The Portland daily press., 1876-02-25

excess of losses paid; and further that any state
taxing companies organized in Maine greater
amount than two per cent. that shall be impos-
ed on companies belonging in that state and
doing business in Maine the same rate put on
Maine companies.
TOWNS, CITIES AND PLANTATIONS.
Three 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
Lnneus very generally petti2ned 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
own paupers but the Legislature deemed it not
best. The following legislation relates to towns,
etc.:
Act annexing to the town of Casco, Songo,
Gore and the Dingley Islands in Sebago Lake,
thirteen in number.
:. Act authorizing the town of Lyndon to loan
lts credit IN aid OF the ArOostook River Rail-
road an additional per cent over the per
cent allowed BY law.
Act to authorize Georgetown to build free
bridge across tide water.
Act to change the name of Dalton to Ash
land, its former name.
Act to make valid the doings of the town of
Lyndon in voting aid to the Aroostook River
Railroad.
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Steuben to Millbridge.
Act to establish the line between Parsonsield
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.
in ArOostook county, and the towns of Waite
and Kossuth, Washington county
Acts creating the Hartland and Winthrop
village corporations for protection against fire,
for police, etc.
An act so amending sec. 40 ch 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 a person moves
to town for the purpose of tending a draw
bridge, he shall not thereby obtain residence
IN that town by reason of such residence.
LITERARY AND CHARITABLE.
The following acts may he included under
the head of Literary and Charitable:'
Act authorizing the Union of the Portland
Athen@um and the Portland Institute and
Public Library, aud to empower the conversion
of the same into Free Public Library,
Act Incorporating Fl. A. Shorey Byron Kim
ball, JAS. n. Reed, N. G. Cummings, Geo. A.
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associates and successors in continual success
sion, Tor the purposes of mutual life assurance,
under the name of the Odd Fellows Mutual
Relief Association of Maine.
Act 70 emend the act charteriDg 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 dscre.
tion.
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 right
tc bold property to the value of $10O. 600. The
incorporatovs are Nelson Dingley, Jr., j. B.
Coyle, NJ. G. Palmer and a iarge number of
prominent temperance men in the various
towns of the state.
An act to incorporate the Maine General
homeopathic Hospital. The ncorporators
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, NJ. NJ. Moulton, Horatio Hight and
several other owners of fresh meadows and salt
marsh along the Dunston now in ScaIboro into
a corporation to be known as the SOuthgate
Dyking Co. The company has compromised
to dyke the marsh along Dunston river north
of the 2. S. & L. Railroad bridge and for that
purpose are empowered to take sufficient marsh
for dykes and sideways.
Acts authorizing N. w. Gamage to extend
wharf into tide waters of Bristol; authorizing
Mark Marshall to do same at Marshalls 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 Medomak river in Waldoboro.
The act prohibits the constitution of any fish
ways in the waters of Medornak river below
the lower bridge and Hollis Point without per-
mission of the harbor master whom the town
OF WaldoborO is required to elect annually under
the penalty of from $500 to $500 and cost of
removal; and all fish ways allowed to remain
contrary to the provisions of the act after May
1, 1876 are declared nusances and subject to
the same penalty.
An act Incorporating the Cape Elizabeth
Dyking Co.
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 a notice to the policy hold
ers by letter, of four weeks
Act Incorporating ID. w. Fessenden and sew
eral other citizens of Portland into a corpora
tion 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, cb, 49, r. s.,
relating to insurance companies, by striking
out in the 18th aud 14th lines the words "by
the officer holding the execution.
Act authorizing insurance companies to di-
vide their directors into classes. TT 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.
THE PUBLIC LANDS, ETC.
The following legislation relates to The land
agent, public lands aud the settlement thereof:
An act empowering the Governor and CouI-
Gil to appoint land agent who under their
direction shall close up the affairs of that de-
partmeut as expedltously as the public good
will allow.
An act authorizing the land agent under the
the direction of the Governor and Council to
sell all the ISLANDS belonging to the state after
advertising tbe sale.
An act authorizing the sale of the state land
in township IA r. 4, w. E. L. s.
An relating TO the settlement of public
lands, which provides that the land agent
SHALL under the direction of the Governor ami
Council, convey one lot and no more, at the
price of thirty five cents an acre, to actual set
tiers, payable in one two and three years, in
labor on the roads,
A resolve for the appointment Of a commits
sion to quiet the claims of Madawaska settlers
on proprietors' lands by purchasing the same at
not over fifty cents an acre, or exchange for
other lands unsettled
"HEALING ACTS"
About twenty bills of various kinds have been
passed to legalize the doiUgs Of towns, school
districts, and officials who have been careless
or failed to understand the ''revisec statoots."
The only case where legislation was reported
iuexpedent was on an order to inquire into
the expediency of legazing the doings OF a
town for 20 years.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
The laxy of many municipal officers in making
the proper use of their school funds derived from the
state has led the Legislature to make a law which
required the assessors municipal officers of towns,
cities and plantations to make returns under