to the northerly side of the new county road leading from Lowell, in said county, to Methuen; thence north, eightynine degrees west, five thousand two hundred and seventy feet, to the margin of said river, near the end of a wall, opposite the head or north end of Long Island; thence in the same course, about one hundred feet, to the end of said Long Island; thence westerly, in a direct line, to the thread of said river; thence down said river, by the thread thereof, to the point of beginning, with all the inhabitants on the lands above described, is hereby set off and separated from said town of Dracut, and annexed to, and made a part of, Made a part of the the city of Lowell, in said county; and the same land, and city of Lowell. the inhabitants thereon, shall be deemed and considered as annexed to, and constituting a part of, said city of Lowell: provided always, however, that the said tract of land, and Proviso. the inhabitants thereon, set off as aforesaid, shall be liable to pay all such taxes as are already assessed on them by said town of Dracut, in the same manner as they would have been liable if this act had not been passed. gained a resi nexed territory, SECTION 2. If any persons who have heretofore gained a Persons who have legal settlement in the town of Dracut, by reason of resi- dence on the andence on the territory set off as aforesaid, or by having how supported. been proprietors thereof, or who may derive such settlement from any such resident or proprietor, shall come to want and stand in need of relief and support, they shall be relieved and supported by the city of Lowell, in the same manner as if they had gained a legal settlement in said Lowell. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 28, 1851. [1851, 115.] AN ACT to incorporate the Adams Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 9. SECTION 1. Sanford Blackinton, J. E. Marshall and John Corporators. F. Arnold, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Adams Mutual Fire In- Name. surance Company, to be established in the town of Adams, In Adams. county of Berkshire, for the term of twenty-eight years, Term. for the purpose of insuring dwelling-houses and other Purpose. buildings, and personal property, against loss by fire, with Powers and all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, duties. liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and all other laws of the Commonwealth, made or to be made, relating to such corporations. SECTION 2. No policy shall be issued till the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to be insured. February 28, 1851. When policies may be issued. Chap. 10. Corporators. Term. Name. AN ACT to incorporate the North American Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Benjamin Lamson, Samuel Hall, Donald McKay, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, for the term of twenty years from the passage of this act, by the name of the North American Fire Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, county of Suffolk, City of Boston. for the purpose of making insurance against losses by fire, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirtyseventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. Powers and duties. Real estate. Capital stock. Proviso. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold, for the use of the company, real estate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value, excepting such as may be taken for debt, or held as collateral security for money due to said company, and when so taken or held as security, the same shall be disposed of within the period of five years. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to increase it to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars: provided, that not less than fifty thousand dollars shall be paid in as capital within one year from the passage of this act : No shares to be provided, that no shares in 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. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 28, 1851. issued at less than par value. Chap. 11. Powers and duties. Chap. 12. The selectmen authorized to establish a fire department in Melrose. Powers and duties. AN ACT to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Clinton. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: A fire department is hereby established in the town of Clinton, subject to all the duties and liabilities, and with all the powers and privileges, set forth and contained in an act entitled "An Act to regulate fire departments," passed on the ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. March 10, 1851. AN ACT to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Melrose. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The selectmen of the town of Melrose are hereby authorized to establish a fire department in the said town, in the manner and according to the provisions prescribed in an act to regulate fire departments, passed on the ninth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtynine; and the said fire department, when so established, and the several members thereof and all the officers and companies appointed by them, and the said town of Melrose and the inhabitants thereof, shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities, and be entitled to all the privileges and exemptions, specified in the said act, so far as the same relate to them respectively. March 13, 1851. Av ACT to authorize George H. Rogers to extend his Wharves in Chap. 13. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Gloucester. from Sea Street. George H. Rogers is hereby authorized to extend his In Gloucester, connected wharves, leading from Sea Street, in the harbor of Gloucester, two hundred and three feet, from the lower store on said wharves, to the end of the pier at present disconnected with said wharves; and he shall have the right May receive to lay vessels at the ends and sides of the said wharves, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, that Proviso. this act shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person whomsoever: provided, also, that said Rogers shall complete said wharf within two years from the passage of this act. March 13, 1851. dockage, &c. Chap. 15. Charters contin Bank. AN ACT in relation to the Renewal of Bank Charters. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The several corporations hereinafter named, Char which by their respective charters have been heretofore incorporated and established at the several places named herein, be and the same are hereby continued corporations, for the purposes of banking, until the first day of January, which shall be in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, notwithstanding any limitation in their respective charters of incorporation to the contrary, viz.: The presi- Massachusetts dent, directors and company of the Massachusetts Bank, in Boston; the president, directors and company of the Atlan- Atlantic Bank. tie Bank, in Boston; the president, directors and company Attleborough of the Attleborough Bank, in Attleborough; and the said Bank. corporations respectively, shall be entitled to all the powers Powers and and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties, liabili- duties. ties, requirements, and restrictions, contained in such acts as are now in force, and to such other acts as may hereafter be passed by the general court, in relation to banks and banking. SECTION 2. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its Chap. 17. AN ACT to change the Name of Alexander McCafferty, Jr. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: From and after the passage of this act, Alexander McCaf- Name changed. ferty, Jr., of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, may take the name of Alexander McCafferty Graham, and he shall thereafter be known and called by that name, and the same shall thereafter be considered as his only legal and proper name. March 13, 1851. Chap. 18. AN ACT to incorporate the Railroad Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Corporators. tion. Term. Purpose. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. John Howe, Southworth Shaw, Samuel Batchelder, their associates and successors, are hereby made Name and loca- a corporation, by the name of the Railroad Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, for the term of twenty-eight years, for the purpose of insuring railroad station and freight-houses, and their contents, and other property in which railroad corporations may have an insurable interest, against loss or damage by fire; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and all statutes subsequently passed, relating to mutual fire insurance companies. Powers and duties. Any railroad in corporated by Massachusetts may insure. Chap. 19. Corporators. Name. Purpose. Powers and Real estate. Act not to impair, &c. No shares to be SECTION 2. Any railroad corporations, incorporated by the laws of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, or New York, may insure in the said company any property belonging to them, or for the loss of which by fire they may be held responsible. [1856, 55.] March 22, 1851. AN ACT to incorporate the Chatham Marine Railway. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Thomas Smith, William Hamilton, Elisha Harding, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Chatham Marine Railway, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a railway, suitable for repairing vessels, at Stage Harbor, in Chatham; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the fortyfourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and personal estate, necessary for the purpose aforesaid, not exceeding in amount four thousand dollars, in such shares as may be convenient. SECTION 3. This act shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person whomsoever. SECTION 4. No shares in said corporation shall be issued issued at less than for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value thereof when first issued. par value. [1831, 1; 1832, 2.] March 22, 1851. Chap. 20. AN ACT to continue in force the Act to incorporate the Commercial Insurance Company in Nantucket, and to increase its Capital Stock. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: To continue 20 years from June 7, 1851. The act to incorporate the Commercial Insurance Company, in Nantucket, passed June seventh, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, shall be and remain in force for the term of twenty years from the seventh day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and the said corporation shall be continued through that term, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the Powers and duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty- duties. seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and in all the statutes subsequently passed relating to insurance companies; and the said company is hereby authorized $25,000 additionto increase its capital stock, by an addition thereto of a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars: provided, that Proviso. 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. March 22, 1851. [1855, 343.] al capital stock. AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Orthodox Congregational Chap. 21. Society of Shirley to sell certain Real Estate. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: meeting-house The Orthodox Congregational Society of Shirley is hereby May sell old authorized to sell its old meeting-house and the land de- and land. scribed in the indenture between Jenny Little and Jonathan S. Adams and others, dated the first day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to May convey same convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers in fee simple, apply the prodischarged of the trusts of the said indenture; and to apply ceeds, &c. the proceeds towards the expenses of building its new meeting-house: provided, that a majority of the trustees named Proviso. in the said indenture shall by deed of release confirm such conveyance. March 22, 1851. in fee simple, and AN ACT to incorporate the Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Chap. 22. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: William S. Morton, T. C. Webb, William B. Duggan, Corporators. their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Name. Company, in the town of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk, Location. for the term of twenty-eight years, for the purpose of insur- Term. ing dwelling-houses and other buildings, and personal prop- Purpose. erty, throughout this Commonwealth, against loss by fire, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the Powers and duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirtyseventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and all laws subsequently made, so far as they may be applicable hereto. March 22, 1851. [1854, 315.] duties. |