AN ACT to incorporate the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 132 SECTION 1. Samuel Williston, Edward Smith, and Hora- Corporators. tio G. Knight, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton goods, webbing, suspenders, and machinery, in the town of Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, Powers and restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and duties. forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes Real estate. aforesaid, real estate not exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock of said capital stock. corporation shall not exceed the amount of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corpo- value of shares. ration shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. [1857, 6.] [1848, 162; 1849, 12.] April 2, 1850. AN ACT to extend the time for the Location and Construction of the Chap. 134 Taunton and Middleborough Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: and construction The time within which the Taunton and Middleborough Time for location Railroad Corporation may file the location of their road, is extended. hereby extended to the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and the time within which it may be constructed, is hereby extended to the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. April 2, 1850. [1853, 55, 58; 1854, 100; 1855, 258; 1858, 171.] [1832, 85; 1836, 115; 1839, 109; 1844, 50.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Adams Bank. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 135 SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the $50,000 additionAdams Bank, in the town of Adams, are hereby authorized al capital stock. to increase their present capital stock by an addition thereto of fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instal ments as the president and directors may determine: pro- Proviso. vided, the whole be paid in before the first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 2. The additional stock aforesaid shall be sub- Liable to tax, &c. ject to the like tax, regulations, restrictions, and provisions, to which the present capital stock of said corporation is now subject. Certificate to secretary of the Commonwealth. SECTION 3. Before said corporation shall proceed to do business on said additional capital, a certificate, signed by the president and directors, and attested by the cashier under oath, that the same has been actually paid into said bank, shall be returned into the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1850, 210; 1851, 276; 1856, 269.] April 2, 1850. Chap. 136 AN ACT to incorporate the Great Falls Paper Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators. Paper, cotton goods, &c., in Russell. Powers and duties. Real estate. Capital stock. Value of shares. SECTION 1. Marshall N. Fales, Samuel S. Parker, and Salmon Thomas, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Great Falls Paper Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing paper, cotton goods, and machinery, in the town of Russell, county of Hampden; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purposes aforesaid, hold real estate not exceeding in value twenty thousand dollars, exclusive of buildings and improvements, and the whole capital stock shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. [1822, 106; 1839, 18.] April 2, 1850. Chap. 137 AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Boston Society of the May hold estate, real and personal. Proviso. Chap. 138 $50,000 addition al capital stock. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: New Jerusalem. The Boston Society of the New Jerusalem, in addition to the power given in the second section of its charter, may take and hold, for religious and charitable purposes, in fee simple or otherwise, by gift, grant, devise, or purchase, any estate, real or personal, the annual income of which shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. [1848, 188; 1849, 112, 217.] April 2, 1850. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Holyoke Bank. SECTION 1. The president, directors, and company of the increase their present capital stock by an addition thereto &c. SECTION 2. The additional stock aforesaid, when paid Subject to tax, into said bank, shall be subject to the like tax, regulations, restrictions, and provisions, to which the present capital stock of said corporation is now subject. retary of the Com SECTION 3. Before said corporation shall proceed to do Certificate to secbusiness on said additional capital, a certificate, signed by monwealth. the president and directors, and attested by the cashier under oath, that the same has been actually paid into said band, shall be returned into the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 2, 1850. [Special Laws, vol. 2, p. 175. 1819, 96.] AN ACT to change the Name of the Presbyterian Church and Society in Chap. 139 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Dracut. SECTION 1. That the Presbyterian Church and Society in New name. Dracut, in the county of Middlesex, shall after the passing of this act, be called and known by the name of the West Congregational Church and Society in Dracut. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after the When to take time when it shall have been accepted by the church and effect. society, at a meeting called for that purpose. April 2, 1850. [1846, 90; 1848, 285; 1849, 94, 199.] AN ACT to extend the time for the Construction of the Newburyport Chap. 140 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Railroad. struction ex The time within which the Newburyport Railroad Cor- Time for conporation may construct their railroad, is hereby extended to tended. the first day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. April 2, 1850. [1851, 104, 212; 1852, 167; 1853, 276; 1854, 190; 1855, 14, 62, 216; 1856, 88.] [1849, 28.] AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Worcester Medical Chap. 142 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Institution. SECTION 1. Calvin Newton, Walter Burnham, and Isaac Corporators. M. Comings, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Worcester Medical Institution, to be established in the city of Worcester, in Powers and duties. Real and personal estate. Chap. 144 Corporators. Powers and duties. Capital stock. Real estate. Value of shares. May open ground in streets, &c. the county of Worcester, 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. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of medical education. [1851, 321.] April 4, 1850. AN ACT to incorporate the New Bedford Gas Light Company. SECTION 1. James B. Congdon, John A. Parker, and J. H. W. Page, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the New Bedford Gas Light Company, for the purpose of making and selling gas, in the city of New Bedford, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars; and said corporation may hold real estate, for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in value fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. SECTION 4. Said corporation, with the consent of the mayor and aldermen of the city of New Bedford, shall have power and authority to open the ground, in any parts of the streets, lanes, and highways, in said city, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors as it Repair the same. may be necessary to sink for the purpose aforesaid; and the said corporation, after opening the ground, in said streets, lanes, and highways, shall be held to put the same again into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, that the said mayor and aldermen, for the time being, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control all the acts and doings of said corporation, which may in any manner, affect the health, safety, or convenience of the inhabitants of said city. Proviso. Chap. 145 SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1857, 4.] April 4, 1850. AN ACT to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Somerville. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: A fire department is hereby established in the town of Somerville, subject to all the duties and liabilities, and with all the powers and privileges, set forth and contained in an [1842, 84; 1845, 218; 1846, 21; 1847, 200, 260; 1849, 18, 223; 1850, 122.] AN ACT to straighten the Fitchburg Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 146 SECTION 1. The Fitchburg Railroad Company is hereby In Somerville. authorized to straighten its railroad in the town of Somerville, between the railroad bridge, over the old Cambridge road, and the depot of said company, next westerly of said New line. bridge, by diverging northerly from the line of said railroad, as it is now laid, between the two points aforesaid, any distance that may be found necessary, not exceeding three hundred feet. SECTION 2. The said company shall, with respect to the Powers and new portion of its railroad hereby authorized, have all the duties. powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, contained in the thirty-ninth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and all other acts which have been or shall be hereafter passed in relation to railroads. SECTION 3. If the location of that part of said railroad, Location. hereby authorized, shall not be filed within five months, or Completion. if the same shall not be completed within fifteen months from the passage of this act, then this act shall be void. April 4, 1850. [1851, 34, 72, 244, 329; 1852, 147, 162, 194, 306; 1853, 270, 367; 1855, 94, 230, 259, 266, 419; 1856, 296; 1857, 124, 128.] AN ACT to incorporate the Newburyport Gas Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 147 SECTION 1. John Porter, Thomas L. Randlett, John Corporators. Wood, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Newburyport Gas Company, for the purpose of making and selling gas, in the town of Newburyport, with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the duties. thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Stat utes, also to such provisions and restrictions as the selectmen Power of selectof the town of Newburyport may prescribe, previous to the men. erection of the works of said company. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be Capital stock. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and said corpora- Real estate. tion may hold real estate, necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corpo- Value of shares. ration shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually |