Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-24

Be it enacted by the Senate and House
OF representatives in Legislature assem-
blcd as follows:
Section l. The following territory and
the people within the same namely:
Wards one, two, three, four, six, seven
and eight in the city of Augusta, shall
constitute a body polite and corporate
| under the name of the Augusta Water
District, for the purpose of supplying the
inhabitants of said district and of the
| towns of Chelsea, Vassalboro, China and
Manchester, and such municipalities to-
gether with the city of Augusta, with
pure water for domestic and municipal
purposes.
Sect 3 Said district is hereby author
lied for the purposes aforesaid to take
and hold sufficient water of the Kennehcc
river and China lake and may take and
mold by purchase OF otherwise any land or
real estate necessary for erecting dams
power, reservoirs or for preserving the
purity of the water and water shed and
tor laying and maintaining aqueductS for
ter. Nothing in this act shall authorize
said district to increase the present flow
age upon China lake
Sect. 3. Said district shall be liable for
all damages that shall be sustained by
any person or corporation in their prop
erty by the taking Of any land whatSO-
ever or water, or by noWace, or by eX-
cavating through any land for the purpose
OF laying pipes, building dams or con-
structins reservoirs. Ii any person sus-
tanning damage as aforesaid and said
corporation shall not mutually agree upon
the sum to be paid therefor such person
may cause his damages to be aScertained
in the same manner and under the same
conditions, restrictions and limitations as
are or may be prescribed in the case of
damages by the laying out of highways
Sect. !. Said district is hereby author
lied to lay in and through the streets
and highways thereof and of said towns
of Chelsea. NasSalboro, China and Man
chester, and to take up, repair and replace
all such pipes, aqueductS and fixtures as
may be necessary for the objects above
set fourth, and whenever said district
shall lay any pipes or adequctS in any
street or highway is shall cause the same
to be done with as little obstruction as
possible to the public travel, and shall at
its own expense without unnecessary de
moved by it to be replaced in proper con-
ditiOn.
Sect. s. All the affairs of said water
district shall be managed by board of
trustees composed of three members to he
chosen by the municipal officers of the
city OF Augusta, but no member of the
city council shall during the term for
which he is elected be chosen one of said
board of trustees. AS soon as convenient
after the members of said board have
been chosen, said trustees shall hold a
meeting at the city rooms in the city of
Augusta, and organize by the election of
a president and clerk, adopt a corporate
seal and when necessary may choose Il
treasurer and all other necdful officers
and agents for the proper conduct and
management of the affairs of said district.
At said first meeting they shall determine
by lot the term of office of each trustee
so that one shall serve for one year, one
for two years and one for three years:
and when ever the term of office of