diction; one-half for the use of the complainant, the other half for the use of said town of Nahant. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1856, 217.] April 13, 1854. AN ACT to aid the Erection of a Monument Commemorative of the Chap. 296 Declaration of American Independence. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: pointed. SECTION 1. For the purpose of uniting with the others Trustees apof the thirteen original States in the necessary measures for the construction and maintenance, in the public square adjoining Independence Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, of a monument to commemorate the Declaration of American Independence, the governor is hereby authorized to appoint, with the consent of the council, a suitable person to be a trustee or agent, to represent this Commonwealth in the board of trustees that may be appointed by the said States respectively, for the same purpose, with the like powers. It will be the duty of the said board of trustees, when nine Duty. or more shall have been appointed by as many of the said thirteen States, to determine the design, plan, materials, and expense, of the said monument, and to prepare a statement exhibiting the proportion to be contributed by each of the original thirteen States to defray the said expense, assuming as a rule for said proportion the numerical representation at this time of each such State in the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, and the periods when, in their judgment, the instalments of the said contributions will be required. In determining the said design, an appropriate place on the exterior of such monument shall be provided for each contributing State, to contain such inscription as the State shall direct, commemorative of some citizen or citizens of her own who took part in the responsibility of the declaration of the independence of the said States. The said To report design, trustees are to report to such of the States represented by them, with all reasonable expedition, the design, plan, and expense, of said monument as proposed by them, and the said statement of proportionate contributions. When the said States shall have made provisions for contributing their respective quotas of the said expense, the said board of trustees shall be authorized to proceed and construct the said monument and a sufficient railing around the same, and shall receive and expend the moneys appropriated for that purpose by the different States. They will appoint the necessary To render acsuperintendents and agents, and may authorize a committee of their board to receive and take charge of all moneys contributed. When the said monument shall be finished, the board of trustees shall render an account to their respective plan, &c. count of funds. Chap. 297 Corporators. States of the moneys received and expended by them, or under their direction, which shall be verified by the oaths of the principal, superintendent, and one or more of the financial committee of the board, and shall be certified by the mayor of the city of Philadelphia, and the presidents of the select and common councils of the said city, or any two of them, to have been compared with the original vouchers and entries, and found correct. SECTION 2. The person so appointed trustee shall hold and exercise said trust during the pleasure of the governor, and in case of vacancy by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor with the consent of the council shall appoint successors, from time to time, as occasion may require. No part of the fund contributed by the State shall be applied to compensate any trustee for his services, but the actual expenses of the trustee appointed on the part of this Commonwealth shall be defrayed out of the treasury thereof. SECTION 3. Upon receiving the report of the board of trustees of the design, plan, material, and expense, of said monument, and an estimate of the proportion to be contrib uted by this Commonwealth as herein provided, the legislature will make provision for the payment of the same in such instalments as the said board of trustees shall have declared to be necessary. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 13, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Charlestown Water Works. SECTION 1. George S. Adams, Gardiner G. Hubbard, Moses M. Rice, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Charlestown Water Works, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the Powers and du- city of Charlestown with water; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, contained in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. ties. Capital stock. Real estate. May lay pipes under streets, &c. Proviso. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; they may purchase and hold any lands necessary and convenient for the purpose of this act, not exceeding in value, two hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 3. The said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered, to lay its pipes under any railroad, street, highway, and private way, with the consent of the owners thereof: provided, always, that the same be done in such a manner as not to obstruct or impede the passing thereof. And they shall be held to put the same into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, however, that the mayor and aldermen of any city, or the selectmen of any town, for the time being, through which said pipes may pass, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, the acts and doings of said corporation, which may, in any manner, affect the safety or convenience of the inhabitants of said city or town. corporation having first obtained the consent of any railroad, city, or town, under or through which they may pass. Said Consent to be first obtained. &c. SECTION 4. Said corporation is hereby empowered to sell May sell right, the right of using the water which may be conducted through their pipes, to any corporation, person, or persons, on the line of their pipes. scribe, or loan, SECTION 5. The city of Charlestown shall have a right, City may subin common with others, to subscribe for any portion of the &c. capital stock, or to loan money to said corporation, the vote of the citizens assenting thereto having first been given, at ward meetings called for that purpose. They may, at any time, purchase the franchise of this corporation, and all their corporate property, at such price as may be agreed upon between the parties; and in case of disagreement, the supreme judicial court, upon application by either party, may appoint commissioners to settle such disagreement. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 13, 1854. [1857, 286.] [1848, 293.] tional capital AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Saunders Cotton Mills. Chap. 298 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Saunders Cotton Mills is hereby author- $150,000 addiized to increase its capital stock, by an amount not exceed stock. ing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: provided, however, that no shares shall be issued by said corporation, for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares first issued. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 13, 1854. Chap. 299 AN ACT to incorporate the Seaside Cottage Hotel Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. James Haskell, Moses Kimball, William E. Corporators. P. Haskell, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of the Seaside Cottage Hotel, for the purpose of erecting a hotel, in the Purpose. town of Rockport, and maintaining such public house and ties. the buildings, appurtenances, and improvements, connected Powers and du- therewith; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes: provided, however, that said corporation shall not carry on the business of hotel-keeping. Proviso. Real and personal estate. SECTION 2. The whole amount of real and personal estate, or capital stock, which said corporation may hold, for the purposes aforesaid, shall not exceed fifty thousand dolNo shares to be lars in value: provided, however, that no shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. issued under par. [1851, 294.] April 13, 1854. Chap. 301 AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Medford Lyceum and Library Association. Name changed. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The corporation now known by the name of the Medford Lyceum and Library Association, shall be hereafter called and known by the name of the West Medford Powers and du Lyceum and Library Association; said corporation to have all the powers and privileges, and to be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, contained in the act to which this is in addition. ties. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 13, 1854. Chap. 303 AN ACT to incorporate the Plymouth and Wareham Railroad Company. Corporators. ties. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Nathaniel Russell, Eleazer C. Sherman, William S. Davis, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Plymouth and Powers and du- Wareham Railroad Company, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, contained in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in that part of the thirty-ninth chapter of said statutes which relates to railroad corporations, and to all other general laws that have been or may be hereafter passed, relative to railroad corporations. Location. SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered, to locate, construct, and maintain, a railroad, with one or more tracks, commencing at a point in the town of Plymouth, at or near the depot of the Old Colony Railroad Company, thence running in a southerly and westerly direction through the towns of Plymouth and Carver, to a point in the town of Wareham, near the Tremont Iron Works, and easterly of the Cape Cod Branca Railroad. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall be Capital stock. not more than three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into three thousand equal shares; and no assessment shall be levied thereon, of a greater amount than one hundred dollars on each share, and no shares in the capital stock of said company shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall first be issued. the Old Colony SECTION 4. Said company are hereby authorized to enter May unite with upon and unite their railroad with the railroad of the Old Railroad. Colony Railroad Company, at the terminus of said road in Plymouth, and use said railroad of the Old Colony Railroad Company, according to the provisions of law. the Cape Cod SECTION 5. Said company may, with the consent of the May unite with Cape Cod Branch Railroad Company, enter upon, unite with, Branch Railroad. and use, the railroad of said company, on such terms as may be fixed by agreement. sell, &c. completion. SECTION 6. Said company may lease or sell their franchise May lease and property, to either of the companies herein named. SECTION 7. This act shall be void, if the location of the Location and road herein authorized shall not be filed within two years, with the county commissioners of the county of Plymouth, or if said road shall not be completed within three years after the passage of this act. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. April 14, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of the Quinsigamond House. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: or Chap. 304 SECTION 1. Samuel Davis, William T. Merrifield, Joseph Corporators. Mason, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of the Quinsig amond House, for the purpose of erecting a hotel or board- Purpose. ties. therewith; with all the powers and privileges, and subject Powers and duto all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes: provided, how- Proviso. ever, that said corporation shall not carry on the business of hotel or boarding-house keeping. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes Real and peraforesaid, real and personal estate, not exceeding one hundred sonal estate. and fifty thousand dollars in value; and the whole capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed said sum: provided, No shares to be however, that no shares in the capital stock of said corporation, shall be issued for a less sum or amount to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. issued under par. |