made a corporation for the term of twenty years from the date of the passage of this act, by the name of the Glades Name and purAssociation, with all the powers and privileges and sub- pose. ject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force. relative to such corporations, and with power to purchase and hold in fee simple all or any part of the lands, with the buildings thereon, at the Great Glades, so called, in the town of Scituate, which are now owned by the three first named persons or by any or either of them, not exceeding ninety acres in all. SECTION 2. The said corporation shall have power to sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of its corporate property or any part thereof, and to improve the same, to erect dwelling-houses and out-buildings thereon, to lay out streets and passage-ways through the same and otherwise use said property as natural persons may do. SECTION 3. The said corporation shall have no power to purchase or hold any other lands than those above mentioned. SECTION 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May sell propin-houses, lay out streets, etc. erty, erect dwel To hold no than those other lands mentioned. Capital stock. Approved March 22, 1876. [1873, 196; 1875, 97.] AN ACT to extend the Time authorizing the City of Worcester to lay Chap. 64 out a Public Park, and to establish and maintain a Reservoir. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The time for taking and holding land in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is extended to the fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1877, 81; 1878, 64; 1880, 56.] AN ACT relating to Public Urinals in the City of Boston. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Boston, by vote of its city council, shall have power to erect and maintain urinals for public use in any street, way, court, public square, com mon, or common lands in said city, and likewise in the public garden, so called, lying to the eastward of Arlington Street therein. And any owner of land who suffers any injury in his property by reason of the construction of any urinal as aforesaid, may, at any time within one year after the construction is commenced, apply to the superior court for Suffolk County for assessment of his damages by a jury, and have his damages ascertained in the manner provided where land is taken in laying out highways. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 22, 1876. [1864, 104; 1867, 269; 1870, 155; 1871, 361.] Chap. 66 AN ACT for procuring an Additional Supply of Pure Water for the use of the City of Worcester. City of Worcester may take son's Brook. May take land aqueduct, etc. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Worcester is hereby authorized water from Par. to acquire and hold by purchase, or to take and hold and convey into the Hunt reservoir, for the use of the city, the waters of Parson's Brook, so called, in said city, and any waters that may flow into the same, and to acquire and hold by purchase, or take and hold any lands or estates for maintaining necessary for the laying out and maintaining an aqueduct or conduit, for conducting said waters to said reservoir, or for forming and maintaining reservoirs, and may take and hold land not exceeding five rods in width around the margin of any water-courses or reservoirs they may possess or create in the valley of said brook, for the purpose of supplying said city with pure water. To file in regis. try of deeds a description of SECTION 2. The said city shall, within sixty days from the time its city council shall vote to take any lands, ponds land, etc., taken. or waters by authority of this act, file in the office of the registry of deeds for the county of Worcester, a description of the lands, ponds or waters so taken, as certain as is required in a common conveyance of lands, and a statement of the purpose for which the same are taken, which description and statement shall be signed by the mayor of said city, and the property so taken shall vest in said city from the time of the filing of said description and statement. Liability for damages. SECTION 3. The city of Worcester shall be liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any persons in their property, by the taking of any land, water or water rights as aforesaid, or by the constructing of any aqueducts, reservoirs or other works by authority of this act. Said damages may be recovered and paid in the manner provided in chapter three hundred and sixty-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SECTION 4. The provisions of section six of said chapter shall apply to all land, water and water-rights purchased or taken, and to all works constructed under this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1876, 232; 1881, 268.] Provisions of to apply. 1871, 361, § 6, AN ACT to authorize the Pilgrim Evangelical Society in Southborough Chap. 67 to hold Real Estate for Parsonage Purposes. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Pilgrim Evangelical Society in Southborough is hereby authorized to hold real estate for parsonage purposes, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Sugar Warehousing Company. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: $10,000 addiestate. tional real Chap. 68 SECTION 1. Andrew S. Tozier, Benjamin F. Burgess Corporators. and Elisha Atkins, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Boston Sugar Warehousing Company, for the purpose of receiv- Name and puring and storing in bond, or otherwise, sugar, molasses and pose. other bulky articles of merchandise coming to the port of Boston for sale or manufacture; and the said corporation. is hereby authorized to purchase and hold in fee simple, or to lease personal and real estate sufficient for these purposes in that part of Boston known as South Boston. SECTION 2. The capital stock of the said corporation Capital stock shall not exceed three million dollars, and shall be divided and shares. into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each: provided, that the said corporation shall not commence business until one million two hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock shall have been paid in. duties. SECTION 3. The said corporation shall have all the Powers and powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all the gen eral laws which are now or hereafter may be in force relating to all corporations organized under general laws. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 28, 1876. [1871, 280; 1872, 260, 371; 1873, 4, 298, 338.] Chap. 69 AN ACT for the Better Protection of Life in Buildings occupied for Public Purposes in the City of Boston. Churches, school-houses, be deficient in modes of egress in case of fire, to be examined buildings. Owner or occupant to make alterations when notified by inspector. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever it shall be reported to the inetc., reported to spector of buildings of the city of Boston, that any church, theatre, hall or other building or structure, used or intended to be used temporarily or permanently for any by inspector of public purpose, or any school-house or school-room public or private, within the city of Boston, is deficient in proper facilities of egress in case of fire or accident, either in the number, width, construction or arrangement of the entrances, aisles, passageways or stairways, or by reason of inner doors opening inward, or from any other cause whatever, arising from the manner of construction or repair of the premises, it shall be the duty of the said inspector of buildings to inspect the same, and if, in his judgment, they are so deficient, he shall notify the owner or owners, occupant, lessee or other person having charge thereof, and require of him or them such increased facilities of egress, as in the judgment of the inspector, the security of the public in life and limb, in case of fire or accident may require. The person or persons so notified shall be allowed forty-eight hours from the time of the service of the notice to begin the alterations required by the notice; and he or they shall employ sufficient labor to accomplish the same as expeditiously as may be. If he or they shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requirements of said notice as aforesaid, then a survey of the premises shall be made in the manner set forth in the thirteenth section of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Upon the report of the board of survey, if the same shall declare etc., from using that said premises are deficient in proper facilities of egress in case of fire or accident, and upon the continued neglect or refusal of the owner or owners, occupant, lessee or other person having charge thereof, to provide the requisite increased facilities of egress, then it shall be lawful for the supreme judicial court to issue an injunction forbidding or Supreme judicial court may enjoin owners, premises, upon a report of a board of survey. limiting the use of the premises in such manner as the safety of the public or of persons using the same may require. Such owner or owners, occupant, lessee or other person having charge of the premises, shall likewise be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, for every day's continuance of neglect or refusal to comply with the original notice of the inspector of buildings, to be recovered by the city of Boston in an action of tort. Penalty for neg necessary lecting to make alterations. Combustible buildings, and obstructions in be made safe, the inspector. materials in passageways to upon order of SECTION 2. Whenever it shall appear to the inspector of buildings of the city of Boston that in any of the buildings or structures, or portions thereof, mentioned in the foregoing section, the security of the public is either temporarily or permanently endangered by the use of combustible stuff or materials, or that benches, chairs, stools or other obstructions, are either temporarily or permanently placed in the aisles or passageways thereof, in such a manner as to prevent free egress in case of fire or accident, during the time when the same may be opened to the public, or that benches, chairs or settees are either temporarily or permanently so arranged as not to afford proper passage between them and sufficient egress in case of fire or accident, or that outer doors opening inward are not kept open when such buildings or structures are used by the public, the said inspector shall notify the owner or owners, lessee, occupant or other person having charge of the premises, and require him or them to make the premises safe, and if he or they shall refuse or neglect to do so, he Penalty for or they shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty neglect. dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, for each offence, to be recovered by the city of Boston in an action of tort. SECTION 3. All outer doors of buildings and structures mentioned in section one of this act, shall be kept open when such buildings or structures are used by the public, unless such doors open outwards and except that fly-doors opening both ways, may be kept closed. All inner doors of such buildings and structures shall be made so as to open outwards. Outer doors to be kept open while buildings public. opening inward, are used by the SECTION 4. Section sixty of chapter two hundred and Repeal of 1871, eighty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and 280, § 60. seventy-one is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 28, 1876. [1876, 176; 1877, 84; 1878, 192; 1881, 117.] |