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AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE INSPECTION OF STRAW.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 67.

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SECTION 1. The forty-ninth chapter of the General Statutes to apStatutes is hereby so far amended, that all the provisions relating to the inspection, weighing, branding, and sale of pressed or bundled hay, shall also apply to pressed or bundled straw.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 9, 1861.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NATICK GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 68.

SECTION 1. John B. Walcott, G. P. Fay, Leonard Winch, Corporators. their associates and successors, are hereby made a corpora

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tion, by the name of the Natick Gas Light Company, for the Name. purpose of manufacturing and selling gas in the town of Natick, with the powers and privileges, and subject to all Privileges and rethe duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the sixtieth and sixty-eighth chapters of the General Statutes, and in all other acts passed subsequent thereto, relating to manufacturing corporations.

SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for all the purposes Real estate. aforesaid, hold real estate not exceeding in value twenty-five

thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock shall not capital. exceed fifty thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. Said corporation may, with the consent of the Power to open selectmen of the town of Natick, dig up and open the ground public ways. in any of the highways, town ways, streets or lanes of said town, so far as is necessary to accomplish the objects of the corporation; but such consent shall not affect the right or remedy to recover damages, for any injury which shall be caused to persons or property, by the doings of said corporation. Said corporation shall put all such highways, town shall repair ways, streets or lanes, so opened, into as good repair as they were in when opened by them, and upon failure to do so, within a reasonable time, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance.

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SECTION 4. The selectmen of the town of Natick may Powers of selectregulate, restrict and control, all the acts and doings of said corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, convenience or property of the inhabitants of said

town.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 9, 1861.

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Chap. 69. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE GREAT PAS

Additional powers granted.

TURE COMPANY IN THE CITY OF SALEM.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Great Pasture Company in the city of Salem, is hereby empowered to purchase and hold in addition to the lands now held by said company, and for the same uses and purposes for which it now holds its lands, a parcel of land containing about twenty acres, which is bounded as follows, namely: north-westerly by lands of said company, north-easterly by lands of Stearns, southeasterly by the Mill Pond, so called, and south-westerly by lands of Derby and others.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 9, 1861.

Chap. 70. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FALL RIVER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Corporators.

Name.

Purposes.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

COMPANY.

Guilford II. Hathaway, Benjamin F. Winslow, Baylies Chace, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Fall River Mutual Fire Insurance Company, to be established in the city of Fall River, for the purposes of effecting mutual insurance upont dwelling-houses, other buildings and personal property, Privileges and re- against loss or damage by fire; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the fifty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes, and to all other laws applicable to mutual fire insurance companies. Approved March 9, 1861. Chap. 71. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWNS OF SHELBURNE AND BUCKLAND

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May appropriate $500.

Provided.

Chap. 72.

Application of statutes.

TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

The towns of Shelburne and Buckland, in the county of Franklin, are hereby authorized to appropriate, each, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the purpose of purchasing suitable uniforms for the use of the members of Company H, of the tenth regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia: provided, however, that the towns aforesaid at a public town meeting legally held for that purpose, and two-thirds of the voters being present and voting thereon, shall vote to make such appropriation.

Approved March 15, 1861.

AN ACT CONCERNING BANKS AND BANKING.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Sections third, fourth and fifth, of chapter two hundred and nine, of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and

sixty, shall not apply to banks or banking companies organ-
ized under the general banking laws of this Commonwealth,
but the bank bills of all such corporations shall continue to
be furnished by the auditor of accounts, according to the
provisions of chapter fifty-seven of the General Statutes.
Approved March 15, 1861.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HOWARD
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 73.

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The Howard Fire Insurance Company in the city of Name changed Lowell, county of Middlesex, is hereby authorized to have tablished. its principal office, in the city of Boston, and its corporate name shall hereafter be the Howard Fire Insurance Company. Approved March 15, 1861.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE LITTLE SIPWISSETT CRANBERRY AND
FISHING COMPANY IN THE TOWN OF FALMOUTH.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 74.

SECTION 1. Barnabus Bowerman, Silas Gifford, and Corporators. Prince G. Moore, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Little Sipwissett Name. Cranberry and Fishing Company, for the purpose of improv- Purpose. ing and regulating the Little Sipwissett Meadow, in the town of Falmouth, by flowing and draining said meadow as the company shall deem best for the culture of cranberries, and also for the purpose of regulating and protecting the alewive fishery in a pond in said meadow, and in the river leading from said pond to Buzzard's Bay.

strictions.

SECTION 2. Said company shall have all the powers and Privileges and reprivileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General

Statutes.

fringement upon

ration.

SECTION 3. Whoever shall obstruct the passage of ale- Penalty for inwives between said pond and bay, in either direction, or rights of corpowithout the permission of said corporation shall take any alewives from said pond or river, or shall set, drag or shoot any seine in Buzzard's Bay, within fifty rods of the mouth of said river, for the purpose of taking alewives therefrom, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which shall inure to the benefit of the company.

SECTION 4.

This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 15, 1861.

Chap. 75. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE FAIRHAVEN INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS

May hold $10,000

Proviso.

TO HOLD REAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Institution for Savings in the town of Fairhaven, in Bristol County, is hereby authorized to hold real estate within the town of Fairhaven, to the amount of ten thousand dollars: provided, that all income, if any, arising from such real estate, shall be devoted exclusively to the interests of said corporation.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 15, 1861.

Chap. 76. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE BOSTON AND SOUTHERN

Routes of navigation defined.

Proviso.

Chap. 77.

Corporators.

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STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

The steamships owned or chartered by the Boston and Southern Steamship Company, may be employed and navigate the ocean between any of the ports of the United States, excepting Philadelphia and Baltimore, or between any of the ports of the United States, and any port or ports of the Island of Cuba, or of Mexico, or of Central America, or of any of the colonial dependencies of Great Britain: provided, that if under this charter the steamers, or either of them, of the Boston and Southern Steamship Company, shall be employed between Boston and New Orleans, they shall be withdrawn from New Orleans, whenever in the judgment of the directors of the Union Steamship Company, the interests of said Union Steamship Company are prejudiced thereby; in such case, it shall be the duty of the directors of the Union Steamship Company, to request in writing, the directors of the Boston and Southern Steamship Company, to discontinue their steamers in said service, within thirty days from the date of said request.

Approved March 15, 1861.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANK OF BOSTON
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Osmyn Brewster, John H. Thorndike, L.
Miles Standish, Daniel Davies, Henry N. Hooper, Frederick
H. Stimpson, John Cowdin, Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.,
Nathaniel J. Bradlee, Uriel Crocker, Franklin Darracott,
Charles U. Cotting, Francis C. Manning, Otis Norcross,
Calvin W. Clark, James H. Beal, Jacob Sleeper, Alexander
S. Wheeler, Benjamin C. Clark, Jr., Alexander H. Rice,
their associates and successors, are hereby made a corpora-
tion, by the name of the Franklin Savings Bank of the city

of Boston, and located in said city, east of Washington Street, between Summer and Essex Streets, with all the Privileges and repowers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabili- strictions.

ties and restrictions, set forth in the fifty-seventh chapter of

the General Statutes, and all other laws of this Common

wealth relating to institutions for savings.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 15, 1861.

AN ACT INCREASING THE EXPENDITURES AND COMPENSATION OF THE
AGENT FOR DISCHARGED CONVICTS.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 78.

SECTION 1. Section sixty-six, chapter one hundred sev- Expenditures. enty-nine, of the General Statutes, is hereby so amended. that the expenditures therein specified may be increased to

an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year.

SECTION 2. The annual compensation of the agent for Agent's salary. discharged convicts shall be eight hundred dollars, commencing January first, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved March 18, 1861.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE EASTERN AVENUE CORPORATION.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 79.

SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter twenty-one, of the Provisions of Act acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, of 1860 extended. authorizing the Eastern Avenue Company to change their location, are hereby extended to January first, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

avenue.

SECTION 2. So much of said avenue as shall be built construction within the commissioners' line, established May twenty-fifth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, for solid structure, may, with the consent of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston, be built solid; and said city of Boston is hereby authorized to grant aid to said corporation, in such manner, and upon such conditions, as the said city may deem expedient: provided, said avenue shall Proviso. be constructed with suitable draw or draws, and proper sluiceways, which draw or draws it shall be in the power of the legislature to change and widen, at the expense of the corporation, or their successors.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect

upon its passage. Approved March 20, 1861.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE FAIRHAVEN BRANCH RAILROAD COMPANY

TO CONVEY ITS FRANCHISE AND PROPERTY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 80

SECTION 1. The Fairhaven Branch Railroad Company, Conveyance aufor the benefit of the creditors thereof, is authorized to

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