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Location.

May enter upon

and use the Nor

folk County Railroad.

Capital stock.

Real estate.

Location and construction.

May dispose of

franchise to Nor

road Company.

or shall hereafter be, passed, relative to railroad corporations.

SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct, and maintain a railroad, with one or more tracks from some convenient point on the Norfolk County Railroad, in Wrentham, to some convenient point near the central village in Wrentham; and to enter with their railroad, by proper turnouts and switches, upon the Norfolk County Railroad, at the point aforesaid, and to use the same, or any part thereof, according to the provisions of law.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed three hundred and fifty shares, the number of which shall be determined from time to time by the directors of said corporation; and no assessment shall be laid thereon of a greater amount, in the whole, than one hundred dollars on each share, and the said corporation may purchase and hold such real estate as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation.

SECTION 4. If the location of this road be not filed within two years, and if said railroad be not constructed within three years from the passage of this act, then this act shall be void.

SECTION 5. Said corporation is hereby authorized to folk County Rail- dispose of their franchise, and all their rights under this act, to the Norfolk County Railroad Company, on such terms as shall be agreed upon by said corporations respectively; and if said Wrentham Branch Railroad Corporation shall thus transfer its franchise and rights to the Norfolk County Railroad Company, the said Norfolk County Railroad are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock by the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 24, 1853.

Chap. 89. AN ACT to authorize the First Congregational Parish in Abington to

Authority to sell and convey land.

Parish committee and

to execute deliver deed.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

sell Real Estate.

SECTION 1. The First Congregational Parish in Abington is hereby authorized to sell and convey by deed, a piece of parsonage land situated in said town, near the dwellinghouse of Noah Reed and bounded by the land of said Reed. the land of James Whitmarsh, and by the new road, containing about twelve rods.

SECTION 2. The said parish may, at any legal meeting called for that purpose, choose a committee to make sale of said land, in such way and manner as shall best promote the interest of said parish; and the committee thus chosen

shall have authority to execute and deliver deeds accordingly.

how applied.

SECTION 3. The proceeds of the sale of said land shall be Proceeds of sale applied to the repairing or improvement of the parsonage

estate.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its

passage.

March 24, 1853.

Chap. 91.

AN ACT to incorporate the Boston French Institute.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Hubbard Winslow, Joseph Hale Abbott, of Boston, James Corporators Lloyd Oliver, of Brookline, Duncan Bradford, of Charlestown, Charles Carroll, of Cambridge, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston French Institute, for the purpose of providing Purpose. regular lectures, a reading-room, and a library, all in the French language; to have all the powers and privileges, and Powers and dube subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes; Real and personwith power also to hold real and personal estate to the al estate. amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

[1852, 57.]

ties.

March 24, 1853.

Chap. 92.

AN ACT to incorporate the American Linen Company.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Richard Borden, Jefferson Borden, David Corporators. Anthony, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the American Linen Company, for the purpose of manufacturing linen goods in the town of Fall River, in the county of Bristol; and for this purpose Powers and dushall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes.

ties.

sonal estate.

SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and Real and perpersonal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount five hundred thousand dollars.

issued under par.

SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said company No shares to be shall be issued for a less sum or amount to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued.

pealed.

SECTION 4. The fifty-seventh chapter of the acts passed in Former act rethe year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two authorizing the organization of the American Linen Manufacturing Company under the provisions of the one hundred and thirty-third chapter of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act relating to Joint

Chap. 94.

Corporators.

Purpose.

Stock Companies," is hereby repealed; but nothing herein
contained shall impair or affect the validity of any sale or
conveyance of property which may have been heretofore
made to the said American Linen Manufacturing Company.
SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
March 24, 1853.

[1859, 53.]

AN ACT to incorporate the Dunnell Manufacturing Company.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Jacob Dunnell, Nathaniel W. Brown, and Thomas L. Dunnell, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Dunnell Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing, dyeing, bleaching and printing, all kinds of textile fabrics, in Powers and du- the town of Pawtucket, in the county of Bristol, and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes.

ties.

Real and personal estate.

No shares to be issued under par.

SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued.

[1834, 126.]

March 24, 1853.

Chap. 95. AN ACT in addition to an Act entitled "An Act concerning Alewives in Herring River, in the Town of Sandwich."

Penalties for fishing otherwise

by selectmen.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

If any person or persons shall take any of the fish, named than as allowed in said act, in said Herring River, or the ponds in which said. fish cast their spawn, at any time or in any place or manner, other than shall be allowed by the selectmen of said town of Sandwich, each person so offending shall, for each and every such offence, on conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace, in the county of Barnstable, pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars and not less than one dollar, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail of said county, for a time not exceeding sixty days, at the discretion of the justice before whom the trial may be had. March 26, 1853.

[1854, 285.]

AN

An Act to incorporate the Young Men's Library Association of Wor- Chap. 96.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

cester.

SECTION 1. Francis H. Dewey, George W. Bentley, Corporators. George F. Hoar, Nathaniel Paine, Henry Woodward, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Young Men's Library Association, of Worcester, for the purpose of diffusing and promoting knowledge Purpose. among the inhabitants of the city of Worcester; with all the Powers and dupowers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restric- ties. tions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and per- Real and personal estate, for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in all, sonal estate. the value of fifty thousand dollars, the legal title of which shall be in five trustees, to be chosen by the corporation.

SECTION 3. All investments of the funds of the corpora- Investments of tion, in real estate, or other securities at interest, shall be funds. made by the said trustees, and shall be subject to their control and disposition; but no sale or transfer of the library Transfer of shall be made except by the authority of a vote of the library. corporation.

tors to have

SECTION 4. The disposition of the income, and the general Board of direcaffairs of the corporation, shall be subject to the care and tr management. management of the board of directors.

SECTION 5. All male inhabitants of Worcester, above the Persons eligible. age of fourteen years, shall be eligible as members of the corporation, and entitled to vote, and to act as officers thereof, excepting that no person under twenty-one years of age shall be a trustee.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 26, 1853.

[1856, 49.]

[Special Laws, vol. 1, p. 382; vol. 2, pp. 51, 164; vol. 3, p. 355; 1835, 132.] AN ACT relating to the Patucket Canal.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 97.

So much of an act, entitled "An Act to regulate the Toll Part of former on Patucket Canal," passed in the year one thousand eight act repealed. hundred and thirty-five, as provides for the construction and maintenance of a tow path from the Suffolk or Western Canal to the head of the Patucket Canal, is hereby repealed. March 26, 1853.

AN ACT to incorporate the Pemberton Mill.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 98.

SECTION 1. J. Pickering Putnam, John Amory Lowell, corporators. and Homer Bartlett, and their associates and successors, are

Purpose.

hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Pemberton M.ll, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, woollen, linen, and silk cloth and yarn, in the town of Lawrence, in the Powers and du- county of Essex; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes.

ties.

Real estate.

Capital stock.

SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold, for the purposes aforesaid, real estate to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the whole capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed five hundred thousand No shares to be dollars; and no shares of said corporation shall be issued ssued under par. for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued.

[1857, 46.]

March 26, 1853.

Chap. 99.

Wharf in
Orleans.

AN ACT to authorize Ziba Eldridge and others to build a Wharf. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Ziba Eldridge and his associates are hereby authorized to build and maintain a wharf, from the land of said Ziba Eldridge, adjoining the harbor of Pleasant Bay, in the town of Orleans, and to extend the same to eight feet of water at May receive dock- low tide; and to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, that this act shall in no wise impair the legal right of any person. March 29, 1853.

age, &c.

Proviso.

Chap. 100 AN ACT authorizing the Mattapan Iron Works to establish a Workshop in the Town of Malden.

May establish a workshop in Malden.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Mattapan Iron Works, a corporation organized under the one hundred and thirty-third chapter of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act relating to Joint Stock Companies," are hereby authorized to establish a workshop in the town of Malden, for purposes connected with their business; any thing in said act, or in the action of said corporation under it, to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853.

Chap. 101 AN ACT to authorize Timothy P. Johnson and Samuel S. Smith to build

Wharf in Provincetown.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

a Wharf.

Timothy P. Johnson and Samuel S. Smith are hereby authorized to build and maintain a wharf from their land adjoining the harbor of Provincetown, and to extend the

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