May sell real estate. Investment of proceeds of sale. CHAPTER 71. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE FIRST PARISH IN DORCHESTER SECTION 1. The First Parish in Dorchester is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale, at such time or times as it may choose and for such prices as it may see fit, the whole or any part of the following described real estate : the "great wood lot," so called, situate in Milton, in the county of Norfolk, containing sixty acres, one quarter, and twenty-seven rods; the "gravel hole," so called, situate in said Milton, containing one acre, one quarter, and thirty-seven rods; the "purgatory swamp," so called, in the Dorchester district of Boston in the County of Suffolk, containing twelve acres, and thirty-two rods; the Indian hill" lot, in said Dorchester district of said Boston, containing seven acres, ten rods; the "ministerial meadow," so called, opposite the almshouse, in said Dorchester district of said Boston, containing two quarters, thirty-eight rods. The treasurer of said parish for the time being shall have authority to execute and deliver deeds to convey the same in fee simple or otherwise. SECT. 2. The proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be permanently invested in such manner as the standing committee of said parish shall direct; and the income arising therefrom shall be applied exclusively to the support of the ministry in said parish. SECT. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 11, 1882. Corporators. pose. CHAPTER 72. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL SECTION 1. Miller W. Nickerson, Alvan Small, Howes Baker, Dr. C. M. Hulbert, Benjamin M. Nickerson, their associates and succesName and pur- sors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the South Congregational Cemetery Association, for the purpose of perfecting, controlling and improving the grounds set apart, used and known as the South Congregational Burial Ground, and the South Congregational Cemetery, situated and lying within one enclosure in the southerly part of the town of Dennis in the county of Barnstable; and said corporation shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force applicable to similar corporations, except as is hereinafter provided. Powers and duties. Organization of corporation. May hold real and personal estate. SECT. 2. A majority in number and interest of the proprietors of said burial ground and said cemetery, present and voting at a meeting legally notified for such purpose, may organize said corporation under this Act. SECT. 3. The said corporation may acquire by gift, bequest, devise or purchase, and hold in fee simple, so much real estate, and may also hold so much personal property as may be necessary for the objects connected with and appropriate to the purposes of said corporation. SECT. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 11, CHAPTER 73. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TESTING OF LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS. boilers to be SECTION 1. The board of railroad commissioners shall as soon as Locomotive may be adopt, publish and communicate, to every corporation or per- tested. son operating a railroad or any portion of a railroad in this Commonwealth, regulations for testing the boilers of locomotives. non-compliance SECT. 2. After three months from the publication of said regula- Penalty for tions, any corporation or person using on a railroad in this Common- with regulawealth a locomotive the boiler of which has not been tested as provided tions. by said regulations, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every day of such use, to be recovered for the use of the Commonwealth by fine imposed on complaint before any court or magistrate of competent jurisdiction. may be revised, SECT. 3. Said board may from time to time revise said regulations, Regulations and when such revision has been communicated to any corporation or person operating a railroad or portion of a railroad in this Commonwealth it shall have the same effect as to such person or corporation as if originally adopted by said board. SECT. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the appointment by the board of any person to test locomotive boilers. All the testing of such boilers under the regulations of said board shall when possible be done by the master mechanic of the corporation, firm or person constructing or repairing such boilers, or using them on a railroad in this Commonwealth. March 16, 1882. Boilers to be tested by mas ter mechanic of corporation when possible. CHAPTER 74. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PRESERVATION OF CHECK LISTS IN CITIES. SECTION 1. Section twenty-nine of chapter seven of the Public Preservation of Statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: :- And preserved in his custody for the same length of time as is now required by law for the preservation of ballots; and as soon as may be thereafter he shall transmit said lists to the board acting as a board of registrars of voters for such city, and said board shall receive and preserve the same on file. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. check lists in cities. Pub. Sts. ch. 7, § 29, amended. CHAPTER 75. AN ACT TO REGULATE SALES UNDER POWER OF SALE IN MORTGAGES. The seventeenth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-one of Publication of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the word notice of sales under power of "situated" in the tenth line thereof, the words " and if no newspaper sale in mortis published in such city or town, then in some newspaper published Pub. Sts. ch. in the county where the mortgaged premises are situated." March 16, 181, § 17, gages. amended. Pub. Sts. ch. 11, § 4, amended. CHAPTER 76. AN ACT RELATING TO PERSONAL ESTATE SUBJECT TO TAXATION. SECTION 1. Section four of chapter eleven of the Public Statutes is hereby amended in the sixth line by striking out the word " due," and inserting in place thereof the words "or indebtedness." SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. CHAPTER 77. Receivers to de papers with AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CUSTODY OF BOOKS AND PAPERS OF INSOLVENT SAVINGS BANKS. SECTION 1. Receivers of insolvent savings banks and institutions posit books and for savings shall, at the end of one year after final settlement ordered commissioners by the court, deposit with the commissioners of savings banks all afterettement books and papers of such insolvent savings banks and institutions for savings, including those relating to their receivership. And said comAmended by St. missioners shall receive and hold the same in some proper repository 1883, ch. 258, § 2. in the state house. ordered by court. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. St. 1876, ch. 16, amended. CHAPTER 78. AN ACT TO AMEND "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON SECTION 1. Chapter sixteen of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six is hereby amended so that the benefit to accrue by reason of the decease of members of the Boston Police Relief Association, or their wives, may be extended to such members as may St. 1878, ch. 244, be retired under section five of chapter two hundred and forty-four of § 5. the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and the amendments to the same: provided, that such retired members shall have no voice in the government of said association, shall comply with the by-laws thereof, and shall receive no benefit from said association for sickness or disability. Proviso. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. Corporators. Name and purpose. CHAPTER 79. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BAKER AND HORTON CEMETERY SECTION 1. Nathaniel B. Horton, Levi Baker, Angelina Baker, for the burial of the dead, to be located in the town of Rehoboth in the county of Bristol; and said corporation shall have all the powers Powers and and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restric- duties. tions of the statutes applicable to similar corporations. SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate for Real and perthe purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount the sum of five thou-sonal estate. sand dollars. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. CHAPTER 80. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE UNION OF THE OLD COLONY RAIL- NEW BEDFORD RAILROAD COMPANY. SECTION 1. The Old Colony Railroad Company is authorized to Railroads may unite with the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad unite. Company on such terms and conditions and with such guarantees as may be mutually agreed upon by said corporations at meetings of the stockholders thereof duly called for that purpose, and with this view the former corporation is further authorized to purchase and hold the stock of the latter corporation: provided, however, that the assent of the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Company to such union shall be given by a majority interest of the holders of preferred stock, and a majority in interest of the holders of the common stock. The name of the united corporation thus authorized Name of united shall be the Old Colony Railroad Company, and said corporation shall corporation. have and enjoy all the franchises, powers, privileges, property and rights of every kind belonging to the Old Colony Railroad Company, now so called, and to the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Company, or either of them, and shall assume all the duties, debts and liabilities of said corporations, and shall be subject to all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to railroad corporations. bonds. SECT. 2. The Old Colony Railroad Company, after said union, May issue may issue bonds under the mortgage dated January first, eighteen hundred and eighty, made by the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Company, and ratified and confirmed by chapter seventy of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, in the same manner and to the same extent as the said Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Company was therein authorized; but the bonds and obligations of said last named company which have been or may be acquired or paid under the terms of said mortgage, and now are or may hereafter be in the possession of the trustee under said mortgage, shall not be computed as a part of the debt of said Old Colony Railroad Company under the provisions of law relating to the issue of bonds or notes. The capital stock of the Capital stock. Old Colony Railroad Company, upon said union, shall not exceed the amount of the authorized capital stock of said two corporations; but it may, after said union, increase its capital stock to twelve millions of dollars, the new stock to be issued in accordance with existing laws, and the proceeds thereof applied to the payment and reduction of its debt, and to providing additional equipment and improvements of its railroad and other property. SECT. 3. Whenever said corporations shall vote to unite as afore- Certificates of said, copies of the votes whereby such union is assented to, certified by votes for union to be filed. the respective clerks of said corporations, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, and also with the board of railroad commissioners. SECT. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, 1882. St. 1869, ch. 182. May make additional investments. Proviso. CHAPTER 81. AN ACT TO ALLOW THE NEW ENGLAND TRUST COMPANY TO SECTION 1. The New England Trust Company, incorporated under chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, may, in addition to the investments which it is now authorized to make, invest the moneys intrusted to it, or in any way received by it, in the notes of manufacturing corporations created by the laws of any of the New England States, the property of which is unencumbered by mortgage, and which have paid a dividend for the two years next preceding such investment; also to take as collateral upon the notes of individuals, citizens of this State, for a period not exceeding four months, the bonds of cities in the United States containing at least one hundred thousand inhabitants, whose net indebtedness does not exceed five per cent. of the valuation of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last preceding city valuation for the assessment of taxes, and selling in the market above par: provided, that said bonds shall be taken at not over eighty per cent. of the market value thereof. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the New England Trust Company. March 16, 1882. Accepted April 10, 1882. St. 1880, ch. 147. ization extended. CHAPTER 82. AN ACT ALLOWING THE SOMERVILLE WHARF AND IMPROVE- SECTION 1. The Somerville Wharf and Improvement Company, Time for organ- incorporated by chapter one hundred and forty-seven of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, may organize under said Act at any time within one year from the passage of this Act. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. 1882. March 16, Name changed. CHAPTER 83. AN ACT TO CHANGE THE CORPORATE NAME OF THE OLD SECTION 1. The corporate name of the Old Colony and Hingham SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 16, |