and the cities of Boston and Roxbury, and to sell gas on the line of such extension. 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 town of Brookline, and of the mayor and aldermen of the cities of Boston and Roxbury, respectively, shall have power and authority to open the ground in any part of the streets, lanes, and highways, in said town and cities, 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 company, after opening the ground in said streets, lanes, and highways, shall be held to put the same again in repair, under the penalty of being prosecuted for a nuisance: provided, however, that said Proviso. selectmen, and mayor and aldermen, for the time being, shall, at all times, have the power to regulate, restrict, and control, the acts and doings of said company, which may in any manner affect the health, safety, or convenience, of the inhabitants of said town and cities. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 20, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the Nahant Steam-boat Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 105 SECTION 1. Francis S. Newhall, Paran Stevens, Ezra Corporators. Baker, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Nahant Steam-boat Company, for the purpose of owning and running a steam-boat Purpose. or steam-boats, for the convenience of the public travel, and the transportation of merchandise, between Boston and Nahant, and from either of said places to other places in Massachusets Bay; with all the powers and privileges, and Powers and dusubject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth ties. in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. issued under par. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock. not exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars: pro- No shares to be vided, no shares in said corporation shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be paid in on each, than the par value of the shares first issued; and all debts of said corporation, shall be paid, before the stockholders shall receive any dividend. March 20, 1854. [1825, 4.] Chap. 106 AN ACT to authorize the New Bedford Institution for Savings to hold Real estate. Proviso. Chap. 107 Corporators. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Real Estate. SECTION 1. The New Bedford Institution for Savings is hereby authorized to hold real estate, to the amount of twenty-five 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 the banking purposes of said corporation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its AN ACT to incorporate the Bay State Wharf Company. SECTION 1. Barnabas Hammett, Eben H. Balch, Daniel A. Baldwin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Bay State Wharf ComPowers and du- pany, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the fortyfourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. ties. May purchase land and flats. SECTION 2. Said corporation may purchase and hold the whole, or any part, of certain land and flats, in that part of the city of Boston, called South Boston, within the following limits, to wit: between the premises of the Boston Wharf Company, which bound said land and flats on the southeasterly side, and the premises of the Old Colony Railroad Company's Wharf, bounding it on the westerly side; bounding on First Street, on the southerly side, two hundred and twenty-four feet, with all the rights, privileges and appurteMay build wharf, nances thereto belonging; and said corporation may build &c. No structure below commissioners' line. Capital stock. and maintain a wharf, within said limits, and lay vessels thereat, and receive dockage therefor, and may excavate docks, and may construct warehouses, stores, and sheds, upon the land above-mentioned, and maintain and lease the same. SECTION 3. Nothing herein contained, shall authorize said corporation to erect any structure below the commissioners' line, established by chapter two hundred and twentynine of the acts of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter thirty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty, and by other acts in addition to the same, which the owners of said land and flats may not, legally do, at the time of the passage hereof, or to fill up any flats which said owners may not now fill up. SECTION 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of three thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 21, 1854. AN ACT authorizing the Town of Amesbury to sell and convey a Town- Chap. 108 way and Landing. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: town landing. SECTION 1. That the town of Amesbury be, and hereby May sell ancient is, authorized to sell and convey a certain ancient town landing, containing about three-quarters of an acre of land, situated in Amesbury, on Powow River, near the falls, bounded southerly by land of the Salisbury Manufacturing Company, easterly by Powow River, northerly by land of said Salisbury Manufacturing Company, and westerly by a passage-way leading to the main road. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 21, 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the American Hardware Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 109 SECTION 1. Homer Foot, Philos B. Tyler, their associates Corporators. and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the American Hardware Company, for the purpose of Purpose. manufacturing furniture, castors, and other hardware, in ties. the city of Springfield, in the county of Hampden; with Powers and duall the 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. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold, for the purposes Real estate. aforesaid, real estate, necessary and convenient for carrying on the business of said company, not exceeding in amount fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock of said Capital stock. corporation shall not exceed one hundred and fifty 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 amount than the par value of the shares which may be first issued. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. March 21, 1851. AN ACT to authorize Epes Merchant and his associates to build a Wharf. Chap. 110 Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Gloucester. Epes Merchant and his associates are hereby authorized Wharf in to build and maintain a wharf, extending one hundred and fifty feet from a bank wall which incloses the upland at Leighton's Hill, at the head of the harbor, in the town of Gloucester, to be called Merchant's Wharf; and shall have May receive dockthe right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and to receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, Proviso. age, &c. that this grant shall not interfere with the legal rights of Chap. 111 AN ACT to incorporate the New Bedford, Vineyard and Nantucket Corporators. Purpose. Capital stock. No shares to be issued under par. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Thomas Mandell, David R. Greene, Joseph Grinnell, their associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the New Bedford, Vineyard and Nantucket Steam-boat Company, for the purpose of running steam-boats and sailing vessels, for the convenience of the public travel and the transportation of merchandise, between New Bedford and Nantucket, and between New Bedford and other ports and places, and for the towing of ships and vessels; with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid; but the capital stock of said company shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 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; and the par value is hereby fixed at one hundred dollars for each share. March 21, 1854. Chap. 112 AN ACT to authorize Daniel D. Kelly and William Kelly to extend their May extend wharf. age, &c. Wharf. Daniel D. Kelly and William Kelly, proprietors of a wharf and flats, in that part of Boston called East Boston, and bounded on Marginal Street, are hereby authorized to extend and maintain their wharf into the harbor channel, as far as the line established by the act entitled "An Act concerning the Harbor of Boston," passed on the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty; May receive dock and shall have the right to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, however, that this grant shall not be construed to extend to any flats or land of this Commonwealth, lying in front of the flats of any other person, or which would be comprehended by the true lines of such flats, continued to the said commissioners' line; and provided, further, that so much of said wharf as may be constructed below low-water mark shall be built on piles, which piles shall not be nearer to each other than six feet, in the direction of the stream, Proviso. Proviso. and eight feet in a transverse direction, and that this act shall in nowise impair the legal rights of any person whatMarch 21, 1854. ever. AN ACT to incorporate the Maverick Oil Company. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 113 SECTION 1. Samuel W. Hawes, D. S. King, D. S. Green- Corporators. ough, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Maverick Oil Company, for Purpose. the purpose of manufacturing oil in that part of Boston called East Boston, with all the 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. sonal estate. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal Real and perproperty necessary and convenient for the purposes aforesaid, to an amount not exceeding 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 or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued. SECTION 4. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its March 22, 1854. AN ACT to authorize A. W. Fernald, B. L. Fernald, and Amasa Nickerson, junior, to build a Wharf. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 114 A. W. Fernald, B. L. Fernald, and Amasa Nickerson, Wharf in East junior, proprietors of land and flats in that part of Boston Boston. called East Boston, and bounded on Border Street, are hereby authorized to build and maintain a wharf, upon and from their said premises, into Boston Harbor, as far as the line established by the act entitled "An Act concerning the Harbor of Boston," passed on the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and to lay vessels at the end and sides of said wharf, and receive wharfage and dockage therefor: provided, that so much of said wharf as may be constructed below low-water mark, shall be built on piles, which piles shall not be nearer to each other than six feet, in the direction of the stream, and eight feet in a transverse direction; and provided, also, that this act shall in nowise impair the legal rights of any person or persons whatever. March 22, 1854. AN ACT to authorize Salma E. Gould to extend his Wharf. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Proviso. Chap. 115 Salma E. Gould, proprietor of a wharf and flats, situated wharf in East on Border Street, in that part of Boston called East Boston, Boston. |