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Limitation of charter.

Chap. 38.

Corporators.

ton Daily Journal, and the Boston Post, and Boston Tran-
script newspapers, calling for such return of certificates.
SECTION 3. The charter is hereby so amended that it shall
expire in thirty years from the passage of this act.
Approved February 19, 1867.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BEVERLY SAVINGS BANK.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. John I. Baker, Robert G. Bennett, George Roundy, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Beverly Savings Bank, to be Privileges and re-established in the town of Beverly; with all the powers and

Title.

strictions.

Chap. 39.

May increase 250,000 dollars.

privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws, which now are or may hereafter be in force, applicable to savings banks and institutions for savings.

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

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE OLD

INCREASE ITS

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Approved February 19, 1867.

COLONY IRON COMPANY TO

CAPITAL STOCK.

SECTION 1. The Old Colony Iron Company, a corporation established in the towns of Taunton and Raynham, is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one thousand dollars May hold real each; and to hold real estate necessary and convenient for its business, to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars.

Shares.

estate.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 19, 1867.

Chap. 40. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SPY POND WATER COMPANY TO

May complete organization.

Meeting for, when to be held.

How called.

PLETE ITS ORGANIZATION.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

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SECTION 1. The Spy Pond Water Company is hereby authorized to complete the organization of said corporation, wherein the same may now be defective; and said corporation shall thereafter continue to exercise its powers and privileges, and be subject to all liabilities, according to its charter and all laws now or hereafter in force relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2. A meeting of said corporation shall be held within three months from the passage of this act, for the purpose of completing its organization as aforesaid. Such meeting shall be called by Edward Chapman, the person elected clerk of said corporation at its first meeting, by a

notice signed by him setting forth the time, place and purpose of the meeting, and such notice shall, seven days at least before the meeting, be delivered to each member of said company, and be published in some newspaper printed in the county of Middlesex.

purchase fran

erty.

SECTION 3. The town of West Cambridge may, at any Town of West time, purchase the franchise of said corporation, and all its Cambridge may corporate property, at such price as may be agreed upon chise and propbetween the parties; and in case the parties cannot agree upon the price, the supreme judicial court, or any justice thereof, upon application of either party, shall appoint three commissioners to award what sum said town shall pay to said company for such franchise and its corporate property, which award shall be final.

pond to be ob

SECTION 4. Said company shall not at any time draw the Water marks of waters of Spy Pond below low-water mark of said pond, nor served. raise them above high-water mark.

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at points of rise

SECTION 5. A commissioner shall be appointed by the S. J. court, upon supreme judicial court or any justice thereof, on application point person to of said Spy Pond Water Company, or of any party in inter- erect monuments est, who shall at the cost and expense of said company, after and fall of waters. notice to all parties in interest, ascertain the points between which the waters of said pond and its outlet rise and fall, and shall erect permanent monuments showing the same, and shall make a full report of all his doings to the supreme judicial court.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 19, 1867.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MARSHPEE MANUFACTURING

COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 41.

pose.

SECTION 1. Solomon Attaquin, Matthias Amos, Oaks A. Corporators. Coombs, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Marshpee Manufacturing Title and purCompany, for the purpose of manufacturing baskets, brooms, wooden ware and other like articles in the district of Marshpee; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and priv- Privileges and reileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restric- strictions. tions set forth in all general laws which now are, or hereaf

ter may be in force, relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2. The said corporation may purchase and hold, Real estate.

in said district, for the purposes aforesaid, real estate not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars in value, and the capital Capital stock. stock of said corporation shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. All buildings and machinery which may be erected or machinery to be

Buildings and

estate.

deemed personal placed by said corporation on said real estate, shall be regarded as the personal estate of said corporation, and be liable for the debts of the corporation.

Non-residents of

stock.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation may be district may hold taken and held by persons not proprietors or inhabitants of Real estate may said district: but no real estate which may be owned or held be held only by by said corporation in said district, shall be sold or assigned to any person except such as may now legally hold land as proprietors of said district.

resident.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 19, 1867.

ASSESSED.

Chap. 42. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REFUNDING CERTAIN TAXES ILLEGALLY Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Treasurer to repay moneys re

236, Acts 1863.

SECTION 1. The treasurer and receiver-general is hereby ceived under ch. authorized to repay all sums of money received by him, from any corporation, under the provisions of chapter two hundred and thirty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Chap. 43.

May purchase and receive dona

al estate.

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

Approved February 19, 1867.

AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE BOSTON MARINE SOCIETY.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Boston Marine Society is hereby authortions of addition- ized to make purchases and receive donations of real and personal estate for the purposes expressed in their act of incorporation, the clear income of which shall not, at any time, exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the real and personal estate which they may now hold; and may manage and dispose of said estate as the said society shall see fit.

Provisions in former Acts re

SECTION 2. So much of the act passed the twenty-fifth lating to annual day of January, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, meeting repealed. entitled " An Act to incorporate William Starkey and others, by the name of the Marine Society," and so much of the act passed February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act in addition to an act entitled an act to incorporate William Starkey and others, by the name of the Marine Society," as relates to the time of the annual meeting of said society, is hereby repealed: and the said society holding in by- is hereby empowered to hold its annual meeting at such time as it shall in future establish and appoint, by by-laws duly made.

Society may establish time of

laws.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 19, 1867.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE INCREASE OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF

THE OCEAN STEAM MILLS.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 44.

SECTION 1. The Ocean Steam Mills, a corporation estab- May increase lished in Newburyport, is hereby authorized to increase its 300,000 dollars. capital stock by an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars shares. cach; and to hold additional real estate, not exceeding one May increase real hundred thousand dollars in value.

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

Approved February 23, 1867.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE MOIETY OF THE
INCOME OF THE SCHOOL FUND APPLICABLE TO EDUCATIONAL
PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

estate.

Chap. 45.

authorized.

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned in this sec- Appropriations tion are appropriated and shall be allowed and paid out of the moiety of the income of the school fund applicable to educational purposes, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to wit:

For the support of the four state normal schools for the Normal schools. present year, the sum of thirty-two thousand five hundred

dollars.

education.

For the salary and travelling expenses of such agent or Agents board of agents as the board of education may appoint, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

For teachers' institutes, the sum of two thousand eight Teachers' instihundred dollars.

tutes.
G. S. 35.

For aid to pupils in the state normal schools, a sum not Normal pupils. exceeding four thousand dollars.

ships.

For the support of state scholarships, a sum not exceeding State scholartwo thousand four hundred dollars; said sum and the sums above named to be expended under the direction of the board of education.

and normal G. S. 34.

For postage, printing, advertising, stationery, the trans- Board of educaportation of documents for the board of education, and for tion, secretary, the secretary thereof, and also for any contingent expenses schools, expenses. of the normal schools, not otherwise provided for, the sum of eleven thousand dollars.

For the expenses of the members of the board of educa- Members of tion and the treasurer thereof, a sum not exceeding five board, expenses. hundred dollars.

ciation, pro

For the Massachusetts teachers' association, the sum of Teachers' assoeight hundred dollars, on condition that said association visional. shall furnish a copy of the "Massachusetts Teacher" to each school committee in the several cities and towns in the

American insti

Commonwealth, during the year eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and furnish satisfactory evidence thereof to the auditor.

For the American institute of instruction, the sum of five tute of instruc- hundred dollars, to be paid to the president of said institute in the month of August next.

tion.

Teachers' county
associations.
Acts 1864, 58.
Indian schools.
G. S. 36.

For county teachers' associations, the sum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the support of certain Indian schools, the sum of four hundred and five dollars.

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Chap. 46. AN ACT MAKING

Quartermaster's and ordnance bureau.

Arsenal, Cambridge, salaries at.

Service and labor.

Transport of materiel.

Materials for repairs of arms and arsenal.

Contingent ex

penses and care

upon its passage. Approved February 23, 1867.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE
MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

SECTION 1. The sum of sixteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, for the purpose of meeting the current expenses of the bureau of the quartermaster-general and ordnance, during the year ending December thirty-first, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to wit:

For salaries of superintendent of the arsenal at Cambridge, and clerk, including extra clerk hire, three thousand dollars.

For compensation of mechanics and laborers employed in and about the arsenal, six thousand dollars.

For transportation of materiel from the arsenal to the various companies in the Commonwealth, and to and from the several camps, twenty-five hundred dollars.

For cost of materials used for repairing arms, tents, and so forth, and for general repairs in and about the arsenal buildings, two thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses, including salutes upon national arsenal grounds. and state occasions, printing, stationery, blank books, and so forth, and for keeping the arsenal grounds in order, twentyfive hundred dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 23, 1867.

Chap. 47. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE INSPECTION OF POT AND PEARL

Fee of inspectorgeneral and deputy defined.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

ASHES.

SECTION 1. The inspector-general of pot and pearl ashes, or his deputy, shall receive for inspecting, weighing and delivering to the owner an invoice or weight note under his hand, of the weight of each cask of pot or pearl ashes, and

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