incorporators, postage prepaid, at least seven days before the day of such meeting. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1905. CHAP. 253 Chapter 253. An Act to extend the corporate powers of the Sebasticook Manufacturing and Power Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Acts made Section 1. The acts of the Sebasticook Manufacturing and Power Company in changing its corporate name to Sebasticook valid. Water Power Company are hereby made valid. Authorized to sell elec. tricity for in part of Winslow. power only town of Section 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to sell, distribute and supply electricity, for power purposes only, but not for lighting, in that part of Winslow bounded by the boundary line between Benton and Winslow, the Kennebec river, the road leading from the Waterville and Winslow bridge into Winslow, and the Kennebec river road leading from said last described road to said boundary line. Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to set poles Authorized to and extend wires thereon in and through such streets and ways of Benton and of Winslow as it may deem most expedient in carrying out the purposes of section two of this act, under such reasonable restrictions as the municipal officers of said towns may impose as to the kind of poles, the manner in which they shall be set and the height at which the wires shall be carried thereon. Section 4. Nothing herein contained shall affect any action, at law or in equity, now pending, or any cause of action, at law or in equity, heretofore accrued. set poles, etc. Pending actions not hereby affected. be hereafter taken for poles, etc. Section 5. No land shall hereafter be taken by said company, No land shall for the erection of posts and wires to be used for the transmission of electricity to be used in the town of Winslow. Section 6. Section two of chapter two hundred and seventyone of the private and special laws for the year nineteen hundred and three is hereby repealed. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved. 32 Approved March 17, 1905. section 2, chapter 271, private and special laws, 1903, repealed. CHAP. 254 Authorized to generate electricity on Saco river and its tributaries. Chapter 254. An Act to extend the powers of Eastern Timber Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. The Eastern Timber Company is hereby authorized and empowered to make and generate electricity at any point along the Saco river or any of its tributaries in the state of Maine, and to sell, distribute and supply the same for lighting, heating, manufacturing or mechanical purposes in the towns to supply in of Standish, Gorham, Buxton, Dayton, Hollis and Limington, with all the rights, powers and privileges and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities by law incident to similar corporations, provided, however, that said corporation shall not be authorized to supply electricity, directly or indirectly, in the town of Gorham for lighting purposes. Standish, Gorham, May furnish electricity to certain railroads May set poles, etc. --under restrictions imposed by municipal officers. May make contracts with aforesaid towns. May maintain dams, etc. May sell its property and franchises to Section 2. Said corporation is also authorized and empowered to furnish electricity to the Maine and New Hampshire Railway and the Maine and New Hampshire Railroad for all purposes contained in their respective charters. Section 3. Said corporation is also empowered to set poles, extend wires and lay its pipe and construct and maintain its lines in, upon, along, over, across and under the roads and streets in the towns aforesaid, for the purpose of furnishing electricity for any of the purposes named in this act for public and private use in said towns under such reasonable restrictions as may be imposed by the municipal officers thereof, subject to the general laws of the state regulating the erection of posts and lines and laying pipes for the purposes of electricity. Section 4. Said corporation is also authorized and empow ered to make contracts with the towns aforesaid and with other corporations and individuals for the purpose of supplying elec tricity for light, heat and power as contemplated by this act. Said towns by their selectmen and other corporations are hereby authorized to enter into contracts with said corporation for the supplying of electricity for light, heat and power and for such exemptions from public burdens as said towns and said corporations, and said company agree upon, which, when made, shall be legal and binding upon all parties thereto. Section 5. Said corporation is also authorized and empowered to locate, construct and maintain dams, canals, raceways and penstocks on the Saco river and its tributaries, subject to the general flowage acts of the state. Section 6. The Eastern Timber Company is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, assign, convey and transfer to the CHAP. 255 Publishers' Publishers' Paper Company, a corporation existing under the laws of Maine, all or any part of its rights, property and fran- Paper Co. chises, including all or any part of the rights and powers granted by this act, and said Publishers' Paper Company is hereby authorized and empowered to take, purchase, or otherwise acquire all or any part of said rights, properties or franchises. Section 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1905. Chapter 255. An Act authorizing the Ashland Company to erect dams and make improvements on the tributaries of the Upper Aroostook River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Company, authorized to build dams. --dam at foot lake. --dam near sungun lake. foot of Mun Section I. The Ashland Company, a corporation existing Ashland under the laws of Maine, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build the following dams: First, a dam at or near the foot of Mooseleuk lake in Township Num- of Mooseleuk ber Ten, Range Nine; second, a dam at or near the foot of Munsungun lake in Township Eight, Range Ten; third, a dam at or near the foot of Millinocket lake in Township Eight, Range Nine, and Seven, Range Nine, or either of them, all in the county of Piscataquis; fourth, a dam near the foot of Millimi- foot of Milligassett lake in Township Number Seven, Range Eight, in the county of Penobscot; and to build such side dams and piers and to remove rocks and to make all other improvements in the streams on which said main dams shall be built as may be necessary or convenient to facilitate the driving of logs and lumber and piers. into and down the Aroostook river to places of manufacture. And for said purposes said company is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by lease or purchase land and necessary material to build said dams and piers and make such improvements, and the right to flow contiguous lands so far as necessary to raise suitable heads of water. -dam near nocket lake. -dam near foot of Milli. migassett lake. -side dams May acquire necessary land and material. and lumber. Section 2. Said company may demand and receive for the Tolls for logs passage of logs and lumber over any one of said main dams or the other improvements, a toll of fifteen cents per thousand feet, board measure, wood scale, and said company shall have a lien upon all logs and lumber which may pass over its said dams or other improvements for the payment of such tolls, which lien shall continue for sixty days after such logs or lumber arrive at their place of destination for sale or manufacture or until such logs and lumber arrive at the easterly line of the state of Maine CHAP. 256 Tolls shall cease when company shall have been reimbursed for expenditures. Assignment to Ashland Company, confirmed. separating said state from the province of New Brunswick, and may be enforced by attachment, but the logs of each particular mark shall be holden only for the unpaid toll of such mark. Section 3. When said company shall from tolls be reimbursed for its expenditures for the dams and improvements authorized by this act and six per cent annual interest upon all such amounts expended, all tolls shall cease; and said company shall keep an accurate account of all its receipts and expenditures relating to the improvements on said river authorized by this act, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of all persons interested. Section 4. The said Ashland Company, having received an assignment from the Ashland Manufacturing Company of the rights and powers conferred upon the Ashland Manufacturing Company by chapters three hundred fifty-one and three hundred fifty-four of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and of the dams, piers, booms and other improvements created under such power and authority, is hereby confirmed in the ownership and possession of the same, and said company shall have and enjoy the rights and powers which were granted in and by said chapters three hundred fifty-one and three hundred fifty-four of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven to said Ashland Manufacturing Company, and which were by said Ashland Manufacturing Company assigned to said Ashland Company. Section 5. This set shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1905. Section 3, chapter 186, private and special laws, 1903, amended. Chapter 256. An Act to authorize the Sanford Light and Power Company to increase its capital stock, and to acquire and purchase the rights of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway to furnish electric light, heat and power in the town of Sanford. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and eightysix of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and three is hereby amended by striking out the word "fifty" in the first line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words, 'one hundred,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred. dollars each.' CHAP. 257 Authorized to acquire franchises of Shore Line Section 2. The Sanford Light and Power Company is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise, the franchise and rights of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway to furnish electric light, heat and power in the town of Sanford, and said Atlantic Shore Line Railway is hereby authorized to sell and convey, or otherwise transfer to said Sanford Light and Power Company its franchise and rights to furnish electric light, heat and power in the town of Sanford, and all acts, transactions and contracts relating thereto, heretofore and hereafter, entered into by and between said corporations are hereby ratified and confirmed; provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained --proviso. shall prevent said Atlantic Shore Line Railway from furnishing electricity for light, heat and power to Sanford Mills, Goodall Worsted Company, and Maine Alpaca Company, only, corporations in said town of Sanford; and provided further, that said Atlantic Shore Line Railway and its constituent companies, Mousam River Railroad, Sanford and Cape Porpoise Railway Company, and Sanford Power Company, shall not furnish electricity for light, heat or power to any person or corporation in said Sanford other than said Sanford Mills, Goodall Worsted Company, and Maine Alpaca Company. Sanford Light and Power Co. to sell Section 3. Sanford Light and Power Company is hereby authorized to sell, or otherwise dispose of, and convey, its stock authorized and bonds, power plant, pole lines, property and assets, rights, franchises. privileges and franchises, or any part thereof, to the Atlantic Shore Line Railway. Section 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 17, 1905. Chapter 257. An Act to incorporate the Roach River Dam Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: -corporate name. Section 1. Frederick T. Bradstreet, Frank E. Boston and Corporators. Samuel W. Philbrick, their associates and assigns, are hereby incorporated under the name of the Roach River Dam Company, with the powers and privileges of similar corporations. Section 2. Said company is hereby authorized to erect, purchase and maintain dams, side dams, and piers on Roach river, First Roach pond, Second Roach pond, Third Roach pond and Fourth Roach pond, so called, and their tributaries in townships numbered one, range fourteen, A. range thirteen, one range Authorized to maintain dams, etc., on Roach river and other waters. |