year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, is so far SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 10, 1861. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FLATS IN BOSTON Be it enacted, &c., as follows: HARBOR. Chap. 176 may be appointed SECTION 1. The governor and council are hereby author- Commissioners ized to appoint three commissioners, who may sell, or lease, by governor to for such term of years as they may deem expedient, under sell or lease flats. the provisions of the one hundred and third chapter of the resolves of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, or to the Eastern Railroad Company, for the purposes of widening the bridges of the said companies, across Charles River, all the flats within the area lying easterly of a line running through the centre of what was a dock between land of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, and the Eastern Railroad Company, northerly of Causeway Street, in Boston. transfer. SECTION 2. The conditions of sale, or lease, shall pro- Conditions of vide that the said widening shall be on piles driven in extension of the present line of piles, and that the said railroad. company or companies shall make compensation for the water displaced by said piles by excavation from the flats or marshes, between high and low-water mark, above this improvement, in a place, and in such a time, and to such an extent, as shall be approved of by the committee on the harbor of the city of Boston, and a commissioner to be appointed by the governor and council; said commissioner to be paid by the said railroad company or companies such compensation as the governor and council shall direct. SECTION 3. For the purposes of this act the restrictions Repeal. of the one hundred and third chapter of the resolves of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby suspended. Approved April 10, 1861. AN ACT TO LIMIT THE TIME FOR BRINGING ACTIONS FOR CONVERSION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 177 SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and Action to be comfifty-five of the General Statutes, is hereby so amended, two years. menced within that against executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, Statutes to apply. Existing causes. sheriffs, deputy-sheriffs, constables, and assignees in insolvency, actions for the taking or conversion of personal property, shall be commenced within two years next after the cause of action accrues. SECTION 2. All provisions of law applicable to the actions in said section mentioned, shall be applicable to the actions mentioned in the preceding section, in the same manner and with the same effect as if the actions in the preceding section mentioned had been originally mentioned in section two of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the General Statutes. SECTION 3. No suit upon any cause of action which has accrued prior to the passage of this act, shall be defeated, provided such action is commenced within one year from the passage hereof. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 10, 1861. Chap. 178 AN ACT TO CONFIRM AND ESTABLISH THE ORGANIZATION OF THE Confirmation of organization. VINE STREET CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY IN ROXBURY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The proceedings by which Henry Hill and others associated themselves together as a parish or religious society, and formed the Vine Street Congregational Society in Roxbury, on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the proceedings of said society, in its further organization, on the twenty-ninth day of said April, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and said society recognized, established and conPrivileges and re- firmed, as a parish or religious society, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions, liabilities and duties, of such societies, under the laws of this Commonwealth. strictions. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 179 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FALL RIVER AND Time for location and construction extended. WARREN RAILROAD COMPANY." Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The time limited in the fifth section of the act approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Fall River and Warren Railroad Company," within which the location of said railroad should be filed, is hereby further extended to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the time in said section limited, within which said road should be constructed and completed with at least one track, is hereby extended to the first day of July, in the year eighteen AN ACT CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 180 SECTION 1. The premiums offered by any agricultural Competition for society receiving bounty from the treasury of the Common- premiums. wealth under the provisions of the sixty-sixth chapter of the General Statutes, shall be subject to the competition of every citizen of the county in which such society is established. And every such society shall admit as members, upon equal Eligibility to terms, citizens of every town in the county in which the same is located. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN REGARD TO COMPLAINTS AND INDICTMENT. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: membership. Chap. 181 counts allowed. Two or more counts, describing different offences, may be Plurality of set forth in the same complaint or indictment, depending upon the same facts or transaction: provided, that the com- Proviso. plaint or indictment shall contain an averment that the different counts therein are different descriptions of the same Approved April 10, 1861. act. AN ACT IN RELATION TO SEALING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN THE CITY OF LOWELL. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 182 delinquents and SECTION 1. The sealer of weights and measures for the Sealer to visit city of Lowell is authorized and required to go to the houses, make adjuststores, and shops of all persons within the said city of Lowell ment. using weights and measures, for the purpose of buying and selling, as shall neglect to bring in their measures, weights, balances, scales, and beams, to be adjusted and sealed, and there at the said houses, stores, and shops, and having entered the same with the assent of the occupant thereof, to adjust and seal the same, or to send the same to his office to be adjusted and sealed; and shall be entitled to receive there- May require doufor double the fees provided by law for the same service, if ble fees. they had been brought in to be adjusted and sealed, with all expenses attending the removal of the same. fusal of owner. SECTION 2. If any such person shall refuse to have his Forfeiture for reweights, balances, scales or beams so tried, adjusted and sealed, the same not having been tried, adjusted and sealed within one year preceding such refusal, he shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence, one-half to the use of the city, and one-half to the use of the sealer of weights and measures. |