CHAP. 315 Powers and privileges. Capital stock. May hold real estate. First meeting, how called. SECT. 2. Said corporation may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, make for its government by-laws not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state, and have and enjoy all appropriate and necessary powers and privileges usually granted to corporations. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one dollar each. SECT. 4. For its uses and purposes said corporation may acquire, by gift or purchase, and hold with full power to dispose of, real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 5. The first meeting of this corporation may be called by either of the corporators, by giving a written notice of the time and place thereof to each corporator, at least seven days before the meeting. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 31, 1891. West Waldo -limits. Organization. Powers. Chapter 315. An Act to incorporate the West Waldo Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The West Waldo Agricultural Society which was organized under the general laws of Maine, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby incorporated an agricultural society, to be known by the name of the West Waldo Agricultural Society. Said society is hereby established at Liberty village and includes the towns of Liberty, Montville, Searsmont and Palermo, Maine, and may take and hold property real or personal, to an amount, the annual income of which shall not exceed one thousand dollars, to be applied to the advancement of agriculture and mechanic arts. SECT. 2. The organization of said society may consist of its present organization and it may retain its property and privileges. SECT. 3. Said society shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities and restrictions usually granted to and imposed upon similar societies. SECT. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 31, 1891. CHAP. 316 Inconsistent acts, repealed. Chapter 316. An Act to supply the people of Dexter Village and vicinity with pure water. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Charles M. Sawyer, Nathan F. Roberts, Albert Corporators. F. Bradbury, Levi Bridgham, Warren H. Carr, B. F. Eldridge, and Charles D. Roberts, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Silver Lake Water Company, for the purpose of conveying to and supplying Dexter village and vicinity with pure water, for domestic and other purposes. -corporate name. estate. SECT. 2. Said corporation for said purposes may hold May hold real real and personal estate necessary and convenient therefor, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. from Silver lake. SECT. 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized for the May take water purpose aforesaid, to take, detain and use the water of Silver lake in the town of Dexter, in the county of Penobscot, and is also authorized to erect and maintain force pumps, reservoirs and dams, and lay down and maintain pipes and aqueducts necessary for the proper accumulating, conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing of water, and forming proper reservoirs thereof; and said corporation may take and hold may take land. by purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate necessary therefor, and may excavate through any lands, when necessary for the purposes of this incorporation. damages, and how ascertained. SECT. 4. Said corporation shall be held liable to pay all Liable for all damages that shall be sustained by any person by the taking of any land or other property, or by flowage, or by excavating through any land for the purpose of laying down pipes and aqueducts, building dams and reservoirs, and also damages for any other injuries resulting from said acts; and if any person sustaining damage as aforesaid, and said corporation can not mutually agree upon the sum to be paid therefor, such person may cause his damages to be ascertained in the СНАР. 316 Capital stock. Authorized to lay pipes in ard through the streets. -responsible for all damages. May make contracts to supply water. -town, may contract for water supply, and exempt from taxation. May cross any private or public sewer. same manner and under the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as are by law prescribed in the case of damages by the laying out of railroads. SECT. 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be forty thousand dollars, which may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars by a vote of said corporation, and said stock shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. SECT. 6. Said corporation is hereby authorized to lay down, in and through the streets and ways in said town of Dexter, and to take up, replace, and repair all such pipes, aqueducts and fixtures, as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, under such reasonable restrictions. as may be imposed by the selectmen of said town. And said corporation shall be responsible for all damages to persons and property occasioned by the use of such streets and ways, and shall further be liable to pay to said town all sums recovered against said town for damages from obstruction caused by said corporation, and for all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred in defending such suits, with interest on the same. SECT. 7. Said corporation is hereby authorized to make contracts with said town of Dexter, and with all other corporations and individuals for the purposes of supplying water as contemplated by said act; and said town of Dexter, by its selectmen is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with said company for the supply of water, and for exemption from public burden as said town and said company may agree upon which, when made, shall be legal and binding upon all parties thereto. SECT. 8. Said corporation shall have power to cross any private or public sewer, or to change the direction thereof when necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, but in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, and said corporation shall be liable for any injury caused thereby; whenever the company shall lay down any pipes in obstruct public any street, or make any alterations or repairs upon its works in any street, it shall cause the same to be done with as little obstruction to public travel as may be practicable, and shall at its own expense, without unnecessary delay cause the earth and pavements removed by it to be replaced in proper condition. -shall not unnecessarily travel. SECT. 9. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the construction of its works, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient, not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, and secure the same by mortgage of the franchise and property of said company. SECT. 10. In case the works of this corporation shall not have been put into actual operation within four years from the date of the approval of this act, the rights and privileges herein granted shall be null and void. CHAP. 317 May issue bonds, and property. mortgage Act void, it works are not put in operation within 4 years. how called. SECT. 11. The first meeting of said corporation may be First meeting, called by a written notice thereof, signed by any three corporators herein named, served upon each corporator, by giving him the same in hand, or by leaving the same at his last usual place of abode, seven days before the time of meeting. SECT. 12. Said corporation may issue its bonds for the May issue construction of its works, upon such rates and times as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the amount of its capital stock and secure the same by mortgage of its franchise and property of said company. SECT. 13. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 31, 1891. bonds. Chapter 317. An Act in favor of the Bath Water Supply Company and the Pejepscot Water Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The Bath Water Supply Company and the Pejepscot Water Company are authorized to sell or lease, either to the other or to acquire either from the other, the whole or any of the franchises or property of either, or to consolidate the management of the capital stock of the two corporations in such manner and under such name as may be approved by a majority of the outstanding stock of each of the two corporations. SECT. 2. After such sale, lease or consolidation, the corporation acquiring the franchise of the Bath Water Supply Company shall hold the same subject to the contract right of the city of Bath to purchase the same, and subject to all con CHAP. 317 Company, authorized to increase water supply. Bath Water shall not change present source of supply, without consent of city. Companies, and mortgage property. tract rights of the city of Bath with the National Water Works Syndicate. The franchise of the Pejepscot Water Company shall be similarly held as required by the existing contract between said company and the town of Brunswick. All instruments of sale, lease, consolidation or mortgage under this act shall contain suitable provisions to protect and preserve said contract rights. SECT. 3. The said Bath Water Supply Company and Pejepscot Water Company or either of them, or any corporation which may be formed by their consolidation, subject to the existing contract rights of the city of Bath and the town of Brunswick, are hereby authorized to increase their present water supply by taking water from any source in said Bath, Brunswick, West Bath, Topsham or Bowdoin, and as incidental thereto to take all lands and rights of way necessary therefor, paying the damages thereby caused in the manner now provided by their existing charters. The said Bath Water Supply Company shall not by itself, or through any sale, lease or consolidation, nor shall any corporation formed under this act, change its present source of supply or divert any water from its present source of supply under its existing contract to purposes not now embraced in said contract without the consent of the city of Bath so long as said contract is in force and not modified: SECT. 4. The Bath Water Supply Company, the Pejepscot may issue bonds Water Company and any corporation which may be formed by their consolidation, are each authorized from time to time to issue bonds, or other obligations for improving or extending its works, for meeting existing liabilities and for other lawful uses, and may secure the whole, or any part by mortgages of franchise or property, or in such other way as the corporation may determine. Rights of city and town shall not be abridged. Consolidated corporation, all existing SECT. 5. Nothing herein contained shall in any way affect or abridge the rights of the city of Bath or the town of Brunswick, under any contract made with either of the above named companies. SECT. 6. Upon either or any of the leases, sales or conheld to perform solidations hereby authorized, the corporation formed by such consolidation or the corporation so leasing or purchasing the property and franchises of the other, shall thereafter faithfully perform all the obligations of any and all contracts then obligations and contracts. |