Section 1. Upon written application of five or more proprietors of lands, wharves or other real estate held in common to a justice of the peace, stating that they intend to organize themselves as a corporation, he shall issue his warrant to one of the applicants, directing him to call a meeting of all the […]
Section 10. Each proprietor may vote according to the number of his shares or the amount of his interest, if known; and if not known, the proprietors shall vote equally. Absent proprietors may vote by written proxy.
Section 11. The proprietors may by vote adopt such measures and levy such assessments in proportion to their respective rights and interests in the property as they deem proper for managing, improving or dividing their common property and carrying on their business.
Section 12. If a proprietor fails to pay an assessment for six months after demand therefor by the collector or other proper officer, or after a notice of such assessment posted and published in the manner prescribed for the first meeting, the committee of the proprietors or other officers authorized by them for that purpose […]
Section 13. The proprietor of the share or part sold may, within one year after the sale, redeem it by paying to the purchaser or his assigns the purchase price with interest at the rate of twelve per cent a year from the time of the sale.
Section 14. If there are ten or more proprietors, they may, by vote of more than two thirds both in number and interest at a legal meeting, sell their estate and divide the proceeds thereof.
Section 15. After the final division of their common property, the proprietors may deposit their records with the clerk of the city or town where the land or any part of it lies; and the clerk may make and certify copies from the records as the clerk of the proprietors might have done. Such proprietors […]
Section 16. A final division of the common property shall not dissolve the corporation until the expiration of ten years thereafter; but the proprietors at the time of the division and their heirs shall retain their corporate powers for the purpose of collecting all assessments, debts and effects due or belonging to the corporation, and […]
Section 17. The proprietors may, within ten years after such division, call and hold meetings and vote and raise money by assessments, as before provided, for the payment of their debts and all other charges and demands against them, and may do all other lawful acts necessary for closing their business.
Section 18. If several distinct lots or parcels of land are enclosed and fenced in one common field, or if all the proprietors of such lands agree so to enclose them, the proprietors, if not less than five, may, in the manner hereinafter provided, hold regular meetings for the purpose of managing their common concerns.
Section 19. On application of two or more proprietors to a justice of the peace, he shall issue his warrant for a meeting, as provided in section one, which shall be called either in the manner prescribed in section two or by personal notice served on each proprietor fourteen days at least before the time […]
Section 2. The meeting shall be called by posting a notice containing the substance of the warrant, signed by the person to whom the warrant is directed, fourteen days at least before the meeting, in one or more public places in the town, and by publishing it in a newspaper, if any, published in the […]
Section 20. The proprietors may from time to time choose a clerk, three or more assessors, a collector and such other officers as they find to be necessary; each of whom shall continue in office until removed by the proprietors or until his successor is qualified. The clerk and assessors shall be sworn.
Section 21. They may choose one or more field drivers, who shall have and exercise the same powers with respect to the general fields as field drivers chosen by a town.
Section 22. They may adopt such rules as to pasturing the land and as to other matters in which they have a common interest as they consider just and equitable and most for the general good; but in all other respects each proprietor may manage and cultivate his land as he thinks best.
Section 23. At meetings of proprietors for adopting rules or regulations as to pasturing, land of a proprietor enclosed for his exclusive benefit shall not be valued or reckoned in determining his right to vote on questions relative to pasturing his land.
Section 24. If a proprietor puts horses, cattle or other beasts into the general field contrary to the regulations of the proprietors, either by putting in more than the number allowed him, or by putting them in before the day fixed therefor, or by keeping them therein longer than the time limited, he shall be […]
Section 25. The proprietors may from time to time raise money for defraying their common charges and managing their affairs, which shall be assessed by the assessors upon the several proprietors in proportion to their respective interests; and a proprietor aggrieved by such assessment may apply for an abatement to the county commissioners, who shall […]
Section 26. The clerk shall issue his warrant to the collector, requiring him to collect all amounts so assessed and to pay them over to the clerk or other proper officer according to the orders of the proprietors. The collector shall collect said amounts in the same manner as collectors of towns are authorized to […]
Section 27. A proprietor injured in his lands by the beasts of a stranger shall have the same remedy therefor as if his land had been enclosed and used separately.
