CHAP. 76 Chapter 76. An Act to incorporate the Fort Fairfield Sewerage Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: -corporate SECT. 1. E. G. Decker, F. W. Burns, E. E. Scates, Corporators. E. L. Houghton, M. N. Drew, Richard Phillips, A. F. Goodhue, D. J. Bell, A. McKormick, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Fort Fairfield Sewerage Company, for the purpose of providing in the town and village of Fort Fairfield, a system of public sewers and drainage, for the comfort, convenience and health of the people of said Fort Fairfield, with all the purposes. rights, privileges and immunities incident to similar corporations. name. estate. SECT. 2. Said corporation may acquire and hold real and May hold real personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount twenty-five thousand dollars; may sell and convey the same, may issue certificates of stock to an amount not exceeding the amount of its capital stock actually paid in, and may issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding one-half of its capital stock, so paid in to aid in the construction of works. SECT. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any land, or real estate, or easement therein, necessary for forming basins, reservoirs and outlets, for erecting buildings for pumping works, and for laying and maintaining conduits for carrying and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewerage matter and waters, and for any other object necessary, convenient and proper for the purposes of this act. -issue bonds. May take land, etc. Powers and SECT. 4. Said corporation may construct conduits, in manner aforesaid, in and through said village of Fort Fair- privileges. field, to and into the Aroostook river, or its tributaries, the discharge therefrom to be at such points in said rivers, as is most convenient, and convey through the same sewerage, surface water and the natural flowage of existing water courses, and secure and maintain basins, reservoirs and outlets; may construct and maintain flush tanks, man holes, lamp holes and all usual appliances, public and private; may build and maintain pumping stations and building, constructions and appli CHAP. 76 Shall file in registry of deeds description of lands taken. Liability for damages. Owners of abutting premises, may enter sewer. ances for collecting, holding, distributing and disposing of sewerage matter; may establish regulations for the use of sewers, and fix and collect the prices to be paid for entering the same, and also the annual rentals for using thereof; and said corporation is hereby authorized, for the purposes aforesaid, having first obtained the permission of the municipal officers of said town, and under such restrictions and regulations as said officers may prescribe, to lay down, in and through the streets, highways and lands of said town, and take up, replace and repair all such conduits, pipes and fixtures, as may be necessary for the objects of its incorporation; to carry and lay conduits under any water course, railroad or private way, and to cross any drain or sewer, or, if necessary, to change its direction in such a manner as not to obstruct the use thereof; and to enter and dig up any such street, road or way, for the purpose of laying down pipes beneath the surface thereof, for placing man holes or other fixtures, and for maintaining and repairing the same, and in general to do any other act or things necessary, convenient and proper to be done for the purpose of this act. SECT. 5. Said corporation shall file in the registry of deeds for the southern district of Aroostook county, a certificate containing a description of land taken, or in which an easement may be taken, under the provisions of this act, and a statement of the purposes for which it is taken, to be recorded by the register and such land or easement shall be deemed to be taken upon the filing of such certificate. SECT. 6. Said corporation shall be liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any person in his property by the taking of any land, or easement therein, under the provisions of this act; and if any person sustaining damage as aforesaid, and said corporation shall not mutually agree upon the sum to be paid therefor, such person may cause his damages to be ascertained in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are by law prescribed in the case of damages by the location of railroads. SECT. 7. Said corporation, at all times, after it shall commence receiving pay for the facilities supplied by it, shall be bound to permit the owners of all premises, abutting upon its lines of pipes and conduits, to enter the same with all proper sewerage, upon conformity to the rules and regulations CHAP. 77 of said company, and payment of the prices and rentals established therefor. SECT. 8. Any person who shall place or leave any offensive or injurious matter or materials in the conduits, catch basins or receptacles of said corporation, contrary to its regulations, or shall willfully injure any conduit, pipe, reservoir, flush tank, catch basin, man hole, lamp hole, outlet, engine, pump, or other property held, owned or used by said corporation for the purposes of this act, shall pay twice the amount of damages to said corporation, to be recovered in any proper action; and every such person, on conviction of either of said acts of willful injury aforesaid, shall be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding one year. SECT. 9. The affairs of said corporation shall be controlled by a board of directors consisting of not less than five members, who shall be citizens of the town of Fort Fairfield, and elected annually by a vote of the stockholders of the corporation; and the board of directors shall choose such other officers as may, from time to time be required by the by-laws of the corporation. Penalty, for works. willful injury to Board of directors, quali fication and election of. how called. SECT. 10. Any two of the persons mentioned in the first First meeting, section of this act, may call the first meeting of said corporation by publishing notice therefor, two weeks in a newspaper printed in the county of Aroostook. SECT. 11. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 18, 1891. Chapter 77. An Act to incorporate the East Bluehill Telephone Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry A. Wallace, A. J. Grindle and W. H. Wallace, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby created a body politic, by the name of the East Bluehill Telephone Company, with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and obligations granted and pre Corporators. -corporate name. CHAP. 77 construct a telephone line. scribed by the general laws of this state relating to corpora-authorized to tions. Said corporation shall have the right to locate, construct, maintain and operate a telephone line from the village of Bluehill to the village of East Bluehill and from thence to some point in the town of Surry. -route. May locate its line along any -may remove obstacles. SECT. 2. Said company shall have the right, within the public way, etc. limits aforesaid, to locate, construct and maintain its line upon and along any public way, bridge or private lands, but in such manner as not to incommode or endanger the customary use of such way or bridge. With the right to cut down trees, remove obstacles when necessary, within the limits aforesaid, except ornamental, fruit or shade trees, and with the power to establish and collect tolls on said line, provided, that the rights to construct and maintain said lines shall be subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight, public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and all rights and powers granted by this act shall be exercised in accordance with said chapter three hundred and seventy-eight. -collect tolls. Damages, how estimated in case of disagreement. Authorized to connect with other lines. Capital stock. First meeting, how called. SECT. 3. 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 as for land taken for highways. SECT. 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized to connect its line or lines with those of any other company, or to sell or lease its line either before or after completion to any other telephone or telegraph company, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, which sale or lease shall be binding upon the parties, or to purchase or lease any other line or lines of telephone or telegraph, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. SECT. 5. The amount of the capital stock shall be fixed by vote of the corporation, but not to exceed the amount that may from time to time be considered to be necessary for the purposes herein specified, but not exceeding six thousand. dollars, and said corporation may purchase, hold, sell and convey real estate and personal property necessary for the purposes contemplated in this charter. SECT. 6. Any one of the corporators named in this act, may call the first meeting of this company by mailing a written notice to each of the other corporators, seven days at least, before the day of meeting, naming the time, place and purposes of such meeting; and at such meeting, a presi- CHAP. 78 dent, secretary, treasurer and directors may be chosen, by laws adopted and any corporate business transacted. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved Februray 18, 1891. Chapter 78. An Act to incorporate the Thomaston Bank and Trust Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. C. Prince, William J. Singer, Niven C. Mehan, Corporators. B. W. Counce, Charles H. Washburn, Edwin A. Robinson, F. H. Jordan and T. A. Carr, or such of them as may by vote accept this charter, with their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Thomaston Bank and Trust Company, and as corporate such, shall be possessed of all the powers, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and obligations conferred on corporations by law, except as otherwise provided herein. name. SECT. 2. The corporation hereby created shall be located Location. at Thomaston, in the county of Knox and state of Maine, and may establish agencies in any part of this state. SECT. 3. The purposes of said corporation and the business Purposes. which it may perform, are: first, to receive on deposit, money, coin, bank notes, evidences of debt, accounts of individuals, companies, corporations and municipalities, allowing interest thereon, if agreed, or as the by-laws of said corporation may provide; second, to borrow money, to loan money on credits or real estate or personal security, and to negotiate loans and sales for others; to guarantee the payment of the principal and interest of all obligations secured by mortgages of real estate running to the said Thomaston Bank and Trust Company; to issue its own bonds or obligations based upon real or personal property conveyed to it in trust, to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations and the interest thereon; third, to hold for safe keeping all kinds of personal or mixed property, and to act as agent for the owners thereof, and of real estate, for collection of income on the same, and |