CHAP. 196 meeting, how given. Section 6. Any one of the incorporators named in this act Notice of first may call the first meeting of the corporation by mailing a written notice signed by himself, postage paid, to each of the other corporators, seven days at least before the day of the meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting, and at such meeting a president, secretary, treasurer and directors may be chosen, by-laws adopted, present amount of capital stock fixed, and any corporate business transacted. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Chapter 196. An Act to incorporate the North Chesterville Light and Power Company in the village of North Chesterville in the towns of Chesterville and Farmington in the county of Franklin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: -corporate name. Section 1. J. Lenton Keith, Leonard S. Keith and C. Arthur Corporators. Pinkham and such persons as they may associate with themselves in the enterprise, and their successors are hereby incorporated into a corporation, by the name of North Chesterville Electric Light and Power Company, for the purpose of making, generating, selling and supplying electricity for lighting, manufacturing and mechanical purposes, in the village of North Chesterville, situated in the town of Chesterville and partly in the town of Farmington in the county of Franklin. May contract to supply light and power. Section 2. The said corporation is authorized to make contracts with the inhabitants of said village of North Chesterville for the purpose of supplying light and power as contemplated by this act. Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empow- May maintain ered to construct, lay, maintain and operate lines of wire or material for the transmission of such electricity across any stream or river, along and over streets, ways and bridges in said village of North Chesterville. Section 4. In erecting poles and laying said lines of wire upon, along and over streets, ways and bridges, said corporation shall be subject to the laws of the state, applicable to corporations which are authorized to make, generate, sell, distribute and supply electricity for power and lighting. Section 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. lines of wire. Restrictions in erecting poles, ete. CHAP. 197 maintain and repair dams across west branch Mattawamkeag river. -may raise dams two feet. Chapter 197. An Act to authorize the Emerson Lumber Company to erect and maintain dams across the west branch of the Mattawamkeag River in the town of Island Falls in the county of Aroostook. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Authorized to Section 1. The Emerson Lumber Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of Maine, located at Island Falls in said state, is hereby authorized to maintain and repair the existing dams across the west branch of the Mattawamkeag river at said Island Falls, and to raise the same two feet; or to erect, construct, maintain, repair and extend new dams upon the site of the existing dams or near the same, providing suitable sluices are constructed and maintained by said Emerson Lumber Company in the dam extending from the south side of the island in said river to the mainland, at its own expense, for the passage of logs and other lumber running down said river, and by means of such dams to flow any and all lands on said river or any of its tributaries. --sluices. Liable for damages occasioned by flowage. High water limit. Section 2. Said Emerson Lumber Company shall be liable for all damages occasioned by flowing said lands by reason of increasing the height of the existing dam across said river, or in the construction of new dams higher than the present dams, and in case said company and the owners of the land so flowed cannot agree upon the amount of damage, the same is to be ascertained and determined in the manner described in chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes. Section 3. Said dam shall not be permitted to raise the water above the height it has hitherto been raised in and during the driving season of any year. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Fishing in Lufkin pond regulated. Chapter 198. An Act relating to fishing in Lufkin Pond, Franklin County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. So much of section two of chapter four hundred and seven of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and three as closes Lufkin pond to all fishing is hereby repealed and on and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful to fish in this pond in accordance with the general law for fishing. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. CHAP. 199 Chapter 199. An Act for the protection of Muskrats in the towns of Hartland, Harmony, Athens and Palmyra, in the County of Somerset. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. No person shall in any manner hunt, take, catch or kill any muskrat in the towns of Hartland, Harmony, Athens and Palmyra, in the county of Somerset, for three years from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five. Section 2. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided in the general law of the state for the illegal killing of muskrats. Approved March 15, 1905. Close time on muskrats in certain towns. Chapter 200. An Act to repeal Chapter four hundred and fifteen of the Private and Special Laws of nineteen hundred and three, annexing certain islands to the town of Phippsburg. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Chapter four hundred and fifteen of the private and special laws for nineteen hundred and three is hereby repealed. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. Chapter 415, private and special laws 1903, repealed Chapter 201. An Act authorizing Samuel Sylvester to build a wharf into the waters of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Wharf authorized in Phippsburg. Section 1. Samuel Sylvester and his heirs or assigns are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a wharf from his town of shore front at Small Point harbor in the town of Phippsburg into the waters of said harbor to Goose Rock or so far into the tide waters of said harbor from any point on said shore front northerly from said rock as may be determined by the municipal officers of said town. Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 15, 1905. CHAP. 202 Wharf Chapter 202. An Act to authorize E. S. Everett and others to erect and maintain a Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in E. S. Everett and others and their assigns are hereby authorauthorized in ized to erect and maintain a wharf from the shore of French's island in the town of Freeport into the tide waters of Casco town of Freeport. Fishing in lake regulated. Chapter 203. An Act to regulate fishing in Chepenticook Lake, sometimes called Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. In addition to the general law it shall be unlawChepenticook ful to fish for, take or catch any fish at any time except for consumption in one's home, in the waters of Chepenticook lake, sometimes called Spednic lake, in the county of Washington; nor shall any person transport any fish taken from these waters except he has caught them himself and accompanies them, and has them plainly labeled with his name and residence. Penalty for violation of this act. Section 2. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to the same penalty as is provided in the general law for illegal fishing. Approved March 15, 1905. Fishing in Mattawamkeag lake regulated. Penalty for violation of this act. Chapter 204. An Act to regulate fishing in Mattawamkeag Lake. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section I. It shall be unlawful to fish for, take or catch any fish, except eels, at any time in the waters of Mattawamkeag lake in Aroostook county, except with single hook and line for the consumption in the family of the person taking or catching the same. Section 2. Whoever shall violate any portion of this act shall be liable to penalty provided in the general law for illegal fishing. Approved March 15, 1905. CHAP. 205 Chapter 205. An Act to amend Chapter sixty-four of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as amended by Chapter four hundred and seventy-two of the Private and Special Laws of nineteen hundred and one and Chapter forty-eight of the Private and Special Laws of nineteen hundred and three, relating to the Wilson Stream Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section three of said act is hereby amended so that said section shall read as follows: passage of 'Section 3. The said corporation may demand and receive Tolls for a toll for the passage of logs driven over their said dams and logs. improvements, of twenty-five cents for each thousand feet, board measure, wood scale, and fifteen cents for each thousand feet as aforesaid, of pulp wood and logs intended for pulp wood, and said corporation shall have a lien upon all logs which may lien on logs. pass over any of its dams and improvements for the payment of said tolls, but the logs of each particular mark shall be holden only for the tolls of such mark, and unless such toll is paid within twenty days after such logs, or a major part of them shall arrive at the Penobscot boom, or place of manufacture, said corporation may seize said logs and sell at public sale, so many thereof as shall be necessary to pay such toll and costs and charges, notice of the time and place of such sale ten days before such sale being first given in newspapers printed at Bangor and Dover, and when said corporation shall from tolls be reimbursed sale to be given. for its expenditures, and eight per cent interest thereon, the toll shall cease.' -notice of Approved March 15, 1905. Chapter 206. An Act to extend and amend the charter of the Waterville and Winslow Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1. The time within which the Waterville and Winslow Bridge Company, incorporated under chapter two hundred and sixty-five of the private and special laws for nineteen hundred and three, is required to commence actual business, is hereby extended for two years from the approval of this act. Section 2. Section two of said charter is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Charter extended. Section 2, amended. |