a certain aliquot part of a lot of land within the corporate limits. of Bayville, upon which he has a dwelling house owned and controlled by himself exclusively, shall be deemed a legal voter at any meeting of the corporation at which he is present, and provided further, that the majority in interest of the joint owners of any share of stock may designate in writing one of such owners to represent such share who shall be a legal voter at any meeting of the corporation at which he is present, but no person shall be entitled to more than one vote in any meeting either for himself or as representing the joint owners of any share of stock. CHAP. 227 of officers. -tenure of office. meetings. Charter may within five be accepted years. previous to acceptance Section 13. The first election of officers shall be at the meet- First election ing at which this charter is accepted. Said officers shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the corporation, at which said meeting officers shall be elected and thereafterwards at each annual meeting, but in any event all officers duly elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and duly qualified. The annual meeting of said corporation shall be held on the first Monday of August in each year. Section 14. This charter may be accepted at any time within five years after it shall become law, but only one meeting to vote thereon shall be called in any one calendar year. George M. Harmon, Albert E. Shipman, Charles Fletcher, George P. Merrill, Frederick A. Smith, Leland F. Bridgham, Bryant G. Smith and Joshua M. Dill, or either of them, may call all meetings of the corporation previous to the acceptance of the charter and the election of officers, and notify the persons entitled to vote therein to meet at some suitable time and place within the said limits of this corporation, by posting of notices in two public places within the limits of said corporation, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting; all subsequent meetings shall be called and notified by the overseers as town how called. meetings are called and notified by the selectmen; either of the above named persons are authorized to preside at any meeting previous to the acceptance of the charter until the meeting is organized and until a moderator shall have been chosen by ballot. and sworn; at all meetings of the corporation a moderator shall be chosen in the manner, and with the same power as in town meetings. Section 15. Whenever this charter shall be accepted by a majority of the voters of said corporation at a legal meeting called for that purpose then the same shall take and have complete effect in all its parts. subsequent meetings, when charter effect. shall take Approved March 28, 1911. CHAP. 228 Wharf authorized in Chapter 228. An Act authorizing the construction of a wharf into the tide waters of Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The Concord Realty Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of New York and having an office and place of business in Portland in the county of Cumberland and state of Maine, its successors or assigns, as the owner of certain real estate in the town of Cumberland is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a private wharf therefrom into the tide waters of Casco bay. Approved March 28, 1911. Election, qualification, and official acts of Mary A. Burr, city clerk of Brewer, rati fied and made valid. Chapter 229. An Act ratifying the election, qualification and doings of the City Clerk of the City of Brewer. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: The election on September second, nineteen hundred and nine, and qualification on September third, nineteen hundred and nine, the election on March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten and the qualification on March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, the election and qualification on March twentieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and all acts and doings by her performed and which may be performed by her, in official capacity, of Mary A. Burr, of Brewer, Penobscot county, Maine, as city clerk of the said city of Brewer, are hereby ratified, confirmed and made lawful and valid. Approved March 28, 1911. New spans bridge between Bangor and Brewer. Chapter 230. 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 authorized in 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. CHAP. 230 -present may be changed or structed. newly con Said cities of Bangor and Brewer may alter the present approaches to said bridge or construct new approaches to said approaches 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. Piers and abutments, repairs or re construction of, author ized. Cost and incurred, how Bangor and expense borne by Brewer. Section 3. The cost and expense incurred hereunder shall be borne 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 conditions 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. Section 4. After said improvements, additions, alterations How bridge and repairs shall be completed, the said bridge shall be main-maintained tained by the cities of Bangor and Brewer in the proportion of provements. four-fifths by the city of Bangor and one-fifth by the city of Brewer. Section 5. The city councils of the cities of Bangor and Brewer shall have exclusive authority to grant permission to any 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. Section 6. For the purpose of carrying the terms of this act into effect and constructing said bridge there shall be constituted a bridge committee of five members, one of whom shall be the mayor of the city of Bangor and one shall be the mayor of the city of Brewer, and three others to be appointed by the mayor of said city of Bangor from the city council of said city of Bangor. Of the three appointed by the mayor of said city shall be after im Exclusive authority in city councils mission to to grant per lay railroad track, cables, bridge. etc., on Bridge comconstituted pointed. mittee, how and ap CHAP. 231 -committee to investigate and make report to city councils. -report shall be advisory only. Special election, upon petition of 400 voters, shall be held to ratify or of Bangor from said city council, not more than two shall be from the same political party and no member of said committee shall be a stockholder in said companies or corporations. Said committee shall also have authority to investigate 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 contained in this section shall be construed in any manner as taking from said city councils the authority to impose said terms and conditions upon which said permission may be granted as specified and provided in section five of this act. Section 7. The municipal officers of the city of Bangor shall upon the petition of four hundred qualified voters of said city cause a special election to be held within thirty days from the reject action day of the filing of said petition, for the purpose of ratifying or reject such actions as the said city council may take in imposing terms upon such corporations and companies for the use of said bridge as provided for in section five of this act. of city council. -petition valid if filed with city clerk. Chapter 130, special laws, 1911, repealed. Said petition to be valid shall be filed with the city clerk of said city of Bangor within seven days from the time said action is taken by said city council, and if a majority of the votes cast at said special election are in favor of rejecting the action of said city council, said action shall be rendered null and void. If a majority of votes shall be in affirmation of said action, then said action will be final. Section 8. Chapter one hundred and thirty of the private and special laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, approved March sixteenth, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby repealed. Approved March 28, 1911. Corporators. -corporate name. Chapter 231. An Act to incorporate the Northern Penobscot Water Company. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. Elmer J. Farnham, B. W. Howe, Charles A. Byram, Charles H. Quincy, Aaron Smith, William J. Curren, W. Scott Kellogg, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Northern Penobscot Water Company, with all the powers, rights and privileges and subject to all the duties and obligations conferred and imposed on corporations by law, except as provided herein. CHAP. 231 Section 2. The purposes of said incorporation are to furnish water for the extinguishment of fires and for municipal, do- Purposes. mestic, sanitary and industrial purposes in the village of Patten in the county of Penobscot. May take and store water from water sources in Patten and tain dams, reservoirs, standpipes, etc. Section 3. The said corporation is hereby authorized for the purposes aforesaid to take, collect, store, retain, use and distribute water from any springs, ponds, streams or other water towns of sources in said town of Patten or town of Mt. Chase in said Penobscot county, except springs now in use for supplying water exception. for domestic purposes, owned by the Patten Water Company; to erect and maintain cribs, dams, reservoirs, standpipes, gates, may mainpipes, aqueducts, and other structures necessary or convenient for the proper accumulating, conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing of water and forming proper and sufficient reservoirs thereof; to excavate, lay down, replace, repair and may lay maintain its pipes and aqueducts through any lands and to take and hold by purchase or otherwise any lands, real estate or rights necessary for the purposes of this incorporation; to lay hold necesits pipes and aqueducts and construct and maintam the same with all the necessary fixtures in, upon, along and under the roads and streets of said town under such reasonable restrictions as may be imposed by the municipal officers thereof in accordance with the general laws of the state. pipes, etc., through lands. -take and sary lands and real estate. lay pipes along streets under restric tions of municipal officers. Shall be damages. liable for -damages, how assessed Section 4. Said corporation shall be held liable to pay all damages that may be sustained by any person by taking any land or other property, by excavating through any land for the purpose of laying down pipes, building dams or, reservoirs, or the erection of any of its necessary structures, and if any person sustaining damages as aforesaid cannot agree with said corpo- in case of ration upon the sum to be paid therefor, his damages shall be assessed in the same manner and subject to the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as is provided by law in the case of damage by the laying out of highways. disagreement. May enter on make sur lands to veys, and Section 5. Said corporation shall have authority to enter upon any land for the purpose of making surveys and locations and shall file in the registry of deeds for the county of Penob- file plans. scot plans of the lands and other property which shall be taken and when so filed such lands and other property shall be deemed and treated as taken; with said plans, said corporation may file a statement of the damages it is willing to pay for any property of damages so taken, and if the amount finally awarded does not exceed to pay. that sum, the corporation shall recover costs against such parties, otherwise such parties shall recover costs against said corpora may file statement willing |