in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 3. The stock of said bank shall be transferable Transfer of stock. only at its banking-house and in its books. SECTION 4. Said corporation shall be subject to all the Liable to future liabilities, requirements, and restrictions, contained in such legislation. acts as may hereafter be passed by the general court in relation to banks and banking. [1854, 140; 1857, 19.] April 6, 1850. [1813, 134; 1815, 68; 1829, 78; 1830, 58; 1849, 217.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Tremont Bank. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 158 tional capital SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the $500,000 addiTremont Bank, in Boston, are hereby authorized to increase stock. their present capital stock by an addition thereto of five hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instalments as the president in. and directors may determine: provided, the whole amount when to be paid shall 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, when paid Liable to tax, &c. 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 SECTION 3. Before said corporation shall proceed to do Certificate to seebusiness on said additional capital, a certificate, signed by Commonwealth. the president and directors, and certified 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. [1853, 345.] April 6, 1850. [1812, 38; 1817, 75; 1825, 166; 1830, 74; 1847, 212.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Union Bank, in Boston. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 159 tional capital SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the $200,000 addiUnion Bank, are hereby authorized to increase their present stock. capital stock, by an addition thereto of two hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instalments as the president and directors of said bank may determine: provided, that the whole When to be paid be paid in on or before the last day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. in. 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 of said corporation is now subject. Certificate to secretary of the SECTION 3. Before said corporation shall proceed to do Commonwealth. 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. Chap. 160 Corporators. Powers and duties. Capital stock. Proviso. Transfer of stock. Liable to future legislation. Chap. 161 Corporators. Powers and duties. Capital stock. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1850, 210; 1853, 234.] April 6, 1850. AN ACT to incorporate the Rockport Bank. SECTION 1. Jabez R. Gott, Josiah Haskell, Dudley Choate, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Rockport Bank, to be established in Rockport, and shall so continue until the first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the public statutes of this Commonwealth, relative to banks and banking. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said bank shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares. of one hundred dollars each, to be paid in such instalments, and at such times, as the stockholders may direct: provided, that the whole be paid in before the first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 3. The stock of said bank shall be transferable only at its banking-house and on its books. SECTION 4. Said corporation shall be subject to all the liabilities, requirements, and restrictions, contained in such acts as may hereafter be passed by the general court, in relation to banks and banking. April 6, 1850. [1855, 376.] AN ACT to incorporate the Tradesman's Bank, in Chelsea. SECTION 1. Henry Slade, Isaac Stebbins, James Hardin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Tradesman's Bank, to be located in Chelsea, and shall continue until the first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; and shall be entitled to all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the public statutes of this Commonwealth, in relation to banks and banking. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said bank shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be paid in such instalments, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 3. The stock of said bank shall be transferable Transfer of stock. only at its banking-house and on its books. SECTION 4. Said corporation shall be subject to all the Liable to future liabilities, requirements and restrictions, contained in such legislation. acts as may hereafter be passed by the general court, in relation to banks and banking. [1851, 271.] AN ACT to establish the Prescott Bank. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: April 6, 1850. Chap. 162 SECTION 1. Joel Adams, Jonathan Tyler, Royal South- Corporators. wick, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Prescott Bank, to be established in the city In Lowell. of Lowell, and shall so continue until the first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventytwo; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all Powers and the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the public. statutes of this Commonwealth, relative to banks and banking. duties. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock. consist of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and to be paid in such instalments, and at such times, as the stockholders may direct: provided, that the whole be paid in on or before the Proviso. first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 3. The stock in said bank shall be transferred Transfer of stock. only at its banking-house and on its books. SECTION 4. Said corporation shall be subject to all the Future liabili liabilities, requirements, and restrictions, contained in such ties, &c. acts as may hereafter be passed by the general court, in relation to banks and banking. [1851, 234; 1853, 225.] [1849, 177.] April 6, 1850. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Western Bank, in Spring- Chap. 163 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: field. $150,000 SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the Addition, Western Bank, in Springfield, are hereby authorized to increase their present capital stock by an addition thereto of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be paid in such instalments as the president and directors may determine: provided, the whole amount shall be paid in in. Liable to tax, &c. retary of the before the first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. SECTION 2. The additional stock aforesaid, when paid in, shall be subject to the like tax, regulations, restrictions, and provisions, to which the present capital stock is now subject. Certificate to sec- SECTION 3. Before said corporation shall proceed to do Commonwealth. business on said additional capital, a certificate, signed by the president and directors, and certified 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. Chap. 166 Corporators. Powers and duties. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 6, 1850. AN ACT to incorporate the Tremont Street Medical School. D. Humphreys Storer, Jacob Bigelow, J. B. S. Jackson, O. W. Holmes, and Henry J. Bigelow, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Tremont Street Medical School, to be established in the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Real and person- Revised Statutes; with power to hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. April 6, 1850. al estate. Chap. 167 Equal number of votes in each ward. Proviso. [1821, 110.] AN ACT to amend an Act establishing the City of Boston. SECTION 1. The second section of an act entitled, "An Act to establish the city of Boston," passed February twentythree, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, is hereby amended so that the wards therein mentioned shall be altered in such manner as to preserve as nearly as may be, consistently with well defined limits, an equal number of legal voters in each ward, instead of an equal number of inhabitants, as is now provided in said section: provided, that this act shall be void, unless accepted and adopted by the city council of said city, by a vote taken by yeas and nays, within thirty days from its passage. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 6, 1850. [1854, 448.] AN ACT concerning the Plantation of Herring Pond. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 168 make partition. SECTION 1. A partition shall be made of the following Partition of lands described lands, belonging to the Herring Pond Indians, and described. situated in Plymouth county, namely: all the lands lying to the eastward of a line drawn from off the head of the Springs, so called, and running to the dwelling-house of Caleb Raymond; and also, all the land belonging to said Herring Pond Indians, to the eastward and southward of Great Herring Pond, so called, and lying in the easterly part of the town of Plymouth, in the county of Plymouth, and the westerly part of the town of Sandwich, in the county of Barnstable. SECTION 2. The commissioner of the district of Marshpee, Commissioners to together with two discreet and disinterested persons, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, shall be commissioners of partition, with full powers to make the partition herein provided for. They shall be severally sworn to the faithful and impartial discharge of the duties devolved on them by this act; and the Compensation compensation of said commissioners, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day, to each, for every day of actual service rendered by each commissioner, shall be ascertained and adjusted by the governor and council, and the amount paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth; and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant therefor; and all other expenses incurred, in carrying this act into effect, shall be paid by the said Herring Pond Indians. missioners. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners, Duties of com as soon as may be, to ascertain, by the best evidence the nature of the case will admit, the names and number of the legal adult proprietors of said Herring Pond Plantation, male and female, who shall be of the age of eighteen years, or upwards, on the last day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and in addition to the evidence which shall establish such proprietorship, in the judgment and Proprietorship. decision of a majority of the commissioners, according to the customs, usages, descent, inhabitancy, or general acquiescence, in such proprietorship, heretofore recognized and practised upon in said plantation, among the said Indians and their descendants; all other persons, of the age of eighteen years or upwards, at the time aforesaid, shall be held as proprietors, who are of Indian descent, born in the counties of Plymouth or Barnstable, and who shall have married a proprietor of said Herring Pond Plantation, and were inhabitants of, and permanent residents in said plantation, on the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty: Proviso provided, however, that no person shall be considered a proprietor, who shall have received, or shall be entitled to receive, |