to instruct their representatives, and to take all lawful measures to obtain redress of any grievances, according to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this Commonwealth, and such meetings may and shall be duly warned, by the mayor and aldermen, upon the requisition of thirty qualified voters of said city.

SECT. 18. It shall be the duty of the city council, seasona- Wards. bly before the Tuesday next preceding the second Monday in March next, to cause a division of said city to be made into six [Four wards, 1837 ch. 4.] wards, in such a manner as to include, as nearly as conveniently may be, with well defined limits to each ward, an equal number of inhabitants in each ward. And the present division of said town into wards shall continue, and all ward meetings, and all elections, shall be held in them, until the meetings for the election of city officers in March next.

SECT. 19. For the purpose of organizing the systern of governinent hereby established, and putting the same into operation in the first instance, the selectmen of the town, for the time being, shall seasonably, before the fourth Monday in April next, issue their warrants for calling meetings of the said citizens, at such place and hour as they shall deem expedient, for the purpose of choosing a warden and clerk for each ward, and also to give in their votes for a mayor and six aldermen, to be taken from the city at large, and six common council men for each ward, and the transcripts of the records of each ward, specifying the votes given for a mayor, six aldermen and six common council men, certified by the warden and clerk of each ward, shall at said first election be returned to the said selectmen, whose duty it shall be to examine and compare the same. And in case said elections shall not be completed at the first election, then to issue a new warrant until such elections shall be completed, and to give notice thereof in the manner herein before directed to the several persons elected. And at said first meeting, any inhabitant of said ward, being a legal voter, may call the citizens to order, and preside until a warden shall have been chosen. And at said first meeting, a list of voters in each ward, prepared and corrected by the selectmen of the town of Salem, for the time being, shall be delivered to the clerk of each ward, when elected, to be used as herein before directed. And it shall be the duty of the city council, immediately after their first organization, to elect all necessary city officers, who shall hold their offices respectively until the second Monday in March then next, and until others are chosen. And the meetings in March next, for the election of ward and city officers, shall be called by said mayor and aldermen, at such time and places, and in such manner, as they shall direct. And at the said first meeting, the said inhabitants may and shall also give in their votes for county officers, which votes shall be recorded, certified and returned in the manner provided in the fifteenth section of this act.

The first election and organization of the city govern

ment.

SECT. 20. The city council shall have power to make all By-laws and such salutary and needful by-laws, as towns by the laws of this penalties.

Police court.

Present town officers continued, &c.

Repeal.

Legislative control.

When this act

Commonwealth, have power to make and establish, and to annex penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars, for the breach thereof, which by-laws shall take effect and be in force from and after the time therein respectively limited, without the sanction of any court or other authority whatever: provided, however, that all laws and regulations now in force in said town of Salem, shall, notwithstanding this act, be and remain in force, until they shall expire by their own limitation, or be revised or repealed by the city council, and all fines and forfeitures for the breach of any by-law, shall be paid into the city treasury.

SECT. 21. The police court of the town of Salem, in addition to its present powers and jurisdiction, which are hereby continued to it, shall have cognizance of all offences against the by-laws and regulations, which may be established by the city council of the city of Salem, and may, on conviction thereof, award such sentence as to law and justice may appertain. And any person aggrieved by such sentence may appeal therefrom to the court of common pleas for the county of Essex, under the restrictions and conditions, provided by law in other cases of appeal from said court.

SECT. 22. The annual town meetings, in the month of March or April, shall be suspended, and all town officers now in office shall hold their places until this act shall go into operation, or until fourteen days after the same shall have been rejected by the inhabitants of said town; and in case said charter should be rejected by said inhabitants, the selectmen shall have authority, within fourteen days after such rejection, to call a meeting of said inhabitants, for the choice of town and county officers.

SECT. 23. All such acts and parts of acts as come within the purview of this act, and are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SECT. 24. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent the legislature from altering or amending the same, whenever they shall deem it expedient.

SECT. 25. This act, except the twenty-second section, shall shall take effect. be void, unless the inhabitants of the town of Salem, at a legal town meeting called for that purpose, shall by a written vote determine to adopt the same within fourteen days. [March 23, 1836.] Add. act, 1837 ch. 4.

Chap. 43.

Persons incorporated.

An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Nehemiah P. Mann, Elisha Howes and David Nickerson, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Suffolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liaR. S. ch. 37. 44. bilities, set forth in the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth chapters of

Powers and duties.

the Revised Statutes, passed on the fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, for the term of twenty-eight years. [March 23, 1836.] Add. act, 1837

ch. 175.

An ACT authorizing John Holines to extend his Wharf in the town of Tisbury, and to build a Marine Railway in the harbor of Holmes Hole, in said town.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chap. 44.

John Holmes, of Tisbury, is hereby authorized to extend his Wharf may be wharf from his own land (the same now being twenty-two feet in extended. width) in the same direction and width that it now is, three hundred feet further into the harbor, to terminate with a T seventy

five feet in length at the end, with liberty to build a marine rail- Marine railway. way seventy-five feet wide, to extend the whole length of said wharf, four hundred feet from the shore on his own land : pro- Proviso. vided, that this grant shall in no wise interfere with the legal rights of any other person or persons whatsoever. [March 23, 1836.]

An ACT to incorporate the Charles River Wharf Company, in the city of Boston. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chap. 45.

SECT. 1. Edward A. Raymond, John Hews, and Samuel Persons incorCurtis, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corpo- porated.

ties.

ration, by the name of the Charles River Wharf Company, with Powers and duall the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of R. S. ch. 44. the Revised Statutes, passed on the fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, with power

to hold real estate to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars; Real estate and and the whole capital stock of said company shall not exceed capital stock. two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

Purchase of lands and flats

authorized.

SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase, and hold in fee simple or otherwise, any part or all of a certain tract of land and flats, situated in said Boston, lying upon the northwesterly side of Brighton street, between Leverett street or Canal bridge and Poplar street, and extending northwesterly from said Brighton street to the channel, or low water mark, may fill up said flats, build wharves, store-houses and other buildings on said land, and make other improvements thereon : provided, that said corpora- Proviso. tion shall not so use or improve its corporate property as to encroach upon, or in any way affect the legal rights of any person or other corporation whatever. [March 23, 1836.]

An ACT to incorporate the Proprietors of the Taunton Cemetery.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chap. 46.

SECT. 1. George B. Atwood, Samuel B. King, and Samuel Persons incorO. Dunbar, together with such other persons as shall become porated.

proprietors of lots in the cemetery in Taunton, in the county of Bristol, their successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of the Taunton CemePowers and du- tery; and said corporation shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, passed on the fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

ties.

R. S. ch.44.

Real estate.

SECT. 2. The said corporation may take a deed of gift in fee simple, of a certain lot of land in said Taunton, from the honourable Samuel Crocker, and hold the same, and take and hold any other lands adjacent thereto, in fee simple, not exceeding twenty acres, in addition to the said lot, for the purposes Personal estate. herein after provided, and may also take and hold any personal estate, not exceeding in value ten thousand dollars, to be applied to the purposes connected with, and appropriate to the object of said establishment.

Powers of the corporation.

Membership,

of cemetery

from taxation.

SECT. 3. The said corporation shall take and hold the land aforesaid, at and for a rural cemetery, or burying ground, and for the erection of tombs, cenotaphs, or other monuments, for, or in memory of the dead; and for this purpose shall have power to lay out the same in suitable lots or other subdivisions, for family or other burying places, and to plant and embellish the same with shrubbery, flowers, trees, walks, and other rural ornaments, and enclose and divide the same, with proper walls and enclosures, and to make and annex thereto, other suitable appendages, as the corporation shall, from time to time, deem expedient; and the said real estate shall be forever held by said corporation, for such purposes, and for none other; and said corporation shall have authority to grant, and to convey to any person or persons, the sole and exclusive right of burial, and of erecting tombs and cenotaphs, and any other ornaments, in any such designated lots and subdivisions, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such regulations, as the said corporation shall by their laws prescribe; and any right so granted and conveyed shall be held for the purposes aforesaid, and for none other, as real estate, by the proprietor or proprietors thereof, and shall not be subject to attachment or execution.

SECT. 4. All persons who shall hereafter become proprietors and exemption of lots in said cemetery, of a size not less each than two hundred square feet, shall thereby become members of said corporation, and the said cemetery is hereby declared exempted from all public taxes, so long as the same shall remain dedicated to the purposes of a cemetery.

Provisions of 1835 ch. 96,

cemetery.

SECT. 5. All the provisions contained in the seventh, eighth extended to this and ninth sections of the act of March thirty-first, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to incorporate the proprietors of the cemetery of Mount Auburn, in the county of Middlesex, shall apply to, and have effect as to the Taunton cemetery, in the county of Bristol. [March 23, 1836.]

An Act to incorporate the Hingham Malleable Iron Company. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,

as follows:

Chap. 47.

SECT. 1. Robert Burr, Joseph R. Newell, and William Persons incorWhittemore, their associates and successors, are hereby made a porated. manufacturing corporation, by the name of the Hingham Malleable Iron Company, for the purpose of manufacturing and converting cast iron into malleable iron, in the town of Hingham,

within the county of Plymouth, and for this purpose shall have Powers and duall the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, ties. restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and forty

fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, passed on the fourth R. S. ch. 38. 44. day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

capital stock.

SECT. 2. The said company may hold, for the purposes Real estate and aforesaid, real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and the whole capital stock of said company shall not exceed the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. [March 23, 1836.]

An ACT to incorporate the Blackstone Insurance Company. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chap. 48.

SECT. 1. Ebenezer Smith, Samuel E. Robbins, and John Persons incorF. Trull, their associates and successors, are hereby made a cor- porated. poration, by the name of the Blackstone Insurance Company, to be established in the city of Boston, for the purpose of making maritime loans, and insurance against maritime losses, and insurance against losses by fire, in the customary manner, and for this purpose shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to Powers and duall the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the thirtyseventh and forty-fourth chapters of the Revised Statutes, passed R. S. ch. 37. 44. on the fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, for the term of twenty years after the passing of this act.

ties.

SECT. 2. The said corporation may hold any estate, real or Real estate. personal, for the use of said company provided, that the real estate shall not exceed the value of fifty thousand dollars, excepting such as may be taken for debt, or held as collateral security for money due to said company.

SECT. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be two Capital stock. hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall be collected and paid in, in such instalments, and under such provisions and penalties, as the president and directors of said company shall order and appoint. [March 23, 1836.] Add. act, 1837 ch. 55.