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personal estate to the value of one hundred thousand dollars, for the purposes mentioned in the first section of this

act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 12, 1867.

CESTER.

24. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE JOHN PEW TO EXTEND HIS WHARF IN GLOUBe it enacted, &c., as follows:

May extend south-easterly to commissioners'

sels at.

SECTION 1. John Pew, proprietor of a wharf in Gloucester, is hereby authorized to extend and maintain said wharf line and lay ves- in a south-easterly direction to the commissioners' line, established by authority of law in the harbor of Gloucester, with the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, however, that the limit and direction of said extension between the end of the present wharf and the commissioners' line shall be determined by and located under the direction of the harbor commissioners; and provided, further, that this grant shall in nowise impair the legal rights of any person.

Provisos.

Chap.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 12, 1867.

25. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE FUNDS AND THE INCOME

Appropriations authorized.

Rogers book fund; income. Acts 1857, 215.

Todd normal school fund; in

come.
G. S. 36.

Indian school fund; income. G. S. 36.

Charles river and Warren bridge fund.

Charles river

bridge.
Acts 1864, 257.

OF THE FUNDS IIEREIN MENTIONED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the funds and the income of the funds mentioned, to wit:

The income of the Rogers book fund shall be expended in accordance with the conditions named by the donor, in conformity with chapter two hundred and fifteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

The income of the Todd normal school fund shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of education, to be applied in such manner as shall be prescribed by said board, in accordance with chapter thirty-six of the General Statutes.

The income of the Indian school fund shall be applied according to the provisions of chapter thirty-six of the General Statutes.

SECTION 2. The sums mentioned in this section are appropriated to be paid out of the Charles River and Warren Bridge fund, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to wit:

On account of the Charles River Bridge.

For repairs on said bridge and buildings belonging thereto, Repairs. a sum not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars.

For horse-keeping, a sum not exceeding two hundred Horse-keeping. dollars.

For gas, oil, fluid and fuel, a sum not exceeding seven Fuel and lights. hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, a sum not Incidental. exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars.

For the compensation of the draw-tender on said bridge, Draw-tender. the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars.

On account of Warren Bridge.

Acts 1861, 96.

Warren bridge.
Acts 1864, 257.

For repairs on said bridge and buildings belonging thereto, Repairs. a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

For horse-keeping, a sum not exceeding two hundred dol- Horse-keeping. lars.

For gas, oil, fluid and fuel, a sum not exceeding six hun- Fuel and lights. dred and fifty dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, a sum not exceed- Incidental. ing one hundred and fifty dollars.

For the compensation of the draw-tender on said bridge, Draw-tender. the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars.

Acts 1861, 96.

tolls, how used.

SECTION 3. The sums mentioned in this section arc appro- Essex bridge priated to be paid out of the moneys arising from the tolls Acts 1859, 122. collected on the Essex bridge, for the year eighteen hundred

and sixty-seven, to wit:

For the salary of the agent of said bridge, the sum of one Agent's salary. hundred dollars.

draw-tenders.

For the compensation of the toll-gatherers and draw-tend- Toll-men and ers upon said bridge, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars. For the repair and maintenance of said bridge, a sum not Repair and mainexceeding two thousand five hundred dollars.

tenance.

For oak piles for repair of Essex bridge, a sum not exceed- Piles for repairs. ing six hundred dollars.

For gas, oil and fluid, a sum not exceeding three hundred Lights and fuel. dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, a sum not exceed- Incidental. ing thirty dollars.

And all moneys arising from the tolls on said bridge shall Payment into be paid into the state treasury.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 14, 1867.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT INCORPORATING AMHERST COLLEGE.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

State treasury.

Chap. 26.

SECTION 1. The trustees of Amherst College are hereby Trustees may authorized to receive and hold in fee simple, or any less

hold estate.

Proviso.

estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal: provided, that the net annual income of the entire property of said college shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 14, 1867.

ICAL COLLEGE.

Chap. 27. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW ENGLAND HOMEOPATHIC MEDBe it enacted, &c., as follows :

Corporators.

SECTION 1. Daniel B. Stedman, Otis Clapp, David Thayer, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated by the name of the New England Homoeopathic MediPrivileges and re- cal College; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes.

strictions.

May hold estate.

Trustees and off

SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. The trustees, together with the regularly concers may confer stituted officers of the New England Homoeopathic Medical College, shall have power to confer the degree of doctor in medicine, subject to the restrictions and regulations which are adopted and required in conferring the same degree by Harvard College and the Berkshire Medical Institution. Approved February 14, 1867.

Chap. 28. AN ACT TO

Charter contiu

itation of time.

CONTINUE IN FORCE AN ACT INCORPORATING THE
NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, AND FOR other purposes.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The act of the year one thousand eight hunued without lim- dred and twenty-five, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Ætna Insurance Company in Boston," and the act of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An Act to change the name of the Etna Insurance Company in Boston, and for other purposes," and all acts and parts of acts in addition thereto, or in amendment thereof, which are now in force, shall be continued and remain in force from and after the eighteenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; and the said corporation shall continue to have and enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws relating to such corporations, which are or may be in force, in like manner and to the same effect as if said act incorporating said company, and the several acts in amendment thereof, or in addition thereto, had contained no limitation of time.

increase capital

three years.

SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to increase Corporation may its capital stock to a sum not exceeding one million dollars, stock within the same to be paid in within three years from the passage of this act, in such instalments as the corporation shall from time to time determine, and to be invested according to law. SECTION 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to May change par change the par value of its shares from thirty dollars to one hundred dollars; and if said corporation shall so change the same, all stock thereafter issued under this act shall be in shares of one hundred dollars each.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 14, 1867.

value of shares.

AN ACT TO CONTINUE IN FORCE AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE Chap. 29.

GLOUCESTER MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

ued without lim

The act of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- Charter continseven, chapter forty-five, entitled "An Act to incorporate the itation of time. Gloucester Marine Insurance Company," shall be continued and remain in force from and after the fifth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven; and said company shall continue to have and enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws relating to such corporations, which are or may be in force, in like manner and to the same effect as if said act incorporating said company had contained no limitation of time.

Approved February, 14, 1867.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION Chap. 30.

TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, &'c., as follows:

to present capi

SECTION 1. The American Unitarian Association is hereby May add $150,000 authorized to hold real and personal estate in addition to tal. what is now authorized by law, to an amount not exceeding

one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 14, 1867.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE FITCHBURG RAILROAD COMPANY TO Chap. 31.

EXTEND THE LOCATION OF ITS ROAD.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Boston and con

mercial Freight

SECTION 1. The Fitchburg Railroad Company is hereby May extend in authorized to extend the location of its road in the city of nect with ComBoston, so far as said company may desire for the construc- Railway, on tion of a single or double track, beginning at a point upon Causeway Street. its road not farther north than the northerly end of its car house, as it now stands; thence extending in a southerly

Provisos.

Act of 1866, ch. 267, to apply.

direction to Causeway Street in the city of Boston, and there connecting with the track of the Commercial Freight Railway Company: provided, however, that between the point of beginning above named and Haverhill Street, the location hereby authorized, and the track or tracks thereon to be constructed, shall lie within and on the easterly side of a line drawn parallel with, and twenty-nine feet distant at right angles from the westerly wall of the passenger station of said Fitchburg Railroad Company, as it now stands; and provided, further, that the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston shall have power to determine the location, and the manner of conducting and operating that portion of said railroad which shall lie within the limits of Haverhill and Causeway Streets.

SECTION 2. Said Fitchburg Railroad Company shall be entitled to all the privileges and benefits, and be subject to all the duties and restrictions of steam railroad corporations under the provisions of chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, not inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 14, 1867.

Chap. 32. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR LOCATING AND CONSTRUCTING

Time for construction extend

THE CANTON AND HYDE PARK RAILROAD.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

SECTION 1. The time for the location of the Canton and ed to Mar. 1, '70. Hyde Park Railroad, is hereby extended to the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for the construction of the same, to the first day of March, in the year cighteen hundred and seventy.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 14, 1867.

Chap. 33. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON AND CHARLESTON STEAM-SHIP

Corporators.

Title.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

COMPANY.

SECTION 1. George B. Upton, Isaac Rich, Donald McKay, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston and Charleston Steam-ship Privileges and re- Company; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws of this Commonwealth, which now are or may hereafter be in force and applicable to such corporations.

strictions.

May have ships. and navigate or charter same.

SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to build, purchase, charter, hold and convey one or more steam-ships or steam-propellers, and to navigate the occan therewith, and employ the same in transporting freight

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