Time of location fixed. convey or lease its road, property and franchise to said Midland Railroad Company. SECTION 2. If the location of said extension be not filed tion and comple- within two years from the passage of this act, or said extension be not completed within three years, this act shall be void. Approved February 15, 1861. Chap. 52. AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE TOWNS Boundary line ited. OF BREWSTER AND ORLEANS. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The line between the towns of Brewster and Orleans, defined and lim- between the points named, shall hereafter be established as follows, to wit: commencing at a stone monument standing on the westerly side of a county road, near the dwellinghouse of Josiah Linnell, of Orleans, on the line between said towns, and marked "B. O."; thence southerly by the westerly line of said road, one hundred and nine rods; thence crossing said road at right angles, to the easterly line of said road; thence southerly, by the easterly line of said road, two hundred rods and six links; thence south fortytwo and one-half degrees east, seven rods and seven links, to a stone monument marked "B. O.," standing in the present line between said towns. Approved February 20, 1861. Chap. 53. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE FIRST INDEPENDENT church in Grove Deed of sale. Application of proceeds. Chap. 54. Limit of extent. LAND TO SELL REAL ESTATE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The trustees for the time being of the First Independent Church in Groveland, are hereby authorized to sell their meeting-house and land, and the treasurer of said trustees for the time being is authorized to execute a deed for the conveyance thereof. SECTION 2. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied, first, to the payment of the debts of the proprietors, and the remainder to the pew-owners, in accordance with the appraisal made by the trustees after the house was altered. Approved February 20, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SYLVANUS N. STAPLES AND WILLIAM H. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Sylvanus N. Staples and William H. Phillips, proprietors of land and flats situated in that part of Taunton known as Weir Village, and on the eastern side of Taunton River, extending from Plain Street to the land of Mrs. Sybil Paull, are hereby authorized to build and maintain thereon a wharf, extending not exceeding three feet beyond the ordinary low-water mark in said river, and shall have the right to lay Rights, privivessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and receive leges. wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, however, this Proviso. grant shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person. Approved February 20, 1861. AN ACT TO REDUCE THE CAPITAL STOCK AND THE NUMBER OF THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 55 duction. SECTION 1. The National Insurance Company of Boston Amount of deis hereby authorized to reduce its capital stock from five hundred thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars, and to divide the excess among the stockholders thereof proportionally. rectors. SECTION 2. Said National Insurance Company is hereby Number of diauthorized to reduce the number of its directors from twentyfive, to such number, not less than five, as shall be fixed upon at a legal meeting of the stockholders thereof. strictions. SECTION 3. Said National Insurance Company may avail Rights and reitself of, and is subject to all general laws of the Commonwealth relating to insurance corporations, so far as applicable to said company. fect. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect when said company When to take ef shall not be liable on any one risk, for a sum exceeding onetenth part of the capital existing and surplus, after deduct. ing all losses, claims, liabilities and debts due from the company. Approved February 20, 1861. Chap. 56. Corporators. Title. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ABINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. George W. Chipman, Joseph French, and Charles G. Easterbrook, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Abington Gas Light Company, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling gas, in the town of Abington; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and lia- Powers, duties, bilities, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes. Purpose. &c. SECTION 2. Said corporation may for the purpose afore- Real estate. said, hold real estate not exceeding in value fifty thousand Capital stock. dollars; and the whole capital stock shall not exceed two Par value of hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each. shares. SECTION 3. Said corporation, with the consent of the Right to lay and selectmen of the town of Abington, shall have power and repair pipes. Obligation to keep highways in repair. Penalty. Proviso. authority to open the ground, in any part of the streets, Chap. 57. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE AGRICULTURAL BRANCH RAILROAD COM PANY TO CHANGE THE LOCATION OF ITS ROAD. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Authority is hereby granted to the Agricultural Branch Railroad Company, to change the location of its road in or near the town of Clinton. Approved February 21, 1861. Chap. 58. AN ACT TO CONFIRM A LEASE MADE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS Lease confirmed. Powers conferred. Conditions. Bond required. OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THREE OF THE RESOLVES OF THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The lease made by the land agent, with the approval of the governor and council, to George Odiorne, dated December fourth, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, giving a right of way not exceeding five rods wide, for a period of five years, across the flats and channels lying between the commissioners' line at the easterly shore of Wood Island, so called, at East Boston, and the town of Winthrop, is hereby confirmed to said Odiorne, his representatives and assigns, with all the powers, and subject to all the conditions and provisions in this act contained. SECTION 2. Said Odiorne, his representatives and assigns, are authorized to build, maintain and use, during said term of five years, upon the strip of flats comprised in said lease, a temporary open pile bridge, with a suitable and convenient draw for the passage of vessels, which draw shall be always opened, on demand, for the passage of vessels which cannot pass under said bridge; said bridge to be so built and used, for the purpose of transporting gravel from Winthrop to East Boston, for the filling up of flats at said East Boston, the property of the East Boston Company, and for no other use or purpose whatever. SECTION 3. Said bridge shall not be built until a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the governor and council, and in form approved by the attorney-general, shall be filed in the office of the attorney-general, conditioned that at or before Conditions. the expiration of said term of five years, said bridge shall be removed, and the piles thereof taken up, so that the same shall in no manner interfere with navigation over said flats and channel. And in case said bridge shall not be so Proviso. removed, it shall be lawful for any person injured thereby, to remove the same, and to recover by an action upon said bond, in the name of the Commonwealth, all expenses incurred in such removal. SECTION 4. Nothing herein contained shall be so con- Use of bridge destrued, as to authorize said bridge to be used for the construction of a horse railroad, or for the transportation of passengers thereon. Approved March 1, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SOUTH PARISH IN BRAINTREE TO SELL Be it enacted, &c., as follows: fined. Chap. 59. SECTION 1. Leave is hereby granted so far as the Com- Powers granted. monwealth is concerned, to the South Parish in Braintree, to sell in fee simple the real estate heretofore devised to said parish by John R. Hollis, late of said Braintree, deceased, and to apply the proceeds of said sale, together with certain Application of personal property with the accumulations thereof, also given proceeds. to them by said Hollis, in his last will and testament, to the rebuilding of their church edifice. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 1, 1861. Chap. 60. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHANNING HOME, IN BOSTON. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Charles P. Curtis, Jr., Theodore Metcalf, and Corporators. J. Nelson Borland, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Channing Title. Home, in Boston, for the purpose of providing an asylum for Purpose. poor invalids, with all the powers and privileges, and subject Privileges and to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes. restrictions. sonal estate. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold, for the pur- Real and perpose aforesaid, real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 61. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK, IN LOWELL. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators. Title. Location. William A. Burke, Samuel Fay, Andrew Moody, Benjamin C. Sargeant, Isaac Cooper, Alfred Gilman, John W. Smith, with their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Mechanics' Savings Bank in Lowell, to be established and located in the city of Lowell, with all Powers, duties, the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the fifty-seventh chapter of the General Statutes, and in all other laws of this Commonwealth relating to institutions for savings. Approved March 1, 1861. &c. Chap. 62. Corporators. Title. &c. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EAST CAMBRIDGE LAND COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. James C. Dunn, Estes Howe, Henry Potter, Joseph H. Converse, and Edmund Munroe, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name Powers, duties, of the East Cambridge Land Company, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the sixtieth and sixty-eighth chapters of the General Statutes, with power to purchase and Limits of tract hold, in fee simple or otherwise, all or any part of that tract of land and flats situated in Cambridge, and bounded westerly by Portland Street, southerly by Hampshire Street and Broadway, easterly by the commissioners' line on Charles River, and northerly by Bridge and Cambridge Streets; with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging. authorized hold. to Power to sell, &c. SECTION 2. Said corporation shall have power to sell and convey, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of said corporate property or any part thereof, and to manage and improve the same, with authority to construct dams, docks, wharves Streets and im- and buildings, and to lay out streets and passage-ways and provements. Proviso. Capital. Shares. Duration. otherwise improve the same, as it shall be deemed expedient: provided, that nothing herein contained shall give said corporation any right not belonging to the riparian proprietors, to extend their wharves or otherwise improve said premises. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SECTION 4. This act shall be in force for a term of twenty years, unless sooner repealed by the legislature. Approved March 1, 1861. |