CHAP. 524 May contract with to supply water town of Sullivan and for exemption from taxation. Penalty of Sullivan is hereby authorized by its selectmen to enter into contract with said company for a supply of water, and for such exemption from public burdens as the said town of Sullivan and said company may agree, which, when made shall be legal and binding on all parties thereto. SECT. 9. Whoever shall wilfully or maliciously in any Porrupting water. way corrupt the water of said pond or streams or any of the tributaries thereto, whether frozen or not, or shall wilfully or maliciously, in any way, render such waters impure, whether frozen or not, or whoever shall wilfully or maliciously injure any of the works of said company, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, and shall be liable to said company for three times the actual damage, to be recovered in any proper action. SECT. 10. The capital stock of said company shall be Capital stock. twenty-five thousand dollars, which may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars by a vote of said company, and said stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. estate. SECT. 11. Said company for all of its said purposes, may May hold real hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient therefor, not exceeding in amount one hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 12. Said company may issue its bonds for the con- -issue bonds. struction of its works of any and all kinds upon such rates and time as it may deem expedient, not exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars and secure the same by mortgage of the franchise and property of said company. how called. SECT. 13. The first meeting of said company may be Firt meeting called by a written notice thereof, signed by any two corporators herein named, 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. 14. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 6, 1885. CHAP. 525 Limits. Chapter 525. An Act to incorporate the Presque Isle Village Fire Department. SECT. 1. The territory embraced within the following described limits in the town of Presque Isle, to wit: Commencing on the road leading from Presque Isle village to Houlton at the north line of land of G. M. Park; thence easterly on the south line of land of Charles H. Clark, George F. Whitney, Dudley and Fairfield, and J. H. Lincoln to said Lincoln's east line; thence northerly on the east line of land of said Lincoln, and by Hardy, Judd and Blake to the Aroostook river; thence up the river to the mouth of the Presque Isle stream; thence up the said stream to the west of line of the George A. Parson's farm; thence northerly on the east lines of land owned by J. F. Dyer and John Allen to the farm owned by C. H. Thayer; thence westerly on the north line of land owned by John Allen and the Fairbanks heirs to the old town line between Presque Isle and Maysville and commencing on said line at the northwest. corner of land owned by L. S. Judd; thence on the west lines of said Judd and G. H. Freeman to the Presque Isle stream; thence up said stream to the north line of G. M. Park farm; thence easterly on said line to place of beginning; together with the inhabitants thereon, be and the same is Corporate name. hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Presque Isle Village Fire Department. Authorized to raise money to maintain fire department. Valuation, how taken. SECT. 2. Said corporation is hereby invested with power at any legal meeting called for the purpose, to raise money for the purchase, repair and preservation of one or more fire engines, hose and apparatus for the extinguishment of fire, for the procuring of water and for the organizing and maintaining within the limits of said territory an efficient fire department. SECT. 3. The money raised by said corporation for the purposes aforesaid shall be assessed upon the property within the said territory by the assessors of said corporation in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment of state taxes by the then last tax act, excepting the polls shall not be taxed, and said assessors may copy the then last valu ation made by the assessors of said town of Presque Isle, so far as it relates to the property within the limits of said corporation, and assess the tax thereon; or, if the corporation shall so direct, may correct said valuation, or make a new valuation, according to the principles of the then last state tax act, and assess the tax on that valuation. CHAP. 525 Assessment, how made. SECT. 4. Upon a certificate being filed with the assessors of said corporation by the clerk thereof of the amount of money raised at any meeting thereof for the purpose aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said assessors, as soon as may be, to assess said amount upon the estate of persons residing upon the territory aforesaid, and upon the estate of nonresident proprietors thereof, and the assessment so made to certify and deliver to the treasurer or collector of said cor- —collection of. poration, whose duty it shall be to collect the same in like manner as state taxes are by law collected by towns, and said corporation shall have the same power to direct the mode of collecting said taxes as towns have in the collection of town taxes. SECT. 5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of officers. five directors, a clerk, treasurer, collector, three assessors and four or more fire wardens and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation. SECT. 6. Said officers shall be chosen at the annual March when chosen. meeting of said corporation and shall hold office for one year, tenure. or until others are chosen and qualified in their place. They shall have the general management, supervision and direc- -powers. tion of the affairs of said corporation in the exercise of the powers herein granted to said corporation. by-laws. SECT. 7. The said corporation at any legal meeting there- May adopt of, may adopt a code of by-laws for the government of the same and for the efficient management of the fire department, provided, the same are not repugnant to the laws of this state. SECT. 8. No person shall be entitled to vote at any meet- Qualification of ings of said corporation, who shall not at the time reside within the limits of said corporation, and be qualified at the time to vote in said town. Voters. money. SECT. 9. Said corporation is authorized to hire money not Authorized to hire exceeding two thousand dollars for the corporate purposes of said corporation, and may at any legal meeting called for the CHAP. 525 Meeting for organization and this act, how called. how called. purpose, authorize their treasurer to hire any sum, not exceeding two thousand dollars, on such terms as the corporation may direct. SECT. 10. The meeting for organization and acceptance acceptance under under this act shall be called by the selectmen of said town of Presque Isle in the same manner as town meetings are Annual meetings now called and subsequent meetings of said corporation shall be called by the assessors of said corporation annually in the month of March, and at such other times and under such regulations as the by-laws of said corporation may provide, all in the same manner as town meetings are now called by selectmen. When act shall take effect. SECT. 11. This act shall take effect when approved and be in force when said corporation shall organize at any legal meeting called for that purpose. Approved March 6, 1885. ARTESIAN WATER CO.-THROWING REFUSE INTO KENNEBEC RIVER. Chapter 526. An Act to amend "An Act to amend chapter two hundred and twelve of the Private and Special Laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Artesian Water Company.'" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section thirteen of "an act to amend chapter two hundred and twelve of the private and special laws of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled 'an act to incorporate the Artesian Water Company," passed at this session of the legislature and signed by the governor, March four, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby repealed and said act is hereby declared not to have any force or effect until thirty days after the recess of this legislature, and no acts shall be done thereunder until the expiration of said thirty days. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. 767 CHAP. 526 Sec. 13, ch. 522, private laws of 1885, repealed. Chapter 527. An Act to amend chapter eighty of the Special Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, relating to the throwing of slabs and other refuse into the Kennebec River and its tributaries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Section two of chapter eighty of the special laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight is hereby amended by adding after the last word in said section the following words: 'or by action of debt before any court having competent jurisdiction, to the benefit of the county where the offense was committed,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Sec. 2, ch. 80, 1878, amended. special laws of recovered. 'SECT. 2. All the penalties under the provisions of the Penalties, how foregoing sections shall be recovered by complaint or indictment before any court having jurisdiction in like offenses or by action of debt before any court having competent jurisdiction, to the benefit of the county where the offense was committed.' SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 6, 1885. |