Company, and the several acts in addition thereto, shall be continued and remain in force from and after the twenty-third day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred Restrictions, &c. and sixty-two; and said company shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the general laws in relation to insurance companies, which have been or may hereafter be enacted. Approved February 2, 1860. [1830, 28.] Chap. 9. AN ACT to authorize the Institution for Savings in the Town of Barnstable $15,000 in real estate. Proviso. to hold Real Estate. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The institution for savings in the town of Barnstable is hereby authorized to hold real estate within the town of Barnstable, to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars: provided, that no part of said amount shall be invested in real estate, except in the 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 from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1860. [1867, 19.] Chap. 10. AN ACT to authorize the City of Cambridge to fill up a Portion of a Creek in said City. Filling authorized. Proviso. Chap. 11. Ass't clerks of courts to be ass'ts to commissioners. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Cambridge is hereby authorized to fill and make solid that portion of the creek leading from broad canal to south canal, which lies within the limits of Broadway, in said city: provided, that said city of Cambridge shall construct and forever maintain a good and sufficient culvert under said street, for the drainage of the lands lying between Broadway and Harvard Street. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1860. AN ACT concerning Assistant-Clerks of County Commissioners. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The assistant-clerks of the courts in the several counties, shall be assistant-clerks of the county commissioners. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1860. AN ACT to incorporate the Attleborough Savings Bank. Be it enacted, &c., as follows : Chap. 13. H. M. Richards, S. Bowen, E. Ira Richards, Josiah D. Corporators. Richards, George Morse, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Attleborough Name. Savings Bank, to be established and located in the town of Attleborough; with all the powers and privileges, and sub- Powers and ject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-sixth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in all other laws of this Commonwealth relating to institutions for savings. Approved February 2, 1860. [1848, 32; 1850, 191; 1855, 313; 1856, 272; 1857, 95.] duties. AN ACT concerning the Free Public Library of the City of Worcester. Chap. 14. it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Worcester is hereby authorized to Donations. hold the donations of Doctor John Green and of the Worcester Lyceum and Library Association, and to provide for the establishment and support of a Free Public Library, to be regulated and governed according to the provisions of the Government. city ordinance passed on the twenty-third day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An ordinance for the establishment of the Free Public Library of the city of Worcester." make appropri SECTION 2. The city council of said city are authorized City council to to make all necessary appropriations for the erection of a ation. suitable library building, and for the care and preservation of the library, and for the employment of the officers to be appointed in pursuance of said ordinance. They may further Amounts. appropriate for the establishment of said library, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and thereafter such further sums as they see fit, not exceeding three thousand dollars in each year, for the increase of the same. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its acceptance by the city council of said city. Approved February 2, 1860. [1860, 96; 1861, 118; 1862, 35, 148; 1863, 72; 1864, 61, 104; 1865, 196; 1866, 199; 1867, 269; 1868, 195, 198.] AN ACT to incorporate the Nickersons' Wharf Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 15. SECTION 1. Edward G. Nickerson, Sereno D. Nickerson, Corporators. and Thomas W. Nickerson, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Nicker- Name. sons' Wharf Company; with power to purchase and hold in to purchase, &c. Location, power fee simple, any part or the whole of the estate on New Street, in East Boston, and known as Nickerson's Wharves, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging; and the said corporation may construct docks and wharves upon said premises, lay vessels within and at the sides and ends thereof, and receive dockage and wharfage therefor, and improve and manage said property consistently with the purposes of this act, and may sell and convey the same or any part thereof: provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said corporation to infringe upon the legal rights of any person, or to build any wharf or other structure on the premises which is not now authorized by law. Proviso. Capital stock. Powers and duties. and rights. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of not less than one hundred dollars each. SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes, passed December twenty-eighth, one thouPayment for flats sand eight hundred and fifty-nine: provided, however, that the grantees above named shall first pay to the treasurer of the Commonwealth such sums of money as the governor and council shall determine as payment for any flats and rights in tide-water belonging to the Commonwealth, if any, taken or filled up under the provisions of this act; and provided, further, that said wharf shall not extend beyond the commissioners' line. Approved February 3, 1860. Proviso. Chap. 16. AN ACT to incorporate the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Corporators. Name. Purpose. Powers and duties. Amount of de⚫posit notes. SECTION 1. Francis Skinner, Charles Amory, Waldo Higginson, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, for the purpose of insuring manufactories and other buildings appertaining thereto and connected therewith, and their contents, against loss or damage by fire; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the fifty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes, passed December twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and all other laws relative to mutual fire insurance companies. SECTION 2. It shall be lawful for the deposit notes given for insurance in this company, to be as much as five times the amount paid as cash premium. may be insured. SECTION 3. This company is hereby authorized to insure Where property property situated in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Approved February 8, 1860. [1861, 47; 1862, 3.] [1859, 144.] AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Cliftondale Railroad Chap. 17. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Company. construction. SECTION 1. The Cliftondale Railroad Company are hereby Location and authorized to construct their railroad on some convenient route, from such point on the highway in Malden, known as the Newburyport Turnpike, between Salem Street and the line dividing the towns of Malden and Melrose, as may be determined by the selectmen of Malden, upon and over such land, outside of the streets and highways, as said company may determine, to such point in the highway called Washington Street, in that part of Saugus known as Cliftondale; or to such point in any street or highway which may be laid out, connecting with the aforesaid Washington Street, near the house of John T. Paine, as may be determined by the selectmen of Saugus; and said company shall have all the Right to pur rights and powers of railroad corporations, under existing provisions of law, to purchase or otherwise take any land necessary for making their railroad outside of the streets and highways, and shall be subject to all existing provisions Land damages. of law applicable to railroad corporations, for the assessment and payment of damages for land so taken. chase land, &c. SECTION 2. This act shall be void so far as relates to the Time limited. right to construct said road unless the same shall be con structed on or before the first day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect on and after the Act to be acacceptance thereof by said corporation, at any time within cepted. thirty days after its passage. Approved February 8, 1860. [1861, 16; 1862, 118; 1864, 133.] AN ACT to incorporate the North Attleborough Branch Railroad Com- Chap. 18. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: pany. SECTION 1. E. Ira Richards, William D. Whiting, Josiah Corporators. D. Richards, and Stephen Richardson, 2d, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name Name. of the North Attleborough Branch Railroad Company; with Powers and all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, duties. Location. liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes, passed December twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and in that part of the sixty-third chapter thereof relating to railroad corporations, and all other general laws which have been or may hereafter be passed relative to railroad corporations. SECTION 2. Said company is hereby empowered to locate, construct and maintain a railroad, with one or more tracks, from some convenient point in the village of North Attleborough to the state line near Valley Falls, in the state of Connection with Rhode Island; and said corporation may, at said state line, connect their road with the railroad of any company which⚫ may be established by the state of Rhode Island. other roads. Capital stock. Real estate. Time limited. May contract and Railroad Co. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and it shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and such company may purchase and hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation. SECTION 4. If the location of said road be not filed within two years, and said railroad constructed within three years from the passage of this act, then the same shall be void. SECTION 5. The said company are hereby authorized and Worcester empowered to contract with the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company, for the equipping and running of said road. Chap. 19. Corporators. Name. Powers and duties. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1860. [1863, 23; 1865, 3; 1867, 171.] AN ACT to incorporate the Stoneham Street Railroad Company. SECTION 1. John Hill, Lyman Dike, Augustus Barrett, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Stoneham Street Railroad Company; with power to construct, maintain and use a railroad, with convenient single or double tracks, from such point or points in the town of Stoneham as shall be fixed by the selectmen of the said town, with the assent in writing of said corporation, filed with said selectmen, and upon and over such of the streets and highways of said town as shall be from time to time fixed and determined by said selectmen, with the assent in writing of said corporation, filed as aforesaid, to the intersection of the same with the streets and highways of the town of Melrose; and then upon and over such of the streets and highways of the town of Melrose, as shall be from |