Henry Scott, Solomon Potter, Joseph W. Scott, Theodore Lincoln Junr., Samuel Wheeler, Jona. Buck, their associates, successors, and assigns be and they hereby are made a body corporate by the name of the Perry Plaster Company for the purpose of manufacturing Plaster of Paris and other articles in the town of Perry, with power to erect a dam in tide waters at or near the mouth of Little River so called across the same in the town of Perry, and such works and machines · as may be necessary for the prosecution of said business, with all the powers and privileges, granted to similar Corporations subject to all the duties and requirements expressed in the several Acts of this State defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing Corporations, and also to the provisions of the several Acts concerning CorMay hold estate porations, and may purchase and hold any estate real or $100,000. personal, to an amount not exceeding at any one time, the value of one hundred thousand dollars.

amount of

ted as not to in

mill privilege.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the dam aforesaid To beso construc- shall be so constructed as not to injure the mill privilege jure any other now occupied by John D. Gibson, or any other mill privilege now in use on said River; and said Company shall Passage way for construct in said dam a passage way, at least twenty feet in width for the passage of rafts gondolas, boats and other river craft at or about the time of high water, and shall keep the same open at such time for the passage such craft without expense to the owner thereof, nor shall

boats.

of

said Company in any manner impede the navigation of said

river above said dam.

dering any craft

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That if said Company Penalty for hinshall neglect or refuse to keep said passage way open as from passing. aforesaid or shall hinder and delay the passage of any craft as aforesaid, through said passage way, they shall forfeit and pay for every tide, during which any person or persons may be so delayed, the sum of five dollars to be recovered in any Court competent to try the same, to the use of the person or persons so detained.

Chapter 189.

AN ADDITIONAL ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of the Moosehead
Dam Company.

Approved March 31, 1836.

to person injured,

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That said Corporation Additional toll. are hereby authorized to exact and receive as tolls for all timber, logs and lamber, which may pass through the sluice way constructed by said Company by virtue of the Act to which this is additional, four cents per thousand feet, board measure, in lieu of the tolls established in said Act. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person hereafter Corporation liable injured in his property by the carelessness or negligence by waters too rapof said Corporation in the construction or maintenance of idly flowing thro said dam, or in permitting the waters of Moosehead Lake to flow through said dam in improper quantities, may have an action on the case against said Corporation to recover any damages he may have sustained thereby, in which action the private property of any individual member or members of said Corporation may be taken on mesne process or Execution, to the amount of such individual's stock therein.

the dams, &c.

Chapter 190.

AN ACT authorizing the owners of Salt Marsh on Back Creek in the town of Woolwich to erect a Dike.

Approved March 31, 1836.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That the owners of the Salt Marsh lying and bordering on the Back Creek, so called, in the town of Woolwich, County of Lincoln, their heirs and assigns, be and they are hereby authorized and May erect a dike. empowered to build erect and maintain a good and sufficient Dike across said Creek, for the purposes of improving said marsh, at or near the place where the Bridge formerly stood, and near the mouth of said Creek, Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to injure the private rights of any individual, but on paying a just compensation therefor such as the parties may agree

Proviso.

upon.

rators.

Chapter 191.

AN ACT to incorporate the Brunswick Bank.

Approved April 1, 1836.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Richard T. Dunlap, Names of Corpo- Abner B. Thompson, William H. Morse, Gardiner Green, Alfred J. Stone, and John C. Humphreys, with their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are incorporated into a Company by the name of the PresiCorporate name. dent, Directors and Company of the Brunswick Bank, and shall so continue until the first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven -Provided, That the persons above named, or such of them as shall be living at the time when said Corporation shall go into operation, shall become stockholders therein

Proviso.

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