SECTION 16. The said city of Charlestown shall erect Hydrants. and maintain proper hydrants at such points along the line of the aqueduct as the selectmen of the towns of Somerville and Medford shall direct: provided, however, the said city Proviso. of Charlestown shall not be required to erect and maintain such hydrants at points nearer together than five hundred feet; and said towns of Somerville and Medford may at all times draw water from said hydrants without charge therefor, for the extinguishment of fires, under such regulations as the city of Charlestown may, from time to time, establish under authority of this act; and the rates of water supplied to the inhabitants of said towns of Somerville and Medford for other purposes than the extinguishment of fires, as provided in section fifteen, shall not exceed the rates charged for like uses in said city of Charlestown, and the payment or rental for the use of such water shall be made and collected in the same manner as herein before provided for the water distributed in the said city of Charlestown. In case the pipes for distributing said water shall be laid without expense to said city of Charlestown, such charge or rental shall be made for the use of said water, as may be agreed upon by and between said towns respectively and said city of Charlestown. ed by legal voters. SECTION 17. The provisions of this act shall be void Act to be acceptunless submitted to and approved by the voters of the city of Charlestown, at meetings held simultaneously for that purpose in the several wards, within three years from the passage of this act, upon notice duly given, at least seven days before the time of holding said meetings. SECTION 18. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 28, 1861. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE EAST BOSTON WHARF COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 106 crease. SECTION 1. The East Boston Wharf Company is hereby Amount of inauthorized to increase its capital stock by adding thereto five hundred thousand dollars, and to invest the same in the pur- Investment. chase of real estate adjoining the land now owned by said corporation, a description of which real estate is hereafter set forth, to be used as may be necessary and convenient to carry on the business for which the said company was incorporated: provided, that no shares in the capital stock hereby Proviso. authorized shall be issued for a less sum or amount than the par value of the shares in the original capital stock of said corporation. Description of real estate. Boundaries. Location. SECTION 2. The real estate which said corporation is hereby authorized to purchase and hold is described as follows, to wit:-A lot or parcel of land bounded and described as follows, viz. beginning at the south-east corner of the premises now owned by said corporation on Sumner Street and at the centre of Mill Street; thence running westerly through the centre of Mill Street and bounded on said corporation land four hundred feet; then turning and running southerly, one hundred and thirty feet; then turning and running westerly, about seven hundred and sixty feet to the commissioners' line; thence running northerly by said commissioners' line three hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to a point on the line of Carleton's estate, so called; then turning and running north-easterly, eight hundred and seventy feet to Sumner Street; then turning and running southeasterly one hundred and ninety feet on Sumner Street to the point of beginning. Said premises being situated in that part of Boston called East Boston. Approved March 28, 1861. Chap. 107 AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CITY OF LYNN. Control of highways. Damages. Chap. 108 Corporators. Title. Location. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen of the city of Lynn, with the concurrent vote of the common council, shall have exclusive authority and power to lay out, alter or discontinue any street or town way, to establish the grade thereof, and to estimate the damages any individual or party may sustain thereby; and the person or party dissatisfied with the decision of the city council, in the estimate of damages, may make complaint to the county commissioners of the county of Essex, at any meeting held within one year after such decision, whereupon, the same proceedings shall be had as are now by law provided in cases where persons or parties are aggrieved by the assessment of damages by the selectmen, in the forty-third chapter of the General Statutes. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BRIGHTON FIVE CENTS SAVINGS BANK. Charles Noyes, R. G. Green, H. H. Larnard, David Collins, J. F. Taylor, James Stetson, Samuel Bigelow, H. W. Jordan, W. W. Warren, James Dana, William Warren, George H. Brooks, John Ruggles, Theodore Matchett, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank, to be established and located in the town of Brighton; with all &c. the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, Powers, duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the fifty-seventh chapter of the General Statutes, and all other laws relating to savings banks. Approved March 28, 1861. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CAPE COD CENTRAL RAILROAD COM Be it enacted, &c., as follows: PANY. Chap. 109 SECTION 1. Chester Snow, Freeman Cobb, Joseph Cum- Corporators. mings, E. W. Carpenter, Joseph K. Baker, junior, James S. Howes and Reuben Nickerson, junior, their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation, by the name Title. of the Cape Cod Central Railroad Company; with all the Powers, duties, powers and privileges, and subject, except as hereinafter set forth, to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in the sixty-third chapter of the General Statutes of this Commonwealth, relating to railroad corporations. &c. SECTION 2. The said company may locate, construct and Location. operate a railroad, commencing at a point on the Cape Cod Railroad, at or near the depot in Yarmouth, in the county of Barnstable, and running thence through the towns of Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich and Brewster, to a point near the Town Cove, so called, in the town of Orleans. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall not Capital. exceed two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and no shares shall be Shares. issued for a less sum, to be actually paid in on each, than al estate. the value of the shares first issued; and such company Real and personpar may purchase and hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorporation. and construction SECTION 4. If the said company be not organized, and Time of location the location of their road filed with the county commission- limited. ers of the said county of Barnstable, within two years from the passage of this act, and if said road shall not be constructed within three years from said time, this act shall be void. SECTION 5. The said company shall have the right and Crossing highprivilege of crossing highways and town ways at such ways, &c. grade and in such manner as the county commissioners may specify and direct. SECTION 6. Said corporation is hereby authorized to issue Bonds. bonds for the purpose of constructing or equipping their road, the amount thereof not to exceed the amount of capital stock paid in, of the same kind, in the same manner, upon the same terms, conditions and restrictions, and to be Conditions, &c. approved, certified, recorded and secured, in all respects, in conformity with the sixty-third chapter of the General Statutes. May unite with road. Terms, &c. Transfer of property, &c. Lease of road. SECTION 7. The said Cape Cod Central Railroad Company may unite their railroad with the Cape Cod Railroad, at the point of intersection therewith mentioned in the second section; and said Cape Cod Central Railroad Company may enter upon and use the tracks of the Cape Cod Railroad Company, upon the terms, and subject to the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth relating to railroads and railroad corporations. SECTION 8. The said Cape Cod Central Railroad Company are hereby authorized and empowered to transfer all their property, rights and franchise, under this charter, to the said Cape Cod Railroad Company, or their successors, whenever a mutual arrangement may be made to that effect; or said Cape Cod Central Railroad Company may lease their road and other property to the said Cape Cod Railroad Company, or to any other corporation or individuals, either for a limited time or perpetually, as may be agreed upon; and the said Cape Cod Railroad Company and the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company are hereby authorized to accept such lease whenever agreed upon by the parties. SECTION 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 28, 1861. Chap. 110 AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE POLLS AND ESTATES OF THE SEVERAL Basis of apportionment for state and county taxes. CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The number of polls, the amount of property, and the tax of one thousand dollars, including polls at half a mill each for each city and town in the several counties of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as contained in the schedule hereto annexed, are established and shall constitute a basis of apportionment for state and county taxes, during the decade ending in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, unless otherwise provided by the legislature: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. |