May increase capital stock. SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock by the sum of sixty thousand No shares to be dollars, to be divided into shares of sixty dollars each, and no shares shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares first issued. issued under par. Chap. 30. $100,000 additional capital stock. Real and personal estate. Proviso. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 22, 1854. [1854, 191, 303, 324; 1858, 58, 171.] [1848, 238] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Suffolk County Mills. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Suffolk County Mills are hereby authorized to increase their capital, by adding thereto a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and to invest such portion thereof in real and personal estate, as may be necessary and convenient for the purposes for which they were incorporated: provided, however, that no shares in the capital stock, hereby authorized, shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each share, than the par value of the shares in the original capital stock of said corporation. February 24, 1854. [1853, 415.] Chap. 31. AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Mystic River Railroad. Location. Proviso. Proviso. Proviso. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Mystic River Railroad are hereby empowered, in addition to the authority given them by the act to establish said corporation, to locate, construct, and maintain their railroad, from some convenient point on the Boston and Maine Railroad, between the crossings of said Boston and Maine Railroad, by the Eastern Railroad, south of Cambridge Street, and Prison Point Bridge in Charlestown; thence north-easterly by a curved and straight line across Maine Street, northerly of the junction of Medford and Bunker Hill Streets with said Main Street, and southerly of the main part of Johnson's Wharf, to the land or flats of George W. Gerrish and others, described in the original act of May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to which this is in addition: provided, however, no enginehouse shall be located north-easterly of Main Street, by said corporation, without the approval of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Charlestown; and provided, also, that the rate of speed of the engines and cars on said railroad, in crossing the streets of Charlestown, may at any time be regulated by the mayor and aldermen of said city of Charlestown; and provided, further, that all the grants herein contained, are on the same conditions as are provided in section second of the act to incorporate the Mystic River Railroad, being chapter four hundred and fifteen of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. SECTION 2. The location of the part of said railroad Location and authorized by this act shall be filed within two years, and completion. the same shall be completed within three years from the passage of this act. [1855, 430; 1857, 89; 1859, 5.] February 24, 1854. [1851, 277; 1852, 205; 1853, 302, 361.] AN ACT to extend the Time for locating and constructing the Amherst Chap. 32. and Belchertown Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The times allowed to the Amherst and Belchertown Rail- Time extended. road Company, for locating and constructing its railroad, are hereby respectively extended two years beyond the periods now fixed by law, for the locating and constructing thereof. February 24, 1854. [1856, 86; 1858, 91.] AN ACT to incorporate the Taunton Iron Works Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 33. SECTION 1. William L. Hathaway, Thomas R. Drake, Corporators. and H. B. Wetherell, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Taunton Iron Works Company, for the purpose of making and manu- Purpose. facturing iron, and other articles of which iron is a material, ties. in the town of Taunton, in the county of Bristol, with all Powers and duthe powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes Real estate. aforesaid, real estate to the amount of eighty thousand dol lars; and the whole capital stock shall not exceed the sum of Capital stock. two hundred and fifty 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, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. February 24, 1854. Chap. 34. AN ACT to establish a Police Court in the Town of Haverhill. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: lished. SECTION 1. A police court is hereby established in the Court estabtown of Haverhill, to consist of one competent and discreet person, to be appointed and commissioned by the governor, pursuant to the constitution, as standing justice. original and SECTION 2. The said court shall have original and exclu- Jurisdiction, sive jurisdiction over all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, exclusive. committed within said town of Haverhill, whereof justices of the peace now have or may have jurisdiction; also, of -original and concurrent. Appeal allowed. Fines, costs, &c., all suits and actions which may now, or at any time hereafter, be heard, tried, and determined, before any justice of the peace in the county of Essex, whenever all the parties shall reside in Haverhill, and service of the writ is had on the defendant in said county. The said court shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction, with justices of the peace in said county of Essex, over all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, whereof justices of the peace within the county of Essex, now have, or may have, jurisdiction; also, of all suits and actions within the jurisdiction of any justice of the peace within the county of Essex. SECTION 3. An appeal shall be allowed from all judgments of said police court, in like manner, and to the same extent, that appeals are now allowed by law from judgments of justices of the peace; and the justice of said police court shall not be of counsel to any party in any cause which may be pending in said court. SECTION 4. All fines and forfeitures, and all costs in how disposed of criminal prosecutions, which shall be received by, or paid into the hands of the justice of said court, shall be by him accounted for, and paid over to the same persons, in the same manner, and under the same penalties, as are by law prescribed in the case of justices of the peace. Compensation of justice. Court, how often to be held. All costs in such prosecutions, not thus received, shall be made up, taxed, certified, and allowed, and shall be paid in like manner as is provided by law in cases of justices of the peace. SECTION 5. The justice of said court shall retain to his own use, all fees by him received, or which now accrue to justices of the peace, in civil actions and criminal prosecutions, in full compensation for all services assigned to him by the provisions of this act: provided, that he shall not retain for his services in criminal prosecutions, a sum exceeding three hundred dollars annually, but shall pay over to the county treasurer all fees received by him in criminal prosecutions over and above that sum. SECTION 6. A court shall be held by said justice, at some suitable place in said town of Haverhill, to be provided at the expense of said town, on two several days of each week, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, and as much oftener as may be necessary, to take cognizance of crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, and, on two several days in each month, to be appointed and made known by said justice, for the trial of civil suits and actions. The justice of said court may adjourn said court, as justices of the peace may now adjourn the same hearings, or trials, and he shall, from time to time, establish all necessary rules for the orderly and uniform transaction of the business thereof. fair record and SECTION 7. The justice of said court shall keep a fair Justice to keep a record of all proceedings in said court, and shall make re- make return. turn to the several courts of all legal processes, and of his doings therein, in the same manner as justices of the peace are now by law required to do; and he shall also, annually, in the month of January, exhibit to the selectmen of said town of Haverhill, a true and faithful statement of moneys actually received by him as fees, and all charges and fees which are outstanding and claimed to be due to him at the date of such exhibit. tice. SECTION 8. There shall be appointed by the governor, by one special jusand with the advice and consent of the council, one special justice of said court, who shall have power, in case of the absence, sickness, interest, or any other disability of the standing justice, to issue the processes of said court, to hear and determine any matter or cause pending, and to exercise all the powers of the standing justice, until such disability be removed. The said special justice shall be paid for the Compensation. services by him performed, out of the fees received in said court, such sum as the standing justice would be entitled to for the same services. SECTION 9. All suits, actions, and prosecutions, which Pending suits. shall be pending within the said town of Haverhill before any justice of the peace, when this act shall take effect, shall be heard and determined as though this act had not passed. SECTION 10. The governor shall have power, by and with Appointment of the advice and consent of the council, to appoint said stand- justices. ing and special justice, at any time after the passage of this act. SECTION 11. This act shall not take effect until it has Act to be acbeen accepted by a vote of the inhabitants of said town, in cepted by the town meeting legally notified for that purpose. February 25, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Marblehead Gas Light Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: town. Chap. 35. SECTION 1. George Wilson, John Conway, junior, Gardner Corporators. Warren, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Marblehead Gas Light Company, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling gas in the town of Marblehead, with all the powers and privi- Powers and duleges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabili- ties. ties, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. Real estate. Capital stock. May open ground and lay pipes. Proviso. No shares to be SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purpose aforesaid, hold real estate, not exceeding in value twenty-five thousand dollars; and the whole capital stock shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. Said corporation, with the consent of the selectmen of the town of Marblehead, shall have the power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes, and highways, in said town, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors, as it may be necessary to sink for the purpose aforesaid. And the said corporation, after opening the ground in such streets, lanes, or highways, shall be held to put the same again into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, that the said selectmen for the time being, shall, at all times, have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, the acts and doings of the said corporation, which may, in any manner, affect the health, safety, or convenience, of the inhabitants of said town. SECTION 4. No shares in the capital stock of the said issued under par. corporation shall be issued, for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each share, than the par value of the shares which shall first be issued. February 25, 1854. Chap. 36. $130.000 additional capital stock. Real estate. Proviso. [1846, 165.] AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the E. Carver Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The E. Carver Company is hereby authorized and empowered to increase its capital stock, by adding thereto one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and to invest such portion thereof in real estate, to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, as may be necessary and convenient to carry on the business for which said company was incorporated: provided, however, that no shares, in said capital stock, shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares first issued. February 25, 1854. [Grand Junction, 1846, 212; 1847, 30, 182, 257; 1848, 264; 1849, 201; 1850, 36; 1851, 236; 1852, 306; 1853, 151; Union, 1848, 296, 297; 1849, 83; 1852, 260; 1853, 151.] Chap. 37. AN ACT to unite the Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company and Railroads united. the Union Railroad Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. That the Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company and the Union Railroad Company are hereby constituted and made one corporation, by the name of The Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company; and all the franchises, property, powers, and privileges, now enjoyed by, and all the restrictions, liabilities, and obligations, imposed |