and constructing such aqueduct, or for repairing or extending the same, as the Selectmen of the town or the major part of them for the time being, shall in writing, authorize and allow: Provided, Such Selectmen shall not have power to authorize and allow any such streets, highway or townway to be entered upon, dug up or opened, so as to obstruct or hinder the Not obstruct citizens of the State or others from conveniently passing therein with their teams and carriages.

ing travellers.

a record of the

shares of all

Be it further enacted, That to the end that the Clerk to keep proprietors of the shares in any such corporate property names and may be known, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of any such the proprietors. corporation, at or immediately after the first meeting, to enter in the book or books aforesaid, the names of the several proprietors, and the shares and parts of shares each proprietor In case of sale shall own, and when any share or part of a share, shall after- cord to be wards be sold for taxes or otherwise transferred, such sale or made of it. transfer shall be entered by said Clerk in such book or books, in such form, and for such fees, as the director shall appoint; and no person shall be deemed a proprietor whose share or interest shall not be so entered.

of a share, re

continue till

If judgments against corpo. be satisfied by

ration cannot

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That notwithstanding the Corporation to dissolution of any such corporation, all contracts made by all debts are or with such corporation shall remain in full force, and the paid. last proprietors or share holders shall have a corporate capacity, until all contracts and agreements, made by or with them prior to such dissolution, shall be performed; and are and shall be capable and liable, in and by the same name and capacity, as before such dissolution, to sue and be sued; and by their agent or agents, to prosecute and defend in all actions, suits and demands, respecting such contracts and agreements, until final judgment and execution. And if no corporate property can be found to satisfy any judgment which may be recovered against them as aforesaid, and such judgment shall not be satisfied within six months after the same shall have been recovered, it shall be lawful for the judgment creditor to satisfy his judgment and execution out the private estate of such proprietors or of any of them, in the same way and manner as if the judgment had been against him or them, in his or their private capacity: Pro- Provided action vided, That each and every such action shall be commenced be brought within six years next after such dissolution; or within the from dissolu like time next after such right of action shall accrue. And in Estate holden case any such corporation shall at its dissolution, be seized distolution, or possessed of any estate, the several proprietors at dissolution shall become tenants in common thereof, in proportions as they shall respectively then hold their shares and parts of shares therein; and upon such tenure as the corporation would have held the same, had not provision been herein made for making all their property personal estate. And all shares in such aqueducts shall be liable to be Shares may be

of

such

corporate pro estate of mem

perty, private

bers liable.

within six years

tion

at the time of

shall be deemed such held in com

real estate and

mon.

attached and

tion.

Manner.

taken in exccu- attached on mesne process, and taken in execution for the debts of the owner thereof: Provided, That when any share or part of a share or shares shall be so attached, an attested copy of the process shall be left with the Clerk of the corporation, fourteen days before the day of the sitting of the Court, to which the same shall be returnable. And when And taken on any such share or part of a share or shares shall be taken and sold on execution, the officer shall leave with such Clerk an attested copy of the execution, and of his return thereon, within ten days next after such sale.

execution and

sold.

Manner.

Penalty for in

&c.

SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall duets wantonly, maliciously or wantonly injure any such aqueduct, he or she shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the Supreme Judicial Court or Circuit Court of Common Pleas ; one moiety thereof to the prosecutor, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the town in which such offence shall have been committed; and shall also be liable to pay treble damages to the corporation so injured, to be recovered by action on the case, with costs of suit.

Mode of recov ery.

Towns may

nected with

the corpora

tion's aqueduct to draw off

of fire.

SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That any town in which lay pipes, con- any such aqueduct shall be placed, shall have the privilege of placing conductors into and from the pipes and conductors laid by any such corporation, for the purpose of drawing water in case such water therefrom, as may be necessary when any building shall be on fire in such town; and of withdrawing water therefrom on such occasions, without paying such corporation any price therefor: Provided, That every such town shall be holden to secure such conductors so by them placed in such manner that water cannot be drawn therefrom, unless by the orders of the Selectmen or fire wards of the town wherein the same may be.

Proviso.

Proprietors of libraries may incorporate themselves,

[Approved March 8, 1821.]

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CHAPTER CXLI.

An Act to enable the Proprietors of Social, Military and Law Libraries to manage the same.

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That any seven or more persons, capable of contracting, in any town in this State, who shall become proprietors in common of any library, may form themselves into a society or body politic, for the express purposes of holding, increasing, preserving and using such library; and to that end, any five or more of them, may, by an application in writing, by them signed, to any Justice of the Peace within the same county wherein the said town may be, stating the purposes of their meeting, and requesting him to issue his warrant for calling a meeting of the said proprietors; and the said Justice may grant his warrant to one of

them, directing him to call a meeting of the said proprietors at the time and place, and for the purposes expressed in such warrant; and said meeting shall be called by posting up the purport of said warrant in some public place in the said town where the said library shall be kept, seven days at least before the time of said meeting; and the proprietors being thus met and organized, they may then agree and determine upon a method of calling future meetings; and in all cases votes shall be determined by counting and allowing one vote to each share. And the proprietors of any such library shall and bold estate have power to possess and hold, to them, their successors and not exceeding assigns, real or personal estate, to any amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, over and above the value of their books.

5000 dollars.

their powers.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any seven or more of Mode of calling the proprietors of such library, met in pursuance of such no-meetings and tice, shall have power to choose a Moderator, Clerk, Librarian, Collector, Treasurer, and such other officers as they may find necessary and the Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties; and the Treasurer shall give bond, with sufficient surety or sureties, faithfully to account for all monies he may receive by virtue of this Act: and the said proprietors when so incorporated and organized, shall have power to raise monies by assessments on the several shares in such library, as they may judge necessary for preserving and increasing the same; to make bye-laws for the due regulation of the concerns of the said corporation, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, and to annex and recover penalties for any breach of such byelaws, not exceeding three dollars for any one breach thereof.

ed proprietors

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the proprietors of any such to be callsuch library, so incorporated, shall be called and known by of social librathe name of the proprietors of the Social Library, in the town ries. of ; and by that name shall sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, plead and be impleaded, in all actions and processes in law; and when there shall be more than one such library in any town, the proprietors thereof, shall be known and called by the name of the proprietors of the second, third, fourth, &c. (as the case may be,) Social Library, in the town of

ries,

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That any seven or more per- Military brasons, who are officers in any division of militia of this State,' who shall, by writing, associate themselves for the purpose of forming a Military Library Society, within the limits of their division, may become a body politic, by the name of the Military Library Society, in the Division, for the express purpose of purchasing, holding, increasing, preserving, and using such library: and to this end, any five or more of them may make an application in writing to any Justice of the Peace, within the limits of the division to which said appli

Mode of call ings, and pow

ing meet.

ers.

Law libraries.

Mode of calling

their powers.

cants may belong, stating the purposes of their meeting, and requesting him to call a meeting of the said proprietors. And the said Justice may thereon grant his warrant to any one of them, directing him to call a meeting of the said proprie tors at the time and place expressed in such warrant; and said meeting shall be called by posting up the purport of said warrant, in such public places, within the division where the said library is to be kept, or by publishing the same in one or more newspapers printed within the said division, twenty days at least before the time of said meeting, as the said Justice shall order. And the said proprietors being thus met and organized may then agree and determine upon the method of calling future meetings; and shall be entitled to all the other rights, powers, and privileges, and be under all the lim itations and restrictions, mutatis mutandis, which are contained in this Act.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That in every county with in this State, wherein there shall reside five or more attornies at law regularly admitted and sworn to practice before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, it shall be lawful for any five or more of them to make application in writing to any Justice of the Peace within and for said county, requesting him to issue his warrant for calling a meeting of the practitioners at law within the same county, to meet at some certain time and place for the purpose of organizing the establishment of a Law Library: and such Justice shall thereupon issue a warmeetings and rant under his hand and seal, directed to some practitioner at law, residing within the shire town of said county, requir ing him to notify the other members of the bar residing therein, either personally or by written notification posted up at some conspicuous place in the Court House in said county, at least seven days before the time of meeting as mentioned in said warrant; which meeting shall be holden at the next succeeding term of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in said county, on some day subsequent to the second day from the commencement of its session; and the person to whom such warrant is directed shall serve the same in manner as aforesaid, and make return thereof under his hand to the Justice who issued the same, or to some other Justice of the Peace within and for said county; whose duty it shall be to preside at said meeting in the choice of a Clerk, a Treasurer and Librarian, each of whom shall thereupon be sworn by the presiding officer, to the faithful discharge of their respective duties, and to hold their offices during the pleasure of the association; and the said members of the bar so notified and met, to the number of five or more, shall at their first meeting prescribe the mode of calling future meetings of said association, and establish such rules and regulations as may be found necessary from time to time, to carry the purposes of this Act into effect, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this

:

State and at all future meetings the oldest member of the bar residing within said county, who is present, shall preside. [Approved January 27, 1821.]

CHAPTER CXLII.

An Act concerning Plates for Printing Bank notes.

No bills of five

ed by any bank

from stereotype

Original im

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Legislature assembled, That no bills of the denom- dollars and unination of one, two, three, four, and five dollars shall be is- der, to be issu sued or emitted by the president, directors and company of unless printed any incorporated Bank within this State, unless the said plates. bills shall be printed and impressed from stereotype steel plates; from which plates original impressions of the bills of the several denominations aforesaid shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the State of Maine; nor unless the said bills of the denomination of five dollars shall have on the back of the same an impression from the check plates, check plates, one of the impressions from which shall be also deposited in the office of said Secretary of this State.

pressions of lodged in sec ary's office.

the bills to be

Backs of 5 dol

ar bills to be impressed by

&c.

kept in bank

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all plates used by any Plates to be incorporated Bank within this State, for the purpose of mak- vault, ing impressions of bills or notes issued by such Bank, shall at all times be kept in the vaults of said Bank, when not in actual use for making impressions of bills or notes as aforesaid: and whenever the same plate or plates shall be want to be taken out ed for the purposes aforesaid, the same shall not be taken only in pres ence of presi. from the vaults of the Bank aforesaid but in the presence of dent, director the president, a director or the cashier of said Bank; and the and returned same plates shall be returned every night to the vaults of very night, said Bank, in the presence of the president, a director or the cashier of said Bank as aforesaid; and during all the time they shall be out of said vaults, they shall be in the sole custody, and be used only in the presence of such president, director or cashier.

or cashier,

Penalty for

&c. in posses

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall have in his possession any plate or plates, used for making having plates, impressions of Bank bills or notes, contrary to the provisions sion contrary of this Act; or having the same in custody under the author- to this act. ity of this Act, shall put the same out of his custody; or shall suffer the same to be used out of his presence; or shall not return the same to such vault every night, as herein before provided, and be thereof convicted upon indictment in any Court of competent jurisdiction, such person shall forfeit and pay to the use of the State a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or be punished by imprisonment in the common gaol; or confinement to hard labor for a term not exceeding ten years, at the discretion of the Court, before whom the conviction may be: Provided however, That it shall be lawful vor of Abra

Proviso in fa

ham Perkins,