CHAP. 106 Chapter 106. An Act to prohibit the throwing of sawdust and other mill waste into Duck Pond, so-called, Pemaquid Pond, so-called, Biscay Pond, socalled, and Boyd's Pond, so-called, all in the County of Lincoln. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. No person shall put, or allow the same to be to Duck Pud- done by any person within his employ, into Duck Puddle pond, dle pond, Throwing mill waste in Pemaquid pond, Biscay pond, or Boyd's pond, prohibited. Penalty. so-called, or Pemaquid pond, so-called, or Biscay pond, socalled, or Boyd's pond, so-called, all of which ponds are situated in Lincoln county, any mill waste, slabs, edgings, sawdust, or any other mill waste of a fibrous nature created in the manufacture of sawed or planed lumber, or to place or deposit the same on the bank of either of said ponds in such negligent or careless manner that the same shall fall or be washed into any of said waters, or with the intent that the same shall fall or be washed into any of said waters. Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. Approved March 15, 1911. Chapter 107. An Act to prohibit the catching or taking of eels in Saint Georges River, in Warren, in the County of Knox, in any other way or manner than by hook and line or with spears. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. The catching or taking of eels in Saint Georges Georges river river, in Warren, in the county of Knox, is hereby prohibited, except by hook and line or with spears. Taking eels in Saint regulated, Penalty. Section 2, Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars and costs for each offense. Approved March 15, 1911. Chapter 108. An Act to regulate fishing in Hall Pond, in the Town of Paris, County of Oxford.. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: CHAP. 108 in Hall pond Section I. For a period of five years from the time this act Trout fishing takes effect it shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch regulated. or kill any trout less than nine inches in length in Hall pond, in the town of Paris, in the county of Oxford; it shall also be unlawful for any person to have in possession any trout less than nine inches in length taken from said Hall pond; it shall also be unlawful for any person to take, catch or kill more than five trout in said Hall pond in any one day during said period of five years from the time this act takes effect. Section 2. Whoever violates any provisions of this act shall Penalty. be subject to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each offense and one dollar additional for every trout caught, taken, killed or had in possession in violation of any provisions of this act. diction. Section 3. In all prosecutions under this act, municipal and Court jurispolice courts and trial justices, within their respective counties, shall have, upon complaint, original and concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme judicial and superior courts, and all fines, forfeitures and penalties received for any violation of ines, how disposed of. this act shall be paid forthwith by the person receiving the same to the state treasurer. Approved March 15, 1911. Chapter 109. An Act to incorporate the Dean Hill Cemetery Improvement Association. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. George B. Tibbetts, Andrew Hall, George H. Corporators. Brown, Sarah A. Nickerson, Samuel B. Smith, Charles H. Emery, Arthur E. Sugden, Ferd D. Bowden, Allen P. Trask, Arthur A. Pierce, Eliza J. Hall, James H. Smith, Bartlett Brooks, Priscilla N. Brooks, Clara N. Tibbetts, Adelbert F. Kendall, William Y. Dillingham, Fuller A. Dillingham, Archie N. Harding, and Charles E. Kendall, their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of Dean Hill Cemetery Improvement Association for the purpose of -corporate acquiring, holding, controlling, caring for and improving grounds set apart and used for burial purposes, situate in the town of Orrington, in the county of Penobscot and state of name. CHAP. 109 Maine, and said corporation shall have all the powers and -powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liaprivileges. bilities contained in the general laws existing and which may hereafter be in force relating to such corporation. May take control of cemetery. May acquire additional land. -may hold necessary personal property and make improvements. Care and management of cemetery. Officers. Treasurer shall give bond. First meeting, how called. Section 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to take possession and assume legal control of the interest of said town of Orrington, in what is known as the Dean Hill Cemetery in the said town of Orrington, and to hold legal title to such property as the said town of Orrington may have therein, as well as of all other property that may be hereafter acquired in pursuance of this charter, all subject to the rights of individuals therein. Section 3. Said corporation may acquire by purchase, gift, or devise and hold for the purposes of said corporation, land additional to and adjoining said Dean Hill Cemetery. Said corporation may hold such personal property as may be necessary for the purposes of the corporation, and said corporation is hereby authorized to take and hold any grant, donation or bequest of property upon trust and to apply the same or its income to the improvement and beautifying of said cemetery, or for the construction, repair, preservation, or renewal of any monument, fence or other structure, in the planting and cultivating of trees, shrubs or plants, in or around any lot, or the improving of said premises in any other manner or form consistent with the purposes for which said cemetery is established and in accordance with the terms of said grant, donation or bequest. Section 4. Said corporation, by its board of trustees, shall have the care, control and general management, for purposes of preservation of the lands and grounds of said cemetery, and shall have the power to institute legal proceedings for the punishment of any and all offenses committed therein. Section 5. The officers of this corporation shall be a board of seven trustees, a clerk, a treasurer, and such other officers as its by-laws may prescribe, who shall hold office for such time and be elected in such manner as may be required by the by-laws of the corporation. Section 6. The treasurer of said corporation shall be required to give bond with sureties in such sum as the board of trustees may deem sufficient, and said treasurer shall have reasonable compensation for his services. Section 7. Any five of the corporators herein named are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of this corporation by publishing a notice thereof for two weeks successively in each of the two newspapers, the Bangor News and the Bangor Commercial, published in the city of Bangor, the last of which publications shall be at least seven days before said meeting. Section 8. Said corporation is hereby authorized to receive all moneys now held in trust by the town of Orrington for cemetery purposes in this yard, and the treasurer of the town of Orrington is hereby authorized to pay the treasurer of said. corporation all money held by the town of Orrington in trust for cemetery purposes in said Dean Hill Cemetery, and the treasurer of said cemetery corporation shall place said money at interest in some approved savings institution in the city of Bangor. CHAP. 110 May receive all moneys held in trust, and place same at in terest. The selectmen of Orrington are hereby authorized to give a deed. sufficient deed to said corporation of all lands held by the town of Orrington for burial purposes in said cemetery and the trustees of said corporation are authorized to receive all articles. of personal property herein mentioned, the same to be used for the carrying out of the purposes of this act. Approved March 15, 1911. Chapter 110. An Act to repeal an Act relative to Party Caucuses in the City of Augusta. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the private and special laws of the state of Maine for the year nineteen hundred and three is hereby repealed. Approved March 15, 1911. Chapter 354, special laws 1903, re pealed. Chapter 111. An Act to incorporate the Winter Harbor Light Company. name. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. Bedford E. Tracy, Leroy C. Smallidge and Corporators Charles T. Hooper of Winter Harbor, in the county of Hancock, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate under the name of Winter Harbor Light corporate Company with all the rights and privileges incident to a corporation, for the purpose of manufacturing, generating, selling, purposes. distributing, and supplying gas or electricity, or both, for lighting, heating, traction, transportation, manufacturing or mechanical purposes in the town of Winter Harbor and adjoining town of Gouldsboro, in said county of Hancock, or for any or either CHAP. 111 -rights and powers. Capital stock. lucicase of capital stock. May issue bonds, and mortgage property. May hold necessary estate. streets. such purposes, with all the rights, powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities by law incident to similar corporations; also for the purpose of buying, leasing and operating the property, rights, privileges, immunities and franchises of any individuals, firms or corporations doing a similar business in the town of Winter Harbor, aforesaid; subject, however, to the rights and privileges of the Winter Harbor Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of said state, to manufacture, generate, sell and distribute gas or electricity, or both, in supplying light, heat and power for that part of the summer resort of said town of Winter Harbor known as Grindstone neck, as now established. Section 2. The capital stock of this corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, which may be increased by a majority vote of the stockholders at any time or times to such an amount as they may deem necessary and expedient. The stock of such corporation shall be divided into shares of five dollars each, and each share shall be entitled to one vote by the stockholders or his proxy at all meetings of the stockholders. Section 3. In case of an increase in the capital stock of the corporation as provided in the preceding section said corporation shall file a certificate thereof in the office of the secretary of state together with such additional fee or franchise. tax as provided by the general law of the state, and such increase of the stock shall not be valid until such certificate is filed and such fee or taxes paid. Section 4. Said corporation may borrow money, issue its bonds therefor and upon vote of its stockholders mortgage its property, rights and franchises to secure the payment of such bonds to an amount not exceeding the amount of its capital stock. Section 5. Said company may hold all real and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid and is hereby authorized to make, manufacture, distribute, sell and dispose of gas or electricity, or both, in the town aforesaid, -lay pipes in and to lay down gas pipe in and through the streets and ways of said municipalities, and to take up, replace and repair the same, and to build, construct, and maintain all fixtures, reservoirs, gas holders and other things requisite, proper and convenient for the manufacture, distribution and sale of gas or electricity, or both, in said municipalities. And said company is further authorized to set poles, and extend wires, both above. and under ground, in and through said streets and ways, and to erect, repair and maintain all poles, posts, wires and fixtures, necessary for the purposes of its incorporation, all subject to -may set poles and extend wires. |