WILLIAM E. P. HASKELL, Clerk.
HENRY A. MARSH, Assistant-Clerk.

REV. A. D. MERRILL, Chaplain.

BENJAMIN STEVENS, Sergeant-at-Arms.

ALEXIS POOLE, Door-keeper.

AUGUSTUS LOTHROP, Messenger.
HENRY OAKS, Assistant-Messenger.
WILLIAM SAYWARD, Postmaster.
JOSEPH P. DEXTER, JR., Page.
AMASA H. TOLMAN, Assistant-Page.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

SECRETARY'S OFFICE, BOSTON,
August 9, 1856.

I hereby certify that the printed Acts, Resolves, &c., contained in this pamphlet, are true copies of the originals.

FRANCIS DEWITT,

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

INDEX

TO THE

ACTS, RESOLVES, &c., CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

Westfield, to aid in the establishment of an Agricultural

66

Department in,

Accounts against the Commonwealth, Resolves in relation to,

Page 123
246

83

282

Actions, certain, relating to the venue of,.

36

66

Civil, parties in, enabled to be Witnesses,

108

46

Civil, relating to return of Writs in, before Justices of the Peace
and Police Courts,

48

196

Address of the Governor,

297

Adulterated Milk, to punish Fraud by sale of,
Affirmations and Oaths, County Commissioners authorized to administer,
Agawam Bridge Company, to incorporate,

Aged Females, Home for, and Children's Home, in Roxbury, to incor-
porate,

155

Aged Women in Salem, Society for the relief of, to incorporate,

241

66

66

Agent of Charles River and Warren Bridges to lease a Wharf adjoining
Warren Bridge,

Agricultural Branch Railroad, extending time for the construction of,
Department in Westfield Academy, to aid in the establish-
ment of,

Societies which receive the bounty of the State, in addition

Agriculture, Board of, Resolves concerning the Annual Report of the

Secretary of, .

268