Chap. 23. Real estate. Chap. 25. Corporators. Purpose. Powers and duties. Real estate. Proviso. Officers, except treasurer may be married women. Liability of husband. Chap. 26. Boston. [1828, 70.] AN ACT relating to the Warren Institution for Savings. SECTION 1. The Warren Institution for Savings, in the [1854, 195; 1855, 71; repealed 1859, 195.] AN ACT to incorporate the Needle Woman's Friend Society. SECTION 1. Abigail L. Wales, Mary W. Coffin, Ella S. Whitney, Mary F. Quincy, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated by the name of the Needle Woman's Friend Society, for the purpose of providing employment for indigent females, with all the powers and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the Revised Statutes, chapter forty-four. SECTION 2. The said corporation may receive and take, by purchase, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise, any real or personal property, and hold the same for the purposes aforesaid, and may manage and dispose of the same: provided, that the whole amount of the property held and possessed by the said corporation shall not exceed in value the sum of twenty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. All the officers of the said society, except the treasurer, may be married women. The treasurer, if a female, shall be unmarried. SECTION 4. Every married woman belonging to the said society, who shall, with the consent of her husband, receive any of the money or other property of the said society, shall thereby render her husband accountable therefor to the said society. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 31, 1851. AN ACT to authorize Donald McKay to extend his Wharf. Donald McKay, proprietor of a wharf situated on Border Street, in that part of Boston known as East Boston, and lying between and adjoining the land and flats of Noah Sturtevant and Joseph Noble, is hereby authorized to extend and maintain his wharf into the harbor channel as far as the line established by the act entitled "An Act concerning the harbor of Boston," passed on the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and he shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and age, &c. sides of the said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dock- May receive dockage therefor provided, however, that this grant shall not Proviso. be construed to extend to any flats or land of this Commonwealth, lying in front of the flats of any other person, or which would be comprehended by the true line of such flats continued to the commissioners' line: and provided, also, that so much of the said wharf as may be constructed below low-water mark shall be built on piles, which piles shall not be nearer to each other than six feet in the direction of the stream, and eight feet in a transverse direction, and that this act shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person. or corporation whatever. March 31, 1851. established. AN ACT to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Fitchburg. Chap. 27. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. A fire department is hereby established in Fire department the town of Fitchburg, subject to all the duties and liabilities, and with all the powers and privileges, set forth and contained in an act entitled "An act to regulate fire departments," passed on the ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 31, 1851. AN ACT authorizing Parker Burnham and others to extend their Wharf, Chap. 28. and construct a Marine Railway at Gloucester. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: wharf, and con SECTION 1. Parker Burnham, Elias Burnham and Joseph May extend B. Burnham, are hereby authorized and allowed to extend struct marine their wharf, in the harbor of Gloucester, to a line drawn railway, &c. from "Harbor Rock" to the south-west corner of " Pearce's Wharf," and to construct and maintain a marine railway adjoining the same for the purpose of repairing vessels; &c. and they shall be allowed to collect dockage and wharfage, May receive dockand railway fees, from vessels occupying the same: provided, however, that this grant shall in no wise impair the legal Proviso. rights of any person whomsoever. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1813, 149.] March 31, 1851. AN ACT confirming the Doings of the Nobscusset Point Peir Company, Chap. 30. and granting additional privileges to the Corporation. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: make further im SECTION 1. The Nobscusset Point Pier Company is hereby Authorized to authorized and allowed to make such further improvements provements. on the land, wharves, and docks, belonging to the said corporation, for the better accommodation of navigation in the harbor of Dennis, as shall be deemed requisite by the said confirmed. Previous rights company; and the rights heretofore exercised by the said company, of building wharves in the outer harbor from the land of said corporation, and constructing within the same a safe harbor for mooring vessels in winter, are hereby allowed May receive dock and confirmed, and the said company is hereby authorized to collect dockage and wharfage on vessels occupying the same: provided, that this grant shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person. age, &c. Proviso. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 31, 1851. Chap. 33. AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Charitable Fund in the Town Trustees. Vacancies, how supplied. Trustees to elect a clerk and treasurer. Quorum. treasurer. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: of Lancaster. SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the town of Lancaster, at any meeting duly called under a warrant having an article therein for that purpose, may elect five persons, who, with their successors, and the minister for the time being of the First Congregational Society in the said town, duly settled over the same, and his successors in office, shall thereafter be constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the Charitable Fund in the Town of Lancaster; and whenever vacancy shall occur in the said board of trustees, by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, such vacancy shall be supplied by a new election by the inhabitants aforesaid, at a meeting duly called, in the manner above provided, for that purpose. SECTION 2. Such trustees shall elect a clerk and treasurer, who shall hold his office for the term of one year, or until another shall be chosen in his stead; and at all meetDuty of clerk and ings of the said trustees a majority of the whole number shall constitute a quorum; and it shall be the duty of such clerk and treasurer to keep a true account of all moneys paid or contributed towards the fund aforesaid, to hold, manage and disburse the same as the trustees shall direct, regard being had to the wishes of the donors when known, and faithfully to account for the same when thereto lawfully required. March 31, 1851. [1846, 247; 1847, 101; 1848, 34; 1849, 18; 1850, 4.] Chap. 34. AN ACT concerning the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad Company. Authorized to locate and con to connect with Vermont and Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad Company are struct a track hereby authorized, in pursuance of any contract in writing that may be made between them and the Fitchburg Railroad Company, and not otherwise, to locate and construct a track for the use of their freight trains only, from their passenger depot in said Fitchburg, across the land adjacent to the passenger depot of the Fitchburg Railroad Company in Fitch- [1851, 78; 1852, 178; 1853, 19, 185; 1855, 483.] AN ACT to authorize John Morgan and Henry Morgan to extend their Chap. 35. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Wharf. John Morgan and Henry Morgan are hereby authorized to extend and maintain their wharf, in the town of Beverly, Beverly. into the harbor of said Beverly, to a distance not exceeding the line of the ends of the adjoining wharves, as they now are, and to extend the sides of the said wharf on parallel lines with the sides of the said adjoining wharves; the said May receive dockextension to be built upon piles; and they shall have the age, &c. right to lay vessels at the end and sides of the said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, Proviso. that this grant shall not in any manner interfere with the legal rights of any persons whomsoever. March 31, 1851. Chap. 36. AN ACT to incorporate the Oread Institute. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Eli Thayer, Isaac Davis, Stephen Salisbury, Corporators. their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of Oread Institute, in Worcester, in the Name. county of Worcester, with all the powers and privileges, and Powers and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. duties. al estate. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real estate to Real and personthe amount of sixty thousand dollars, and personal property to the amount of ten thousand dollars, to be devoted exclusively to the education of females. March 31, 1851. Chap. 37. AN ACT to authorize John W. Damon to extend his Wharf. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: John W. Damon is hereby authorized to extend his wharf, in the city of Charlestown, to the line established by the Charlestown. "Act concerning the harbor of Boston," passed on the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and he shall have the right to lay vessels at the May lay vessels, end and sides of the said wharf, and to receive wharfage and c. dockage therefor: provided, however, that this grant shall Proviso. not be construed to extend to any flats or land of this Commonwealth, lying in front of the flats of any other person, or receive dockage, Proviso. Chap. 39. Stockholders shall continue to be members until, &c. which would be comprehended by the true line of such flats continued to the commissioners' line: and provided, also, that so much of the said wharf as shall extend below lowwater mark, shall be built on piles, which piles shall not be nearer to each other than six feet in the direction of the stream, and eight feet in a transverse direction, and that the provisions of this act shall in no wise affect the legal rights of any persons whomsoever. April 5, 1851. [1846, 146; 1848, 120; 1850, 257.] Be it enactea, &c., as follows: Notwithstanding the assignment and transfer heretofore made, or that shall hereafter be made, by any stockholder of the Hancock Free Bridge Corporation, of his shares therein, to the said corporation, he shall still continue to be a member thereof until the objects of the same shall be Corporation shall accomplished; and the said corporation shall not, by reason of such assignments and transfers, be released from its obligation to the Commonwealth to carry out its objects, as provided in its act of incorporation. not be released. [1853, 403; 1854, 254; 1855, 344.] April 5, 1851. Chap. 41. AN ACT to incorporate the Hampden Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators. Name changed. 1852, 131. Purpose. Powers and duties. SECTION 1. William B. Calhoun, Henry Sizer, Chester W. Chapin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Hampden Mutual Fire Insurance Company, to be established in Springfield, for the term of twenty-eight years, for the purpose of insuring buildings, stock in trade, and all other kinds of personal property, on the mutual principle, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, and in all other general laws of this Commonwealth, which are now in force or which may hereafter be enacted relating to such corporations. SECTION 2. After the organization of the said corporamay also insure, tion, books may be opened for the subscription of a guarantee capital of one hundred thousand dollars; and whenever that amount shall be subscribed and paid in, the said corporation may also insure and issue policies otherwise than on the Semi-annual div- mutual principle. Said guarantee capital shall be divided into shares by the said corporation, and shall be entitled to receive a semi-annual dividend, such as may be determined by the directors, not to exceed four per cent.; and no such shares shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in, in cash, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. Whenever $100,000 subscribed, &c. idend. |