branch of said Eastern Railroad, with the right, in either case, to cross Mill Creek, in the town of Essex. capital stock $150,000. SECTION 2. The Eastern Railroad Company is hereby au- may increase thorized to increase its capital stock to such an amount as may be necessary to build said branch railroad, not exceeding in all, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Town of Essex may raise $50,appropriate it in aid or road. SECTION 3. The town of Essex is hereby authorized to raise by loan or taxation, such sum of money, as it may deem 000 by loan, and expedient, not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and may appropriate the same to aid in the construction of said branch railroad: provided, that two-thirds of the legal Proviso. voters present, at a legal town meeting duly called for this purpose, within thirty days from the passage of this act, shall by written ballot vote so to do, in taking which vote the check list shall be used. with Eastern Railroad. SECTION 4. Said town of Essex may make such contract may contract with the Eastern Railroad Company, for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, as it may deem proper and necessary, and may raise money by loan or taxation to carry the same into effect, not exceeding the amount named in the preceding section. effect unless ac cepted by East SECTION 5. This act shall not take effect unless it shall be Act not to take accepted by the Eastern Railroad Company at a meeting called for the purpose within four months after the passage within four of this act. ern Railroad months. filed within SECTION 6. If the Eastern Railroad Company shall accept Location to be this act as provided in the preceding sections, said company three months. shall file a location of said branch railroad within three months from the time of acceptance of this act, and when said branch railroad shall be constructed and opened for use as herein provided, then chapter one hundred and eightythree of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, incorporating the Essex Branch Railroad Company, shall become void. Approved March 23, 1870. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PROVIDENCE AND WORCESTER RAILROAD Chap. 130 COMPANY TO RE-LOCATE CERTAIN STATIONS IN MILLBURY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: bury to be re SECTION 1. The Providence and Worcester Railroad Com- Depots in Millpany is hereby authorized to re-locate its passenger station and freight depots in the town of Millbury, as the board railroad commissioners shall recommend. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. located under of railroad com direction of missioners. Chap. 131 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE HOME FOR AGED MEN TO HOLD ADDI $150,000 additional real estate. TIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Home for Aged Men is hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate, for the purposes named in its act of incorporation, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the amount it is now authorized to hold. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 132 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY Corporators. pose. OF BOSTON. SECTION 1. Henry Smith, Charles A. Stevens, Elijah B. Stoddard, their associates and successors, are hereby made a Name and pur- corporation by the name of the Commonwealth Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, for the purpose of making Powers and du- insurance against losses by fire; 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. ties. Capital stock and shares. Directors may give policyholders share of profits. When may commence business. SECTION 2 Said corporation shall have a capital stock of two 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, any increase of capital is paid in in cash within three years from the passage of this act. SECTION 3. A majority of the board of directors of the 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. SECTION 4. Said corporation may commence business. when one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed and paid in, in cash. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 133 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTHWORTH COTTON MANUFAC Corporators. TURING COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Constant A. Southworth, Lemuel Pratt, John Q. Adams, their associates and successors, are hereby made Name and pur- a corporation by the name of the Southworth Cotton Manufacturing Company, to be located in Quincy, for the manufac pose. ties. ture of cotton cloths and threads; with all the powers and Powers and duprivileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to manufacturing corporations. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes Real estate. aforesaid, real estate to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. The whole capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and shall and shares. be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each: provided, Proviso. however, that said corporation shall not go into operation until the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock has been paid in in cash. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 31, 1870. AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SOCIETIES OF Chap. 134 Be it enacted, &c., as follows : MALDEN. Paul's churches SECTION 1. The two Protestant Episcopal societies of the Grace and St. town of Malden, known respectively as Grace Church, organ- in Malden made ized on the twelfth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred one society. and sixty-two, and Saint Paul's Church, organized on the twenty-second day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, are hereby combined into one society under the name of "Saint Paul's Church and Parish." made to Grace firmed to St. SECTION 2. All conveyances heretofore made to the said Conveyances Grace Church are hereby confirmed to said Saint Paul's Church conChurch and Parish, and all personal property now belonging Paul's Church to said Grace Church is hereby vested in and confirmed to and Society. said Saint Paul's Church and Parish. within sixty days. SECTION 3. This act shall be void unless accepted by both To be accepted of said societies within sixty days from its passage. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 31, 1870. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON NORTH END MISSION. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 135 SECTION 1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Ezra Farnsworth, Eben Corporators. Tourjée, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Boston North End Mission, Name and purto be located in the city of Boston, for the purpose of pro- pose. moting the spiritual welfare and improving the social and moral condition of the vicious and degraded portion of the community; with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and du to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all ties. general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporation. Real and personal estate. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, for the aforesaid purposes. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 136 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MASSACHƯ Notice of reception of infant by Massachusetts Infant Asylum to be given to board ties. Expense of sup port of infant to be reim SETTS INFANT ASYLUM. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever an infant having no known settlement in this Commonwealth, shall be received by the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, agreeably to the provisions of the act of State chari- incorporating the same, immediate notice shall be given in writing, of such reception, to the board of state charities, by the directors of said asylum, or by their direction, and said board shall have authority to examine the case and remove such infant, if they consider such removal expedient. The expense incurred by said asylum for the support of such inbursed by Com- fant, after the bills for the same shall have been approved by the board of state charities, or by the person designated by them to audit the same, shall be reimbursed by the Commonwealth to an amount not exceeding four dollars per week for each infant: provided, however, that the Commonwealth shall be under no obligation to reimburse said asylum for any expense incurred for the support of any such infant for a period of more than one week prior to the giving of the notice provided for in this act. monwealth. Proviso. Authority of board of State charities. SECTION 2. The authority of the board of state charities, as to any infant, mentioned in the foregoing section, shall be the same that said board now has, as to infants in the state almshouses. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 137 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE Appropriations authorized. Senators, compensation. COMPENSATION AND MILEAGE OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE, Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, and shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to wit: For the compensation of senators, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the present session. tives. For the compensation of representatives, a sum not ex- Representaceeding twenty-seven thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the present session. For the compensation of the chaplains of the senate and Chaplains. house of representatives, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the present session. messengers, &c. For the compensation of the doorkeepers, messengers and Doorkeepers, pages of the senate and house of representatives, a sum not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the present session. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 31, 1870. AQUEDUCT COMPANY. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SPRINGFIELD Chap. 138 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: and improve SECTION 1. The Springfield Aqueduct Company is here- May increase by authorized to enlarge, increase and improve its water- water-works. sources, aqueducts, property and works, with a view to providing an increased supply of pure water for public and private uses in the city of Springfield; and for that purpose it may take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, such ponds, springs, streams, water-sources and the waters thereof within the limits of said city, and such lands under and around the same, as may be necessary, excepting within a district lying south of the location of the Boston and Albany Railroad and within two miles of Main street: provided, that said aqueduct company shall take no lands now owned by said railroad corporation, nor take or interfere with any water or springs in or upon the same; and provided, further, that said aqueduct company shall not take or interfere with, any springs or water-sources connected with any aqueduct owned and now used by private parties for domestic purposes, excepting such springs or water-sources as are already secured by law to said company. SECTION 2. Said company, for the purpose of using the water taken as aforesaid, may erect and maintain dams and reservoirs, pipes and aqueducts, and connect the same with the pipes now laid or which may hereafter be laid by said company; and may take, by purchase or otherwise, any lands which may be necessary therefor: providing, that this act shall not be so construed as to give the company any right to dig up or occupy the streets of said city in addition to the rights which it now has. May erect dams, reser voirs, &c. tion of springs, SECTION 3. Said company shall within sixty days after To file descriptaking any springs, streams, ponds, sources of water or lands &c., taken, |