[1813, 153; 1823, 53; 1833, 135; 1835, 28; 1838, 16.] Chap. 71. AN ACT in addition to the Acts incorporating the Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys. Members. Real and personal estate. Chap. 72. Police court established. Jurisdiction. Appeal allowed. Fines, costs, &c., how disposed of. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. In addition to the existing members of the corporation of the Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, the present and future boards of managers shall be and become members, with all the rights of the corporators. SECTION 2. Said corporation may take and hold real and personal estate, to an amount in value not exceeding double that authorized by the act of eighteen hundred thirty-five, chapter twenty-eight, to which this act is in addition, and upon the same conditions as are therein specified. March 9, 1854. AN ACT to establish a Police Court in the Town of Blackstone. SECTION 1. A police court is hereby established in the town of Blackstone, to consist of one competent and discreet person, to be appointed and commissioned by the governor, pursuant to the constitution, as standing justice. SECTION 2. The said court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, committed within said town of Blackstone, whereof justices of the peace now have, or may have jurisdiction; also, of 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 Worcester, whenever all the parties shall reside in Blackstone, 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 Worcester, over all crimes, offences, and misdemeanors, whereof justices of the peace within the county of Worcester, 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 Worcester. SECTION 3. An appeal shall be allowed from all judg ments 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 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. 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 What fees court own use all fees by him received, or which now accrue to may retain. justices of the peace in civil actions and criminal prosecutions, in full compensation for all services assigned to him treasurer. by the provisions of this act: provided, that he shall not Fees over $300 retain for his services in criminal prosecutions, a sum exceed- paid to county ing 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 when to be held. suitable place in said town of Blackstone, 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 conducting of the business thereof. &c. SECTION 7. The justice of said court shall keep a fair Records, returns, record of all proceedings in said court, and shall make return 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 the said town of Blackstone, a true and faithful statement of money 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. SECTION 8. There shall be appointed by the governor, by Special justice. and 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 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 How paid. 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. Pending actions. Justices, when appointed. Act void, unless, &c. Chap. 73. Corporators. SECTION 9. All suits, actions and prosecutions, which shall be pending within the said town of Blackstone, 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 the advice and consent of the council, to appoint said standing and special justice, at any time after receiving notice of the adoption of this act by the town of Blackstone, as hereinafter mentioned. SECTION 11. This act shall be void, unless the inhabitants of the town of Blackstone, at a legal town meeting called for that purpose, shall, by a written vote, determine to adopt the same, within sixty days from the passage of this act. And it shall be the duty of the selectmen and town clerk of said town of Blackstone, to certify that fact to his excellency, the governor, if the town should so vote to adopt this March 11, 1854. act. [Repealed 1856, 81.] AN ACT to incorporate the Winthrop House Company. SECTION 1. Samuel S. Pierce, Seth W. Fowle, Samuel S. Perkins, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Winthrop House Company, for the purpose of owning, holding, improving, and maintaining, the public house called the Winthrop House, situated at the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets, in Boston, in said Commonwealth, and the buildings and appurtenances Powers and du- thereto belonging; and for these purposes shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes of this Commonwealth: provided, however, that said company shall not engage in the business of hotel-keeping. ties. Proviso. Capital stock. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars, which they may invest in real and personal property, necessary and conNo shares to be venient for the purpose aforesaid: provided, however, that issued under par. 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. March 11, 1854. Chap. 75. Corporators. AN ACT to incorporate the Chelsea Brick Manufacturing Company. ties. town of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk, with all the Powers and dupowers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and fortyfourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold real estate Real estate. necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding in amount one hundred thousand dollars, and the Capital stock. whole capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars: provided, however, that no No shares to be shares in the capital stock of said corporation shall be issued issued under par. for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares first issued. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [1818, 124.] March 11, 1854. AN ACT in addition to an Act to incorporate the Lowell Traders' and Chap. 76. Mechanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. On receiving from the subscribers thereto a Guarantee capiguarantee capital of fifty thousand dollars, which shall be tal. paid in within two years from the passage of this act, the Lowell Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Company may make insurance against fire and against mari- Insure against time losses, otherwise than on the mutual principle, with time losses. all the powers and privileges, and 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 insurance companies. fire and mari antee capital. SECTION 2. Said company may increase its guarantee Increase guarcapital, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, at any time within three years from the passage of this act. SECTION 3. So much of the act, to which this is in addi- Partial repeal. tion, as may be construed to require property hereafter insured by said company to be divided into separate classes, tracts not affected. is hereby repealed. But no existing contract, for insurance Existing conwith said company, shall be affected by said repeal. SECTION 4. Said company shall hereafter be called and Name changed. known by the name of the Traders' and Mechanics' Insurance Company. March 11, 1854. Chap. 78. AN ACT to incorporate the Franklin Locomotive Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Jonathan Amory, Thomas A. Dexter, and Corporators. William P. Parrott, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Franklin Locomotive Company, for the purpose of manufacturing Purpose. locomotive engines, steam-boilers, furnaces, and other machinery, in the city of Boston, with power to hold any Powers and du- patents in relation thereto; and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. ties. Capital stock. Real estate. No shares to be SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, and the corporation may hold real estate not exceeding fifty 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 be first issued. Chap. 79. Corporators. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 15, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Warren Cotton Mills. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Jacob B. Merrick, John S. Wright and Ephraim P. Whitman, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Warren Cotton Mills, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and woollen goods and machinery, in the town of Warren, in the Powers and du- county of Worcester; 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-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. ties. Real estate. Capital stock. No shares to be SECTION 2. The said corporation may hold, for the purposes aforesaid, real estate, not exceeding the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the whole capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the amount of three hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 3. No share in the capital stock of said corpoissued under par. ration 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. Chap. 80. Name changed. Chap. 82. Corporators. March 15, 1854. AN ACT to change the Name of the Bethesda Baptist Society. The Bethesda Baptist Society, in the city of Charlestown, AN ACT to incorporate the Lyman Mills. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Augustus H. Fiske, Mark Healey, Richard S. Fay and Thomas Hopkinson, their associates and assigns, |