purchase of a suitable site, and the erection or preparation of a suitable building, to be used for banking purposes; and all income, if any, arising from such real estate, shall be devoted exclusively to the interests of said corporation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 21, 1868.

Chap. 139

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AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF HYDE PARK.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows : Town composed SECTION 1. All the territory now within the towns of of parts of Dorchester, Dedham Dorchester, Dedham and Milton, in the county of Norfolk,

comprised within the following limits, that is to say: beginning at the north-easterly side of Paul's Bridge, so called, where it crosses Neponset River from Milton to Dedbam; thence running down the Neponset River by the thread of the stream to a point two thousand and thirteen feet below the lower side of Paul's Bridge; thence by a line running north sixty-six and one-third degrees east (magnetic,) five thousand three hundred and forty-four feet, to a point in the field north-west of E. W. Capen's house, and measuring one hundred and fifteen feet on a course south, eighty-seven degrees east (magnetic,) from an oak tree; thence north ten degrees (magnetic,) two thousand seven bundred and eight feet to the boundary wall of land of James M. Robbins; thence by said wall and a continuation thereof north twenty-five and one-third degrees west (magnetic,) one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven feet to the Neponset River; then running north-easterly by a straight line passing from said last mentioned point, through a point distant fifty feet north-westerly from the north-westerly corner of the house of Amor Hollingsworth to Neponset River; then running north-easterly, following the said Neponset River to a point where the line of the said river intersects a straight line drawn from a point on the westerly line of Brush Hill Road, distant eleven hundred feet south-westerly from the junction of Brush Hill Road and Brush Hill Turnpike to a point on the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, distant fourteen hundred feet north-easterly from the railroad bridge over River Street in Dorchester at the station on said railroad now called River Street Station; then crossing the said Neponset River in continuation of the said line, and continuing north-westerly in the same course, and in a straight line, to the present boundary line between Dorchester and West Roxbury; then running south-westerly on the present boundary line between Dorchester and West Roxbury, to a monument on the present boundary line

between Dorchester and Dedham, being the extreme westerly point of the present town of Dorchester; then running south-easterly on the present boundary line between the towns of Dedham and Dorchester, one hundred and nine rods, to a monument on a hill, being one of the monuments between the towns of Dedham and Dorchester; then running southerly in a straight line to a point in the centre of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, distant one hundred and forty-six rods westerly from the point where the centre line of said railroad crosses the centre line of the Boston and Providence Railroad at Readville, so called ; then running south-easterly in a straight line to a monument on Neponset River, at the corner of the towns of Milton, Canton and Dedham, being the extreme northerly point of the town of Canton ; then running north-easterly on said river to the point of beginning: is hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Hyde Park; and said town of Hyde Park is Powers and hereby invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and duties. immunities, and is subject to all the duties and requisitions to which other towns are entitled and subjected by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 2. The inhabitants of said town of Hyde Park Taxes. shall be holden to pay all arrears of taxes which have been legally assessed upon them by the towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, respectively; and all taxes heretofore assessed and not collected, shall be collected and paid to the treasurers of the towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, respectively, in the same manner as if this act had not been passed; and until the next general valuation of estates in this Commonwealth, the town of Hyde Park shall annually pay over to the said towns of Dorchester, Dedham and Milton, respectively, the proportion of any state or county tax which the said towns of Dorchester, Dedham and Milton, respectively, may be required to pay upon the inhabitants or estates hereby set off; said proportion to be ascertained and determined by the respective valuations of the said towns of Dorchester, Dedham and Milton, next preceding the passage of this act.

SECTION 3. Said towns of Dorchester, Milton, Dedham and Support of pauHyde Park shall be respectively liable for the support of all persons who now do or shall hereafter stand in need of relief as paupers, whose settlement was gained by or derived from a settlement gained or derived within their respective limits.

Section 4. The towns of Dorchester, Milton, Dedham Corporate propand Hyde Park shall retain and own the corporate property within their respective limits, and the town of Hyde Park

pers.

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shall not be liable for any portion of the debts of the other three towns, nor be entitled to any of their corporate property except that included within its limits.

SECTION 5. The town of Hyde Park, for the purpose of and federal offi. electing representatives to congress, senators and represen

tatives to the general court and members of the governor's council, until the next decennial census, or until another apportionment be made, shall remain a part of said towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, respectively, and vote therefor at such places, respectively, as the said towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham shall vote; and the selectmen of Hyde Park shall make a true list of all persons within their town qualified to vote at every such election, and shall post up the same in said town of Hyde Park, and shall correct the same as required by law, and shall deliver a true list of all such voters as are entitled to vote in said towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, respectively, to the selectmen thereof, seven days at least before such election, to be used thereat.

SECTION 6. The selectmen of the town of Hyde Park, and, when com: subject to the approval of the inhabitants according to law, pleted, publice way to be pail: may extend any public streets, highways or townways,

running south-easterly from Neponset River, which it may lay out and make within its own limits to any point or points on Brush Hill Road, in the town of Milton, southwesterly of the land now owned by James M. Robbins; and all parts of such streets and ways which may be within the town of Milton shall become public ways of Milton, when. ever they shall have been laid out and completed by the town of Hyde Park to the satisfaction of the county com

missioners of the county of Norfolk. First meeting for SECTION 7. Any justice of the peace within and for the ficers, how called. county of Norfolk may issue his warrant, directed to any

principal inhabitant of the town of Hyde Park, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the time and place appointed, for the purpose of choosing all such town officers as towns are by law authorized and required to choose at their annual meetings; and said warrant shall be served by posting up copies thereof, all attested by the person to whom the same is directed, in three public places in said town, seven days at least before such meeting. Such justice, or in his absence, such principal inhabitant, shall preside until the choice of moderator in said meeting. The selectmen of the towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham shall, before said meeting, prepare a list of voters from their

choice of town of.

respective towns within said Hyde Park qualified to vote at said meeting, and shall deliver the same to the person presiding at such meeting before the choice of a moderator thereof. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 22, 1868.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WHITIN MACHINE WORKS.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

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SECTION 1. John C. Whitin, Josiah Lasell, John M. Corporators. Whitin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Whitin Machine Works, for Name and purthe manufacture of castings, and various kinds of machinery; also, for the manufacture of fabrics from cotton and other fibrous materials, in the town of Northbridge, in the county of Worcester; with all the powers and privileges, and sub- Powers and ject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws, which are now or may hereafter be in force relating to manufacturing corporations.

duties.

shares.

SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock and not exceed one million dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said corporation. may hold such real and personal estate, as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes set forth in this act, and shall not commence business until five hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock shall have been paid in.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 22, 1868.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

sold without a

wines may be

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Chap. 141 SECTION 1. No person shall sell, or expose or keep for Intoxicating li sale, intoxicating liquors, unless he is authorized to sell the quors not to be same in the manner provided in this act: provided, that the license. maker of cider and native wines may sell the same not to be cider and native drunk on his premises; and provided, also, that the importer sold without a of liquor of foreign production, imported under authority of license by maker. the laws of the United States, may own, possess, keep or sell foreign liquors the same in the original casks or packages in which it was original packimported, and in quantities not less than the quantities in ages. which the laws of the United States require such liquor to be imported; and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall apply to sales made by sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, Sales may be coroners, constables, collectors of taxes, executors, administrators, guardians, assignees in insolvency or bankruptcy, or any other person required by law to sell personal property. SECTION 2. The county commissioners for the several coun- County commisties shall license to be sellers of intoxicating liquors within sellers in every each city or town in their respective counties, one or more

made by certain officials.

sioners to license

town.

License commispioners to license in counties

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persons, being applicants therefor, and as many other such persons as in their opinion the public convenience may require, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter provided.

SECTION 3. The powers and duties of the county commis

of sioners under this act, shall, for the counties of Suffolk and Suffolk and Nan. Nantucket, be vested in and discharged by three license comTerm of office. missioners for each county. The said commissioners shall

be chosen by the people of said counties at an election to be held on the third Tuesday of May next, to hold office, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, from the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and until their respective successors shall be qualified ; and thereafter shall be chosen at the reg. ular November election in each year, one commissioner for each of said counties, to hold office for the term of three years, from the first Wednesday of January following his

election, and until his successor is qualified. Vacancies Vacancies, how occurring in the office of license commissioner shall be filled

at the next November election, for the unexpired term, and the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint a commissioner to hold office during

the interval. Compensation. The said license commissioners shall be paid from the

treasury of the counties aforesaid, five dollars each, with their necessary travelling expenses, stationery, clerk hire and office rent, for every day actually employed in the duties of their office, and they may appoint a clerk and fix a reasonable sum as his salary.

SECTION 4. Licenses shall be granted only to the following granted and classes of persons, for the purposes, and on payment of the

fees hereafter named, to wit:

First. Licensed innholders, to sell to be drunk on the premises, who shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars.

Second. Licensed common victuallers, to sell to be drunk on the premises, who shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars.

Third. Liquor dealers engaged in no other business in connection therewith, to sell not to be drunk on the premises

, who shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars.

Fourth. Liquor dealers engaged in no other business connected therewith, to sell to be drunk on the premises, who shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars. Fifth Grocers, apothecaries and druggists: to sell not to

. be drunk on the premises, who shall pay a fee of fifty dollars. Sixth. Brewers and distillers. Brewers and distillers

. may sell intoxicating liquors, of their own manufacture, and at their place of manufacture, or their regular place of busi

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