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The General Court of 1870 assembled on Wednesday, the fifth day of January. The oaths of office required by the Constitution to be administered to the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor elect, were taken and subscribed by His Excellency WILLIAM CLAFLIN and His Honor JOSEPH TUCKER, on Saturday, the eighth day of January, in the presence of the two Houses assembled in convention.

ACTS.

GENERAL AND SPECIAL.

AN ACT TO LEGALIZE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BENEVOLENT FRA-
TERNITY OF CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Chap. 1.

legalized.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : SECTION 1. The organization known as the Benevolent Organization Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston, under chapter twenty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby declared a valid corporation, anything in the manner of their organization to the contrary notwithstanding.

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

Approved January 29, 1870.

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW BEDFORD Chap. 2.

WOMEN'S REFORM AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The first section of chapter two hundred and Amendment. forty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and fiftynine, is hereby amended by adding after the word "virtue " in the seventh line thereof, the words " and a home for poor and destitute females."

SECTION 2. The said association shall hereafter be known Name changed. as the New Bedford Female Reform and Relief Association.

Approved February 1, 1870.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COMPENSATION AND Chap. 3.

MILEAGE OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE, AND FOR THE COM-
PENSATION OF THE CHAPLAINS, doorkeePERS, MESSENGERS AND
PAGES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

authorized.

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter named are appropriated, Appropriations to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, for the month of January of the present year, as ordered by the house of representatives, to wit:

Senators, mileage.

Compensation.

Representatives, mileage.

Compensation.

Chaplains.

Doorkeepers, messengers and pages.

For the mileage of senators, a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars.

For the compensation of senators, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars.

For the mileage of representatives, a sum not exceeding two thousand three hundred dollars.

For the compensation of representatives, a sum not exceeding twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salaries of the chaplains of the senate and house of representatives, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. For the compensation of the doorkeepers, messengers and pages of the senate and house of representatives, a sum not exceeding one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 3, 1870.
4. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 4.

Corporators.

ARTS.

SECTION 1. Martin Brimmer, Charles C. Perkins, Charles W. Eliot, William Endicott, Jr., Samuel Eliot, Francis E. Parker, Henry P. Kidder, William B. Rogers, George B. Emerson, Otis Norcross, John T. Bradlee and Benjamin S. Rotch, together with three persons to be annually appointed by the president and fellows of Harvard College, with the consent of the board of overseers, three persons to be annually appointed by the trustees of the Boston Athenæum, and three persons to be annually appointed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, if the said corporations shall make such appointments, and the mayor of the city of Boston, the president of the trustees of the public library and the superintendent of public schools of said city, the secretary of the board of education, and the trustee of the Lowell Institute, Name and pur- ex officiis, are hereby made a body corporate by the name of The Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, for the purpose of erecting a museum for the preservation and exhibition of works of art, of making, maintaining and exhibiting collections of such works, and of affording instruction in the fine Powers and du- arts; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in chapter sixty-eight of the General Statutes, and acts in addition thereto.

pose.

ties.

Real and per

sonal estate.

SECTION 2. The trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts may hold real and personal estate for, the aforesaid purpose to the value of one million dollars.

SECTION 3. Whenever any vacancy shall occur among the twelve trustees first named in this act, or their successors, such vacancy shall be filled by the whole board of trustees at an annual meeting, or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, and additional trustees may be elected at any such meeting: provided, that the whole number of trustees shall not exceed thirty.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 4, 1870.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PROPRIETORS OF THE WOMAN'S

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

JOURNAL.

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THE WOMAN'S Chap. 5.

pose.

ties.

SECTION 1. Henry B. Blackwell, Samuel E. Sewall, Eben- Corporators. ezer D. Draper, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of the Name and purWoman's Journal, for the purpose of printing and publishing, in the city of Boston, a newspaper called the Woman's Journal; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to Powers and duall the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are, or may hereafter be in force in this Commonwealth, applicable to manufacturing corporations. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be Capital stock ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with the right to increase the same to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. Said corporation shall not commence business until the whole capital of ten thousand dollars shall have been paid in in cash.

Approved February 4, 1870.

and shares.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND MUSICAL Chap. 6.

CONSERVATORY FOR THE BLIND.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

pose.

SECTION 1. Samuel G. Howe, William Endicott, junior, Corporators. Francis W. Bird, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the American College Name and purand Musical Conservatory for the Blind, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in the city of Boston or its vicinity, a college in which persons permanently or temporarily blind may receive instruction, by lectures, by embossed books, maps, diagrams, models, manikins, and by other appliances adapted to the hearing and touch, in the higher branches of classical and scientific learning taught in the best colleges, to students who can see; also a conservatory in which the best kind of musical instruction shall be given by able teachers, with the aid of the best instruments; with all Powers and duthe powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, lia

ties.

Real and personal estate.

Chap.

bilities and restrictions set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes.

SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real estate, not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars, and personal property not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars, all of which shall be devoted to the purposes aforesaid. Approved February 4, 1870.

7. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE

Appropriations authorized.

S.J.court,clerk.

G. S. 121, § 5.

Assistant-clerk.
G. S. 121, § 26.

Reporter.

G. B. 121, § 56.
Expenses.
G. S. 112, § 39.

GOVERNMENT DURING THE PRESENT YEAR.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to meet expenses for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, to wit:

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

For the salary of the clerk of the supreme judicial court for the Commonwealth, three thousand dollars.

For the salary of the assistant-clerk of said court, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salary of the reporter of decisions of the supreme judicial court, three hundred dollars.

For the expenses of said court, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars.

Superior court, judges' salaries. 1867, 165.

Judges, probate and insolvency: Suffolk. 1867, 357. Middlesex. 1867, 357. Worcester. 1867, 357. Essex. 1867, 357.

Norfolk. 1867, 357.

SUPERIOR COURT.

For the salary of the chief justice of the superior court, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salaries of the nine associate justices of said court, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

COURTS OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY.

For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Suffolk, three thousand dollars.

For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Middlesex, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Worcester, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Essex, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Norfolk, two thousand dollars.

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