In Hampshire.

In Hampden.

Gunn may take the name of Mary Sophia Holman; Edwin Howe Gunn may take the name of Edwin Howe Holman ; Agnes Louisa Gunn may take the name of Agnes Louisa Holman; Almira Wood Gunn may take the name of Almira Wood Holman ; Jonathan Pierce Holt, of Northbridge, may take the name of John Pierce Holt; Carlo Waite, of Hubbardston, may take the name of Charles Munroe Waite; Abigail K. Partridge, of Worcester, may take the name of Abigail G. Knowlton; Frederick Gates, a minor, of Holden, may take the name of Frederick Gates Chaffin; Leona Malvina Whitney, a minor, of Upton, may take the name of Leonah Melvenah Lesure; Rebecca Palmer, of Paxton, may take the name Rebecca Farnsworth Palmer; Hannah Howe Hastings Hayward, of Mendon, may take the name of Anna Howe Hastings Hayward; Edmund Rice Greenwood, Junior, of Hubbardston, may take the name of Edmund Greenwood; Benjamin Thales Cooley, of Worcester, may take the name of Benjamin Franklin Cooley,-all of the county of Worcester.

Galusha Ford Bates, of Williamsburg, may take the name of Galusha Ford Miller; William Field, of Northampton, may take the name of William Edward Field; Philip Ridgway Vining, of Williamsburg, may take the name of Seignior Jokenne Hillman; the hereafter named family, all of Granby, may take the following names: Benjamin Witt may take the name of Benjamin De Witt; Polly Witt may take the name of Mary De Witt; Benjamin Hollis Witt may take the name of Benjaman Hollis De Witt; Mary Ann Witt may take the name of Mary Ann De Witt; Sarah Jane Witt may take the name of Sarah Jane De Witt; Louisa Sandford Witt may take the name of Louisa Sandford De Witt; Henry Witt, of Granby, may take the name of Henry De Witt; William Pomeroy Clapp, of Williamsburg, may take the name of William Clapp Pomeroy,-all of the county of Hampshire.

William Jonas Brown Colburn, a minor, of Amherst, may take the name of William Brown Colburn; the hereafter named family, all of Chicopee, may take the following names: Milton Hoar to take the name of Milton Woodville; Fanny Worthington Hoar to take the name of Fanny Worthington Woodville; Robert Worthington Hoar may take the name of Robert Worthington Woodville; Maria Hoar to take the name of Maria Lorene Woodville; Emily Hoar to take the name of Emily Amelia Woodville; Mary Frances Hoar to take the name of Mary Frances Woodville; Susan Phelps Hoar to take the name of Susan Phelps Woodville; Roderick Milton Hoar to take the name of Roderick Milton Woodville; Lucy Morely Hoar to take the name of Lucy Morely

Woodville; Nelson Stratton, of Springfield, may take the name of Nelson Pitkin Stratton, all of the county of Hampden.

Cyrus Ball Mack, of Sunderland, may take the name of In Franklin. Cyrus Mack Hubbard; Otis Gunn, Junior, of Montague, may take the name of Otis Berthoud Gunn; George P. Wood, of Orange, a minor, may take the name of George P. Whitney; Alanson Ward, of Buckland, may take the name of Alanson Wendell Ward; Celia Maria Stratton, and her minor children, of Northfield, may take the following names: Celia Maria Stratton to take the name of Celia Maria Herbert; Henry Augustus Stratton to take the name of William Henry Herbert; Sarah Florence Stratton to take the name of Saralı Florence Herbert; Jane Clark, of Conway, may take the name of Minerva Jane Gunn,-all of the county of Franklin. Mira H. Spencer, of Hinsdale, may take the name of Mira In Berkshire. Hinsdale; Charles Hinsdale Spencer, minor, of Hinsdale, may take the name of Charles Franklin Hinsdale; Lorenzo Elliott Dole, of Peru, may take the name of Lorenzo Lyman; Ann C. Ford, of Windsor, a minor, may take the name of Hester Ann Ford; Sarah Adaline Baker, a minor, of Peru, may take the name of Sarah Adaline Miner; Dorah Frissell, of Peru, may take the name of Emily Frissell,-all of the county of Berkshire.

Harriet Elliot Cobb, of Dorchester, a minor, may take the In Norfolk. name of Harriet Elliot Peake; Emma Louisa Reed, of Roxbury, may take the name of Emma Elizabeth Palmer; Harriet Augusta Sumner, of Medfield, minor, may take the name of Henrietta Augusta Robinson; James Lynch, of Medway, may take the name of James Lewis Pond; Julia A. Hartshorn, an adopted child, of Walpole, may take the name of Julia Howard; Caroline Fellows Johnson, of Roxbury, an adopted child, may take the name of Elsey Susan Lewis; Alfred Hunt, 2d, of Weymouth, may take the name of Alfred Harper, all of the county of Norfolk.

Cornelia E. Caswell, of Taunton, may take the name of In Bristol. Cornelia E. Allen; Mary Silas Presbrey, of Taunton, may take the name of Mary Presbrey Ellis; Deborah Turner Bodfish, of New Bedford, single woman, may take the name of Deborah Frances Bodfish; Melvin Bates, of Taunton, may take the name of William Leonard Eddy; Samuel L. Paull, of Taunton, may take the name of John Henry Richmond,— all of the county of Bristol.

Grenville Marsh Tappan, a minor, of Marshfield, to take In Plymouth. the name of William Brigham Tappan; Harriet D. Swift, a minor, of Middleborough, may take the name of Harriet D. Reed; Arthur L. Gould, of Hingham, a minor, may take the name of Josiah L. Gould; Elisha C. Bubier, of Abington,

In Barnstable.

In Dukes county.

may take the name of Elisha C. Davis,-all of the county of Plymouth.

James Mac Quire, of Truro, may take the name of James Henry Lee; John Mac Quire, of Truro, may take the name of John Quincy Myrick; Ellen A. Phillips, a minor, of Yarmouth, may take the name of Ellen A. Matthews,-all of the county of Barnstable.

Rebecca West, a minor, of Chilmark, may take the name of William Valentine Worth,-of the county of Dukes.

And the several persons before mentioned, from and after the passage of this act, shall be known and called by the names which by this act they are respectively allowed to assume, as aforesaid, and said names shall hereafter be considered as their only proper and legal names to all intents and purposes.

[1850, 293.] [1850, 216.]

April 29, 1850.

Chap. 254 AN ACT to authorize the extension of certain Wharves in the Harbor of

Provisos.

Piper's Wharf.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Boston.

SECTION 1. The proprietors of the several wharves situate on the north-westerly side of Fore Point Channel, in Boston harbor, between Arch Wharf and Wales' Wharf, are hereby authorized to extend the same, respectively, to the new line of said channel, established by an act of the present legislature, in a direction at right angles thereto : provided, that no person's legal rights shall be infringed thereby and provided, also, that the extension of Prentice's Wharf and Tileston's Wharf, shall commence where the last extension thereof, respectively, commenced, and the same shall be altered to conform with the extension hereby authorized: and provided, also, that the southerly line of the wharf formerly known as Curtis' Wharf, shall be continued in its present direction, to said new line of said channel.

SECTION 2. The said extensions shall be built beyond the line established by the act of April the nineteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, upon piles, not nearer together than six feet in the direction of said channel, and eight feet in a transverse direction.

SECTION 3. The proprietor of the wharf known as Piper's Wharf, and now improved by Solomon Piper, is hereby authorized to drive and maintain piles, from the end of the northerly line of the said wharf, in the dock on the southerly side of the extension of Summer Street Wharf, to said new line of said channel, and in a direction at right angles thereto, so as to occupy a space in said dock, not exceeding four feet in width, for the purpose of hauling vessels into and out of his dock above; and that part of the dock below

leges.

the present front line of Drake's Wharf, and between the extension thereof, herein authorized, and the line of piles aforesaid, shall be owned in common by the proprietors of said Piper's Wharf, and Drake's Wharf, their heirs and assigns. SECTION 4. The proprietors of the several wharves, be- Rights and privitween the points mentioned in the first section, shall have the same rights and privileges at the ends of the extensions of their respective wharves, and in the docks formed by, or at the sides thereof, herein authorized, as they now legally have at the ends of their present wharves, and in the docks at the sides thereof respectively, and none other, except so far as is herein otherwise expressly provided.

SECTION 5. Provided, however, that none of said wharves Proviso. shall be extended, nor piles driven, beyond the line of said channel, established by said act of April the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, until the bar in said channel, opposite or near to the foot of Summer Street, shall have been excavated to the depth of twelve feet below low water, under the supervision and to the satisfaction of a commissioner, to be appointed by the governor and council, at the expense of said proprietors: and provided, also, that none of said wharves shall be extended, nor piles driven, until such portion of the strip of flats lying below Wales' Wharf, and northerly and westerly of the south-easterly line of said channel continued, as said commissioner may direct, shall have been excavated to the depth of ten feet below low water, under the supervision of said commissioner, at the expense of said proprietors: and provided, also, that the compensation of said commissioner, and the expense of said excavations, and of the alteration of said Prentice's and Tileston's Wharves, to make them conform to the line of extension herein authorized, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to the satisfaction of said commissioner.

SECTION 6. The said expenses shall be borne by the said of expenses. proprietors, in proportion to the square surface feet outside of the line of said channel, established by the act of April the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, upon which they are hereby respectively authorized to drive piles, or extend their wharves, to be ascertained and apportioned by said commissioner.

act.

SECTION 7. No proprietor of any of the wharves aforesaid Condition of this shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, until he shall have paid, or secured to be paid, his proportion of said expenses,

as aforesaid.

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April 30, 1850.

Chap. 255

Limits of new town.

Тахеѕ.

Debts.

AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Winchester.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. All the territory now within the towns of Woburn, Medford, and West Cambridge, comprised within the following limits, that is to say, beginning on the south side of Hill Street, on the line of Woburn and Stoneham, near Jesse Dike's house; thence running along said town. line, south-westerly, six hundred and sixty rods, to the south-easterly corner of Woburn; thence, in precisely the same direction, two hundred thirty-seven and one-half rods; thence in a straight line westwardly, crossing Mystic pond, about eight hundred rods, to a point in the boundary line of West Cambridge and Lexington, which is one hundred twelve and a half rods, south-westerly, from the junction of said line with Woburn; thence, north-easterly, along said line, to the junction of Woburn, Lexington, and West Cambridge; thence, north-westerly, along Lexington line to a stone bound on said line, next the southerly side of John Winning's barn; thence in a straight line, to a point five rods south of the southerly side of Jacob Pierce's barn, by his dwelling; thence to a point on Main Street, half way between the south side of Woburn Common and the depot at South Woburn, as the road now runs; thence, easterly, to a point six rods north of William Richardson's house; thence about two hundred fifty rods, easterly, to the point of beginning, is hereby incorporated into a town, by the name of Winchester; and the said town of Winchester is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges, rights, and immunities, and made subject to all the duties and requisitions, to which other towns are entitled and subjected by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 2. The inhabitants of the town of Winchester shall be holden to pay all arrearages of taxes legally assessed upon them before the passage of this act, and also their proportion of such state and county taxes as may be legally assessed upon them, before the taking of the next state valuation, (said proportion to be ascertained and determined by the respective town valuations of Woburn, Medford, and West Cambridge, next preceding the passage of this act,) to the respective treasurers or collectors of said towns; and all moneys now in the treasuries of said towns of Woburn, Medford, and West Cambridge, or that may hereafter be received from taxes already assessed, or directed to be assessed, shall be applied to the purposes for which they were raised and assessed, in like manner as if this act had not been passed.

SECTION 3. The inhabitants of the town of Winchester shall be holden to pay their just and equitable proportion of