on all subjects relating to the interests of the Company, all decisions shall be had by a majority of votes actually given; and each share shall be entitled to one vote. rators. SECT.1. Chapter 217. AN ACT to incorporate the Oxford Bank. Approved April 1, 1836. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre Naines of corpo- sentatives in Legislature assembled, That Judah Dana, Dan'l Clement, Edw'd L. Osgood, Henry C. Buswell, Asa Charles, Robert Bradley, David Bradley, John W. Dana, Philip Eastman, James Osgood, Timothy C. Ward, Jacob Evans, Ira Towle, with their associates, successors and assigns, be, and hereby are, created a Corporation, by the Corporate name. name of the President, Directors and Company of the Oxford 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 said above named persons, or such of them as may be living at the time when said Bank shall commence operations, shall be stockholders, at that time, to an amount, in the aggregate, equal at least to fifty per centum of the Capital Stock mentioned in the second section of this Act, and continue stockholders, as aforesaid, until the whole of said Capital Stock shall have been paid into said Bank. Location. Capital stock $50,000. Powers, &c. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Bank shall be established in the Town of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford, and the Capital Stock thereof shall be fifty thousand dollars in gold and silver, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities, specified in an Act entitled an Act to regulate Banks and Banking passed the thirty first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and all other Acts in relation thereto. bills of a certain SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Bank shall shall not issue not emit, issue, pay out, or receive in payment for debts denomination. due the Bank or otherwise, any bank bill or note of a less denomination than five dollars, and increasing only by five or ten dollars to the higher denominations. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That any five of the persons above named, may call the first meeting of said Corporation by publishing the time and place thereof in the Oxford Democrat printed at Paris, fourteen days previous to the time of said meeting; and at said meeting the said Corporation shall have power to choose a Board of Directors, and do any other Corporation business. Chapter 218. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Bank of Cumberland in Approved April 1, 1836. First meeting &c. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Cumberland, in Portland are hereby allowed to increase the Capital Stock of Increase of capi said Bank fifty thousand dollars in addition to its present Capital, to be divided into additional shares of one hundred dollars each. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said sum of fifty thousand dollars in gold or silver, shall be paid into said Bank on or before the first day of October next; and loans may be made by said Bank upon said additional Capital whenever the Directors or a majority of them, together with the Cashier of said Bank, shall have signed and verified by oath, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate that said sum of fifty thousand dollars additional Capital has been actually paid into said Bank. tal stock $50,000, &c. bills of a certain SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Bank shall Shall not issue not emit, issue or pay out, or receive in payment for debt denomination. due the Bank or on deposit, any bill or note of a less denomination than five or ten dollars or their multiples. Increase of capidollars. Chapter 219. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of Skowhegan Bank. Approved April 1, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That the President Dital Stock 25,000 rectors and Company of the Skowhegan Bank be and they hereby are authorized to increase their Capital Stock by adding thereto the sum of twenty five thousand dollars, to be paid in on or before the first Monday of October next in shares of one hundred dollars each. Shall not issue SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Directors or a majority of them, together with the Cashier of said Bank, shall, within ten days from the payment of said additional Capital Stock, transmit to the Treasurer of the State a certificate under their hands verified by oath, specifying upon what day or days the same was paid in—And said additional Capital Stock shall be subject to all the limitations and liabilities and entitled to all the privileges specified in an Act entitled an Act to regulate Banks and Banking passed the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and all other Acts in addition or relating thereto. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Bank shall not emit, issue, pay out, or receive in payment for debts due bills of a certain the Bank, or otherwise any bill or note of a less denomination than five dollars and increasing only by five or ten dollars to the higher denominations. denomination. Chapter 220. AN ACT to establish the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum. Approved April 1, 1836. rators. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Marcy Perkins, Names of CorpoClarissa Williamson, Susan Patten, Sarah Shaw, Dionosia Hill, Phoebe V. McGaw, Rebecca M. Fiske, Mary R. Preston, Hannah B. Emerson, Eliza Ann Garnsey, Susan Clark, Sarah C. Brown, Elizabeth Greenough, Eliza T. Mason, Susan Hallowell, Adrianna Merrill, Martha A. Treat, Caroline J. Haynes, Elizabeth Hatch, Susan W. Veazie, Eliza Ann Thompson, Francis A. Lord, Harriet H. Williamson, Louisa B. White, Julia M. Foster, Mary Jane Woodman, Louisa Davis, Martha A. Smith, Mary A. T. Lowell, Rebecca T. B. Thatcher, Mary C. Williamson, Almira Young, Mary Abbott, Clarissa C. Osgood, Jane B. Lewis, Beulah French, Lucy Pickering, Abigail Hatch, Mary Hatch, Sarah Smith, Delia B. Tarbox, Sally W. Horton, Mary Ann Young, Maria Davis, Maria Thompson, Francis A. Williamson, Almida Davis, their associates, and successors be and they hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Bangor Female Corporate name. Orphan Asylum; with power to prosecute and defend suits at law; to have and use a common seal; to make and establish any by laws for the management, not repugnant to the laws of the State; to take and hold any estate, real or personal, for the purpose of supporting, instructing and employing female children, the first attention to be given to orphans, and to give, grant, bargain, or sell the same; and with all the powers and privileges, usually granted to other societies, instituted for purposes of charity and beneficence; Provided, that the value of the real estate of said Corporation shall never exceed forty thousand dol- $40,000. lars, and the annual income of the whole estate of said Corporation shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars. May hold estate to the amount of &c. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the five persons first First meeting, named in this Act may call the first meeting of this Corporation at such time and place as they may think proper. rators. Corporate name. Powers, &c. Chapter 221. AN ACT to incorporate the Vassalborough Paper Manufacturing Company. Approved April 1, 1836. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Names of Corpo Legislature assembled, That George Cox, Franklin Glazier, Andrew Masters and Calvin Spaulding with their associ ates, successors and assigns be and they hereby are created a body corporate by the name of the Vassalborough Paper Manufacturing Company for the purpose of manufacturing paper and engaging in such other branches of trade and business as may be necessarily and conveniently connected therewith in the Town of Vassalborough and County of Kennebec; and said Corporation may upon their own land. erect and maintain all necessary mills, works and machinery for said purposes, and shall have all the powers and 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 Comty to the amount panies; and may take and hold any estate real and personal to an amount not exceeding at any one time the value of fifty thousand dollars, Provided, That the personal property of said Corporation shall be subject to taxation in the town where their works are located. May hold proper of $50,000. 20th May to 10th July. Chapter 222. AN ACT, in addition to the several Acts for the preservation of Salmon, Approved April 1, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreProhibition from sentatives, in Legislature assembled, That it shall not be lawful for any person to take Salmon, Shad or Alewives, within thirty rods of any fish way as provided by said Acts, from the tenth day of May to the tenth day of July, and any person or persons found so taking fish contrary to the |