and paid. Salary, how fixed of the board of school committee; and shall be compensated for his services as mayor by a salary, to be fixed by the city council, payable at stated periods: and he shall receive no other compensation or emolument whatever, and no regulation enlarging or diminishing said compensation shall be made to take effect until the expiration of the year for which the mayor then in office shall have been elected, and said salary when fixed shall continue until changed by the city council as aforesaid. Act void if not accepted in sixty days. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the citizens of Newburyport, at a legal meeting called for the purpose, within sixty days of its passage. Approved April 26, 1867. Chap. 180 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators. Purpose. BRADFOrd. SECTION 1. John B. Farrar, George Cogswell, L. W. Tyler, and all persons who are now members of the present Union Library Association of Bradford, and their associates, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Union Library Association of Bradford, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a social library for the diffusion of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual improvement in Privileges and re- the town of Bradford; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force concerning corporations, so far as applicable. strictions. May hold real and personal estate. Property of present association may be trans ferred to and held by corporation. Grants, dona tions and bequests. SECTION 2. Said corporation may take and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of books in its library. SECTION 3. All the property now owned by, or which may accrue to the present Union Library Association of Bradford, may be by it transferred to the corporation hereby created; and the said corporation may take and shall hold the same, and all real and personal estate, and all moneys, books and pamphlets which shall from time to time be conveyed or given to it in any form, or be purchased by it, in trust for all the uses and purposes proper and appropriate for a public and social library, the same to be used and enjoyed under such regulations and upon such terms, and for such compensation as may from time to time be prescribed by the bylaws of the corporation. All grants, donations or bequests made to it, shall be held and used under and in pursuance of any conditions or rules prescribed in such grants, donations or bequests. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 26, 1867. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE LEE HOTEL COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 181 SECTION 1. Harrison Garfield, Elizur Smith, William Corporators. Taylor, Marshall Wilcox, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Lee Hotel Company, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a Purpose. hotel in the town of Lee, with the buildings, appurtenances and improvements connected therewith; with all the powers Privileges and reand privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and strictions. restrictions contained in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force and applicable to such corporations: provided however, that said corporation shall not Proviso. carry on the business of hotel-keeping nor in any way be interested in such business. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not Capital stock and exceed fifty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares shares. of one hundred dollars each; and said corporation may hold May hold estate. real and personal estate to the value of fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose mentioned in the first section: provided Proviso. mortgage estate. SECTION 3. Said corporation may mortgage its real and Corporation may personal estate to raise money for the purposes within the meaning and intent of this act, and for no other purposes: provided, that the amount secured by mortgage shall at no Proviso. time exceed one-half of the amount of the capital stock actually paid in. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FRANKLIN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 182 Company. SECTION 1. The Franklin Telegraph Company may pur- May purchase chase the rights, property, privileges and franchise of the Insulated Lines Insulated Lines Telegrapli Company, at such price as the two companies may agree upon by a vote of their stockholders, at meetings duly called and notified for that purpose. SECTION 2. Said Franklin Telegraph Company may May increase capincrcase its capital stock to a sum not exceeding one million ital stock. dollars, and the par value thereof shall be fixed at one Shares. hundred dollars per share. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 26, 1867. Chap. 183 Corporators. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CAPE ANN GRANITE COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Daniel N. Stanton, Frederick K. Ballou, John C. Stanton, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Cape Ann Granite Purpose and lo- Company, for the purpose of quarrying and cutting stone in the towns of Gloucester and Rockport; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to manufacturing corporations. cation. Privileges and restrictions. May use horse railway tracks to wharves with consent of towns Rockport. SECTION 2. Said corporation may construct, maintain and use, for the transportation of merchandise, railway tracks of Gloucester and from its quarries to its wharves, to be operated by horsepower, upon such road or highway, in such manner and upon such conditions as the selectmen of the towns of Gloucester and Rockport respectively, shall fix and deter-* mine. Shall have office in Boston. Estate, capital and shares. Conditions of corporate liability. SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have its principal office in the city of Boston, and the capital stock shall be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient for its business not exceeding that sum: provided however, that it shall not commence operations or incur any liability, until one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to its capital stock, and fifty thousand dollars paid in, in cash. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 184 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WADING May have reservoirs on Wading, ford and Chart RIVER RESERVOIR COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follou SECTION 1. "The Wading River Reservoir Company is Three Mile, Rum hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain reservoirs of water on the Wading, Three Mile, Rumford and Chartley Rivers and their tributaries, in the county of Norfolk, in the same manner as they are now authorized to construct and maintain them in the county of Bristol. ley Rivers and tributaries. Chap. 185 Corporators. Location and purpose. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAINT JOSEPH'S HOME. SECTION 1. H. Sidney Everett, Richard S. Fay, Francis purposes of providing a home and otherwise aiding and assisting sick and destitute servant girls; with all the powers Privileges and reand privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and strictions. restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force and applicable to such corpo rations. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal May hold estate. property for the purposes set forth in the first section of this act, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 26, 1867. AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FEMALE BETHEL SOCIETY Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 186 The Female Bethel Society of Newburyport shall here- shall take name after be called and known as the Newburyport Bethel of Newburyport Society. Approved April 26, 1867. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF SALEM WITH PURE WATER. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Bethel Society. Chap. 187 notes, bonds, par, repealed. SECTION 1. So much of the twelfth section of chapter, two Prohibition of hundred and sixty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen sale of scrip hundred and sixty-four as prohibits the sale or pledge of the etc., at less than scrip, notes, bonds or certificates in said section mentioned, at less than the par value thereof, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 29, 1867. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE RETURNS BY ASSESSORS OF SHARES Chap. 188 tax commission send to assessors copies of lists, and returns un1865, etc. der § 2, ch. 242, Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The returns now required to be made by Shall be made by assessors under the provisions of the second section of chapter fifteenth May to two hundred and forty-two of the acts of the year eighteen er, who shall hundred and sixty-five, shall hereafter be made on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, to the tax commissioner of the Commonwealth; and said commissioner shall, on or before the twentieth day of June in each year, transmit to the assessors of the several cities and towns of the Commonwealth, a true copy of the lists furnished by such assessors, and the full returns required by said act, and also of the returns made to the tax commissioner by the Mercantile Savings Institution of the city of Boston, pursuant to the act of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, relating to the taxation of that institution. Commissioner shall yearly, by first May to assessors. SECTION 2. The tax commissioner shall annually, on or June 20. send list before the twentieth day of June in each year, cause to be of co's taxable on forwarded to the assessors of every city and town in this Commonwealth a list of all Massachusetts corporations known to him to be taxable on the first day of May next preceding said twentieth day of June under chapter two hundred and eighty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and such other information in his possession, as in his judgment will assist the assessors of the cities and towns in the assessment of taxes. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 189 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH May pay interest on college fund, accrued since July 30, 1864. Repeal. TO PAY CERTAIN MONEYS TO THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer of the Commonwealth is hereby instructed to pay to the treasurer of the Agricultural College the interest which has accumulated on the Agricultural College fund, for the benefit of said college, since July thirtieth in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SECTION 2. All laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 30, 1867. Chap. 190 AN ACT RESPECTING THE OCCUPATION OF FLATS IN THE HARBOR OF Owners of flats may occupy to harbor lines. Certain owners may extend from their outer lines over state flats. Harbor commis prove under ch. 149, § 4, 1866. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: GLOUCESTER. SECTION 1. All persons owning flats in the harbor of Gloucester are hereby authorized to extend and maintain wharves upon the same, or to fill up and build upon the same, but not beyond the harbor lines there now established. SECTION 2. All persons owning flats in the harbor of Gloucester whose outer lines of title are the low-water mark, or one hundred rods below the high-water mark, may extend and maintain wharves over any flats of the Commonwealth that may lie between their said outer lines and the harbor lines there now established, but in such manner that all persons affected by this grant may have equal proportionate rights of advancing to or toward the said harbor lines. SECTION 3. All things which may at any time be done sioners shall ap. under this grant, shall be subject to the determination and approval of the board of harbor commissioners, as provided in section four of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Change of harbor lines, how to be construed. SECTION 4. If the harbor lines of Gloucester shall at any time be removed nearer to the high-water mark, this grant shall be construed to apply only to such new lines, |