Proviso. Chap. 22. Corporators. Title. Purpose. Privileges conditions. Capital. Shares. Proviso. Fund, which shall be paid out of the treasury of this Com- SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING COMPANY. SECTION 1. Charles B. Hall, James W. Stone, Jacob Sleeper, Samuel A. Bradbury, Holmes Ammidown, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation, during and for the term of twenty years from and after the passage of this act, unless this act shall be sooner repealed, by the name of the Real Estate and Building Company, for the purpose of purchasing, selling, leasing and improving real estate, in the towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, now held by L. A. Huntington, William H. Seavey, and W. L. G. Hunt, as trustees of the Real Estate and Building Company, and no other, and performing such other legal acts as may be necessary in accomplishing said and objects; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and conditions, set forth in the sixtieth and sixty-eighth chapters of the General Statutes. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with liberty to increase the said stock to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: provided, that the said corporation shall not transact any business until at least seventy-five thousand dollars in cash shall have been paid in. Approved February 6, 1861. Chap. 23. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Registry of deeds. ACUSHNET. SECTION 1. The town of Acushnet shall be and remain a part of the southern district of the county of Bristol, for the registry of deeds. SECTION 2. All deeds, mortgages, notices or certificates of foreclosure, and other instruments required by law to be recorded, and now recorded, or which shall hereafter be recorded, in the registry of deeds for said southern district of the county of Bristol, shall have the same force and effect, and the record of the same in said registry shall be of the same force and effect, as if the said town of Acushnet had been and remained a part of the town of Fairhaven. Approved February 6, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE JOHN P. OBER TO BUILD A WHARF IN GLOU- Chap. 24. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: CESTER. John P. Ober, proprietor of land and flats situate in that Location. part of Gloucester known as Eastern Point, is hereby authorized to build and maintain thereon a wharf, extending three hundred feet in a north-westerly direction into the cove from the main road or high-water mark, and shall have the Privileges. right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, however, Proviso. that this grant shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any Approved February 6, 1861. person. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BELVIDERE Chap. 25. WOOLLEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: ers granted. SECTION 1. The Belvidere Woollen Manufacturing Com- Additional powpany is hereby authorized to prosecute the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods in Lowell, in the county of Middlesex. tal authorized. SECTION 2. Said corporation may increase its capital Increase of capistock to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, and may invest such portion thereof in real and Investment. personal estate as may be necessary or convenient for the prosecution of its business. Approved February 6, 1861. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MILTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 26. SECTION 1. John D. Bradlee, Sumner A. Burt, Edward Corporators. L. Pierce, their associates and successors, are hereby made Title. a corporation by the name of the Milton Gas Light Com- ing gas in the town of Milton, with all the powers and Privileges and reprivileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and strictions. liabilities, set forth in the sixtieth and sixty-eighth chapters of the General Statutes. Real estate. Power to open streets, &c., to sink pipes, &c. Chap. 27. Location defined. Chap. 28. Increase authorized. Proviso. Remonstrance. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purpose aforesaid, hold real estate not exceeding in value twenty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 3. Said corporation, with the consent of the selectmen of the town of Milton, shall have the power and authority to dig up and open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes and highways in said town, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors as may be necessary for the purpose aforesaid; and the said corporation, after opening the ground in such streets, lanes or highways, shall be held to put the same again in repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, that the selectmen of said town may regulate, restrict, and control all acts and doings of such corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, convenience or property of the inhabitants of said town. Approved February 6, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SELECTMEN OF HARWICH TO CONSTRUCT Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The selectmen of the town of Harwich are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge, and to establish the same as a town way, across Herring River, in said Harwich, on the line of a road laid out in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, and commencing at the lower county road in said town, near the dwelling-house of Job Chase, and thence extending northerly over Bell's Neck to the upper county road. Approved February 6, 1861. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE BRISTOL COUNTY Be it enacted, &c., as follows: BANK. SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the Bristol County Bank, of Taunton, are hereby authorized to increase their present capital stock, by an addition thereto of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instalments as the president and directors may determine: provided, that the whole amount shall be paid in before the first day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. SECTION 2. If any of the stockholders of said bank remonstrate against the acceptance of the additional capital herein provided, their remonstrance shall be made, in writing, to the cashier of the bank, on or before the first day of July next; and if the persons so objecting legally represent one-fourth part of the present capital stock of said corporation, it shall not be entitled to the benefit of this act. SECTION 3. The additional stock aforesaid, when paid Tax, etc. into said bank, shall be subject to the like tax, regulations, restrictions and provisions, to which the present capital stock of said bank is now subject. quired. SECTION 4. Before said corporation shall proceed to do Certificate rebusiness on said additional capital, a certificate signed by the president and directors, and attested by the cashier, under oath, that the same has been actually paid into the said bank, shall be returned into the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR LOCATING AND CONSTRUCTING THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 29. The time for locating and constructing the Springfield and Extended three Farmington Valley Railroad, is hereby extended three years years. from the time designated in the twentieth chapter of the acts of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Approved February 9, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE DANIEL S. WEBBER TO EXTEND HIS WHARF Chap. 30. IN GLOUCESTER. hundred feet. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Daniel S. Webber, proprietor of a wharf in Gloucester, May extend two situated in that part of the town known as Fresh Water Cove, is hereby authorized to extend and maintain said wharf in its present width, two hundred and twenty-five feet from the starting point of said wharf towards the centre of the channel; and shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor provided, however, that this grant shall in no wise Proviso. impair the legal rights of any person. Approved February 9, 1861. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: the Chap. 31. The Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, in addition to May hold estate. power given in the second section of its charter of incorporation, and in other acts in addition thereto, may take and hold for religious, charitable and educational purposes, in Amount. fee simple or otherwise, by gift, grant, devise or purchase, any real or personal estate: provided, the annual income of all said estate shall not exceed six thousand dollars. Approved February 9, 1861. Chap. 32. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE BENIAH COLBURN AND OTHERS TO EXTEND May extend three hundred feet. Proviso. THEIR BREAKWATER IN GLOUCESTER. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Beniah Colburn, William J. Torrey, Blanchard Clifford, and Thomas Hale, proprietors of a breakwater in Gloucester, situated in that part of the town known as Hodgkins Cove, are hereby authorized to extend and maintain said breakwater, three hundred feet in a northerly direction; and shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said break water, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, however, that this grant shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person or corporation. Approved February 9, 1861. Chap. 33. AN ACT EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE LOCATION AND CONSTRUCTION Extended year. one OF THE STONEHAM BRANCH RAILROAD. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The time allowed to the Stoneham Branch Railroad Company for the location and construction of its railroad, is hereby extended one year beyond the time fixed therefor by its act of incorporation, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Stoneham Branch Railroad Company," and approved April sixth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. Approved February 9, 1861. Chap. 34. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE TROY COTTON AND May increase to $300,000. Chap. 35. Amount of increase. Shares. WOOLLEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Troy Cotton and Woollen Manufacturing Company is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock in a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, so that its whole capital shall be five hundred thousand dollars. Approved February 9, 1861. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE ESSEX BANK OF Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the Essex Bank of Haverhill, are hereby authorized to increase their present capital stock by an addition thereto of one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instalments as the presi |