AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad Company. Chap. 195 Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Isaac McLellan, Marshall P. Wilder, John Corporators. L. Whipple, E. P. Tileston, and F. Gleason, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name

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of the Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad Company, with all Powers and duthe powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in that part of the thirty-ninth chapter of said statutes relating to railroad corporations, and subject to all other general laws which have been, or shall be hereafter passed relative to railroad corporations.

SECTION 2. Said company may locate, construct, and Route of road. maintain a railroad with one or more tracks, commencing at some convenient point near the town-house, in Dorchester, in the county of Norfolk, and running thence in a northerly direction about one mile; thence in a north-easterly direction, easterly of, and near the estate of Marshall P. Wilder, following nearly the course of the Roxbury Brook to Stoughton Street; thence, in an easterly direction, to some convenient point of junction with the Old Colony Railroad near Little Neck, so called; but the said company shall not lay out their road after it crosses Stoughton Street, south of the most northerly boundary line of the passage-way leading from said Stoughton Street, over the land of the heirs of the late Governor Eustis, deceased, to land of Elijah Vose, without the consent of said Vose, nor south of the most northerly boundary line between the estates of said Vose and Samuel Phipps, on the side, and land of the heirs of said Eustis on the other. And the said company shall, provided the owners of the Dorchester Turnpike request them so to do, raise the said turnpike where their railroad crosses the same, so that the railroad shall pass under said turnpike road, and during the time they are raising said turnpike, if the same shall be raised, they shall provide by a turn-out or other means, so as not to interrupt the travel on said turnpike.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall con- Capital stock. sist of not more than fifteen hundred shares, the number of which shall, from time to time, be determined by the directors of said company, and no assessments shall be laid thereon of a greater amount, in the whole, than one hun

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dred dollars on each share; and said company may invest Real and personal and hold such parts thereof, in real and personal estate, as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes of their incorporation.

Value of shares.

Location.
Completion.

May be united with Old Colony Railroad.

Other roads may enter on this.

Rate of toll may be reduced after five years.

Chap. 196

Time extended fifteen months.

Chap. 197

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SECTION 4. All shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued for the same value or amount, to be actually paid in on each.

SECTION 5. If the location of said road be not filed according to law within one year, or if the said road be not completed with at least one track, within two years from the passage of this act, then this act shall be void.

SECTION 6. The said company is hereby authorized to enter upon and unite their railroad, by proper turn-outs and switches, with the said Old Colony Railroad, and to use the same, or any part thereof, paying therefor such a rate of toll as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties, or as the general court may, from time to time, prescribe.

SECTION 7. The general court may authorize any company to enter, with another railroad upon, and to use said Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad, or any part thereof, by complying with such reasonable rules and regulations as the said Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad Company may prescribe, or as may be determined according to the provisions of law.

SECTION 8. The general court may, after the expiration. of five years from the time that said Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad shall be opened for use, from time to time, alter and reduce the rate of toll or profits upon said road; but said toll shall not be so reduced, without the consent of said company, as to yield, with the said profits, to the stockholders thereof, less than ten per centum per annum, upon the investment of said company.

[1850, 247; 1851, 241.]

[1846, 239.]

May 1, 1819.

AN ACT concerning the Lancaster and Sterling Branch Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The limitation contained in the seventh section of the charter of the Lancaster and Sterling Branch Railroad, chapter two hundred and thirty-nine, acts of eighteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby extended fifteen months, any thing in said act to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. May 1, 1849.

AN ACT to change the Names of the Persons therein mentioned. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Thomas Vaughan Baron may take the name of Thomas Barry; Lydia Bradford Orcutt may take the name of Lydia Bradford; George Colburn, a minor, may take the name of George Colburn Cabot; John Cutts Smith may take the name of John Smith Cutts; Charles Gillpatrick may take

the name of Charles Gill; Catharine Coolidge Gates may take the name of Catharine Gates Thaxter; James Morss Williams may take the name of James Morss William Williams; Virginia Albina Williams, a minor, may take the name of Virginia Albina Fullick; Charles Rollins Torrey, a minor, may take the name of Rollins Torrey; Jeremiah Buxton Favor may take the name of Frank Favor; Elijah Baldwin may take the name of Elijah Shirman Baldwin; George Hastings may take the name of George Russel Hastings; George Hoogs may take the name of George H. Francis; his minor son, George A. Hoogs, may take the name of George A. H. Francis; Alfred White Chamberlain may take the name of Alfred White Sprague; William McNaught may take the name of William Henry Thomas; Naomi Porter Shaw, a minor, may take the name of Naomi Porter Mace; Arabella M. Livingston may take the name of Imogene De Errence, and her minor son, Alfred Maitland Livingston, may take the name of Ivan Marion De Errence; Michael Collins may take the name of Michael Henry Collins; Thomas M. Center, George F. Center, and Emma L. Center, minors, may assume the surname of Dickinson; William Gordon may take the name of William George Gordon; Mary Rhoades Josselyn may take the name of Mary Rhoades Darling; all of the county of Suffolk.

Nathaniel Conant, 2d, of Danvers, may take the name of Essex. Nathaniel P. Conant; Elizabeth E. Swan, a minor, of Newburyport, may take the name of Elizabeth Esther Page; Ayer Spofford, of Bradford, may take the name of Mary Ayer Spofford; Abby Faltch, of Salisbury, may take the name of Abby Phenietta Dennitt; Richard Wilson, of Newbury, may take the name of Richard Burritt Wilson; Marcus Marcellus Danforth, of Bradford, may take the name of George Edwin Danforth; Joseph Warren Smith, of Bradford, may take the name of Austin F. Smith; Gorham Parsons, 3d, of Gloucester, may take the name of Gorham M. Parsons; John Ober, of Beverly, may take the name of John Thissell Ober; Matilda Wardwell, of Andover, minor, may take the name of Eliza Dodge Wardwell; Mary Elizabeth Boody, of Danvers, may take the name of Mary E. B. Gillion; Emeline Eliza Hill, of Danvers, may take the name of Emily Eliza Hill; James McBride, of Lawrence, may take the name of James Brooks; John Albree Downie, of Salem, minor, may take the name of John Albree; Harriet Nowell, of Salem, may take the name of Harriet Nowell Howard; James Mooney, of Lynn, may take the name of James Forrest; Benjamin Franklin Newhall, junior, of Saugus, may take the name of Benjamin Newhall; Lydia Eveline Wyman, of Danvers, may take the name of Lydia

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Worcester.

Eveline Pierce; Henry Phillips, of Salem, may take the name of Edward B. Phillips; Ruby Mellen Moore, of Salem, minor, may take the name of Abby Moore Kimball; Edwin Moody Burbank, of Bradford, may take the name of George Byron Sanford; Charles Dearborn Nowell, of Salem, may take the name of Charles Dearborn Howard; Gideon Barstow Monarch, of Salem, may take the name of Gideon B. Moore; his minor children, Charles James Monarch, may take the name of Charles James Moore; Gideon B. Moore Monarch may take the name of Gideon B. Moore; Frederick Moore Monarch may take the name of Frederick Moore; and John Moore Monarch may take the name of John Moore; John Abbott Johnson, of Danvers, may take the name of Abbott Johnson; Timothy Ross, of Ipswich, may take the name of Timothy Burnham Ross; all of the county of Essex.

Charles Pratt Houghton, of Cambridge, minor, may take the name of Charles Houghton Pratt; Charles McElroy, of Charlestown, may take the name of Charles Leroy; Samuel William Wyman, of Medford, may take the name of Frank Peirce; Ann Elizabeth Perley, of Lowell, minor, may take the name of Ann Elizabeth Wright; Abraham Rand Thompson, of Charlestown, minor, may take the name of Abraham Warren Thompson; William Parsons, of Charlestown, may take the name of William Alfred Parsons; Frances Ann Huggins, of Dracut, minor, may take the name of Frances Ann Stearns; Lucinda Frost, of Natick, minor, may take the name of Isadore Edwards; Walter Hayes, of Tyngsborough, minor, may take the name of Walter Hayes Farwell; William Brown Chase, of Marlborough, may take the name of William Chase; Frances Wright Faulkner Jones, of Acton, may take the name of Frances Jones; Silas Proctor Pingrey, of Marlborough, may take the name of Proctor Pingrey; William Higgins, of Charlestown, may take the name of William Franklin Higgins; John Beasly, of Cambridge, may take the name of Peter Manning; Henry Ward Hitchcock, of Charlestown, a minor, may take the name of Henry Ward Johns; all in the county of Middlesex.

Joseph Badger, of Leominster, may take the name of Joseph Badger Brown; Samuel F. Hill, of Sturbridge, may take the name of Samuel Fairbanks; his wife, Mary Ann Hill, may take the name of Mary Ann Fairbanks; and their minor children, viz.: Elizabeth, Loring H., and John A., may severally take the surname of Fairbanks; Victoria Keith, of Shrewsbury, minor, may take the name of Jane Maria Allen; Sarah Ann Hair, of Hubbardston, minor, may take the name of Sarah Ann Lucy Hunting; John Laughna, of Hubbardston, minor, may take the name of Charles

Lawrence Laughna; Nancy Hunstable Hosmer, of Worcester, may take the name of Anna Hunstable Hosmer; Marion Eueri Allen, of Shrewsbury, minor, may take the name of Marion Irene Hemmenway Allen; George F. Hoar, of Worcester, may take the name of George F. Baker; Ziba Bass Cary Dunham, of Leominster, may take the name of Howard Cary Dunham; Edward N. Divoll, of North Brookfield, may take the name of Edward Newell; Solomon B. J. Howe, of New Braintree, may take the name of Bolivar J. Howe; Lydia Lucebia Bartlett, of Berlin, minor, may take the name of Selucia Ann Bartlett; Milton Morse, of Worcester, may take the name of Milton M. Morse; all of the county of Worcester.

Wealthy Healy, of Worthington, may take the name of Hampshire. Wealthy Deborah Howard; Mary Ann Moody Ferry, of Belchertown, minor, may take the name of Mary Ann Ferry; Henry White, of South Hadley, may take the name. of Henry Kirk White; Polly Garside, of South Hadley, may take the name of Mary Alvord; Merrick Orson Graves, of Williamsburg, minor, may take the name of Orson Merrick Graves; Ella Warner Smith, of Enfield, minor, may take the name of Ella Frances Gross; Emily Evelina Bement, of Easthampton, minor, may take the name of Emily Bement Smith; Harriet Clark Hawks, of Easthampton, minor, may take the name of Eliza Hawks Smith; Ellen M. H. Paine, of Greenwich, minor, may take the name of Ellen M. H. Johnson; all of the county of Hampshire. Chander Brown, of Ashfield, minor, may take the name Franklin. of Chander Eugene Smith; Ellen Streeter, of Montague, a minor, may take the name of Ellen Elvira Horton; Ellen Eliza Leonard, of Conway, minor, may take the name of Ellen Leonard Childs; Anna Eloisa Field, of Northfield, minor, may take the name of Anna Eloisa Mary Field; all of the county of Franklin.

George Sidebottom, of Adams, may take the name of Berkshire. George Nottingham; and his wife, Sarah Sidebottom, may take the name of Sarah Nottingham; George William Sidebottom, of Adams, may take the name of George William Nottingham; and his wife, Sarah Walbridge, and his minor son, may severally take the surname of Nottingham; John Race, of Great Barrington, may take the name of John Franklin Race; all of the county of Berkshire.

Daniel Houghton Goodspeed, of West Springfield, may Hampden. take the name of Daniel Houghton; Julia Ann Harger, of West Springfield, may take the name of Julia Ann Moore; all of the county of Hampden.

Phillip Pear, of Roxbury, may take the name of Phillip Norfolk. Montague Pier; Eliza Charles Davis Parker, of Dedham,