STATUTES INCLUDED IN FOREGOING COMPILATION. 113 CHAPTER 295.-An Act relating to the awards of special commissioners in the CHAPTER 430. —An Act authorizing railroad corporations to change their locations for the purpose of improving the alignment of their roads PAGE CHAPTER 155.- An Act to amend an act to extend and regulate the liability of employers to make compensation for personal injuries suffered by employees in their service CHAPTER 176.- An Act to prohibit railroad corporations from requiring women and children to ride in smoking cars CHAPTER 188.- An Act in relation to voting by proxy at meetings of corpora CHAPTER 240.- An Act to amend an act to promote safety at railroad grade crossings CHAPTER 365. - An Act in relation to the evidence given at inquests CHAPTER 241.-- An Act relating to the quarterly returns of railroad corporations CHAPTER 246 An Act to provide for the passage of vessels through the draws of certain bridges over Charles River. CHAPTER 328.— An Act relating to the annual returns of railroad corporations. 14, 36 CHAPTER 371.-An Act to promote the safety of the public at grade crossings CHAPTER 118.- An Act to amend an act relative to the passage of vessels through the draws of certain bridges over Charles River CHAPTER 173. — An Act relative to signals at grade crossings An Act to permit railroad or street railway companies to use the Meigs system of elevated railways CHAPTER 382 - An Act relating to crossings at grade by railroads for private CHAPTER 428.— An Act to promote the abolition of grade crossings CHAPTER 33. An Act to amend an act to promote the abolition of grade crossings CHAPTER 123.- An Act to further amend an act to promote the abolition of 70 73 11 36 96 114 STATUTES INCLUDED IN FOREGOING COMPILATION. CHAPTER 204.- An Act relating to the making up and shifting of freight trains and the sounding of locomotive whistles CHAPTER 249.- An Act to regulate the heating of passenger cars on railroads CHAPTER 262.- An Act to authorize the governor and council to take action in cases relating to grade crossings Statutes of 1892. CHAPTER 59, §§ 1, 2, 3, 5. - An Act relating to the issuing of railroad passes and the compensation of members of the legislature CHAPTER 110.- An Act authorizing steam railroads to use electricity as a motive power CHAPTER 171.- An Act to require railroad companies to maintain crossings to CHAPTER 228.-An Act relating to crossings of railroads, street railways, high- CHAPTER 312.- An Act relating to the abolition of grade crossings 84 Statutes of 1893. CHAPTER 131.—An Act to provide for quarterly statements by railroad corporations CHAPTER 142.- An Act to provide for compensation in cases of joint occupancy of railroad stations and grounds. CHAPTER 144. - An Act requiring state boards and commissions to report recommendations for legislation on or before the first Wednesday in January CHAPTER 210.- An Act in relation to the transportation of milk 37 107 14 87 61 26 102 61 Statutes of 1894. CHAPTER 40. Resolve relating to the equipment of freight cars with automatic couplers CHAPTER 41. — An Act to provide for the blocking of railroad frogs, switches and guard-rails CHAPTER 59. -- An Act to repeal the act relating to the examination and test of safety couplers on freight cars STATUTES INCLUDED IN FOREGOING COMPILATION. 115 CHAPTER 216. -- An Act relating to the abolition of grade crossings - An Act relating to certain contracts for the conditional sale, lease or hire of railroad and street railroad equipment and rolling stock, and providing for the recording thereof CHAPTER 350. -- An Act prohibiting the issue of stock or scrip dividends by corporations CHAPTER 389.- An Act relative to notices in cases of injuries to persons or CHAPTER 469. -- An Act relative to the transaction of express business within the commonwealth upon railroad and steamboat lines CHAPTER 472.-- An Act relating to the increase of capital stock by corporations owning or operating a railroad or railway by steam or other power, and of gas light, electric light, telegraph, telephone, aqueduct and water companies CHAPTER 499.-- An Act relating to the liability of employers to make compensation for personal injuries suffered by employees in their service CHAPTER 502.- An Act relative to the increase of the capital stock and bonds of railroad corporations. 102 24 90 27 103 28 108 CHAPTER 506.- An Act relating to leases and consolidations of railroad and street railway companies CHAPTER 508, §§ 51-54, 65, 80.— An Act regulating the employment of labor CHAPTER 535 - An Act to provide for the appointment of steam railroad inspectors CHAPTER 545. — An Act relative to the payment to the commonwealth by cities and towns of the amount of expense apportioned to them in the abolition of grade crossings. CHAPTER 103. — An Act relative to the abolition of grade crossings CHAPTER 293.- An Act relative to damages from fires communicated by locomotive engines CHAPTER 313.- An Act to provide an assistant clerk for the board of railroad commissioners CHAPTER 356. — An Act to authorize railroad corporations to file a location of |