Proviso. Warden, clerk, and inspectors of elections. Qualification. Duty of warden. stead, (excepting assessors and members of the school committee, whose terms of office are to be regulated according to the fourth and fifth sections of this act ;) and the same proceedings shall be had in relation to such elections, as are provided in the act entitled, "An Act to establish the City of New Bedford," to which this is in addition: provided, nevertheless, that the next choice of the said city officers, and of the ward officers, as provided in section second,-after the acceptance of this act by the inhabitants of the said city of New Bedford, as hereinafter provided,-shall be made at such time and in such manner as is prescribed in the act aforesaid; and the officers so elected, (excepting the mayor, assessors and members of the school committee,) shall hold their offices only until the first Monday in January next succeeding such election; any thing in said act to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. On the first Monday in December, annually, there shall be chosen by ballot, in each of the wards of the city of New Bedford, a warden, clerk, and three inspectors of elections, who shall be different persons, residents of the ward in which they are chosen, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in January next ensuing, and they shall hold their offices for one year thereafter, and until others have been chosen and qualified in their stead; and the warden, clerk and inspectors, before entering upon their duties, shall respectively make oath, faithfully and impartially to discharge their several duties relative to all elections, which oath may be administered by the city clerk to the warden, and by the warden to the ward clerk and inspectors, or to either or all of said officers, by any justice of the peace for the county of Bristol. It shall be the duty of such warden to preside at all ward meetings, with the powers of moderator of town meetings. And if at any such meeting the warden shall be absent, the clerk, and in case of the absence of the clerk, any inspector Warden pro tem. shall preside, according to seniority of age, until a warden, pro tempore, shall be chosen by ballot; and in case of the absence of any ward officer, at any ward meeting, such officer may be chosen, pro tempore, by ballot, and shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties of the regular officer at such meetings. City council to elect marshal, &c. SECTION 3. The city council shall, annually, as soon after their organization as may be convenient, elect, by joint ballot in convention, a city marshal and assistants, and constables, who shall hold their offices until others are chosen and qualified in their stead, and all other needful police officers, who shall hold office for such time as the city council shall by clerk, treasurer, The city council shall in like manner, in the month of Election of city April, annually, elect a city clerk and a city treasurer and collector, &c. collector of taxes, and shall, in such manner as their by-laws shall prescribe, appoint or elect all subordinate officers, (whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for,) for the ensuing year, and define their duties and compensation, when such duties and compensation shall not be defined and fixed by the laws of this Commonwealth. filled. tee. how In case of a vacancy in any of said offices, the same shall Vacancies, be filled in the manner prescribed in this section. SECTION 4. The qualified voters in each ward, at their School commitrespective annual ward meetings, to be held next after the acceptance of this act by the inhabitants of the city of New Bedford, as hereinafter provided, shall elect by ballot, three persons in each ward, who shall be residents of the ward, to be members of the school committee; and the person who receives the highest number of votes, or in case two or more receive an equal number of votes, the person who is senior by age, shall hold the office for three years; and the person who receives the next highest number of votes, or who is senior by age in the contingency aforesaid, shall hold the office for two years; and the other person shall hold the office for one year; and at every subsequent annual election, one person shall be chosen in each ward to be a member of the school committee for the term of three years; and the persons so chosen shall constitute the school committee, and have the care and superintendence of the public schools. SECTION 5. The qualified voters of the city, at the annual Assessors. meetings in their respective wards, to be held next after the acceptance of this act, by the inhabitants of the city of New Bedford, as hereinafter provided, shall elect three persons, to be assessors at large; and the person who receives the highest number of votes, or in case two or more receive an equal number of votes, the person who is senior by age, shall hold the office for three years, and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead; and the person who receives the next highest number of votes, or who is senior by age in the contingency aforesaid, shall hold the office for two years, and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead; and the other person shall hold the office for one Vacancies, how filled. Assistant Assess ors. Inconsistent acts repealed. Act to be void unless accepted year, and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead; and at every subsequent annual election, one person shall be chosen to be an assessor for three years, and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead; and the persons thus chosen assessors, shall constitute the board of assessors, and shall exercise the powers and be subject. to the duties and liabilities of assessors of towns. In case of a vacancy in the board of assessors, the city council, in convention, shall elect a person to fill the same, who shall hold office until the next annual meeting for the choice of municipal officers, and until another person shall be chosen and qualified in his stead. And at said annual meeting a person shall be elected to said office, who shall hold the same for the residue of the unexpired term. The qualified voters shall, at the same time, and in like manner, elect one person in each ward, who shall be a resident of the ward, to be an assistant-assessor, who shall hold his office for one year, and until another is chosen in his stead; and it shall be the duty of the persons so chosen to furnish the assessors with all such information as they may require, relative to the persons and property taxable in their respective wards; and they shall receive for their services. such compensation per diem as the city council may deter mine. SECTION 6. All such parts of the act to which this is in addition, as also of a supplementary act, passed April twentythird, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. This act shall be void, unless the inhabitants by inhabitants. of the said city of New Bedford, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, shall, by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon by ballot, deternrine to adopt the same. Chap. 3. Corporation continued twentyeight years. Privileges, restrictions, &c. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 11, 1857.] AN ACT to continue in force an Act to incorporate the Newburyport Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The act to incorporate the Newburyport Mutual Fire Insurance Company, passed on the eleventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, shall continue and remain in force for the term of twenty-eight years from the eleventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; and the said corporation shall be continued through that term, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the fortyfourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and all the existing statutes and such as may hereafter be passed, relating to mutual fire insurance companies. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 11, 1857.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the New Bedford Gas Light Chap. 4. Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: $75,000. The New Bedford Gas-Light Company, are hereby author- Capital increased ized to increase their capital stock, by an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, and to invest such increase How invested. in real and personal estate necessary and convenient for carrying on the business of the corporation provided, that Proviso. no shares in the capital stock hereby authorized shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares in the original capital stock of said corporation. [Approved February 16, 1857.] AN ACT to incorporate the Mission Park Association. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 5. SECTION 1. Mark Hopkins, Albert Hopkins and Charles Corporators. Stoddard, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Mission Park Association; for Name. the purpose of holding, grading, and otherwise improving Purpose. the grounds situate in Williamstown, known as the Mission Park, and of erecting and placing thereon suitable monuments and other memorials, to commemorate the origin and progress of American missions: with all the powers and Privileges, reprivileges, and subject to all the liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. SECTION. 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes aforesaid, real estate to the amount of twenty thousand Real estate $20,dollars, and personal estate to the amount of five thousand Personal estate dollars, which shall be exempted from taxation. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 16, 1857.] strictions, &c. 000. $5,000. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Chap. 6. Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: $75,000. SECTION 1. The Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company Capital increased are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock, by adding thereto seventy-five thousand dollars, and to invest How invested. No shares issued under par. Chap. 7. Corporators. Name. Duration. Privileges, restrictions, &c. Chap. 8. Power extended. such portion thereof in real and personal estate, as may be necessary and convenient for carrying on the business for which said company was incorporated. SECTION 2. No stock issued under this act shall be issued for a less sum than the par value of the original shares. [Approved February 17, 1857.] AN ACT to incorporate the Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Com pany. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Isaac H. Boardman, Samuel Hale and Jacob Horton, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Company, to be established in the city of Newburyport, for the term of twenty-eight years; for the purpose of making insurance on the mutual principle, against maritime losses with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and all acts now existing, or which may hereafter be passed, relating to mutual insurance companies. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 17, 1857.] AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Belvidere Woolen Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. That the Belvidere Woolen Manufacturing Company, established by and under an act of the legislature of this Commonwealth, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, for the purpose of manufacturing woolen goods, in the town of Tewksbury, in the county of Middlesex, may also prosecute said manufacture in the town of Billerica, in Real and person- said county of Middlesex. And said corporation may exceed $120,000. lawfully seized and possessed of such real and personal estate as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in all the value of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. al estate not to No shares under par. be SECTION 2. No stock, issued under this act, shall be issued for a less sum than the par value of the original shares. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved February 24, 1857.] |