W. Southwick, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Millville Cemetery Association, for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining as a burial ground certain land in the town of Blackstone now used for that purpose, situated on the east side of Central street in that part of Blackstone called Millville, and near the state line, containing about five acres, bounded northerly, easterly and southerly by land now or late of Russel Wilson, and westerly by said street, subject to the rights of any person holding an estate or interest in the said land under the original proprietors or otherwise; and also any additional land in the town of Blackstone that may be necessary for the said purpose. Said corporation shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws now or hereafter. in force relating to such corporations, except as herein otherwise provided. SECTION 2. The first meeting of the said corporation shall be held on the second Monday of June in the year nineteen hundred and two, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Willard Wilson in said Millville. At such meeting the incorporators may organize by the choice of a temporary chairman and clerk, and may adopt by-laws; and they may proceed at such meeting, or at a subsequent meeting called in accordance with the by-laws, to make a permanent organization of the corporation, and to elect such officers as may be necessary. SECTION 3. Said corporation may purchase from time to time, and may take by devise or gift, and hold so much real and personal estate as may be necessary for its purposes as a cemetery corporation. Said corporation may also hold in trust any money or other property given or bequeathed for the care, embellishment or extension of its cemetery, or for the care or embellishment of any lot therein, or for the care, repair, preservation or renewal of any monument, tomb, fence or other structure therein, or for planting a lot or its vicinity with trees or shrubs; and when such gift or bequest is made the said corporation shall give to the person making the same, or to his representative, an obligation, upon such conditions as may be agreed upon, binding the corporation to fulfil the terms of the trust. SECTION 4. The said corporation may lay out its real estate, or any part thereof, in lots; and may sell the same SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WAIVING OF CERTAIN CLAIMS AGAINST Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.216 against the SECTION 1. The commissioners of state aid are hereby Certain claims authorized and directed to waive all claims on the part United States to of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against the United be waived. States for the whole or any part of a pension accrued at the date of the death of any pensioner, or of a pension application for which is pending at the date of the death of any person entitled to a pension, in cases where the Commonwealth has, since the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, contributed to the expense of burial of such pensioner or person. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO DEFINE THE TIME WITHIN WHICH SUITS MAY BE BROUGHT FOR DAMAGES UNDER THE ACT TO PROHIBIT THE DRAWING DOWN OF THE WATER OF THE CHARLES RIVER AT CERTAIN SEASONS OF THE YEAR. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.217 amended. SECTION 1. Section two of chapter five hundred and 1901, 529, § 2, twenty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to prohibit the drawing down of the water of the Charles river at certain seasons of the year", is hereby amended by striking out the words "passage of this act ", at the end thereof, and inserting in place thereof the words: acceptance of this act by Damages. Proviso. the town of Natick as provided for in section four of this act, so as to read as follows: Section 2. Any person or corporation damaged in their property by the provisions of this act shall be entitled to recover the same, in equal shares, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the town of Natick, in the same manner as is provided for the recovery of damages occasioned by the taking of land in the laying out of highways: provided, however, that no action shall be brought hereunder to recover said damages after a period of two years from the acceptance of this act by the town of Natick as provided for in section four of this act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.218 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF IPSWICH TO PAY A CERTAIN 1900, 336, § 1, amended. Town of Ipswich may pay a SUM OF MONEY TO THE ESTATE OF GEORGE P. SMITH. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three hundred and thirty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred is hereby amended by inserting after the words "George P. Smith", in the second line, the words:-or to the estate of George P. Smith, so as to read as follows:Section 1. The town of Ipswich is hereby authorized to to the widow or pay to Olive P. Smith, widow of George P. Smith, or to the estate of George P. Smith, a sum of money on account of injuries received by him on the eighteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, while assisting a police officer of said town in making of money estate of George P. Smith. an arrest. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.219 Issue of policies Mutual Casualty AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The period during which the Manufacturers Mutual Casualty Company, incorporated by chapter ninety-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred, is authorized by general law to begin to issue policies is hereby extended so that said company may begin to issue policies at any time prior to the first day of February in the year nineteen hundred and three, subject to the pro- SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF REVERE TO REFUND A PART Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.220 Town of Revere may issue notes, etc. SECTION 1. The town of Revere is hereby authorized to refund a part of its present indebtedness, and for that bouds or scrip, purpose may issue notes, bonds or scrip to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, payable in such proportionate annual payments as will extinguish the same within the twenty years following the passage of this act, and bearing interest, payable semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding four per cent per annum. Such notes, bonds or scrip shall be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the selectmen of the town, and may be sold or negotiated at public or private sale, and the proceeds shall be used to discharge an equal amount of the existing debt of the town, and for no other purpose; but the purchasers thereof shall not be responsible for the application of the proceeds. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PERKINS STREET BAPTIST SOCIETY IN Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Perkins Street Baptist Society in Somerville is hereby authorized to change its name to the East Somerville Baptist Society in Somerville. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect its AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF METHUEN TO PAY A SUM OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Methuen may SECTION 1. The town of Methuen is hereby authorized Town of to raise by taxation and to pay to Henry Gaunt, father pay a sum of of Ernest H. Gaunt, a minor, for the benefit of the said father or money to the guardian of Ernest H. Gaunt. minor, or to a legal guardian of the said minor, the sum SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.223 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A Boundary line may be changed. Chap.224 Construction, etc., of bridges CHANGE IN THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE BURIAL GROUND BELONGING TO THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY IN BRIDGEWATER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The First Congregational Society in Bridgewater is hereby authorized to change a part of the boundary line of its burial ground in the town of Bridgewater at the northeast corner of said burial ground on Summer street, so that the curve of the new boundary line shall come nine feet within the outer limit of the curve of the existing boundary line, and shall extend in both directions from this point to the straight part of the boundary line, as shown on a plan to be filed in the office of the town clerk of Bridgewater. That part of the burial ground lying between said new boundary line and the old boundary line may hereafter be used for improving the condition of the highway adjacent to the burial ground, upon a vote to that effect of the First Congregational Society, and upon the acceptance of the aforesaid plot of ground by the town of Bridgewater as a public highway. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO BOSTON BRIDGES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Subject to the approval of the board of in Boston, etc. harbor and land commissioners the city of Boston and any other city or town between which and the city of Boston any bridge has heretofore been built or authorized to be built, or between which and the city of Boston any bridge shall hereafter be authorized to be built, may widen any such bridge to a width not exceeding one hundred and five feet, may widen the draw openings thereof, |