corporation shall have the power to make, ordain and estab- CHAP. 317 lish all necessary by-laws not inconsistent with law.

SECT. 4. A toll is hereby granted for the benefit of said Tollgranted. corporation, upon all passengers and property which may be conveyed or transferred on or over its railroad at such rates as may be established by its directors, and on such business. as it may do over its telephone and telegraph lines, and through its express facilities, subject to such general laws in relation thereto as are or may from time to time be established by the legislature.

SECT. 5. The said company is hereby authorized to make connections with any other railroad or railroads on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and to lease its road and property either before or after it shall have been completed, on such terms as it may determine, subject in all cases to the approval of the stockholders in each corporation. SECT. 6. The said corporation is authorized to purchase or lease the property and franchises of any connecting railroad corporation in this state of the same gauge, or to purchase and hold the stock and bonds of any such corporation, and all such connecting corporations or any corporation or association or person, claiming rights under the stock, bonds, mortgages or franchises of any such corporations are hereby authorized to make such sales or leases. All such property, franchises, stock and bonds so acquired may be pledged or mortgaged to secure the bonds hereinafter authorized.

May make

connections roads.

with other

May purchase franchise of road.

or lease

connecting

May issue

SECT. 7. Said corporation is authorized to issue its bonds from time to time to such an amount as may be required for bonds. the purposes authorized for this act, in such form and on such time and rates as the directors may deem advisable, and to secure the same by mortgage of its road, franchises and property, or in any other manner.

SECT. 8. If the said corporation is not organized and the location of its road, according to actual survey, is not filed with the county commissioners of the county of Kennebec, on or before the thirty-first day of December next, or if it shall fail to complete its road on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, then in either of the above mentioned cases this act shall be null and void as to all that part of said railroad not completed and finished on or before the date last above mentioned.

Time when

road must be

completed.

CHAP. 318

First meeting,

how called.

SECT. 9. The first meeting of the corporation may be called by any two of the corporators above named, by notice thereof in writing given or mailed to each corporator at least ten days before said meeting. Any corporator may act at such meeting by proxy.

SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 27, 1895.

Corporators.

Corporate

name.

-location.

May use steam or electricity.

-may maintain hotels, etc.

Chapter 318.

An Act to incorporate the Farmington, Waterville and Wiscasset Railroad

Company.

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

SECT. 1. H. B. Goodenough of Brighton, Massachusetts, V. B. Mead of Boston, Massachusetts, N. B. Beal of Phillips, W. F. P. Fogg of Waterville, P. H. Stubbs of Strong, Daniel M. Bonney of Farmington, N. Harding of New Sharon and Thomas Sampson of Winslow, and I. C. Libby, John Webber, C. E. Gray, P. S. Heald of Waterville, also W. C. Philbrook and Thomas Croswell of Farmington, Maine, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Farmington, Waterville and Wiscasset Railroad Company; and the said corporation is hereby authorized to locate, construct, equip and operate a railroad from some point in the city of Waterville through the towns of Oakland, Belgrade, Smithfield, Rome, Mercer and New Sharon to Farmington; and said corporation shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities provided by the statutes of this state respecting railroads.

SECT. 2. The said corporation is authorized to operate its railroad by steam or electricity, or both. It is further authorized to carry on the business of an express company, and to maintain telephone and telegraph lines for public use, along its location and to its general office in the city of Waterville. It may also erect and maintain hotels, cottages and pleasure grounds, near and around North pond and Great pond and the islands therein, provided, that the right of taking lands or other property shall not extend to property so

Capital stock.

to be used for such last named purposes, and all such lands CHAP. 318 or property shall be acquired by purchase and in no other way. SECT. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of not more than one thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, to be fixed from time to time by the corporation, and the immediate government of its affairs shall be vested in a board of directors to be chosen as the by-laws of said company may provide, who shall hold their offices until others are chosen and qualified in their places. The said corporation shall have the power to make, ordain and establish all necessary by-laws not inconsistent with law.

SECT. 4. A toll is hereby granted for the benefit of said Toll granted. corporation upon all passengers and property which may be conveyed or transferred on or over its railroad at such rates as may be established by its directors, and on such business as it may do over its telephone and telegraph lines, and through its express facilities, subject to such general laws in relation thereto, as are or may from time to time be established by the legislature.

SECT. 5. The said company is hereby authorized to make connections with any other railroad or railroads on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and to lease its road and property either before or after it shall have been completed, on such terms as it may determine, subject in all cases to the approval of the stockholders in each corporation.

SECT. 6. The said corporation is authorized to purchase or lease the property and franchises of any connecting railroad corporation in this state of the same gauge, or to purchase and hold the stock and bonds of any such corporation, and all such corporations or any corporation or association or person, claiming rights under the stock, bonds, mortgages or franchises of any such corporations are hereby authorized to make such sales or leases. All such property, franchises, stock and bonds so acquired may be pledged or mortgaged to secure the bonds hereinafter authorized.

May make with other

connections

roads.

May purchase property or connecting

or lease,

franchise of

roads.

bonds.

SECT. 7. Said corporation is authorized to issue its bonds May issue from time to time, to such an amount as may be required for the purposes authorized for this act, in such form and on such time and rates as the directors may deem advisable, and to secure the same by mortgage of its road, franchises and property, or in any other manner.

CHAP. 319

Time when road shall be completed.

First meeting, how called.

SECT. 8. If the said corporation is not organized and the location of its road, according to actual survey, is not filed with the county commissioners of the counties of Kennebec, Somerset and Franklin, on or before the thirty-first day of December next, or if it shall fail to complete its road on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, then in either of the above mentioned cases, this act shall be null and void as to all that part of said railroad not completed and finished on or before the date last above mentioned.

SECT. 9. The first meeting of the corporation may be called by any two of the corporators above named, by notice thereof in writing, given or mailed to each corporator at least ten days before said meeting. Any corporator may act. at such meeting, by proxy.

SECT. 10. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved March 27, 1895.

Corporators.

Corporate

name.

-location.

Chapter 319.

An Act to incorporate the Somerset Traction Company.

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

SECT. 1. Russell B. Shepherd, Thomas H. Anderson, Joseph P. Oak, Samuel W. Gould and Albert G. Blunt, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the Somerset Traction Company, with authority to construct, maintain and operate a street railroad by electricity, or animal power or both, with convenient single or double tracks, side tracks, switches and turnouts with necessary or convenient lines of poles, wires, appliances, appurtenances or conduits, from the Maine Central Railroad tracks on Russell street in the village of Skowhegan, and from the Skowhegan and Norridgewock Railway and Power Company's tracks on Water street at the junction of Madison street, in said village of Skowhegan, through the towns of Skowhegan and Madison to some point in the village of Madison and from some convenient point on the line of said road in the town of Madison, through the towns of Madison, Cornville and Athens, to some point in

the village of Athens, passing over and upon such streets and CHAP. 319 ways in said towns of Skowhegan, Madison, Cornville and Athens, as shall from time to time be determined and fixed by the municipal officers of said towns, and assented to in writing by said corporation, and shall also have authority to construct, maintain and operate said road over and upon any lands when the land damages have been mutually settled by said corporation and the owners thereof. The written assent of said corporation to any vote of the municipal officers of either of said towns, prescribing from time to time the routes of said railroad therein, shall be filed with the clerks of said towns and shall be taken and deemed to be the location thereof. Said corporation shall have power, from time to time, to fix such rates of compensation for the transporting persons tion. and property as it may deem expedient, and shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the liabilities of corporations as set forth in the forty-sixth chapter of the revised statutes.

SECT. 2. The municipal officers of said towns shall have power at all times to make such reasonable regulations for the removal of snow and ice from the streets, roads and ways by said company, at its expense, within each of said towns as public safety may require.

SECT. 3. Said corporation shall keep and maintain in repair such portions of the streets and ways as shall be occupied by the tracks of said railroad, and if not so repaired upon reasonable notice, such repairs may be made by said towns at the expense of said corporation.

Shall fix rates of compensa

Shall make

regulations

for removal of snow and

ice.

Shall keep portions of

street

Occupied by

its tracks, in

repair.

Penalty for obstructing

SECT. 4. If any person or persons shall willfully or maliciously obstruct said corporation in the use of its road or railroad. tracks, or the running of its cars or carriages thereon, such persons and all who shall aid or abet therein, shall be liable. to said corporation for all damage caused thereon, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or with imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding sixty days.

SECT. 5. The capital stock shall not exceed two hundred capital stock. thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred

dollars each.

SECT. 6. Said corporation shall have the power to lease, May hold real purchase, sell or hold such real and personal estate as may be

estate, etc.