aforesaid, the jurisdiction of said tract of land, not exceeding four acres, and situated at a place called the neck in said Marblehead, shall be, and is hereby ceded to, and shall be in the United States, reserving to this Commonwealth concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over said land, so far that all civil and criminal processes issued under the authority of this Commonwealth, or any officer thereof, may be executed on any part of said land, or in any building that may be erected thereon, in the same way and manner, as if the jurisdiction had not been granted as afore

said.

the court of

land to be ap

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That if the agent or person If the parties employed for the United States, and the owner or owners of said cannot agree, land, which shall be found necessary and convenient for said common pleas light-house, cannot agree in a sale and purchase thereof, such shall cause the agent or person employed may apply to the court of common praised by a pleas in the county of Essex, and said court is hereby authorized jury. and empowered to cause the value of said land, together with such damages as the owner or owners of the same may sustain, by the erection of said light-house, to be appraised by a jury, to be summoned by the sheriff of said county or his deputy for that purpose, which jury shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their trust, and shall proceed, after fourteen days notice to the owner or owners of said land, to view, and set off by metes and bounds, said tract of land, or such part thereof as they shall find necessary and convenient for such light-house, and shall seal up their verdict, and deliver the same to the said sheriff or his deputy, who shall make return thereof to said court, at the next term Sheriff shall to be holden in and for said county; which verdict of the jury, their verdict. being accepted by the said court, and the amount of said verdict being paid to the owner or owners of the said land, or, if they shall not appear, or shall refuse to receive said amount, then said amount being deposited in the office of the treasurer of the county of Essex, to be received by the owner or owners, or by any person legally authorized to receive the same, the tract of land so appraised and set off shall be vested in the United States for the purpose aforesaid: provided, that all charges of such applica- Charges, &c., tion and appraisement shall be paid by the United States: pro- the United vided, also, that all persons who shall dwell upon said tract of land States. shall be deemed and taken to be inhabitants of said town of Marblehead, and shall there be subject to the same duties, and have and enjoy the same privileges, as other inhabitants of said town; saving that the keeper of said light-house shall not be liable to serve as a juror, or to perform military duty. [March 31, 1835.]

An ACT to incorporate the City Mills Company.

make return of

to be paid by

Chap. 99.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Alexander De Witt, Samuel Dowse and Benja- Persons incormin F. Campbell, their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are made a corporation, by the name of the City Mills Company, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton

porated.

Powers and duties.

1829 ch. 53.

Real and personal estate.

Chap 100.

goods, in the town of Franklin, in the county of Norfolk, and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requisitions, contained in the statute of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, chapter fifty-third, defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may lawfully hold and possess such real estate, not exceeding twentyfive thousand dollars, and such personal estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, as may be suitable for the purposes aforesaid. [April 1, 1835.]

An ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of Chelsea Point Bridge. 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 Joseph Burrill, Joseph Belcher, John W. Tewksbury, and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of Chelsea Point Bridge.

porated.

Location of bridge.

Condition of this act.

Chap 102.

1831 ch. 56.

1832 ch. 74.

1833 ch. 5. 1834 ch. 171. 1835 ch. 46.

Increase of capital stock.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation is hereby authorized to build a bridge from the westerly side of Pulling Point, in the town of Chelsea, to the easterly side of Belle Isle, lying within the limits of the city of Boston, across the creek running between the two places aforesaid; which bridge shall be well built, of good and sufficient materials, not less than twenty feet wide, with sufficient railings for the protection of passengers. And no toll shall be demanded of any person or persons who shall pass over said bridge, and said corporation shall be liable for all damages to travellers over said bridge, happening through any defect of the same, in the same way and manner as towns are liable for all defects in public highways and bridges. Be it further enacted, That if said corporation shall neglect, for the space of three years after the passing of this act, to build said bridge, then this act shall be void. [April 1, 1835.]

SECT. 3.

An ACT to authorize the Boston and Providence Rail-road Corporation to increase their capital stock.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Boston and Providence Rail-road Corporation be, and they hereby are authorized to increase their capital stock, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, by creating an additional number of shares, not exceeding five thousand, of one hundred dollars each, the said shares to be apportioned among the present stockholders pro rata; and the same to be assessed by instalments, from time to time, as the directors shall find it expedient, the amount thus raised to be applied for the purposes specified in their original act of incorporation, and the acts in addition thereto. [April 1, 1835.] Add. act, 1836

ch. 254.

An Act to establish an Institution for Savings in Boston.

Chap 103.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Thomas Richardson, Hugh Montgomery, Noah Brooks, Persons incortheir associates and successors, are hereby incorporated, by the porated. name of "the Savings Institution of South Boston," to be located in that part of the city of Boston, called South Boston, and shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and be subject Powers and to all the duties and liabilities, contained in the statute of one duties. thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, chapter one hundred and

ninety, entitled "an act to regulate institutions for savings." 1834 ch. 190. [April 1, 1835.]

Chap 104.

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of Middlesex High School. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Isaac Livermore, Joseph T. Buckingham, Charles Ever- Persons incorett, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated, by porated. the name of the Proprietors of Middlesex High School, to be established in Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, with the Powers. powers and requirements contained in "an act concerning cor- 1833 ch. 85. porations," passed the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; and with power to hold real and per- Real and personal estate, not exceeding in value the sum of twenty thousand sonal estate. dollars, to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of education. [April 1, 1835.]

An ACT to authorize Darius Weeks and others to construct a Wharf on the south Chap 105.

shore of the town of Harwich.

and others em

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Darius Weeks, Zebina H. Small, Jonathan Small, and Darius Weeks Zephaniah Nickerson, and their associates, are hereby empow- powered to conered to construct and maintain a wharf, on the south shore of the struct a wharf. town of Harwich, in the county of Barnstable, at or near Darius Weeks' landing, not to exceed five hundred feet in length from high water mark, and two hundred feet in breadth; and shall have the right to fasten and lay vessels at said wharf, and receive wharfage therefor, and shall have all the privileges necessary for the convenient and useful improvement and occupation thereof provided, however, that this grant shall in no wise inter- Proviso. fere with the legal rights of any other person or persons. [April 1, 1835.]

An Act concerning the Grammar School in Ipswich.

1786 ch. 54.

Chap 106. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Act of 1765. resentatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of (v. 3. App.p.1.) the same, That the feofees of the grammar school in Ipswich, (v. 1. p. 145.) are authorized and empowered to sell, and pass deeds of the following parcels of real estate, namely: the "school-house or- Feofees authorchard," the "school marsh," and all their right and interest in ized to sell the "Cross farm," severally so called, to any person or persons, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, for such consideration as shall

lands.

Investment of proceeds.

be agreed on, which deed and deeds, duly executed, acknowledged and recorded, shall pass good titles to the purchaser or purchasers, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, so that neither the said feofees, nor their successors, nor the legal representatives of the donors of said lands, shall ever have, claim or demand the same, or any part thereof.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said feofees shall invest the net proceeds of said lands, in the stock or stocks of some incorporated bank or banks, or put the same out upon interest, on mortgage on real estate, or loan the same to any incorporated town or city in this Commonwealth; and that they be authorized to collect, and again to invest the same, as aforesaid, when and so often as the said feofees, or a major part of them, shall deem it to be most advantageous for said school, and they Application of shall apply the income thereof exclusively to the uses appointed by the original donors, and agreeably to an act incorporating certain persons as feofees of said school, and for regulating the same, passed in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, and which was made perpetual by an act passed on the fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. [April 1, 1835.] Chap 107. An ACT authorizing Leander P. Lovell and Harvey Chace to construct a Wharf in

income.

1786 ch. 54.

Leander P.

ers authorized

to construct a wharf.

Taunton Great River.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Leander P. Lovell, and Harvey Chace, be hereby authorLovell and oth- ized to construct a wharf, extending from their land, at a place called Bowenville, in Fall River, to a point in Taunton Great River, where the water is sixteen feet in depth at low water. And the proprietors of said wharf shall enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities common to proprietors of wharves in said river: provided, that this act shall not interfere with the legal rights of any other person or persons. [April 1, 1835.]

Proviso.

Chap 108.

Persons incorporated.

certain real es

tate.

An Act to incorporate the Mechanics Wharf Company in New Bedford. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Abraham Gifford, Gideon Allen, Benjamin Rodman, their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are constituted a body corporate, by the name of "the Mechanics Wharf Company."

Corporation au- SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation thorized to hold be, and hereby is declared and made capable in law to have, hold and possess in fee simple, lease-hold, or otherwise, all or any part of certain real estate, situate in the said town of New Bedford, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: southerly on a lane or common way, called Ark lane, running from North Second street to the Acushnet river, on the west by a lane twenty feet wide, leading from said Ark lane to the line of land owned by William Beetle, which lane is located seventy-nine

feet from a line in continuation of the west side of Water street, on the north by land owned by William Beetle, and on the east by the Acushnet river: provided, the lawful owners of said prop- Provisos. erty shall legally convey the same to said Mechanics Wharf Company and provided, that a way shall be left open for the use of said company, forty feet wide in a line with a street called Water street, in said New Bedford.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation Assessments. shall have power, from time to time, to assess, on the stockholders, such sums of money, not exceeding, in the whole, five hundred dollars on each share, for the purchase, improvement and good management of their estate, or altering and building any wharves and docks, or laying out streets or passage ways on the land within the said described limits, or making or repairing streets or ways, leading to the said premises: provided, the consent of the proprietors of said streets or ways shall be first obtained, or for the improvement and management of the corporate property and estate agreeably to the true intent of this act. And in case any proprietor shall refuse or neglect to pay any In case of neassessment, the said corporation may cause such of the shares of glect to pay such proprietors as inay be sufficient therefor, to be sold at pub- corporation lic auction to the highest bidder, after thirty days notice, to be may sell shares, given by publication thereof, in one of the newspapers printed in said New Bedford, which publication shall be made at least three times, the last of which shall be at least seven days previous to the sale, and, after deducting the amount assessed and unpaid, together with the charges of sale, the surplus, if any, shall be paid over to such proprietor, and the purchaser of such share or shares so sold shall be entitled to receive a certificate of the same; provided, always, that no assessment shall be made at any meeting, unless the same shall be agreed to by two thirds at least in number of the votes of those present or represented at said meeting.

assessments,

&c.

Be it further enacted, That in all meetings of the Right of voting. members of said corporation, for the transaction of business, each member or proprietor shall be entitled to one vote, for every share held in such corporation, and proprietors may appear and act by proxy in writing at any meeting.

shares.

SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That the whole number Number and of shares shall not exceed two hundred, and said shares shall be transfer of deemed and held as personal property provided, always, that the stockholders in said corporation shall be liable in their individual capacities, for all debts and liabilities of the said corporation, and said shares may be transferred by endorsement, a record of which shall be duly entered upon the books of the corporation, by the clerk of said company. [April 1, 1835.]

Chap 109.

An ACT to incorporate the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Ebenezer T. Andrews, George Bond, Willard Persons incor

porated.