CHAP. 334 officers of said city and town; and in case of disagreement, the county commissioners upon petition of any citizen of said city or town, may cause necessary repairs to be made, and the expense thereof paid by said city and town as provided in the preceding section. SECT. 3. The highways leading to said bridge shall be made, maintained and repaired by the city and town in which they are situated, in the same manner as other highways. SECT. 4. This act shall not affect any pending suit, and shall take effect only when judgment is rendered in quo warranto proceedings now pending in the supreme judicial court of Maine, between the state by information of its attorney general and said Old Town Bridge Corporation, but if said judgment shall be in favor of said bridge corporation, on the the ground that said bridge has not reverted to the state, then this act shall be void. Approved April 3, 1891. Corporators. -corporate name. -powers and purposes. Chapter 334. An Act to incorporate the Oxford Central Telephone and Telegraph Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry M. Bearce, George A. Wilson, John P. Swasey, E. L. Tebbets, Waldo Pettengill, O. H. Hersey, A. E. Herrick, Loring R. Giles and George C. Wing, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the Oxford Central Telephone and Telegraph Company, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties provided by the general laws of this state relating to corporations, with power by that name to carry on the business of practical telephonic and telegraphic communication, within the territory hereinafter described, by proper methods; and in the prosecution of said business, to locate, construct, maintain and operate, molecular, acoustic, magnetic and electric, telephone and telegraph lines; to sue and be sued, to have a common seal, to pass by-laws and regulations for the management of their affairs, not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Maine, to do and perform any and all other lawful acts incident to corpora tions of a similar character. Said company shall have the CHAP. 334 right to locate and construct its lines upon and along any public highway, bridge or private land, or along and upon the line of any railroad, and carry on said business, in, through and about, all the towns in Oxford county, in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; and the company may cut down any trees standing within the limits of any highway except ornamental, fruit or shade trees, when necessary for the erection, use or safety, of its lines. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate telephone and telegraph lines throughout the length and breadth of Oxford county with as many wires and branches as they may see fit, commencing and terminating at such point or points, as they may select hereafter, within the limits aforesaid, and subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and with the power to establish and collect tolls. Authorized to construct telephone and in Oxford telegraph lines county. with other lines or sell or lease its property. SECT. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized and em- May connect powered to connect its line or lines with those of any other telephone or telegraph company or corporation, to sell or lease its line or lines and other property in whole or in part, either before or after completion, to any person or persons, or to any other telephone or telegraph company or corporation, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties; and may purchase or lease any other line or lines of telephone or telegraph upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto. SECT. 4. Any person or corporation purchasing from the corporation hereby created, the right to use its telephone for any part or parts of the county of Oxford is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges by this act conferred upon the Oxford Central Telephone and Telegraph Company, subject to all duties and liabilities hereby imposed in said part or parts of said county of Oxford; and the said corporation is hereby authorized to assign and transfer so much of the franchise hereby granted, as may be necessary for the purpose of this section. SECT. 5. Said corporation shall have the right to erect and construct the posts, piers, abutments and other fixtures necessary, to sustain the wires of its lines upon, along and Persons or corporations rights, are invested with all the powers of the company. May erect its lines along any highway, etc. CHAP. 334 Municipal officers, may locate. Capital stock. Damages, how estimated. First meeting, how called. across any public way, road, street, bridge or private land, or along, upon and across the line of any railroad, in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary public use thereof; first having obtained the consent of the municipal officers of any city or town where these lines are to be built, and subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. SECT. 6. The municipal officers of a place in which the said posts, piers, abutments and fixtures, are to be erected shall, on written application, specify where the same may be located. SECT. 7. The capital stock of said company shall be of such an amount as the stockholders may determine, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; and it may purchase, hold and dispose of such real and personal estate, as may be necessary for the corporate purposes, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and shall have power by agreement with other persons or bodies corporate, to connect its lines with other telephone or telegraph line, within or without the state. SECT. 8. If the land of any individual or corporation is taken under this act, and the parties cannot agree on the damages occasioned thereby, they shall be estimated, secured and paid, in the manner provided in case of land taken for railroads. SECT. 9. Any one of the corporators named in this act, may call the first meeting of the corporation, for organization, by mailing a written notice signed by him, 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 by-laws may be adopted, the amount of capital stock fixed and any other corporate business transacted. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved April 3, 1891. СНАР. 335 Chapter 335. An Act to make valid the calling of the annual meeting in Drew Plantation in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The warning and calling of the annual plantation meeting in Drew plantation, Penobscot county, held in March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, so far as relates to the informality or insufficiency of the copies of the warrant therefor, posted by the constable of said town, are hereby made legal and valid. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved April 3, 1891. Doings of Drew made valid. plantation, Chapter 336. An Act to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the products of the state of Maine at the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to make an appropriation therefor. Whereas, The congress of the United States has provided, Preamble. by an act approved April twenty-five, eighteen hundred and ninety, for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, and sea, in the city of Chicago in the state of Illinois, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and Whereas, It is of great importance that the natural Preamble. resources, industrial development, and general progress of the state of Maine should be fully and creditably displayed to the world at said Exposition; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Board of managers of constituted. World's Fair Maine, SECT. 1. That for the purpose of exhibiting the resources, products, and general development of the state of Maine at the World's Columbian Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, a commission is hereby constituted, to be designated, the Board of World's Fair Managers of Maine, which shall consist of eight residents of the state of Maine, of whom -how constituted. CHAP. 336 four shall be men and four women, to be organized and con Who shall be, ex officio, members of commission. Appointment and organization. -treasurer, -quorum. tinue its duties as hereinafter provided. One man and one woman from each congressional district. The men shall be chosen, two each from the two leading political parties. SECT. 2. The World's Columbian commissioners and the members of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian commission from the state of Maine and their respective alternates and the World's Columbian commissioner at large and the member at large of the board of lady managers from the state of Maine, with their respective alternates, if there be such representatives at large residing in said state, shall be, ex-officio, members of the board of World's Fair managers for the state of Maine. SECT. 3. The members of said board shall be appointed by the governor within sixty days after the passage of this act, and shall meet at such times as the governor may appoint, and organize by the election of a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. The treasurer of said board shall give bond. shall give a bond to the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with sureties, to be approved by the governor, for the proper performance of his duties. Five members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busiThe board shall have power to make rules and regulations for its own government, provided, such rules and regulations shall not conflict with the regulations adopted under the act of congress for the government of said World's Columbian Exposition. Any member of the board may be removed at any time by the governor for cause. Any vacancy, how vacancy which may occur in the membership of said board shall be filled by the governor. -may be removed. filled. Members, shall not receive compensation. Appointment of executive commissioner, salary and duties. ness. SECT. 4. The members of the board appointed under this act who are not officers thereof, shall not be entitled to any compensation for their services out of the state treasury, except their actual expenses for transportation and the sum of five dollars per day for subsistence, for each day they are necessarily absent from their homes on the business of said board. SECT. 5. The board of world's fair managers is authorized and directed to appoint from the members of the above board, an executive commissioner and to fix his salary, subject to the approval of the governor, which shall be payable monthly out of the appropriation hereinafter made, and said executive |