prescribed in widening the owner or owners of land taken therefor shall be entitled to compensation therefor as for land taken for highways in said city, and the amount so recovered shall be apportioned between the parties to said petition as required by section one hundred and fifty-one of chapter one hundred and eleven of the Revised Laws. Said commission is also authorized to prescribe changes Changes may be in the crossing at grade of the railroad tracks on Jackson certain grade street and in the overhead bridge by which the tracks crossing, etc. now leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company cross Hermon street, all in such manner as the public convenience may require, as a part of the work to be prescribed under said chapter three hundred and eighty-seven, and subject to the provisions thereof. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved June 23, 1902. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT BY THE BOARD OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.509 in Dartmouth etc. SECTION 1. The board of harbor and land commis- Harbor at sioners is hereby authorized and directed to improve the Apponagansett harbor at Apponagansett in the town of Dartmouth by to be improved, building a stone breakwater or breakwaters at its entrance substantially in the location recommended in their annual report for the year nineteen hundred and one; and for the purpose of beginning the construction thereof said board is hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars. land or mate SECTION 2. Said board may take by purchase or Necessary otherwise, in the name and behalf of the Commonwealth, rials may be any land or materials necessary for carrying out the pro- taken, eic. visions of this act. The manner of such taking and of determining the damages caused thereby, or by any other doings of said board under the provisions of this act, shall be the same as is provided by sections seven and eight of chapter four hundred and seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, relative to the taking of land by the metropolitan park commission; and said board shall for the purposes of this act have the same powers which are conferred upon the metropolitan park commission by said sections. The damages when finally Contracts to bo approved by governor and council. determined shall be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth to the person or persons entitled thereto. SECTION 3. No contract made under authority of this This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.510 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SOUTH BAY COMPANY TO CHANGE AND The South Bay Company may change, etc., the amount of FIX THE AMOUNT OF ITS CAPITAL STOCK AND TO CHANGE THE PAR VALUE OF ITS SHARES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The South Bay Company may from time to time change and fix the amount of its capital stock, its capital stock. never exceeding an ultimate amount of one million dollars, and may change the par value of its shares to one hundred dollars each. May issue new shares in exchange for outstanding shares. Proviso. May issue new shares. Certain provisions of law to apply. When to take effect. Repeal. SECTION 2. The said company may, in exchange for its outstanding shares, issue new shares at their new par value to an amount equal to the amount paid in on such outstanding shares: provided, that the commissioner of corporations approves such issue and exchange; and such new shares shall be fully paid and non-assessable. SECTION 3. The said company may from time to time issue, subject to the approval of the commissioner of corporations, new shares not used in such exchange. SECTION 4. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein all issues and exchanges of stock authorized hereunder shall be subject to all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to corporations. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect when accepted by the vote of all the shareholders of the company; and a certificate of such acceptance made by the president of the company and filed with the secretary of the Commonwealth shall be conclusive evidence of such acceptance. SECTION 6. Chapter two hundred and eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two and chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five are hereby repealed. Approved June 23, 1902. AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RECLAMATION OF Chap.511 THE PROVINCE LANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PROVINCETOWN HARBOR. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby Reclamation of appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Com- province lands. monwealth from the ordinary revenue, to be expended during the period of three years after the passage of this act, under the direction of the board of harbor and land commissioners, for the reclamation of the province lands belonging to the Commonwealth in the county of Barnstable, as a means toward the preservation of Provincetown harbor. SECTION 2. Of the said amount there shall be ex- Expenditures. pended not more than one third in any one year, except that if less than two thirds of the whole sum hereby appropriated shall have been spent during the first two years the remainder of said two thirds may be added to the one third set apart for the third year. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FORM OF VOTING LISTS IN CERTAIN Chap.512 WARDS OF THE SUFFOLK SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. certain wards in Suffolk sena torial districts. SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and forty-eight 1902, 348, of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 1. Section 1. In all wards within Form of any of the Suffolk senatorial districts which are outside voting lists in of the city of Boston, except in the city of Chelsea, the registrars of voters shall, annually after the closing of registration and before the annual state election, make, by wards or precincts, as the case may be, street lists of voters to be used as the voting list at elections. Names shall be added thereto or taken therefrom as persons are found qualified or not qualified to vote. The said lists shall be in the following form: Chap.513 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR CIVIL BUSINESS IN THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The salary of the second assistant clerk of the superior court for the transaction of civil business in the county of Suffolk shall be three thousand dollars a year, to be so allowed from the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and two. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.514 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ENLARGING THE GREYLOCK STATE RESER Greylock reservation commission may acquire certain lands. To form a part of Greylock state reservation. VATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue to the Greylock reservation commission, to be expended by said commission for the purpose of acquiring by purchase or otherwise such lands adjoining the present Greylock state reservation as the said commission may deem it necessary or advisable to acquire. SECTION 2. Said commission shall have the same powers to acquire, take and care for such additional lands as are given to it by section four of chapter five hundred and forty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight in respect to the lands already acquired by the commission for said reservation. The additional land so taken or acquired shall form a part of said reservation, and the title thereto shall be and remain in the Commonwealth. SECTION 3. The necessary expense for care and main- Care and tenance of the additional lands so acquired or taken shall maintenance. be paid by the county of Berkshire in the manner provided in section five of said chapter five hundred and forty-three. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved June 26, 1902. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ST. MARY'S CEMETERY TRUST FUND Chap.515 ASSOCIATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Fund Association incorporated. SECTION 1. John T. Madden, Maurice A. O'Sullivan, st. Mary's George Wilmot, Edward L. Judge, James Daly, Michael Cemetery Trust Reilly and Francis P. Brady, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the St. Mary's Cemetery Trust Fund Association, for the purpose of caring for, improving or beautifying the cemetery situated in the town of Uxbridge, known as St. Mary's cemetery, and any lots therein. SECTION 2. Said corporation may take, hold and Grants, bemanage real and personal estate given, granted, devised quests, etc. or bequeathed to said corporation for the care, improvement or beautifying of said cemetery and of any lots therein. restrictions and SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have, in respect to To be subject said cemetery and to any lots therein, all the powers and to certain be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities of cemetery liabilities, etc. corporations organized under the general law, subject however to the rights of any persons or corporations having an estate or interest in said cemetery or any lots therein. SECTION 4. The first meeting of said corporation shall First meeting. be held on the second Monday of July in the year nineteen hundred and two, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at St. Mary's church, in said Uxbridge. At such meeting the incorporators may organize by the choice of a temporary chairman and clerk, may adopt by-laws and may proceed at such meeting, or at a subsequent meeting notified in accordance with the by-laws, to the permanent organization of the corporation. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. |