til the sum of twenty thousand dollars has been paid in, in cash. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 28, 1870. Chap. 41. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST CONVENTION $200,000 in real estate. TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows : SECTION 1. The Massachusetts Baptist Convention is hereby authorized to hold real estate to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars; and all income, arising from such real estate, shall be applied exclusively to the purposes of said corporation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 28, 1870. Chap. 42. AN ACT TO REVIVE THE WASHINGTON BANK, FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. Charter revived Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The corporation heretofore known as the Presof copyinse ident, Directors and Company of the Washington Bank, and real estate. located in Boston, is hereby revived and continued for the purpose of enabling the president and directors of said Washington Bank at the time when the same became an association for carrying on the business of banking under the laws of the United States, to convey, assign and transfer to the Washington National Bank of said Boston, any real estate or interests therein of the said Washington Bank, and for no other purpose whatever. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 3, 1870. Chap. 43. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT INCORPORATING THE WORCESTER May hold real and personal estate not ex COUNTY FREE INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows : SECTION 1. The Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science is hereby authorized to receive by gift, devise, ceeding $1,000,- bequest or otherwise, and to hold for the purposes for which 000. it was incorporated, real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding one million dollars. SECTION 2. The aforesaid institute is hereby authorized and empowered to award and confer degrees appropriate to the several courses of study pursued in said institution. May confer de grees. Approved March 3, 1870. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE FRANCONIA IRON AND STEEL COMPANY Be it enacted, &c., as follows : Chap. 44. wharf in Ware SECTION 1. License is hereby given to the Franconia Iron May construct and Steel Company, to construct and maintain a wharf in ham. line of the south-east corner of the Parker Mills Wharf in Wareham, to the north-east corner of the said Franconia trol of harbor Iron and Steel Company's wharf in said Wareham: provided, Subject to conthat all things done under this act shall be subject to the commissioners. determination and approval of the harbor commissioners, as provided in the fourth section of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and provided, that this license shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person; and provided, further, Provisos. that this license may be revoked at any time, and shall expire at the end of five years after its taking effect, except so far as valuable structures may have been actually and in good faith built under the same. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 3, 1870. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INCOME OF THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows : Chap. 45. One-half of infund to be dis come of school tributed for SECTION 1. One-half of the annual income of the Massachusetts school fund shall be apportioned and distributed for the support of public schools without a specific appropriation. public schools All money appropriated for other educational purposes, without specifi unless otherwise provided for by the act appropriating the same, shall be paid from the other half of said income. If If income exthe income in any year exceeds such appropriations, the ations, surplus surplus shall be added to the principal of said fund. ceeds approprito be added to principal of Repeal. SECTION 2. Section two of chapter thirty-six of the Gen-funde eral Statutes is hereby repealed. Approved March 4, 1870. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE LOCATION AND CONSTRUC- Be it enacted, &c., as follows : Chap. 46. for and SECTION 1. The time for locating and constructing the Time extended East Walpole Branch Railroad is hereby extended to the constracting first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy- road. two, and for the extension of the same to the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 4, 1870. Chap. 47. AN ACT CONCERNING THE DUXBURY AND COHASSET RAILROAD COM May contract with South Shore and Old Colony Railroad Companies con Be it enacted, &c., as follows: PANY. SECTION 1. The Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company is hereby authorized to contract with the South Shore Railroad Company and the Old Colony and Newport Railway struction, &c., Company, or either of them, for the construction, completion of its road. South Shore and Old Colony Railroad Comhold $200,000 of panies may its stock. Bonds. Bonds may be issued not ex and operation of its railroad, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and may sell or lease its railroad, franchise, and other property, with all its rights, to either of said last named corporations; and the corporation so purchasing or leasing shall hold, possess and enjoy all the powers, privileges, rights, franchise, property and estate which at the time of such purchase or lease were held and enjoyed by said Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and obligation to which the last named corporation was subject. SECTION 2. The South Shore Railroad Company and the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company, or either of them, may subscribe for and hold stock in said Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars; and for the purpose of paying for such stock, may issue bonds secured by mortgage or otherwise; and said Old Colony and Newport Railway Company is hereby authorized to endorse or guarantee bonds of said South Shore Railroad Company issued for the purpose aforesaid, upon such terms as said corporations may agree. SECTION 3. The Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company ceeding $100,- is hereby authorized, when the whole amount of its capital 000. Act to be accepted within one year. stock shall have been subscribed for by responsible parties, and twenty per cent. of the par value of each and every share thereof has been actually paid into its treasury, to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, for the completion of its railroad, and secure the payment thereof by a mortgage of its railroad property, franchise and rights. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and shall be void unless accepted by the Duxbury and Coffasset Railroad Company within one year from the date hereof. Approved March 4, 1870. Chap. 48. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WEYMOUTH BRANCH FREIGHT RAIL Corporators. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: ROAD COMPANY. SECTION 1. Isaac Pratt, junior, Nahum Stetson, Warren G. Comey, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Weymouth Branch Freight Name. Railroad Company; with all the powers and privileges, and Powers and dusubject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth ties. in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to railroad corporations, so far as the same may be applicable under the provisions of this act. railroad for SECTION 2. Said corporation may locate, construct, main- May construct tain and operate a railroad, to be used for the transportation transportation of freight only, in the town of Weymouth, commencing at a of freight. point on the South Shore Railroad, about twenty-four hundred feet north-westerly of the East Weymouth station; thence running south-easterly and southerly across Commercial Street and Drury Lane; thence westerly of the shoe factory of Dizer and others; thence across Broad Street, passing in the rear of the houses of John Geary and Jacob Dizer; thence south-easterly across Shawmut Street to the premises of the Weymouth Iron Company; and may enter with its road upon and unite with the road of the South Shore Railroad Company by convenient switches, in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon in writing; and Maycontract said corporation may contract with the South Shore Railroad nance and oper Company, and the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company, or either of them, to maintain and operate its said railroad. ation of road. lease franchise or Old Colony SECTION 3. Said corporation may sell, assign or lease its May sell or railroad, franchise and other property to the South Shore to South Shore Railroad Company, or the Old Colony and Newport Railway roads. Company, and said last named corporations are hereby respectively authorized to purchase or hire the same. Iron Company SECTION 4. The Weymouth Iron Company, the South Weymouth Shore Railroad Company and the Old Colony and Newport and South Railway Company, respectively, are hereby authorized to Colony roads subscribe for and hold shares in the capital stock of the may hold stock Weymouth Branch Freight Railroad Company. in road. and shares. SECTION 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall not Capital stock exceed 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 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage, To be locate and shall be void unless said railroad shall be located within years and contwo years and constructed within three years from the date three years. hereof. Approved March 4, 1870. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF Be it enacted, &c., as follows: BOSTON. structed within Chap. 49. SECTION 1. Luther Stephenson, Jr., Samuel Little, David Corporators. Whiton, their associates and successors, are hereby made a pose. Name and pur- corporation, by the name of The Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, to be established and located in the city of Powers and du- Boston, for the purpose of making insurance on lives; with ties. all the powers and privileges, and subject to the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in so much of the fifty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes as relates to mutual life insurance companies, and all other acts which are or may be in force relative to such companies. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 4, 1870. Chap. 50. AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF MOUNT MINERAL SPRINGS COM Charter revived and extended two years. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: PANY. SECTION 1. Chapter eighty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven is hereby revived and continued in force, and the time for organizing said corporation, authorized thereby, is hereby extended two years. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 51. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SYLVANUS N. STAPLES AND WILLIAM H. May extend wharf in Taunton. PHILLIPS TO EXTEND THEIR WHARF IN TAUNTON. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. License is hereby given to Sylvanus N. Staples and William H. Phillips to extend their wharf on the west side of Taunton Great River, above Weir Bridge, so called, in Taunton, to the following line, viz.: beginning at the south-easterly corner of said wharf, being the north-easterly corner of land owned by the city of Taunton; thence by a straight line north-easterly to a point in said river, which is thirty-five feet south-easterly from the point of the present angle in said wharf; thence north-easterly by a straight line to a point on the southerly side of land owned by LeBaron B. Church, which is eighty feet south-easterly from the corner of said Church's land and the present wharf of said Staples and Phillips; with a right to lay vessels not more than one deep, along the front of said wharf, and to collect wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, that all things done under commissioners. this act shall be subject to the determination and approval of Wharfage and dockage. trol of harbor Provisos. the harbor commissioners, as provided in the fourth section of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and said commissioners shall have authority to require as a condition of this license such excavations on the shores and beds of said river as they may think sufficient to compensate for the encroachment on said river herein authorized; and provided, that this license shall |