same to six feet of water at low tide, and to lay vessels at May receive docksaid wharf, and receive dockage and wharfage therefor: age, &c. provided, that this grant shall in no wise impair the legal Proviso. rights of any person. March 29, 1853. AN ACT to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Grafton. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 102 in Grafton. SECTION 1. A fire department is hereby established in Fire department the town of Grafton, subject to all the duties and liabilities, and with all the powers and privileges, set forth and con- Powers and dutained in an act, entitled, " An Act to regulate Fire Depart- ties. ments," passed on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. Chap. 103 AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Bolt and Machine Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. S. R. M. Holbrook, N. A. Barrett, J. P. Corporators. Bradlee, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston Bolt and Machine Company, for the purpose of manufacturing bolts and Purpose. machinery, at East Cambridge, in the city of Cambridge, in ties. the county of Middlesex; with all the powers and privileges, Powers and duand subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and per- Real estate. sonal estate, necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount, one hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corpo- No shares to be ration, shall be issued for a less sum or amount than the issued under par. par value of the shares which shall be first issued. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. Chap. 104 AN ACT to incorporate the Worcester Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Charles Washburn, Francis H. Dewey, and Corporators. William M. Bickford, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Worcester Insurance Company, in the city of Worcester, for the term Twenty years. of twenty years from the passage of this act; for the purpose Purpose. of making insurance against maritime losses, and against losses by fire, with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and duto all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the ties. thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Capital stock. Real estate. Statutes, and all other general laws which are now or may hereafter be in force applicable to stock insurance companies. SECTION 2. The said corporation shall have a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with liberty to pay in and increase the same to any amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars; and may hold real estate for its use, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. Chap. 105 AN ACT to authorize N. J. Knight and others to drive Piles in Pamet Harbor, in Truro. May drive piles with consent, &c. Proviso. Chap. 106 Name changed. Chap. 107 $100,000 additional capital stock. Proviso. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: N. J. Knight, B. A. Baker and Amasa Paine, are hereby authorized, under the direction and with the consent of the selectmen of the town of Truro, for the time being, to drive piles in Pamet Harbor, in said town, for the purpose of improving said harbor: provided, this act shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person. [1834, 36] March 29, 1853. AN ACT to change the Corporate Name of the Proprietors of the Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The proprietors of the Westerly Meeting-house in Scituate, incorporated the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall, from and after the passing of this act, be called and known by the name of the Proprietors of the First Universalist Meetinghouse in South Scituate. [1852, 277.] March 29, 1853. AN ACT in addition to an Act incorporating the Boston Theatre. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Boston Theatre, incorporated May twentieth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby authorized to pay in, and increase their capital stock, by an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars: provided, that no shares in such capital stock shall be issued for a less sum or amount to be paid in on each, than the par value of the shares that shall be first issued. March 29, 1853. [1858, 79.] [1852, 72.] Chap. 108 AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Beverly Insurance May take maritime risks. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Company. The Beverly Insurance Company, incorporated by an act passed on the thirtieth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, is hereby authorized [1859, 191.] March 29, 1853. Chap. 109 AN ACT to incorporate the Hampden Mills. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Patrick T. Jackson, C. W. Blanchard, C. W. Corporators. Loring, F. C. Loring, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Hampden Mills, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, woollen, silk Purpose. and linen goods, or any of them, in the town of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden, with all the powers and privileges, Powers and duand subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set ties. forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. al estate. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and per- Real and personsonal estate, necessary and convenient for the purpose aforesaid, not exceeding in amount three hundred thousand dollars. issued under par. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corpo- No shares to be ration shall be issued for a less sum in amount, than the par value of the shares which shall first be issued. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. AN ACT to authorize the First Religious Society in Carlisle to sell Real Chap. 110 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Estate. estate. SECTION 1. The First Religious Society in Carlisle is May sell real hereby authorized to sell and convey by deed, a tract of woodland, consisting of about seventeen acres, situated near the centre of said Carlisle, called and known by the name of the ministerial lot. execute and de SECTION 2. Said society may, by a committee appointed Committee shall for that purpose, make sale of said woodland in such way liver deeds. and manner, as may best promote the interest of said society; and said committee shall have power to execute and deliver deeds accordingly. invested. SECTION 3. The proceeds of the sale of said woodland Proceeds to be shall be invested in a permanent fund, or in real estate, as the said society shall direct; and the income arising therefrom, shall be appropriated to the support of the ministry in said society. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. [1812, 16.] Chap. 111 AN ACT to change the Corporate Name of the First Universalist Society Name changed. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: in Scituate. SECTION 1. The First Universalist Society in Scituate, incorporated the seventeenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall hereafter be known and called by the name of the First Universalist Society of South Scituate. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 29, 1853. Chap. 112 AN ACT to incorporate the Fairhaven Granite Wharf Marine Railway. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators Purpose. SECTION 1. James Tripp, 2nd, Lemuel C. Tripp, Henry H. Taber, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Granite Wharf Marine Railway, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a Powers and du- railway suitable for repairing vessels, at Fairhaven, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. ties. Real and personal estate. No shares to be issued under par. Shall not impair legal rights. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and personal estate necessary for the purpose aforesaid, not exceeding in amount seven thousand dollars, in such sums as may be convenient. SECTION 3. No shares in said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount to be actually paid in on each, than the par value thereof when first issued. SECTION 4. This act shall in no wise impair the legal rights of any person. March 29, 1853. [Special Laws, vol. 1, p. 523; vol. 2, p. 69; 1810, 107; 1812, 1; 1827, 117; 1849, 70.] Chap. 113 AN ACT in addition to An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of Merrimack Bridge. Buoys to be placed and maintained. Size of buoy. How secured. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. For the more convenient passage of vessels through the draw or passage-way of the Merrimack Bridge, over the Merrimack River, between the towns of Haverhill and West Newbury, authorized by an act to which this is an addition, the proprietors of said bridge shall cause to be placed, at a suitable distance above and below said draw, a buoy, and shall maintain the same so long as the bridge shall be maintained; said buoys to be in the direction of the current and in a line with the middle of the draw, and to be of such size that a large portion of each shall at all times be above the water; each buoy to be provided with one or more good and sufficient rings, properly secured for the act repealed. purpose of fastening vessels thereto, and to be moored with a chain to a rock or rocks, of at least four tons weight. SECTION 2. So much of the act passed April fourth, one Part of former thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as requires floating spars to be placed and maintained above and below said draw, is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its March 29, 1853. Chap. 114 AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Nahant. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: tion from Lynn. SECTION 1. That portion of the city of Lynn lying south- Line of separaerly of a line commencing upon the Long Beach leading to Nahant at the sign-post which gives the length of said beach, thence running westerly in a straight line at right angles with the course of said beach southerly from said sign-post, to low-water mark, and running easterly from said sign-post in a straight line at right angles with the course of said beach as aforesaid to low-water mark, is hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Nahant; and the inhabitants of said town of Nahant are hereby invested with all the powers and privileges, and shall be subjected to the duties and requisitions of other incorporated towns, according to the constitution and laws of the Commonwealth. SECTION 2. The inhabitants of said town of Nahant shall To pay taxes specified. be holden to pay all arrears of taxes which have been assessed upon them by the city of Lynn, before the passing of this act, and also their proportion of all county and state taxes that may be assessed upon said city previously to the taking of the next state valuation, said proportion to be ascertained and determined by the last valuation of said city of Lynn, exclusive of the valuation upon that portion of territory which now comprises the town of Swampscott; and said town To pay their proof Nahant shall be holden to pay their proportion of the and receive prodebts due and owing at the time of the passage of this act potion of propfrom the city of Lynn, and be entitled to receive of the city of Lynn their proportion of all the corporate property now owned by said city of Lynn, such proportion to be ascertained and determined by the last valuation of said city of Lynn, exclusive of the valuation of Swampscott as aforesaid. portion of debts erty. supported. SECTION 3. Said city of Lynn and town of Nahant shall Paupers, how be respectively liable for the support of all persons who now do or hereafter shall stand in need of relief as paupers, whose settlement was gained or derived from a settlement gained or derived within their respective limits. SECTION 4. In case said city of Lynn and town of Nahant If Lynn and shall disagree in respect to a division of paupers, city prop- gree, court of Nahant disa |