[Change of Harbor Line, 1837, 229; 1840, 35; 1841, 60; 1847, 234, 278; 1848, 314; 1849, 204; 1850, 216, 254, 317, 318; 1851, 254; 1853, 385; 1855, 310; 1856, 293, 297, 301; 1860, 137, 176, 205; 1864, 310; 1871, 335, 372, 397; 1872, 320, 351; 1873, 231, 232, 263, 332; 1874, 302; 1877, 116; 1878, 177; 1880, 170; 1882, 48; 1891, 309, 1897, 479; 1898, 278; 1899, 469; 1901, 411, 419; 1910, 623; High Pressure Fire Pumping Station, 1911, 312; 1914, 793.] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HIGH Chap.326 PRESSURE FIRE PUMPING STATION IN THE CITY OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Boston harbor SECTION 1. The harbor line in Boston harbor at Fort Harbor line in Point channel is hereby changed and established as fol- changed, etc. lows:- Beginning at a point on said harbor line as now established, at the intersection of the easterly line of Dorchester avenue and the southerly line of Summer street; thence running easterly, on the southerly line of said Summer street, fifty feet; thence running southerly fifteen hundred feet, parallel with the harbor line as now established; and thence running westerly to a point in said harbor line fifteen hundred feet from the point of beginning. of high pressure station. SECTION 2. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to Construction build a sea wall on the harbor line as changed and established fire pumping by this act, and to fill solid, without payment of compensation for land of the commonwealth or for the displacement of tide water, the area enclosed by said sea wall for the purpose of constructing a high pressure fire pumping station; and said city is further authorized to hold, lease, sell or use, with or without restrictions, so much of said area as is not appropriated to the use of such high pressure fire pumping station. etc. SECTION 3. For the purposes of this act the city may Issue of bonds, use any unexpended balance of the money appropriated under authority of chapter three hundred and twelve of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven and may issue additional bonds, if necessary; such bonds to be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the city. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Change of Harbor Line, 1915, 334, Spec.] [1884, 59; 1888, 76; 1891, 176; 1900, 52; 1911, 658, 665; 1912, 164, 643, 686; 1914, 657.] Chap.327 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MIDDLEBOROUGH FIRE DISTRICT Middleborough Fire District may make an additional water loan. Payment of loan. Bond issue validated. TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Middleborough Fire District, established by chapter fifty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for the purpose of erecting a standpipe and making extensions to its water system, may issue from time to time bonds or notes to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars. Such bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words Middleborough Fire District Water Loan, Act of 1915; shall be payable by such annual payments as will extinguish each loan within thirty years from its date; shall bear interest payable semi-annually at a rate not to exceed five per cent per annum; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the district and by the water commissioners. Each authorized issue of bonds or notes shall constitute a separate loan. Said district may sell said securities at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as may be deemed proper, but they shall not be sold for less than their par value. SECTION 2. Said district shall, at the time of authorizing said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof by such annual payments beginning not more than one year after the date of the loan as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed by this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum, which, with the income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating its water works and interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under the provisions of this act, shall, without further vote of the district, be raised by taxation, and the treasurer of the district shall certify to the assessors of the town of Middleborough the amount necessary to be raised for meeting the maturing debt not provided for. SECTION 3. The twenty thousand dollar issue of bonds, issued in nineteen hundred and thirteen for the installation of a filtration plant, and maturing one thousand dollars annually from January one, nineteen hundred and twenty one, to nineteen hundred and forty, inclusive, is hereby SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1854, 47; 1866, 160; 1869, 274; 1893, 67.] AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE POWERS OF THE WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: BOSTON Chap.328 the Boston SECTION 1. The Boston Wesleyan Association is hereby Powers of authorized, in its discretion, to furnish and maintain quarters Wesleyan Asin the city of Boston for such of the literary, educational, sociation. benevolent, charitable and religious institutions and societies of the Methodist Episcopal church, and upon such terms, as the association may from time to time determine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 10, 1915. 1888, 333; 1889, 45, 111; 1891, 423; 1894, 101, [1863, 166, 220; 1864, 223; 1865, 195, 240; 1866, 263; 1867, 189; 1871, 378; 1879, 258; 1882, AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF THE THE MASSA- Chap.329 CHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE TO SELL AND CONVEY Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Massachusetts College may of Amherst SECTION 1. The trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- Trustees of the cultural College are hereby authorized to sell and convey Agricultural from time to time, in the name and on behalf of the com- sell certain monwealth, parcels of land from the college estate owned lands in towns by the commonwealth in the towns of Amherst and Hadley, and Hadley. to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said college or of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station or to any society, association or fraternity established at said college, not exceeding one acre to any such person, society, association or fraternity; and the trustees may impose any restrictions and conditions in such conveyances which they may deem necessary; but no such sale or conveyance shall become operative until it shall have been approved by the governor and council. Proceeds to go to commonwealth. Repeal. SECTION 2. The proceeds accruing from sales of land under section one of this act shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth. SECTION 3. Chapter six hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.330 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF SOUTHBRIDGE TO INCUR Town of Southbridge may borrow money for ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Southbridge for the purpose of erecting, furnishing and equipping a high school building school purposes. and a primary school building may incur indebtedness to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor to be denominated on the face thereof, Southbridge School Loan, Act of 1915. Such bonds or notes shall be signed by the treasurer of the town and countersigned by the selectmen, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, shall not be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the town, and shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one year after the date thereof, as will extinguish each loan within twenty years from its date. The amount of such annual payment of any loan in any year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of the loan payable in any subsequent year. Each authorized issue of bonds or notes shall constitute a separate loan. The town may sell the said securities at public or private sale, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper; but they shall not be sold for less than their par value. Payment of loan. SECTION 2. The town, at the time of authorizing the said loan, shall provide for the payment thereof in such annual payments as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed in this act, and when such provision has been made the amount required therefor shall, without further vote, annually be assessed by the assessors of the town, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the said debt is extinguished. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1910, 630; 1911, 564; 1912, 408; 1913, 495; 1914, 678.] AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE BOSTON Chap.331 AND EASTERN ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO FILE A BOND AND TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE ITS Be it enacted, etc., as follows: within which tric Railroad file bond, etc. SECTION 1. The time for the filing of the bond after the Time extended incorporation of the Boston and Eastern Electric Railroad Boston and Company, as provided in section two of chapter five hundred Eastern Elecand sixty-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and Company shall eleven, is hereby extended to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the time within which the construction of the tunnel and the railroad of the said railroad company shall begin, and the time allowed for the construction and the opening for public use of said tunnel and said railroad, all as provided in chapters five hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred and thirty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, shall start from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixteen, instead of from the date of the certificate of incorporation of the said railroad company. rights, etc., SECTION 2. All the powers, rights and privileges of said Powers, railroad company held prior to the first day of April, nine- continued." teen hundred and fifteen, and all rights, powers and privileges acquired by the said railroad company since the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall continue in full force and effect: provided, however, that the said powers, Proviso. rights and privileges shall cease on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixteen, unless said bond is filed. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- Repeal. with are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 10, 1915. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO PAY A SUM OF MONEY TO THE WIDOW OF WILLIAM H. WOODS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.332 SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to City of Boston pay to Ellen E. Woods, widow of William H. Woods, who may pay a was a member of the present city council of that city, the to Ellen E. sum of money Woods. |