Charter and By-Laws of the Penobscot Log Driving Company

From the first section of the document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows : Section 1. That Ira Wadleigh, Samuel P. Strickland, Hastings Strickland, Isaac Farrar, William Emerson, Amos M. Roberts, Leonard Jones, Franklin Adams, James Jenkins, Aaron Babb and Cyrus S. Clark, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Penobscot Log Driving Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, to final judgment and execution, both in law and in equity; and may make and adopt all necessary regulations and by-laws not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, and may adopt a common seal, and the same may alter, break and renew at pleasure ; and may hold real and personal estate not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars at any one time, and may grant and vote money ; and said Company may drive all logs and other timber that may be in the West branch of Penobscot river between the Chesuncook dam and the East branch, to any place at or above the Penobscot boom, where logs are usually rafted, at as early a period as practicable