Chapter 233. AN ACT to incorporate the Ellsworth Bank. Approved April 2, 1836. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That Andrew Peters, Names of corpoJoseph A. Wood, David Dyer, Joseph Otis, Benjamin Jor- rators. dan, William W. Chase, Samuel Greely, Henry Bowers, Charles Peters, Edward P. Blood, Jno. M. Hale, Moses Hale, H. A. Dutton, George Hathaway, Seth Paddleford, Charles Lowell, R. Long, Richard Tinker, John Hopkins, Joseph S. Rice, Elias Lord, William Bennett, James Whiting, Newell Adams, J. W. Hathaway, Galen Hathaway, Thomas Robinson, their associates, successors and assigns, be and they hereby are incorporated into a Company by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Corporate name. Ellsworth Bank and shall so continue until the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty seven;Provided, that the persons above named, or so many of them as may be living when said Bank shall go into operation shall become stockholders therein to an amount not less than fifty per centum of the Capital Stock and shall continue stockholders as aforesaid until the whole of the Capital Stock mentioned in the second section of this Act shall have been paid into said Bank. $50,000. Location. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Capital Stock Capital Stock, of said Bank shall be fifty thousand dollars, in gold and silver divided into shares of one hundred dollars each and said Bank shall be established in the Town of Ellsworth. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Corporation Powers, &c. 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. SECT 4. Be it further enacted, That said Bank shall not shall not issue emit, issue, pay out, or receive in payment for debts due denomination. 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. SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That any five of the perFirst meeting &c. sons above named may call the first meeting of said Cor poration by publishing the time and place thereof in the Radical, a paper printed at Ellsworth fourteen days previous to the time of said meeting, and at the said meeting the said Corporation shall have power to choose a Board of Directors, and do any other Corporation business which may then and there come before it. Chapter 234. AN ACT to provide for the Expenditures of Government. Approved April 4, 1836. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That in order to provide for the operation of certain Acts and Resolves of the Legislature requiring the payment of money from the Treasury, and also to provide for the necessary expenditures of the Government for the current year, the following sums be and the same hereby are appropriated, to be paid out of Appropriations in any moneys in the Treasury, the same to be in room of all other existing appropriations whatsoever. And the Governor, with advice of the Council, is hereby authorized, prior to 1st day of at any time prior to the first day of January next, to draw his warrants upon the Treasurer for the same; viz:— Pay Roll of the Pay Roll of the Council, Two thousand four hundred Dollars, room of all others. Governor may draw his warrant January next. Council. Senate. Pay Roll of the Pay Roll of the Senate, Six thousand Dollars, House of Reps. Salaries. Thirty seven thousand Dollars, 2,400 00 6,000 00 37,000 00 cial Courts, Attorney General, Reporter, State Prison, compensation to Subordinate Costs in Criminal Prosecutions, Thirteen thou- Law Reports, One thousand, eight hundred Bank Tax received in the year 1835, and transportation, Harnesses, Tumbrils 3,152 00 at disposal of Gov. Contingent Fund, at the disposal of the Governor and Council, Four thousand Dollars, 4,000 00 and Council. at disposal of the Treasurer. Contingent Fund Contingent Expenses, for the expenditure of which the Treasurer is to render his account to the Legislature, One thousand Dollars, School comm'r, School Commissioner for Somerset, Fifty Dol Somerset county. Office. lars, Clerks in Sec'y's Clerks in the Secretary of State's Office and -in Treasurer's Clerks in the Treasurer's Office, for the years Office. Office. 1835 and 1836, One thousand Dollars, --in Adj. Gen's Clerks in Adjutant General's Office for the years 1835 and 1836, Six hundred Dollars, --in Land Office. Clerks in the Land Office, One thousand Dol cieties. lars, Agricultural So- Agricultural Societies, Six hundred Dollars, thousand, eight hundred Dollars, Education of the Education and Relief of the Indigent Blind, Blind. One thousand Five hundred Dollars, Literary Institu- Literary Institution, St. Albans Academy, Two tions. Stationery: Hundred Dollars, Stationery, Seven hundred Dollars, Insane Hospital. Insane Hospital, Eight thousand Dollars, Postage, Five hundred Dollars, 1,000 00 50.00 1,800 00 1,000 00 600 00 1,000 00 600 00 1,800 00 1,500 00 200 00 700 00 8,000 00 Postage. 500 00 S. Littlefield. Solomon Littlefield, repayment for land, One 100 00 Dollars, Library. Board of Internal Board of Internal Improvements, Six thousand Improvements. For purchase of Library, Five hundred Dollars, Indexes in Sec's Preparing Indexes for Journals and Records Office. in Secretary of State's Office, Two hun- 6,000 00 500 00 $200 00 Belfast and Quebec Rail Road, Five thousand Dollars, Fifteen thousand Dollars, Ichabod Bucknam, for returning warrants, Mars Hill Road, Eleven hundred forty two Phineas R. and John Hartford, Two hundred Dollars, Geological Survey of the State, Five thousand Commissioners to examine Penitentiaries, Six Road in Argyle Plantation, Five hundred Dollars, Passamaquoddy Indians' Deposit, Six hundred Passamaquoddy Land Agent, for services for 1834 and 1835, Making an Aggregate of Two hundred, twelve Land Agent. 2,145 00 Aggregate. 212,023 46 42 |