СПАР. 124 Motive pow er. -may en press, telephone and telegraph business. Capital stock. Section 2. The said corporation is authorized to operate its railroad by steam, electricity, or any other power. It is further authorized to carry on the business of an express company, and to maintain telephone and telegraph lines for public use along age, in exits location and to its various offices in said towns. Section 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of not more than one million dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and the immediate government of its affairs shall be vested in a board of directors to be chosen as the by-laws of said company provide, who shall hold office -tenure. until their successors are chosen and qualified in their place. The said corporation shall have the power to make, ordain and may estabestablish all necessary by-laws not inconsistent with law. -board of directors. lish by-laws. Section 4. A toll is hereby granted for the benefit of said Tolls granted. corporation, upon all passengers and property which may be conveyed and transported on or over its railroad at such rates as may be established by its directors, and on such business as it may do over its telephone and telegraph lines, and through its express facilities, subject to such general laws relating there- general to as are or may from time to time be established by the leg- applicable. islature. laws made with other Section 5. The said corporation is hereby authorized to May connect make connections with any other railroad or railroads on such roads. terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and to lease its road and property, either before or after it shall have been complete, on such terms as it may determine, subject in all cases to the approval of the stockholders in each corporation. May hold and essary estate, transfer nec real and per sonal. op water power. Section 6. Said corporation shall have power to lease, purchase, hold and transfer such real and personal estate and motive power as may be necessary and convenient for its purposes, and may develop water power for the generation of electricity may develfor the operation of its business, and for public use. Section 7. If the tracks of said company's railroad, cross any other railroad of any kind, and a dispute arises in any way, relating thereto, the manner of crossing shall be left to the determination of the railroad commissioners, who shall after no- pute. tice to all the parties interested, decide and determine in writing, after hearing, the way and manner the crossing shall be made, and it shall be constructed accordingly. Manner of railroads, mined, in crossing other how deter case of dis property of railroads, etc. Section 8. The said corporation is authorized to purchase May acquire or lease the property and franchises of any other connecting connecting railroad corporation in this state, or to purchase and hold stock and bonds of any corporation, and all such connecting corporations or corporation, or any person or association of persons, claiming rights under the stock, bonds or mortgages or fran SCAR. & CAPE ELIZ. RY. CO.-RANGELEY LAKES & MEGANTIC R. R. chises of any such corporations are hereby authorized to make such sales or leases. All property, franchises, stock, bonds, so acquired may be pledged or mortgaged to secure the bonds hereinafter authorized. Section 9. Said corporation is authorized to issue its bonds from time to time to such amounts as may be required for the purposes of this act, in such form and on such time and rates as the directors may deem advisable, and to secure the same by mortgage of its road, franchises and property, or in any oth er manner. Section 10. The first meeting of the corporation may be called by any two of the incorporators, by notice in writing given or mailed to each corporator at least ten days before said meeting. Any corporator may act at such meeting by proxy. Approved March 16, 1911. Chapter 125. An Act to extend the charter of the Scarboro and Cape Elizabeth Railway Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The rights, powers and privileges of the Scarboro and Cape Elizabeth Railway Company, which were granted by chapter three hundred and eighty-two of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and nine, are hereby extended for two years from the passage of this act; and the persons named in said act, their associates, successors and assigns, shall have all the rights, powers and privileges that were granted them by said act, to be exercised in the same manner and for the same purposes as specified in said act. Approved March 16, 1911. Chapter 126. An Act to extend the charter of the Rangeley Lakes and Megantic Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: All the rights, powers and privileges of the Rangeley Lakes. and Megantic Railroad Company which were granted by chapter one hundred and thirty-two of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and nine are hereby extended for and during the period of two years from the time this act takes effect, and may and shall be exercised in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided therein. Approved March 16, 1911. BRUNSWICK POWER CO.-RUM FORD FALLS VILLAGE CORPORATION. Chapter 127. An Act to ratify the change of name of Brunswick Power Company. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: 377 name ratified. acts and doings rati fied and made valid. The change of name of the Brunswick Power Company to Change of Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Company and the purchase, pursuant to the authority of chapter three hundred and ninety of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and nine, by said company, under said last name, of the franchises and assets of the Brunswick Electric Light and Power Company and of Sagadahock Light and Power Company, and the first mortgage and refunding bonds of said Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Company bearing date July first, nineteen hundred and nine, and the mortgage securing the same dated November third, nineteen hundred and ten, executed and issued, pursuant to the authority of said chapter three hundred and ninety, are in all respects hereby ratified, approved, confirmed and made valid. Approved March 16, 1911. Chapter 128. An Act giving the Rumford Falls Village Corporation additional powers to raise money. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: powers to granted. The Rumford Falls Village Corporation, located in Rumford, Additional Maine, is hereby authorized at any legal meeting called and held raise money, for said purpose or purposes to raise and appropriate money for the purpose of acquiring by purchase, land for parks or playgrounds within its limits; also for the purpose of aiding in building and caring for a hospital, known as the Rumford General Hospital. The corporation is also authorized to take title. to land so purchased, also acquired by gift. Approved March 16, 1911. CHAP. 129 Company authorized to generate and sell electric ity. Powers and privileges. how construed. Chapter 129. An Act relating to Vassalboro, China and Windsor Light and Power Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. The Vassalboro, China and Windsor Light and Power Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to make, generate, sell, distribute and supply gas and electricity for lighting, heating, manufacturing and mechanical purposes in that part of the town of Vassalboro situated south of Meadow Brook road, so-called, also so much of said town north of said Meadow Brook road as is west of the east boundary of Oak Grove seminary extended south to said Meadow Brook road, and as is south of the north bound of said seminary extended west to the Kennebec river. Section 2. The various powers and privileges conferred on said Vassalboro, China and Windsor Light and Power Company by this act shall be construed as in furtherance and not in limitation of the powers and privileges conferred on said corporation by the general law. Approved March 16, 1911. New spans in bridge au- -approaches to bridge may be altered. Piers and abutments may be altered and repaired. . Chapter 130. An Act relative to the Bangor and Brewer Bridge. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: - Section 1. The cities of Bangor and Brewer, in the county of Penobscot and state of Maine, are hereby authorized and directed forthwith as soon as this act shall take effect, to construct two new, substantial steel or concrete spans replacing the two wooden spans now a part of the Bangor and Brewer highway bridge, so-called, within the limits of the cities of Bangor and Brewer, over the Penobscot river and connecting the said city of Bangor with the said city of Brewer. Said cities of Bangor and Brewer may alter the present approaches to said bridge or construct new approaches to said. bridge if said alteration or construction of said approaches be deemed necessary. Said spans and approaches shall be of sufficient width, strength and construction safely to permit the passage over said bridge of the traffic thereby to be accommodated. Section 2. The said cities of Bangor and Brewer are hereby authorized and directed forthwith as soon as this act shall take effect, to alter or repair the existing piers and abutments of said. bridge, as may be necessary, or to construct such new piers and abutments or either, as may be necessary properly and safely to support the superstructure of said bridge. CHAP. 130 penses, how bourne and paid. -revenue, Section 3. The cost and expense incurred hereunder shall costs and exbe bourne and paid by said cities of Bangor and Brewer in the proportion of four-fifths by the city of Bangor and one-fifth by the city of Brewer, and all revenue received from any or all corporations and companies using this bridge under the condi- how distribtions specified in section five of this act, shall be distributed between the two said cities in the proportion of four-fifths to the city of Bangor and one-fifth to the city of Brewer. uted. be shall maintained. Section 4. After said improvements, additions, alterations How bridge and repairs shall be completed, the said bridge shall be main- santa tained by the cities of Bangor and Brewer in the proportion of four-fifths by the city of Bangor and one-fifth by the city of Brewer. city councils tain privi leges. in Section 5. The city councils of the cities of Bangor and Authority Brewer shall have exclusive authority to grant permission to to grant cerany corporation operating an electric railroad in said cities of Bangor and Brewer, or either of said cities, to lay its tracks and wires and operate its railroad over and upon said bridge, and said city councils shall also have exclusive authority to grant permission to any gas company, telephone company, telegraph company, and any other public service company or corporation to erect, lay and maintain their pipes, mains, poles, cables, wires and other necessary apparatus over and upon said bridge, and said city councils may impose such conditions and terms upon said companies and corporations desiring to use. said bridge as aforesaid, as they may deem expedient. Bridge comconstituted mittee, how and tenure. Section 6. There shall be constituted a bridge committee of five members, four of whom shall be elected by the city council of the city of Bangor and one by the city council of the city of Brewer, the tenure of office of whom shall be fixed by said city councils respectively. Of the committee elected by the city council of the city of Bangor, not more than two shall be from the same political party and no member of said committee shall at the time of his election be a stockholder in said companies or corporations. Said committee shall have authority to investi-authority gate and recommend to both said city councils the terms and conditions upon which said permission may be granted to said corporations and companies as specified and described in section five of this act, and to make report thereof to both said city councils. Said report shall be advisory only and nothing report of contained in this section shall be construed in any manner as taking from said city councils the authority to impose said of committee. committee, how construed. |