ACTS, GENERAL AND SPECIAL. AN ACT IN RELATION TO BANKS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Chap. 1. specie payment SECTION 1. The operation of the fifty-ninth section of the Suspension of fifty-seventh chapter of the General Statutes is hereby sus- authorized. pended until the first day of April next. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved January 14, 1862. Chap. 2. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE TOWN OF SEEKONK. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: district of, estab SECTION 1. A municipal district is hereby established by East Seekonk, the name and style of East Seekonk, to consist of those lished. portions of the territory of the towns of Seekonk and Pawtucket, which by the fifth and seventh sections of the "Act in relation to the Rhode Island Boundary," approved by the governor on the tenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, are declared to constitute the town of Seekonk, upon the entry of a final decree by the supreme court of the United States, in the suit pending in said court between the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; and the legal voters of the towns of Seekonk and Qualification of Pawtucket, residing on said territory, and none others, shall voters. be qualified to vote in the affairs of said district. and treasurer, SECTION 2. On the petition of three or more of the legal Warden, clerk voters of said district, any justice of the peace within the how chosen. county of Bristol may and shall, by warrant directed to any one of said petitioners, and posted by him at any suitable public place or places in said district, summon the legal voters of said district to meet at any proper place in said district designated in said warrant, in district meeting, five days after the posting of said notice, at which meeting the said School districts, voters shall elect a warden, a clerk, and a treasurer, by a plurality vote, to have and exercise the powers and duties hereinafter set forth, and to be sworn to the faithful performVacancies to be ance of the same. And said meeting may adjourn and meet filled by election. from time to time, so long as said district shall continue to exist. And in case of the death, absence, or disability of any warden, clerk, or treasurer elected, the district may and shall choose another person to act in his place and stead. SECTION 3. The said municipal district of East Seekonk arrange and ad- may provide for the division of the future town of Seekonk just claims of in into school districts, and for the adjustment of the claims of the several school districts and the tax-payers thereof, as contemplated in the aforesaid "Act in relation to the Rhode Warden and se- Island Boundary;" to which end the warden of said district, together with the selectmen of the present town of Seekonk, shall conjointly have and exercise all the powers, which the selectmen of towns now have, by general law, in the determination of school districts, and shall make and consummate the sales, conveyances, appraisements and remittances of taxes, particularly required by the above-mentioned act. Seekonk. lectmen, powers and duties. Records and other corporate property, custody of. Moneys and funds, questions determined. SECTION 4. The selectmen and town clerk of the present town of Seekonk shall forthwith, on demand of the warden or clerk of the district of East Seekonk, place in the custody of said warden or clerk, the town records, muniments of title, and other corporate property other than money or uncollected taxes, which the aforesaid "Act in relation to the Rhode Island Boundary" declares shall be the property of the future town of Seekonk. And it shall be the duty of the said warden and clerk immediately to take possession of such property and hold the same subject to the provisions of this act. SECTION 5. The warden of East Seekonk, together with respecting, how the selectmen of Seekonk, shall conjointly have power to determine all questions, which have arisen or may arise, respecting money in the treasury of or belonging to the present or future town of Seekonk, and all questions regarding funds of the town, general or special, and all town questions whatsoever, occasioned by or depending upon the setting Taxes outstand- off a part of said town to the State of Rhode Island; and and disposition they shall direct and order the immediate collection of all outstanding taxes, and determine what portion of the 'same, whether school money, highway money, or other, appertains to the future town of Seekonk, and to require such portions to be paid by the treasurer of the present town of Seekonk to the treasurer of the district of East Seekonk; and all expenditures hereafter in and for the present town ing, collection of. Expenditures, how ordered. of Seekonk shall be made on the joint order of the selectmen of Seekonk and the warden of East Seekonk, and not otherwise. penditures of SECTION 6. The treasurer and collector of the present Receipts and extown of Seekonk shall forthwith prepare in duplicate a money, and recertified return of all moneys received by him as such turn of uncolduring the current municipal year, and since his last report ports of, to whom to the said town, and of the expenditure of the same. Also a certified return of all taxes committed to him for collection and remaining uncollected. And he shall thereupon deliver one copy of said return to the warden and one copy to the treasurer of the district of East Seekonk. lected taxes, re made. ing, to be collect forcement. SECTION 7. The treasurer and collector of the present Taxes outstandtown of Seekonk shall proceed forthwith, by distraint, ed by legal enarrest, or otherwise, according to law, to collect all outstanding taxes due to said town from any person residing or owning taxable property therein, save in the case of any such person, who, by joint act of said selectmen of Seekonk, and said warden of East Seekonk, shall have been declared to be unable by reason of extreme poverty to pay his tax, and whose tax shall by said selectmen and warden have been for such cause abated or released. And all towll Moneys in treamoney now in the hands of the said treasurer of the town of sury of Seekonk, Seekonk, and all which he may hereafter collect, he shall hold and pay according to the joint order of the said selectmen of Seekonk and the said warden of East Seekonk, and thus only, unless otherwise required by lawful process of the courts of the Commonwealth. how drawn. upon request of S. J. Court, to adjust differences men and warden. between select SECTION 8. It shall be lawful for the selectmen of Commissioner, Seekonk, or the warden of East Seekonk, or either of them, either party, may immediately on the organization of said district of East be appointed by Seekonk, to petition the supreme judicial court, or either of the justices thereof, in term time or vacation, to appoint a commissioner, which commissioner shall have power to do and perform all the things proposed by this act to be done by the joint action of the selectmen of Seekonk and the warden of East Seekonk as aforesaid, in case of any disagreement between them as to the execution of the powers and duties devolved upon them by this act, and who shall thereupon proceed to Seekonk, there to discharge his functions; and the report of said commissioner in the premises, made to and accepted by the supreme judicial court, shall be final and conclusive as respects all parties. to perform du SECTION 9. In case of the neglect or refusal of the select- Failure of officer men, town clerk or treasurer of the present town of Seekonk, ties, to authorize or either of them, to do the things herein required, or any of S. J. Court to ance. enforce perform them, the supreme judicial court is authorized and required, on application of the warden, clerk or treasurer of East Seekonk, to compel the same to be done; and the said supreme judicial court shall have like authority, on petition of any inhabitant of Seekonk, to enforce the performance of the duties hereby imposed on the warden, clerk and treasurer of the district of East Seekonk. Orders and de S. J. em SECTION 10. The supreme judicial court is hereby emgrees requisite: powered to make and issue all orders and decrees requisite powered to exe- in the premises, and to cause the same to be executed summarily, by injunction, contempt or other lawful process in Proceedings, to chancery. And the proceedings before said court, in any be prosecuted by case arising under this act, at the relation of any petitioner, attorney-general. shall be in the name of the attorney-general of the Commonwealth, whose duty it shall be to prosecute the same to final decree in the behalf and at the expense of the CommonExpenses to be wealth. And the treasurer of the Commonwealth is empowpaid by Common- ered to pay all said expenses, as taxed and allowed by the supreme judicial court, including the expenses of the commissioner, on the certificate of the attorney-general. Powers and duties of district Seekonk. SECTION 11. It shall be the duty of the warden, clerk and officers of Fast treasurer of East Seekonk, to prepare a voting list of the legal voters of said district, entitled to vote in town meeting, and to correct the same, with the same powers as selectmen in the premises, and to post the same in a suitable public place or places, at least ten days before the first day of next March. Warden to issue warrant for meetto first day of ing ten days prior March. warrant. SECTION 12. The warden of East Seekonk shall, at least ten days prior to the first day of March next, issue his warrant, directed to the clerk of said district or any person therein, requiring him to warn the lawful voters of said district to assemble in town meeting at some suitable place on the said first day of March, for the purpose of organizing the future town of Seekonk as designated by the aforesaid "Act in Specifications of relation to the Rhode Island Boundary," and the warrant for said meeting shall set forth the objects thereof, to wit, to organize the town, to elect the annual town officers, and to transact any other town business proper or usual to be transacted at annual town meetings which shall have been specified in said warrant by the said warden. Notice of said meeting to be given by posting a copy of the warrant at some suitable public place or places at least five days prior to the Meeting to be said first day of March. And the said warden shall call the meeting of town meeting to order, and preside over the same until a moderator shall have been chosen, when the meeting shall be deemed and held in law to be a town meeting of the town of Seekonk. Warrant to be posted. deemed a town of Seekonk. officers for town to and property of SECTION 13. So soon as the proper town officers of the Upon election of future town of Seekonk shall have been elected and qualified, of Seekonk, disthe district of East Seekonk, created by this act, shall deter- trict cease, mine and cease; and the warden, clerk and treasurer of East to be delivered to Seekonk shall thereupon deliver up all records, money, or other town property in their hands, respectively, to such proper officers of the said town of Seekonk. town officers. fined. SECTION 14. Wherever in the aforesaid "Act in relation Construction of to the Rhode Island Boundary," mention occurs of the time act of 1861 deof entry of a final decree of the supreme court of the United States, it shall be deemed to intend the time when by the terms thereof said decree takes effect, to wit, the first day of the next March. Society in fined. first SECTION 15. The religious society in the town of Seekonk, Congregational incorporated on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand precinct of Rehoseven hundred and ninety-two, by the name of the Congre- both, location degational Society in the first precinct of Rehoboth, a part of which society is situated on the western side of the boundary line between the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, established by the aforesaid decree of the supreme court of the United States, shall nevertheless, be and continue a religious corporation of this Commonwealth, with all the powers and duties of such, according to the provisions of said act and the General Statutes of the Commonwealth. SECTION 16. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ARKWRIGHT Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 3. ers granted. SECTION 1. The Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Additional powCompany is authorized to insure manufactories, and other buildings containing manufactured goods and materials for manufacturing, and the contents thereof, against loss or damage by fire. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. THE UNITED STATES. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE BANKS TO PAY OUT THE DEMAND NOTES OF Chap. 4. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: construction of, SECTION 1. The fifty-fifth section of the fifty-seventh General Statutes, chapter of the General Statutes, shall not be construed to defined. prohibit any bank in this Commonwealth from paying out from its counter the demand notes of the United States: provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to Proviso. |