CHAP. Penalty, for violation. 32 SECT. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of the foregoing section, he shall pay a fine of ten dollars for every -how enforced. such offense, with costs of prosecution, to be enforced before any court of competent jurisdiction, one-half of said fine to go to the complainant, and one-half to the county of Washington. SECT. 3. Trial justices of Cherryfield, Milbridge, Deblois or Beddington, shall have jurisdiction for the trial of offenses against the provisions of this act in the same manner and to the same extent as if not residents of said towns. Jurisdiction of trial justices. When act takes effect. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. Approved February 6, 1891. Sec. 1, ch. 396, Laws of 1889, amended. Corporators. -corporate name. -powers and privileges. Chapter 32. An Act amendatory of section one of chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the laws of eighteen hundred eighty nine, relating to the Andover Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine is hereby amended by striking out the word "Andover", in the eighth line of said section, and inserting in the place thereof the words 'Oxford North,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: SECT. 1. Sydney F. Abbott, John F. Talbot, Charles L. Poor, Olcutt B. Poor, Henry W. Poor, F. S. Smith, H. D. Hanson, G. Hutchins, R. A. Grover, William H. Harding, A. S. Jordan, A. J. Smith, E. M. Bailey, Charles P. Kimball, John A. French, George W. Abbott, G. W. Perkins, together with their associates and successors, be and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Oxford North Agricultural Society, with power to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to make by-laws and all necessary regulations for the management of their affairs, not repugnant to the laws of this state; and to have all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities of similar societies in this state." Approved February 6, 1891 CHAP. 33 Chapter 33. An Act to amend the charter of the Maine Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section three of chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the private and special laws for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine is hereby amended, so that the same shall read as follows: Sec. 3, ch. 339, Private Laws of 1889, amended. and personal estate. 'SECT. 3. Said corporation is authorized to hold for its May hold real purposes aforesaid so much real and personal estate as may be necessary therefor.' SECT. 2. Each and all of the provisions of the said act, as amended by this act, are hereby extended and made applicable to the property, capital stock, rights, privileges, immunities and franchises of the Bath Water Supply Company, the Pejepscot Water Company, the Augusta Water Company and the Caribou Water Company. SECT. 3. The said Maine Water Company is authorized to lease the property and franchises of the companies named in section four of said act of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and section two of this act, or of either or any of said companies, with all of the privileges conferred by said acts and subject to all the limitations thereof. The companies aforesaid are authorized to make said leases. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 6, 1891. Provisions of act, as amended, made applicable to certain other water companies. Authorized to and franchises companies. lease property of other Chapter 34. An Act relating to the powers of the American Water Supply Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1, The American Water Supply Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of the state of Maine, on December twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, hold, vote upon and dispose of shares of the capital stock of corporations engaged in supplying cities, towns, villages, cor CHAP. 35 porations and individuals with water and gås and with electricity for lighting or other purposes. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 6, 1891. Corporators. -corporate name. Powers and privileges. May borrow money and mortgage property. First meeting, how called. Chapter 35. An Act to incorporate the Kennebec Athletic Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Orville D. Baker, John F. Hill, Walker Gwynne, James S. Williamson, Treby Johnson, Percy W. Brooks, George V. S. Michaelis, E. C. Farrington and Byron Boyd, their associaties and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Kennebec Athletic Association, to be established and maintained in the city of Augusta, for the encouragement of physical culture, the promotion of athletics and the maintenance of a gymnasium. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby vested with all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the conditions and restrictions of corporations of a similar nature; it may have and use a common seal, prosecute and defend suits at law, make and establish by-laws for the management of its affairs, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state, and hold property, real and personal, which it may now have or may hereafter acquire by gift, grant, devise, purchase or otherwise, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars.. SECT. 3. Said corporation is empowered to borrow money upon such rates and for such time as it may deem expedient and in such amount as it may deem necessary for the objects of its incorporation, and for the purposes authorized by this act, and secure the payment of the same by mortgage upon its property, or by such other lawful method as it may elect. SECT. 4. The first meeting of said corporation may be called by any five persons named in the first section of this act, at such time and place as they shall deem proper, by publishing a notice of said meeting in some newspaper published in the city of Augusta, seven days at least, before the day of said meeting. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 9, 1891. CHAP. 36 Chapter 36. An Act to confirm the acts and doings of the Hall Signal Company and to allow said company to invest in, hold and sell the stock of other companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Doings of com pany, con rmed. -may purchas stock, etc., of The acts and doings of the Hall Signal Company, organized under the general laws of this state, are hereby confirmed, so far as the same appears of record, and conforms to the purposes of its certificate of organization; and said company is authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, own and sell and use the stock, bonds and property of other corporations, other corpora organized under the laws of this and other states, engaged in or relating to, or necessary for the business described in the articles of agreement and certificate of organization of said Hall Signal Company, and may vote upon said stock. Approved February 10, 1891. tions. Chapter 37. An Act to authorize the Baptist Religious Society in North Yarmouth and Freeport, to sell and convey any or all of its real and personal estate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Baptist Religious Society in North Yarmouth and Freeport is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey any or all of its real and personal estate. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 10, 1891. Society, authorized to sell property. 3 CHAP. 38 Portland R. R. Company, authorized to lease, etc., P. & F. Ave. R. R. Company, authorized to issue bonds and mortgage property. Capital stock. Chapter 38. An Act additional to the charter of the Portland Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Portland Railroad Company, which was incorporated in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, by the name of the Portland and Forest Avenue Railroad Company, is hereby authorized to acquire by lease, purchase of capital stock, or otherwise, the rights and property of the Ocean Street Railroad Company in the town of Deering, and to operate the railroad of the latter company as a part of the street railroad system of the Portland Railroad Company with all the rights and liabilities attaching to said Ocean Street Railroad Company under its charter. SECT. 2. Said Portland Railroad Company is further authorized to issue its bonds to an amount not exceeding the amount of its capital stock actually paid in, of such denomination, on such time and at such rates of interest as it may find expedient and to secure the same by a mortgage of its franchises and property with or without a provision for a sinking fund to provide funds to meet the needs of its business, including the extension of its system of street railroads within the territory heretofore authorized, by acquisition of connecting roads or otherwise, and the establishment of an electrical power, plant and necessary equipments for the operation of its railroad, or such portion thereof as may be found expedient, by electricity, subject, however, as to the use of electricity to the consent of the municipal authorities of the towns in which said railroad may be so operated. SECT. 3. Said Portland Railroad Company is hereby authorized, for the purposes aforesaid, to increase its capital stock. to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 10, 1891. |