upon, said two corporations, by virtue of their respective charters, shall appertain to said united corporation, in the same manner as if the same had been contained in or acquired under an original charter, and all contracts and Former contracts conveyances heretofore made by either of said two corporations, are hereby confirmed and made valid and binding upon the corporation hereby constituted. confirmed. SECTION 2. The time allowed for completing the Union Time extended Railroad, is hereby extended to the first day of June, in the for completing. year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 25, 1854. [1855, 415; 1856, 296; 1857, 128, 166.] AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Stove Foundry Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 38. SECTION 1. Thomas Coggeshall, George B. Hood, and Corporators. Asa Dean, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston Stove Foundry Company, for the purpose of manufacturing stove castings Purpose. from iron, in the town of Somerset and county of Bristol, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirtyeighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation, for the purpose aforesaid, Real estate. may hold real estate not exceeding in value fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock of said company shall Capital stock. not exceed one hundred 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 or amount, to be actually paid in on each share, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 25, 1854. [1816, 92; 1824, 89; 1830, 77; 1833, 57.] AN ACT to authorize the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Chap. 40. Boston, to hold Real Estate. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The Provident Institution for Savings, in the Real estate. town of Boston, is hereby authorized to hold real estate, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars: provided, Proviso. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its Chap. 41. Corporators. Purpose. AN ACT to incorporate the Athol Reservoir Company. SECTION 1. Lyman W. Hapgood, Theodore Jones, Abraham Oaks, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Athol Reservoir Company, for the purpose of constructing, supporting, and occupying a reservoir of water, by the means of dams in the towns of Athol and Phillipston, in the county of Worcester, for the supply of mills situated on the stream below said reservoir, Powers and du- with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirtyeighth and forty-fourth chapters of Revised Statutes. ties. Real estate. Capital stock. No shares to be SECTION 2. Said corporation, for the purposes aforesaid, may hold real estate to the amount of five thousand dollars, and the whole amount of the capital stock of said company shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said corporaissued under par. tion 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 Compensation for damages, how obtained. Liability of stockholders. Chap. 42. Location. first be issued. SECTION 4. Any person whose land is overflowed or otherwise injured by such dam, may obtain compensation therefor in the manner provided in the one hundred and sixteenth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in the several acts in addition to and amendment thereof. SECTION 5. The stockholders of the Athol Reservoir Company shall be jointly and severally, individually liable for all damages that may result to any and all persons in consequence of the construction of said reservoir, to the same extent that individuals would be in like cases. February 27, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Amherst Savings Bank. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Ithamar Conkey, John S. Adams, and William Kellogg, junior, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Amherst Savings Bank, to be established and located in the town of Amherst, in the Powers and du- county of Hampshire, with all the powers and privileges, and subject 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. February 27, 1854. ties. Chap. 43. Corporators. AN ACT to incorporate the Malden and Melrose Gas Light Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Henry S. Downs, George Odiorne, James Eaton, and Otis Tufts, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Malden and Melrose Gas Light Company, for the purpose of making and selling gas, in the towns of Malden and Melrose; with all Powers and duthe powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. ties. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said company shall not Capital stock. exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said corporation may hold real estate, not exceeding in Real estate. value one hundred thousand dollars. issued under par. SECTION 3. No shares in the capital stock of said com- No shares to be pany 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. and lay pipes. SECTION 4. Said corporation, with the consent of the May open ground selectmen of the towns of Malden and Melrose, respectively, shall have power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes, and highways, of said towns, for the purpose of sinking and repairing such pipes and conductors as it may be necessary to sink for the purposes aforesaid; and the said corporation, after opening the ground in said streets, lanes, and highways, shall be held to put the same into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, however, that the selectmen of said Proviso. towns, respectively, for the time being, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, all the acts and doings of said corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, and convenience, of the inhabitants. of the said towns, respectively. SECTION 5. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its [1854, 443; 1856, 280.] AN ACT to incorporate the Newton and Watertown Gas Light Company. Chap. 44. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Joseph W. Stone, Francis Edmond, and Moses Corporators. M. Rice, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Newton and Watertown Gas Light Company, for the purpose of making and selling gas, in the towns of Newton and Watertown, with all the powers Powers and duand privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and ties. liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock. not exceed three hundred thousand dollars; and the said Real estate. corporation may hold real estate not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars. No shares to be issued under par. May open ground and lay pipes. Proviso. SECTION 3. 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 be first issued. SECTION 4. Said corporation, with the consent of the selectmen of the said towns of Newton and Watertown, or either of them, shall have power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes, or highways, in said towns, for which the right may be granted, 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 said streets, lanes, and highways, shall be held to put the same into repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, however, that the said selectmen for either of said towns, for the time being, shall at all times have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, all the acts and doings of said corporation, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, and convenience, of the inhabitants of said towns. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 27, 1854. [1852, 306.] Chap. 46. AN ACT to extend the Time for the construction of the Eastern Railroad. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: · Chap. 47. Corporators. Purpose. Real and personal estate. The time allowed to the Eastern Railroad Company, by the three hundred and sixth chapter of the acts passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to extend and construct its railroad, is hereby extended to the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. February 27, 1854. [1854, 395; 1855, 149; 1856, 305.] AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Wesleyan Association. SECTION 1. Jacob Sleeper, Thomas Patten, Benjamin H. Barnes, their associates and successors, not exceeding at any one time twenty in number, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Boston Wesleyan Association, for the purpose of printing and publishing a newspaper in Boston, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, contained in the fortyfourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real and personal property necessary for conducting said business, not Profits how ap. exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value, and all profits which shall accrue from said business over and above said capital_sum necessary for conducting the same, the said propriated. corporation shall annually divide and appropriate among the several annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New England, for the benefit of the superannuated and necessitous ministers of the same, their wives, widows, and orphans, in such proportions as said corporation shall deem equitable. how called. SECTION 3. Any two of the persons named in the first First meeting, section of this act, may call the first meeting of said corporation, by publishing a notice of the time and place of meeting in Zion's Herald, a newspaper published in Boston, one week at least prior thereto. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. February 28, 1854. [1847, 149; 1851, 1.] AN ACT concerning the Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance Company. Chap. 48. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance Company, in Insure against the city of Boston, in addition to its present powers and loss by fire. privileges, may make insurance on the mutual principle. against losses by fire; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in all subsequent acts relating to mutual fire insurance companies. [1853, 277.] February 28, 1854. AN ACT to increase the Capital Stock of the Malden Manufacturing Chap. 49. Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: stock. SECTION 1. The Malden Manufacturing Company are $300,000 addihereby authorized to increase their capital stock, by adding tional capital thereto three hundred thousand dollars, and to invest such portion thereof in real and personal estate as may be necessary and convenient for carrying on the business for which said company was incorporated. SECTION 2. No stock issued under this act shall be issued No shares to be for a less sum than the par value of the original shares. issued under par. [1855, 367.] February 28, 1854. Chap. 50. AN ACT to incorporate the American Manufacturing Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. James F. Whittemore, William C. Wright, Corporators. Rufus A. Putnam, junior, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the American Purpose. Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing machinery, in the city of Boston, with all the powers and Powers and du ties. |