CHESTERVILLE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY-AMERICAN TURNING CO. Chapter 426. An Act to make valid the doings of the Chesterville Union Meeting House Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: The doings of the Chesterville Union Meeting House Society, at a meeting of said society held December eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, are hereby made legal and valid. Approved February 21, 1885. 583 CHAP. 426 Doings of Chesterville House Society, made valid. Chapter 427. An Act to authorize the American Turning Company to issue preferred stock. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. The American Turning Company, a corporation organized in accordance with the provisions of chapter twelve, of the private and special laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, is hereby authorized, with the approval and consent of a majority of the stock authorized by said chapter twelve, to issue preferred stock to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of the par value of ten dollars each, said amount to be in addition to the amount authorized by said chapter twelve. American Turn ing Co.. author ized to issue pre ferred stock. how paid. SECT. 2. Said preferred stock shall be entitled to semi- Dividends on, annual dividends of three and one-half per cent, to be paid from the net earnings of said corporation, before dividends are paid on any stock authorized by said chapter twelve, now or at any time hereafter outstanding, and to share pro rata with said stock so authorized by chapter twelve in any surplus applicable to dividends which may remain after paying dividends of six per cent per annum on said stock so authorized by chapter twelve, and said preferred dividends shall take precedence of any dividend or interest on any stock or other security hereafter issued by said corporation. SECT. 3. Said preferred stock shall, except as hereby provided, be entitled to all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities of said stock authorized by said chapter twelve, Preferred stock to have all rights, etc., of original stock. CHAP. 428 and shall be issued in such amounts, not to exceed said sum of fifty thousand dollars in the whole, as may from time to time be voted by a majority of the directors of said corpora tion. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 21, 1885. Sec. 1, ch. 180, private laws of 1879, amended. Police court for city of Belfast, established. Seal. Judge. Jurisdiction, original and exclusive. Concurrent jurisdiction. Exclusive jurisdiction. Chapter 428. An Act to amend chapter one hundred and eighty, Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, establishing the police court of the city of Belfast. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and eighty of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy nine is hereby amended so that it shall read as follows: 'SECT. 1. A police court shall be and hereby is established in and for the city of Belfast, in the county of Waldo, to be denominated the police court of the city of Belfast, which shall be a court of record, and have a scal, and consist of one judge, who shall reside in said Belfast, and be appointed and commissioned in the manner provided in the constitution, who shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction in all civil actions wherein the debt or damages do not exceed twenty dollars, except cases in which he is interested, in which both parties interested, or in which the party plaintiff, and the person or persons summoned as trustees shall be inhabitants of said Belfast, including prosecutions for penalties in which said city is interested, and actions of forcible entry and detainer, and all violations of the by-laws of said city, and concurrent jurisdiction with trial justices within said county, in all other civil matters which are by law within the jurisdiction of trial justices in said county, and exclusive jurisdiction over all criminal offenses within said city, and concurrent jurisdiction with trial justices within said county for all other criminal matters which are by law within the jurisdiction of trial justices in said county and original concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme judicial court in all personal actions in which the debt or damages do not exceed fifty dollars, and are over twenty dollars, and the defendant or defendants are residents in said county of Waldo, but this jurisdiction shall not include proceedings under the divorce laws, complaints under the mill act, or proceedings under the divorce act, and any person aggrieved by any judgment rendered by said judge, may appeal therefrom to the supreme judicial court for said county, in like manner as from judgment of trial justices.' CHAP. 428 Not to include bastardy pro divorce, mill, and ceedings. SECT. 2. Section four of said chapter is hereby amended Sec. 4, amended. so that it shall read as follows: 'SECT. 4. In case said judge shall be unable, by reason of sickness, absence from said city, or other disability, to attend at the time and place provided in the preceding section for transaction of civil business, said court shall stand adjourned until the next term, and so from term to term, without costs to either party, until the said judge is able to attend, and during the continuance of any such absence or disability of said judge, trial justices in said county shall have authority to exercise in all criminal matters the powers conferred by this act upon said judge.' Inability of judge to attend, court to be adjourned without cost. SECT. 3. Section five of said chapter is hereby amended Sec. 5, amended. by adding thereto the following words: Provided, however, that the city council of said city of Belfast may, by an ordi nance, establish a salary for said judge not exceeding one Salary of judge. thousand dollars nor less than six hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by said city in quarter-yearly payments, in which case said judge shall account for and pay into the treasury of said city, all fees received by him in all criminal matters, except for copies.' SECT. 4. Said chapter is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following sections: SECT. 11. Trial justices are hereby restricted from exercising any jurisdiction, within said city of Belfast, over any criminal matter, except as provided in this act.' · SECT. 12. When the office of judge of said court shall be vacant by death, resignation, or removal of the residence of said judge from said city, trial justices of said county of Waldo may perform within said city all acts and duties appertaining to the office of trial justice; and all proceedings commenced during such vacancy shall be finally determined by the trial justice, before whom the same were commenced, Jurisdiction of criminal matters, trial justices in restricted. In case of vacanmay perform cy, trial justices duties of judge. CHAP. 429 When act shall take effect. or by some other trial justice within said county; and in case of such vacancy, all proceedings pending in said court shall stand continued to the term of said court next holden after such vacancy is filled.' SECT. 5. This act shall take effect on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. Approved February 21, 1885. Bec. 1, ch. 287, private laws of 1859, amended. Corporators. Corporate name. Chapter 429. An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate the Harrison Mutual Fire Insurance Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one of chapter two hundred and eighty-seven, of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and fiftynine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECT. 1. Sumner Burnham, George Pierce, Silas Blake, Philander Tolman, Charles Thomes, Samuel Thomes, Benjamin F. Pierce, Amos P. Foster, Jonathan Whitney, Solomon L. Andrews, John E. Dunnels, John Dawes, Joshua Howard, Henry Roby, Stephen Blake, Edward K. Whitney, Albion K. Morse, Cyrus Haskell, Thomas R. Sampson, and all others who may hereafter become members of said company, in manner herein prescribed, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of the Harrison Mutual Fire Insurance Company, for the purpose of insuring, in the town of Harrison only, provided, however, if the company so vote, they shall have the right to insure, in the manner town of Otisfield. hereafter described, in the town of Otisfield also, their respective dwelling houses, stores, shops, barns and other buildings, household furniture, merchandise and other property, against loss or damage by fire, whether the same happen by accident, lightning, or by any other means, excepting that May hold real and of design in the insured; and may purchase and hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary to effect the object of this association, and may sell and convey the same at pleasure.' May, by vote, insure property in personal estate. Approved February 21, 1885. Chapter 430. An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate Pond's Sheer Boom Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: CHAP. 430 Pond's Sheer Boom Co. may lease property to Sheer Boom Improvement Co. Successors to have Proviso. SECT. 1. In addition to the powers contained in section three of said act hereby amended, the said Pond's Sheer Boom Company may lease to the said Sheer Boom Improvement Company mentioned in said third section, and their successors and assigns, all the franchises and powers given all powers, etc., of by the said act hereby amended, to the said Pond's Sheer Corporation. Boom Company, and upon such lease being made, the said Sheer Boom Improvement Company, their successors and assigns, shall have all the powers, rights and duties as far as the same may be given by the lease that but for the lease would, under said act hereby amended and this act inure to, belong to or vest in the said Pond's Sheer Boom Company. Provided, always, that all the powers, rights and privileges granted by this act shall be in force, with power also in the Pond's Sheer Boom Company to make the lease or leases referred to in this section of this act, and in section three of the amended act, notwithstanding the tolls on the Saint John river and Aroostook river may be increased by the legislature of the Province of New Brunswick to the rates following, namely: For all timber, logs and lumber driven down Tolls, may be the Saint John river, and which have passed over, through or by any of the booms of the said The Sheer Boom Improvement Company, on said Saint John river, as follows: five cents per thousand feet, board measure, on all such timber, logs and lumber, as may come into the Saint John river from the Maduxnekeag river, and from any point or place on the Saint John river below the mouth of the Maduxnekeag river and above the Macnaquack stream at the upper limits of the Fredericton Boom Company; eight cents per thousand feet; board measure, on all such timber, logs and lumber as may come into the Saint John river from the Presque Isle stream, and from any point or place on the Saint John river below said Presque Isle stream and above the said Maduxnekeag river; ten cents per thousand feet, board measure, on all such timber, logs and lumber as may come into the Saint John river at Little river, near the increased, where. |