district, parish, precinct, or other body politic or religious society by whom he or she has been taxed as aforesaid, it shall be sufficient to require them respectively to order and direct the treasurer of such corporation or religious society, to pay over the amount of such taxes, so applied for, to the use of the public teacher of the religious sect or denomination to which such applicant belongs; and such public teacher shall thereby be entitled to receive the same. may SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That the assessors of each Assessors not to tax those in parish or religious society within this Commonwealth their parish omit, in the taxes voted to be assessed on the polls and estates who worship within such parish or society, such persons, living within the in another. limits of the same, as belong to and usually attend public wor- 1811 ch. 6. ship in a religious society of a different denomination. vided, That nothing in this Act contained shall take from any Proviso. church or religious society in the town of Boston, or any other town, the right and liberty to support the public worship of God, by a tax on pews, or other established mode. Pro SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws providing for Former laws the settlement of ministers, and the support of the public repealed. worship of God, made prior to the adoption of the present Constitution of this Commonwealth, be and hereby are repealed, except so far as relate to the recovery of all fines and penalties accruing under the same, and the fulfilment of all contracts made under and by virtue thereof. [March 4, 1800.] An ACT to empower the Selectmen of the Towns of Boston and Charlestown to Chap. 88. increase the number of Engine-Men in said towns, and for other purposes. [March 4, 1800.] Embraced in 1805 ch. 82, & 1808 ch. 25. An ACT to repeal a Part of the ninth Section of an Act, entitled, "An Act to incor- Chap. 1. porate Hugh McLellan and others into a Company, by the name of The Maine 1799 ch. 42. Fire and Marine Insurance Company." [June 5, 1800.] An Act to incorporate George Dodge, and others, into a Company by the name of Chap. 2. The Salem Marine Insurance Company. [June 9, 1800.] Add. act—1804 ch. 55. Continued-1819 ch. 8. An ACT in addition to an Act, entitled, "An Act for establishing a Corporation by Chap. 3. the name of The Eighth Massachusetts Turnpike Corporation." [June 10, 1800.] 1799 ch. 48. Further add. acts-1804 ch. 96: 1818 ch. 73. An Act in addition to, and for altering an Act, entitled, "An Act for establishing Chap. 4. a Corporation by the name of The Ninth Massachusetts Turnpike Corporation." [June 10, 1800.] Further add. acts-1800 ch. 56: 1801 ch. 51. 1799 ch. 54. An ACT to incorporate a number of the inhabitants of the Towns of Russell, Chap. 5. Blandford, Norwich and Montgomery, in the County of Hampshire, into a distinct religious Society by the name of The United Baptist Society. [June 12, 1800.] An Act in addition to an Act, entitled, “An Act for incorporating the several Re- Chap. 6. ligious Societies in Newburyport, in the County of Essex." [June 12, 1800.] 1793 ch. 44. Further add. act-1800 ch. 62. An ACT to cede to the United States the Jurisdiction of the Tract of Land which Chap. 7. shall be required for the Light-House, authorized by Congress to be erected on Wigwam-Point. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the United States of America may purchase or take, The U. States allowed to pur chase and have as herein after is provided, any tract of land which shall be jurisdiction of found necessary and convenient for the light-house, authoriz land on Wigwam-Point. Proviso for service, &c. of process. In case of disa greement as to the value, Court of Ses sions to ap point an appraising committee. United States to pay charges of a praisemen', &c. Chap. 8. Chap. 9. Chap. 10. Chap. 11. 1799 ch. 37. ed by Congress to be erected upon Wigwam-Point, in the town of Gloucester, within this Commonwealth; and during the continuance of the use and appropriation aforesaid, the jurisdiction of such tract of land, not exceeding the quantity of seven acres for such light-house, shall be and hereby is ceded to, and shall be in the said United States; Saving, and provided always, That all civil and criminal processes, issued under the authority, or by any officers of this Commonwealth, shall have full force and effect within the said tract of land, and any buildings which shall be there erected, this cession of jurisdiction notwithstanding. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the agent or person employed for the United States, and the owner or owners of such tract of land, as shall be found necessary and convenient for the said light-house, cannot agree in a sale and purchase thereof, such agent or person employed may ap ply to any Court of General Sessions of the Peace which shall be holden within the county wherein such land lies, who shall and may appoint a committee of three freeholders, impartial men, to determine a just equivalent to the owner or owners of such land; which committee shall be sworn before some Justice of the Peace, for the faithful discharge of their trust, and shall forthwith proceed to view, set off and appraise such tract of land, and shall make return of their doings to the same court; which award and return being accepted by the court, and the amount of such appraisement being paid to the owner or owners of land appraised and set off by such committee; or if the owner or owners shall not appear, or shall refuse to receive the same, to such person or corporation, for the use of the owner or owners, as the same court shall order; the tract of land, so appraised and set off, shall be vested in the United States, and shall and may be taken, possessed and appropriated for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That all charges of such application and appraisement shall be paid by the United States; and Provided, That the land which may be set off, for the purposes of this Act, shall not exceed the quantity of seven acres in the whole, for such light-house, including and reckoning therewith any land purchased for the same. [June 12, 1800.] An ACT to alter the Time of holding one of the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace and Courts of Common Pleas, in the County of York. [June 12, 1800.] An ACT to set off Timothy Horton from the first Parish in West-Springfield, in the County of Hampshire, and to annex him to the second Parish in said Town. [June 13, 1800.] An ACT to change the name of Charles Cabot, to that of Charles George Cabot. [June 13, 1800.] An ACT in addition to an Act, entitled, "An Act, to incorporate sundry persons by the name of The President, Directors and Company of the Gloucester Bank." [June 13, 1800.] Further add. act-1809 ch. 71. New act-1812 ch. 43. An ACT to repeal the third section of an Act, entitled, "An Act to repeal an Act, Chap. 12. entitled, an Act to incorporate the Committee of the Church and Congregation in the Town of Warwick, for certain purposes;" passed February, one thousand 1794 ch. 60. seven hundred and ninety-five. [June 14, 1800.] An Act to set off John Thayer, and others, with their polls and estates, from the Chap. 13. Town of Belchertown, in the County of Hampshire, and to annex them to the second Parish in Amherst, for parochial privileges. [June 14, 1800.] An Act to exempt Sheepscot-River from the operation of all Laws regulating the Chap. 14. Fisheries in the Counties of Lincoln and Cumberland, exceping so far as relates 1797 ch. 70.&c. to Dyer's-River, and the Streams and Ponds running into or connected with the said Dyer's-River. [June 14, 1800.] An ACT prescribing the Time for holding the several Courts of Common Pleas and Chap. 15. Courts of General Sessions of the Peace within and for the County of Hampshire. (June 16, 1800.] An ACT establishing The Tenth Massachusetts Turnpike Corporation. [June 16, Chap. 16. 1800.] Add. acts-1803 ch. 13: 1814 ch. 37: 1819 ch. 63. See 1806 ch. 78. An ACT providing for the Cession of Clarke's Point, in the Town of New-Bedford, Chap. 17. to the United States. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That one hundred and thirty-four rods of land at the end Quantity of of Clark's-Point, in the town of New-Bedford, on which there land to be is now a light-house standing, the property of the United States, be and hereby is gran ed and ceded to the United States. ceded. retained. SECT. 2. Provided however, and be it further enacted, That the cession and grant aforesaid is upon this express condition, that this Commonwealth shall retain a concurrent jurisdic- Concurrent tion with the United States in and over the land aforesaid, so jurisdiction far as that all civil processes, and such criminal processes as may issue under the authority of this Commonwealth, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without the land aforesaid, may be executed therein, in the same way and manner as though this cession had not been made and granted. [June 16, 1800.] An Act to repeal Part of an Act, entitled, "An Act for the due Regulation of Chap. 18. Weights and Measures." 1799 ch. 60. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That County treaso much of the Act aforesaid as requires that the treasurers of surer need not the several counties within this Commonwealth shall and keep a bushel measure, as a standard, be and the same hereby is repealed. [June 16, 1800.] provide keep a bushel measure. An Act in addition to an Act, entitled, "An Act to empower the Inhabitants of Chap. 19. the Town of Salem to choose a Board of Health, and for removing and prevent- 1799 ch. 14. ing Nuisances in said Town ;" and for repealing part of said Act. [June 16, 1800.] An ACT for the Preservation, and to regulate the taking of Fish in Crooked-River Chap. 20. and Songo-River, in the Counties of York and Cumberland. [June 16, 1800.] 1795 ch. 41. An ACT to continue in Force an Act passed in the year of our Lord one thousand Chap. 21. seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act establishing and regulating the Fees of the several Officers, and other Persons hereafter mentioned, and for repealing the Laws heretofore made for that Purpose." BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in 36 Former Act continued. Chap. 22. Chap. 23. Chap. 24. Chap. 25. authorized to purchase. General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That An ACT to incorporate sundry Persons in the Towns of Rochester, in the County of An ACT authorizing the Town of Westfield, in the County of Hampshire, to build a An Act to incorporate a Number of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Brookfield and An ACT to render valid the Doings of the Coroners of the Counties of Hancock and An Act authorizing the United States to purchase a certain Tract of Land in SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the consent of this Commonwealth be and hereby is grantThe U. States ed to the United States, to purchase a tract of land situated in the northeasterly part of the town of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, adjoining and bounded on two sides by Charles and Mystic-Rivers, not exceeding sixty-five acres, exclusive of flats, for the purpose of a navy or dock-yard, or both of them, and erecting magazines, arsenals, and other needful buildings: The evidence of the purchases aforesaid to be entered and recorded in the registry of deeds in the said county of Middlesex. Provided always; and the consent aforesaid is granted upon the express condition, that this Commonwealth shall retain a conConcurrent ju- current jurisdiction with the United States, in and over the tract of land aforesaid, so far as that all civil, and such criminal processes as may issue under the authority of this Commonwealth against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without the said tract of land, may be executed therein, in the same way and manner as though this consent had not been granted. risdiction re tained. greement be tween the agents and owners, court to determine SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the agent or agents In case of disa- employed for the United States, and the owner or owners of said tract of land so to be purchased, cannot agree in the sale and purchase thereof, such agent or agents may apply to any Court of General Sessions of the Peace which shall be holden the value by a Within and for the aforesaid county of Middlesex; which court, after due notice given to the said owner or owners, are hereby empowered and directed to hear, and finally determine the value of the same tract of land, or any part or portion thereof, by a jury under oath, to be summoned by a sheriff or his deputy for that purpose, or by a committee of three persons, if the parties aforesaid can agree upon them; and the value thereof being thus ascertained by the verdict of such jury, or the re jury or committee. port of such committee, who are also to be under oath faithfully and impartially to value said tract of land, or any part or portion of the same; and such verdict or report being accepted and recorded by said court, and the amount thereof being paid or tendered to the owner or owners of said tract of land, or to the owner or owners of any part of said tract of land that shall have been thus valued, with his or her reasonable costs; the said tract of land, or such parts of the same as shall be thus yalued, shall forever be vested in the United States, and shall and may be by them taken, possessed and appropriated to the poses aforesaid. [June 17, 1800.] pur An ACT for setting off Jonathan Kingsbery, jr. an inhabitant of the westerly Precinct Chap. 27. in Needham, in the County of Norfolk, and annexing him and his estate to the easterly Parish in said Needham. [June 17, 1800.] An ACT to ascertain the Quality of Hogs' Lard, and making further Provision for the Inspection of Butter. Chap. 28. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the inspector-general and deputy-inspector, appointed or to be appointed by virtue of the Act, entitled, "An Act to as- 1799 ch. 34. certain the quality of Butter, and for the more effectual inspec- Inspector of tion of the same," shall also be inspectors of hogs' lard; and butter to be the several fees for inspection, fines, forfeitures, rules and re- lard, under the inspector of gulations,for the exportation of butter, mentioned in the said Act, same regulashall extend to, and be the same for, and respecting the tions. shipping of hogs' lard packed for exportation, agreeably to the di- 1300 ch. 59. rections of this Act. SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That all hogs' lard exported Lard to be from this Commonwealth shall be inspected, examined, brand- packed as buted, and packed in kegs, in the same manner as is directed in ter is. the Act for the inspection of butter, herein before named. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the several inspectors of Small kegs of butter and hogs' lard may inspect and brand kegs of butter of butter may be the following sizes, when thereto requested, viz. kegs twelve branded. inches long, and seven and an half inches diameter in the heads, or ten inches long, with six inches head. ter or lard not SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall export, or ship for exportation, out of this Commonwealth, any butter or hogs' lard, not inspected and branded as Penalties for by this Act and the Act herein before named, to ascertain the exporting butquality of butter, they are directed; every such exporter or inspected. shipper, and the master of every vessel having on board such uninspected butter or lard, shall, on conviction thereof, respectively forfeit and pay the sums following: The owner or exporter shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar, and the master of every vessel having the same on board, the sum of fifty cents, for each cask exported, or shipped for exportation. And it shall be the duty of any Justice of the Peace, upon any information given of any butter or hogs' lard being put on board any vessel as aforesaid, not inspected and branded as required by this Act, or the said Act to ascertain the quality of butter, to issue his warrant, directed to the sheriff or his deputy, or to |