-quorum.

duties.

and regulations for the government of the board, and the CHAP. 206 better to facilitate its work, as may be deemed best. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but in case of vacancies in said board, a majority of the members remaining in office may fill such vacancies in the manner provided in section two of this act. Said committee shall exercise all the powers and perform all powers and the duties which are now conferred and imposed upon the superintending school committee by the laws of this state; shall have and exercise the exclusive right to employ teachers for the several school districts in the town and shall perform all the duties relating to the care and management of the public schools and school property of said town, that are now legally conferred upon the superintending school committee and school agents, except as otherwise provided in this act. Said committee shall receive no compensation for their services except by vote of said town, and the total amount of such compensation for any one year shall not exceed fifty dollars.

-compensation.

elect annually a superintendent.

SECT. 4. Said committee shall annually, and whenever Committee shall there is a vacancy, elect a superintendent of schools who shall be duly sworn, and shall be under the direction of and be responsible to said committee and shall exercise such of their powers as they may from time to time confer upon him. They shall determine his compensation and term of service and may at any time dismiss him, if they deem it proper or expedient. And such dismissal will deprive him of further compensation. His compensation shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was elected. The fact of the election of a superintendent and his compensation shall be duly certified to the clerk of said town. In the case of the election of one of their own number as superintendent, he shall thereby cease to be a member of the committee and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinafter provided.

furnished

SECT. 5. A suitable and convenient room shall be fur- Room shall be nished by the town for the superintendent's office and the superintendent. meetings of said committee wherein shall be kept their records, open to the inspection of citizens of the town.

shall furnish

estimate of

SECT. 6. Said committee shall annually, before the spring Committee, municipal election, furnish to the selectmen of the town an estimate in detail of the several sums required, during the ensuing municipal year, for the support of public schools in

expense,

and amount

expended.

CHAP. 207 said town, and the expenditures shall not be increased beyond the amount appropriated therefor.

Inconsistent acts, repealed.

Members of superintending

tee, empowered

to elect a

SECT. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, are, as far as the town of Farmington is concerned, hereby repealed.

SECT. 8. When this act shall take effect, the members of school commit the superintending school committee of the town of Farmington, shall become a committee of three persons empowered to elect two more to constitute a school committee of five persons as heretofore provided in section one, having all the powers and duties as provided in the foregoing sections.

school committee.

Doings of town, made valid.

SECT. 9. The acts and doings of the town of Farmington in their town meeting of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, relating to the approval of this act in full, and in relation to the vote passed at said meeting to have this enactment, on becoming a law, go into effect as heretofore provided in section eight, are hereby legalized and made valid, notwithstanding an omission to provide for such acts and doings in the warrant for said municipal meeting. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 12, 1891.

Town divided.

-corporate limits.

Chapter 207.

An Act to divide the town of Jonesborough and incorporate the town of Roque Bluffs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. All that part of the town of Jonesborough lying easterly of the main channel of Chandler's river and southerly and easterly of a line beginning on the westerly line of lot number six according to plan and survey of Benjamin R. Jones of the original township of Jonesborough at Steep Creek, so called, which is the easterly branch of Tide Mill creek, and running northerly by the westerly line of said lot number six to the north-west corner thereof, thence easterly by the northerly line thereof to the north-east corner thereof, thence southerly by the easterly line thereof to the northwesterly corner of lot number two in the third range east of Chandler's river, thence easterly by the northerly line of last named lot to the north-easterly corner thereof, thence north

erly by the westerly line of lot number two in the second CHAP. 207 range to the north-westerly corner thereof, thence easterly by the northerly line of last named lot and lot number two in first range to the dividing line between said town of Jonesborough and the town of Whitneyville, together with the inhabitants thereof, is incorporated into a separate town by the name of Roque Bluffs, and said town of Roque Bluffs corporate is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties and obligations incident to other towns of the state.

name.

Town of Roque to pay all taxes

Bluffs, holden

assessed by town of Jonesborough.

all moneys in

treasury of Jonesborough,

shall be applied which raised.

to purposes for

liabilities, how

SECT. 2. The several inhabitants of the town of Roque Bluffs shall be holden to pay all taxes which have been legally assessed upon them by the town of Jonesborough, and the several collectors of taxes of the town of Jonesborough are hereby authorized and required to collect and pay all taxes to them already committed according to their respective warrants. All moneys now in the treasury of said town of Jonesborough, and all sums hereafter received from taxes already assessed, shall be applied to the several purposes for which they were raised, and in case of any excess, the said excess shall be applied by the treasurer of Jonesborough in payment of the indebtedness of said town of Jonesborough. SECT. 3. The existing liabilities of the town of Jones- Existing borough shall be divided as follows. The town debt shall be divided. borne by said towns in proportion to the valuation of their respective territories as taken by the assessors in April eighteen hundred and ninety. Each town shall henceforth bear all expenses for the care and maintenance of all roads and bridges within its respective limits. The expense of aiding or maintaining all paupers now being aided or supported by the town of Jonesborough or to be aided or supported up to the time of division, is to be borne by each town in proportion to the valuation of their respective territories as taken by the assessors in April eighteen hundred and ninety. After division all paupers are to be maintained and supported by the town in whose territory they resided when they became paupers, excepting Christopher P. Decker and Jerusha Look, who are now being supported by the town of Jonesborough. Whatever expense may be incurred after division in aiding or supporting said two persons while they live, is to be borne by both towns in the proportion aforesaid.

CHAP. 208

Real and

personal estate,

shall be owned in common.

School districts.

Representative district.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 4. All the real and personal property now owned by the town of Jonesborough shall hereafter be owned by the said towns, in common, in the proportion of their respective valuations as aforesaid, and shall be divided accordingly. The records and papers of the town of Jonesborough shall be hereafter retained by said town of Jonesborough and each town shall have access to the same.

SECT. 5. The several school districts divided by this act shall be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to school districts composed of parts of towns.

SECT. 6. Until a new apportionment of the state shall be made, the town of Jonesborough and the town of Roque Bluffs shall remain in the same representative district with which the town of Jonesborough is now classed.

SECT. 7. Any justice of the peace in the county of Washington may issue his warrant to any legal voter in the town of Roque Bluffs, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof to meet at a time and place specified in said warrant, giving at least seven days notice therefor, for the choice of town officers and to transact such business as towns are authorized to do.

SECT. 8. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 12, 1891.

Corporators.

-corporate name.

-powers.

Chapter 208.

An Act to incorporate the Dead River North Branch Log Driving Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. That Milton G. Shaw, Charles D. Shaw, William M. Shaw, Albert H. Shaw, Stephen A. Nye, F. B. Purinton, G. A. Phillips, C. H. Phillips, Elias Milliken, E. P. Viles, James Dudley, Lucius Dudley, their associates and successors be and they are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Dead River North Branch Log Driving Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgment and execution both in law and equity, and may make and adopt all necessary regulations and by-laws not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state, and may adopt a common seal

and the same may alter, break and renew at pleasure, and CHAP. 208 may purchase and hold real and personal estate sufficient for carrying on the business of said Dead River North Branch Log Driving Company, and may grant and raise money may raise

money by loans.

-may erect

by loan or assessment for the same and for driving. And said company shall drive all the logs and lumber on the north branch of Dead river from the mouth of Alder stream at said Dead river, to the forks of the north and south branches of said Dead river and into the limits of the Dead River Log Driving Company. And said company for the purposes aforesaid may erect dams, booms and sluices, dams, etc. remove rocks and other obstructions in said north branch of said Dead river and in said Dead river, and may take land take land, and material for building said dams and making said improvements by making compensation therefor to the owners thereof. Said company shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities incident to corporations of a similar nature.

etc.

SECT. 2. The officers of said company shall be a clerk, Officers. treasurer and a board of five directors to be chosen by ballot, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary, who may be appointed by said directors, unless they shall be chosen at the annual meeting, all of whom shall hold their offices until the next annual meeting, or until others are chosen or appointed in their stead. The clerk, treasurer and directors shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. The treasurer shall give a bond to the acceptance of said directors. The directors shall at their first meeting, elect one of their number who shall be the president of said company. And no person shall be eligible to the office of director unless he is a member of said corporation.

members.

SECT. 3. Any person, persons or corporations, or their who may agents owning logs or lumber to be driven on said north branch of Dead river, or said Dead river at the date of the annual meeting shall be members of the Dead River North Branch Log Driving Company, and shall so continue for one year at least from that date, and shall have all the privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities thereto. Said members shall be entitled to vote at any meeting of the company as follows: each member one vote.

be

SECT. 4. The members of said company owning logs or Members, shall lumber to be driven down said north branch of said Dead logs to be

file statement of

driven.