Purpose. hereby made a corporation by the name of the Boston and Kennebec Steam-boat Company, for the purpose of engaging in the business of transporting passengers and freight between Privileges and re- Boston and Bath, Gardiner, and other ports in Maine; with strictions. all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions in all general laws which now are, or may hereafter be in force applicable to such corporations. SECTION 2. Said company are hereby authorized and empowered to build, purchase, sell and convey, hire and employ such steam vessels, with such apparatus and appendages as may be found necessary for steam navigation and the transportation of freight and passengers as aforesaid. May own, use and sell vessels. Capital stock and shares. Proviso: condition of liability. Chap. 220 County commissioners may sell SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be fixed at five hundred thousand dollars, with power to increase the same to one million dollars, and shall be divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each: provided, that said corporation shall incur no liability till one hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock has been paid in. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE COURTS IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY. SECTION 1. The county commissioners of Middlesex county property County are hereby authorized to sell and convey to the town of Concord, for nominal considerations, the court-house, jail and real estate connected therewith, belonging to said county and situate in said town. in Concord to town. Upon transfer and notice,courts to be held at Cambridge. SECTION 2. After such conveyance, of which the commissioners shall give notice in one or more newspapers published in said county, the courts now required to be held at Concord, shall be held at the same times at Cambridge in said county; and all appeals, recognizances and processes, which, before the publication of such notice, may be made returnable to any court at Concord, shall be returned to such court held at the same time at Cambridge. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 221 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF CERTAIN CORPORATIONS IN THE "Arlington" substituted for TOWN OF WEST CAMBRIDGE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The West Cambridge Gas-Light Company West Cambridge shall take the name of the Arlington Gas-Light Company. The West Cambridge Horse Railroad Company shall take the name of the Arlington Horse Railroad Company. The in corporate titles. West Cambridge Five Cents Savings Bank shall take the name of the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank. The Lexington and West, Cambridge Railroad Company shall take the name of the Lexington and Arlington Railroad Company. The Spy Pond Water Company shall take the name of the Arlington Lake Water Company. may substitute SECTION 2. Each of the parishes and religious societies Parishes and rein the town of West Cambridge is hereby authorized to ligious societies change its corporate name by substituting Arlington wherever same. West Cambridge occurs in the same. Such change may be made by a vote of the members of such parish or religious. society at any legal meeting thereof. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 7, 1867. Chap. 222 AN ACT CONCERNING PRACTICE IN DIVORCE CASES. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: than six months. SECTION 1. Decrees for divorce from the bonds of matri- Decree may be mony may in the first instance be decrees nisi, to become nisi for not less absolute after the expiration of such time, not being less than six months from the entry thereof, as the court shall, by general or special orders direct. At the expiration of the party then movtime assigned, on motion of the party in whose favor the ing, same may be decree was rendered, which motion may be entertained by any judge in term or vacation, the decree shall be made absolute, if the party moving shall have complied with the orders of the court, and no sufficient cause to the contrary shall appear. absolute. Court shall order misi to be pub notice of decree lished by party moving, or may require deposit of money for with SECTION 2. The court, by special order in each case, or in pursuance of rules established, shall require the party in whose behalf a decree nisi of divorce is entered, to cause the fact of the entry of such decrec together with its terms, to be published in some one or more newspapers to be desig- clerk. nated by the court, one of which shall be published in the county in which the case is pending with such other notice as the court may require; the form of the notice, the time of publication and mode of proof of the publication to be fixed by the court; or the court may require such party to deposit with the clerk of the court, before such decree shall be entered, a sum of money sufficient to pay for the publication of such notice by the clerk, with reasonable compensation to him therefor; and may, in any case, authorize the Clerk may certify clerk to cause such publication to be made, and his certificate as proof. shall be proof that the same has been made. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 9, 1867. Chap. 223 AN ACT TO CONFIRM CERTAIN ACTS DONE BY BILLINGS PALMER Acts from first May, 1861, to first made valid. AS TRIAL JUSTICE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. All acts done by Billings Palmer of Great December, 1866, Barrington, as a trial justice within and for the county of Berkshire, between the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the first day of December in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, are hereby made valid, and confirmed, to the same extent as they would have been valid, had he been during that interval duly qualified to discharge the duties of said office. Chap. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 224 AN ACT CONCERNING THE LAYING OUT, ALTERING, WIDENING AND IMPROVING THE STREETS OF CHARLESTOWN. SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An Act concerning the laying out, altering, widening and improving the Streets of Boston," are hereby extended and made applicable to the city of Charlestown. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect whenever the same is accepted by the city council of said city of Charlestown by a two-thirds vote of each branch thereof. Approved May 9, 1867. Chap. 225 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HOPKINTON AND MILFORD RAILROAD Corporators. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: COMPANY. SECTION 1. Lovett H. Bowker, George V. Sheffield, Charles W. Claflin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Hopkinton and Privileges and re- Milford Railroad Company; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations. strictions. Location of road defined. SECTION 2. Said corporation may locate, construct and maintain a railroad commencing at some convenient point near the centre of the town of Hopkinton; thence running southerly through the southerly part of said town of Hopkinton, by the most direct and feasible route to some convenient point near the centre of the town of Milford, and to enter by proper turn-outs and switches upon the Milford and Woonsocket Railroad, and the Milford Branch Railroad, at said Milford, according to the provisions of law. with Milford and Milford branch lease franchise or SECTION 3. Said corporation may connect its road with May connect the Milford and Woonsocket Railroad, and with the Milford Woonsocket and Branch Railroad, and may use the same or either of them roads with conaccording to law with the consent of the corporations owning sent; may sell or said roads respectively, or may sell and transfer its franchise unite with other and all its rights under this act, or lease its road, or other company. property to the Milford and Woonsocket, or any other railroad corporation, passing through or having its terminus in the town of Milford, or may unite and consolidate its stock with the stock of the Milford and Woonsocket Railroad corporation, or any other coporation having its terminus in, or passing through the said town of Milford, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, and confirmed by vote of the majority in interest of the stockholders of said corporations present and voting at meetings duly called for that purpose. SECTION 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock and not exceed two hundred thousand dollars divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, the number of which shall be determined from time to time by the directors: and said Estate. corporation may take and hold such real estate and personal property as may be necessary for the purposes of this act. shares. ton may hold shares. SECTION 5. The town of Hopkinton is hereby authorized Town of Hopkinto subscribe for and hold shares in the capital stock of the Hopkinton and Milford Railroad Company to the amount of forty thousand dollars: provided the inhabitants of said Proviso: voters town, at a legal meeting duly called for that purpose, shall, to approve. by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters present, and voting thereon, vote to subscribe for such shares, in accordance with the terms of this act, to pay for the same out of the town treasury, and to hold the same as town property, subject to the disposition of the town, for public purposes, in like manner as any other property it may possess. loan or tax. SECTION 6. Said town of Hopkinton is hereby authorized Town may raise to raise by loan or tax, any sums of money which shall be money for by required to pay its instalments on its subscriptions to said stock and interest thercon. treasurer may meeting and vote SECTION 7. The selectmen and treasurer of the town of Selectmen and Hopkinton shall have authority to represent said town at any represent town meeting of the Hopkinton and Milford Railroad Company, at company and said town, so represented, is hereby authorized to vote on stock held. on the whole amount of stock held by said town of Hopkinton, anything in the sixty-third chapter of the General Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage, Conditions of and shall be void unless said road is located within two validity of act. years, and constructed within four years from the passage of Approved May 9, 1867. this act. Chap. 226 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HIDE AND LEATHER INSURANCE Corporators. Location and purpose. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: COMPANY. SECTION 1. Daniel Harwood, Frederick Jones, William Claflin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Hide and Leather Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, for the purpose of making insurance against losses by fire, and with authority to insure against the perils of the sea and other perils usually insured against by marine insurance companies, and to make all and every insurance appertaining to or connected with fire and marine risks and risks of inland navigation and transportaPrivileges and re- tion; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations. strictions. Capital stock and shares. May increase capital. Proviso. May hold real estate. Directors may give policy-holdprofits. SECTION 2. Said corporation shall have a capital stock of three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. It shall have liberty to pay in and increase the said capital stock to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars: provided, that any increase of capital is paid within three years from the passage of this act; and with liberty to hold real estate for its own use to an amount not exceeding ten per cent. of the paid-up capital stock of said company. SECTION 3. A majority of the board of directors of the ers right in net company may, at their discretion, at any time give the holders of the policies of the company the right to participate in the net profits of the company, to such an extent, and in such manner, and upon such terms and conditions as they shall prescribe in their by-laws. Condition of corporate business. SECTION 4. Said corporation may commence business when one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed and paid in, in cash. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 227 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PROPRIE Repeal of § 3, ch. 341, 1853. TORS OF THE BAY STATE HOUSE IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter three hundred and forty-one of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. |