so that each ward shall contain as nearly as conveniently may be, an equal number of legal voters, and thereafter revise and alter said wards and increase their number, as provided in the third section of the original charter of said city. SECT. 2. The aforesaid alteration of said wards shall When to take take effect at the next annual municipal election after the same shall have been made. effect. SECT. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 8, 1863. BOUNDARY LAWS. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE RHODE ISLAND BOUNDARY. proceeding in equity be Decree of S. to be final, SECTION 1. Whenever the tween this Commonwealth and the state of Rhode Island Court, to U S., and Providence Plantations, now pending in the supreme court of the United States, shall be adjusted by the adoption of a conventional line, and such line shall have been confirmed by a final decree of said court, the said line shall be taken and deemed to be, for all purposes affecting the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, or of any department of its government, the true line of boundary and demarkation between this Commonwealth and the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. of Fall River, SECT. 2. The territory upon the east side of Mount Territory deHope Bay, which lies south of the line beyond which the clared, portion jurisdiction of this Commonwealth has not recently been defined. exercised, (except so much as by this act is assigned to the town of Westport,) but which by the adoption of said decree of confirmation, shall be determined to be a part City council to wards: See ch. ante. of this Commonwealth, with all the polls and estates thereon, shall be taken and deemed to be a portion of the city of Fall River, in the county of Bristol, with the same effect as if the jurisdiction claimed over the same by this Commonwealth had been actually exercised, SECT. 3. The city council of Fall River shall, within divide munici-sixty days after said final decree of confirmation shall pality into six have been entered, divide the said city (including as well 142, acts of 1863. that portion over which jurisdiction has been exercised hitherto by said state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as that over which jurisdiction has been exercised by this Commonwealth,) into six wards, as nearly equal as may be, in population, and shall determine the number of common councilmen to which each ward shall be entitled; provided, that the whole number of common councilmen shall not exceed eighteen. Each ward, so constituted, may choose such officers (other than common councilmen) as each ward of said city may now choose. The aforesaid division, into wards, shall take effect at the next annual municipal election, after the same shall have been made, until which time, that portion of said city hitherto claimed to be a part of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, shall be deemed to be a part of the first ward of said city. Territory de SECT. 4. That portion of territory lying east and clared, portion south of the following described line, that is to say: of Westport de- beginning at the northwest corner of the town of West fined. port, according to the present actual exercise of jurisdiction; thence running due west to a point in North Watuppa pond, equidistant from the eastern and western shores thereof; thence southerly to the southern extremity of said pond; thence in a straight line through South Watuppa pond to its southern extremity; thence through the centre of the stream connecting said pond with Sawdy |