notwithstanding, but vacancies, that shall at any time occur in said board, may be filled at any town meeting legally notified, and all persons elected as firewards shall be notified of their election, and shall make known their acceptance or refusal in the same manner, and be subject to the same penalties for neglecting so to do, as was established by law previous to the passing of this act. [March 16, 1832.]

1830 ch. 19.

An ACT to increase the capital stock of the Taunton Copper Manufacturing Company. Chap 134. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Taunton Copper Manufacturing Company be, and Increase of caphereby are authorized to increase their capital stock, by the ital stock. addition thereto, of the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars,

the same being entitled to all the powers and privileges, and Powers and subject to all the duties and requirements contained in the act duties. passed the twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord

one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled "an act defining the 1829 ch. 53. general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations.” [March 16, 1832.] Add. act, 1836 ch. 182.

An ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of the Third Congregational Meeting-house, in
Lowell.

Chap 135.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Jonathan Morse, 2d., William T. Heydock, Persons incorEdwin Stearns, Salmon Stevens, Thomas Sweetser, Hananiah porated. Whitney, Stephen Goodhue, Edward Sherman, Simon Adams, Abram Brigham, and others, who have associated, or may hereafter associate with them, for the purpose of building a meetinghouse, their successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of the Proprietors of the Third Congregational Meeting-house, in Lowell, and General powby that name may sue and be sued, and may have and use a com- ers. mon seal, and may ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations, as to them may seem necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation provided, such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation Real and permay purchase and hold real and personal estate, the annual in- sonal estate. come of which, exclusive of the meeting-house and land under the same, shall not exceed two thousand dollars; and shall divide their estate into shares, the number of which shall not be less than fifty, nor more than three hundred; and may make and impose Assessments. assessments on such shares, from time to time, as they may deem expedient, to carry their intended object into effect.

gence in paying

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That whenever any pro- Proceedings prietor shall neglect or refuse to pay any assessment, legally made in case of negliupon his share or shares, to the treasurer of said corporation, within thirty days after the same shall be made payable, the said treasurer is hereby authorized to sell at public auction, the share

assessments.

Annual meet

ing.

or shares of such delinquent proprietor, after publishing, in one or more of the Lowell papers, notice of the time, place and cause of such sale, and also on the door of said meeting-house, whenever such house shall have been erected, at least thirty days previous to such sale, to execute deed or deeds thereof to the purchaser or purchasers; and after deducting the amount of such delinquent's assessment, together with legal interest thereon, from the time the same was payable, and necessary incidental charges, the said treasurer shall pay the surplus, if any there be, to such delinquent proprietor; or the said treasurer may sue and prosecute to final judgment and execution any such delinquent proprietor for any tax or assessment due and payable on any share or shares of such delinquent proprietor.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That there shall be an annual meeting of said proprietors, after the present year, on the second Monday in March, at which they shall elect by ballot, a president, clerk, treasurer and five trustees, of whom the president shall be one, and the treasurer and clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their respective trusts; and at such Right of voting. meeting, each proprietor, or his agent duly authorized in writing, shall be entitled to as many votes as he holds shares: provided, that no one person shall be entitled to more than ten votes.

Clerk to keep

ceedings.

SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty a record of pro- of the clerk of said corporation to keep a record of all the proceedings of said corporation, and of all shares and transfer of shares therein, and to grant certificates thereof to said proprietors; and the shares may be transferred under the hand and seal of the proprietors on the back of such certificate.

First meeting.

1803 ch. 113.

(v. 3. p. 371.)

1829 ch. 119. 1831 ch. 71.

tinued, unless

city of Boston pay a sum of money.

SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That any justice of the peace in the county of Middlesex be, and he hereby is authorized to issue his warrant to some one of the said proprietors, for the purpose of calling the first meeting to elect officers and organize said corporation, at such convenient time and place, as he shall direct; at which meeting said proprietors may agree upon the manner of calling future meetings. [March 16, 1832.]

Bridge.

Chap 136. An ACT in further addition to an Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Boston South SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this act, the Bridge discon Proprietors of the Boston South Bridge be, and they hereby are authorized to discontinue said bridge, as a pass way, and, at any time between the passing of this act, and the first day of August next, if the city of Boston, before the first day of May next, does not pay to said proprietors such sum of money as may be agreed upon by them and the said city, for a transfer and assignment of the franchise and materials of said bridge, according to the first section of "an act in addition to an act, entitled an act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Boston South Bridge," passed on the twenty-third day of June last, the said proprietors are hereby authorized and empowered to take up the materials of said bridge,

flats to be left unincumbered.

leaving the channel and flats under the same unincumbered by Channel and any of the timbers or materials composing the same, and also to sell and dispose of, at public or private sale, all the said materials of said bridge, and every other kind of property whatever belonging to said proprietors in their corporate capacity, as a compensation for the sums of money expended in the construction and erection of said bridge, and to divide the net proceeds of such sale among the respective stockholders, according to the number of their shares respectively provided, always, that be- Proviso. fore said proprietors shall proceed to take up, or remove the materials of said bridge, they shall cause to be executed to the city of Boston, bonds to the satisfaction of the governor and council, conditioned, that the said materials shall be taken up and entirely removed, so that the channel and flats under the same may be free from incumbrance in the same manner as they were before said bridge was built.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the sev- Repeal. eral acts relating to said bridge, to which this is in addition, as is incompatible with the provisions of this act, be, and the same hereby is repealed. [March 16, 1832.]

An ACT to incorporate the President, Directors and Company of the Union Bank of Chap 137.

Weymouth and Braintree, in Weymouth.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority

of the same, That Christopher Webb, Ezra Leach, Elisha Persons incorBlanchard, Asa Webb, Joseph Richards, Briant Newcomb, porated. Jonathan Newcomb, Briant Newcomb, Jr., Josiah Vinton, Jr., Amos Stetson, Elihu White, Joseph Loud, James White, second, John Crane, Salmon Clapp and James Whittemore, their associates, successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby created a corporation by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Union Bank of Weymouth and Braintree, and shall so continue until the first day of October, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, Powers and and subject to all the duties, liabilities and requirements, contained in an act passed on the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled "an act to regulate banks and banking," and the fur- 1828 ch. 96. ther provisions contained in an act passed on the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, entitled "an act to continue the banking 1830 ch. 58. corporations therein named, and for other purposes."

duties.

stock.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the stock in said Transfer of bank shall be transferable only at its banking house, and in its books, and no part thereof shall be transferred by way of security for the performance of any obligation whatsoever, until two years from the payment of the first instalment into said bank.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of Capital stock. said corporation shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars,

to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be paid

Location.

in such instalments, and at such times, as the stockholders may direct provided, the whole be paid, within one year from the passing of this act.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said bank shall be located in the town of Weymouth, and that any one of the First meeting. persons before named shall be authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation by advertising the same in some public newspaper printed in the city of Boston, and by posting up notices thereof in some public place in each of the towns of Weymouth, Braintree, Randolph, Abington, Hingham and Quincy, ten days at least before said meeting. [March 17, 1832.] Chap 138. An ACT in addition to an Act incorporating the Proprietors of the First Unitarian

1825 ch. 25.

Preceding act altered and amended.

Chap 139.

Cambridge

of whom to

appointed.

Church in Danvers.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the aforesaid act be so far altered and amended, in the third section of the same, as to read "for the term of one year after the same shall be so assessed," instead of "for the space of two successive years after the same shall be so assessed." And the proprietors of the pews in said house are hereby authorized to make sale of the same in conformity to this alteration. [March 17, 1832.]

An ACT establishing a Fire Department in the town of Cambridge. 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 Fire Department of the town of Cambridge fire department, shall hereafter consist of a chief engineer, and as many engineers, consist and how not exceeding twelve, as the selectmen of said town shall annually, on the first Wednesday in April, appoint, who shall hold their offices for one year, from the first day of May next succeeding, also as many engine men, hose men, and hook and ladder men, as the selectmen shall annually, on the first Wednesday in May, or as soon thereafter as may be, appoint: provided, that the number of engine men shall not exceed fifty to every hydraulion or suction engine, thirty-five to every common engine, five to every hose carriage, and twenty-five hook and ladder men provided, also, that the first appointment under this act may be made in the month of May instead of April as provided for in the former part of this section.

Proviso.

Selectmen authorized to fill

by-laws, &c.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the selectmen of said vacancies, make town be, and they are hereby authorized and required to fill any vacancies occurring in said fire department, to give certificates of appointments to the members thereof, and to fix and establish from time to time the powers and duties of the officers and members of said fire department respectively, in relation to fire engines, and all their fire apparatus belonging to or used in said town, and the care and management thereof, and to fix and ordain rules and regulations for the conduct of said officers and members, and of the citizens present at fires, and to annex penalties for the breach thereof, not exceeding twenty dollars, which

penalties may be sued for in the name of the treasurer of said town in any courts proper to try the same provided, such rules and regulations shall not be binding and valid, until the same be published in some newspaper printed in the city of Boston.

engineers rela

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the chief engineer Authority of and engineers so appointed shall have the same powers and au- tive to the dethority, relative to pulling down or demolishing any house or molition of other building to prevent the spreading of fires, and relative to houses, &c. all other matters and things affecting the extinguishment or prevention of fires, or the commanding assistance at them, as firewards now by law have, and the said town of Cambridge shall be liable to pay all such reasonable compensation for damage done by or consequent upon the acts or directions of the said chief engineer or engineers, as other towns in this Commonwealth are liable to pay in like cases for like acts and directions done or given by their firewards. And all fines and forfeitures arising within said town of Cambridge, under the laws of this Commonwealth relative to the extinguishing and prevention of, or proceedings at fires, shall be distributed in such manner, and applied to such uses as the said town shall ordain and direct.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That every member of Duty and privisaid fire department shall be held to produce within thirty days bers of the fire leges of memafter he shall have become a member of said department, and department. annually, in the month of May thereafter, to the commanding officer of the military company within whose bounds he may reside, a certificate from the selectmen, stating that he is a member of said department, which certificate shall exempt him from military duty so long as he shall remain a member of said fire department and every member of said department who shall produce a certificate, signed by the chairman of the board of selectmen of said Cambridge, stating that he has served as a member of said department for seven successive years after the age at which the laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth may hold the citizens thereof liable to enrolment in the militia, shall be exempted from all military duty, excepting that of keeping himself constantly armed, furnished with the arms and equipments required by the laws of the United States, and of this Commonwealth, and the duty of carrying or sending them annually to the place of inspection or view of arms of the company within whose bounds he may reside, and in which he is enrolled.

SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That, from and after the Former laws, organization of a fire department under this act, and notice there- when repealed. of given in one or more newspapers published in the city of Boston, all former laws of this Commonwealth, relating to the election and appointment of firewards, and hook and ladder men, so far as they affect the election and appointment of firewards and hook and ladder men in the town of Cambridge, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

this act, when to take effect.

SECT. 6. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Provisions of act shall take effect and be in force as soon as the same shall be accepted by the citizens of said town, qualified to vote in town