[1849, 228.] AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the South Bay Mill Com- Chap. 242 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: pany. SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, the Name changed. corporate name of the South Bay Mill Company shall be changed, and the said corporation shall be known and called by the name of the Wood Carving and Manufacturing Company, any thing in the act incorporating the same to the Contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. The said company are hereby authorized and In Malden. empowered to carry on their business in the town of Malden, in the county of Middlesex. [1855, 282.] [Special Laws, vol. 7, p. 823; 1837, 14.] April 29, 1850. AN ACT relating to certain Lands and Personal Estates, in the Town of Chap. 243 Auburn, and the owners thereof. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Auburn to belong SECTION 1. All lands within the limits of the town of Certain lands in Auburn, in the county of Worcester, which, by the pro- to that town, for visions of the act incorporating said town with the original all legal purposes name of Ward, are now, for certain legal purposes, accounted parts of Worcester, Millbury, and Oxford, shall, after this act takes effect, be and the same hereby are, for all legal purposes, declared to be parts of the said town of Auburn, and exempt from all legal liabilities in and to the said towns of Worcester, Millbury, and Oxford. after. SECTION 2. The taxes on polls and personal estates of of taxes, herepersons having estate or interest in said lands, which, by the provisions of said act of incorporation, are now assessable in Worcester, Millbury, and Oxford, shall, after this act takes effect, be assessable and assessed in the said town of Auburn. tofore. SECTION 3. All taxes heretofore legally assessed by the of taxes, said towns of Worcester, Millbury, and Oxford, on the persons, lands, and other estates, referred to in the foregoing sections, shall be paid to said towns which have severally assessed the same, and said persons, lands, and other estates, shall continue liable therefor, to the same extent they are now liable for the same, notwithstanding any thing in this act contained. here and support of SECTION 4. Any persons having heretofore gained a legal of settlement settlement in said towns of Worcester, Millbury, and Oxford, paupers. by reason of residence on the lands referred to in the foregoing section, or by having been proprietors thereof, or who may derive such settlement from any such resident or proprietor, who shall come to want, and stand in need of relief and support, shall be relieved and supported by the said town of Auburn, in the same manner as if they had gained a legal settlement in the said town of Auburn. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its approval. [1836, 259; 1837, 70; 1838, 118; 1845, 239.] April 29, 1850. Chap. 246 AN ACT in addition to " An Act to authorize the Boston Wharf Company In South Boston. Proviso. Proviso. When to take effect. to extend their Wharf." Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Boston Wharf Company are hereby authorized to extend and maintain their wharf, in that part of Boston commonly called South Boston, in the direction in which it now runs, as follows, to wit:-on the westerly side thereof, by the line established by an act entitled "An Act concerning the harbor of Boston," passed on the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, running from the southerly angle of the above mentioned line to a point in said line, eleven hundred feet, (instead of fourteen hundred feet, as is provided in the act to which this is in addition ;) northerly from said angle, and thence easterly to the easterly line of their wharf continued, the provision in said last mentioned act, relating to a creek or cliannel, to the contrary notwithstanding; and said last mentioned act, except as herein modified, is hereby confirmed: provided, that this grant shall not be construed to extend to any land or flats of this Commonwealth lying in front of lands or flats other than those belonging to said company, or which would be comprehended by the true lines of such other lands or flats, extended northerly as far as the point to which said company are hereby authorized to construct their wharf: and provided, also, that this grant shall not impair the legal rights of any person. SECTION 2. This act shall not take effect, unless it shall be accepted by said company within sixty days from the date of its passage. [1852, 171, 278; 1854, 218; 1855, 455.] [1849, 195.] April 29, 1850. Chap. 247 AN ACT to extend the times of Locating and Constructing the Mount Time for locating extended one Pleasant Branch Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The times within which the Mount Pleasant and constructing Branch Railroad Company may locate and construct their road, are hereby respectively extended one year beyond the times set forth in the act to incorporate the same. year. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 29, 1850. [1851, 241.] [1845, 196.] AN ACT to authorize Charles B. Sawyer and Stephen M. Allen to erect Chap. 248 a Dam across Bayley's Creek. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Charles B. Sawyer and Stephen M. Allen, of Boston, In Cohasset. owners of water-power and tide-mills, called Gulf Mills, on Gulf Stream or Gulf River, so called, in the town of Cohasset, their heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build a dam, with proper gates, outlets and sluiceways, across Bayley's Creek, so called, near Cohasset Harbor, for the purpose, and with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities, set forth and contained in an act entitled "An Act to authorize Charles B. Sawyer and Stephen M. Allen to erect a dam across Bayley's Creek," passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fortyfive. The authority given in this act to build said dam shall Two years. not extend beyond two years from the time of its enactment. [1852, 62.] [1827, 102.] April 29, 1850. AN ACT to change the Name of the Bradford Mutual Fire Insurance Chap. 250 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Company. The Bradford Mutual Fire Insurance Company shall here- New name. after be called and known by the name of the Groveland Mutual Fire Insurance Company. [1855, 187.] April 29, 1850. Chap. 251 AN ACT to incorporate the New England Hosiery Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. George W. Benson, S. W. Eldridge, and Corporators. Samuel L. Hinckley, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the New England Hosiery Company, for the purpose of manufacturing hosiery and other articles, by knitting looms, in the town of North- In Northampton. ampton, in the county of Hampshire, with all the powers Powers and and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions duties. and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purpose afore- Real estate. said, hold real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock shall not exceed two hundred Capital stock. thousand dollars: provided, that no shares in the capital Proviso. stock of said corporation shall be issued for a less amount than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 29, 1850. Chap. 252 $100,000 additional capital stock. Investment. Proviso. Chap. 253 In Suffolk. In Essex. [1834, 109; 1842, 2.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Boston Sugar Refinery. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Boston Sugar Refinery are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock by an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and to invest such increase in real and personal estate, necessary and convenient for carrying on the business of said corporation: provided, that 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. April 29, 1850. AN ACT to change the Names of the Persons therein mentioned. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Richard Howes may take the name of Richard Arthur Howes; Caroline Elizabeth Pierce, a minor, may take the name of Ella Pierce; Henry Dennie may take the name of Charles Henry Dennie; Joshua Chandler may take the name of Joshua Herbert Chandler; Charles Henry Brown may take the name of Ariel Brown; William Churchill may take the name of William B. Churchill; Almira Georgiana Murphy and William Henry Harrison Murphy, minors, may take the names of Almira Georgiana Vose, and William Henry Harrison Vose; Peter Jest may take the name of Frederick Adolphus Miller; Daniel and Joseph Trickey may severally take the names of Daniel Warren and Joseph Warren; Edward Perry Twitchell may take the name of Edward Twitchell Perry; Priscilla Ward Blake may take the name of Ella Blake; Caroline D. Jackson may take the name of Caroline D. Waldron; Samuel Smith Tuckerman may take the name of Samuel Tuckerman; Rodney H. Paresh may take the name of Rodney H. Powers; the hereafter-named family may take the following names: Lewis Clark may take the name of Louis Bieral, Mary A. Clark may take the name Ada Maria Bieral, Ada Carmelita Clark may take the name of Ada Carmelita Bieral; George Francis Oliver Train may take the name of George Francis Train; Charles Noakes may take the name of Charles Noakes Leavitt; Henry J. Holt may take the name of Henry W. Holbrook; John Milton Hervey Palton Partridge, of Boston, may take the name of Hervey Milton Palmantridge; Emily Baxter, of Boston, may take the name of Emily Robinson Baxter, all of the county of Suffolk. Fanny Blake Furber, of Lynn, may take the name of Fanny Blake Rich, and her minor son may take the name of Samuel Edwin Rich; George Noyes, of Newburyport, may take the name of George Washington Noyes; Antonio Knight, of Rowley, may take the name of Antonio E. Knight; Edward Skinner, of Lynn, may take the name of Edward Augustus Skinner; John Spiller, of Georgetown, may take the name of John Preston; Mary Danforth, of Salem, may take the name of Mary Russell; Edward Hammond, Junior, of Haverhill, may take the name of Edward Hanover Hammond; John Ober, Junior, of Beverly, may take the name of John Richard Ober; Anna Maria Verrey, of Danvers, may take the name of Anna Maria Wallis; Ichabod Randall Hoyt, Junior, of Salem, may take the name of George Randall Hoyt; Noble Pye, of Lynn, a minor, may take the name of Charles Noble Robinson; Michael Connors, of Gloucester, may take the name of Michael Poland; Bridget Farrell, of Salem, may take the name of Helen Farrell; David Perkins, Junior, of Topsfield, may take the name of David Granville Perkins; Christopher Columbus Hawkes, of Lynn, may take the name of Charles Maurice Maudant; Almaretta Turner, of Danvers, may take the name of Charlotte Elizabeth Turner; Henry Francis Kimball, of Bradford, may take the name of Frank Henry Kimball; John Albert Emerton, of Lynn, a minor, may take the name of John Albert Makepeace, all of the county of Essex. Mary A. Pierce, of Lowell, may take the name of Mary In Middlesex Ames Beard, and her minor daughter may take the name of Abigail Ames Beard; Lucius Emmett Clary Paige, of Cambridge, may take the name of Lucius Robinson Paige; Ledry Cooledge Wright, a minor, of Marlborough, may take the name of Charles Wright; Jerome Buonaparte Morse, of Natick, may take the name of Joseph Spencer Bigelow; Rebekah F. Cooper, of Framingham, may take the name of Rebekah Brown Fuller; Jonathan Otis Howard, of Tyngsborough, may take the name of Otis Jonathan Howard; Charlotte Elizabeth Hunt, a minor, of Natick, may take the name of Abby Charlotte Hunt,—all of the county of Middlesex. Melvina Bristol, of Fitchburg, may take the name of In Worcester. Flora Melvina Cutter; Joel Hartwell, of Fitchburg, may take the name of Joel Willoughby Hartwell; Ephraim Chamberlain, of Southborough, may take the name of Ephraim Hale Chamberlain; Louisa M. Allen, of Mendon, may take the name of Louise Maria Aldrich; Wyman Goodell, a minor, of Athol, may take the name of Jonathan Wyman Goodell; Frederick Emery Blakeley, of Barre, may take the name of Frederick Emery Hastings; Leonard Brigham, of Worcester, may take the name of Edward Leonard Brigham; the hereafter-named family, all of Worcester, may take the following names: Luther Gunn may take the name of Edward Luther Holman; Mary Sophia |