filed with the secretary of State, and twenin, &c. ficate has been cate shall have been filled in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, subscribed and sworn to by the presi ty per cent. paid dent of the said company and a majority of the directors thereof, stating that all of the stock named in their charter has been subscribed for by responsible parties, and that twenty per cent. of the par value of each and every share of the stock thereof has been actually paid into the treasury of the company. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 15, 1852. [1852, 167; 1853, 276; 1854, 1; 1855, 114, 42; 1857, 263.] [Special Laws, vol. 2, p. 287; 1851, 178.] Chap. 34. AN ACT in addition to an Act for establishing an Academy in the Town of Framingham by the Name of Framingham Academy. Power granted to treasurer of the ham. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer of the town of Framingham town of Framing for the time being shall have and exercise all the powers and duties of treasurer and secretary of the inhabitants of said Framingham, as trustees of Framingham Academy, and the said treasurer shall have the same power of conveying real estate as is given to the secretary of the trustees of Framingham Academy by an act passed March first, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, establishing the Framingham Academy. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 15, 1852. [1839, 102.] Chap. 35. AN ACT to protect the Fisheries in the Town of Barnstable and Marshpee Seines, &c., prohibited. Penalty. Chap. 36. Corporators. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: District. SECTION 1. No person shall set, draw, or stretch, any seine or drag-net in Osterville harbor, or Popponessette bay, or any of the waters within the limits of the town of Barnstable or Marshpee district, on the southerly side, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court proper to try the same, one-half to the use of the said town, and the other half to any person who shall prosecute therefor. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 15, 1852. AN ACT to incorporate the Cambridge Gas-Light Company. SECTION 1. Charles C. Little, Isaac Livermore, and Gardner G. Hubbard, their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Cambridge GasLight Company, for the purpose of making and selling gas ties. in the city of Cambridge, with all the powers and privileges, Powers and duand 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 company shall not Capital stock. exceed three hundred thousand dollars; and said corpora tion may hold real estate not exceeding in value one hun- Real estate. dred thousand dollars. issued under par. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said company No shares to be 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. ground in SECTION 4. Said corporation, with the consent of the Corporation, with consent, aumayor and aldermen of the city of Cambridge, shall have thorized to open power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, &c. streets, lanes, and highways in said city, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors as it may be necessary to sink for the purpose aforesaid; and the said corporation, after opening the ground in said streets, lanes, To put the same and highways, shall be held to put the same into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: pro- Proviso. vided, that the said mayor and aldermen for the time being, Mayor and aldershall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and to regulate, &c. control, all the act sand doings of said corporation which may in any manner affect the health, safety, and convenience, of the inhabitants of the said city. in repair. men have power SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its Takes effect. passage. [1853, 137.] [1844, 13; 1852, 6.] March 15, 1852. AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Hamilton Mutual Chap. 38. Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. So much of the act to incorporate the Hamil- Partial repeal. ton Mutual Insurance Company as relates to the Essex Mutual Fire Insurance Company, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The members of the Essex Mechanics' Mutual Essex Mechanics' Fire Insurance Company, in Salem, are hereby constituted Mutual Fire Ins. members of the Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, on Company. the terms and conditions prescribed and set forth in the act to incorporate said Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company. SECTION 3. This act, and that to which it is in addition, When to take shall take effect whenever it shall be accepted by the members of the corporations mentioned in said acts. March 17, 1852. effect. Chap. 39. Upper cove, Right of wharf age. Proviso. AN ACT to authorize John Pew to extend his Wharf. SECTION 1. John Pew is hereby authorized to extend his wharf in the "upper cove," in the harbor of Gloucester, seventy feet from low-water mark; and he shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of the said wharf, and receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, that this act shall in nowise impair the legal rights of any person whatever. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 18, 1852. [1848, 307; 1849, 108; 1850, 312.] Chap. 40. AN ACT to authorize the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company to hold its Annual Meeting in April. Directors may designate any day in April. Chap. 42. Location of road. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company are hereby authorized to hold their annual meeting for the current year, for the choice of officers and the transaction of such other business as may be specified in the warrant therefor, at such time during the month of April as the directors may designate, any thing in the by-laws of said company to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. Notice of said meeting shall be given in the manner prescribed by the by-laws of said company. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 18, 1852. [1852, 146, 155, 297; 1854, 226; 1855, 394; 1856, 237; 1859, 70, 117.] [1849, 156; 1852, 31.] AN ACT authorizing the Mansfield Coal and Mining Company to construct a Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Mansfield Coal and Mining Company are hereby authorized to locate and construct a railroad, commencing near the present pit of said company in the town. of Mansfield, or any other pit which they may sink upon their land in said town, and running to some convenient point on the Boston and Providence Railroad, in said town Powers and du- of Mansfield, 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, and in that part of the thirty-ninth chapter thereof, and in all subsequent statutes relating to railroad corporations. ties. Authorized to expend of the capital stock. May make contracts with the SECTION 2. The said company are hereby authorized to expend of their capital stock such sum as shall be necessary for the construction and equipment of said railroad. SECTION 3. Said company is authorized to make contracts Boston and Pro- with the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation for vidence R. Road. furnishing motive power and cars, and operating the road hereby authorized to be built, and for the transportation of coal brought on said road, and to be carried over any part of said Boston and Providence Railroad. filed within SECTION 4. If the location of said road be not filed accord- Location to be ing to law within three years from the passage of this act, three years. this act shall be void. March 26, 1852. AN ACT to authorize the Organization of the Lawrence Machine Shop. Chap. 43. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. J. Wiley Edmands, Andrew T. Hall, Charles Corporaters. S. Storrow, N. Appleton, Robert Hooper, Ignatius Sargent, and their associates, are hereby authorized to organize a corporation by the name of the Lawrence Machine Shop, for the purpose of manufacturing machinery in the town of Purpose. Lawrence, according to the provisions of "An Act relating to Joint Stock Companies," passed in the year one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-one, with a capital stock of Capital stock. not less than two hundred thousand dollars nor more than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, any thing in that act to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1853, 192.] [1812, 69.] March 26, 1852. An Act in addition to an Act to incorporate the American Antiquarian Chap. 45. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Society. sonal estate. SECTION 1. The American Antiquarian Society is hereby Real and perauthorized and empowered to hold for the purposes for which said society was incorporated, real estate, the annual income of which shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and personal estate, which, exclusive of books, papers, and articles in its cabinet, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 26, 1852. [1850, 268; 1851, 335.] An Act extending the time for the location and construction of the Rail- Chap. 47. road of the Midland Railroad Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: struction. SECTION 1. The time fixed by the act incorporating the Time for conMidland Railroad Company, for the construction of said railroad, is hereby extended two years. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1853, 311; 1854, 421, 447.] March 26, 1852. Chap. 48. Committee of five to be appointed. Their duties. [Special Laws, vol. 2, p. 504; vol. 3, p. 398; 1823, 97; 1848, 187.] SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Lynn is hereby empowered and directed, in the month of April or May annually, to choose five persons, inhabitants of said city, to see that the laws respecting the passage-ways for shad and alewives be observed; and each person so chosen shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty. And the said. committee, or a major part of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to order the times, places, and manner in which said fish may be taken in Saugus River and streams in said city provided, however, that no person shall be allowed to take said fish as aforesaid more than three days in any one week: and provided, also, that the taking of said fish shall not be prohibited more than four days in any one Regulations to be week. And the regulations which shall be so agreed upon by said committee, shall be written and posted in three public places, or published in a newspaper in said city. Proviso. published. Owners of dams, &c., may be repassage-ways. of the committee. SECTION 2. The said committee, or a majority of the quired to open members, are hereby authorized and empowered to require of the owner or occupant of any dam or sluice-head of any mill erected, or that may be erected over said river or stream, to open and keep therein a sufficient passage-way for such fish, at such time, between the first day of April and the twentieth day of June, annually, as the said committee or Further powers the major part of them shall think necessary; and may also require of the owner or occupant of any canal or course, whereby any natural stream is or shall be in part changed or altered, to leave sufficient water in the natural stream for the easy and safe passage of said fish; and upon neglect or refusal of such owner or occupant of any dam, sluice-head, or canal as aforesaid, to comply with this act, the said committee, or major part of them, shall and may cause sufficient passage-way and opening as they shall judge necessary for the purposes aforesaid, to be made in such dam, sluice-head, or canal, with the least prejudice to the owner or ocupant, and at his expense. And such passage-way and opening shall and may be continued at the discretion of said committee, from the time they shall order the same, as aforesaid, and until they shall order or permit the closing of the Fine for obstruct- same, between the days above named. And if any person ing passage way, shall obstruct the passage-way or opening required or allowed by said committee, or the major part of them, as aforesaid, or in any manner obstruct the passage of said fish, or put or cause, or suffer to be put in either of said streams any noxious substance whereby said fish may be destroyed, &c. |