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Recapitulation of counties.

Treasurer to issue warrant.

Warrant to require issue of warrants by se

sors for payments

RECAPITULATION.

Suffolk County, one million seven hundred forty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; Essex County, four hundred seventy-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Middlesex County, seven hundred eighty-six thousand and fifty dollars; Worcester County, four hundred forty-three thousand and five hundred dollars; Hampshire County, one hundred nine thousand and seven hundred dollars; Hampden County, one hundred eighty thousand and eight hundred dollars; Franklin County, seventy-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Berkshire County, one hundred fifty thousand and four hundred dollars; Norfolk County, four hundred sixty-eight thousand and three hundred dollars; Bristol County, three hundred four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Plymouth County, one hundred fifty-nine thousand and two hundred dollars; Barnstable County, eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Dukes County, twelve thousand and fifty dollars; Nantucket County, twelve thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

SECTION 2. The treasurer of the Commonwealth shall forthwith send his warrant, with a copy of this act, directed to the selectmen or assessors of each city or town taxed as aforesaid, requiring them, respectively, to assess the sum so charged, according to the provisions of the eleventh chapter of the General Statutes, and to add the amount of such tax to the amount of town and county taxes to be assessed by them, respectively, on each city or town.

SECTION 3. The treasurer, in his said warrant, shall require the said selectmen or assessors to pay, or to issue lectmen or asses- their several warrant or warrants requiring the treasurers of to state treasurer. their several cities or towns to pay, to the said treasurer of the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the sums set against said cities or towns in the schedule aforeNames of treas- said; and the selectmen or assessors, respectively, shall return a certificate of the names of such treasurers, with the sum which each may be required to collect, to the said treasurer of the Commonwealth, at some time before the first day of October next.

urers, with sums required, to be returned.

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SECTION 4. If the amount due from any city or town, as provided in this act, is not paid to the treasurer of the Comof delinquency. monwealth within the time specified, then the said treasurer shall notify the treasurer of said delinquent city or town, who shall pay into the treasury of the Commonwealth, in addition to the tax, such further sum as would be equal to

one per centum per month during such delinquency, dating
on and after the first day of December next; and if the
same remains unpaid after the first day of January next, an
information may be filed by the treasurer of the Common-
wealth, in the supreme judicial court, or before any justice
thereof, against such delinquent city or town; and upon
notice to such city or town, and a summary hearing thereon,
a warrant of distress may issue against such city or town, to
enforce the payment of said taxes, under such penalties as
said court, or the justice thereof before whom the hearing is
had, shall order.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 29, 1867.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Chap. 105

FOR THE COUNTY OF Norfolk.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

April, Sept. and

etc.

SECTION 1. Terms of the superior court shall be held at First Mondays of Dedham, within and for the county of Norfolk, on the first Dec. for criminal Mondays of April, September and December respectively in business, except, each year, for the transaction of the criminal business of said county exclusively, except as is provided in section three of this act.

of Sept. and Dec

SECTION 2. The terms of the superior court for said county Fourth Mondays now required by law to be held on the third Mondays of Sep- instead of third tember and December respectively in each year, shall be held Mondays. on the fourth Mondays of September and December respectively in each year; and said terms, and the term of said court now required by law to be held on the fourth Monday of April in each year, shall be holden for the transaction of the civil business of said county exclusively, except as is provided in section three of this act.

Certain terms to

be for civil business, except, etc.

and criminal

fourth Monday of April.

SECTION 3. The term of said court now required by law Term for civil to be held for civil and criminal business on the fourth Mon- business to be on day of April in the current year shall be held as heretofore, fourth anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 29, 1867.

Chap. 106

lay and repair.

AN ACT CONCERNING SEWERS AND DRAINS IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Worcester may City council may lay, make and maintain in said city all such drains and common sewers as they shall adjudge to be for the public health or convenience, and may repair the same, from time to time, whenever necessary; and the said city and the citizens ties to be sune thereof, shall have the same rights, and be subject to the as if under G. S.,

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Council may fix boundaries of certain brooks.

same liabilities, as if the same had been laid, made or maintained under the provisions of chapter forty-eight of the General Statutes, except as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. The city council of said city may fix the boundaries of Mill Brook, Lincoln Brook, Austin Street Brook, Hermitage Brook, Piedmont Brook and Pine Meadow Brook, with their tributaries; said brooks being so named as aforesaid and described in a report to the city council of said city by the committee on sewerage, on the second day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and also in a plan prepared by A. C. Buttrick, copies of which report and plan are herewith presented to be filed with this act in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth; and said city channels and use council may alter, change, widen, straighten and deepen the channels of said brooks and remove obstructions therefrom, and may use and appropriate said brooks, cover them, pave and enclose them in retaining walls, so far as they shall adjudge necessary for purposes of sewerage, drainage and the public health.

May change

brooks.

May take, hold and use or remove certain

other property.

Damages sustained, how as

Bessed in case of failure to agree

upon.

Estates benefited to be assessed

SECTION 3. The city council of said city may take and hold by purchase or otherwise, such land, water rights, dams, or other real estate, and so use, alter or remove the same as they shall adjudge necessary for the purposes aforesaid. And if any person shall sustain damages to his property, by reason thereof, and shall fail to agree upon a settlement of the same with said city council, the same shall be assessed in the same manner, and upon the same principles as damages are assessed in the laying out of highways.

SECTION 4. Every person owning real estate upon any proportionately. street in which any drain or sewer may be laid under or by virtue of this act, and upon the line thereof, or whose real estate may be benefited thereby, shall pay to said city such sum as the mayor and aldermen shall assess upon him as his proportionate share of the expenditure of the city for drains and sewers; and the sum so assessed upon him shall constitute a lien upon said real estate for two years after it is How collected if assessed; and if not paid within ninety days after notice of

not paid upon

due notice.

Party aggrieved may have jury.

said assessment served upon the owner of said land, or his agent, may be levied by a sale of said real estate to be conducted in the same manner as a sale of real estate for the non-payment of taxes. And any person aggrieved by the doings of the mayor and aldermen under this section, may at any time within three months from receiving notice of any assessment, apply for a jury in the manner provided in the sixth section of the forty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes.

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SECTION 5. For the pupose of defraying the expenses and City council may outlays incurred for the purposes aforesaid, or so much scrip" for $200,thereof as they shall see fit, the city council of the city of after ten years. Worcester are hereby authorized to issue, from time to time scrip, notes, bonds or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof "Sewer Scrip of the City of Worcester, to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and redeemable in not less than ten years from and after the date thereof.

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SECTION 6. This act shall be void unless submitted to the Act void unless voters of said city of Worcester, and approved by a majority jority of voters of of those voting at ward meetings held simultaneously, in said city within year. city in the several wards, within one year from the passage of this act, which meetings shall be called in the same manner as other legal meetings of said wards, and for the purpose of voting upon the approval of this act, either solely or with other legal purposes. Approved March 29, 1867.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SPRINGFIELD CITY HOSPITAL. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 107

SECTION 1. Albert D. Briggs, Orric H. Greenleaf, Samuel Corporators. G. Buckingham, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Springfield City Hospital, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in the city of Springfield, a hospital for the care of the sick and disabled; with all the powers and privileges and subject to all Privileges and rethe duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws that now are or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations.

strictions.

and rules for its

SECTION 2. Said corporation may make such by-laws, Corporation may rules and regulations as it may deem expedient for fixing the make by-laws conditions of membership, for the election or appointment of government. trustees, and in general for the management of its affairs and for carrying out the objects of the corporation.

SECTION 3. Said corporation may receive and hold per- May hold estate sonal and real estate to an amount not exceeding one hun- and use income. dred and fifty thousand dollars, the use and income of which

shall be devoted to the purposes of the organization.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 29, 1867.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY TO HOLD

ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 108

SECTION 1. The Seamen's Friend Society is hereby author- May have $110,ized to hold real and personal property, in addition to what 000 additional.

is now authorized by law, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 29, 1867. Chap. 109 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAINT JOHN'S HOSPITAL, IN THE CITY

Corporators.

strictions.

Be it enactell, &c., as follows:

OF LOWELL.

Ann Alexis Shorb, Ann Aloysia Reed, Emerentiana Bowden, Ann Vincent McClosky, Blandina Davaux, Mary Frances Quirk, Mary Oswald Spalding, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of Saint John's Hospital, for the purpose of maintaining a hospital in Privileges and re- the city of Lowell for the sick and disabled; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations: May hold estate. and for the purpose aforesaid said corporation may. hold real and personal property to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved March 29, 1867. Chap. 110 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNION AGRICULTURAL AND HORTI

Corporators.

Location.

CULTURAL SOCIETY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Enos W. Boise, Howard P. Robinson, Henry A. Blair, their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and established in the town of Blandford, for the encouragement of agriculture, horticulture and the mechanic arts by premiums and other means, in the county Privileges and re. of Hampden; with all the powers and 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 in relation to such corporations.

strictions.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 29, 1867.

Chap. 111 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF MARBLEHEAD TO GRANT ITS

May grant credit

to or hold shares

$50,000.

CREDIT TO THE MARBLEHEAD AND LYNN RAILROAD COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The town of Marblehead is hereby authorized in stock of com- to grant its credit in aid of the Marblehead and Lynn Railpany in sum of road Company, or to subscribe for and hold shares in the capital stock of said railroad company to an amount not Proviso: voters exceeding fifty thousand dollars: provided, the inhabitants shall authorize. of said town at a legal meeting duly called for that purpose, shall, by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters present and

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