clerks.

sioner.

For the compensation of the treasurer's extra clerks, a Treasurer's sum not exceeding thirty-two dollars and forty-three cents. For the expenses of the tax commissioner, a sum not ex- Tax commisceeding four hundred and five dollars and seventy-one cents. For incidental expenses of the secretary's department, a Secretary's exsum not exceeding two hundred twenty-seven dollars and penses. eighty cents.

missioner.

For the contingent expenses of the insurance commis- Insurance comsioner, a sum not exceeding nine hundred fifty-five dollars and fifty cents.

ture, incidentals.

For the incidental expenses of the board of agriculture, a Board of agriculsum not exceeding sixty-six dollars and ninety cents. For the personal expenses of the members of the board of Expenses of agriculture, a sum not exceeding three hundred twentyeight dollars and sixty cents.

members.

tion.

For postage, printing and stationery for the board of Board of educaeducation, a sum not exceeding nine hundred eighty-eight dollars and nine cents, payable from the income of the Massachusetts school fund, applicable to educational purposes.

Warren bridges.

For expenses of the Charles River and Warren bridges, a Charles river and sum not exceeding two thousand seven hundred sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, payable from the Charles River and Warren bridge fund.

For expenses of the Essex bridge, a sum not exceeding Essex bridge. seven hundred twenty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents, payable from the Essex bridge fund.

boundaries at

For expenses incurred in the establishment of boundary Establishing lines at Gay Head, as authorized by chapter forty-two of the day Head. resolves of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and chapter sixty-seven of the resolves of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, a sum not exceeding four hundred and forty-four dollars forty-five cents.

lege land scrip.

For expenses incurred in the sale of the agricultural Agricultural colcollege land scrip, a sum not exceeding one thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars fifty-six cents, which shall be allowed and paid.

For the salaries of the justices of the superior court, the Justices of supesum of one thousand and forty-five dollars.

rior court.

Haverhill.

For the salary of the justice of the police court in Haver- Police court, hill, the sum of forty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; and for the salary of the clerk of said court the sum of twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For sundry small items of expenditure due and unpaid in Sundry items. the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and previous years, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Printing, &c.,

house and senate.

For printing and binding for the senate and house, a sum not exceeding four thousand eight hundred and six dollars seventy-seven cents.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 21, 1868.

RAILROAD COMPANY.

Chap. 26. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WAYLAND AND SUDBURY BRANCH Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Corporators.

Powers and duties.

Location.

Passenger and freight stations and turnouts.

May use Fitchburg railroad, or

SECTION 1. Horace Heard, Edward Pousland, James S. Draper, Charles A. Cutting, Henry D. Parmenter, Dexter C. Jones, Thomas P. Hurlbut, Samuel B. Rogers, John H. Dakin, J. C. Howe, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Wayland and Sudbury Branch Railroad Company; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to railroad corporations.

SECTION 2. Said corporation may locate, construct, maintain and operate a railroad, with one or more tracks, commencing either at a point at or near Mill Village, in the town of Sudbury, or at a point at or near the centre of said town: thence to the town of Wayland, and through said last named town and the town of Weston, to such convenient point as it may select at or near Stony Brook station on the Fitchburg Railroad.

SECTION 3. Said corporation shall erect and maintain one or more stations and turnouts for the accommodation of passengers and freight in each of the following named localities, viz. In the town of Sudbury, in Wayland Centre, and in that part of said Wayland called "the Plain" at or near the point where said railroad shall intersect the "Concord Road," so called, and also in Weston.

:

SECTION 4. Said corporation may enter with its road upon sell franchise, &c. and use the road of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, subject to the general laws relating to railroad corporations; or it may sell, assign and convey, or lease its road and franchise to the said Fitchburg Railroad Company.

Capital stock and shares.

Conditions of

validity of act.

SECTION 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be fixed by the directors thereof, at an amount not less than one hundred thousand dollars, nor more than two hundred thousand dollars; and said stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

SECTION 6. This act shall be void unless the said railroad be located within two years, and completed within three years from the passage hereof. Approved February 21, 1868.

AN ACT TO

INCORPORATE THE NEW ENGLAND

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

COMPANY.

LIQUID FUEL Chap. 27.

pose

SECTION 1. Henry R. Foote, Francis A. Osborn, Micah Corporators. Dyer, junior, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the New England Liquid Name and purFuel Company, for the purpose of holding and dealing in the patent rights of said Foote for improved apparatus for generating and burning the vapor of hydro-carbon oils, and for divers other improvements relating to the use of liquid fuel, patented and to be patented by said Foote; and also for the purpose of manufacturing and selling machines constructed under said patents, with any future improvements thereon, and for manufacturing and dealing in such fuel as is used in said machines; and for these purposes shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to manufacturing corporations.

be in Boston.

SECTION 2. Said corporation shall have its principal Principal office to office in the city of Boston, and may hold, for the purposes aforesaid, real estate not exceeding the value of fifty thousand dollars, and the capital stock shall not exceed two Capital stock. hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each: provided, however, that said corporation Proviso. shall not go into operation until seventy-five thousand dollars of its capital is paid in in cash, not more than onehalf of which shall be expended for the purchase of the patent rights named in the first section.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 21, 1868.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF HOLYROOD SCHOOL. Chap. 28. Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. Theodore Edson, Charles Hovey, Benjamin Corporators. C. Sargeant, their associates and successors, are hereby con

stituted body corporate under the name of "The Trustees Name and purof Holyrood School," for the purpose of establishing and pose. maintaining a boarding-school for the education of girls, to

be located in the city of Lowell, or its vicinity; with all the Location in powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities Lowell. and restrictions set forth in the general laws which now are

or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2. Said board of trustees shall consist of not Board of trustees less than seven nor more than thirteen members, and shall

have power to fill vacancies in their own number: provided,

Real and personal estate.

that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting of said board unless a majority of the trustees are present.

SECTION 3. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to be devoted exclusively to educational purposes, as provided in this act.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 21, 1868.

IN WEST BRIDGEWATER.

Chap. 29. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE HOWARD FUNDS Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Corporators.

Name and purpose.

Corporation may take and hold

estate.

SECTION 1. Azel Howard, Benjamin Howard, Francis E. Howard, John E. Howard, Austin Packard, Otis Drury, Pardon Copeland, James Copeland, George D. Ryder, Jonathan C. Keith, John M. Lothrop, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of "The Trustees of the Howard Funds in West Bridgewater," for the purpose of holding in trust and administering the school fund, parochial fund, and lecture fund provided for by the will of the late Benjamin B. Howard, of West Bridgewater, proved and allowed in the probate court, held at Plymouth, in and for the county of Plymouth, on the thirteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven; subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and real and personal empowered to take and hold, for the purposes therein set forth, all the estate bequeathed in trust by said will to the trustees herein named; and may take and hold any other estate, real or personal, which may be acquired by said corporation by gift, devise, purchase or otherwise, for the same purposes: provided, however, that the actual value of the estate by them held or possessed as aforesaid, shall not at any one time exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.

Limitation.

Accounts of re

ceipts and expenditures, to be kept.

SECTION 3. Said corporation shall cause accurate accounts to be kept of all the receipts and expenditures of each fund provided for in said will, in the same manner as if each of said funds was held by a separate corporation.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 21, 1868.

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR CONSTRUCTING THE BOSTON, Chap. 30.

BARRE AND GARDNER RAILROAD.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

1871.

SECTION 1. The time for constructing the Boston, Barre Time extended to and Gardner Railroad is hereby extended to the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 21, 1868.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WASHBURN AND MOEN MANUFAC- Chap. 31.

TURING COMPANY.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

pose.

SECTION 1. Ichabod Washburn, Philip L. Moen, William Corporators. E. Rice, Charles Washburn, Charles F. Washburn, Henry Goddard, Dorance S. Goddard, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, for the purpose Name and purof making and working of iron, steel and other metals, and of manufacturing cotton yarn and cotton goods in the city of Worcester; and for that purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to manufacturing corporations. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock and not exceed one million of dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said corporation may hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the purposes set forth in this act, and shall not commence business until six hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock shall have been paid in.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 24, 1868.

shares.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF SOUTH READING. Chap. 32.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

SECTION 1. The town of South Reading in the county of Middlesex, shall take the name of Wakefield.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Approved February 25, 1868.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE TURNER'S FALLS BRANCH RAILROAD

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

COMPANY.

Name of South

Reading changed to Wakefield.

Chap. 33.

SECTION 1. The time allowed the Turner's Falls Branch Time extended Railroad Company for locating and constructing its railroad two years.

is hereby extended two years.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect

upon its passage. Approved February 25, 1868.