year, and constructed within two years from the passage of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 24, 1872. AN ACT TO REDUCE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE FALMOUTH HEIGHTS Chap. 38. LAND AND WHARF COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: fixed at $20,000. SECTION 1. The capital stock of the Falmouth Heights Capital stock Land and Wharf Company shall be twenty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each: pro- Proviso. vided, however, that said corporation shall not commence business or incur liability until fifteen thousand dollars of capital stock shall have been paid in in cash. 278, § 3. SECTION 2. Section three of chapter two hundred and Repeal of 1871, seventy-eight of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR LOCATING AND COMPLETING THE Chap. 39. Be it enacted, &c, as follows: tion and com tended. SECTION 1. The time for locating the Gloucester and Time for locaLanesville Railroad is hereby extended to the first day of pletion exJune, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the further completion of the same to the first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 26, 1872. AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF THE EAST WALPOLE BRANCH RAILROAD COMPANY. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 40. for location and extended. The charter of the East Walpole Branch Railroad Com- Charter repany, incorporated by chapter thirty-five of the acts of the vived, and time year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby construction revived; the time for the organization of said company is hereby extended two years; and the time for locating and constructing said road, and the road authorized by chapter three hundred and forty-one of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, for three years from the passage of this act. Approved February 26, 1872. Chap. 41. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE WORCESTER AND Time for taking land for an additional track extended. NASHUA RAILROAD COMPANY MAY TAKE LAND AND MATERIALS, Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The time within which the Worcester and Nashua Railroad Company may take land and materials for an additional track, and file a location of the same, as provided in chapter ninety-one of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, is hereby extended to March seventeenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 42. AN ACT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF BOOKS AND OTHER PROPERTY Penalty for defacing books, libraries. BELONGING TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wanton&c, in public ly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys any book, plate, picture, engraving or statue, belonging to any law, town, city or other public library, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding six months for every such offence. Repeal. SECTION 2. Chapter sixty-nine of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven is hereby repealed. Approved February 26, 1872. Chap. 43. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ASSISTANT CLERKS IN the Clerk of municipal court of Bos four assistant clerks sub of the justices, and be removable at his pleasure. MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON FOR CRIMINAL BUSINESS. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The clerk of the municipal court of the city ton may appoint of Boston, for the transaction of criminal business may, subject to the approval of the justices of said court or a majority ject to approval of them, appoint four assistant clerks who shall be removable at his pleasure, and for whose doings he shall be responsible, two of whom shall be styled first assistant clerks, and two second assistant clerks. The first assistant clerks shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars each, and the second assistant clerks shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars each. The said assistant clerks shall have the same powers and duties, and shall have their salaries paid in the same manner, as now provided by law. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Salaries. Repeal. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSISTANT-CLERK Chap. 44. cipal court of trict of Boston the approval of Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The clerk of the municipal court for the Clerk of munisouthern district of Boston, may, subject to the approval of southern disthe justice of said court, appoint an assistant clerk, who shall may appoint an be removable at his pleasure, and for whose doings he shall assistant, with be responsible; and said assistant-clerk shall receive an the justice. annual salary of eight hundred dollars, to be paid out of the Salary. treasury. Said assistant-clerk shall be qualified in the same. manner and perform the like duties as are now provided in case of the assistant clerks of the municipal court of Boston. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 27, 1872. AND MONSON. AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE STATE ALMSHOUSES AT BRIDGEWATER Chap. 45. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: houses at discontinued, state work house and a school; inmates to be state almshouse Towns may state primary transferred to at Tewksbury send state paupers to state SECTION 1. The state almshouses at Bridgewater and Mon- State almsson are hereby discontinued, and the buildings now occupied Bridgewater by them shall be used respectively for the purposes of the andmed state workhouse and the state primary school; and, as soon and used for a as practicable, the inmates of the said state almshouses shall be transferred to the state almshouse at Tewksbury, in the manner provided by section four of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SECTION 2. The several cities and towns may, at their own expense, send to the state almshouse at Tewksbury, to be maintained at the public charge, all paupers who may fall into distress therein, not having a settlement within the Com- pense. monwealth provided, that whenever the distance between Proviso. such city or town and the state almshouse, by the usual route, exceeds thirty miles, the city or town shall be reimbursed by the Commonwealth, upon bills approved by the general agent of state charities, for the expense of transportation in excess of thirty miles, at a rate not exceeding three cents a mile, by the usual route, for each state pauper thus sent. almshouse at their own ex transfer state the state alms state work SECTION 3. The board of state charities may, from time to Board of state time, select for support at the state workhouse and the state charities may primary school, any state paupers whose labor, in domestic paupers from or other service at those institutions, may contribute to the house to the cost of their support, or whose maintenance at the same may, house and state for special reasons, be deemed expedient; and in case of an primary school. emergency, it may cause any inmates of the state almshouse at Tewksbury, to be transported to the said institutions, there to be supported while the emergency continues: provided, Proviso. Inspecters and superintend in office. nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the board of state charities to transfer any inmate of the state almshouse to the state workhouse as a punishment for crime. SECTION 4. The inspectors and superintendents of the state ents continued almshouses at Bridgewater and Monson are hereby continued in office, according to their present tenures, as inspectors and superintendents of the state workhouse and the state primary school respectively, and shall hereafter be designated as such respectively, and be appointed in the manner now provided for the appointment of the inspectors and superintendents of the state almshouses; and they shall have the same powers, and perform the same duties, and receive the same compensation, as are now provided in the case of the inspectors and superintendents of the state almshouses, except as are specially provided in the acts relating to the state workhouse and the state primary school. Repeal. SECTION 5. Section thirty-six of chapter seventy-one of the General Statutes is hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect on the first day of Chap. 46. AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE Repeal of Gen. Amendment to OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, IN RELATION TO THE SEIZURE OF VESSELS WITH SHELL- Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of chapter eighty-three of the General Statutes is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Section fifteen of said chapter is hereby Gen. Stats. 83, amended by striking out the word "four" in the first line and inserting in the place thereof the word "three." 15. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 47. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH Dividing line established between Dover THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN DOVER AND Be it enacted, &c., as follows: SECTION 1. The dividing line between the towns of Dover and Walpole, is hereby established as follows, to wit: Beginand Walpole. ning at the point where the northerly line of the road from Dedham to Medfield, as located by the county commissioners of the county of Norfolk, the third day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, crosses the westerly boundary line of the town of Dedham; thence running northwesterly, along the north-easterly line of said road, as so located, about one hundred and nineteen and a half rods, to a point opposite a stone monument, marked D. W., on the southerly side of said road; thence crossing over to said stone monument, at the southerly side of said road; thence run ning north westerly, south-westerly and westerly, along the southerly line of said road, as so located, about two hundred and twelve and a half rods, to the easterly boundary line of the town of Medfield; and all the territory which has heretofore constituted a part of either of said towns of Dover or Walpole, which lies northerly of the line hereby established, shall hereafter constitute a part of said town of Dover; and all of said territory lying southerly of said line, shall hereafter constitute a part of said town of Walpole. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 27, 1872. AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE "PARKS AND WADE CARPET Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 48. SECTION 1. The corporate name of the "Parks and Wade Name changed. Carpet Company" of Palmer is hereby changed to that of the "Parks Carpet Company." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 27, 1872. AN ACT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE IN FORCE AN ACT TO INCORPO- Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 49. SECTION 1. Chapter thirteen of the acts of the year one Charter revived thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled An Act to and continued. incorporate the Hingham and Cohasset Mutual Fishing Insurance Company, is revived, and shall be continued and remain in force from and after the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; and said company shall continue to have and enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws, which now are or hereafter may be in force applicable to such corporations, in like manner and to the same effect, as if said act of incorporation had contained no limitation of time. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HOLLISTON SAVINGS BANK. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 50. Name and pur pose. SECTION 1. William S. Batchelder, Thomas E. Andrews, Corporators. William R. Thayer, Orrin Thompson, their associates and successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Holliston Savings Bank, to be established in the town of Holliston; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all gen- duties. Powers and |