Authority to pur chase conferred road corpora tions. transfer by deed, its franchise, with all its property, privileges and duties; and all attachments, if any, upon said franchise or property, shall be thereby dissolved. SECTION 2. Any railroad corporation now incorporated upon other rail- in this Commonwealth, is hereby authorized to purchase the same, at public or private sale, and receive a transfer thereof; and if such transfer shall be made to any such railroad corporation, then from and after the delivery of the deed of transfer, the present corporation shall cease, and the railroad corporation receiving such grant, shall not be required to hold separate meetings as the Fairhaven Branch Railroad Company, but shall do all acts relating to its new duties and rights, at its own regular or special meetings, or by its own directors; and all expenses incident to the management of the subject of such transfer, and all profits arising therefrom, shall be borne by and accrue to such railroad corporation. But said grantee shall not be liable for the debts of said Fairhaven Branch Railroad Company. Conditions of transfer to individuals. Proceeds of trans fer, how appro SECTION 3. If such transfer shall be made to any other persons than to such incorporated railroad company, then such persons and their associates shall organize anew, under the charter of said Fairhaven Branch Railroad Company; and until such organization, shall not enjoy the rights and privileges of said charter. But such newly organized corporation shall not be liable for the debts of the former corporation. SECTION 4. The proceeds of said franchise and property priated. shall, upon the transfer of the same, be forthwith appropriated by the directors of the company making said transfer, to the payment, pro rata, of its debts and liabilities, and any balance that may remain, over said debts and liabilities, shall be divided, pro rata, among the stockholders. Directors may mortgage franchise. SECTION 5. Said Fairhaven Branch Railroad Company is authorized, (if its directors shall so elect,) to mortgage its franchise, property and privileges, which mortgage shall be to trustees, to secure bonds to be issued in accordance with the sixty-third chapter of the General Statutes. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 81. AN ACT CONCERNING THE WALTHAM AND WATERTOWN RAILROAD May sell franchise, etc. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: COMPANY. SECTION 1. The Waltham and Watertown Railroad Company are hereby authorized to sell their railroad, its franchise and all its property, to the Cambridge Railroad Company, or any other company with which it may connect; and they may enter upon and use the tracks of said Cambridge Railroad, and of any other road with which they may so connect; and in case said parties cannot agree upon the terms Terms, how deupon which they shall enter upon and use such connecting road, the same shall be decided by three commissioners, to be appointed by the supreme judicial court. cided. SECTION 2. If the said Waltham and Watertown Rail- Consolidation with Cambridge road Company shall sell their railroad property and fran- Company decreed chise to the Cambridge Railroad Company, said corporations in case of sale to. shall therefrom become one corporation, under the name of the Cambridge Railroad Company; and all the powers and privileges now enjoyed by, and all the restrictions, liabilities and obligations, imposed upon said two corporations, by virtue of their respective charters, shall appertain to said united corporation, in the same manner as if the same had been contained in, or acquired under the original charter of the Cambridge Railroad Company. Rates of fare and transportation. SECTION 3. The said Waltham and Watertown Railroad SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE WORCESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN HINHAM AND Be it enacted, &c., as follows: ABINGTON. tion. Chap. 83. fined. The boundary line between the towns of Hingham and Boundary deAbington shall be established as follows, to wit: beginning at a stone monument marked "A. H.," standing on the westerly side of, and near Accord Pond, being a known and anciently reputed bound between said towns, and in the Patent or Old Colony Line; thence with said Patent Line, south seventy-three degrees and eighteen minutes west, about five hundred and fifty-four rods, to a stone monument at the south-east corner of Weymouth, marked " W. A." Approved March 21, 1861. AN ACT RELATING TO MONUMENTS ON TOWN LINES. It shall be the duty of the selectmen of the several towns in this Commonwealth to cause a stone monument, with the initials of the name of the towns engraved thereon, to be placed on town lines wherever a highway crosses said lines, the expense of which shall be paid equally by the adjoining Approved March 21, 1861. towns. AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF LAND AGENT. SECTION 2. The commissioners on the Back Bay shall hereafter be known as the commissioners on Public Lands; and in addition to their powers and duties as commissioners on the Back Bay, shall hereafter have and exercise all the powers now by law conferred upon, and perform all the duties now by law required of, the land agent. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon the first day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Chap. 86. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE Boundary defined. Chap. 87. Certain salaries payable monthly. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Approved March 21, 1861. BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN ABINGTON AND RANDOLPH. The boundary line between the towns of Abington and Randolph, shall be established as follows, to wit: beginning at a stone monument marked "A. W." standing at the south-west corner of Weymouth, and in the Patent or Old Colony Line; thence with said line, south, seventy-three degrees eighteen minutes west, about three hundred and eighty-nine rods, to a stake, standing two hundred and eighty-six feet north, one and one-half degrees east, from a stone monument marked " A. N. B," standing as the reputed north-east corner of North Bridgewater. Approved March 21, 1861. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PAYMENT OF SALARIES. SECTION 1. The salaries heretofore payable quarter-yearly, of all persons employed in the several departments which have offices in the state house, shall be payable monthly, on SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT CONCERNING THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. Chap. 88. estate for certain SECTION 1. The Boston Society of Natural History shall May hold real have power to hold real and personal estate, the clear annual purposes. income whereof shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purposes than the encouragement and promotion of the science of natural history. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WINTHROP RAILROAD COMPANY. Chap. 89. SECTION 1. Charles L. Bartlett, John Belcher, Richard Corporators. Shackford, George Odiorne, and Josiah W. Hubbard, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation under the name of the Winthrop Railroad Company, with Name. power to construct, maintain and use, a railway or railways Powers. with convenient single or double tracks, commencing in that Location. part of the city of Boston called East Boston, at such point or points of intersection with the Suffolk Railroad, as shall be fixed and determined by the board of aldermen of said city, and assented to in writing by this corporation; thence upon and over such streets or highways in said East Boston and Breed's Island, so called, as may be fixed and determined by said board of aldermen, and assented to in writing by this corporation, to the dividing line between said city and Winthrop; thence from said dividing line upon and over such streets or highways in said Winthrop, to such point or points therein as the selectmen of said town may fix and determine, and as may be assented to in writing by this corporation. SECTION 2. Said railroad shall be operated by this com- Motive-power. pany with horse-power only. other roads with SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have a right to con- May connect with nect their railroad with the Suffolk or any other horse rail- consent of alderroad in said East Boston, at such point or points of inter- men. section as shall be designated by the board of aldermen of said city, and assented to in writing by this corporation; but shall have no right to run their cars over said railroads or use them in any manner, without the assent of such Motive-power determined. Proviso. corporations, and only on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon. The Suffolk Railroad Company, and all other over other roads. railroad companies with which this company may connect, shall furnish the motive-power to draw the cars and passengers of said Winthrop Railroad Company over such portions of their respective roads as shall be designated by the board Conditions, how of aldermen of said city; and the terms upon which, and the periods of time at which, such cars and passengers shall be drawn over said Suffolk Railroad, and other railroads, shall be determined in case of disagreement between said companies, in the manner provided in the one hundred and seventeenth section of the sixty-third chapter of the General Statutes regulating the use of connecting railroads: provided, however, that said Suffolk Railroad Company shall have the prior right to extend their railroad over so much of the aforesaid route as lies within said East Boston, or any part thereof, if they shall construct such extension within sixty days after said Winthrop Railroad Company shall have given notice to said Suffolk Railroad Company of their desire to connect with said Suffolk Railroad, and shall have completed a reasonable portion of their said road within the town of Winthrop. And if said Suffolk Railroad Company shall fail to construct such extension within the time herein specified, the right to construct the same, or such part thereof as said Suffolk Railroad Company shall fail to construct, as aforesaid, shall vest in said Winthrop Railroad Company. Construction, conditions of. Notice to abutters. Gauge, grade, Alteration. SECTION 4. Before proceeding to locate the track or tracks in any of the streets or highways in said East Boston, or the town of Winthrop, the board of aldermen of said city, and the selectmen of said town, shall give notice thereof to the abutters on said streets or highways by publication in such newspapers as they shall determine, at least fourteen days before such meeting, of the time and place at which they will fix and determine the location and the manner of constructing said track; and such abutters may then and there appear and show cause, if any there be, why said track or tracks should not be so located and constructed. SECTION 5. Said railroad shall be constructed and maintained in such manner and form, and upon such gauge and grade as the board of aldermen of said city and the selectmen of said town shall prescribe and determine; and whenever said corporation desire to alter the grade of any street or highway occupied by it, such alteration shall be made at the sole expense of said corporation. |