Chapter 161. An act concerning appeals in criminal cases.
Chapter 164. An act relative to the partition of real estate.
Chapter 165. An act in addition to an act concerning elections.

Chapter 9.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty.

An act for the protection of the shell fishery in the towns of Essex and Hull.
Chapter 12. An act relating to turnpike corporations.
Chapter 15. An act concerning jails and houses of correction.

Chapter 23.

Chapter 34.

An act in addition to an act providing for the appointment of public administrators.
An act concerning the apportionment of the senate.

An act concerning the jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
An act to protect Indian lands from trespassers and intruders.

Chapter 40.

Chapter 59.

Chapter 61.

Chapter 62.

An act regulating the use of proxies at the meetings of stockholders of banks.
An act concerning the proprietors of meeting-houses.

Chapter 77.

An act in addition to an act relating to the meetings of the county commissioners in the county of
Berkshire.

Chapter 1.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-one.

An act relating to the choice of county commissioners in the county of Barnstable.
Chapter 17. An act concerning the income of the Massachusetts school fund.
Chapter 18. An act in relation to the erection and regulation of mills.
Chapter 20. An act in addition to an act relating to the evidence of marriage.
Chapter 26. An act concerning timber carried upon adjoining lands by floods.
An act in relation to recompense to prosecutors and officers.

Chapter 33.

Chapter 44. An act concerning savings banks.

Chapter 45. An act relating to pilotage.

Chapter 55. An act in addition to an act concerning the supreme judicial court and the court of common pleas. Chapter 69. An act concerning the returns of railroad corporations.

Chapter 70. An act concerning elections.

Chapter 74. An act relative to the cost and expenses of criminal prosecutions.

Chapter 77. An act concerning lunatics.

Chapter 83. An act to punish collusion in cases of divorce.

Chapter 86. An act concerning complaints for damages caused by mill-dams.
Chapter 105. An act concerning the expense of making highways.
Chapter 106. An act concerning the militia.

Chapter 107.

Chapter 111.

An act concerning the election of county commissioners.
An act relating to the court of common pleas.

Chapter 113.

Chapter 114.

An act in addition to an act authorizing banks to surrender their charters.
An act concerning cemeteries.

Chapter 115. An act in relation to main drains or common sewers.
Chapter 116. An act concerning returns by overseers of the poor.
Chapter 119. An act providing for the measuring of upper leather.
Chapter 124. An act in addition to an act for the relief of insolvent debtors.
Chapter 125. An act relating to railroads.
Chapter 126.

An act requiring county commissioners to furnish blank returns of elections.
Chapter 127. An act respecting the taxation of houses of public worship.
Chapter 129. An act in relation to bills of discovery.

Chapter 130. An act relating to the state house.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-two.

Chapter 1. An act to alter the times of holding the May and September meetings of the county commissioners of Middlesex.

Chapter 10. An act for the protection of the shell fishery in the towns of Kingston and Falmouth.

Chapter 14. An act concerning petitions for partition.

Chapter 15. An act relating to allowance to be made to widows and minor children of deceased persons.
Chapter 22. Au act relative to railroads.

Chapter 60.

Chapter 66.

An act concerning the employment of children in manufacturing establishments.
An act in relation to toll-bridges.

Chapter 67.

An act concerning the taxation of costs in actions.

Chapter 99.

Chapter 100.

Chapter 101.

An act to divide the commonwealth into districts for the choice of representatives in the congress
of the United States.

An act in addition to an act to provide for the confinement of idiots and insane persons.
An act relating to the bank commissioners.

Chapter 1.

Chapter 4.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three.
An act to punish larceny in a dwelling-house in the night time and for other
An act relating to the probate court in the county of Nantucket.

purposes.

Chapter 7.

Chapter 9.

An act relating to the court of common pleas and municipal court of the city of Boston.
An act establishing the salaries of certain public officers.

Chapter 10.

An act relating to the preservation of the bonds and mortgages from the several railroads to the commonwealth.

Chapter 56. An act concerning sureties in probate bonds.

Chapter 61. An act in addition to an act entitled an act relating to the court of common pleas and municipal

Chapter 65. An act to establish an aqueduct for the state lunatic hospital, (except section one.)

Chapter 66. An act in relation to the support of convicts.

Chapter 68. An act concerning proxies.

Chapter 69. An act further to protect personal liberty.

Chapter 71. An act in relation to fees of justices of the peace.
Chapter 72. An act concerning mortgages of personal property.

Chapter 75. An act regulating the compensation of sheriffs.

Chapter 77. An act relating to divorce.

Chapter 80. An act concerning the additional punishment of convicts recommitted to the state prison.
Chapter 82. An act authorizing trustees to insure property held in trust in mutual fire insurance companies.
Chapter 84. An act in addition to the several acts concerning the militia.

Chapter 85. An act concerning the property of common school districts.

Chapter 87. An act relating to the poll tax.

Chapter 92. An act concerning foreign wills.

Chapter 93. An act to regulate banks and banking.

Chapter 97. An act concerning executors and administrators.

Chapter 98. An act for the more equal assessment of taxes.

Chapter 99. An act abolishing the office of attorney-general.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-four.

Chapter

9. An act relating to masters in chancery.

Chapter 24. An act restoring the salaries of the justices of the supreme judicial court.

Chapter 32. An act concerning the powers of school committees.

Chapter 36. An act concerning the sale of the stock of manufacturing companies.

Chapter 44. An act in addition to an act relating to the court of common pleas and the municipal court of the city

of Boston.

Chapter 88.

Chapter 90.

An act respecting the appropriation of the property of minors to their maintenance and education.
An act to reduce the tax on sales of teas by importers at auction.

Chapter 102.

Chapter 104.

An act concerning prosecutions for the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors.
An act in relation to the registry of deeds.

Chapter 107.

An act to prevent frauds in the conveyance of real estate.

Chapter 115.

Chapter 120.

Chapter 127.

An act concerning the settlement of estates of persons deceased insolvent.
An act entitled an act for the removal of insane convicts from the state prison.
An act to alter the times of holding probate courts in the town of Medway, in the county of
Norfolk.

An act in addition to an act providing for a return by the overseers of the poor.
An act in addition to an act providing for the more equal assessment of taxes.

An act in addition to an act entitled "an act concerning mortgages of personal property."
An act empowering the inhabitants of villages or districts to establish fire departments within the

same.

Chapter 153.

Chapter 156.

An act concerning the journals and files of the senate and house of representatives.
An act for the preservation of grouse or heath hen.

Chapter 157.

Chapter 159.

An act in addition to " an act in relation to law library associations."
An act relating to the registry and returns of births, marriages, and deaths.
An act making further provision for the observance of the Lord's day.

Chapter 160.

Chapter 162.

An act in further addition to "an act concerning the supreme judicial court and the court of common pleas."

Chapter 167. An act prescribing the time for making the returns of votes for electors of president and vice-presi dent of the United States.

An act to alter the times of holding the terms of the court of common pleas for the county of
Hampden.

Chapter 173. An act authorizing the appointment of an additional master in chancery in the county of Worcester.
Chapter 174. An act to establish the salary of the sergeant-at-arms.
Chapter 178.

An act in further addition to the several acts for the relief of insolvent debtors and the more equai
distribution of their effects.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-five.

Chapter 14. An act establishing the salary of the district-attorney for the southern district of this commonwealth.

Chapter 22. An act authorizing the appointment of an additional master in chancery in the county of Middlesex.

Chapter 27.

Chapter 28.

An act to punish unlawful attempts to cause abortion.

An act to punish larceny in shops and other places in the night time.

Chapter 36. An act establishing the salary of the district-attorney for the northern district.

Chapter 64. An act concerning trust estates.

Chapter 67.

An act to increase the duties and establish the salary of the attorney of the commonwealth for the
county of Suffolk.

Chapter 68.
Chapter 70. An act requiring constables to give bonds in certain cases.

An act to amend an act concerning notes payable on demand.

Chapter 73. An act to change the time for holding certain probate courts in the county of Plymouth.
Chapter 77. An act to amend an act in addition to the several acts concerning the militia.
An act concerning limited partnerships.

Chapter 78.

Chapter 105.

An act establishing the salaries of the first and second clerks in the office of the treasurer and receiver-general of the commonwealth.

Chapter 113. An act establishing the salaries of the first and second clerks in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth.

Chapter 116. An act establishing the salary of the messenger to the governor and council.
Chapter 118. An act concerning the punishment of convicts.

Chapter 135.

An act establishing the salaries of the judge and register of probate for the county of Nantucket. Chapter 155. An act to increase the number of justices of the court of common pleas. Chapter 158. An act authorizing judges of probate to appoint trustees in certain cases. Chapter 160. An act establishing the salary of the register of probate for Dukes County. Chapter 162. An act in relation to the compensation of sheriffs. Chapter 166. An act concerning bail in criminal cases. An act relating to discharged convicts.

Chapter 176.

Chapter 178.

An act to establish the salary of the judge of probate in the county of Barnstable. Chapter 187. An act concerning pilots and pilotage.

Chapter 188. An act in relation to the costs of trustees.

Chapter 190. An act relating to returns of clerks of manufacturing corporations.
Chapter 191. An act to regulate the use of railroads.

Chapter 253.

Chapter 12.

Chapter 71.

Chapter 126.

An act to establish additional terms of the court of common pleas for the county of Hampden.
Resolves concerning the arsenals in Cambridge and Boston.
Resolve concerning the distribution of equipments and camp equipage.
Resolve relative to the transmission of military documents.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-six.

Chapter 11.

Chapter 40.

An act to provide for the government and management of houses of correction in certain cases.
An act to limit writs of scire facias against trustees.

Chapter 45.

An act concerning manufacturing corporations.

Chapter 49.

An act respecting the yearly abstracts of the returns of savings banks.

Chapter 52.

Chapter 62.

An act concerning wilful and malicious injuries to personal property in certain cases.
An act concerning prosecutions for violations of by-laws.

Chapter 78.

An act in addition to an act relating to discharged convicts.

Chapter 86.

Chapter 88.

An act concerning annual returns of saving banks and institutions for savings.
An act relating to the support of convicts.

Chapter 94.

Chapter 96.

An act respecting corporations for mutual improvement and the promotion of education.
An act relating to the erection of furnaces for the making of glass.

An act in relation to the house of correction and asylum for insane persons in the county of Essex. An act in addition to "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors and for the more equal distribution of their effects."

An act in addition to "an act regulating the inspection of pickled fish."

An act to alter the times of holding the terms of the court of common 'pleas for the county of
Hampshire.

An act establishing the salary of the first clerk in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth.
An act in addition to the several acts concerning the militia.

An act to designate the fund for the payment of the salary of the land agent and of appropriations
for educational purposes.

Chapter 221. An act relating to the meetings of the county commissioners in the county of Hampshire.
Chapter 222. An act to provide for constructing town ways and private ways in certain cases.
Chapter 223.

Chapter 234.

An act relating to the duties of school committees and the distribution of the income of the school fund.

An act concerning security for costs in proceedings in the supreme court of probate.
Chapter 237. An act concerning the inspection of lime.

Chapter 238. An act to establish the salaries of the watchman and assistant watchmen of the state house.
Chapter 241. An act for the correction of the state map.

Chapter 251. An act relating to railroad corporations.

Chapter 256. An act to establish the salary of the register of probate for the county of Barnstable.
Chapter 260. An act establishing the salaries of the justices of the court of common pleas.
Chapter 264.

An act establishing the salaries of the district attorneys of the middle and western districts of this
commonwealth.

Chapter 266.

An act concerning warrants in cases of bastardy.

Chapter 268.
Chapter 271.

An act to establish the salary of the register of probate for the county of Suffolk.
An act relating to railroads.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-seven.

Chapter 13.

An act to define the time of night time in criminal prosecutions.

Chapter 14.

An act concerning the sale of potatoes in this commonwealth.

Chapter 32.

Chapter 37.

An act requiring banks and savings institutions, under settlement, to make annual reports.
An act authorizing the supreme judicial court to restrain the abuses of corporate power by cities
and towns.

Chapter 51.

An act to regulate the keeping of gun-cotton and other like substances.

Chapter 59.

An act relating to the salaries of the watchmen of the state prison.

Chapter 61.

Chapter 69.

An act to establish the salary of the clerk in the office of the adjutant and quartermaster general of the commonwealth.

An act relating to agricultural societies.

An act relating to recording officers of joint stock companies, and to the transfer of shares therein.
An act relating to interest on certain judgments.

Chapter 160.

Chapter 165.

An act in addition to "an act to provide for the government and management of houses of correetion in certain cases.'

An act to establish the state reform school.

Chapter 166. An act concerning the powers of cities and towns.

An act relating to the abstracts of school returns and the duties of school committees. Chapter 195. An act concerning mortgages held by the commonwealth.

Chapter 199. An act relating to returns of county commissioners and other officers.

Chapter 209. An act establishing the salary of the first clerk in the office of the treasurer and receiver general of the commonwealth.

Chapter 224. An act to prevent obstructions in the streets of cities, and to regulate hackney coaches and other vehicles.

Chapter 226. An act concerning taxes on the real estate of deceased persons.
Chapter 228. An act to establish the salaries of certain registers of probate.
Chapter 237.

An act to secure the payment of fees into the treasury of the commonwealth in certain cases.
An act in addition to "an act to regulate pilotage."

Chapter 282. An act in addition to an act requiring returns from registers of deeds.
Chapter 77. Resolve relating to the furnishing of camp equipage to the field officers of the militia.
Chapter 88. Resolves for the promulgation of the general laws and resolves.

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight.

Chapter 4.

Chapter 9.

An act concerning the registry of deeds in the town of Monterey.
An act to increase the number of the justices of the supreme judicial court.
An act in addition to "an act to establish teachers' institutes."

Chapter 10.

Chapter 16. An act to establish an additional district for the administration of criminal law.

Chapter 29. An act to provide for the instruction of prisoners in jails and houses of correction.

Chapter 35. An act regulating the election of electors of president and vice-president of the United States. Chapter 82. An act in addition to "an act relating to discharged convicts."

Chapter 98. An act relating to town and private ways.

Chapter 121. An act relating to annual meetings of banks.

Chapter 123. An act relating to fees of witnesses in certain cases.

Chapter 140. An act in relation to the plans and profiles of railroads.
Chapter 142. An act concerning forcible entry and detainer.