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CHAP. 249

May sell

electricity to Aroostook Valley R. R.

Co.

May sell

electricity in Limestone.

May sell
electricity to
certain
corporations
or persons
in Houlton.

-restrictions.

-may maintain

certain towns.

Fort Fairfield, to be used for any other purpose than the production of light, and for that purpose it may maintain therein all necessary stations, fixtures and lines of posts and wires.

Section 8. The said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, is authorized to transmit and sell electricity to the Aroostook Valley Railroad Company for use in the operation of the railroad of said company, and to make such contracts therefor as may be mutually agreed upon.

Section 9. Said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, is authorized to make, generate, sell, distribute and supply electricity for light, heat and power in the town of Limestone, and for that purpose it may erect and maintain all necessary stations, fixtures and lines of posts and wires.

Section 10. The said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, is authorized to sell electricity to any corporation, person or firm in the town of Houlton authorized to distribute electricity in said town. Nothing in this act shall authorize said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, to otherwise engage in the business of selling or distributing electricity in said Houlton. For the purpose lines through of this section, said corporation is authorized to erect and maintain a line, or lines, of posts and wires, with all necessary sta tions and fixtures, from its main line in Fort Fairfield, through Easton, Mars Hill, Blaine, Bridgewater, Monticello and Littleton, to and into the town of Houlton, and to sell and distribute electricity from said lines for light, heat and power in said Easton, Mars Hill, Blaine, Bridgewater, Monticello and Little ton. Nothing in this section shall require any corporation organized under the general laws of the state for the sale and distribution of electricity in said Easton, Mars Hill, Blaine, Bridgewater, Monticello or Littleton to obtain any special act of the legislature therefor.

-may sell light, beat and power in certain

towns.

Conditions under which this charter may remain in force.

-within 30 days shall make

proposals for furnishing electricity.

--quantity and price stipulated.

This section shall be null and void unless the Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, shall comply with the folowing conditions:

The said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, shall within thirty days after the approval of this act offer in writing to the Houlton Water Company to furnish to said company, at such point of delivery in said Houlton as said Houlton Water Company may designate, such amount of electricity for a twenty-four hours' service as said Houlton Water Company may from time to time require, not exceeding at any one time six hundred kilowatts, measured at said point of delivery, at a price not exceeding three cents per kilowatthour for lighting purposes, and on a sliding scale of prices of

CHAP. 249

-proposal to or rejected days.

be accepted

within 90

--may make

--provisions

not exceeding three cents per kilowatt hour for power purposes, said prices to be particularly specified in said offer, and if said offer is accepted, execute a contract to that effect, said offer to be accepted or rejected by said Houlton Water Company within ninety days after its receipt, and the contract thereon to be for not less than twenty years, with the right of renewal for another period of twenty years on the same terms and conditions if said Houlton Water Company shall so elect. The said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, and the said Houlton Water Company, are authorized to make and enter contract. into said contract, and to do all things necessary to perform the same. In such contract said Houlton Water Company shall agree to take a minimum quantity, to average during the year not less than thirty kilowatts per hour. Said contract shall of contract. further provide that the said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, shall begin to supply electricity thereunder on March first, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and six, but a different date may be agreed upon if said. Houlton Water Company so consents. If such offer is not accepted, then the said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, in selling electricity for use in said Houlton, as otherwise authorized in this section, shall not charge therefor more than three cents per kilowatt hour. If such contract is made the said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, may sell power to such customers in Houlton as said Houlton Water Company shall consent to and on such terms and conditions as said Houlton Water Company may approve and consent to, but shall not have the right to sell to such customers without first obtaining the written consent of said Houlton Water Company. Nor shall said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, in case said contract is made with said Houlton Water Company, have the right to sell to any other person, firm or corporation authorized to sell and distribute electricity in said town of Houlton without first obtaining the written consent of said Houlton Water Company. All corporate powers now or hereafter conferred upon the Houlton Water Company may be used to accomplish the purposes of this section.

The Houlton Water Company is hereby specially authorized and empowered to contract for, buy, make, generate, and use electricity upon its property in the town of Houlton, in the county of Aroostook, or other property hereafter acquired by said Houlton Water Company for the purpose, and to transmit, conduct and distribute such electricity to, into, and throughout the town and village of said Houlton, and to sell and supply the

Houlton
Water Co.

authorized to
contract.

make

CHAP. 249

Corporation

may

mortgage its property.

Rights, duties and liabilities.

Locations granted.

--municipal

officers may establish restrictions.

Corporations

shall

designate the

same for lighting such public streets and such buildings and places therein, public and private, as may be agreed upon by said company and the owners or those having control of such streets and places to be lighted, and may transmit, sell and supply the same for heating, motive power, manufacturing or mechanical purposes in said town.

Section II. The said corporation may mortgage or pledge a part or all of its property and franchises in this state as security for bonds issued under its charter.

Section 12. The said corporation shall have all the rights and be subject to the duties and liabilities of sections three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three of chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes, except as modified herein. It shall further be subject to all the duties incident to public service corporations at common law, and to all provisions of the general laws of this state hereafter passed, applicable to corporations in a similar business.

Section 13. All locations upon streets, roads or ways necessary for the purposes of this act are hereby granted, and the municipal officers of all towns named herein shall designate the streets, roads or ways so to be occupied, the places where the poles shall be set, and shall establish such reasonable restrictions as to the kind of poles, their construction and maintenance, the height of wires and the use of guard wires, as they deem proper. Section 14. Before it shall be entitled to any of the provisions of this act said corporation shall, under its corporate seal, location of its file in the office of the secretary of state a certificate designating some place in the town of Presque Isle as its principal office, and a citizen of this state as an agent, upon whom process from the courts of this state may be served with like effect as if upon an officer thereof. Whenever a vacancy occurs in said designa tion a new agent shall be designated in the same manner, and if there be at any time no such agent then service of any process may be made on the secretary of state, with like effect as if on said corporation.

principal

office in town of Presque

Isle.

Section 15. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 17, 1905.

CHAP. 250

Chapter 250.

An Act to amend Chapter four hundred fifteen of the Private and Special
Laws of eighteen hundred sixty-eight, entitled "An Act authorizing
Drew Plantation to raise money for certain purposes."

Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in
Legislature assembled, as follows:

Chapter 415, special laws,

private and

1868,

Section 1. Said chapter four hundred fifteen of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred sixty-eight is hereby amended by striking out section one of said act and inserting in amended. the place thereof the following section:

officers of

Drew

plantation

given powers

to lay out

roads, etc.

'Section 1. The municipal officers of Drew Plantation, in Municipal the county of Penobscot, are hereby given all the powers of municipal officers of towns to lay out, alter or widen public or private ways within the plantation, and, so far as applicable, the provisions of chapter twenty-three of the revised statutes shall apply to laying out, altering or widening public or private ways in said plantation, and all the powers which towns now have to raise and expend money for the purpose of making and repairing ways, building bridges and paying officers and agents are hereby extended to said plantation.'

Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 17, 1905.

Chapter 251.

An Act to amend Chapter five hundred fifty-seven of the Private and
Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled, "An Act to
Incorporate the Home for Aged Men in Bangor.

Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in
Legislature assembled, as follows:

Section I. Section two of said chapter five hundred fiftyseven of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred ninetythree is hereby amended by striking out the words "one hundred" in the fourth and fifth lines of said section, and inserting in the place thereof the words 'two hundred and fifty,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows:

'Section 2. Under the above name, said corporation may sue and be sued, take by purchase, devise, or otherwise, real and personal property and hold the same for the purposes expressed in section one, to an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and manage and dispose of the same for the purposes aforesaid; and shall possess all the rights, privileges and immunities, which belong to corporations created for charitable objects, under the laws of this state.'

Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 17, 1905.

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CHAP. 252

Corporators.

--corporate name,

Capital stock.

--may issue bonds.

May operate steamboats on certain lakes.

Exclusive franchise given for

eight years.

Tolls established.

Notice of first

given.

Chapter 252.

An Act to incorporate the Matagamon Towboat Company.

Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Section 1. Nathaniel M. Jones, Fred W. Ayer, W. J. Curran, B. W. Howe, James M. McNulty and Oscar Thomas, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby incorporated under the name of Matagamon Towboat Company.

Section 2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and, in order to carry out the purposes for which said company is incorporated, it is hereby authorized and empowered to issue its bonds or negotiable notes in such form and amounts and on such rates as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the amount of its capital stock, and may secure the same by mortgage of its property and franchises.

Section 3. Said company is further authorized and empowered to own and operate steamboats on Grand lake, sometimes called Matagamon lake, and Second lake, on the east branch of the Penobscot river, in the counties of Penobscot and Piscataquis, for the purpose of carrying passengers and freight and doing a general towing business, including the towing of logs, provided said company shall have at least one steamboat in operation upon said lakes within six months from the date of the approval of this act.

Section 4. For and during the term of eight years from the date of the approval of this act, no person or other corporation shall operate, unless authorized by this company, a steamboat or steamboats on said lakes for the purpose of carrying freight or doing a towing business for hire, including the towing of logs.

Section 5. During said term of eight years, the rates charged by said company for carrying freight shall not exceed fifteen cents per hundred weight, and for towing logs shall not exceed fifteen cents per thousand feet, board measure, and said company shall have a lien upon all logs towed by it for the amounts due for towing the same, which lien shall have precedence of all other claims except laborers liens, and shall continue for ninety days after the logs shall arrive at their place of destination for sale or manufacture, and may be enforced by attachment.

Section 6. The first meeting of said company shall be called meeting, how at Bangor, in the county of Penobscot, by a notice signed by one of the incorporators named in section one, setting forth the time, place and purposes of the meeting, mailed to each of the other

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