duties and liabilities de SECTION 3. From and after the time when the said Powers, SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE QUINCY Chap. 14. RAILROAD COMPANY." Be it enacted, &c., as follows: tal authorized. SECTION 1. The Quincy Railroad Company is hereby Increase of capiauthorized to increase its capital to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. set Bridge, dif determined SECTION 2. In case of disagreement between said Quincy Trustees NeponRailroad Company and the trustees of the Neponset Bridge, ference with to as to the mode and terms of crossing said bridge by said be by commissioncompany's road, the same shall be fixed and determined ers. by three commissioners, to be appointed by the supreme judicial court, on the application of either party, and to be paid by the parties, as said commissioners shall determine. con SECTION 3. The time for locating and constructing that Time for portion of said company's road, which lies between the town struction of porof Quincy and the point of connection with the horse rail- year. road running through Dorchester Avenue, is hereby extended for one year. rate of speed in lectmen. SECTION 4. All the tracks of said railroad, in said town of Construction and Dorchester, shall be constructed upon such reasonable terms, Dorchester to be as to filling and excavating upon the streets over which said directed by seroad may pass, and at such grades, as the selectmen of said town shall determine to be for the public safety and convenience; and said selectmen shall have full power to make such regulations, as to the rate of speed on said tracks, as they shall deem necessary. Said company shall keep in repair and maintain such portion of said streets as shall be used for its tracks. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT FOR THE MORE SPEEDY FILLING Chap. 15. OF LANDS IN THE BACK BAY." Be it enacted, &c., as follows: not to exceed SECTION 1. The first section of chapter two hundred of Issue of scrip the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled $250,000. form of certifi cate. "An Act for the more speedy filling of Lands in the Back Time of issue and Bay," is hereby so amended, that the whole amount of scrip or certificates of debt, thereby authorized, shall, in no event, exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said scrip or certificates of debt, may be issued, in conformity to the provisions of said act, and, at any time, when needed for the purposes therein indicated, and shall bear date on the first day of the month of May last preceding the issue of said scrip or certificates of debt, and shall be signed by the treasurer, and countersigned by the governor, for the time being. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 16. AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTer seventy of thE RESOLVES OF THE Burgwyn, H. K., and wife. YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: The resolve on the petition of Henry King Burgwyn and his wife Anna G. Burgwyn, being chapter seventy of the resolves of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby repealed. Approved February 14, 1862. Chap. 17. AN ACT TO Shares, number REDUCE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE BANK OF Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The president, directors and company of the Bank of Brighton, are hereby authorized to reduce their present capital stock to the sum of two hundred thousand dollars provided, however, that no dividends of any part of the present capital stock shall be made, nor shall this act be in force, until the bank commissioners shall have certified their opinion in writing to the governor and council, that the said corporation has sufficient funds for the payment of all notes, bills, deposits and other demands existing against it, and that after the payment thereof, the net sum of two hundred thousand dollars will remain in said bank as capital stock, in funds available for all usual and proper banking purposes. SECTION 2. No change shall be made in the present of, and par value. number of shares in said capital stock; but new certificates, in shares of eighty dollars each, shall be issued to the respective stockholders entitled thereto, upon their surrender of the certificates held by them. SECTION 3. From and after the time when the said certificate of said commissioners shall have been delivered as aforesaid, all the rights, duties and liabilities of said corporation shall have relation to, and be governed by said reduced SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CONFERENCE OF BAPTIST MINISTERS Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 18. SECTION 1. Andrew Pollard, Jonathan Tilson, S. S. Par- Corporators. ker, Baron Stow, George B. Ide, Horatio B. Hackett, John N. Murdock, Arthur S. Train, Lemuel Porter, Daniel C. Eddy, Erastus Andrews, Addison Parker, William Lamson, John Girdwood, Kendall Brooks, Lemuel Moss, John Allen, Timothy C. Tingley, John Blain, William C. Richards, Peter B. Haughwort, Albert N. Arnold, J. H. Tilton, Edgar H. Gray, John Shepardson, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of The Confer- Title and purence of Baptist Ministers in Massachusetts, for the purpose of relieving aged and disabled Baptist ministers who are indigent with all the powers and privileges, and subject to Privileges and reall the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the strictions. sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes. pose. sonal estate. SECTION 2. Said corporation may, for the purposes Real and peraforesaid, hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars. Approved February 14, 1862. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 19. sioners to direct. construction. The county commissioners of the county of Barnstable County commisare hereby authorized and empowered to locate and construct, or cause to be located and constructed, a bridge over a certain tide-water called Childs' River, in the town of Location and Falmouth, at or near White's landing, so called, of such construction as said commissioners may adjudge to be in accordance with the wants and necessities of the citizens of Falmouth, and others. Approved February 14, 1862. AN ACT CONCERNING DECLARATIONS IN WRITS RETURNABLE BEFORE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 20. SECTION 1. In actions of contract and actions of tort, Action of conbefore justices of the peace and police courts, unless an declarations tract and tort, in unless, &c. may be omitted, arrest of the person is made, the writ need not contain a declaration, nor any description of the cause of action in which it is intended to declare, other than the name of the form thereof. Declaration to be filed. SECTION 2. When the declaration is not inserted in the writ, it shall be filed with the writ when the same is entered. Defendant, on at- If an attachment of property is made, the declaration and perty, when pro- bill of particulars, when necessary, shall be furnished the titled to papers. defendant or his attorney within three days after he shall have demanded the same of the plaintiff or his attorney. en Omission of declaration, to au ance. SECTION 3. When the declaration is not inserted before thorize continu- the service of the writ, the defendant shall be entitled as of right, upon motion made by himself or his attorney, to a continuance of the action, at least seven days from the return day of the writ. Approved February 14, 1862. Chap. 21. AN ACT AMENDING THE STATUTES RELATING TO HABITUAL TRUANTS. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Fourth section, forty-second chapter, G. S. Fifth section. SECTION 1. The fourth section of the forty-second chapter of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "may," and inserting instead thereof, the word "shall." SECTION 2. The fifth section of the same chapter is hereby amended, by striking out the words, "availing themselves of the provisions of the preceding section." Approved February 14, 1862. Chap. 22. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL Sale authorized. Proceeds, use of defined. SOCIETY IN IPSWICH, TO SELL THEIR OLD MEETING-HOUSE. SECTION 1. The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Society in Ipswich are hereby authorized to sell, at public auction, the building formerly used and occupied by said society as a house of worship, in said town, and to appropriate the proceeds of said sale: First-To the payment of any debt or liability now due, and subsisting on account of said building; Second-To the expenses of the sale; and Third, to the owners of pews in said building, on demand, in accordance with the existing appraisal thereof. Such payment shall be in full compensation for such pew or pews, to the owner or owners thereof. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE HORTON FUND OF Chap. 23. THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY IN NEWBURYPORT. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. William Horton, Edward Burrill, Solomon Corporators. Haskell, Nathaniel M. Horton, their associates and successors in office, for the time being, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Trustees of the Horton Fund, of Title. the Second Presbyterian Society in Newburyport, with all Privileges the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, lia- restrictions. bilities and restrictions, of associations for religious purposes, set forth in chapters thirty-two and sixty-eight of the General Statutes, for the purpose of holding property in trust, for Purpose. the support of preaching the gospel in said society, agreeably to the provisions of the deed of trust, dated October twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by which said trust funds have been provided; which deed, for preservation of evidence of its contents, may be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county of Essex. SECTION 2. Said corporation may make such by-laws as By-laws. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR UNIFORM MODES OF ASCERTAINING THE Be it enacted, &c., as follows: and Chap. 24. ture may pre SECTION 1. The state board of agriculture shall have Board of agricul authority to prescribe rules and regulations to incorporated scribe rules. agricultural societies, for uniform modes of ascertaining the amount of product of crops entered for premium. SECTION 2. The fifteenth section of the sixty-sixth chapter Repeal. of the General Statutes is hereby repealed. Approved February 14, 1862. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE CITY OF FALL river. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 25. River, in R. I., Massachusetts. SECTION 1. The town property of the heretofore town of Town of Fall Fall River, in the state of Rhode Island, shall be deemed annexed to city and held, on and after the first day of March next, to be of Fall River, in property of the city of Fall River, and the legal debts of said town to be the debts of said city: provided, that if said town Provisos. of Fall River shall, before said first day of March, have determined, in town meeting duly called, to sell said town property, other than town records, and to pay all the debts of said town, and shall actually have sold said property, and paid said debts, then, neither the property nor the debts shall devolve on said city; and provided, further, that it |