An Acr in addition to an Act incorporating the Pocasset Iron Company.

Chap 136.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 1834 ch. 61. sentatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Pocasset Iron Company are hereby empow- Real estate. ered to hold any real estate, not exceeding in the whole the value of eighty thousand dollars.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the stock of the Number of said corporation may be divided into such number of shares as shares. the stockholders, at their first meeting, shall prescribe. [March

-28, 1834.]

An Act in addition to “An Act to set off a part of the town of Foxborough, and Chap 138.

annex the same to Walpole."

1833 ch. 198.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all the land, with the inhabitants thereon, lying northerly of Boundary line. a line running from the corner of Silas Smith's woodland, in said act mentioned, thence running west by the needle, without allowing for a variation thereof, until it intersects the line between the said two towns, at a road running from the Norfolk and Bristol turnpike, near the house of the heirs of Stephen Fuller, to Wrentham, be, and the same hereby is set off from the town of Foxborough, and annexed to the said town of Walpole, subject to all the conditions and provisions in the act to which this is in addition. [March 28, 1834.]

An ACT to authorize the First Parish in Brookline to tax the Pews in their Meeting- Chap 140.

house.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of

the same, That the First Parish in Brookline is hereby authori- Parish authorized to assess any sum or sums of money, which shall hereafter zed to assess be voted by said parish to be raised for the support of public pews. worship and other parochial charges, upon the pews in the meeting-house of said parish, according to the relative value of said pews as appraised in the year eighteen hundred and six, by a committee appointed for that purpose, as recorded in said parish records provided, however, that no pew now owned by any Proviso. person who is a member of any other religious society shall be subject to a tax for the support of a minister or ministers in said parish, except with his or her own consent.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any proprietor Sale of delinquent's pews. of a pew neglect to pay his or her assessment, for the space of sixty days, after such assessment, is payable, the treasurer shall advertise the pew of such delinquent for the space of six weeks, by posting a notice at said meeting-house, and two other public places in said town, stating the time, place, and cause of sale, and if all arrears shall not then be paid, he shall sell the same at auction to the highest bidder, and after deducting all sums due, with costs of sale and charges of conveyance, shall pay over the balance, if any, to the owner.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall not go When this act into operation until the consent of all the owners of pews who shall take ef

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Chap 143.

porated.

are members of said parish, shall be first obtained to the provisions of the same. [March 28, 1834.]

An ACT to incorporate the Lechmere Glass Company.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority Persons incor- of the same, That Ralph Smith, Lemuel P. Grosvenor, Andrew T. Hall, George Bond and Edmund Munroe, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the "Lechmere Glass Company," for the purpose of, manufacturing glass in the town of Cambridge, in the county of Powers and du- Middlesex, and for this purpose, shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements contained in the fifty-third chapter of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred twenty-nine, entitled "an act defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations."

ties.

1829 ch. 53.

Real and personal estate.

Chap 144.

porated.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may be lawfully seized and possessed of such real estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, and such personal estate not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in value, as may be necessary and convenient for the purpose aforesaid. [March 28, 1834.]

An ACT to incorporate the East Boston Timber Company. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority Persons incor- of the same, That James W. Paige, Francis J. Oliver and Gideon Barstow, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the East Boston Timber Company, for the purpose of sawing and preparing at East Boston, by steam or water power, or otherwise, and of vending, ship and other timber, plank, boards, staves, joist, scantling, and all and every other article prepared and manufactured from wood, and shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements contained in the fifty-third chapter of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred twenty-nine, entitled "an act defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations."

Powers and duties.

1829 ch. 53,

Real and personal estate.

Chap 146.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may lawfully hold and manage such real estate, not exceeding seventyfive thousand dollars in value, and such personal estate not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars in value, as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid. [March 28, 1834.]

An ACT to incorporate the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of Persons incor- the same, That Henry C. Brown, David Carson, Theodore Hinsdale, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton in the town

porated.

ties.

of Pittsfield, in the county of Berkshire; and for this purpose Powers and du shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements, contained in the fifty-third chapter of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred twenty-nine, entitled "an act defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing 1829 ch. 53. corporations."

sonal estate.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation Real and permay be lawfully seized and possessed of such real estate not exceeding the value of sixty thousand dollars, and such personal estate not exceeding in value the sum of sixty thousand dollars, as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid. [March 28, 1834.]

An ACT authorizing the Proprietors of a certain Wharf, at Commercial Point, in the Chap 149.

town of Dorchester, to extend the same.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in

General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,

That Elisha Preston and Charles O. Whitmore, of Dorchester, Persons incorin the county of Norfolk, Josiah Stickney, Nathaniel Thayer, porated. Jr., and Israel Lombard, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, together with their successors and assigns, are hereby authorized

to extend and maintain their wharf, in the town of Dorchester Wharf may be aforesaid, into the harbor channel, in a southerly and easterly extended. direction, one hundred feet from the end of their said wharf; and that they shall have and enjoy the right and privilege of using and occupying the flats adjacent to said wharf, when so extended, at the end and at the sides thereof, in the same manner in which they have hitherto occupied and enjoyed the flats adjoining said wharf as it now is provided, that nothing in this act contained Proviso. shall in any wise impair or interfere with the private rights of any other person or persons whomsoever. [March 28, 1834.]

Chap 156.

Names chang

An ACT to change the names of the persons therein mentioned. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, d That William Billings, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, may Suffolk. take the name of William W. Billings; that Ninian Clark, Jr., Essex. of Beverly, may take the name of Augustus Ninian Clark; that Samuel Scott, of Andover, may take the name of Samuel Palmer Scott, and all of the county of Essex; that David Balcom, 3d., Worcester. of Douglas, in the county of Worcester, may take the name of David Howard Balcom; that Achsah Ingram, of Amherst, in Hampshire. the county of Hampshire, may take the name of Ellen A. Ingram; that Nathaniel T. Bowdoin, of Hanson, in the county of Plymouth. Plymouth, may take the name of Nathaniel C. Towle ; and that Eunice M., the wife of said Nathaniel T. Bowdoin, may take the surname of Towle. And the several persons herein mentioned are hereby allowed to take, and hereafter be known by the respective names which by this act they severally are authorized to assume. [March 29, 1834.]

Chap 158.

1821 ch. 110. 1822 ch. 107. 1824 ch. 49.

An ACT in further addition to an Act establishing the City of Boston.

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 school committee of the city of Boston shall School commit- consist of the mayor of said city, (who shall be ex officio chairman,) and twenty other members, who shall be chosen at large from among the inhabitants of said city, at their annual election of municipal officers. And there shall be one member at least a resident in each ward at the time of the election.

tee.

Committee

chosen for the term of two years, &c.

Authority of the school committee.

Part of former act repealed.

When this act shall take effect.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said school committee shall be chosen for the term of two years; but, at the expiration of one year after the first election made under this act, the seats of ten of the members thereof, which shall be determined by lot, by said committee, shall be vacated, and a second election shall then be had to supply such vacancies; and the ten members chosen at such second election shall remain in office for the term of two years, and at all succeeding elections after that, a choice shall be made of ten persons to serve for two years, and of such further number of persons to serve for one year as may be necessary to supply any vacancies in the remaining part of the committee. And said committee shall give notice to the mayor and aldermen of all vacancies which may happen in their board, and warrants shall be issued thereupon in the usual manner to fill the same.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said school committee shall have the care, superintendence, and direction of the public schools of said city of Boston; they shall have authority to appoint the instructers of said schools, and also to remove them as the said committee shall deem expedient; and also to determine the amount of the salaries of said instructers respectively provided, that in no case shall the aggregate amount of all said salaries exceed the whole sum which shall have been appropriated by the city council for such purpose, nor shall any expenditure be made, or contract, involving expenditure, be entered into by said committee, unless an appropriation shall have been first made by the city council.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That so much of the act to which this is in addition, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed: provided, however, that the present school committee of said city shall continue in office until a new committee shall be chosen under this act.

SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be void, unless it shall be adopted by the inhabitants of said city of Boston, qualified to vote in city affairs, by written ballot, within ninety days from the passing thereof, at a legal meeting of said inhabitants called for that purpose. [March 29, 1834.] Add. act, 1835 ch. 128.

Chap 159. An ACT to set off a part of the town of Tewksbury, and annex the same to the town

of Lowell.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of Boundary line the same, That all that part of the town of Tewksbury, in the

described.

county of Middlesex, lying within the following lines and bounds, namely, beginning at the mouth of Concord river, at its confluence with the Merrimack river, thence running easterly on said Merrimack river, two hundred and twenty-nine rods, to a large rock in said river, about two rods from the shore, embracing all that part of the Merrimack river against said line which is in the town of Tewksbury; thence running south seventeen degrees and one quarter west, four hundred and four rods to said Concord river, by the mouth of a small brook emptying into the same; thence running northerly on said Concord river five hundred and fifty-three rods, to the bound first mentioned, including all of said Concord and Merrimack rivers, against the lines first and lastly herein mentioned, which belonged to the said town of Tewksbury, together with all the inhabitants on the lands herein described, be, and the same hereby are set off and separated from said Tewksbury, and annexed to, and made a part of said town of Lowell, and that the same land and the inhabitants thereon shall be deemed and considered as annexed to, and constituting a part of said town of Lowell: provided, however, that said Inhabitants to tract of land and the inhabitants thereon, set off as aforesaid, peed or grantshall be holden to pay all such taxes as are already assessed or ed. ordered to be assessed on them, by said town of Tewksbury,

in the same manner as they would have been liable if this act had not been passed.

pay taxes as

portion of town

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of the Inhabitants to land set off as aforesaid, shall be holden to pay to said town of pay their proTewksbury their proportion of the debt now due and owing by debt. said Tewksbury, after deducting therefrom all the property and estate owned by or belonging to said town, to be ascertained, appraised and estimated by the county commissioners for the county of Middlesex; which proportion of debt, that may be found due as aforesaid, shall be assessed upon said inhabitants, and collected in the same way and manner, as taxes are by law required to be assessed and collected.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That of all the state and State and county taxes which shall be required of the town of Tewksbury, county taxes. previous to a new valuation, the town of Lowell shall pay one

third part thereof. [March 29, 1834.]

Chap 160.

An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the First Baptist Church in Lexington. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Josiah Conant, Levi Pierce, Calvin Smith, and Persons incortheir successors in office, are hereby made a corporation by the porated. name of the Trustees of the First Baptist Church in Lexington, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities, to which similar corporations are subject by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall Real and perhave power to receive, hold and manage all the property, both real sonal estate. and personal, belonging to said church, in trust for the support and maintenance of the public worship of God in said church, and