Chap. 70 AN ACT RELATING TO THE ABOLITION OF GRADE CROSSINGS IN THE

Abolition of
grade crossings
in the city
of Newton.
1890, 428.

Recovery of damages.

CITY OF NEWTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Authority is hereby given to the mayor and aldermen of the city of Newton, and to the directors of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, to include in any petition under the provisions of chapter four hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen. hundred and ninety for the abolition of grade crossings upon the main line of said railroad company, any and all crossings of said railroad by ways above the grade of said railroad, and also all private ways over or across said railroad or the property of said railroad company; and the superior court and the justices thereof, and any commission appointed thereby, are also authorized to deal with and to include any and all such crossings above grade and private ways in any proceedings relating thereto, to the same extent as if they were respectively crossings of public ways at the level of the railroad; and said court and commission are authorized to make, by suitable openings or otherwise, provision for future crossings of said railroad by new streets to be hereafter laid out; and all provisions of said chapter four hundred and twenty-eight and any acts in amendment thereof shall apply to all the provisions of this act and crossings named therein.

SECTION 2. Any owner of private rights of way over said railroad, whose rights of way are injured or destroyed by any proceedings under this act, may recover damages therefor in the manner damages may be recovered under said chapter four hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety and acts amendatory thereof.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 17, 1892.

Chap.
71 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE TO PROVIDE FOR

1887, 194,
§ 2 amended.

THE PAYMENT OF ITS FUNDED DEBT BY ANNUAL PAYMENTS OF
SUCH AMOUNTS AS WILL IN THE AGGREGATE EXTINGUISH THE
SAME WITHIN THE TIME LIMITED BY LAW.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and ninety four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "payment", in the sixteenth line, and inserting

notes, bonds or

lish a sinking

in place thereof the following words: - and for the pay-
ment from time to time of the outstanding notes, bonds
or scrip, which shall constitute the said remainder of its
indebtedness, as they shall severally mature, in such
annual proportionate sums as will extinguish, or in annual
payments of such amounts as will in the aggregate extin-
guish, said indebtedness or the loans incurred in payment
of the same or any part thereof, within the time hereby
authorized; and the amount required for such payments
shall without further vote be assessed by the assessors of
said city in each year thereafter until the said indebtedness
shall be extinguished, in the same manner as other taxes
are assessed under the provisions of section thirty-four
of chapter eleven of the Public Statutes, so as to read
as follows: Section 2. The said city, availing itself of May issue new
the provisions of the foregoing section, may issue new scrip, and estab
notes, bonds or scrip, from time to time, as the outstand- fund.
ing notes, bonds or scrip, which shall then constitute the
remainder of its indebtedness, shall severally mature, for
the purpose of providing for the payment of the same,
and may make said notes, bonds or scrip, so issued as
aforesaid, payable at a time not exceeding twenty years
from the date of said issue, and shall at the time of said
issue establish a sinking fund and contribute thereto from
year to year an amount raised annually by taxation suffi-
cient, with its accumulations, to pay said notes, bonds or
scrip, so issued as aforesaid, at their maturity; or, instead May make
of providing for the payment of the said remainder of the tionate pay.
said indebtedness in the manner just before provided, the of establishing
said city may provide for its payment, and for the pay-
ment from time to time of the outstanding notes, bonds
or scrip, which shall constitute the said remainder of its
indebtedness, as they shall severally mature, in such
annual proportionate sums as will extinguish, or in annual
payments of such amounts as will in the aggregate extin-
guish, said indebtedness or the loans incurred in payment
of the same or any part thereof, within the time hereby
authorized; and the amount required for such payments Amount re-
shall without further vote be assessed by the assessors of quired to be
said city in each year thereafter until the said indebtedness assessors.
shall be extinguished, in the same manner as other taxes
are assessed under the provisions of section thirty-four
of chapter eleven of the Public Statutes.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 17, 1892.

annual propor

ments instead

sinking fund.

assessed by the

Chap.

72 AN ACT TO Authorize the mASSACHUSETTS Medical benevolent

May hold additional real and

SOCIETY TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Massachusetts Medical Benevolent personal estate. Society is hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate not exceeding in value the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 17, 1892.

Chap. 73 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WILDEY SAVINGS BANK IN THE CITY

OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Henry Denver, John J. Whipple, Henry A. Thomas, Horace W. Stickney, J. Lawrence Martin, Charles Q. Tirrell, Edwin L. Pilsbury, Charles N. Alexander, Francis Jewett, William F. Cook, John H. Locke, Charles E. Hibbard, John M. Raymond, George H. Howard, Asa T. Newhall, Alexander B. Bruce, Samuel C. Hart, Francis E. Harrington, Herbert A. Chase, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Wildey Savings Bank, to be located in the city of Boston; with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to savings banks and institutions for savings.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 18, 1892.

Chap. 74 AN ACT RELATING TO THE TAKING OF OYSTERS IN THE TOWN OF

P. 8. 91, § 94, amended.

Taking of

oysters regu. lated.

YARMOUTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section ninety-four of chapter ninety-one of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by inserting in the fifth line thereof, after the word "town", the words:- except the town of Yarmouth, so as to read as follows: Section 94. The mayor and aldermen of a city or selectmen of a town in which there are oyster beds may grant a permit in writing to any person to take oysters from their beds at such times, in such quantities, and for such uses, as they shall express in their permit; and every inhabitant of such city or town, except the town of Yarmouth, may, without

such permit, take oysters from the beds therein for the use
of his family, from the first day of September to the first
day of June, not exceeding in any week two bushels,
including the shells.
Approved March 18, 1892.

AN ACT TO DISSOLVE CERTAIN CORPORATIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 75

SECTION 1. Such of the following named corporations Corporations as are not already legally dissolved, viz. :

Acushnet Paper Company, The,

Adams Paper Company,

Agawam Co-operative Shoe Company,

Albert-Type Printing Company, The,
Albion Lead Works,

Alexander Company, The,

Allston Car Wheel Company,

Allston Steel Wheel Company,

American Art Foundry, The,

American Carpet Cleaning Company,

American Carpet Lining Company,

American Consolidated Fire Extinguisher Company,

American Co-operative Boot and Shoe Company, The,

American Diorama Company, The,

American Electric Company,

American Electric Light Company of Massachusetts, The,

American Furniture Company, The,

American Gas Lighting Company, The,

American Gas Screen Manufacturing Company,

American Homes Publishing Company, The,

American Horse Collar Company,

American Improved Gas Light Company of Boston,

American Improved Gas Light Company of Lawrence,
American Improved Gas Light Company of Lowell,
American Improved Gas Light Company of Massachu-
setts,

American Machine Company,

American Magnesium Company,

American Marble Cutting Company,

American Mercantile Company,

American Metallic Tubing Company,

American Needle Loom Company, The,

American Nickel Plating Works,

American Powder Company,

American Railway Frog Company,

American Straw Sewing Machine Company,

American Street Light Reflector Company,

American Tablet Manufacturing Company,

dissolved.

American Wiring Machine Company, The,
Anchor Tape and Webbing Company,
Apollo Manufacturing Company, The,
Aquapelle Company,

Arms and Bardwell Manufacturing Company, The,
Aromatic Pillow Company,

Art Newspaper Company, The,

Askie Manufacturing Company,

Assonet Fishing Company,

Athol Music Hall Association,

Atlantic and Gulf Steam Transportation Company,
Atlantic Car Company,

Atlas Horse Nail Company,

Attleboro' Coffee House Company,

Attleboro' Grocery Company, The,

Attleborough Steam Power Company,
Automatic Music Paper Company,
Automatic Roller Toboggan Company,
Automatic Sliding Company, The,
Avery Carbonic Acid Gas Company,
Avon Stone Company, The,

Ayer Telephone Exchange Company, The,
Baker Water Motor Company,

Ball Glove Fastening Company,

Ballou Boot and Shoe Sewing Machine Company,

Banker and Tradesman Publishing Company,

Banning Celluloid Supporter Company,

Barretts Junction Water Power Company, The,

Battery Wharf Company,

Bay State Arms Company, The,

Bay State Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Company,

Bay State Cash Carrier Company,

Bay State Comb Company,

Bay State Fire Insurance Company,

Bay State Hardware Company,

Bay State Telephone Company, The,

Bay State Wheel Company,

Beaman Manufacturing Company,

Beaver River Mills,

Beckwith Lumber Company,

Bedford Manufacturing Company,

Bee Hive Works,

Bel Air Manufacturing Company,

Bengal Bagging Company,

Benjamin Franklin Co-operative Council of the Sover

eigns of Industry, No. 76, of Mass.,

Benson Patent Manufacturing Company, The,

Berkshire Paper Company, The,

Beverly Citizens Co-operative Store, The,