СНАР: 166 -salary of judge. Actions commenced be fore this act takes effect. Proceedings in closing and Milo mu urer of said county quarterly on or before the first days of January, April, July and October of each year. The judge of said court shall receive the salary of twelve hundred dollars per year, to be taxed as a part of the costs to be paid him in quarterly payments from the county treasury of Piscataquis county, which shall be in full for his services as such judge. Said salary shall not be paid until said judge shall have paid into the county treasury all fees so received by him. Said recorder shall be paid for all services by said judge. Section 22. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to interfere with such actions returnable before a trial justice or a municipal or police court as shall be commenced before this act takes effect, and all said actions shall be disposed of as if this act had not been passed. Section 23. For the purpose only of closing the business pending bust- pending in the Dover municipal court, and in the Milo municiness in Dover pal court, at the time of the approval of this act, the entire junicipal court. risdiction thereof, civil and criminal, shall be conferred upon the Piscataquis municipal court, which court shall issue all executions or other processes necessary to carry into effect any judgment, order or decree of the Dover municipal court or of the Milo municipal court. All complaints, civil suits, recognizances, appeals in civil or criminal cases, and all other processes, civil or criminal, pending in said Dover municipal court, or in said Milo municipal court, shall be transferred forthwith to the Piscataquis municipal court, to be entered on the docket thereof, and be heard and disposed of as if originally entered in said Dover municipal court or said Milo municipal court; and all writs, petitions, warrants, and all processes whatever, returnable to said Dover municipal court or to said Milo municipal court, shall be returnable to and be entered on the docket of said Piscataquis municipal court, and shall be heard and disposed of in said Piscataquis municipal court as if originally entered therein. The judgments, decisions, orders and decrees of the supreme judicial court, at any law term, made in cases originating in said Dover municipal court or in said Milo municipal court shall be certified to the recorder of the Piscataquis municipal court. All records of the Dover municipal court and of the Milo municipal court, and the custody of the same, shall be transferred to the recorder of the Piscataquis municipal court, to whose attestation of the same, or their contents, full faith shall be given. CHAP. 167 missioners all supplies. Section 24. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county of Piscataquis to furnish and provide at the ex- County compense of the county all books, blanks, and all necessary station- shall provide ery and supplies required for the use of the Piscataquis municipal court in the transaction of the civil and criminal business of said court, including proper books for the record of all cases arising in said court. The records of all cases when completed shall be kept in a fire proof vault in the court house in said Dover. Section 25. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with section Conflicting twenty-four of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 22, 1911. acts repealed. Chapter 167. An Act to authorize the City Council of the City of Belfast to grant permission to Manufacturing Real Estate Company to construct a wing to its shoe factory on its own land above and across Pleasant Street in said Belfast. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The city council of the city of Belfast may, on such terms and conditions as they think proper, grant to Manufacturing Real Estate Company, its legal representatives and assigns, a license to construct and maintain on its own land, a wing from its shoe factory extending above and across Pleasant street in said Belfast, of such height above the street, and with such piers, posts or other supports within the located limits of the street as they may deem necessary, and in their judgment will not incommode the public in the use of said street for purposes of public travel; and such building and its piers, posts or other supports, constructed by virtue of the license granted as aforesaid, shall not be considered an incumbrance or nuisance in such :street, and neither the city of Belfast, nor the person nor corporation owning or operating said shoe factory shall be liable for any damage occasioned thereby. Approved March 22, 1911. CHAP. 168 Fishing in Abbott pond regulated. Penalty. Court jurisdiction. Chapter 168. An Act to regulate fishing in Abbott Pond, so-called, in the town of Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in Abbott pond, so-called, in the town of Sumner, county of Oxford, from September first. of each year until June first of the following year. Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided in the general law of the state for the illegal taking, catching, killing or having in possession of trout or land-locked salmon. Section 3. In all prosecutions arising under this act, municipal and police 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 this act shall be paid forthwith by the person receiving the same to the state treasurer. Approved March 22, 1911. Corporators. -corporate name. Rights and powers. Locations on streets granted. -municipal officers shall designate streets to be occupied. Certain sec tions of chap Chapter 169. An Act to incorporate the Westfield Light and Power Company. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. Lincoln R. Sinclair, Enoch B. Briggs and Thomas C. Bell, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a body corporate by the name of the Westfield Light and Power Company. Section 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized to transmit, supply, sell and distribute electricity, for light, heat and power in and through the town of Westfield. Section 3. All locations upon streets, roads or ways in said town, necessary for the purposes of this act, are hereby granted and the municipal officers of said town of Westfield shall designate the streets, roads and ways, so to be occupied, the places where the poles shall be set, and may establish reasonable restrictions as to the kind of poles, their construction and maintenance, the height of wires and the use of guard wires. Section 4. Except as otherwise provided herein, sections ter 55, R. S., three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten, eighteen, nineteen, twen CHAP. 169 made appli ty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four of chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes are hereby made ap- cable. plicable to the corporation hereby created. Section 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall not capital stock. exceed ten thousand dollars, to be fixed from time to time by the stockholders thereof. Section 6. The said corporation, for the purposes of this act, is hereby authorized to issue bonds and to secure the same by mortgages of its property and franchises. May issue mortgage bonds and property. electric current, and same. -may maintain poles locations and ways granted. on streets -town officers shall designate streets to be occupied. Section 7. The said corporation is hereby authorized, for May purchase the purposes of this act, to purchase electric current from the Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Lim- transmit ited, and to transmit the same to its line in said town of Westfield, and for this purpose, said corporation is hereby authorized to construct and maintain its poles and wires from said town of Westfield in and through either the town of Mars Hill or the and wires. town of Easton in said county to any point on the line of said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company. And all locations upon streets, roads or ways in either of said towns of Mars Hill or Easton necessary for the purpose of this act, are hereby granted and the municipal officers of either of said towns of Mars Hill or Easton in which poles shall be set, shall designate the streets, roads and ways, so to be occupied, the places where the poles shall be set, and may establish reasonable restrictions as to the kind of poles, their construction and maintenance, the height of wires and the use of guard wires. Section 8. Subject to all the limitations and provisions of this act, the said Westfield Light and Power Company is hereby authorized to sell or lease its capital stock, property and franchises to the Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, its successors and assigns, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, and upon such purchase or lease, the said Maine and New Brunswick Electrical Power Company, Limited, its successors and assigns, shall have, hold, possess, exercise and enjoy all the locations, and assets, which at the time of such transfer shall then be had, held, possessed or enjoyed by the Westfield Light and Power Company and shall then be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities to which the said Westfield Light and Power Company shall then be subject. Company may lease or tal stock, sell its capi property, etc. Approved March 22, 1911. CHAP. 170 Close time on muskrats. -unlawful to have in possession. Penalty. Court jurisaiction. Inconsistent acts repealed. Chapter 170. An Act to regulate the taking of muskrats in Lake Sebasticook, in the County of Penobscot, and in the tributaries to said Lake in the Town of Newport, also in the outlet stream of said Lake Sebasticook known as the East Branch of the Sebasticook River. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch or kill any muskrat or muskrats in Lake Sebasticook, in the county of Penobscot, or in any of the tributaries to said lake in the town of Newport, or in the outlet stream of said lake known as the East Branch of the Sebasticook river, for a period of five years from July fifteen, nineteen hundred and eleven. It shall also be unlawful for any person to have in possession any muskrat or muskrats, or part thereof, at any time taken in violation of this section. Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars for each muskrat killed in violation of this act; whoever has in possession any muskrat or muskrats, or part thereof, taken in violation of this act shall be subject to the same penalty. Section 3. In all prosecutions under this act, municipal and police 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 this act shall be paid forthwith by the person receiving the same to the state treasurer. Section 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 22, 1911. Transfer of properties authorized. Railway Co. may transfer its interest. Chapter 171. An Act to authorize the Aroostook Valley Railroad Company to acquire the Properties of the Canadian Pacific Railway between Presque Isle and Aroostook Junction. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. The Aroostook Valley Railroad Company is hereby authorized to acquire by appropriate transfer the interest of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the railroad now operated by said last named company between Aroostook Junction and Presque Isle, together with the franchises thereof. Section 2. Consent is hereby given that said Canadian Pacific Railway may so transfer said interest, as aforesaid. |