CHAP. 306 Chapter 306. An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from North Pond, so called, and its tributaries, in the towns of Woodstock and Greenwood in the county of Oxford. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are hereby prohibited from taking or catching any fish from the waters of North Pond, or its tributaries, situated in the towns of Woodstock and Green wood in the county of Oxford, between the first day of November and the first day of May following in each year, for the term of five years. Taking of fish from North pond between Nov. 1 and May 1, prohibited. violation. SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of Penalty, for this act, shall be punished by fine of five dollars for each fish so taken, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice or other court in said Oxford county, one-half to the use of the complainant and the other half to the use of said county. Approved March 27, 1891. Chapter 307. An Act to amend chapter two hundred and seventy of the Special Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to prohibit the taking of migratory fish from Medomak River." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter two hundred and seventy of the special laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby amended, so that the same shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. All persons are hereby prohibited from taking any smelts, ale wives or other migratory fish from the Medomak river in the county of Lincoln or its tributaries northerly of a line drawn from the southerly point of Jones' neck in the town of Waldoboro, westerly to Heath's point in the town of Bremen, by means of weirs, traps, drag nets with meshes less than one inch square, or other contrivances for taking fish, except with hook and line or dip nets, for the term of ten years.' Approved March 27, 1891. Sec. 1, ch. 270, 1887, amended. Special Laws of Taking of fish rizer, except from Medomak with hook and line or dip net, prohibited. CHAP. 308 Corporators. -corporate name. Authorized to stock Wilson pond. -may take waters. -liable for all damages. Chapter 308. An Act to incorporate the Lake Auburn Fish Protective Association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Henry H. Hanson, A. G. Whitman, W. K. Oakes, Charles Horbury, Charles Walker, Ira T. Waterman, George G. Gifford, C. F. Curtis, H. B. Sawyer, J. N. Wood, J. W. Ricker, J. L. H. Cobb, George E. McCann, George B. Bearce, William Dickey, O. G. Douglass, William P. Frye, A. E. Frost, E. T. Gile, J. A. Greenleaf, Harry E. Andrews, W. W.Stetson, N. W. Harris, Albert Haskell, N. I. Jordan, J. G. Kelley, J. W. Mitchell, W. H. Newell, Charles H. Osgood, A. M. Penley, John Pickard, D. E. Parlin, W. A. Robinson, G. C. Wing, Edwin Wakefield, O. M. Barnard, F. W. Dana, W. E. Callahan, J. B. Daniels, Henry Little, Jesse M. Libby and A. R. Savage, their associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby created a corporate body by the name of the Lake Auburn Fish Protective Association, and in that name may acquire and hold real and personal estate to the amount of five thousand dollars, and shall possess all the rights and privileges of similar corporations under the general law. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to stock Wilson pond or other waters in said Auburn, Maine, with fish and to propagate the same therein, under the approval of the fishery commissioners of the state of Maine, and for said purposes is vested with authority to take, detain and use the waters of any brook, stream or spring in said Auburn and such land as may be necessary for erecting and maintaining a hatchery for propagating fish together with such land as may be necessary to make and maintain a way thereto; and said corporation shall be held liable to pay all damages sustained by any person by reason of such taking of land or by the use of the waters aforesaid, and if such person and said association cannot 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 restrictions and limitations as are by law prescribed in case of damage by laying out of railroads. Officers and SECT. 3. Said corporation shall elect annually a board of CHAP. 309 officers and adopt by-laws and regulations for its government, by-laws. not inconsistent with the laws of the state. SECT. 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall not Capital stock, exceed five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares, in numbers and amounts as shall be determined by the associates. SECT. 5. Any incorporator named in section one, may First meeting, call the first meeting for the purpose of organizing, by giving notice in any daily newspaper published in Auburn or Lewiston, at least seven days before said meeting. Approved March 27, 1891. how called. Chapter 309. An Act authorizing the town of Hampden to receive money in trust for Hampden Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The town of Hampden in the county of Penobscot is hereby authorized to receive, hold in trust and invest for the benefit of Hampden Academy, in said town any sum or sums of money which may be given to said academy, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars; provided, however, that said town shall at any legal meeting, vote to accept such trust. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 27, 1891. Town of Hampden, may receive and hold money in trust for Hampden Academy. Chapter 310. An Act to make valid the doings of the town of Orland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Doings of town of Orland, made SECT. 1. The oaths administered to the selectmen, assessors, and other officers, by the moderator in the town of valid." Orland, county of Hancock, Maine, for the years from eighteen hundred and eighty to eighteeen hundred and eightyeight inclusive, are hereby made legal and valid, and the acts CHAP. 311 of said officers are hereby made as legal and valid as the same would have been if said oaths had been administered in accordance with the provisions of law in force during said period. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 28, 1891. Taking of trout from Bog brook in Minot and Hebron, prohibited for three years. Penalty, for violation. Chapter 311. An Act to prohibit the taking of trout from Bog Brook and its tributaries in the towns of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. All persons are hereby prohibited from taking trout from Bog brook and its tributaries in the towns of Minot and Hebron, by any means, from any point northerly from Hawkes' pond in the town of Minot for three years, and from any point southerly of said pond, except during the months of April and May, for three years. SECT. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for the offense, and a further penalty of one dollar for each trout so taken, to be recovered on complaint before any trial justice in any county where the offense is committed, one-half to the complainant and one-half to the county where the penalty is recovered. Approved March 28, 1891. B. & A. R.R., authorized to preferred stock. Chapter 312. An Act to authorize the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company to issue preferred stock. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company is issue additional hereby authorized and empowered to make and issue preferred stock to an amount not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amount of the capital stock of said company provided for in the articles of association of, and the certificate issued by the secretary of state to said company as how paid. provided in chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, and in CHAP. 313 addition to the preferred stock which said company is author- -dividends, ized and empowered to make and issue to Aroostook county, but the dividend to be paid on the preferred stock which may be issued to Aroostook county shall be paid, before any dividend is paid on the preferred stock authorized to be issued by this act. SECT. 2. The holders of the preferred stock authorized to be issued by this act, shall not be entitled to vote upon said stock in stockholders' meeting. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 28, 1891. Chapter 313. An Act to legalize the proceedings by which Camp Benson Grand Army of the Republic Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The proceedings by which Camp Benson Grand Army of the Republic Association of Maine was organized, at Newport, on the twelfth of September, eighteen hundred and eightyseven are hereby confirmed and the organization is hereby declared legal and valid. Approved March 28, 1891. Doings and organization of valid. Chapter 314. An Act to incorporate the People's Prohibitory Enforcement League of Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: name. SECT. 1. John C. Stewart, Sidney T. Fuller and John W. Corporators. Mitchell, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the People's Pro- corporate hibitory Enforcement League of Maine, for the purpose of securing a thorough and effective enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law of the state of Maine, and efficiency in the law itself. |