any part of its other property, and may include in such mortgage property thereafter to be acquired. Said company may in such mortgage reserve to its directors the right to sell or otherwise in due course of business dispose of property included in such mortgage, which may become worn, damaged or otherwise unsuitable to be used in the operation of its road, provided that an equivalent in value be substituted in lieu thereof. certified that SECTION 4. All bonds so issued shall first be approved Bonds to be by some person appointed by the corporation for that pur- they are pose, who shall certify upon each bond that it is properly issued and recorded. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE BOSTON IN- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: properly issued. Chap.146 name of the trial Home. SECTION 1. The Boston Industrial Temporary Home, Corporations and the Appleton Temporary Home, corporations situated may unite under in the city of Boston, are authorized to unite and form Boston Indus. a single corporation under the name of the Boston Industrial Home; and the consolidated corporation shall have the powers, privileges, duties and liabilities of each of the Powers and original corporations, and shall further have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in chapters one hundred and five, one hundred and six and one hundred and fifteen of the Public Statutes, and acts in amendment thereof, so far as the same may be applicable to such corporation. duties. vested in con SECTION 2. All gifts, grants, bequests and devises Property to be heretofore or hereafter made to the Boston Industrial solidated corTemporary Home, or the Appleton Temporary Home, poration. and all property of either of said corporations shall, if said corporations unite in accordance with the provisions of this act, vest in said consolidated corporation. be issued upon SECTION 3. Said Boston Industrial Temporary Home Certificate to and said Appleton Temporary Home may accept the pro- acceptance of visions of this act at any time within one year from its this act. passage. And upon presentation of proper evidence of such acceptance to the commissioner of corporations, he shall issue his certificate that such union is effected, and such union shall take effect on the day of the date of said certificate. First meeting, etc. SECTION 4. The first meeting of the consolidated corporation shall be held on the second Friday after the date of said certificate, at a place and time to be fixed by both of said corporations at the meeting at which this act is accepted. The consolidated corporation at its first meeting may adopt new by-laws and elect new officers. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.147 AN ACT RELATING TO THE TIME OF MARKING SHADE TREES FOR Renewal of marks upon preservation. THEIR PRESERVATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The officials charged with the duty of shade trees for marking ornamental and shade trees, for their preservation, within the limits of highways, under the provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety, may make and renew such marks at such seasons of the year as they deem proper. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.148 AN ACT IN REFERENCE TO THE RETURN DAYS OF WRITS ISSUED BY Writs to be returnable not days from date. TRIAL JUSTICES AND DISTRICT, POLICE AND MUNICIPAL COURTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. No original writ issued by a trial justice, more than sixty or by a district, police or municipal court, shall be returnable more than sixty days from the date thereof. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 6, 1892. Chap.149 AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC CEMETERIES IN THE CITY OF 1884, 109, § 3, amended. WOBURN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eightyfour is hereby amended by inserting after the word “executed", in the third line thereof, the words: - by the treasurer of Woburn, also by inserting after the word "structures", in the sixth line thereof, the words: in said Woburn cemetery and public burial grounds, also by striking out the word "may", in the ninth line, and inserting in place thereof the word: shall, and by deed right of burial, etc. amended. striking out the words "said board of commissioners ", in the tenth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: said treasurer, so as to read as follows:- Section 3. May convey by Said board of commissioners shall have authority to grant and convey to any person, by deed or suitable conveyance made and executed by the treasurer of Woburn in such manner and form as they may prescribe, the sole and exclusive right of burial, and of erecting tombs, cenotaphs and other monuments or structures in said Woburn cemetery and public burial grounds, upon such terms and conditions as they shall by rules and regulations prescribe; and all such deeds and conveyances, and all thereafter made of the same by the owners thereof shall be recorded by said treasurer in suitable books of record, which said books shall be open to the public at all proper times. SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter is hereby 1884, 109, § 5, amended by striking out the words "Said board of commissioners are ", in the first line, and inserting in place thereof the words: - The city of Woburn by its treasurer is, and by striking out the words "themselves and their successors", in the fourteenth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: - the city of Woburn, so as to read as follows: Section 5. The city of Woburn by its treas- May hold approurer is authorized to take and hold any appropriation, grant, quests, etc. donation, gift or bequest heretofore made or hereafter to be made upon trust, to apply the same or the income thereof for the improvement or embellishment of said cemetery, or for the erection, repair or renewal of any monument, cenotaph, tablet, fence or other structure therein, or for the care, improvement or embellishment of any lot or its appurtenances in any manner or form consistent with the purposes for which said cemetery is established, according to the terms of such appropriation, grant, donation, gift or bequest, or upon such terms and conditions as said board may establish, and may by an agreement or obligation bind the city of Woburn so to apply the same. priations, be SECTION 3. Section six of said chapter is hereby 1884, 109, § 6, amended by striking out the word "town", in the first amended. and eighth lines, and inserting in place thereof the word: -city, also by striking out the words "board of com- vested by treasurer under direction of the word:―him, and by striking out the words " said board of commissioners and town treasurer shall be responsible to said town of Woburn for the faithful performance of their respective duties under the provisions of this act", in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: The bond of the treasurer of Woburn shall apply to and include duties performed under this act, so as to read as follows: Funds to be in Section 6. All funds now in the treasury of said city of Woburn, belonging to the account of said cemetery and commissioners. any and all sums of money so received by said treasurer, shall be invested by him under the direction of said board of commissioners, and all the same and all property so received shall ever be kept separate from any other moneys or property belonging to said city, and the income of the same shall be received by its treasurer, be subject to the order of said board of commissioners, and be appropriated by them in such manner as shall in their opinion best promote the purposes for which said appropriation, grant, donation, gift or bequest was or is made. The bond of the treasurer of Woburn shall apply to and include duties performed under this act. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.150 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF NEW BEDFORD TO BORROW New Bedford Treasurer to sell bonds, etc. MONEY FOR PARK PURPOSES BEYOND THE LIMIT FIXED BY LAW. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying for lands heretofore acquired or which may hereafter be acquired by the city of New Bedford for public parks, and for defraying the cost and expenses of constructing said parks, the city council of said city may, by votes passed from time to time in the manner provided by section seven of chapter twentynine of the Public Statutes, authorize its treasurer to issue negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness to be denominated on the face thereof, New Bedford Park Loan, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, payable in periods not exceeding fifty years from date and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent. per annum. SECTION 2. Said treasurer shall sell said bonds or certificates, or any part thereof, from time to time, and retain the proceeds thereof in the treasury of said city and pay therefrom the expenses incurred for the purposes aforesaid. included within SECTION 3. The debt and loans authorized by this act Loan not to be shall not be included within the limit fixed by section two the prescribed of chapter three hundred and twelve of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. debt limit. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY RAILROAD COM Be it enacted, etc., as follows: PANY. Chap.151 County Rail SECTION 1. Henry Norwell, Ebenezer T. Fogg, John Plymouth F. Simmons, Charles H. Killam, Jedediah Dwelley, road Company Alpheus Thomas, Seth Sprague, Charles S. Cushing, their incorporated." associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Plymouth County Railroad Company; with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the general railroad laws which are now or may hereafter be in force relating to railroad corporations, except as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to Location and locate, construct, maintain and operate a railroad, with construction. one or more tracks, commencing at some suitable point on the Old Colony railroad at or near the village of East Weymouth, in the town of Weymouth, and running thence through said Weymouth by the most feasible route to a point in Hingham; thence through said Hingham in a general southerly direction by the most feasible route to a point near Queen Anne's Corner, in the town of Norwell; thence through said Norwell, Hanover and Marshfield to a terminus near Brant Rock, in the town of Marshfield. Again beginning at a point on the Hanover branch railroad in the town of Hanover aforesaid, and near Curtis' crossing, so-called, and running thence by the most feasible route through said Hanover, Pembroke, and to a point on said first described route in said town of Marshfield; and to transport and carry persons and property, by steam, mechanical or any other power that said corporation may choose to apply. and shares. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with the privi |