The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-02-23
Titles of Acts aud Resolves Passed by
the Legislature Of 1873.

AN ACT
10 amend chapter asl of the laws of 1873, entitled
an act to incorporate the Evans Rifle Manufacturing
| Company.
To amend an act entitled an act to authorize the
| building of dyke or dam across Dyke Branch
Stream, in the town of Columbia, county of Wash
| iDgton.
10 increase the capital stock of the Augusta Water
Additional to chapter 127 of the Revised Statutes,
in relation to malicious mischief and trespasses on
| property.
TO incorporate the Crystal Dam Company.
Providing for payment of certain rents now in suit
to the agent of the Penobscot Tribe Of Indians.
| To amend section of chapter $50 of the special
laws OF 1872 entitled act to authorize the City of
Portland to aid the construction and western extern
| sion of the Portland and Rochester Railroad.
To authorize the sale of the Union Meeting House,
| of North vassalboro', with furniture and fixtures
| herewith connected. -
| Auburn Cheese Company in the city of Auburn.
To change the name of Nancy s. Hubbard.
| To amend an act granting to Ransom B. Abbott
the right to establish and maintain ferry between
| Sullivan and Hancock.
/ To amend section 80, chapter 4, of the Revised
Statutes as amended by chapter 2l3 of the public
laws Of 1877, relating to elections.
To amend chapter 124 of section IS of the Revised
| Statutes, relating to campmeetings.
To make valid the d0ings OF the Assessors OF No.
Plantation for the ears 1876 and 1877.
To authorize the town of Hampden to receive mOn>
ey to keep in repair any cemeteries in said town.
To incorporate the Cumberland Club of Portland.
| To amend section 2 Of chapter 1o6 Of the Revised
Statutes, relating to lists and qualification of jurors
To authorize the Portland and Ogdensburg Rail-
road Company to issue preferred Stock and for other
To amend chapter 21s of the public laws of 1877
relating to savings banks.
To amend chapter 1872 of the public laws of the
year 1871 providing for bridge guards railroads.
To amend section 56 of chapter SO of the Revised
Statutes, relating to tina weight of corn and grain,
meal egetables and hair,
Additional to chapter 6S of tie Revised Statutes,
relating to the appointment of trustees.
Authorizing Frank Sawtelle to dredge bars remove
boulders, and navigate Shows pond by steam.
To amend section Of chapter 223 OF the public
laws of 1871, relating to fares railroads.
To amend chapter 346 of the special laws of1S77 en-
titled act to promote the efficiency of the police
force of the city Of Portland.
Granting tho towns surrounding Teddy pond, in
Hancock county the right to build AMI maintain
To amend chapter IS of the special laws of 1876 en-
titled an act creating the South Paris Village Cor
poration.
To facilitate the prompt administration of Justice.
by establishing superior court in the county of
Kennebec.
To incorporate the Pythian Hall Association of
Portland.
To make valid the doings of Benjamin True as a
justice Of the peace and quorum.
Additional to chapter 81 of the private and special
laws Of 1871 entitled ian act to repeal act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Barnard
Relating to the Penobscot tribe ofIndians.
To amend section IL of chapter 1873 of the public
laws of 1873 relating to the Jail system of the state
To confirm and make valid the doings of the Un-
ion School District composed Of district No. in the
tom in the county of Franklin and district No ~ in
the town of Dixfeld in the country Of Oxford.
ial court in the county Of Kennebec.
In relation to disorganZed towns.
To amend section 80 of chapter Is of the Revised
Statutes granting to guardians and trustees power to
assign mortgages and mortgage debts.
20 make valid the doings OF school district 10 in
Additional to an act to establish the Atlantic s. st.
Lawrence Railroad Company.
In relation to the police court for the city of Bell
fast.
Authorizing the Bates Manufacturing Company to
reduce the par value OF its Stock and to issue new
shares.
To extend the time for locating and constructing
the Piscataqus Central Railroad.
To amend the charter of the city of Ellsworth.
To incorporate the town of Hurricane Isle.
Additional relating to the Portland and Deering
Railroad Company.
To amend Chapter 76 of the Revised Statutes. re-
lating to levy OF executions upon estates held in
joint tenancy or in common.
To amend and extend the acts in relation to the
Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad Company the Mes
salonskee and Kennebec Railroad mpany, and the
Somerset Railroad Company
To authorize reduction of capital stock of corpora
tons.
To prevent fraud in commercial fertilizers.
To amend section II of Chapter 95 OF the Revised
Statutes, relating to actions of trespass.
Amendatory OF an act to provide for the organza-
ton of business corporations.
To prevent the killing of deer in the county of
Waldo
For the further protection and propagation of cells
in DamarscOtta river and sound
To amend chapter II of the Revised Statutes, in
relation to the rights of plantations to receive their
proportion of the State school fund.
To protect the breeding of trout in Perkins brook,
so called, in the towns Of North Berwick, Wells and
Sanford, in the county OF York.
To incorporate the Square Pond Reservoir Com
TO facilitate the transfer to the United States of
the title to the Antietam National Cemetery, in the
State of Maryla land
To amend section 2 of chapter 2s7 of the public
laws OF lS73 relating to the rents of island shores.
l. To change the name Of Rufus Edwin Bubier.
To change the names OF Amelia and Adelia Bull
lock.
To make valid the doings of the town of Limestone
in the county of Aroostook.
To amend chapter 1876 of the public laws Of 1877,
relating to life insurance.
To amend section so of chapter 40 of the Revised
Statutes, relating to migratory fishes in Damaris-
Gotta river.
To prohibit the taking of fish from Withee's Pond,
and its tributaries, in the town of Dover.
To amend chapter 49, section 10, of Revised Stat
utes, relating to the law of roads,
To the franchise and property of the proprie-
tors OF Merrymeetng bridge, in the inhabitants OF
the county of Sagadahcc.
To amend section of chapter 60 of the Revised
Statues, relating to actions OF divorce
For the protection gnd preservation of bass in the
waters of Winnegance creek.
Relating to Coroners.
To amend section 26 of chapter 90 of the public
laws OF 1876, in relation to lime rock and slate.
To amend section l of chapter So OF the public
laws OF 1876, relating to auctioneers.
For the protection OF smelts in Bagaduce river and
tributaries, in the county of Hancock.
To encourage the development OF the mining inter-
ests of the State,
To abolish the organization of plantation No. 6, in
the county of Franklin.
Tolerate a lien on hemlock bark.
To amend chapter 14l of the public laws OF 1876,
relating to the settlement of the public lands.
To restrict fishing in Sanborn Brothers pond in
Baldwin.
To ratify confirm and make valid the action of the
city of Ellsworth, providing tor the funding OF its
city debt.
10 incorporate the Maine Rifle Club.
To amend an act entitled ian act to regulate the
shad ami alewife fishery in the town of Warren, in
the county of Lincoln' passed March 6, 1872.
To extend the time for 0rganlzat alton OF the Calais
Railroad Company, incorporated by chapter 5sS of
the private laws of 1874.
TO incorporate the Bangor Board of Trade.
To prevent the taking of fish from Dexter pond,
in the county of Penobscot, for the term Of three
years.
entitled "an act to INCORPORATE the Penebscot Cen
trail Rar DAD Company"
To make valid the acts of the Lyndon Union Meet
ing House Association of Caribou.
To provide for the improvement of the navigation
of the Souedehunk stream, for log driving
Pattep's pond stream in Sarry, Hancock county.
To amend chapter 258 OF the pu bic laws OF 1874
entitled IAN act relating to taxation OF railroad COM
panies.
For the protection of sturgeon in the waters of the
| Keunebec river and its tributaries
To set off part of the town of Parkman, in the
county of Piscataquis and annex the same to the
| town of Guilfofd 10 said county.
To set off certain property from the Oxford Village
Fire Engine Corporation.
To encourage the provision OF means for the ex-
tinguishment OF fires.
Additional to chapter 40 of the Revised Statues
lating to life insurance.
10 extend the charter of the Aroostook Steamboat
/ Company.
10 incorporate the Deer Isle and Sedgwick Steam
/ Ferry Company.
TO incorporate the Machiasport and Machias Tile
graph Company.
/ To amend the charter of the city of Augusta.
To incorporate the Presumpscot Water Power
i Company.
To prohibit the taking of fish from Fields pond in
| the town of Orriugton and from Brewers pond in
| the towns of Orrington and Bucksport.
To prevent the throwing of refuse nio the tributa
l ries Of Wilson pond.
To amend chapter 23i of the public laws of 1874,
| concerning tax titles.
l Relating to malicious mischief
To amend section of chapter SO of the Revised
| Statutes relating to reviews.
To amend act entitled "an act to incorporate the
| Sandy River railroad Company
Amending chapter l24 OF the public laws of the
| year 1876 relating to warehouses.
To incorporate the Springvale Aqueduct Company.
To incorporate the Portland Yacht Club.
Additional to chapter 81 of the Revised Statutes
relating to bastard children and their maintenance.
10 amend section 10 of chapter 100 of the public
laws of the year 1876, entitled IAN act to authorize
| the formation of railroad corporations %
| An act for the better protection Of the rights of
| towns
| Addition to chapter 10 of the public laws of the
year 1875 relating to the taxation of railroad corpora
| tons.
| To amend chapter ga of the public la WIS of the
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