The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-22

granted, at reasonable rates. the use and full
benefits for their own lines of all telephone
boxes and instruments necessary to operate
said lines.
The South Buxton Cemetery Association
has been incorporated
The Orchard Beach Wharf and Stea boat
Company has been incorporated with cap1tal
stock of 100000. The corporators are Harrl-
son j. Libby, James B. Libby, John - Coyie,
and Moses G. Palmer of Portland; Eliphalet
Clark of Deering; Thomas Goodall of Sanford;
B. G. Jordan of Alfred; and John NJ Robbins
of Lewiston. ;.
ner, Frederic Gardiner, Francis G. Richards,
Richard Sullivan, John 7. Richards, Ellis A.
Hollingswortl, Leonard Whitney, Samuel ID.
Warren, Charles Fairchild, Joshua Gray and
Henry Richards, incorporating them into the
Gardiner Water Power Company, with capl-
tai stock not to exceed $4,000. No liabilities
are to be incurred exceeding IS 600. The
company is authorized to purchase and main
tain dams on the Cobbosseecontee stream at
Gardiner.
The corporate doings of the Wells Mutual
| Fire Insurance Company have been ratified.
| The directors of the Penobscot Mutual Fire
Insurance Company have been authorized to
| close their business
| The capital stock of the Lewiston Gas Light
! Company has been decreased to 100000.
The Waterville Telegraph Company has
| been incorporated for local purposes
| The capital stock of the Hill Manufacturing
| Company of Lewiston has been increased to
| 100000.
The Ragged Lake Dam Company has been
| incorporated, the incorporators being John
| Morrison, Elbridge H. Hunting, Eben s. Coe,
Samuel P. Strickland and Samuel HI. Blake.
The Kennebec and Franklin Telephone and
| Telegraph Company has been incorporated,
with capital stock of $250O0 The incorpo-
rators are VIM. Harvey, Joseph r. Bodwell
and Orvlle D. Baker. The line is to run from
Augusta to Pennington, with branch lines to
| Wayne, Winthrop and New Sharon.
The Portland Turnverein have been given
authority to hold real and personal estate to an
amount not exceeding $4,000.
The Richardson Wharf Company of Port
land have been authorized to hold real and
| personal estate to the amount of $3.50, 600.
The st. Xavier'S school and asylum at Ban
gor has been incorporated with authority to
hold property to the amount of 100000 This
is an institution for the relief of INDECENT Or
| phans and destitute children.
A law has passed which provides that when
no officer, general agent or member of a do
nestle corporation can be found in the county
in which the same is located, nor in the coun-
ty in which the last certificate of election Of
| clerk has been filed, the officer having in his
hands any process for service on such corpora
| ton, may file copy thereof in the Registry of
Deeds of the county in which such corpora
| ton is located, or in which its last certificate
| OF election of clerk was filed, and make re-
turn of his doings, which service shall be suff-
Gent to hold such corporation to answer to
such service.
The Schools Log Driving Company has been
| incorporated.
The capital stock of the Auburn Aqueduct
| Company has been increased to 100000, and
the certificates of stock issued by the company
are made valid
There was charter granted to the Artesian
Water Co. of Rockland with capital stock of
100000 The incorporators of this company
are as follows: Davis Tillson, Amos F.
Crockett Thomas W. Hix, Jr., Michael A.
Achorn, VIM. S. White, Geo. W. Kimball
Jr., and VIM. H. Glover.
| The charter of the Livermore Fire Insur
| ance Company has been renewed.
The name of the Trustees of the fund for
| the support of the Episcopate of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maine
has been changed to the Trustees of the Dio-
cesar Funds in the Diocese of Maine.
SUITS.
The laws of 1879 relating to suits involving
| tax titles have been amended so that no per
son contesting the validity of any sale of land
for non-payment of taxes shall be permitted to
commence, maintain or defend any action at
| law or in equity. involving the validity of
such sale, until he shall have deposited with
| the clerk of the court in which such action is
| to be commenced or defended, the amount of
| all taxes, interest and costs accruing under
such sale, and of all taxes paid after such sale,
| and interest thereon, to be paid out by order of
court to the party legally and equitably enti-
tied thereto.
Collectors of taxes, or executors or admins
traitors of deceased collectors of taxes may sue
| for anv tax in their own name.
| A law has passed that no defences in actions
| involving contracts made on Sunday can be
made on the ground that such contract was
made and entered into on Sunday.
A law has passed which provides that sure
ties upon official bonds may appear and defend,
| in suits against their principal, whenever such
sureties may ultimately be liable upon such
| bonds.
| JUDICIAL MATTERS.
| A law has passed giving justices of the
peace and quorum jurisdiction throughout the
| state.
| The compensation of Judges of the Supreme
| Judicial Court has been restored to $4,000, and
the number to eight.
The Calais Municipal Court which has been
abolished is allowed to hold sessions for three
months from March 10th of the present year,
SO as to dispose of all matters pending.
The law relating to new trials for capital
offences (chap. ia r. S. has been amended so
that the S. j. Court, or any Superior Court, be
fore which convictions are made may either in
term time or vacation, when on the petition or
motion in writing it is made to appear to ap-
pear that Justice may be better done, grant
new trial for any cause for which a new trial
may or should be granted.
The statutes have been amended so that in
case of the absence or sickness of the Judge of
the municipal court of Pennington, any trial
Justice residing in that town shall have the
same Jurisdiction in criminal matters as though
the municipal court had never been establish
ed.
A law has passed relating to seizures on exc
cutiOnS which amends the present law so that
no seizure or execution of real estate where
there is no subsisting attachment thereof
made in the suit in which such execution is
sues, shall create any lien on such real estate,
unless the officer making it within five days
thereafter files in the office of the register of
deeds in the county or district in which all or
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copy of so much of his return on said execu-
tion as relates to the seizure, with the names
of the parties, the date of the execution, the
amount of the debt and costs named therein,
and the court by which it was issued. If the
copy is not SO filed the seizure shall take effect
from the time it is filed.
The Judge of the Lewiston Municipal Court
is also allowed salary of $1,000 year from
that city.
The sessions of the County Commissi oners
of Washington county have been chang ed to
the first Tuesday of January and October at
Machias, and at Calais the fourth Tuesday of
April.
The statutes in relation to frivolous excep-
tions have been amended so that they shall ap-
ply to exceptions filed in any criminal pro-
ceedings in the Superior Courts of Kennebec
and Cumberland counties.
The fees of the Judge of Police Court of
Rockland will hereafter constitute his salary.
A municipal court has been established in
Watervlle.
WAYS AND BRIDGES.
A law was passed in relation to town and
private ways which provides that any owner or
tenant of land over or across which town or
private way has been shall be located shall |
have the same right of appeal or petition as is
provided in sec. %, chap. 49, R. S. No such |
way shall be opened or used until the expira- |
ton of 60 days from the time it is accepted by |
the town. and if within that time notice of |
such appeal or petition shall be filed with the |
town clerk. such way shall not be opened or |
used until finally located by the appellate tri- |
bunal.
A law has been passed which provides that |
when an appeal is taken on the location of any |
way, petitions for increase of damages may be |
filed within 60 days after final decision in favor
of such way.
A law bias passed providing that no priv to |
way, town way, city street or highway, shall |
be located, taking any land of any railroad |
corporation in this State, unless notice of the
time and place of the hearing upon said loca- |
ton shall have been served upon the station |
agent of said railroad within such town or |
city, if any there be, and otherwise upon the |
station agent whose station is nearest to the |
land proposed to be SO taken, at least seven |
days before the time for such hearing
The towns of Freeport and Yarmouth have |