Chap. 4. Name changed. Chap. 6. Corporators. Purpose. [1834, 192.] AN ACT to change the Name of the Andover Institution for Savings. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Andover Institution for Savings, incorporated April second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall be hereafter known and called by the name of "The Andover Savings Bank." February 11, 1853. AN ACT to incorporate the Pentucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company. SECTION 1. William H. Hewes, Caleb D. Hunking and Caleb Hersey, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Pentucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in the town of Haverhill, for the term of twenty-eight years, for the purpose of insuring, on the mutual principle, dwellings, stores, manufactories, mills, shops, tanneries, public buildings, taverns, stables, and other buildings and their contents, and other property, real or Powers and du- personal, 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: provided, that no policy shall be issued by this company, until the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to be insured. ties. Proviso. SECTION 2. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its [1852, 105.] Chap. 7. AN ACT in addition to "An Act to authorize the City of Charlestown and others to fill up certain Flats in Mystic River." Release of flats. Sea-wall, how built. Wall may be extended. Capital stock increased. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The provision in the last clause of the first section of said act shall be construed to require a release only of such flats as lie between the north channel and a line parallel to, and distant two hundred feet north-easterly from, the first-described line in said act. SECTION 2. The sea-wall mentioned in the first section of said act shall be built throughout the lines prescribed in said section, below the south-easterly line of Johnson's Wharf extended to the main channel; and with the consent of the shore owners on the south channel above Elm Street, said wall may be extended from the prescribed point of termination, across said south channel, to the shore in the line of the north-westerly side of said Elm Street. SECTION 3. The capital stock allowed by said act is hereby increased by an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1855, 55, 481; 1859, 19.] February 12, 1853. Chap. 8. AN ACT to incorporate the Haverhill Gas Light Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Francis G. Macy, George Odiorne, George Corporators. B. Parrott, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Haverhill Gas Light Com- ties. the village of Haverhill; with all the powers and privileges, Powers and duand subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, 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 not exceeding in value fifty thousand dollars; and the whole capital stock shall not exceed one Capital stock. hundred thousand dollars. sink pipes, &c. SECTION 3. Said corporation, with the consent of the May open ground, selectmen of the town of Haverhill, shall have power to open the ground in any part of the streets, highways, and lanes, in the said town, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors as it may be necessary to sink for the purpose aforesaid; and the corporation, after Penalty. opening the ground in such streets, lanes, and highways, shall be held to put the same again into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, that Proviso. the said selectmen, for the time being, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, the acts and doings of the said corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, or convenience, of the inhabitants of the said town. issued under par. SECTION 4. No shares in the capital stock of said corpo- No shares to be ration 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 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1853, 163.] February 12, 1853. [1849, 160; 1851, 225.] AN ACT to authorize the Cochituate Bank, in Boston, to locate their Chap. 9. Bank in any part of the City of Boston. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The president, directors, and company, of the Location. Cochituate Bank, in Boston, are hereby authorized to locate the said bank in any part of the city of Boston. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- Inconsistent acts repealed. with, are hereby repealed. February 12, 1853. Chap. 10. Additional privileges. Notice of acceptance to be filed. Name changed. When to take effect. Chap. 11. Corporators. Real estate. May construct docks, &c. Proviso. [1852, 100.] AN ACT concerning the Globe Mutual Marine Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Globe Mutual Marine Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, in addition to its present powers and privileges, may make insurance on the mutual principle, against losses by fire; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in all subsequent acts relating to mutual fire insurance companies. SECTION 2. If the said company shall file a notice of its acceptance of its act of incorporation, passed on the thirteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, with the secretary of the Commonwealth, within thirty days after the passage of this act, it shall be deemed to have fully complied, to all intents and purposes, with the provisions of the twenty-first chapter of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled "An Act concerning Insurance Companies." SECTION 3. The said company shall hereafter be known and called by the name of the Globe Insurance Company. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect on and after its acceptance, by a vote of a majority of the members of said company present, and voting at a legal meeting called for that purpose. February 12, 1853. [1853, 327.] AN ACT to incorporate the City Wharf Company, in Boston. SECTION 1. Josiah Quincy, Ellis Gray Loring, and John E. Thayer, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the City Wharf Company; with power to purchase and hold, in fee simple or otherwise, as the title may be, any part or the whole of the estate on Commercial Street, in Boston, and known as the City Wharf estate, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, and also any rights or estates lying between the Long Wharf and the estates of the Commercial Wharf Company and of the Mercantile Wharf Corporation, or belonging to either of the said corporations. And the said corporation may construct docks and wharves; lay vessels within and at the side thereof, and receive dockage and wharfage therefor ; erect buildings, lay out streets and passage-ways, and improve and manage said property for mercantile purposes, in such manner as to them shall seem expedient, and may sell and convey the same or any part thereof: provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said corporation to infringe upon the legal rights of any person, or to ceed ten hundred. -transferable. build any wharf or other structure on the premises which is not now authorized by law. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, at any legal meeting, Shares not to exagree upon the number of shares not exceeding ten hundred, into which their stock shall be divided, which shares shall be transferable in a book, to be kept by the clerk of the corporation for that purpose; may from time to time assess may be asupon the stockholders such sums of money, not exceeding in the whole one thousand dollars on each share, as may be necessary for the purchase, improvement, and management, of their estate, and may, in case any stockholder shall neglect sessed. non-payment of to pay any such assessment, cause such of the shares of said --may be sold for stockholder as may be sufficient therefor to be sold, in such assessments. manner as the said corporation may, by their laws, determine: provided, however, such sale shall be by public auction to Proviso. the highest bidder, after giving notice of the time and place Notice of sale, appointed for such sale and the sum due on each share, by advertising the same, three weeks successively, in some newspaper printed in Boston; and the surplus proceeds of such Surplus proceeds sale, above the assessment so due, with interest and charges linquent. of sale, shall be repaid to such delinquent stockholder. how given. to be repaid de SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have all the powers Powers and duand privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, ties. and liabilities, contained in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. [1825, 99.] February 18, 1853. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Chap. 12. Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: tional capital The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company is hereby author- $200,000 addiized to increase its capital stock, by adding thereto two hun- stock. dred thousand dollars, and to invest such portion thereof in Real estate. real estate, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, as may be necessary and convenient to carry on the business for which the said company was incorporated: provided, that Proviso. no shares in the capital stock hereby authorized, shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares in the original capital stock of said corporation. February 18, 1853. [1859, 65.] AN ACT to incorporate the East Boston Gas Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 13. SECTION 1. George H. Plummer, Samuel Curtis, James Corporators. T. Fisher, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the East Boston Gas Company; for the purpose of manufacturing and selling gas, in that part of the city of Boston called East Boston; with all the powers Powers and du Real estate. Capital stock. May open ground, sink pipes, &c. Proviso. and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purpose aforesaid, hold real estate not exceeding in value fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes, and highways, in said East Boston, with the consent of the mayor and aldermen of said city of Boston, 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, and highways, shall be holden to put the same into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, that the mayor and aldermen of the said city of Boston, for the time being, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, the acts and doings of said corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, or convenience, of the inhabitants of the said city. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 19, 1853. [1847, 21; 1848, 38.] Chap. 14. AN ACT to change the Name and amend the Charter of the East Boston Iron and Gas Company. Name changed. Powers and duties. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The East Boston Iron and Gas Company is hereby authorized to take the name of the East Boston Iron Company. SECTION 2. Said corporation shall continue to have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, which it now has and is subject Shall not manu- to, with the exception that it shall not hereafter manufacture or sell gas. facture or sell gas. Repeal. Chap. 15. Corporators. SECTION 3. So much of an act entitled "An Act to incor- AN ACT to incorporate the Metropolitan Fire and Marine Insurance Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Eben Cutler, Charles Scudder, and R. W. Holman, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, for the term of twenty years from the passage |