The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-02-24

creuie 10 Dulld railroad lntO ArOOSloOK cOun-
ty.
Act authorizing the extension of the Aroos.
TOOK River Railroad to Fort Kent.
Act extending the time of locating the Aroos-
took River Railroad
Act extending the time for Bangor to aid the
Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Co.
ACT to extend the time for completion OF the
Bangor and Piscataqus Railroad
Act to confine the location of the Boston and
Maine railroad N Berwick and North Berwick,
SUBJECT to certain restrictions.
ACT amending act authorizing Bangor to aid
Bangor and Piscataquis Rralroad Co. in ex-
tending its construction.
Act giving the North Aroostook Railroad Co
1urtner time to make its location.
Acts authorizing the Maine ,Centeral R. r.
Co. to connect its track in Lewiston and to dis
continue The Sabattus branch.
An act to provide rights of railroad stock
holders and bondholders which provides that
bondholders OF roads in the hands of trustees
may elect Dy ballot new trustees or fill vacan-
cles, VINO shall be confirmed by any judge of
the Supreme court to whom ans person in in
terest applies after hearing.
An act to provide for securing the right of
mortgage bondholders. 1t provides that the
holders of bonds or scrip of any railroad in the
hands of trustees, shall have right to all the
franchises, lands, ETC., which the bonds cover
whether the mortgage has been foreclosed or
not
An act amending CHI 81, sec. 81, R. s. rela-
ting to railroads. lit provides that the trustees
of any railroad into whose hands it has fallen
by reason of non-payment of interest on lands
shall keep an accurate account of receipts and
expenditures thereof for inspection, keep up
the road, and apply the balance for damages
for misfeasance in management or the road
and devote the balance to the claims of parties
under the mortgage. Trustees are not person
ally liable except for malfeasauce and fraud
and when all over due interest is paid shall
turn over the road to the company
TOWNS CITIES AND PLANTATIONS.
But two new towns have been Incorporated.
Several plantations petitioned for incorporation,
but the proprietors opposed and their petitions
went to the next Legislature. The town of
Linneus very generally petiti2ned that the ad
joining plantation No. 8, r. 2, Aroostook coun-
ty, be incorporated ON the ground that it had a
population of 700, and should take care of its
OWE paupers. but the Legislature deemed it not
best. The following legislation relates to towns,
etc.:
Act annexipg to the town of Casco, Sougo,
Gore and the Dingley Islands in Sebago Lake,
thirteen in number.
Act authorizing the town of Lyndon to loan
its credit in aid of the Aroostook River Rail-
road an additional per cent over the 8 per
cent, allowed by law
Act to authorize Georgetown to bnld free
bridge across tide water.
Act to change the name of Dalton to Ash
land, its former name.
Act to make valid the dongs of the town of
Lyndon in voting aid to the Aroostook River
Railroad.
Act to set off j. M Leighton's estate from
Steuben to Millbridge.
Act to establish the line between Parsonsfeld
and Cornish.
Act amending the present law so that Coun-
ty Commissioners shall be required to take a
census once in five years, dating from 1861 of
such plantations as have less than 200 popula-
ton, and return the same to the Secretary of
State.
Acts incorporating the town of Haynesville,
in Aroostook county, and the town of Waite,
Washington county.
Acts creating the Hartland and Winthrop
village corporations for protection against fire,
for police, etc.
An act so amending sec. 40 CHI. r. S.. that
towns may hereafter assess such part of the
entire tax upon polls instead of one-sixth as
heretofore provided.
Act authorizing towns to charge interest on
taxes not paid within given time, said tax
not to exceed one per centum per month.
An act providing that when person moves
to town for the purpose of tending draw
bridge, be shall not thereby obtain residence
in that town by reason of such residence.
LITERARY AND CHARITABLE.
The following acts may be included under
the head of ''Lterary and Chartable:'
Act authorizing the Union of the Portland
Athenaum and the Portland Institute and
Public Library, and to empower the conversion
Of the same into Free Public Library.
Act incorporating Fl. A. Shorey, Byron Kim
ball, Jas. N. Heed, n. G. Cummings, Geo. A.
Callahan, S. w. Lane, A. l.. Brown and their
associates and successors in continual success
sion, for the purposes of mutual life assurance,
under the name of the Odd Fellows Mutual
Relief Association OF Maine
Act to emend the act charteiing the Alumni
of Bates College.
Act Incorporating the Masonic Temple OF
Belfast
Act Incorporating the Home for Aged Men
at Bangor. The act incorporates several of
the leading citizens of Bangor for the purpose
of providing home for aged men. The
amount of property held is limited to 100000,
which the society may manage to their discre-
ton
An act incorporating the Mason's Mutual
Relief Association at Mechanic Falls.
Act authorizing the Baptist Society of War
rem to transfer real estate etc.
Act amending the charter of the Yearly
Meeting of the New England Society Of
Friends.
An act to incorporate the Maine Temper
ance Camp Meeting Association with a right
tc hold property to the value of 100000. The
incorporators are Nelson Dingley, Jr.. j. B.
Coyle, M. G. Palmer and large number of
prominent temperance men IN the various
towns of the state.
An act to incorporate the Maine General
Homeopathic Hospital. The incorporators
number about seventy, including many of the
principal citizens of the State.
TIDAL WATERS.
The following are the acts passed affecting
tidal waters and authorizing special privileges
on lands adjacent there to:
Bill Incorporating Ezra Carter, Seth Scam
mon, M. M. Moulton, Horatio Hight and
several other owners of fresh meadows and salt
marsh along the Dunston now in ScaIboro into
corporation to be known as the Snuthgate
to dyke the marsh aloug Dunston river north
of the P. S. & 2. Railroad bridge and for that
purpose are empowered to take sufficient marsh
for dykes and sideways.
Acts authorizing N. w. Carnage to extend
wharf into tide waters of Bristol; authorizing
Mark Marshall to do same at Marshall's Cove,
st. George; authorizing John Neal to do same
at Kittery; authorizing Charles Russell to ex-
tend wharf into the tide waters of the Ken
nebec in Bowdoinham; authorizing the Laconia
and Pepperell Manufacturing companies to
connect piers of their wharveS in SacO river.
Act to protect Medornak river in Waldoboro.
The act prohibits the constitution of any fish
ways in the waters of Medornak river below
the lower bridge aud Hollis Point without per-
mission of the harbor master whom the town
the penalty of from 5000 10 $500 and cost of
removal; and all fish ways allowed to remain
contrary to the provisions of the act after May
l, 1876 are declared nuisances and subject to
the same penalty.
INSURANCE.
The following acts have been passed relating
to insurance and insurance companies:
An act authorizing the directors of the Mon
mouth Mutual Fire Insurance Co. to withdraw
at their discretion, all policies of the first or
mutual class, after notice to the policy hold
ers by letter, of four weeks
Act Incorporating d. w. Fessenden and sew
eral other citizens of Portland into corpora.
ton to be known as the Equity Fire Insurance
Co., with capital stock not exceeding $780,
900.
Act empowering the Piscataquis Mutual In
surance Co. to insure against lightning.
Act amending Secs 63 and GA, ch, 40, R. S.,
relating to insurance companies, by striking
out in the 18th and 14th lines the words "by
the officer holding the execution"
Act authorizing insurance companies to d.
vide their directors into classes 1t provides
that companies may divide their directors into
two or three classes, who shall hold Office two
or three years, according to the number of class
es.1
THE PUBLIC LANDS, ETC.
The following legislation relates to the land
agent, public lands and the settlement thereof:
An act omnnuprino tho Gouorpor opd Copr