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City Document — JVb. 9.

AN ACT

IN ADDITION TO AN ACT

TO INCORPORATE THE

METROPOLITAN RAILROAD

COMPANY.

ROXBU.RY:

NORFOLK COUNTY JOURNAL PRESS.

1854.

CITY OF ROXBURY

In Boabd of Aldermen, May 22, 1854.
Ordered, That the "Act in addition to the Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Rail
Road Company," passed March,16, 1854, be and the same is hereby accepted by the City
Council of Roxbury.

In Board of Aldermen, Nov. 20
Taken firom the table and passed.

Sent down'for concurrence.

JOSEPH W. TUCKER, City Clerk.

In Common Council, Dec. 4, 1854.
Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Council.

JOSHUA SEAVER, Clerk.

^ammonujcaltl) of iWassaiijusett^.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty -Four.

AN ACT

In addition to an Act to Incorporate the Metropolitan
Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled^ and by the authority of the
same, as folloios :

Section 1. That at any time after the expiration of one
year from the opening for use of the tracks of said railroad,
in any street in which the same may be located, as provided
by its charter, the Mayor and Aldermen of the cities of
Boston and Roxbury, respectively, may, by vote of the
major part thereof, determine as to so much of said track as
is located within the limits of their respective cities, that the
same, or any part thereof, be discontinued ; and thereupon
the location shall be deemed to be revoked, and the tracks
of said railroad shall forthwith be taken up and removed
in conformity with such vote or order of said mayor and
aldermen. Provided, That such taking and removal shall
be at the expense of said railroad company.

Sect. 2. The rates of fare upon the said railroad, be-
tween any two points in the city of Boston, shall never ex-
ceed five cents for each passage, unless with the assent of
the mayor and aldermen of said city.

Sect. 3. Notice to abuttors on streets, in which it may
be proposed to lay the tracks of said corporation, shall be
given by the publication in one or more newspapers, pub-
lished in the cities of Boston and Roxbury, of an order of
notice from the mayor and aldermen of said respective cities,
fourteen days at least prior to the location of any such
tracks.

Sect. 4. Either of the cities of Boston or Roxbury, if it
so elect, may purchase, on the same terms and conditions
as are mentioned in the seventh section of the act to which
this is in addition, that part of the corporate property of the
company which relates to or lies within its own limits; pay-
ing therefor a proportional sum, to be ascertained by com-
missioners to be appointed by the supreme judicial court.

Sect. 5. This act shall be void and of no effect, unless
the same shall be accepted by the city council of the cities
of Boston and Roxbury respectively, within one year from
the date hereof.

House of Representatives, March 15, 1854.

Passed to be enacted.

OTIS P. LORD, Speaker.

In Senate, March 16, 1854.
Passed to be enacted.

CHAS. EDWARD COOK, President.

Approved.

A true copy — Attest :

March 16, 1854.

EMORY WASHBURN.

E. M. WRIGHT,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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