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AN ACT to incorporate the Charitable Association of the Roxbury Fire Chap. 95.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Department.

SECTION 1. Abraham S. Parker, William G. Eaton, John Corporators. Withers, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Charitable Association of the Roxbury Fire Department, for the purpose of affording Object. relief to such of their members as may at any time receive injury in the discharge of their duties as members of the Roxbury fire department, or to their families, in the event of their decease, with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and duto all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

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sonal estate.

SECTION 2. Said corporation may receive and take, by Real and perpurchase, grant, devise, bequest, or donation, any property, real or personal, and hold the same for the purpose aforesaid, and may manage and dispose of the same, at their discretion: provided, that the whole amount of real and Proviso. personal property held by said corporation shall not, at any one time, exceed in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

March 19, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize Nathaniel Chase and others to build a Wharf. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 96.

Nathaniel Chase, and his associates, are hereby authorized In Dennis. to build and maintain a wharf from their land at or near Shad Hole, so called, in the town of Dennis, and to extend the same, in a southerly direction, to eight feet of water at low tide, and shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor provided, that this grant shall in no wise Proviso. impair the legal rights of any person.

March 19, 1850.

Chap. 99.

AN ACT to incorporate the Wequabsqua Fishing Company.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Charles Weeks, Samuel T. Hancock, Moses Corporators. A. Mayhew, Tristram Allen, Calvin C. Adams, and others,

their associates and successors, proprietors of the lands

adjoining a pond, situated in the south part of the town of In Chilmark. Chilmark, known by the name of Chilmark Pond, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Wequabsqua Fish

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ing Company, for the purpose of taking fish within the limits To take fish. hereinafter specified; and for this purpose shall have all Powers and duthe powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, contained in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, passed on the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 2. All persons who are proprietors of the lands, Members. as aforesaid, shall have the right to become members, bear

Limits of fishery.

Forfeiture for taking fish in

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the expenses and share the profits, of the company, in like proportion as was, the estimated value of their several meadows, according to the valuation of the commissioners of sewers, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, to the value of the whole.

SECTION 3. The said company are hereby empowered to maintain a creek or canal, from said pond, across the neck of land, called Wequabsqua, to the sea, with the exclusive privilege and control of the fishery in said creek, and so much of the pond as lies within the distance of ten rods from the head of the creek, and also so much of the sea or ocean, from high-water mark, as lies within the distance of fifty rods from the mouth of said creek.

SECTION 4. If any person, in violation of the by-laws of violation of by said company, shall take, catch, or destroy, any fish, within the limits named in the preceding section, he shall forfeit and pay, for each offence, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars, one-half to the complainant, and the other half to the town of Chilmark.

First meeting.

Chap. 101

Corporators.

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SECTION 5. Either of the persons named in the first section of this act, is hereby authorized to call the first meeting of the company, by causing a notification, stating the time and place of meeting, and the business to be acted upon, to be published in the Vineyard Gazette, a newspaper printed in the town of Edgartown, or by giving personal notice to each proprietor.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
March 20, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate the Danvers Savings Bank.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Moses Putnam, Samuel Putnam, Elbridge Trask, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Danvers Savings Bank, to be established Powers and du- in the town of Danvers, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-sixth chapter of the Revised Statutes, in the forty-fourth chapter of the acts passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in all other laws of the Commonwealth relating to institutions for savings. March 20, 1850.

Chap. 102

Corporators.

AN ACT to incorporate the Tufts Institution of Learning.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Benjamin B. Mussey, Timothy Cotting, Richard Frothingham, Junior, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the In Somerville or Tufts Institution of Learning, to be established in the town of Somerville or the town of Medford, in the county of

Medford.

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Middlesex, with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and duto all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

Real and per

SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real estate and personal property, to an amount not exceeding fifty thou- sonal estate. sand dollars, to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of education. March 20, 1850.

[1852, 141 ]

AN ACT to incorporate the Lyman Fire Insurance Company.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 103

SECTION 1. Charles Leighton, Abraham W. Blanchard, Corporators. Amos Cotting, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, for the term of twenty years from the Term. passage of this act, by the name of the Lyman Fire Insur

ance Company, in the city of Boston, for the purpose of In Boston. making insurance against losses by fire, with all the powers Powers and duand privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and ties. restrictions, set forth in the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and in all acts subsequently passed relating to insurance companies.

Real estate.

SECTION 2. The capital stock of said company shall be capital stock. one hundred thousand dollars, and said company may hold real estate, not exceeding in value ten thousand dollars, excepting such as may be taken for debt, or held as collateral security for money due to said company.

March 20, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate the Franklin County Agricultural Society. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 104

Horatio G. Newcomb, David R. Wait, Wendell T. Davis, Corporators. their successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Franklin County Agricultural Society, for the encouragement of agriculture and the mechanic arts, by premiums and other means, in the town of Green

field, in the county of Franklin, with all the powers and Powers and duprivileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and ties. restrictions, set forth in the forty-second and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and all subsequent acts concerning agricultural societies. And said corporation Real and permay hold and manage real estate not exceeding in value sonal estate. the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and personal estate not exceeding the same sum, for the purposes aforesaid, and said corporation shall be entitled, on the same terms as other agricultural societies, to receive annually, from the treasury of the Commonwealth, such sum as any other agricultural society may receive under the provisions of chapter forty-second of the Revised Statutes, notwithstanding the restriction in the second section of said chapter.

March 20, 1850.

[1847, 29, 258; 1849, 27.]

Chap. 106 AN ACT in further addition to an Act to establish the City of Charlestown.

Board of aldermen.

Wardens, ward clerks, and inspectors.

Wardens and inspectors pro tempore.

Overseers of the poor and school committee.

Judges of returns of elections.

Number of school committee.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The several acts concerning the city of Charlestown are hereby amended as follows: The board of aldermen shall hold their offices until the first Monday of January in each year, and until a majority of the new board shall be elected and qualified. And whenever it shall appear that a majority of the new board has not been elected, previously to the said first Monday in January, a record of the fact shall be made by the mayor and aldermen for the time being, and an attested copy thereof shall be read by the city clerk, at the opening of the convention to be held on that day, as is now provided in the case of no election of mayor.

SECTION 2. The wardens, ward clerks, and inspectors, shall also hold their offices until their respective successors are qualified; and in case of the resignation of any of those officers, or of the refusal of any one elected to accept such office, or of a vacancy occasioned by removal, or otherwise, and on the same being duly notified to their ward, the vacancy may be filled at any ward meeting.

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SECTION 3. In case of the temporary absence of both the warden and the ward clerk, one of the inspectors shall preside until a warden is chosen, pro tempore. Such warden may be qualified by the presiding inspector, and he may also qualify the ward clerk, when chosen, pro tempore. case of the temporary absence of the inspectors, or any of them, inspectors may be chosen, pro tempore, who may be qualified by the presiding warden. And the choice of any of these officers, pro tempore, may be made by nomination, and by hand-vote, if the voters present so determine.

SECTION 4. In case of the failure of an election of any of the overseers of the poor, or of the school committee, new trials shall be had until the elections are completed; and for this purpose, ward meetings may be adjourned from day to day.

SECTION 5. The mayor and aldermen, for the time being, shall be the judges of the returns, and of the elections of the overseers of the poor, and of the school committee, and shall cause the persons, ascertained by them to be elected, to be notified of their election; and on being notified of any vacancy in either of said boards, they may issue their warrants for a new election.

SECTION 6. After the present municipal year, the school committee shall consist of thirteen members, as follows:the mayor, who shall be, ex officio, president, and twelve others, four to be chosen from and by each ward.

bind the city.

SECTION 7. No board, nor committee of the city coun- of contracts cil, or of either branch thereof, shall make any contracts on behalf of, and binding upon said city, the amount of which contracts shall exceed the specific appropriations of the city council, previously made therefor.

to

hold any office

city treasury.

SECTION 8. No member of the board of aldermen, or of Aldermen not to the common council, shall hold any office in the city, the with salary from salary of which is payable out of the city treasury. SECTION 9. All portions of former acts, in relation to said city, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Repeal.

cepted by the

SECTION 10. This act shall not go into operation until a This act to be acmajority of the citizens voting thereon, by yea and nay, and citizens. by ballot, shall accept the same, at ward meetings duly notified for the purpose, at which meetings the polls shall be kept open at least six hours, and the check lists shall be used, as at the elections of state and city officers. And if this act shall be so accepted, it shall take effect from and after its acceptance, as aforesaid. March 21, 1850.

[1849, 237.]

AN ACT concerning the Silver Lake Branch Railroad.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 109

pleting extend

The time for locating and completing the Silver Lake Time for comBranch Railroad, is hereby extended one year from the ed one year. period fixed in the act of incorporation, passed May the second, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fortynine.

March 21, 1850.

Chap. 110

AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Warehouse Company.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

of land in Boston,

and

SECTION 1. Philo S. Shelton, Zachariah Jellison, Adol- Corporators. phus Davis, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston Warehouse Company, with power to purchase and hold, in fee simple or May hold a tract otherwise, all or any part of that tract of land situate in described, Boston, and bounded and described as follows: northerly erect warehouses. by State Street, easterly by India Street, southerly by Central Street, and westerly by Broad Street, with all the buildings thereon, and appurtenances to the same belonging; and the said corporation may, within the limits aforesaid, erect warehouses, and so improve and manage said property, as to them shall seem expedient: provided, that nothing contained Proviso. in this act shall authorize said corporation to infringe upon the legal right of any person whatever.

duties.

SECTION 2. Said corporation shall have all the powers Powers and and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

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