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-to return ac- to such persons as the court may order; and the trustee

count of sales within one year.

shall return into court, within one year after his appointment, and at any other times when required by the court, an account on oath of any sale made, and all charges and expenditures therefor, which account, if just and true, shall

distribution of proceeds.

Court to order be allowed by the court; and the court shall thereupon order a distribution to be made of the remainder of the proceeds of such sale, to and among the persons entitled thereto according to their respective interests in the lands so sold, to be paid at such times, and upon the happening of such contingencies, as the court, having reference to the nature of their interests therein, may order; and any person having an interest in the lands so sold, may recover, by an action of contract, in his own name, against such trustee, or sureties in the bond, or both, all damages he may suffer from any breach of the conditions of such bond.

Approved May 20, 1870.

Chap. 258 AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN THE

Societies not to receive more

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

COMMONWEALTH.

Chapter sixty-six of the General Statutes is hereby so from state than altered and amended, that no agricultural society shall be has premiumaid entitled to receive a larger amount from the treasury of the

in during past year.

Chap. 259

Penalty for destroying show-bill, placard, &c.

Commonwealth in any one year, than it shall have awarded and actually paid in premiums during the year last preceding.

Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT IN RELATION TO SHOW-BILLS.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously mutilate, destroy or remove any show-bill, placard, programme, poster or other advertisement of any exhibition, show, or amusement licensed under the provisions of section seventy-four of chapter eighty-eight of the General Statutes, before the same has taken place, posted up on any walls, fence, bill-board or other structure not lawfully under his control, shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars.

• Approved May 20, 1870.

Chap. 260 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT CONCERNING Streets and HIGH

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

WAYS.

SECTION 1. Whenever it becomes the duty of the county commissioners in any county, to cause a highway to be made cerning making and completed, they shall have the same authority that is highways. given to selectmen in section three of chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Powers of county commissioners con

completing

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

Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT CONCERNING CONDITIONAL SALES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

Chap. 261

personal prop

Whoever being in possession of any personal property, Selling, &c., received upon a written and conditional contract of sale, erty received shall, with intent to defraud, (before performance of the upoditioritten conditions precedent to acquiring the title to such property,) pontractif sal sell, convey, conceal, or aid in concealing the same, shall be fine, &c. punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.

Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROVISIONS
FOR WIDOWS IN CERTAIN CASES."

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 262

pointed under subject to G. S.

SECTION 1. Trustees appointed under the provisions of Trustees apsection two of chapter one hundred and sixty-four of the acts 1861, 164, § 2, of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be subject 100. to the provisions of chapter one hundred of the General Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable.

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

Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIANS IN
CERTAIN CASES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 263

probate may be

minor child.

SECTION 1. When a judge or register of probate for any Judge, &c., of county desires to be appointed guardian of his minor child, appointed being an inhabitant of or residing in the same county, such and his appointment may be made, and all subsequent proceedings in regard thereto had in the probate court of the most ancient adjoining county.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage..
Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECORDING OF ATTACHMENTS OF REAL

AND LEASEHOLD ESTATES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 264

at

SECTION 1. When an attachment of real or leasehold when real estates on mesne process is made, the copy of the original estate is a writ and officer's return, now by law provided to be deposited mesne process, in the office of the clerk of courts for the county where the and officer's lands lie, shall hereafter, in counties where there is more recorded in than one office for the registry of deeds, be recorded in the registry of

copy of writ

return to be

registry for the district where the attached lands lie. All the powers and duties relative thereto, now vested in or to be performed by said clerk of courts, shall be vested in and performed by the register of deeds in said districts, and with like legal effect. All the provisions of law relating to the deposition of such copy and officer's return in the office of the clerk of courts shall be applicable to the deposition of the same in the office of the register of deeds under this act. SECTION 2. When it appears of record in the court where that an attach a suit is pending in which an attachment of real estate has Bolved, clerk to been made, that the attachment has been dissolved, it shall notify register. be the duty of the clerk of the court to forward to the regis

When it appears of record

ment is dis

ter of deeds for the district where it appears by the officer's
return said copy was deposited by him, a certificate of the
fact of such dissolution, and how the dissolution was made.
The register shall file such certificate with the copy of the
original writ, and also make a record thereof in his docket
of attachments.
Approved May 20, 1870.

Chap. 265 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN

Three commis

what towns are

tions and man

repairs, &c.,

shall be paid;

OF THE ACTS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO, CONCERN-
ING THE HINGHAM AND QUINCY TURNPIKE AND BRIDGES.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

SECTION 1. The governor, with the advice and consent of appointed; be the council, shall as soon as may be after the passage of this act, appoint a board of three commissioners, who shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial discharge of their duties. -to determine It shall be the duty of said commissioners, after due notice benefited and to all parties interested and a hearing, to determine and in what propor- decree what towns and cities in this Commonwealth are or ner expenses of will be specially and directly benefited by the provisions of the first section of the act hereby amended; and shall also determine and decree, in what proportions and in what manner the said towns and cities shall defray the expenses incurred after the passage of this act for the maintenance and repair of the abutments, draws, piers and bridges mentioned in said act, the reasonable expenses, costs and charges of said commission, and all other expenses properly incurred under this act and the act hereby amended, not, otherwise specially provided for, and their determination and decree, or that of a major part of them, shall be made in writing and reported to the supreme judicial court for either of the counties of Plymouth, Norfolk or Suffolk; and the same having been accepted by said court, after due notice thereof served upon each of said cities and towns in such manner as said court may order, shall be binding upon said cities and towns.

what officers

SECTION 2. Said commissioners may in like manner -to determine determine and decree what officers shall have the care and shall have care superintendence of the said abutments, bridges, draws and and superintenpiers, and perform the duties by the provisions of said act bridges, &c. imposed upon the chairmen of the selectmen of the towns of Quincy, Weymouth and Hingham: provided, however, that Proviso. until the acceptance of said report as herein before provided, the said chairmen shall continue to perform the duties imposed upon them by said act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE GREENLEAF AND TAYLOR Chap. 266

MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

1

to "Massasoit

SECTION 1. The Greenleaf and Taylor Manufacturing Name changed
Company, a corporation established in Springfield, under Paper Manu-
the general laws, shall be called and known as the Massasoit facturing Com-
Paper Manufacturing Company, on and after the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ADAMS SUGAR REFINERY.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows :

pany."

Chap. 267

SECTION 1. Seth Adams, Isaac Adams, Warren Fisher, Corporators. junior, and Aquila Adams, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the "Adams Name and purSugar Refinery," for the purpose of refining sugar in the pose. city of Boston; 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 hereafter may be in force relative to such corporations.

and shares.

SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not Capital stock exceed one million dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said corporation may hold Real estate. for the purpose aforesaid real estate to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, and shall not commence business until five hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock shall have been paid in in cash.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 20, 1870.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE HAMPDEN MILLS TO INCREASE ITS

CAPITAL STOCK.

Chap. 268

Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Hampden Mills, incorporated by an act Additional cappassed on the twenty-ninth day of March, in the year one

ital stock.

Real estate.

thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby authorized
to increase its capital stock to an amount not exceeding five
hundred thousand dollars; and said corporation may hold
real estate for the purposes for which it was incorporated not
exceeding in amount four hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 20, 1870.

Chap. 269 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE GRAFTON AND Millbury RAILROAD

Corporators.

Name.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

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COMPANY.

SECTION 1. W. D. Wheeler, Rufus E. Warren, J. H. Wood, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Grafton and Millbury Rail

Powers and du- road Company; with all the powers and privileges, and sub

ties.

May build road from Boston and Albany Railroad in Grafton, to Millbury Branch in Armory Village in Millbury.

Capital stock and shares.

May construct road in two sections.

ject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to railroad corporations.

SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to locate, construct, maintain and operate a railroad, with one or more tracks, from some convenient point on the railroad of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company in the town of Grafton, and thence running through, or as nearly through the village in the centre of said town as may be, to some convenient point at or near the station of the Millbury Branch Railroad in Armory Village, so called, in said Millbury; and said corporation may enter with its railroad upon, unite the same with, and use the railroad of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, and said last mentioned railroad company may enter with its railroad upon, unite the same with and use the railroad of said corporation, subject to the provisions of the general laws.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, nor be less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, the number of which shall be determined from time to time by its directors.

SECTION 4. Said corporation is hereby authorized to construct its road in two sections, the location of which shall be determined by said corporation and shall be duly filed; and said corporation may commence the construction of either of said sections whenever shares of the capital stock shall have been subscribed to the amount and at the rate of twenty-five thousand dollars per mile of such section, and twenty per cent. of the par value of each and every of such shares has

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