An Act to revive THE CHARTER OF THE MARBLEHEAD AND LYNN Chap. 18. RAILROAD COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: and confirmed. Chapter one hundred and forty-one of the acts of the year Charter revived eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Marblehead and Lynn Railroad Company," is hereby revived and confirmed: provided, said corporation Proviso. shall be organized within one year, shall file its location within two years, and complete the construction of its railroad within four years from the passage of this act. Approved February 13, 1869. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BENGAL BAGGING COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 19. SECTION 1. John Webster, S. Endicott Peabody, Robert Corporators. Brookhouse, their successors and associates, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Bengal Bagging Company, Name and purfor the purpose of manufacturing bagging cloth, or any fabric pose. wholly or in part of jute or other fibrous material, in the city ties. of Salem; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and Powers and duprivileges and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to manufacturing corporations. SECTION 2. Said corporation, for the purposes aforesaid, Real estate. may hold real estate necessary and convenient for its business to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dol lars, and the capital stock shall not exceed three hundred Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each: provided, however, that said corporation shall not Proviso. into operation until one hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock is paid in in cash. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. go AN ACT RELATING TO THE CANTON AND HYDE PARK AND STOUGHTON Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 20. Time for loca struction ex tion and con. tended. SECTION 1. The time for locating the road of the Canton and Hyde Park Railroad Company is hereby extended to the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventyone; and the time for constructing the same is extended to the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and the time allowed said company to unite Time for unitwith the Stoughton Branch Railroad Company is extended Stoughton to the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and Branch Railseventy-four. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. ing with road extended. Chap. 21. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE OLD COLONY AND NEWPORT RAILWAY Old Colony and may purchase Easton Branch Railroad. COMPANY TO PURCHASE THE EASTON BRANCH RAILROAD. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Old Colony and Newport Railway Company is hereby way Company authorized to purchase the rights, franchise and property of the Easton Branch Railroad Company, upon such terms, not inconsistent with their respective charters, nor with the acts in addition to the same, nor with the laws of this Commonwealth, as the stockholders of the respective corporations, at legal meetings called for that purpose, shall determine; and thereupon the said Easton Branch Railroad Company is hereby authorized to convey and assign to said Old Colony and Newport Railway Company its franchises and property, and all the rights, easements, privileges and powers granted to it; and the said Old Colony and Newport Railway Company shall, upon such conveyance being made to it, have and enjoy all the rights, powers, privileges, easements, franchises and property of the Easton Branch Railroad Company, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, obligations and restrictions to which said last named, corporation may be subject. Approved February 13, 1869. Chap. 22. AN ACT TO REVIVE "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE INDEMNITY LIFE Charter revived and time for or ganizing extended. Chap. 23. Time for accept ance of charter INSURANCE COMPANY." Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred and four, of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Indemnity Life Insurance Company," is hereby revived; and the time for organizing said corporation extended to the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 13, 1869. AN ACT CONCERNING THE EVERETT INSURANCE COMPANY. SECTION 1. The time for the acceptance of its charter by and payment of the Everett Insurance Company, for its organization under capital extend the same, and for the paying in of its capital stock, is hereby extended to the eleventh day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. ed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT RELATING TO THE PLACE OF HOLDING THE MEETINGS OF THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 24. be held in Salem SECTION 1. The Salem and Lowell Railroad Company are Meetings may hereby authorized to hold their annual and other meetings or Lowell. in the city of Lowell or the city of Salem, as the directors may determine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. LIGHT COMPANY. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE WORCESTER GAS Chap. 25. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: tional capital SECTION 1. The Worcester Gas Light Company is hereby $200,000 addiauthorized to increase its capital stock, by adding thereto an stock. amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and to invest such portions thereof in real and personal estate as may be necessary and convenient for carrying on its business. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION THIRTY-EIGHT OF CHAPTER THIRTY- TAKE LAND FOR SCHOOL-HOUSE LOTS. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 26. The thirty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes is Amendment. hereby amended by striking out the word "highways" in the thirty-eighth section, and substituting therefor the word town-ways. Approved February 15, 1869. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXPENSES OF THE STATE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 27. SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriations priated to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, authorized. from the ordinary revenue, unless otherwise specified, for the purpose of meeting the current expenses of the institutions hereinafter named, and for other purposes, during the year ending December thirty-first, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to wit: CHARITABLE. For the current expenses of the state almshouse at Tewks- State almsbury, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars. house, Tewksbury. G. S. 71. Monson. G. S. 71; 1866, 209. Bridgewater. G. S. 71; 1866, 198. Hospital,Rains ford Island. G. S. 71. Agent State Secretary, ex- penses. Lunatic pau. pers. G. 288. S. 73; 1864, Burial expenses 97. Support by cities and towns G. S. 71; 1865, 162. Coroners' inquests. G. S. 157, 175. State alms house sinking fund. 1852, 275; 1854, 355. For the current expenses of the state almshouse and state primary school at Monson, a sum not exceeding sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For the current expenses of the state almshouse and state workhouse at Bridgewater, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars. For expenses of the hospital at Rainsford Island, including expenses of transportation, a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars. For expenses of the general agent of the board of state charities, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. For expenses of the secretary of the board of state charities, a sum not exceeding thirteen hundred dollars. For travelling and other expenses of the board of state charities, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars; and the appropriations for said board may be drawn and disbursed by the general agent. For the support and relief of state lunatic paupers in state hospitals, a sum not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars. For the burial of state paupers, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars. For the support of state paupers by cities and towns, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, the same to include any expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of chapter one hundred and sixty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the auditor is hereby authorized to audit accounts for such expenses. For the expenses of coroners' inquests, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. To the state almshouse loan sinking fund for the redemp tion of scrip, the sum of six thousand dollars." For the Perkins institution and Massachusetts asylum for Asylum for the the blind, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars. blind. R. 1864, 56. Idiotic and For the Massachusetts school for idiotic and feeble-minded feeble-minded youth, the sum of nine thousand dollars. youth. deaf and dumb. Johonnot an- Cases of bas- For the support of Massachusetts beneficiaries in the asylum for deaf and dumb at Hartford, and the Clarke institution at Northampton, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. For the annuities due from the Commonwealth, incurred by the acceptance of the bequests of the late Martha Johonnot, a sum not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars. For expenses attending the management of cases of settlement and bastardy in eighteen hundred and sixty-ninė and previous years, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars. For pensions, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Pensions. REFORMATORY AND CORRECTIONAL. For the current expenses of the state prison, a sum not State prison. exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars. 1864, 303. at Westborough For the current expenses of the state reform school for Reform school boys at Westborough, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand G. S. 76. dollars. For the current expenses of the Massachusetts nautical Nautical school. school, a sum not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars; of which the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars may be set apart and used for refitting the ship "George M. Barnard" with a new mast, spars and rigging. school for girls. For the current expenses of the state industrial school for Industrial girls at Lancaster, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand G. S. 75. dollars. For expenses incurred in the arrest of fugitives from jus- Fugitives from tice, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. justice. victs. For the salary of an agent for the relief of discharged Discharged conconvicts, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars; and 1861, 78. for the expenditures of said agent, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. For the compensation of the state police, a sum not State police. exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. 1865, 249. For travelling expenses of the state police, a sum not Expenses. exceeding five thousand dollars. 1865, 249. Commonwealth For clerical, incidental and contingent expenses of the Constable of the constable of the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, which shall be allowed and paid. be made from expenses. From the appropriations for expenses of the state prison, Advances may of the state almshouses at Tewksbury, Monson and Bridge- certain approwater, and of the reform school for boys at Westborough, priations for the Massachusetts nautical school, and of the industrial school for girls, there may be paid to each in advance, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be accounted for to the state auditor in the monthly settlements of said institutions; and all sums received by said institutions from cities, Proceeds of towns or individuals, for the support of the inmates, or for into State treasarticles sold, shall be paid into the treasury of the Common- ury. wealth, except that so much as shall be received from the manufacture of shoes at the Tewksbury almshouse, may be reinvested for that purpose. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 19, 1869. sales to be paid |