Penalties.

town, or in such parts thereof, as they may designate, and to prohibit any owners or occupants of any building within said town, or such parts thereof as such board may designate, from erecting or maintaining any defective chimney, hearth, oven, stove or stove-pipe, fire-frame or other fixture, deposit of ashes, or any mixture or other material which may produce spontaneous combustion, or whatever else may give just cause of alarm, or may be the means of kindling or spreading fires. And the said board of engineers may also, from time to time, make and ordain rules and regulations for their own government, and for the conduct of citizens, present at any fire, and may annex penalties for the breach of any rule, regulation or ordinance, which they may have deemed expedient to make, not exceeding twenty dollars for any one breach thereof; and the same may be prosecuted for, and recovered by the chief engineer in his own name, before any court of competent jurisdiction, and all penalties so recovered shall be appropriated by said engineers to the improvement of the fire apparatus of said town: provided, such rules, regulations and ordinances, shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, and shall not be binding until the same shall have been approved by the inhabitants of said town, in legal meeting held for that purpose, and published in some newspaper printed in said town of Worcester.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That all laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and hereby are repealed, so far as they may apply to said town of Worcester, and that the provisions of this act Act when to take shall not take effect until the same shall have been accepted by a majority of the inhabitants of said

effect.

town, qualified to vote in town affairs, at a meeting legally notified for that purpose, and shall continue in force until modified or repealed by the Legislature of this Commonwealth.

[Approved by the Governor, February 26, 1835.]

CHAP. XI.

An Act limiting the liability of Sureties in Bonds given by Guardians of Minors.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That, from and after the passage of this act, no action shall be maintained against the surety or sureties in any bond given by any guardian of any minor, unless the same shall be commenced within four years after such minor shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, if then within the Commonwealth, or if then without the Commonwealth, within four years after such minor shall return within said Commonwealth: provided, nevertheless, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to diminish or impair, in any degree, the obligation of the principal in such bond.

[Approved by the Governor, February 26, 1835.]

rated.

CHAP. XII.

An Act to incorporate the Boston and Lynn India
Rubber Manufacturing Company.

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Charles C. NichPersons incorpo- ols, Thomas Whitmarsh and Benjamin Freeman, together with such other persons as may become associates with them, their successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are, created a body corporate by the name of the Boston and Lynn India Rubber Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of india rubber in its various forms in the town of Lynn, in the county of Essex, and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and requirements contained in the statute of one thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, chapter fifty-three, defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations.

Real and per⚫ sonal estate.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may take and hold such real estate, not exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and such personal estate, not exceeding in value the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, as may be suitable for carrying on the manufacture aforesaid.

[Approved by the Governor, March 2, 1835.]

CHAP. XIII.

An Act to incorporate the Boston India Rubber
Factory.

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SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Ezra Eaton, Persons incorpoFrederick Gould, and James Morrill, their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston India Rubber Factory, for the purpose of manufacturing in the county of Norfolk, or county of Suffolk, india rubber cloth, leather, clothing, and other goods and fabrics, consisting wholly or in part of india rubber; and shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements, contained in the statute of one thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, chapter fifty-three, defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations.

sonal estate.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Real and percorporation may take and hold such real estate, not exceeding in value twenty thousand dollars, and such personal estate, not exceeding in value eighty thousand dollars, as may be suitable and convenient for the purposes aforesaid.

[Approved by the Governor, March 2, 1835.]

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CHAP. XIV.

rated.

An Act to incorporate the Boston Rice Mill Company.

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and Persons incorpo by the authority of the same, That John Prince, Samuel Hinckley, Benjamin Pickman, and William Pickman, their associates and successors, be, and they hereby are made a corporation, by the name of the Boston Rice Mill Company, for the purpose of hulling, cleaning and grinding rice, and for such purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and requirements, contained in the statute of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, chapter fifty-three, defining the general powers and duties of manufacturing corporations.

Real and per sonal estate.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation may be lawfully seized and possessed of such real estate, not exceeding in value twenty thousand dollars, and such personal estate, not exceeding in value eighty thousand dollars, as may be convenient and necessary for the purposes aforesaid.

[Approved by the Governor, March 3, 1835.]