SAPIENTIA UNIVERSALIS EX LIBRIS.
UNIVERSITY OF NEWHAMP5HIRE
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L A^VS
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1874.
CONCORD :
CHARLES C. PEARSON, STATE PRINTER.
1874.
STATE OFFICERS.
JAMES A. WESTON, Governor.
WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD, Secretary of State.
HARVEY CAMPBELL, Deputy Secretary of State.
JOSIAII G. DEARBORN, Treasurer.
CHARLES C. PEARSON, State Printer.
WILLIAM H. GOVE, President of the Senate.
THOMAS J. SMITH, Clerk of the Senate.
ALBERT R. HATCH, Speaker of the House.
CHARLES H. SMITH, Clerk of the House.
ANDREW J. EDGERLY, Adjutant General.
JOHN C. PILLSBURY, Warden of State Prison.
JOHN W. SIMONDS, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
OLIVER PILLSBURY, Insurance Commissioner.
NATHANIEL BOUTON, State Historian.
WILLIAM H. KIMBALL, State Librarian.
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE.
EDMUND L. GUSHING, Chief Justice.
WILLIAM S. LADD, > , • . t .•
' \ Associate ustices.
ISAAC W. SMITH, 5 -^
CIRCUIT COURT.
WILLIAM L. FOSTER, Chief Justice.
EDWARD D. RAND, > . • . t .•
CLINTON W. STANLEY, Associate Justices.
LEWIS W. CLARK, Attorney General.
JOHN M. SHIRLEY, State Reporter.
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LAAVS
OF THE
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1874.
CHAPTER I.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR OF THE
GENERAL STATUTES, RELATING TO PILOTS AND HARBOR SIA8TEES.
Section
1. Tenure of office of commissioners of pi-
lotage.
Section
•2. Masters may pilot their own vessels.
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaiives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The first section of the one hundred and fourth chap- Tenure of office
ter of the General Statutes is so far modified that the commissioners ers^^ofpiiotage'.
of pilotage shall hold their office during the pleasure of the governor
and council.
Sect. 2. The sixth section of said chapter is hereby repealed ; and f^^^^^^g^^^^^i;
henceforth any master or owner may pilot his own vessel into or out vessels.
of the Piscataqua river and harbor.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Act takes effect
■*■ '-'on its paasa'ffc-
[Approved June 18, 1874.] ^
270 Chapters II, III. [1874
. CHAPTER II.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX OF THE
GENERAL, STATUTES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, IN RELATION TO TRUSTEES OF
ESTATES.
Section l. Provisions of chapter 186 General Statutes extended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Provisions of SECTION 1. That the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-
extended. * ' six of the General Statutes of New Hampshire, in relation to trustees
of estates, shall apply to and be in force as to trusts and trustees cre-
ated by an instrument in writing signed by the party creating the
same, or by his attorney, in the same manner as though said trusts
and trustees had been originally named in said chapter.
[Approved June 18, 1874.]
CHAPTER III.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE ADVERTISING OF NON-RESIDENT TAXES.
Section
1. Non-resident taxes to be advertised in the
N. H. Patriot.
Section
2. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Non-resident SECTION 1. Collectors of taxes of non-residents shall advertise the
vertised in 'n. land on which the taxes have not been paid, or may not be paid, for
sale, in '^ The New Hampshire Patriot," a newspaper printed at
Concord, and also in some newspaper printed in the county where
the land is situate, if any; otherwise in some adjacent county.
Repealing Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
take effect on hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its passage.
its passage. [Approved June 18, 1874.]
1874] Chapter IV. 271
CHAPTER IV.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE NASHUA, ACTON AND BOSTON RAILROAD COM-
PANY.
Section
1. Act of Massachusetts legislature ratified;
company authorized to mortgage its prop-
erty in tliis state.
Sectiox
2. Act takes eflfect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rci)resentativcs in General
Court co7ivencd :
Section 1. That the act of the legislature of Massachusetts, ap-
proved June 12, 1874, in the words following, to wit :
"An act to authorize the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad
Company to mortgage its railroad and for other purposes,
" Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives in gen- Mass. act.
eral court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows :
"Section 1. The Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad Company company may
. ' . 1 mortgage its
IS authorized to mortsfa<?e its road, franchise and equipment, and any property to the
~ ^ '- , •' amountof S500 -
of its property, real and personal, to an amount not exceeding five boo.
hundred thousand dollars, to secure such bonds as may be issued by
said company pursuant to the provisions of this act, with interest on
said bonds at the rate of six per centum per annum.
"Sect. 2. The said corporation may issue its bonds to be secured May issue
as aforesaid, for the purpose of paying the present indebtedness of debts and to
the company, and providing means to pay the same, and further to ^°."Ji^; bonds
enable said company to complete its road to its point of intersection g^ck paid in.
with the Framingham and Lowell railroad ; provided, that the whole
amount of the outstanding bonds of said corporation shall not at any
time exceed the capital stock of the corporation actually paid in.
"Sect. 3. The time allowed to said Nashua, Acton and Boston Time for com-
Railroad Company for locating and constructing the remainder of its tended.^
road is hereby extended two years from the passage of this act.
"Sect. 4. The action of said corporation in constructing and op- :^,^'^^'f*^^^^^j^^"_
crating its railroad from the state line to the city of Nashua, in the
state of New Hampshire, is hereby confirmed and made valid.
" Sect. 5. The said corporation may lease its road and franchise, company may
and contract with any responsible parties for the operation of its ^'^'"^^'^ ^''^ '■'°"'^"
road ; but such lease or contract shall not release or exempt said
company from any duties, liabilities or restrictions to which it would
otherwise be subject.
"Sect. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage;"
be and the same hereby is ratified and confirmed, and said Nashua, ^^t ratified;
i-r> T-JM1/-1 • I'll property in this
Acton and Boston Railroad Company is hereby authorized and em- state maybe id-
powered to include within the mortgage provided for in said act the gage; existing
franchise, railway and other property of said company in this state ; affecte'd!
but nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect liens already
existing thereon by attachment or otherwise.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect.
[Approved June 23, 1874.]
272 Chaptees V, VI. [1874
CHAPTER V.
AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION OF LOBSTERS ESf THE WATERS OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
Section
1. Lobsters not to be caught or sold, when.
2. Penalty for violation of this act.
Section
3. Repealing clause.
4. Act takes efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Lobsters not to SECTION 1. No person shall catch, preserve, sell or expose for sale
soid^\fhen°.^ within the limits of the state of New Hampshire, any lobster between
the fifteenth day of August and the fifteenth day of October of each
year; and from the said fifteenth day of October to the fifteenth day
of August next folloAving of each year no lobster shall be caught,
preserved, sold or exposed for sale, under eleven inches in length,
measuring from one extreme of the body to the other, exclusive
of claws or feelers.
Penalty for vio- Sect. 3. Any person violating any provision of the above section
shall be punished by a fine often dollars for every lobster so caught,
used sold or exposed for sale as aforesaid, one-half to the person
makino- the complaint and one-half to the use of the town or city in
which the ofience is committed.
Repealing Sect. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
clause. " j^g^g^y repealed.
Act takes effect Sect. 4. This act shall take efiect immediately upon its passage
on its passage. ^^^ approval.
[Approved June 24, 1874.]
lation of this
act.
CHAPTER VI.
AN ACT RELATING TO GAMBLING IN RAILROAD CAES AND STEAMBOATS.
Section
1. Gambling on cars and steamboats pro-
hibited; penalty.
2. Persons in charge of trains and steam-
boats to arrest and hold violators of
this act.
Section
3. Copy of this act to be posted in cars and
steamboats.
4. Railroad companies and owners of steam-
boats, liable for neglect to comply with
sec. S.
5. Act takes effect July 15, 1874.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Gambling in SECTION 1. Whoever, within the state of New Hampshire, upon
cars and steam- -i t , • • .i -. <_ i i.
boats prohibi- any railroad tram, or m any railroad car, or upon any steamboat,
*®'*' gambles or bets upon any person gambling, shall be punished by fine
not less than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than
three months, or both, at the discretion of the court.
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Chapter VII.
21S
Sect. 2. Every conductor, or any other person having charge of Jjf.y^^^^^'^j.f^j^^
any railroad train, or any person having charge of any steamboat, is ^''^j»^['^f.^t,^^'^'^g
hereby authorized and required to arrest or cause to be arrested any of this act.
person or persons gambling on his train, or on his steamboat, and re-
tain them in his custody till a warrant can be procured from the
proper authorities, and is hereby empowered to call upon and employ
all necessary' aids to make such arrests and detain the accused.
Sect. 3. A copv of this act shall be conspicuously posted in every Copy of this act
i-' - M 1 • i.1 • .. «. 1 to be posted in
saloon, smoking and palace car used on any railroad m this state, and cars and steam-
in every steamboat doing any business in this state.
Sect. 4. Any railroad company, or the proprietors of any steam- Railroad com-
J 1. t/ ■' L L *j ^ pRuiGs unci
boat, refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of section owners of
3 of this act, shall forfeit for such oftence the sum of one hundred bie iv^r neglect
dollars, to be recovered by indictment in any county in which said gg^jf^*^^'^ ^"^'^
railroad company runs trains or the steamboat does business.
Sect. 5. This'act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of July next, i^^ygfi'g^f '^
[Approved June 24, 1874.]
CHAPTER VIL
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE SALARY OP THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL, AND IN
AJNIENDMENT OF CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO OF THE PAMPHLET LAWS OF 1869.
Section
1. Salary of Adjutant-General.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage ; repealing
clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The salary of the adjutant-general, including all clerk Salary of adju-
hire, inspection of arms and armories, and all other duties pertaining
to the office of inspector and quartermaster-general, shall be six
hundred dollars per annum.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts Act takes effect
and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are here- repeaiing**^^'
by repealed.
[Approved June 24, 1874.]
clause.
274 Chapter VIII. [1874
CHAPTER VIII.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE POLICE COUET OF KEENE,
Section
1. Jurisdiction of actions wherein not over
$100 is claimed.
2. Action to be transferred to supreme judi-
cial court on aifidavit of defendant.
3. Justice to file copies of papers, and clerk
to enter the cause.
Section
4. Fees of justice for copies ; to be paid by
plaintijff, and taxed in his bill of costs.
5. Aggrieved party may appeal from police
court; appeal to be claimed within twen-
ty-four hours.
6. Act takes efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Jurisdiction of SECTION 1. The police coui't of the city of Keene, in addition to
in not over $100 the powei's heretofore conferred upon it, shall have concurrent juris-
scaune . Miction with the supreme judicial court, of actions of common law
wherein the defendant resides in said Keene, and not more than one
hundred dollars is claimed as damages.
Action to be Sect. 2. In any action brought before said police court by virtue
tmnsffi'i'pfl to •/ o i. *j
supremejudi- of this act, if the defendant at any time before issue joined shall file
affidavit "^oTde- in Said court his affidavit, that it is his desire and intention to try said
feudant. action by jury, such action shall be transferred to the next trial term
of the supreme judicial court for the county of Cheshire, and may
be entei'ed and prosecuted in said court in the same manner as if
originally commenced there.
i^tf^^}?.^}^ Sect. 3. In case of said transfer the iustice of said police court
COpiGS 01 pH- y 1 /^ T T • 1
pers, and clerk shall cause certified copies of the papers in such cause to be filed with
cause. the clerk of the supreme judicial court, and said clerk shall enter
said cause upon the docket of the court upon payment by the plaintiff
of the entry fee.
Fees of justice Sect. 4. The justice of the police court shall receive for copies in
p^aidTjy ^piain^ each causc SO transferred one dollar, to be paid by the plaintiff and
SIbmofcStaxed in his bill of costs if he prevail.
Aggrieved par. Sect. 5. Either party aggrieved by the judgment of the police
from police court upon issuc joined under the provisions of this act, may appeal
tobe'ciamild therefrom to the next trial term of the supreme judicial court for
^ur'hours!"*^" Said county ; but no appeal shall be allowed unless claimed vvithiu
twenty-four hours from the time judgment is, rendered.
Act takes effect Sect. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage,
on Its passage. |-^pp^.Q^g^ j^^^^^ gg^ 18^4.]
1874] Chapters IX, X. 275
CHAPTER IX.
AN ACT EELATING TO THE RIGHT OF STUDENTS TO VOTE AND THEIR TAXATION.
Section i Section
1. Residence for purpose of education not 2. Repealing clause.
to entitle a person to vote nor subject 3. Act takes effect on its passage-
him to taxation. I
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Residence in any town, merely for the purpose of ob- Residence for
.. , . -,. . . , 111-1T purpose of edu-
tainmg an education at any literary institution, shali not entitle the cation not to en-
person so residing to vote in such town, nor shall it subject him to vote nor subject
4. .. .• ,1 • him to taxation.
taxation therein.
Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repealing
, , , , ^ clause.
nereby repealed.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. ^nitl^plsslje'l^
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER X.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CONCORD AND ROCHESTER RAIL-
ROAD.
Section i Section
1. Time extended. I 2. Act takes effect.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the time limited in and by the act approved J^ilj J^lfi^^/lM.ooo
6, 1869, entitled "An act to incorporate the Concord and Roches- extended to '
ter Railroad," for the expenditure of the sum of fifty thousand dol- original act to
lars towards the construction of said railroad, is hereby extended to compietexi by '^
the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight J^^^^ i> i^^i.
hundred and seventy-nine, and said act shall be in force as to any and
every portion of said railroad, which shall be completed and fit for
use on or before the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. ^'^^■t^ltV^S^^
^ "^ on its passage.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
276 Chapteks XI, XII. • [1874
CHAPTER XI.
AN ACT IN AMENDJIENT OF CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN OF THE GENERAL STAT-
UTES, ENTITLED " VILLAGE FIRE DISTRICTS."
Section
1. Village precincts may raise money to light
• the streets.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
vii'ge precincts SECTION 1. That in addition to the powers heretofore granted to
may raise mon- -n •,!•,•. it.*, i , .
ey to light the Village precinct districts, any such district may also vote, at any meet-
streets, -j^g. jjQj-jf^g(j j^jj(j holden as provided in said act to which this is an
amendment, to raise money to light the streets thereof, with gas, or
in such manner as a majority of the legal voters thereof may direct;
the amount to be assessed, collected and paid over as in section four
of said act, provided and expended in lighting the streets as afore-
said.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
on its passage. .,
its passage.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER XII.
AN ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT RELATING TO THE NATURAL-
IZATION OF ALIENS," PASSED JUNE SESSION, A. D. 1868.
Section i Section
1. Act of June 1868 repealed. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
^of June^ Section 1. The act entitled "An act relating to the naturalization
of aliens," passed June session, A. D., 1868, is hereby repealed.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage,
on its passage. ["Approved June 26, 1874.]
1874] Chapters XIII, XIV.
CHAPTER XIII.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CKARTER OF THE MANCHESTER AND KEENE RAIL-
ROAD.
Section | Section
1. Time extended. ' 2. Act takes eflfeot.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the time limited in and by the act approved ^"^7 '^^'"fjn J° g^off:
sixteen, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled " An ooo extended to
act to incorporate the Manchester and Keene Railroad," for the ex- onpinai' act to
penditure by said corporation of one hundred thousand dollars towards completed ^ by
the construction of said railroad, and further extended by an act ap- ^^c. i, 188O.
proved June 24, 1870, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the
Manchester and Keene Railroad," is hereby further extended to the
first day of December, 1878, and said act of incorporation shall be in
force as to all parts of said railroad which shall be completed on or
before December first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. ^n usVaseage!
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER XIV.
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PORTSMOUTH AND DOVER
RAILROAD.
Section I Section
1. Capital stock increased. ' 2. Act takes effect.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That in order to complete the construction of said rail- i^creased*6iw),-
road, the said Portsmouth and Dover Railroad be authorized to in-^^o.
crease its capital stock, in such sum, not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars, as the directors of said road may find necessary.
SecT. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. i^nit*fpas8^^e^'
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
Chapters XV, XVI.
CHAPTER XV.
[1874
AN ACT RELATING TO DISTURBANCE OF SCHOOLS.
Section
1. Persons disturbing school to be punished ;
penalty.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Cotirt convened:
Persons dis- SECTION 1. Any parent, guardian or other person, not a member
to be^iuiished; of the school, who shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any school, shall
pena ty. -^^ punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment
in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage,
onus passage. ^Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XVI.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.
Section
1. City divided into seven wards; their boun-
daries.
2. Election for city and ward officers, when.
3. Ward officers to be chosen; clerk to de-
liver certificates.
4. School committee, how chosen and tenure
of office.
5. City councils to make appropriations,
when.
6. The police court made a court of record;
its clerk.
7. Said court to have the same powers as the
supreme judicial court in relation to
naturalization.
Section
8. Justice and clerk to pay over aU fees and
costs to city treasurer.
9. Salaries of justice and clerk.
10. Naturalization in this court and the su-
preme judicial court to be free.
11. Certain officers to continue in office until
the third Tuesday in March next; others
until the first day of November next.
12. Moderator, clerk and selectmen to be ap-
pointed by mayor and aldermen.
13. Lists of voters, what to embrace.
14. Repealing clauses.
15. Act to take effect on its passage.
£e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Ssewn wards; SECTION 1. The city of Manchester hereby is and shall continue
their boundar- ^ be divided into seven wards, which shall be constituted as follows :
les.
Ward No. 1 shall include all that part of Ward No. 2, as now and
heretofore constituted, which lies north of the centre line of Granite
street, and all that part of Ward No. 1, as now and heretofore con-
stituted, which lies south of the centre line of Hollis street, extended
to Merrimack river, and west of the centre line of Elm street. Ward
No. 2 shall include all that part of Ward No. 3, as now and hereto-
fore constituted, which lies north of the centre line of Bridge street
and east of the centre line of Ashland street ; all that part of Ward
No. 1, as now and heretofore constituted, which lies north of the
centre line of Hollis street extended to Merrimack river ; and all
1874] Chapter XVL 279
that part of Ward No. 8, as now and heretofore constituted, "which
lies north of the centre line of Hollis street extended westerly to
Piscataquog river. Ward No. 3 shall include all that portion of said
city that is bounded north by the centre line of Bridge street, east
by the centre line of Ashland street, south by the centre line of Con-
cord street, and west by the centre line of Elm street. Ward No.
4 shall include all that portion of said city that is bounded thus:
Beginning at the intersection of the centre line of Concord street
with the centre line of Elm street ; thence easterly by the centre line
of Concord street to the centre line of Ashland street ; thence
southerly by the centre line of Ashland street to the centre line of
Hanover street ; thence westerly by the centre line of Hanover street
to the centre line of Union street ; thence southerly by the centre
line of Union street to the centre line of Merrimack street ; thence
westerly by the centre line of Merrimack street to the centre line of
Elm street ; thence northerly by the centre line of Elm street to the
place of beginning. Ward No. 5 shall include all that portion of
said city that is bounded thus: Beginning at the intersection of the
centre line of Cedar street with the centre line of Elm street ; thence
northerly by the centre line of Elm street to its intersection with the
centre line of Merrimack street : thence easterly, northerly and
easterly by the southerly boundary of Ward No. 4 as hereby con-
stituted to the intersection of the centre line of Hanover street with
the centre line of Wilson street ; thence southerly by the centre line of
Wilson street and by the centre line of Wilson street produced to its
intersection with the centre line of Cedar street produced to Wilson
street ; thence westerly by the centre line of Cedar street produced
to Wilson street and by the centre line of Cedar street as now laid
out to the place of beginning. Ward No. 6 shall include all that
part of said city lying east of Merrimack river not included in Wards
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, as constituted by this act. Ward No. 7 shall
include all that part of said city now and heretofore known as Ward
No. 7, and all that part of Ward No. 8, as heretofore constituted,
which lies south of the centre line of Hollis street produced westerly
to Piscataquog river.
Sect. 2. The annual meeting of the inhabitants of said city for the Election for city
choice of city and ward officers shall be holden on the second Tues-cers, when.''
day in March, and all city and ward officers who are chosen by the
people shall be chosen by ballot, and shall hold their respective
offices for one year from the third Tuesday in March next subsequent
to their election, and until others are chosen and qualified in their
stead.
Sect. 3. Each ward shall, at the annual meeting, in addition to Ward oflacers _
the other officers required by law, choose one alderman and three clerk to deUver
members of the common council, one assessor, one member of the ^^^ ' *^^ ^*"
school committee, and one overseer of the poor, and the clerk shall,
within twenty-four hours after such choice, deliver to each person
elected to either of said offices a certificate of his election signed by
himself, the moderator, and a majority of the selectmen.
Sect. 4. The members of the school committee shall hold their school commit-
office for two years from the third Tuesday in March next subsequent and term of
to their election ; provided, however, that at the first annual election °^^^'
280 Chapter XVI. [1874
after the passage of this act there shall be elected two members of
the board of school committee from each ward, one of whom shall
hold his office for one year, and the other for two years, and the bal-
lots given in at said election shall designate which is voted for for
one year and MJ^hich is voted for for two years.
citycoimcUs to Sect. 5. The city councils shall, on or before the first day of March
ations,when. in each year, make all the necessary appropriations for the'financial
year next ensuing.
The police court Sect. 6, The policc court, as heretofore constituted, shall be a
record; its court of record, and the justice thereof shall, from and after the
^^^ ■ passage of this act, appoint some suitable person to be clerk thereof,
who shall perform all duties pertaining to the office of clerk of the
court. He shall hold his office during the pleasure of the justice of
said court, and until some other person shall be appointed and quali-
fied in his stead ; he shall give a bond for the faithful performance of
the duties of his office to the satisfaction of the board of mayor and
aldermen.
Said court to Sect. 7. Said court, in addition to the powers and iurisdiction now
have the same tit i n i . . ,. • '■ ^ ,. ."^
powers as the conferred by law, shall have jurisdiction of applications for naturali-
ciai court in re- zation, and may issue certificates of citizenship, and shall have, pos-
aiization.^'^ "^ sess, and enjoy the same powers in relation to the naturalization of
aliens as are now and have heretofore been possessed and enjoyed by
the supreme judicial court,
cierk^to'my Sect. 8. The justice and clerk of said court shall once in three
over all fees months render to the city treasurer an account under oath of all fees
flucl costs to
city creasurer. and costs by them received or receivable, and shall, at the time afore-
said, pay over to said treasurer all such fees and costs.
Iceland cierk.^' Sect. 9. The salary of the justice of said court shall be fifteen
hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of the clerk of said court
shall be three hundred dollars per annum, which salaries shall be
paid in quarterly payments out of the city treasury, and the salaries
so received shall be in full for all services of every kind rendered by
them in the discharge of all the duties pertaining to their office ex-
cept in matters of naturalization.
S'tUscouitMid Sect. 10. All naturalizations before this court, and in the supreme
the supreme ju-^^(Jicial court, shall be free and without expense to the person
dicial court toJ ' ^ '-
be free. naturalized.
Certain officers Sect. 11. The mavor, aldermen, members of the common council,
to contuiue n\ n t iii
office until the assessors and overseers ot the poor, and school committees now in
in March"ifext?; office, shall continue in office until the third Tuesday in March next
firsriay^of NcN and Until Others are chosen and qualified in their stead. And the
Tembernext. selectmen, moderator and ward clerks shall hold their office until the
first day of November next.
Moderat'r.cierk Sect. 12. The mayor and aldermen shall, on or before the first day
and selectmen r ~Kr ^ • ^
to be appointed of November next, appoint one person to act as moderator, one per-
a&ermen! '^^"^ son to act as clerk, and three persons to act as selectmen of the
several wards in said city as constituted in this act ; and the persons
so appointed shall, upon taking the oath of office by law prescribed,
have, possess and enjoy all the powers vested by law in such offi-
cers, and shall perform all the duties required by law to be performed
by such officers.
1874] Chapter XVII. 281
Sect. 13. In preparing the lists of voters in the several wards in^^jCJe^n^*^'^^'
said city, as constituted in this act, the selectmen shall record the first 'J^ce.
or Christian name of each voter in full, but may use ■ initial let-
ters to designate the middle names of any voter ; they shall also
record against the name of each voter the name of street and num-
ber of dwelling, if numbered ; if not numbered, then such other
description as shall indicate as nearly as possible the residence of
such voter.
Sect. 14. An act entitled " An act in amendment of the charter RcpeaUng
of the city of Manchester," approved July 6, 1867, an act entitled *^ '^"
"An act in relation to the naturalization of aliens," approved July
4, 1868, section 8, of chapter 44 of the General Statutes, authorizing
the city councils to revise and change the city into wards, and all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, and Avith the provisions
of the several chapters of title 7 of the General Statutes, are hereby
repealed.
Sect. 15. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after Act to take
effect on its
its passage. passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XVII.
AN ACT FOE, the PROTECTION OF FISH EST GREGG'S POKD IN ANTRIM.
Section 1 Section
1. Fishing prohibited ; penalty. I 2. Act takes effect.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That all persons are hereby prohibited fi'ora jfishlng, in aii fisWug pro-
any manner, for three years from the passage of this act, in the Gregg years ; penalty,
Pond in Antrim, county of Hillsborough ; and any person violating 1^/^,^' ^^"^^ ^^'
the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars for
each offence, one-half of said fine to the complainant and one-half
to the county of Hillsborough-
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 1, 1874.] on its passage.
282
Chapter XVIII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
[1874
AN ACT EEGULATING THE TIMES AND PLACES OF HOLDING THE COUBT OF
PROBATE FOR THE COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Section
1. Times and places of holdingprobatecoiirts.
2. Orders, notices and citations to be re-
turnable at these times and places.
Section
3. Repealing clatise; act takes effect on its
passage.
Times and
places of hold-
ing probate
courts.
Orders, notices
and citations to
be returnable
at these times
and places.
Repealing
clause; act
takes effect on
its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Section 1. The court of probate for the county of Rockingham
shall be holclen annually at the times and places following, namely:
At Exeter, on the Wednesday next following the third Tuesday of
February, March and August, on the Wednesday next following the
first Tuesday of April, and on the Wednesday next following the
second Tuesday of every other month ; at Portsmouth, on the third
Tuesday of March and on the second Tuesday of January, May, July,
September and November ; at Deny, on the third Tuesday of Feb-
ruary, and on the second Tuesday of June and October ; at Ray-
mond, on the first Tuesday of April, on the third Tuesday of August
and on the second Tuesday of December.
Sect. 2. All orders, notices and citations, made or issued by said
court, heretofore returnable, or to be performed or heard at Kingston,
on the first Tuesday of August, A. D., 1874, shall be held to be re-
turnable, performed and heard at Exeter, on the Wednesday next
following the third Tuesday of August in the same year ; all orders,
notices and citations made or issued by said court, heretofore return-
able, or to be performed or heard at Derry, on the Wednesday next
following the said first Tuesday of August, shall be held to be re-
turnable, performed and heard at Derry, on the second Tuesday of
October; and all orders, notices and citations made or issued by said
court, heretofore returnable, or to be performed or heard at Chester,
on the Thursday next following the said first Tuesday of August, and
at Deerfield, on the Friday next following the said first Tuesday oi
August, shall be held to be returnable, performed and heard at Ray-
mond, on the third Tuesday of August in the same year.
Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take efiect from its
passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
1874]
Chapters XIX, XX.
CHAPTER XIX.
283
AN ACT CLASSING THE TOWNS OF RANDOLPH AND SUCCESS FOR THE ELECTION
OF A REPRESENTATIVE.
Section
1. Randolph and Success classed; meetings
for choice of representative to be held in
Randolph.
SECTION
2. Repealing clause.
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and ffotise of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Section 1. That the towns of Eandolph and Success, neither ofRandoiph and
them having the number of ratable polls required by the constitution ed; meetings for
for a representative, are hereby classed for the election of a repre- sentative ^to^'b^e
sentative to the general court ; the meetings for the choice of such cioi'ph.^'^ ^^^
representative to be holden in the town of Randolph.
Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act ai'e fjljjggj"^^
hereby repealed.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. ^nits^pass^ef
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XX.
AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT FOR THE MORE EFFCTUAL
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIHIALS," APPROVED JULY 1, 1870.
Section
1. Fines to be paid to the society prosecuting
for violation of act.
Section
2. Justices of the peace and police courts to
have jurisdiction when line does not ex-
ceed twenty dollars.
Be if enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That any and all fines imposed and collected by virtue Fines to be i)aid
of the provisions of the act to which this is an addition, shall be paid prosecuting for
over to the treasurer of such incorporated and organized society to'^'°^'''^^°'^°^^'^**
prevent cruelty to animals as shall have caused to be instituted the
prosecution resulting in such fines, for the use of such society.
Sect. 2. Justices of the peace and police courts shall have iurisdic- Justices of the
,. «*^ •!• PI •• ^1 peace and po-
tion in all complaints for any violation of the provisions of the act lice courts to
entitled " An act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to tion*' when ^flne
animals," approved July 1, 1870, in cases where the fine imposed twIn^^Sars^
does not exceed the sum of twenty dollars, which shall be final unless
appeal is taken therefrom, as in other criminal cases.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
284
Chapter XXI.
CHAPTER XXI.
[1874
AN ACT IN A3IENDMENT OP THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OP NASHUA, FIXING
THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN WARDS FIVE AND SIX, AND IN RELATION
TO THE POLICE COURT OF SAID CITY.
Section
1. Boundary line between Wards 5 and 6 de-
fined.
2. Police court made a court of record ; the
justice to appoint a clerk; his duties;
jurisdiction of the court in relation to
naturalization.
SECTION
3. Justice and clerk to pay fines and costs
to city treasurer.
4. Salary of justice.
5. Naturalization to be free.
6. Act takes efl'ect on its passage; repealing
clause.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Police court
made a court of
STem^'w^ds Section 1. The dividing line between "Wards 5 and 6 in the city
5 and 6 defined, of Nashua shall be, and the same is hereby established as follows,
that is to say : Beginning at the intersection of Main and Hollis
streets ; thence westerly by Hollis street to its intersection with Elm
street ; thence northerly by Elm street to Pleasant street ; thence
westerly by Pleasant street to its intersection with Walnut street ;
thence northerly by Walnut street to its intersection with Pearl street;
thence westerly by Pearl street to its termination; thence westerly
by the south line of the lot with the house upon the same situated at
the west end of Pearl street and extending the same in a straight line
to the canal of the Nashua Manufacturing Company ; thence westerly
by said canal to the Nashua river. Said line shall be the south line
of Ward 5 and the north line of Ward 6, and the territory lying
northerly and easterly of said line heretofore included in Ward 6
shall be included in and constituted a part of Ward 5.
Sect. 2. The police court, as heretofore constituted, shall be a court
recordVthe jus- of record, and the iustice thereof shall, from aiid after the pasaa:e of
tice to appomt , . ^ . J . i , i i i i c i i n
a clerk; his du- this act, appoint somc suitable person to be clerk thereoi, who shall
tion of tiie court perform all duties pertaining to the office of clerk of the court. He
natu^raiization. shall hold his office during the pleasure of the justice of said court,
and until some other person shall be appointed and qualified in his
stead. He shall give a bond. for the faithful performance of the
duties of his office, to the satisfaction of the board of mayor and
aldermen. Said court, in addition to the powers and jurisdiction
now conferred by law, shall have jurisdiction of applications for
naturalization, and may issue certificates of citizenship, and shall have,
possess and enjoy the same powers, in relation to the naturalization
of aliens as are now and have heretofore been possessed and enjoyed
by the supreme judicial court.
Justice and Sect. 3. The iustice and clerk of said court shall, once in three
clerk to pay ii. iir>ii
fines and costs months, render to the city treasurer an account, under oath, of all
er. ' fees and costs by them received or receivable, and shall, at the time
aforesaid, pay over to said treasurer all such fees and costs.
Salary of jus- Sect. 4. The salary of the justice of said court shall be the same
as now established, until otherwise fixed by the city council, which
salary shall be paid in quarterly payments out of the city treasury ;
and the salary so received shall be in full for all services of every
18T4] Chapter XXII. 285
kind rendered by him in the discharge of all the duties pertaining to
his office.
Sect, 5. All naturalizations before said court shall be free and Naturalization
T 1 to be free.
Without expense to the persons naturalized.
Sect. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passasre, and Act takes effect
f. . . •11 ••(•!• on its passage.
all acts or parts or acts inconsistent with the provisions oi this act
are hereby repealed.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXII.
j\JSf ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF BLACK BASS XKD OTHER FISH.
Section
1. Catching of certain fish prohibited; pen-
alty.
2. Catehing of black bass in May and June
prohibited; penalty.
Section
3. One-half of penalty to prosecutor.
4. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Section 1. If any person shall take, catch, kill or destroy any Catching of cer-
whitefish, black bass or pike perch, in any of the waters of this state, hnMte.i;^peiiai-*
within five years from the time of their introduction into the several ^^' '^^''''
waters, he shall forfeit and pay, for each fish taken, caught, killed or
destroyed, the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by complaint be-
fore a justice of the peace, or by indictment or information.
Sect. 2. If any person shall take, catch, kill or destroy any black Catching black
bn ^1 ^ /•,!• ,, !• ,1 1 /> ^ r hass in May and
ass, in any oi the v/aters oi this state, during the months oi May June prohibit-
and June, in any year, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten (J^qI-*^*^'^^'^'^'^'*^^^^'
ars for each fish taken, caught, killed or destroyed, to be recovered
in the manner provided in the preceding section.
Sect. 3. In all cases of violation of the game laws, or laws for the One half of
protection of fish, the prosecutor shall be entitled to one-half of the prosecutor.
sum forfeited.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Act takes effeci
[Approved July 1, 1874.] on its passage.
286
Chapters XXIII, XXIV.
CHAPTER XXIII.
[1874
Cemetery cor-
porations and
trustees of ceni'
eteries may
iiold funds "in
trust for im-
provement of
lots.
A^r ACT TO AUTHORIZE CEMETERY CORPORATIOXS A^^D TRUSTEES OF TOA\T?
CEMETERIES TO HOLD FUNDS IK TRUST FOR THE CARE OF LOTS.
Section 1. Cemetery corporations may hold trust fimds for improvement of lots.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. Cemetery corporations and the trustees of town ceme-
teries, or other officers having lawful charge of the same, may take
and hold funds upon trust, to apply the income thereof to the im-
provement or embellishment of the cemetery, or to the care, preser-
vation or embellishment of any lot, or its appurtenances.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXIV.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT AND IN ADDITION TO SECTION TWO, CHAPTER TWO
HUNDRED iVND SIXTY - ONE OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, RELATING TO
BURGLARY AND BREAKING BUILDINGS.
Section
1. Breaking and entering with intent; pen-
alty.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. If any person shall in the night time break or enter,
eut^^g^with °i' i^ ^^^ ^^y ^^°^^ break and enter, any dwelling-house or out-house
intent; penalty, adjoining thereto, any office, bank, shop, store, ware-house, barn,
granary, stable or mill, any meeting-house, court-house, town-house,
college, academy, school-house, or other building erected for the pub-
lic use, or any vessel lying within the body of any county, or any
railroad depot, freight or passenger car, repair shop, engine house,
or any outbuilding connected with any railroad, or any other build-
ing whatever, with intent to commit any crime, the punishment
whereof may be imprisonment for more than one year, or with intent
to commit any larceny, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding five
years.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
ou its passage. ["ApproYed July 1, 1874.]
1874] Chapters XXV, XXVI. 287
CHAPTER XXV.
AN ACT m RELATION TO DIRECTORS IN CORPORATIONS.
Section
1. One director to be an inhabitant of the
state.
SECTION
2. Corporations to comply with this act at
next meeting.
JBe it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. At least one of the directors of every corporation ex- (^"fnln^^ttant
isting by virtue of the laws of this state or hereafter created thereby, of the state.
and having stockholders resident in this state, shall be an actual in-
habitant of this state.
Sect. 2. Every such corporation shall at its next annual meeting ^°^p,°^*^^^j^^ *°
comply with the provisions of this act. meettu*^ ^* ^*^^
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXVI.
AN ACT IN AMENDaiENT OF SECTION NINE OF CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE OF THE
GENERAL STATUTES IN REGARD TO THE SAEE OF LANDS OF NON-RESIDENTS
FOR TAXES.
Section I Section
1. Town may purchase land sold for taxes. ' 2. Act takes eflfect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. If the sale provided for by section nine of chapter rpown may pur-
fifty-five of the General Statutes shall be adjourned from day to day ^^\^^eiami_ sold'
as is provided for in said section, and no person shall appear on orient taxes
before the last adjourned day therein provided for, who shall offer else bids
to pay the taxes and incidental charges on said estate for a part or the tax aid coltl.
whole of the same, then on said last adjourned day the town in which
said estate lies may become a purchaser at the sale thereof for the
amount of the taxes thereon, and the selectmen of such town in its
name may make such purchase.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 4^itSal«Sf "'
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
288 Chapters XXVII, XXVIII. [1874
CHAPTER XXVII.
AN ACT TO SEVER THE HOMESTEAD EAIIM OF CHARLES MOULTON FROM
SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE IN WAKEFIELD AND ANNEX THE SAME TO
SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER NINE IN SAID TOWN, FOR SCHOOLING.
SECTION I Section
1. Homesiead disannexed. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Charles Moul- SECTION 1. That the homestead farm of Charles Moulton of Wake-
annexed from field, with the inhabitants of said town living upon the same, and the
and^annexed to taxable property, shall be, and hereby is, severed from school district
district No. 9. number one in Wakefield, and annexed to school district number
nine in said town, for the purposes of schooling.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
on its passage. • ,
Its passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
jVN ACT TO SEVER THE HOMESTEAD ESTATE OF JAMES M. BUNKER FROM
SCHOOL DISTRICT NTJMBER FOUR IN ROLLINSFOBD AND ANTsEX THE SAME
TO THE CITY OF DOVER FOR SCHOOLING.
Section • I Section
1. Homestead disannexed. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate aiid House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
J. M. Bunker's SECTION 1. That the homestead place of James M. Bunker of Rol-
ed^from^district linsford, with the inhabitants of said town living upon the same, and
fbrd^amiarJnex- ^^® taxable property, shall be, and hereby is, severed from school dis-
ed to Dover, trict number four in Rollinsford and annexed to the city of Dover
for the purposes of schooling.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
on its passage. [Approved July 1, 1874.]
1874] Chapters XXIX, XXX. 289
CHAPTER XXIX.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER FIETY-FOUR OF THE PAMPHLET LAWS
OF JUNE SESSION, 1873, IN RELATION TO PUBLIC PARKS AND COMSIONS.
Section
1. Establishment and discontinuance of
parks and commons to be determined
by popular vote.
Section
3. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be if, enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Whenever any new park or common is to be laid out Establishment
,,.,, , ,•' ' -, -, 1 -.ij- and discontinu-
or established or enlarged, or any old park or common is to be clis- anre of parks
continued as provided in chapter fifty-four of the Pamphlet Laws of t^ i^e deteraohi^
1873, the mayor and aldermen or selectmen shall first submit the ^^l^^J p^p"!'"^!'
question of such laying out, establishment, enlargement or discon-
tinuance to the legal voters of the town or city for their approval or
dissent at a meeting duly called for that purpose, and be governed by
such approval or dissent ; and such establishment or discontinuance
of any park or common shall not be valid unless approved by a
majority of all the legal voters in such town or city voting at said
meeting.
Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions Repealing
of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its takes effect on
passage,
passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXX.
AN ACT TO EXEMPT FROM TAXATION THE SIMONDS FREE HIGH SCHOOL FUND.
Section
1. The Simonds high school fund exempted
from taxation.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the Simonds free high school fund of Warner, The simonds
New Hampshire, consisting of twenty-five thousand dollars, shall be, fuSd exempted
T T 1 . . J r i. !.• from taxation.
and hereby is, exempted from taxation.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
_. T T 1 1 low^ n jr r- o ou Its passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
290 ^ / Chapters XXXI, XXXII. [1874
CHAPTER XXXL
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
IN UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE CITY OF CONCORD.
Section
1. Board of education authorized to employ
a superintendent of schools.
Sectiok]
2. District authorized to raise money to pay
superintendent.
3. Act takes effect on its passage; repealing
clause.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Board of educa- SECTION 1. That the board of education for said district are hereby
p'loy asiyjeriu" authorized and empowered to appoint a superintendent of schools for
scrib^hisciutiesSaid district, who shall hold his office during their pleasure, and per-
of*^s^hoai"mon'^^'°^'^^ such dutics as they shall direct; and they are hereby authorized
ey- to pay such superintendent for his services from any money raised by
the district for school purposes not otherwise specially appropriated.
District may Sect. 2. Said district is hereby authorized and empowered to raise
pay^ s'uperm- *' money by taxation for the payment of the services of a superintend-
er'^'rotes ^raTi- ent of schools ; and all votes of the district heretofore passed raising
^^^- money for this purpose are hereby ratified and confirmed.
Acttakes effect Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts
repeaiing^^^^*^' and parts of acts inconsistent with it are hereby repealed.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
clause.
CHAPTER XXXII.
AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT RELATING TO BONDS TO THE JUDGE OF
PROBATE, AND SUITS THEREON, AND IN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER ONE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.
Section
1. Corporations may be sureties on probate
bonds.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporations SECTION 1. Any Corporation duly established by the laws of this
ties on probate state, and authorized thereto, by its charter, may be deemed and
accepted as sufficient sureties upon the bond of any executor, ad-
ministrator, guardian or trustee, by any judge of probate, upon his
being satisfied of the ability of said corporation as such surety.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
on Its passage. p. jtioio-t^t ao
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
1874] Chapters XXXIII, XXXIV. 291
CHAPTER XXXIII.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CIIAKTEB OF THE WINDSOR AND FOREST LINE RAIL-
ROAD.
Section I Section
1. Time for expenditure extended. ' 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the time limited in and by the act approved June Thnefor^expen-
29, 1870, entitled an act to incorporate the Windsor and Forest Line ooo extended to
Railroad, for the expenditure by said corporation of two hundred original act'ap-
thousand dollars toward the construction of said railroad, is hereby P^',f,piefe^P^f*
extended to the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred that time.
and seventy-eight, and said act shall be in force as to all parts of said
railroad which shall be completed on or before December first, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. witJplssage':^
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF MONROE TO SEND A REPKESENTATTVE.
Section I Section
1. Monroe to choose a representative. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted h/ the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. That the town of Monroe, not having the number of^^^^^^^^'^.^^j.^
ratable polls required by the constitution for a representative, be, and sentative.
hereby is, authorized to send a representative to the general court.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Act takes eflect
r* -i T -, r^ ■, CM 4 1 ojiits passage.
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
292
Chapter XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
[1874
AN ACT m AMESDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH.
Section
1. City divided into seven wards; their
boundaries.
2. Aldermen, councilmen, assessors, and
overseers of the poor.
3. School committees, how chosen, theii" du-
ties.
4. Municipal election on the second Monday
of September.
5. Organization of the city government;
election of city clerk.
6. Choice of other officers.
Section
7. Present officers to go out when others are
chosen.
8. Officers of ward 3 to remain officers of
the new ward 3.
9. Who may caU and conduct meetings in
other wards for election of officers.
The mayor, his powers and duties.
Selectmen and moderators to receive no
compensation.
All officers to be voted for on one ballot.
13. Repealing clause.
14. Act takes effect on its passage.
10.
11.
12.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Citv divided in- SECTION 1. The City of Portsmouth hereby is and shall continue
to seven wards ;tQ \^q divided into sevcn wards, which shall be constituted as follows:
their boundar- • n i /• i • ^ -n i •
ies. Ward one snail contain aii that part of the city oi rortsmoutn situ-
ated north of a line commencing at the centre of the channel of the
outlet of the North Mill pond, between Noble's Island and Free-
man's Point, and running westerly by the centre of the channel of
said outlet to the centre of the North Mill bridge, thence along the
easterly shore of said mill pond to the track of the Eastern Railroad
in New Hampshire, thence along said railroad track to the centre
line of Dover street prolonged thereto, thence by the centre line of
Dover street to the centre of Islington street, thence by the centre
line of Islington street and Islington and Greenland roads to the
line between Portsmouth and Greenland. Ward two shall include
all that part of said city between the centre line of Dover street pro-
longed to the track of the Eastern Eailroad in New Hampshire on
the west, and the centre line of Vaughan street on the east, and be-
tween the track of the Eastern Railroad in New Hampshire on the
north and the centre line of Islington and Congress streets on the
south. Ward" three shall contain all that part of said city situated
south of a line commencing on the water at Liberty bridge, so called,
and running westerly through the centre of the dock to the centre
of Washington street, thence through the centre of Washington
street to the centre of Richmond street, thence through the centre of
Richmond street to the centre of Pleasant strset, thence through the
centre of Pleasant street to the Universalist meeting house, thence in
a straight line across the South Mill pond and lands adjacent thereto
to the southerly end of Richard's avenue, thence through the centre
of South and Lafayette roads to the line between Portsmouth and
Rye, together with all islands in the Piscataqua river and Portsmouth
harbor attached to ward three as heretofore constituted. Ward four
shall contain all that part of said city situated between the south line
of ward one on the north and the north line of ward three on the
south, west of a line commencing in the centre of South road at a
point opposite the centre of Wibird street, thence running northerly
by the centre line of Wibird street to Middle street, thence in a
1874] Chapter XXXV. 293
straight line across Middle street to the centre of Madison street,
thence by the centre line of Madison street to State street, thence in
a straight line across State street and land adjacent thereto, along the
easterly end of the house now occupied by Charles C. Jones, to the
south line of ward one. Ward five shall contain all that part of said
city bounded northerly by a line drawn easterly from the north-east
corner of ward four, through the centre of Islington and Congress
streets, and along the southern side of Market square to the centre
of Pleasant street ; easterly by a line drawn southerly from Market
square through the centre of Pleasant street to the northern limit of
ward three at the Universalist meeting house, thence in a straight
line across the South Mill pond and land adjacent thereto to the
southerly end of Richard's avenue ; southerly by a line drawn from
the southerly end of Richard's avenue westerly along the northern
limit of ward three to a point opposite the centre of Wibird street,
and westerly by the easterly limit of ward four. Ward six shall
contain all that part of said city situated north of the northern limit
of ward three, and easterly of a line commencing at the centre of
Pleasant street, at a point opposite the centre of Richmond street,
and running northerly through the centre of Pleasant street to Market
square ; thence in a straight line across Market square to the centre
of Market street, thence by the centre line of Market street as far
north as a point opposite the centre of Greei2 street. Ward seven
shall contain all that part of said city not included in any of the
above described wards.
Sect. 2. The board of aldermen of said city shall consist of ten Aiderm'n.coim-
members, of whom the first, second, fourth and seventh wards shall o^^^and^'over-
each choose one, and the third, fifth and sixth shall each choose two; ^^^^^ ^^ *^®
and the common council shall consist of twenty members, of whom
the first, second, fourth and seventh wards shall each choose two,
and the third, fifth and sixth wards shall each choose four. There
shall be chosen in each of said wards one assessor of taxes and one
overseer of the poor.
Sect. 3. At the annual city election the several wards shall each school commit-
choose as many persons to serve as school committee as they are en- gn^^tiiefr'duties!
titled to choose aldermen respectively, who shall hold their office for
one year, and until others are chosen in their stead. The committee
so chosen shall annually elect a high school committee of three mem-
bers; and the committee so chosen shall have the same powers and
perform all the duties which now by law appertain to the school
committee and high school committee respectively.
Sect. 4. The annual meeting of legal voters of said city of Ports- Municipal eiec-
mouth for the choice of city and ward officers shall be holden on the Monday of Sep -
second Monday of September, and all city or ward officers who are ^^ ^^'
chosen by the people shall be chosen by ballot, and shall hold
their respective offices for one year from and including the fourth
Tuesday of September, and until others are chosen and qualified in
their stead.
Sect. 5. The mayor, aldermen and common council shall hereafter the^ci^y govem-
meet in convention for the purpose of taking the oath of their re- ^f^Uj cferk!^°^
spective offices on the fourth Tuesday of September in each year, at
ten o'clock in the forenoon ; and on said day the city councils shall
2M Chapter XXXV. [1874
in convention and by joint ballot elect a city clerk, who shall be
qualified and enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office on
the fourth Tuesday of September in each year ; provided, however,
in the case of a vacancy or a failure to elect on said fourth Tuesday
of September, said vacancy may be filled or election made at any
other time.
Choice of other Sect. 6. All city officers, with the exception of city clerk, who are
now requii-ed to be chosen or appointed by the mayor and aldermen,
or by the city councils in joint convention, shall be so chosen or ap-
pointed in the month of October in each year.
Present officers Sect. 7. The mayor, aldermen, common council, assessors of taxes,
othersarechos- overseers of the poor and school committee, now in office in said city,
^^' shall hold their respective offices until the fourth Tuesday of Septem-
ber next, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead,
and no longer ; and all officers now in office in said city, elected by
the city councils or appointed by the mayor and aldermen, shall
hold their respective offices until others are elected and qualified in
their stead, and no longer. All such officers shall be entitled to re-
ceive pay only for such portion of the year as they may have served,
omcers'ofwani Sect. 8. The present ward officers of ward three in said city as
cers of the new heretofore constituted shall remain and be the ward officers of ward
three as constituted by this act, until the fourth Tuesday of Septem-
ber next, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead.
Who may call Sect. 9. The following named persons, being first duly sworn,
meetings in may Call the first meeting of the legal voters in wards one, two, four,
eiection^of ^offl^ five, six and seven, as constituted by this act, to be held on the second
Monday of September next, for the choice of city and ward officers
and school committee, namely : Samuel Spinney, Isaac Furber and
Charles Dwight Hanscom, or any two of them, may call said meet-
ing in ward one. Ozro J. Hobbs, Emanuel Charlesworth and Robert
King, or any two of them, in ward two. Frank W. Rand, George
E. Harden and Rufus K. Oxford, or any two of them, in ward four.
Benjamin M. Parker, Ebenezer G, Adams and Edwin H. Leslie, or
any two of them, in ward five. Richard T. Call, John Conlon and
Nathan F. Mathes, or any two of them, in ward six ; and James F.
Jenness, Daniel L. Stover and Richard H. Waldron, or any two of
them, in ward seven, who shall prepare, revise, correct and post up
in the manner in which selectmen in said city are now required, an
alphabetical list of the voters in each of said wards, to which they
are hereby respectfully assigned, and they shall issue and serve their
warrants for said meeting of the legal voters in their respective wards
for the choice of all city and ward officers and school committee, who
are elected by the people. Such warrant shall be posted at least
fourteen days before the time appointed for said meeting, and shall
. designate the time and place for the meetings of the respective wards.
At said meeting, and until selectmen shall be elected and qualified
in their stead, they shall exercise in their respective wards all the
duties now incumbent upon selectmen in said city. They may ap-
point for each of said wards in which they respectively act as such
selectmen a moderator and clerk, who, being first duly sworn, may
perform all the duties now incumbent upon said officers, until others
shall be elected and qualified in their stead.
cers.
1 874] Chapter XXXVI. 295
Sect. 10. The mayor of said city shall be chairman ex officio of the The mayor, his
board of overseers of the poor ; he shall preside in the board of ties.
aldermen and in convention of the city councils and shall have a
casting vote only ; but he shall have a negative upon the action of
the aldermen in laying out highways and streets, and in all matters
appertaining to railroads in which said city may be interested, and
no vote can be passed over his veto unless by a vote of two-thirds at
least of all the aldermen elected.
Sect, 11. The selectmen and moderators of each of the wards of^^,|fjg^f^j.a^"'^
said city shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for their recdve no com-
services.
Sect. 12. In balloting for state, county, city and ward officers, au officers to
o. ' J ' J ^^be voted for on
school committee, representative to congress, or electors of president oue buiiot.
and vice-president of the United States, the ballots for so many of
said officers or persons then to be voted for in the diffisrent wards of
said city shall be given in by the voter on one list or ballot, or so
many of such officers or persons as the voter determines to vote for,
with the respective offices designated against the name of each per-
son voted for.
Sect. 13. That the act entitled "An act fixing the time of closing Jj|pcaiing
the polls of the city of Portsmouth," approved July third, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, is hereby repealed Also
the act entitled " An act in relation to the powers of the mayors of
cities," approved July fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and section eight of chapter forty-four of the General
Statutes, so far as they respectively relate to the city of Portsmouth,
together with all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
Sect. 14. This act shall take effect from its passage. ^ItSsS?
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
AN act to ANKEX a portion of the town of GILFORD TO THE TOWN OF
LACONIA.
Section
1. Portion of Gilford annexed to Laconia.
2. Laconia to collect certain taxes for the
benefit of Gilford.
3. Taxes heretofore assessed in the annexed
territory, to be collected.
Section
4. Polls and estates in annexed territory not
to be taxed for the debts of Laconia.
5. Amount of state tax to be paid by each
town.
6. School districts defined.
7. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That all that part of the town of Gilford bounded as Portion of Gii-
/,■■■, i*,-r»'', 1 1 1 I'T ford annexed to
loiiows, to-wit : beginning at a stake and stones on the easterly side Laconia; boun-
of Kound bay on a line with the northerly line of Thomas Durrell's'^'"'''''^'^^'^-
land, and running easterly to and along said Durrell's land to the
296 Chapter XXXVI. [1874
line between school districts No. 4 and No. 12 ; thence southerly on
the line of school district No. 4 to the line between Gilford and Bel-
mont ; thence westerly on the line between Gilford and Belmont to
Sanbornton bay, and to the line between Gilford and Laconia;
thence northerly on said bay, Winnipisseogee river and Round bay,
being on the line between Gilford and Laconia, to the bound begun
at, be and the same hereby is severed from the town of Gilford and
annexed to the town of Laconia.
Laconia to col- Sect. 2. The town of Laconia shall assess and collect, for the use
the*anni^i*edtei- and benefit of the town of Gilford, upon the polls and estates of the
ulTlt GiiTorcf pei'soJis and estates liable to taxation in the portion of Gilford an-
within eight ncxed to Laconia by this act, the sum of twenty thousand dollars and
years ; not over , •' imT /-tti ioi-i'c: • t • • i
one-fom-th in interest irom the second iuesday oi March, lo7o, witnm eight years
anyoneyeai. ^^.^^^ ^-^^^ passage of this act; but not more than one-fourth part of
said twenty thousand dollars shall be assessed as aforesaid in any one
of said eight years. Said sum shall be paid by said Laconia to said
Gilford when collected.
forea^ssessedVn Sect. 3. All taxes heretofore assessed annually upon the polls and
annexed terri- estates of persons residing within the limits of the territory hereby
tory to be col- ^ , ,^ , r • t • ■ r
lected. annexed to Laconia, and upon the estates oi said territory, it non-
residents, shall be collected and applied the same as if this act had
not been passed.
Polls and es- Sect. 4. The polls and estates of persons residing within the limits
ed territory not of the territory hereby annexed to Laconia and, the estates in said
debts of'i!acon- territory of non-residents, shall not be taxed or in any way liable
^^- for the existing debts or liabilities of the town of Laconia, but all
such debts and liabilities shall be paid by said town of Laconia the
same as if this act had not been passed.
Gilford to pay Sect. 5. In all assessments of state and county taxes, until the
S4'25 and La- , .
conia$8.30state legislature shall otherwise order, the town of Gilford shall pay four
couny ax. ^^^^^^^ and twenty-five cents, and the town of Laconia shall pay
eight dollars and thirty cents, and the state and county treasurer shall
issue their respective warrants accordingly.
School districts Sect. 6. All that part of Gilford annexed to Laconia by this act,
defined. . • . ...
shall constitute a part of school district No. 1 in said Laconia, and
all that part of school district No. 4 in said Gilford not annexed to
Laconia by this act, is hereby made a part of school district No. 13
in said Gilford.
wiU^passa^r* Sect. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage.
'" ■ [Approved July 2, 1874.]
1874]
Chapters XXXVII, XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
297
AN ACT RELATING TO THE ACCOUNTS OF CLERIiS OF COURTS.
Section
1. Clerks to render accouut.
SBCTrON
2. Act takes eflfect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That every clerk of the court shall, within ten clays cierks of courts
after the close of each session of the court in the county for which count within
he is clerk, render to the commissioners of said county an itemized J^.^o^e'^^o'i" each
account of all his receipts and disbursements as clerk, and said ac-'^'^™^'^^^''"'^'-
count shall be printed by saidi commissioners with their report.
Sect, 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
on Its passage.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PRESERVATION OF BIRDS, GAME, AND FUR-BEARIN'G
ANIMALS.
Skction
1. Miuk, otter, beaver and sable not to be
taken between April 1 and Oct. 15 ; pen-
alty.
2. Muski-at not to be taken beween May 1
and Oct. 1 ; penalty.
3. Hares not to be taken between March 1
and Oct. 1 ; penalty.
4. Exposing poison prohibited ; penalty.
Section
5. Song birds and insectivorous birds pro.
tected; penalty.
6. Game birds protected; penalty.
7. Grouse, partridge and quail not to be
taken with a snare ; penalty.
8. Sec. 5 not to apply to taxidermists; act
not to apply to birds or animals doing
damage.
9. Repealing clause ; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Section 1. No person shall In any way destroy, between the first Mink, otter,
day of April and the fifteenth day of October in each year, any mink, bie not' to be
otter, beaver, sable or fisher, under penalty of twenty-five dollars for April land Oct.
each animal so destroyed. ^^ ' i^^-^'-^^^ ^•^^•
Sect. 2. No person shall In any way destroy, between the first day Muskrat not to
of May and the first day of October in each year, any muskrat, under i?^eeu May ^i
penalty of five dollars. ^ ^ penaitf $5^"^ ^'
Sect. 3. No person shall take, kill or destroy any of the animals Hares not to be
known as hares, between the first day of March and the first day of March i and
October of each year, under penalty of five dollars. sxty^b. ' '^^^'
Sect. 4. No person shall expose poison for the destruction of ani- Exiiosing poi.
, 1 1 1^ z' /-/v 1 n son prohibited ,
mais, or any other purpose, under penalty oi iiity dollars. penalty $50.
298 Chapter XXXVIII. [1874
fnsecUvorou^*^'^ Sect. 5. If any person shall, at any season of the year, take, kill
birds not to be or destroy any of the birds called robins, thrushes, larks, blue-birds,
season j'penaity sparrows, finches, buntings, martins, orioles, swallows, fly-catchers,
warblers, tanagers, bobolinks, vireos, nuthatchers, creepers, wood-
peckers, humming-birds, or any other of the song birds or insectivor-
ous birds, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars.
Various game Sect. 6. If any person shall, between the first day of February
kmed.Tt*^ wiiiu and the foilrth day of July in any year, take, kill or destroy any
tv$T(r^' ^^"^'"^^°°^^^°^^ ' °^' sl^a^^j between the first day of February and the first
day of August of each year, take, kill or destroy any of the birds
called plover, yellow-legs, sandpipers or rails ; or shall, between the
first day of\ February and the first day of September of each J' ear,
take, kill or' destroy any ruffled gro^use, partridges or quails ; or s\'vall,
within the respective times aforesaid, sell, buy or have in possession
any of said birds, he shall forfeit for each •bird so taken, killed, de-
stroyed, bought, sold or had in possession, the sum of ten dollars.
Grouse, par- Sect. 7. No person shall at any time or place within this state,
not to be*^ taken take any grousc, partridge or quail, with any trap or snare, under
penalty Z"^'"*^' penalty of ten dollars, except upon his own grounds.
Not to apply to Sect. 8. Section five shall not apply to any professional taxider-
act not to apply mist, or to any one collecting specimens for the purpose of illustrat-
ma^rdoing '^"'' ing natural history in any educational institution; nor shall this act
damage. apply to any person who may kill or destroy any of said birds or ani-
mals doing damage on his premises.
Repealing Sect. 9. Section three of chapter CCLI of the General Statutes
is hereby repealed, together with all other acts inconsistent herewith.
Act takes effect xhis act shall take effect from and after its passage.
on Its passage. ^ ^ -, -r ■, ^ ■, r>^ ^ -,
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
1874]
Chapter XXXIX
CHAPTER XXXIX.
299
AN ACT RELATING TO THE POLICE COURT OF THE CITY OE CONCORD.
Section
1. PoHce court a court of record; justice to
appoint a clerk.
2. Shall have jurisdiction in cases of natural-
ization.
3. Justice and clerk to pay over fees and
costs to city treasurer.
Section
4. Salariee of justice and clerk.
5. No fees or costs in cases of naturalization.
6. Act takes eflect on its passage; repealing
clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The police court of the city of Concord, as heretofore Police court
constituted, shall be a court of record, and the justice thereof shall, record; j^ustice
from and after the passage of this act, appoint some suitable person clerk f tenure of
to be clerk thereof, who shall perform all duties pertaining to the "/y^^';!' **^ ^"'^
office of clerk of the court. He shall hold his office during the
pleasure of the justice of said court, and until some other person
shall be appointed and qualified in his stead. He shall give a bond
for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, to the satis-
faction of the board of mayor and aldermen.
Sect. 2. Said court, in addition to the powers and jurisdiction Police court to
now conferred by law, shall have jurisdiction of applications for powers^lis^'^the
naturalization, and may issue certificates of citizenship, and shall ^J^'u^^rt ii"re-
have, possess and enjoy the same powers in relation to the naturali-?''ii''.it<^ii'i'^^i"^i-
zation of aliens as are now and heretofore have been possessed and
enjoyed by the supreme judicial court.
Sect. 3. The justice and clerk of said court shall, once in three Justice and ci-k
months, render to the city treasurer an account, under oath, of all trnfemy V^af^
fees and costs by them received or receivable, and shall, at the time co^gVsf^^'^^^'*^^
aforesaid, pay over to said treasurer all such fees and costs.
Sect. 4. The salary of the justice of said court shall be six hun- Salary of jus-
dred dollars per annum, and the salary of the clerk of said court $200; 'to be in
shall be two hundred dollars per annum, which salaries shall be paid vlces?^ ^^ ^^^'
in quarterly payments out of the city treasury ; and the salaries so
received shall be in full for all services of every kind rendered by
them in the discharge of all the duties pertaining to their office.
Sect. 5. No fees shall be charged in matters pertaining to naturali-?^*'^^^®''''^^^*.^
n • ' ^-r . I- • • 1-1 ,1 -,. incases ofnat-
zation nor tor issuing certifacates of citizenship, but all proceedings uraiizatiou.
relating thereto shall be without expense to the applicant.
Sect. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after Act takes eflfect
its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are repeatog'^*"^®'
hereby repealed. clause.
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
300 Chapter XL. [1874
CHAPTER XL.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NASHUA AND PLAISTOW RAH^ROAD.
Section
1. Coi-poration formed ; its rights,poTrers and
liabilities.
2. Aiithorized to build a railroad, where, aud
to connect with any other.
3. Capital stock.
Section
4. Fares to be determined by the directors.
5. First meeting, how called.
6. Act void, when and as to what; act takes
efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Sed with the Section 1. That David Bryant, Hezekiah H. Cheney, Henry Park-
rights, powers, inson, J. B. Fossell, John Gaare, John Woodbury, Hiram T. Morrill,
9,11(1 llRUllltiCS «— ' ■' •/ '' ''
defined by law. David Butler, Nathan Gage, Josiah M. Fletcher, Samuel Morrison,
Samuel Greeley, Samuel Gowen, Thomas Dustin, Joel C, Gary, George
C. Gordon, Greenleaf Clark, William C. Noyes, Nathaniel H. Clark,
Hiram Smart, John N. Sleeper, William H. Hills and James N.
George, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a
corporation by the name of the Nashua and Plaistow Railroad, with
all the rights, powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities,
duties and restrictions set forth in the General Laws, which now are,
or may hereafter be in force, relating to railroad corporations.
May build a Sect. 2. Said Corporation is authorized and empowered to locate,
road from . ^ . -i i t • j • • i i
Plaistow or At- construct and maintain a railroad not exceeding six rods m width,
sSen^'wInd? with necessary additions for excavations and embankments, from some
and 'Hmhiou to Convenient point in Plaistow or Atkinson, through Salem, Windham,
Nashua, and j£ necessarv, Pelham and Hudson, to some point in Nashua, and with
connect with J' •'^ '^ ., mt
any other road, the right to coiiiiect at either terminus with any existing railroad cor-
poration.
Capital stock Sect. 3. The capital stock of this corporation shall consist of not
' ' ' more than ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each.
Toll granted, to Sect. 4. A toll is hereby ^ranted to said corporation upon ail per-
be regulated by i-i*^°i ii -tt i
the directors, gons and property which may be transported by said road, at such
ed vfith all the rates as may from time to time be determined by the directors ; and
coloration. "^ ^ all the poAvers herein granted to this corporation, relating to the lo-
cating, constructing and maintaining said railroad, is hereby vested
in the directors for the time being.
First meeting to Sect. 5. The three persons first named in this act may call the first
whom and how. meeting of the grantees herein named, by publishing notice of the
time and place of meeting in two newspapers, one published in Hills-
borough county, and one in Rockingham county, one week before the
day named for such meeting.
Act void as to Sect. 6. This act shall be void as to all that part of the railroad
ed in ten years; line herein named not constructed and completed within ten years
on its^passage?* from the passage hereof, and this act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July T, 1874.]
1874] Chapter XLI.
CHAPTER XLI.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SPICICET RR'ER RAILROAD.
301
Sectiox
1. Corporation formed; its rights, powers
and liabilities.
2. Authorized to build a railroad, where;
and to connect with or lease to any otliei'.
3. Capital stock.
Sectiox
4. Fares to be determined by the directors.
5. The first meeting, how called.
6. Act void, when and as to what.
7. Act takes clTect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Matthew H. Taylor, John W. Wheeler, George ^^^^^^_^^.^^^^
C. Gordon, Benjamin R. Wheeler, George W. Hunt, Thomas Dus- formed'with the
tin, Charles Sanborn, John D. Ordway, James Walton, Charles Aus-ami ^iiabiutie^s
tin, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby made a corpo- '^^'^'^^'^ '-"-^ ^^^•
ration by the name of the Spicket River Railroad, with all the rights,
powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, duties and
restrictions set forth in the general laws, Avhich now are, or hereafter
may be, in force relating to railroad corporations.
Sect. 2. Said corporation is authorized and empov/ered to locate,
, .. ., - ,. ^. ,. .,, MaybuUda
construct and maintain a railroad, not exceeding six rods m width, road from the
with the necessary additions for excavations and embankments, fronisalem, o'rft-om
some convenient point on the northerly line of the state of Massa- rafiroad''i'n\ha't
chusetts, in the town of Salem, in the county of Rockingham, or fro^i oeirrv to the'??
some convenient point on the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad, andR. railroad,
• 1 11 r -XT 1 <~( 1 1 T-\ '"I'ld mar con-
m sa'id town, by the way oi JNorth Salem and JJerry, to some conve-nect with or
nient point on the Nashua and Rochester Railroad, in Deny or Jtiier road. '*°"*^
Hampstead, in said county, to connect with any other railroad or
railroads, and lease its railroad to any railroad corporation Avith which
it may so connect.
Sect. 3. The capital stock of this corporation shall consist of not
more than four thousand shares of one hundred dollars each.
Sect. 4. A toll is hereby granted to said corporation upon all
persons or property which may be transported by said railroad, at ufllJIi^^ij^^^thedf-
such rates as may be from time to time determined by the directors ; i,ive%e'(rwith'^^
and all the powers herein srranted to this corporation, relatinnr to tilery f^e powers
I . . ," .. -iMi 1-1 of the corpora-
locating, constructmg and maintaining said railroad, are vested in the tion.
directors of this corporation for the time being.
Sect. 5. The three persons first named in this act may call the^. ^ ^. ^
f, • PI i-i(> 11 iTi- Fn-stmeetrngto
nrst meeting 01 the grantees hereinbefore named, by publisiung no- becaiied, by
tice of the time and place of meeting in the Exeter Newsletter, a
newspaper printed at Exeter, in said County of Rockingham, at least
one week before the day named for such meeting.
Sect. 6. This act shall be void as to all that part of said railroad
line herein named not constructed and completed within ten years aii not^compie^
from the passage hereof. ed in ten years.
Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from its passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.] . iltSasVagf
Capital stock
$400,000.
302
Chapters XLII, XLIII.
CHAPTER XLII.
[1874
AN ACT EST RELATION TO THE POWERS OF CITY COIHSTCILS, AND TO REPEAL
SECTION EIGHT OF CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.
Section
1. Section repealed.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Power of city SECTION 1. That section eight of chapter forty-four of the General
change wards Statutes, giving power to the city councils of cities to revise and
withcrawn. change the divisions of the city into wards, alter their boundaries
and increase or diminish the number thereof, be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
Act takes effect
on its passage.
/
V^
CHAPTER XLIII.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTEUC.
TION AND PRESCRIBE ITS DUTIES.
Section
1. Superintendent of public instruction, how
appointed, and tenure of office.
2. His duties defined.
3. School committees to report to him, what
and when.
Section
4. Penalty for neglect by committee.
5. Superintendent's report, its distribution.
6. His salary, expenses and office.
7. Acts repealed.
8. Act takes effect on its passage-
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Superintendent Section 1. The governor and council shall appoint a superintend-
struct'ion? how ^nt of public instruction, who shall hold his office for the term of
ternu-e (rfoffice^ ^^^ years, and shall have general supervision and control of the edu-
cational interest of the state.
Sect. 2.
His duties de'
fined.
The superintendent of public instruction shall prescribe
the form of register to be kept in the schools, and the form of blanks
and inquiries for the return to be made by the school committee,
and seasonably send the same to the clerks of the several towns and
cities for the use of the several school committees therein ; and shall
receive, preserve or distribute all state documents in regard to pub-
lic schools or education, and receive and arrange in his office reports
and returns of school committees; shall investigate the condition and
efficiency of the system of popular education in this state ; shall pur-
sue such a course for the purpose of awakening and guiding public
sentiment in relation to the practical interest of education as may
seem to him best and the nature of the duties of the office will per-
mit ; and shall annually, on or before the third Wednesday in June,
1874] Chapter XLIII. 303
lay before the general court a printed report, containing such a con-
cise abstract of the returns of the school committee as he may deem
useful, a detailed report of his own doings and the condition and
progress of popular education in the state, and such suggestions and
recommendajtions in regard to improving the same as his information
and judgment may dictate; and shall discharge such other duties as
may be assigned him by law.
Sect. 3. The school committee of each town shall, before the first ?*^'^°?^ commit-
-1T7 11 r- A •■! 11 • 1 ' t /.-. tees to report to
Wednesday oi April, annually transmit to the superintendent of pub- him, what and
lie instruction a copy of the report by them presented to the town at
its annual meeting, and answers, according to the forms provided, to
all such questions as may be proposed by said superintendent of
public instruction, relating to the appropriations of school money re-
ceived, the studies pursued in the schools, the methods of instruction
and discipline adopted, the condition of school-houses, and any other
subject relating to schools.
Sect. 4. The school committee of any town who shall neglect to Penalty for neg-
make the return aforesaid, agreeably to the preceding section, shall tee.
be fined not exceeding fifty dollars.
Sect, 5. The superintendent of public instruction shall procure, supe"ntend-
1 I'/'i r 1 1 r- -, ^"t's report, its
under authority oi the secretary oi state, and at the expense oi the distribution,
state, four hundred copies of the report to be printed, and lay them
before the general court, to be disposed of at their discretion, one
hundred copies for the purpose of exchange with other states and
for distribution among the friends of education, and one additional
copy for each town, ward, and incorporated place having ten legal
voters.
Sect. 6. The superintendent of public instruction shall receive an His salary, ex-
annual salary of twelve hundred dollars in full for all the duties re- ^g"®®® '^^^ °^'
quired by this act, amd such additional sum for postage, stationery,
and office expenses as the governor and council may deem reason-
able; and shall occupy as an office such portion of the state house as
the governor and council may deem expedient.
Sect. 7. Chapter 84 of the general statutes, constituting a board Acts repealed,
of education, chapter 19 of the pamphlet laws of 1868, being an act
relating to teachers' institutes, and all acts or parts of acts inconsist-
ent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sect. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. on its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
304 Chaptees XLIV, XLY. [1874
CHAPTER XLIV.
AN ACT FOR PEOTECTION OF THE DUSTON MONTJINIENT AND STATUE.
SECTION I Section
1. Penalty for iujuriug monument andfence. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Person injur- SECTION 1. If any person shall wrongfully mutilate, deface or In-
s"atiie^or"fencejure the monument and statue, or either of them, lately erected on
Ene'of'^$5oo,ortl^G island at the mouth of Contoocook river in Boscawen, to corn-
six months im- niemorate the heroic deed of Mrs. Hannah Duston and her associ-
both. ates, and now owned by the state; or shall mutilate, deface, injure
or remove any fence or structure about said monument, he shall be
punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding six months, or both.
Act takes effect Sect. 3, This act shall take effect from and after its passage,
on its passage. [-App,oved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER XLV.
AN ACT TO SEVER JOHN ROWELL AND OTHERS FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT NUM.
BER one in DEERFIELD ANTD annex THEM TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NIHVIBER
THREE EST NOTTINGHAM.
Section I Section
1. Homesteads disannexed. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened, :
Farms and in- SECTION 1. That the farms of John Rowell, Martha Cilley, John
habitants of Maloon, Meshech Maloon and Phineas Smith, and so much of Col-
nexedto Not- cord Wiiislow and Dudley and Anderson's farms as lie in Deerfield,
schooUng. together Vvdth the inhabitants of said town living upon the same and
their taxable property, shall be, and hereby are, severed from school
district number one in said Deerfield and annexed to school district
number three in the town of Nottingham, for the purpose of school-
ing.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
onitspassage. its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874]
Chapter XLVI.
CHAPTER XLVI.
305
AN ACT TO mCOEPORATE THE LO^VELL AND WINDHAM RAH,ROAD.
Section
1. Corporation formed; its powers, rights
anrl liabilities.
2. May build a railroad; where.
3. Capital stock; officers; road may be
mortgaged and leased.
4. Powers and duties of the directors.
Section
5. Corporation may make by-laws.
C. First and second meetings, when and by
whom called and what may be done.
7. Act void, when.
8. Act subject to amendment or repeal ; takes
effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rcprese7itatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That James A. "Weston, Cyrus H. Latham, Francis corporation
Jewett, Daniel Marshall, William C. Harris, David Butler, Simeon j^^gijJt^'^'p^o'^'^ers
D. York, Kichard B. Hillman, George S. Neal, John Gage, Moody «»^^'Jii=;]^yi\itie^
Hobbs, Asa D. Butler, John Woodbury, George PI. Currier, Charles
Smith, their associates and successors, be, and they hereby are, made
a body corporate by the name of the Lowell and Windham Railroad,
with all the rights and privileges, liabilities and duties, by the laws
of this state incident to railroad corporations, and necessary and
proper to carry into effect the purposes of this act.
Sect. 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized and empow-May build a
ered to locate, build and maintain a railroad not exceeding six rods gt^teime^nPei-
in width, with necessary additions for cuttings, embankments and !j^™j^**'j..||j^o;*j
depots, from any point on the line between the states of New Hamp- "^ wimUiam.
shire and Massachusetts, aud between the towns of Pelham and Dra-
cut, to any point in the town of Windham, in New Hampshire, and
to connect with the Nashua and Rochester Railroad.
Sect. 3 The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed capital stock
the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, nor be less than the sum feiVto b'e*chos-
of one hundred and fifty thousand, and may be divided into shares ^^^^^^J^^^^^Jl'^gg
of not less than one hundred dollars each: and the immediate "»d, lease the
government and direction of the affairs thereof shall be vested in
not more than seven, nor less than three, directors, a majority of
whom shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall
be chosen by ballot by the stockholders at their annual meeting, and
shall hold their office for the term of one j^ear, and until others are
chosen in their stead; said directors shall choose one of their num-
ber for president, who shall also be president of the corporation.
They shall appoint a clerk, who shall be sworn to perform the duties
of his office, and a treasurer, who shall give a bond to the satisfac-
tion of the directors, each of whom shall hold their office one year,
or until others are appointed and qualified in their stead. A toll is
hereby granted to the corporation for their benefit, on all passengers
and property which may be transported on said road, at such rates
as may be fixed upon by the directors in accordance with the laws of
the state. The capital stock of said corporation may be increased
by the directors from time to time, to such amount as may be required,
not exceeding in the whole the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars, and said corporation may issue its bonds or obligations se-
road.
306 Chapter XLVI. [1874
cured by mortgage of its road, and at such rate of interest as may be
determined by the corporation, to an amount not exceeding one half
of its capital stock; and said corporation may lease its road to any
railroad corporation in this state, for such time, and on such terms
as may be deemed expedient by its directors.
Powers of the Sect. 4, The president and directors for the time beins: are
diTGctors
authorized and empowered by themselves or their agents to exercise
all the powers hereby granted to the corporation for the purpose of con-
structing and completing their railroad, and for the purpose of trans-
portation of persons, goods and merchandise thereon, and all such
other powers and authority for the management of the affairs of the
corporation, not heretofore granted, as may be necessary and proper
to carry into effect the object of this grant, to purchase land, mate-
rials, engines, cars, and depot buildings, and all other things necessa-
ry for said road, in the name of the corporation; to make equal
assessments from time to time on all the shares of said corporation, in
the progress of the work, and direct the same to be paid to the
treasurer, and the treasurer shall give notice of said assessments ; and
if any subscriber shall neglect for sixty days after such notice to pay
his assessments, the directors may order the treasurer to sell his
share or shares at public auction, due notice thereof being given, to
the highest bidder, and the same shall be transferred to the pur-
chaser; and such delinquent subscriber shall be held accountable to
the company for the balance, if his share or shares shall sell for less
than the assessment or assessments due thereon, and interest and
costs of sale; and such subscriber shall be entitled to the surplus, if
there be any ; iirovided, no assessment shall be laid on any share for a
greater amount than the original par value in the whole on each
share; and if a greater amount of money shall be necessary to com-
plete said road, it shall be raised by creating new shares.
Corporation Sect. 5. Said Corporation shall have power to make, ordain and
hw^s.^'^^ ^^' establish all such by-laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances as they
shall deem expedient and necessary to accomplish the designs and
purposes, and to carry into effect the provisions of this act, not
repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state.
First meetin"-, Sect. 6. Any two of the grantees may call the first meeting of
how called; ^r^\^ corporation by advertising the same in the Nashua Telegraph,
may admit , i - ~ , . . " ,
associates, and printed at Nashua, two weeks, at which meeting associates may be
when $iO 000 ^ . . . .
subscriptions admitted, and subscription papers issued, and when twenty thousand
other^^meetins dollars bona-fide subscription shall be obtained, the par value of the
e^ect^^cers'^"*^^ ^^^^'^'^^ having been fixed upon at this meeting by the grantees, the
*<5- said grantees shall call a meeting of said subscribers or stockholders,
by publishing a notice of the same, two weeks, in the aforesaid
Nashua Telegraph, at which meeting or any adjournment thereof,
by-laws may be adopted, the number of directors fixed upon and
chosen, and all other business transacted to carry into effect the
object of this corporation.
Act void unless Sect. 7. If Said corporation shall not have been organized, and
$15,000 shall spent the sum of fifteen thousand dollars towards the construction of
have been ex- ^ i ^ n ^ n i r -r k t\ i c^o i •
pended Jan. 1, said road, before the first day or January, A. D. io7o, this act
shall be void.
1874] Chapters XLVII, XLVIII. 307
Sect. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage; and ^^'^^^J^bjec^' to
the legislature may alter, amend or repeal the same at any time the repeal; takes ef-
O *> ^ ^ *■ • IGCt OH Its pRfi-
public good may require it. sage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER XLVII.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MANCHESTER AND LAWRENCE RAILROAD TO
BUILD A BRANCH IN MANCHESTER.
Authorized to build and lease a branch.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad be, and Line of track;
hereby are, authorized to locate, construct and maintain, in accord- nect with other
ance with existing laws, one or more branch tracks in Manchester, [g^g^^^^^ ™^^ ^®
from some point on the line of the Manchester and Lawrence Rail-
road southerly and westerly of the dwelling-house of C. W. Barker,
Jr., extending in a northerly direction, and easterly of Pine street,
to some convenient point southerly of Auburn street, with authority
to cross and connect with the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad, and
to lease such branch track to the Concord Railroad Corporation or
the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad. And this act shall take ef-
fect on its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER XLVIIL
AN ACT IN RELATION TO FINES AND FORFEITURES IMPOSED BY POLICE COURTS.
Section | Section
1. Fines in police courts to go to towns. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the police court Fines in police
r ' . , . 1 11 1 T • 1 • courts to goto
01 any city or town in this state shall belong to said city or town. towns.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. ^nits'passagef
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
508
Chapters XLIX, L.
CHAPTER XLIX.
[1874
AJS^ ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER FORTY-TWO, SECTION ELEVEN, OF THE
GENERAL STATUTES.
Section
1. Vacancies in city council to be filled by
new election.
Section
2. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convetied :
city^councii to SECTION 1. Ill case a vacaucy shall happen in the board of alder-
be filled by new men or common council in any city in this state by death, resigna-
tion or otherwise, the remaining members of such board shall call a
new election in the ward in which such vacancy shall have occurred,
to fill the same.
Repealing Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
takerefect on^^^'^^Y repealed, and this act shall take effect from its passage,
its passage. [Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER L.
AN ACT TO SEVER THE HOMESTEAD FARM OF RUSSELL UPTON AND BENJAMIN
F. EASTMAN FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER TEN IN WARREN, AND ^VNNEX
THE SAME TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER THREE IN SAID WAP^EN, FOR
SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Section
1. Homestead disannexed.
2. Tax of 1874 to go to district to which farm
is annexed.
Section
S. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Homestead dis- SECTION 1. The homestead farm and taxable property thereon of
annexed. Russell Upton and Benjamin F. Eastman is hereby severed from
school district number ten in Warren and annexed to school district
number three in said Warren.
Tax of 1874 to Sect. 2. The school tax assessed April 1st, 1874, upon said home-
whiSi^ firm is Stead farm and upon the personal estate and polls of said Upton and
Eastman, shall be transferred and assigned to the use of said school
district number three, and held and used by them for school pur-
poses in the same manner as if said homestead farm had been a part
of said school district number three when said tax was assessed.
Acttakes efl'ect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
onus passage. J" Approved July 7, 1874.]
annexed.
1874] Chapters LI, LII. 309
CHAPTER LI.
AN ACT TO DISANNEX THAT TART OF THE HOMESTEAD FARM OF DUDLEY C.
LITTLEFIELD LYING IN SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, IN THE TOWN OF
GREENLAND, FROM SAID DISTRICT, AND TO ANNEX THE SAME TO DISTRICT
NUJMBER TWO IN THE TOWN OF STRATHjV]\L
Section I Section
1. Part of homestead disannexed. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That so much of the homestead farm of Dudley C. Lit- fteaddisaSx-
tlefiekl as lies in school district number one in the town of Green- ed.
land, with the inhabitants of said town living on the same, and their
taxable property, shall be, and hereby is, disannexed from said school
district number one in Greenland and annexed to district number two
in the town of Stratham, for the purpose of schooling.
Sect. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. o^nits^plLage*^*
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LII.
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ENUMERATION OF CHILDREN IN CITIES AND
TOWNS.
Section
1. Selectmen and assessors to annually take
a census of children and report to school
conunittee.
Section
2. School committee to state the number so
reported in their annual report.
3. Rei^ealing clause.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Cour^
convened:
Section 1. The selectmen of each town, and the assessors of each afslssors^to^'^'^
city, shall annually, in the month of April, make an enumeration of pii^'^i^e'jf ° g^^ ^^
the children of each sex, between the ao;es of four and seventeen, in tween 4 and n
. . ,., Till 1 .ri vears old, and
their respective towns and cities, and shall make a report oi sucn report to school
enumeration to the superintending school committee of their re-*^ ^
spective towns and cities within fifteen days after the completion of
each enumeration.
Sect. 2. The superintending school committee shall, in their an- 2];'^*^^^^ *^°"^"
nual report, state the number of children so reported by the select-
men or assessors, and the number of children of each sex between
the ages of.five and fifteen that have not attended school.
Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are ^j^^g^^^
hereby repealed.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
310
Chapteks LIII, LIV.
CHAPTER LIII.
[1874
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OP CHAPTEE TWENTY-FIVE OF THE PAMPHLET LAWS
OF 1869, RELATING TO LOCKUPS.
Section
1. Selectmen to provide lockups, on petition.
Section
2. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hotise of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Selectmen to
provide lock-
ups, on peti-
tion.
Repealing
clause ; act
takes effect
its passage.
Section 1. That chapter 25 of the pamphlet laws of 1869 be
so amended as to read as follows:
" That the selectmen of any town, upon petition of fifty or more
legal voters of said town, shall provide a suitable lockup for the
temporary detention of offenders."
Sect. 2, All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
on visions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LIV.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE TO
BORROW MONEY FOR CERT^VIN PURPOSES.
Section
I. Asylum may borrow $15,000 and give its
notes therefor.
Section
2. Trustees to provide for the payment of
notes.
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Asylum may
borrow $15,000,
and its agent
may give notes
of the corpora-
tion therefor.
Trustees to pro-
vide for pay-
ment of notes
from funds of
asylum.
Act takes effect
on its passage.
Section 1. That the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane is
hereby authorized to borrow such sums of money, not exceeding in
all fifteen thousand dollars, as the committee appointed by the trus-
tees at their late annual meeting, for that purpose, may think proper,
for defraying the expense of erecting and furnishing an addition to
its buildings, for the accommodation of patients. And the financial
agent of said corporation is authorized to give such notes of the cor-
poration for the sums so borrowed as said committee may approve.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the trustees to provide for the
payments of said notes, when payments of the same are made, from
the funds and assets of said corporation.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874]
Chapter LXV.
CHAPTER LV.
311
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE TOWNS TO RE-ESTABLISH SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN
THEIR LIMITS IN CERTAIN CASES.
Section
1. Towns having abolished school districts
may re-establish them.
2. School district property divided, how, in
towns that abolished districts.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage, but money
raised by board of education to be ex-
pended under act of 1870.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Any town which has adopted the provisions of the J,°^]J^,,j^g^^^(j^
act of July 2, 1870, entitled, " An act enablinsf towns to abolish districts may re-
.•'.'. ' . Ml 1 1 T 1 • 1 1 IT estabhshthem.
school districts in certain cases, thereby abolishing the school dis-
tricts in such town, may, at any meeting called for the purpose with-
in two years from the passage of this act, by a vote of two-thirds of
the legal voters present and voting therein, re-establish school dis-
tricts in such town, with all the rights and powers and subject to the
same liabilities as school districts in other towns.
Sect. 2. When any town shall vote to re-establish school districts when so re-es-
• 1..,.. ,, .. n ^ • 111 IT- tablish'd school
withm its limits under the provisions oi this act, all school district district proper-
property appraised and taken under the provisions of the aforesaid and^pai^d'ior at
act of July 2, 1870, which is still in possession of the town and vaiue'^or'the
used for public school purposes, may forthwith the re-appraised un- Property may
, , ,f . r 1 1 1 1 1 1- • 1 '^e divided as
der the direction oi the town and restored to the several districts, and agreed upon at
at the next annual assessment thereafter a tax shall be assessed and ' "*
paid into the treasury of the town, upon each district, equal to the
amount of the appraised value of the property thus restored to said
district; or the public school property may be divided among the sev-
eral districts and adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the
town at a legal meeting ; provided that nothing in this act shall be
construed to require an appraisal of school property in towns where
the school district property has not been taken, appraised, and the
value thereof remitted to the tax paysrs of the several districts as
provided under the act of July 2, 1870.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage; but no vote of^^^t takes effect
any town re-establishing school districts therein shall operate to pi'e-j^"tj*j passage,
vent the expenditure of school money already raised and appropriated raised underact
. . . . oi 1870 to be ex-
by the board of education of the town appointed under the provisions peudcd.
of the act of July 2, 1870.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
3U Chapters LVI, LVII. [1874
CHAPTER LVI.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION TWO, CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO, OF THE
GENERAX, STATUTES, RELATING TO HIGH SCHOOLS.
Section I Section
1. Majority vote may establish liigh school. I 2. Repealing clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Town, by a ma- SECTION 1. That section second of chapter eisrhty-two of the Gen-
jonty vote, may in- • • r- •
establish a high eral Statutes be amended by insertino; in the first line thereof, after
school. •^ o ■' ^
the word "by" and before the word "vote," the words " a major."
Repealing Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
clause. 11 IT
hereby repealed.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LVII.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF " AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OP AN ACT TO INCORPO-
RATE THE EXETER RAILWAY," PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1868, AND OF "AN ACT
RELATING TO THE EXETER RjULWAY," PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1869, PASSED
JUNE SESSION, 1870.
Section
1. Said corporation may mortgage its prop-
erty, when.
Section
2. Repealing clause.
3. Act takes efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Cowl convened :
May mortgage SECTION 1. The Exeter and Sa,lisbury Railway is hereby authorized
vrhen^*^ *2oo 000 ^^^ empowered to execute a mortgage on its franchise and other
has been sub property to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars
pended on the )$300,000), and to issue bonds on the same for a like amount, payable
in twenty years from their date, whenever there shall have been two
hundred thousand dollars of its capital stock subscribed, actually paid
in, and expended toward the construction of said railway.
Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
Repeabng , . , , '■
clause. hereby repeaied.
Act takes effect SecT. o. This act shall take effect from its passage,
on its passage. [Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874] Chapter LVIII, LIX. 313
CHAPTER LVIII.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION TWO, CHAPTER TWO, PAJMPHLET LAWS
or 1871.
SKCTION
1. Notices required by act of 1871, by whom
furnished aud paid for.
Section
•2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Se it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. Section two of chapter two of the pamphlet laws of ^'"ticesrequir'd
1 r ■^^ rrii ^^' "'" I8<1,
1871 shall be so amended as to read as follows: " Ihe school com- by whom fur-
r. , 1,11 ^ c A ^- -iT nishcd and paid
mittee or every town, and the board oi education or superintending tor.
committee of every district, shall supply the prudential committee
of every district with the notices provided by this act, and it shall be
the duty of said prudential committee to post and keep posted such
notices, not exceeding three, in the most public places in such dis-
trict, and the necessary expense of procuring such notices shall be
paid by the town or district whose committee incur the same."
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. o^uit3*passage^*
[Approved July 7, 1874 ]
CHAPTER LIX.
AN ACT TO SEVER CERTAIN TRACTS OF LAND FROM DISTRICT NUJIBER EIGHT
IN WOLFEBOROUGH AND ANNEX THE SAME TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER
FIVE ESf THE TOWN OF OSSIPEE, FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Sectiox
1. Homesteads iu AVolfeborough annexed to
Ossipee.
Sectiox
2. Act takes eflect on its passage.
Be it enacted hj the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. That the homestead farm of Samuel Wyatt, the home- several farms
stead farm of the late John Bickford, fifty acres of land owned byiand in Woife-
James Nute, called the Haley lot, about forty acres of land owned ed^'to^OsgJpee
by Charles F. Wiggin, formerly owned by Richard Beacham, Jr., de- p^^ggg';^^''^ ^"^■'
ceased, and land owned by Moses B. Beacham, containing about
twenty-five acres, being part of the homestead farm of the late Rich-
ard Beacham, be severed from school district number eight, in the
town of Wolfeborough, and annexed to school district number five,
in the town of Ossipee, for school purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take efiect on its passage. Acttakes effect
^ o on its passaee.
[Approved July 7, 1874.] ^ ^
314
Chapter LX.
CHAPTER LX.
[1874
AN ACT AUTHORIZING TOWNS TO REIMBURSE THEIR CITIZENS IN CERTAIN
CASES.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Section
I. Towns may repay to those who furnished
substitutes or paid commutation the
amount they paid more than they have
received back; votes to that efl'ect rati-
fied.
Be it enucted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Towns mar re- SECTION 1. Any town, at any annual meeting duly notified and
who furnis\?ld liolden, an article being inserted in the warrant, for that purpose,
paiif eommut*a- TO^y by vote raise and appropriate, or borrow and appropriate, money
tiievmid more^° reimburse and repay to any persons who, whether drafted or not,
than they have during the recent civil war, furnished substitutes in the military ser-
vice of the United States as part of the quota of such town, or who
paid commutation money instead of military service, as part of the
quota of such town, such sums of money as were paid by such per-
sons for said purposes more than they have received from such town,
or the state, or United States, and any vote heretofore passed by any
Jmt^efl^cfhere" town at any annual meeting duly notified and holden, an article be-
tofore, ratified, jj^g inserted in the warrant for the purpose, to reimburse or repay
to such persons such sums of money as were paid by them for said
purposes more than they have received from such town, or the state,
or United States, is hereby ratified and confirmed, and made legal
and binding upon such town and the authoi'ities thereof; provided,
Town to have howover, that no town that has voted or shall vote to reimburse or
state '^fOT "uch repay the sums paid by any persons for the purposes aforesaid, shall
ment's!"^^ hereafter have or make any claim upon the state to reimburse such
town for the sums that such town may pay to such persons in ac-
cordance with such vote.
Act takes eflfect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
on its passage. [-^pp^.^^^^ j^ly 7^ 1874.]
1874] Chapter LXI. 315
CHAPTER LXI.
AN ACT TO RATIFY CERTAIN VOTES OF THE TO^TN OF CHICHESTER IN RELA-
TION TO A FUND FOR THE ERECTION OF A HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE AND THE
SUPPORT OF A HIGH SCHOOL,
Section
1. Town authorized to borrow money for
high school ; may ratify former votes.
Section
2. Act takes eflfcct when adopted by town.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. The town of Chichester is hereby authorized to bor- to«ti may bor.
row on the credit of said town the sura of five thousand dollars for J^"J[j scuooi/so
the purpose of erecting a hisfh school house and providlnaf a fund for''^8/.<'S6,?"''e'io-
^i »o. '^ 11-1 nation Sam'l P,
the support or a high school m said town, so as to enable said towuLanymaid.
to secure the donation of five thousand dollars offered to said town
by Samuel P. Langmaid as a fund for the support of a high school
therein ; and said town of Chichester is hereby authorized and em-
powered, at any duly called and legally holden meeting, to ratify and
confirm the votes passed by said town at a legal meeting holden on Former votes
the eighteenth day of November, 18T3, in regard to raising and bor-"''^^^^^''^''"^^*^*
rowing a sum of five thousand dollars, and appropriating fifteen
hundred dollars thereof for the erection of a high school house, and
the residue as a permanent fund for the support of a high school,
and all other votes of said town on that subject passed at said meet-
ing, and all such votes of said town, when so ratified and confirmed, AUformervotes
ini Ti Ti'T •^ 11 ^'1 ,on the subject
shall be valid and binding on said town, and the notes oi the select- to be valid when
men of said Chichester, given for money borrowed in conformity with ^'^
the votes so ratified and confirmed, shall be valid and binding upon
said town.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect when the legal voters of said Act takes effect
Chichester at any legal meeting shall adopt the same. by town.'^*'^'**^
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
316 Chapters LXII, LXIII. [1874
CHAPTER LXII.
AN ACT TO SEVER A TRACT OF LAND FROM THE TOWN OF SULLIVAN AND
ANNEX THE SAME TO THE TOWN OF GILSUM.
Section i Section
1. Land in Sullivan annexed to Gilsnm. | 2. Act takes effect upon its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Land in Suiii- SECTION 1. That SO mucli of the territory of the town of Sullivan
GiSum!'^''^^ ''as is described and bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the
north-west corner of the town of Sullivan, thence south eighty-seven
degrees, east seventy rods to a stake and stones on the east bank of
the Ashuelot river, thence by the east and south bank of said river
eiffhtv-seven rods to a hemlock tree marked, on the west line of Sul-
livan, thence north three degrees, east fifteen rods to the place of
beginning, is hereby severed from said town of Sullivan and annexed
to said town of Gilsum.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
on its passage. ^ . jTi'viQ'Yfn
[Approved July 7, 1874.J
CHAPTER LXIII.
AN ACT IN ADDITION TO THE TENTH SECTION OF CHAPTER TWO OF THE GEN-
ERAL STATUTES, ENTITLED "OF APPLICATIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE," AND
TO PREVENT THE FRAUDULENT OCCUPATION OF SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF
R EPR E SENT ATI VE S .
Illegal occupation of a seat in the house j)unished. Penalty of to'mi for illegally electing.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Illegal occupa- SECTION 1. If any person shall presume to attend any session of
punisiied'\y*^'^* ^^^ legislature and to vote therein as a representative from any town
line or impris- qj- cx'vj , knowing that, by reason of the want of the requisite number
of ratable polls in said town, or in the ward of the city which he
represents, he is not lawfully entitled to a seat in the house of repre-
sentatives, or knowing that he was not legally elected a representative
of such town or Avard of a city, he shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding
$1000 forSue- two years. In case any town or the ward of any city in this state
gaUy electing. ^^ elect and send to the general court a representative when not
legally entitled to do so, or when there are not ratable polls in num-
ber sufficient to authorize the electing and sending a representative,
such town, or the city in which such ward is situated shall forfeit and
pay a fine of one thousand dollars, to be recovered by indictment for
the use and benefit of the county in which such town or city is situated.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874] Chapters LXIV, LXV. 317
CHAPTER LXIV.
AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION ONE OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-
TAVO OF THE LAWS OF 1869, RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF FISH IN BART-
LETT'S POND IN BATH.
Repeal of prohibition of fishing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the first section of the one hundred and twenty- Repeal of m-o-
second chapter of the Liavs of the year one thousand eight hundred ing!^^°° ^^
and sixty-nine, entitled " An act for the protection of fish in Bart-
lett's Pond in Bath," be and the same is hereby repealed.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXV.
AN ACT TO UNITE SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER SIX, PARTLY IN DURHjUI AND
PARTLY IN NEWIVIARKET, TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NUIiIBER ONE IN NEW-
jMAKIiET.
Section
1. School clisti'icts united.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage ; repealing
clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. School district called and known as district number school districts
six, lying partly in Newmarket and partly in Durham, is hereby an- ^°'^®'^-
nexed to and made a part of school district number one in said New-
market, for school purposes.
vSect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its Act takes effect
passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act arcrepeaimy^''^^'
hereby repealed. clause.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
318
Chapters LXVI, LXVIL
CHAPTER LXVI.
[1874
AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO OF THE LAWS
OF 1869.
Section
1. Encampments and parades of militia sus-
pended.
Section
2. Act takes efifect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convetied :
Encampments SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter twenty-two of the laws of
and parades of 1869, suspendinc^ the operation of all acts and parts of acts then in
militia sua- „ '^, . '-' ■^, „,-^. .,.. ,
pended. lorce requiring an annual encampment oi the active militia, and an-
nual parades of the military companies in the month of May, and on
one other day previous to the annual encampment, and providing for
any payments of money for or on account of the performance of any
duties with reference to said encampments and parades, are hereby
extended for the term of five years from and after the first dav of
July, 18T4.
Act takes effect Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage,
on Its passage. J" Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXVIL
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION SIX OF CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE OF THE
GENERAL STATUTES, IN RELATION TO UNIFORMS, ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS,
ORDINANCE AND GUN-HOUSES OF THE MILITIA.
Section
1. Rent of armories and gun-houses limited.
Section
2. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Rent of armo
ries and gun
Section 1. The necessary expense for the rent of an armory for
houseTiimited. each volunteer company of infantry, not exceeding one hundred dol-
lars a year, and for an armory and gun-house of each company of ar-
tillery, or section of a battery, not exceediiig one hundred and fifty
dollars a year, shall be allowed by the governor and paid on his order,
by the adjutant-general, to the commander of such company.
Sect. 2. Section six of the eighty-ninth chapter of the General
an Statutes is hereby repealed ; and this act shall take effect from its
passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
Repealing
clause ; act
take effect
its passage.
1874]
Chapters LXVIII, LXIX.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
319
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE OF
THE GENERAL STATUTES, IN RELATION TO THE SALARIES AND COMPENSA-
TION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.
Section
1. Salary of state treasurer.
2. Repealing clause.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. The annual salary of the state treasurer shall be ^.^^^'■y °^' state
•1 1 11111 I'lini • n x^ r • ii treasurer.
eighteen hunclred dollars, which shall be m tuU lor services, clerk
hire, and all allowances of every description, in the discharge of the
duties of the office.
Sect. 2, Sections four and seventeen of chapter two hundred and Repealing-
seventy-one of the General Statutes, fixing the salary of the state
treasurer, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after on i^'^'^IL^*^'^*
its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXIX.
K
AN ACT RELATING TO HIGH SCHOOLS.
Section
1. Town or school district may contract
M'ith academy.
SECTION
2. Repealiug clause.
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Any town or school district in this state is hereby auth- J."^ o^" school
orlzed and empowered to conclude such business arrangement through conti-act with
its special committee, with the trustees of any academy, seminary or '^°'^' ^™^'
other literary institution situated within the limits of the town, as
said district or town may approve by a two -third vote of the legal
voters present and voting at any legal meeting, due notice having
been given ; and the school money of said town or district may be
used to carry out such contract. In case one of the contracting j^ar-
ties shall be a school district or union school district, then the consent
in writing of the school committee of the town shall be required be-
fore such agreement shall be in force.
Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repeaiin,
hereby repealed.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
clause.
Act takes effect
on its passage.
320
Chapter LXX.
CHAPTER LXX.
[1874
AN ACT GIVING ADDITIONAL POWERS TO THE FISH COJEMISSIOXERS, AND FOR
THE BETTER PROTECTION OF TROUT AND SUCH OTHER FISH AS HAVE BEEN
INTRODUCED INTO THE INL^i^>"D WATERS OF THIS STATE.
Section
1. Fish wardens to be appointed, ■where.
2. Duty of fish wardens.
3. Owners of boats to have them recorded by
town clerk.
Sectiox
4. Wardens to have warrants and to be
sworn.
5. Fee for recording boat.
6. Repealing clause.
Be it enacted hy tlie Senate and House of Hei^resentatives in General
Court convened :
Duty of fish
wardens.
clerk.
Fish wardens SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the fish commissioners of this
where?^°^°^ 'state to appoint one or more fish wardens in each town, bordering
upon any body of water in which trout or other fish are prohibited
from being taken during any specified times, whenever such wardens
have not been elected in said towns, the said wardens to hold their
said apiDointments until said towns shall choose such wardens or dur-
ing the pleasure of said commissioners.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of said wardens to observe and make
complaint before some justice of the peace of all infringements of
laws made for the preservation of fish, and all fines that may be re-
ceived from persons complained of by said wardens shall be paid to
the complainant in each case.
Ownersofboats Sect. 3. Every person who maybe the owner of any boat or boats
conieii by*^towu which may be used for fishing by night for the purpose of spearing
any of the fish protected therefrom by law, shall cause a record to be
made with the clerk of the town in which he may reside that he is
the owner of such boat or boats, and in default thereof, upon convic-
tion, pay a fine of ten dollars for each and every such neglect, and it
shall be the duty of the wardens as aforesaid to make complaint for
all such known default to so record as aforesaid, and the fine or fines
as shall be imposed shall be paid to the complainant warden.
Sect. 4. The said wardens so appointed by this act shall receive a
warrant from said commissioners, and shall be sworn to the faithful per-
formance of their duty in the same manner as warrant officers of a
town.
Sect. 5. The fee of the town clerk for recording the name of any
owner of a boat or boats shall be the sum of twenty-five cents, and
no more.
Sect. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
Wardens to
have warrants
and to be
sworn.
Fee for record-
ing boat.
Repealin
clause.
1874]
Chapter LXXI,
CHAPTER LXXI.
321
AN ACT FOR THE BETTER TKOTECTION OF SAVINGS BANKS AND SAVINGS BANK
DEPOSITORS.
Section
1. Trustees to examine bank, and repoi't to
bank commissiouers ; report to be pub-
lished.
2. When bank is kept with national bank, the
treasurer to procui-e ccrtilicate of direc-
tors that they examined national bank at
same time.
3. Neglect of treasurer, proceedings in case
of.
4. Penalty for embezzlement or false entry
by officer of savings bank.
5. Guaranty fund to be created.
6. Rate of interest and dividend fixed.
7. Funds and ijroperty to be kept separate
from assets of other banks or individuals.
Section
8. Stocks held as collateral to be reported to
town where owner resides.
9. Deposits not to be invested in railwa)' or
manufacturing stock.
10. Wlien assets are less than deposits a
judge and the bank commissioners on
petition of the trustees to divide loss
among depositors.
11. When assets fall below ninety per cent, of
deposits proceedings to be taken without
petition.
12. Repealing clause.
13. Act takes effect on its passage-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. The trustees of the savings banks in the state shall Tmstees to ex-
make a thorough examination of the affairs of their respective banks an!}" rep^o^-^' to
once in every six months, and banks having an average deposit ex- g^Jjj'^j.g?*'™™'^^
ceeding the full sum of five hundred thousand dollars, every Janu- '« be published,
ary, April, July and October, and a report of such examination,
signed by a committee of the trustees, be returned to the bank com-
missioners, and a copy of said report shall be published by the bank
in a newspaper in the place where such bank is established ; or, if
there be no newspaper at such place, then in a newspaper published
at the nearest place thereto.
Sect. 2. Where a savings bank is operated and kept in the same when bank is
office Avith a national bank, the treasurer of said savings bank shall ^y^uaibauk, the
procure, upon the semi-annual or quarterly report, a certificate, made JfTOcm-e^ertifl-
under oath by a committee of the directors of the national bank, that cate of direct-
1 , 111 • ^ 1 • • f.ors that tliev
they, upon the same day and at tlie same time oi the examination oi examined na"-
the savings bank, required by the preceding section, did make an ex- sa'me time,
amination of the aiFairs and securities of the national bank, and found
them to be correct.
Sect. 3. In case the treasurer of anv savins^s bank shall nesflect, ^'egiect of
r- .-[ r ii • T (••11 -n --111 ti-eaasui-er,pi
tor the space ot thirty days, to lurnish the certificate required by theceedingsinca
preceding section, it shall be the duty of the bank commissioners, by ^'^^
a notice in writing duly served, to require such treasurer to appear
before them, at a time and place to be specified in said notice, and
show cause why such neglect has happened. If no sufficient cause
be shown, or if, such cause being shown, such treasurer shall fail to
furnish such certificate within a time to be fixed by the commission-
ers, it shall be their duty to proceed immediately and remove "the
savings bank from the office of the national bank, and if such treas-
urer is also cashier of such national bank, to remove him from his
office as treasurer ; all which said commissioners are hereby fully
authorized and empowered to do.
pro-
case
322 Chapter LXXI. [1874
Penalty for em- Sect. 4. Any officer of any savings bank in this state who shall
ftfise^^entry by ©nibezzle, abstract or wilfully misapply any of the moneys, funds or
P^cer ot sav- credits of the bank, or shall make any false entry in any book, report
or statement of the bank, with intent in either case to injure or de-
fraud the bank, or any company, body politic or corporate, or any
individual person, or to deceive any officer of the bank, or any com-
mittee or examiner, appointed to examine the affairs of any such
bank, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars ($20,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding ten years.
Guaranty fund Sect. 5. Every savings bank shall annually pass to the credit of a
to be created, guaranty fund, a sum equal to ten per cent, of its net earnings for
the year, until such guaranty fund shall amount to a sum equal to five
per cent, of its actual deposits.
Rate of interest Sect. 6. Savings banks shall not pay their depositors interest at a
aucuiividend greater rate than five (5) per cent, annually, but may divide any un-
impaired surplus that may have accrued every two (2) years, and
shall do so every five (5) years ; and whenever any savings bank
shall have an unimpaired guaranty fund, as required in section five,
it may divide its net gains annually.
Funds and Sect. 7. Savings banks in this state may deposit funds in national
property to be banks in oQod credit and unimpaired capital, the same as any deposi-
from assets oftor; but all coin, bills, notes, bonds, securities and evidences of debt,
iudividuaisf ^^ Comprising the assets of said savings bank, shall be kept separate and
apart from the assets or property of any other bank, banker, corpo-
ration, partnership, individual or firm, and bank officers failing to
comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable to be re-
moved by the bank commissioners, as provided in section three.
stocks held as Sect. 8. All stocks subject to taxation in this state, standing in the
couaterai to be name of any savings bank, but held as collateral security, shall be
reported to ,.-',.'--', , , i i i
town where reported With its owner s name by the treasurer, under oath, to the
assessors of the town where its owner resides, if within this state,
otherwise to the town where the corporation is lox^ated.
Deposits not to Sect. 9. No savings bank shall hereafter invest any part of its de-
be invested, &e. posits in the stock of any railway or manufacturing corporation.
Sect. 10. Whenever the assets of any savings bank shall be re-
areiess'thtiude- duced ill value below the total amount of deposits, any judge of the
and%fe "'bank Supreme or superior court, in connection with the bank commission-
on'^^petttion^^of®-'^^^' shall, on the written petition of a majonty of the trustees or
the trustees to directors, reduce the deposit account of each depositor, so as to di-
among deposi- vide sucli loss equitably amongst the depositors; provided, however,
if the bank shall afterwards realize from the assets a greater amount
than that fixed upon by the judge and bank commissioners, the
amount so realized shall be equitably divided and credited to the ac-
counts of the depositors which had been thus reduced, but to the
extent only of such reduction.
When assets Sect. 11. Whenever it appears to the bank commissioners that the
fall below nin£- assets of any savings bank are reduced below ninety per cent, of the
deposits pro- deposits, it shall be the duty of said commissioners, in connection
taken without with a judge of the supreme or superior court, of their own motion,
petition. J.Q pi-oceed as provided in section ten.
1874] Chapters LXII, LXXIII. 323
Sect. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act areg«P«^"°e
hereby repealed.
SecT. 13. This act shall take effect from its passage. onlSs^a^e'
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXII.
AN ACT TO SEVER CERTAIN TERRITORY FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER
FOURTEEN IN THE TOWN OF CANAAN, AND ANNEX THE SAME TO DISTRICT
NUMBER NINE IN THE TOWN OF :^FIELD, FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Section
1. Territory in Canaan annexed to Enfield
for schooling.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That the homestead farm of the Moses W. Emerson Tenitory in ca-
estate, a tract adjoining belonging to Thomas B. Morgan, to ' Enfleid for
and the farm of Joseph J. Follansbee, adjoining the same, be, and the ^°^*'°^"®"
same are hereby, severed from school district number fourteen in
Canaan, and annexed to school district number nine in Enfield, for
school purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. onits'passage^*
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXIII.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSESSMENT AJ!^D COLLECTION OF A STATE TAX.
State tax of $400,000 ordered, payable December 1, 1875.
Be it enacted hy tJie Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The sum of four hundred thousand dollars shall be ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ig^..
raised for the use of the state, and shall be assessed, collected aii^ |^e'(?i^f87|
paid into the treasury on or before the first day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five ; and
the state treasurer is hereby directed seasonably to issue his warrant
to the selectmen of the several towns and places, and to the assessors
of the several cities in this state, according to the apportionment of
public taxes made June session, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two ; and the selectmen of such towns and places, and the
assessors of such cities, are hereby rec[uired to assess the sums speci-
^^4 Chapter LXXIV.
[1874
fied in said warrant, and cause the same to be paid to said treas-
urer on or before the first day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five ; and the state treasurer
IS hereby authorized to issue his extents for all the taxes which shall
then remain unpaid.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXIV.
AN ACT m REFERENCE TO THE BONDS 0*F THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Sectiox
1. Bonds may be returned to ti-easurer and
registered.
2. Coupons to be removed and interest to be
paid on order of registered bolder.
Section
3. Registered bonds maybe transferred by
endorsement, or by wi-iting filed with
treasurer, to take effect when registered.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hovse of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Bonds may be SECTION 1. That any holder of one or more of the coupon bonds
returned to , p • -, •, -, p -k-t -r-r i •
treasurer and heretoiore issued by the state of New Hampshire, may return the
same to the state treasurer, whose duty it shall be to cause such bonds
to be registered in the office of the state treasurer in suitable books
prepared for that purpose.
Coupons to be Sect. 2. The state treasurer shall remove the coupons from such
removed and ^ . iSniiii
interest to be bonds and Cancel the same, and the interest on such bonds shall be
registered hold- payable Oil the written order of the holder of the same as registered
in the office of the state treasurer or of that of his legal attorney, at
the end of each six months from the date thereof,
bonds'^ma b Sect. 3. Such boiids shall be transferred by writing indorsed on
transferred by the back of such boiid, siafued by the party transferrins: the same or his
endorsement or 1 i^, i .9 . •' ^ .^ •'^ ,9 r-ii
by writing filed legal attorney, or by writing signed by such party or his attorney, tiled
to\ake^effect^^'i^i the office of the state treasurer; and such transfer shall take effect
when register- Q^ly when such transfer shall have been duly registered on the books
kept in the office of the state treasurer.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
1874] Chapters LXXV, LXXVI. 325
CHAPTER LXXV.
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE TBIES AND PLACES OF HOLDING THE PROBATE
COUIITS IN THE COUNTY OF C^UtllOLL.
SECTION
1. Times and places of holding courts chang-
ed.
2. All matters in said courts to be heard at
new times and places.
Section
3. Repealing clause.
i. Act takes eflect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate a7id House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Courts of probate shall be holden annually for, the ?'/™|^ '');JJ.'*jjqj^_
county of Carroll at the times and places followinor : At Conway on i"ff courts
the first Tuesday of January, May and September; at West Ossipee
on the first Tuesday of February, June and October ; at Ossipee
Corner on the first Tuesday of March, July and November ; at
Wolfeborough Junction on the first Tuesday of April, August and
December.
Sect. 2. All matters now pending in said courts, and returnable at aii matters in
Tam worth, shill be heard at West Ossipee, and all at Wolfeborough be Va*iNi at new
at Wolfeborough Junction. l^lf^
Sect. 3. Section one of chapter forty-six of the pamphlet laws ofRepeaUng
eighteen hundred and seventy-two is hereby repealed.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Act takes effect
i- o on itspassasre.
[Approved July 8, 1874.] ^ ^
CHAPTER LXXVI.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Section
1. Aiding escape, harboring, or employing
planished.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Se it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. If any person shall in any manner aid or abet any boy Aiding escape,
or girl held in the reform school by legal authority to escape there- emptying puxi^
from, or shall conceal, harbor or knowingly employ any such boy or i^hed.
girl committed to the reform school, and not discharged therefrom,
the person so offending shall on conviction thereof pay a fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the common
jail for a term not exceeding thirty days.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 8, 1874.] on its passage.
326 Chapters LXXVII, LXXVIII. [1874
CHAPTER LXXVII.
AN ACT EST AJEENDMENT OF CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO OF THE PAMPHLET LAWS OF
1873, RELATEJ^G TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF STATE PUBLICATIONS.
Section I Section
1. Publications furnished to libraries. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
furnii*ifed°to U- SECTION 1. That section one of chapter fifty-two of the pamphlet
brarjes. laws of 1873 he so amended as to reqiure the secretary of state to
send to the library associations therein referred to one copy of the laws,
one copy of the journals of the senate and house, and one copy of each
of the annual reports of state officers, and no other publications.
onltsvalBage^ Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO COURTS IN BELKNAP COUNTY.
Section
1. AU terms to be held in Laconia, and rec-
ords kept there.
Section
2. Repealing clause.
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
All terms to be SECTION 1. That all terms of court for the county of Belknap shall
held in Laco- r i ^ ^ t ' t •• • iin-»
nia.and records hereaiter be held in Laconia, in said county, and that all writs, peti-
tions, appeals, recognizances, and all other processes now made or
pending and returnable at Gilford, shall be returnable at the
courts hereby provided to be held at Laconia, and all records now by
law kept at said Gilford, shall hereafter be kept at said Laconia.
Repealing Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.
^„*^i*i^^oLt^f * Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
itspassage. j-^^^^^^^^ j^j^ g^ ^g^^^
1874]
Chapters LXXIX, LXXX.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
327
AN ACT TO SEVER THE HOMESTEADS OF TIIOINIAS M. NELSON AND WILLIS A.
SMITH FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT NUftlBER SEVEN IN BATH, AND ANNEX THE
SAJNIE TO SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE IN MONROE.
Section I Section
1. Homesteads in Bath annexed to Monroe. • 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The homesteads of Thomas M. Nelson and Willis A. Homesteads in
Smith of Bath, and the taxable property thereon, are hereby severed to' Monroe.
from school district number seven in Bath, and annexed to school
district number one in Monroe, for school purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passaere. Act takes effect
i^ o on its passaerCa
[Approved July 8, 1874.] ^ ^
CHAPTER LXXX.
AN ACT TO PROTECT SMELTS IN MEASLEY POND IN MEREDITH, IN GREAT SQUAJM
IjAKE, and in all STREAMS FLOWING INTO SAID WATERS, AND IN ALL
THE TRIBUTARIES OF THE WINNIPISSEOGEE RIVER, AND THE LAKES THROUGH
WHICH SAID RIVER FLOWS AND TAIiES ITS RISE.
Section
1. Smelts protected.
2. Penalty for violation of this act.
Section
3. Complainant to receive fine.
4. Repealing clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. No person or persons shall take, in any manner, nor atsmeits protect-
any season of the year, any of the fish known as smelts, in any of *'^^'
the streams flowing into Measley pond, in the town of Meredith, or
into Great Squam Lake, nor in any of the tributaries of Lake Win-
nipisseogee, or the lakes through which the river Winnipisseogee
flows, for manurial purposes, but only for human food.
Sect. 2. Any person convicted of a violation of this act shall bepg^^ityforvio-
fined not less than twenty-five dollars, or sentenced for a time not J^^'^o^^of'^'^s
less than sixty days in the common jail for each offence.
Sect. 3. The complainant in any case under this act, shall be en- complainant to
titled [to], and shall receive the fine or fines paid by the person by "^^"^^i^® ^"®-
him complained of.
Sect. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby j^g g^u^g
repealed. clause.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
328
Chapters LXXXI, LXXXII.
CHAPTER LXXXI.
[1874
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION FOUR, CHAPTER THIRTY.SEVEN, OF THE
LAWS PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1873, IN RELATION TO THE PROPORTION OP
PUBLIC TASES REQUIRED TO BE PAH) BY THE TOWN OF MEREDITH.
Sectioit
1. Meredith's proportion of public taxes.
2. State and county treasurers to abate por-
tion of tax of 1874.
Section
3. Repealing clause ; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Meredith's por- SECTION 1. That sectioii f OUT of chapter thirty-seven of the laws
taTto^be^^s^go! Passed June session, 1873, be amended by striking out the words
" four dollars and forty-two," occurring in the third line, and insert-
ing in the place thereof the words " three dollars and ninety," so
that it shall read " the proportion which the town of Meredith shall
pay shall be three dollars and ninety cents."
state and conn- Sect. 2. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to abate from the
^aJte''^5T cents ^^'^^^ ^^^ assesscd against said town of Meredith for the year 1874,
for each $1000 the sum of fifty-two cents for every thousand dollars of the state tax,
Or stutf* tix foi* *^
1874. ' amounting in all to the sum of two hundred and eight dollars ; and
the treasurer of the county of Belknap is authorized to make a pro-
portional abatement from the amount of county tax to be paid by
said town for the year 1874.
Repealing Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
takereffect on of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its
Its passage. passage.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXXII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY RAILROAD.
Section
1. Coii^oration organized.
2. May build a railroad, and branch, where ;
may connect and lease.
3. Capital stock; may issue bonds and mort.
gage road.
Section
4. Toll granted; powers of directors.
5. First meeting, by whom and how called.
6. Act to be void, when; takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hoiise of Representatives in General
Cowl convened :
Corporation or- SECTION 1. That Joseph W, Campbell. Samuel X. Bell, Charles
gamzeci. Greenleaf, Joseph A. Dodge, [Albert Barnard,] William K. Parks,
Joseph Cook, David Saunders, Mahlon D. Spalding, Asa P. Cate,
Joseph P. Pitman, Nathan H. Weeks and John D. [E.] Lyon, their as-
sociates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a corporation by the
187-i] Chapter LXXXII. 329
name of the Pemlgcwasset Valley Railroad, with all the rights, pow-
ers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, duties and restric-
tions set forth in the general laws, which are now or hereafter may-
be in force, relating to railroad corporations.
Sect. 2. Said corporation is authorized and empowered to locate, rfjij^road"' '^ana
construct and maintain a railroad, not exceeding six rods in width, branch, where;
., ,,..-, . Ill ^ r "lav connect
With necessary additions lor excavations and embankments, irom some and lease,
convenient point on the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, in
Plymouth, to some convenient point in Franconia, and with authority
to extend a branch up the valley of the Mad river and up the east
branch of the Pemigewassett river to the height of land dividing
the waters flowing into said Mad river, and said east branch on
the west, from the waters flowing into the valley of the Swift
river and the valley of Sawyer's river on the east, with the
right to connect with the Littleton and Franconia Railroad, and the
White Mountain and Franconia Turnpike Company, and with author-
ity to maintain a narrow guage railroad, and to lease its railroad to
said Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, on such terms and for
such time as may be agreed upon by said corporations.
Sect. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of not Capital stock;
1 1 nitlV 198116
more than twenty thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, andboridsand
said corporation may issue its bonds secured by mortgage of its road °'°
to an amount not exceeding one-half of that amount of its capital
stock which shall be actually expended at the time of the issue of such
bonds.
Sect. 4. A toll is hereby granted to said corporation upon all per- tou granted;
sons and property which may be transported by said railroad, at such rectors.
rates as may be from time to time determined by its directors ; and pij-st meeting,
all the powers granted to said corporation, relating to the locating, }^^^^a2.ed ^^^
constructing and maintaining said railroad, are hereby vested in the
directors of said corporation for the time being.
Sect. 5. The three persons last named in this act may call the Act to be void,
first meeting of the grantees of said corporation by publishing notice ^ct® ou'it's'^p
of the time and place of meeting in some newspaper published in the ^^sq-
county of Grafton, one week at least before the day of said meeting.
Sect. 6. This act shall be void as to all parts of said railroad that
shall not be constructed within ten years from the passage hereof,
and this act shall take effect on its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
ef-
pas-
330 ^ Chapter LXXXIII, LXXXIV. [1874
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
AN ACT TO SEVER THE FARM OF ANDREW J. HEATH FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT
NIBIBER TWO IN PITTSBURG, AND ANNEX THE S^OIE TO SCHOOL DISTRICT
NUMBER FOUR IN THE TO^VN OF CLARKSVILLE.
Sectiok I sectiok
1. Farm in Pittsburg annexed to Clarksville. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Jam in^P^tS| SECTION 1. That the farm of Andrew J. Heath be severed from
Clarksville. ' school district number tv/o in Pittsburg, and annexed to school dis-
trict number four in Clarksville, for school purposes.
in\tsvtls%T Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage.
[Approved Julv 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NEW
PROPORTION FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC TAXES," APPROVED JULY
4, 1872.
Section
1. Portion of state and county tax of Mason
and Greenville abated.
Section
2. Repealing clause ; act takes eflect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Portion of state SECTION 1. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to abate from
tax ''of ^Mason ^he State tax to be paid by the towns of Mason and Greenville for
f^J^Gfeenviiie the years 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1876, four cents for the town of
Mason, and six cents for the town of Greenville, in every thousand
dollars of the state tax.
The treasurer of the county of Hillsborough is also authorized to
make a proportional annual abatement from the amount of county
tax to be paid by said towns of Mason and Greenville during said
time.
Repealing Sect. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
t.ake8 effect on hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from its passage,
its passage. [Approved July 9, 1874.]
1874]
Chapters LXXXV, LXXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXXV.
331
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE COLLECTION OF TAXES.
Section
1. Collectors to pay over money monthly,
and submit list for inspection.
Section
2. Penally fbr violation of act.
8. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted h\j the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Every collector of taxes shall, on the first Saturday of Collectors to
.- ' 1 1 • 11 ^ 1 pay over money
eyery month, pay into the town treasury all moneys by nim collected monthly, and
up to that time, and shall submit his tax book and list to the treasurer hWpection.
of said town for his inspection and computation.
Sect. 2. Any collector or treasurer neglecting or refusing to per- Penalty for vio-
form the duties prescribed by the preceding section shall pay a fine
of one hundred dollars for each neglect or refusal, to the treasury of
the town where the offence is committed.
Sect. 3. This act shall take efiect from its passage. Act takes effect
^ ° onitspassage.
[Approved July 9, 18^4.]
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
AN ACT mCORPOBATmO THE SWIFT RIVEE RAILROAD.
Section
1. Corporation organized.
2. May huild a railroad ; its location.
3. Capital stock.
Section
4. Toll granted; po-«vers of directors.
5. First meeting, by whom and how called.
6. Actvoid,when; takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
road.
Section 1. John G. Sanborn, Otis Warren, George T. Crawford, conioration or-
*^1111Zt*Q
John W. Sanborn, Charles A. Brotton, "William H. Allen and Daniel'''
Saunders, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby made a
corporation by the name of the Swift River Hailroad, with all the
rights, powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, duties
and restrictions set forth in the general laws, which now, or hereafter
may be in force, relating to railroad corporations.
Sect. 2. Said corporation is authorized and empowered to locate. Location ot rail-
construct and maintain a railroad, not exceeding six rods in width,
with necessary additions for excavations and embankments, from some
convenient point in the town of Conway, for connecting with the
Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway Railroad, westerly and northerly
up the valley of the Swift river, through the town of Albany, in
Carroll county, to the height of land dividing the waters flowing into
Mad river and other tributaries of the Pemigewassett river, in the
town of Waterville, or Allen's or Elkins' grants, in the county of
Grafton, from the waters flowing into said Swift river.
332 Chapter LXXXVII. [1874
Capital stock Sect. 3. The Capital stock of this corporation shall consist of not
.' * more than five thousand shares of one hundred one dollars each.
dh-ectorf-^''^o^ Sect. 4. A toll is hereby granted to said corporation upon all per-
ers granted to sons and property which may be transported by said railroad, at such
rates as may from time to time be determined by the directors ; and
all the powers herein granted to this corporation, relating to the lo-
cating, constructing and maintaining said railroad, are hereby vested
in the directors of this corporation for the time being.
First meeting, Sect. 5. Any three of the persons named in this act may call the
whomcaiied.^^fii'st meeting of the grantees hereinbefore named, by publishing no-
tice of the time and place of meeting in the Granite State News, a
paper published at Wolfeborough, in Carroll county, two weeks be-
fore the day named for such meeting.
Actvoicl,^Then; Sect. 6. This act shall be void as to all that part of the railroad
Uspassage* ^" ^^^^ herein named, not constructed and completed within ten years
from the passage thereof, and this act shall take effect upon its pas-
sage.
[Approved July 9, 18T4.]
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
AlSf ACT FOR THE TxVXATION OF SWINE.
Sectiok I Section
1. Swine to be taxed ; exemption. ' 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Swine to be tax. SECTION 1. That selectmen or assessors, in taking the inventory of
family "exempt^ personal property, shall include all swine over six months old, and
^^- levy a tax thereon according to their value ; but in the appraisal two
such animals to each family shall be exempt from taxation.
Act takes effect Sect, 2. This act shall take effect from its passage,
on its passage. [Approved July 9, 1874.]
1874] Chapters LXXXVIII, LXXXIX. 333
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
AN ACT TO SEVER CERTAIN FARMS FROM DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE AND ANNEX
THE SAME TO DISTRICT NUMBER THREE IN THE TOWN OF ROLLINSFORD.
Section
1. Homesteads teiusferred from one district
to another.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That the homestead farms of John H, Wentworth and Homesteads
Joseph D. Roherts of Rollinsford are hereby severed from school from^^one' die-
district number five, and annexed to school district number three, for ti'it^'^to'^'iother.
school purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 9, 1874.] onits passage.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
AN ACT TO SEVER THE FARM OF JACOB ABBOTT FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT NUIVI.
BER SEVENTEEN IN OSSIPEE AND ANNEX THE SAME TO SCHOOL DISTRICT
mJMBER TWENTY IN SAID TOAVN, FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Farm changed from one district to another.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Section 1. That the farm of Jacob Abbott is hereby severed fromFj,j.„j^ changed
school district number seventeen in the town of Ossipee, and annexed j!'?"^ ^^^ ^^'
, , ,. . . . . , ^11 trict to another.
to school district number twenty in said town, lor school purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
334 Chapters XC, XCl. [1874
CHAPTER XC.
AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF FISH IN ELISHA GOODWIN'S POND IN NEW
DURHAM.
Section
1. Fishing prohibited ; penalty.
2. Act not to apply to owners of land around
pond.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Jiepresentatwes in General Court
convened:
ftea^^^alii^^ Section 1. That all persons are hereby prohibited from taking any-
fish from Elisha Goodwin's pond in Ncav Durham; and any persons vio-
lating the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of five dollars
for each and every fish taken.
Actnotto apply Sect. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent those
land around who are owiiers of land around said pond from cultivating or taking
^^^ ■ fish from the same in any manner most convenient.
^nitB^passag? Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER XCI.
AN ACT relating TO THE TEMES OF HOLDING THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
IN THE WESTERN JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE COUNTY OF GRAFTON.
Section
1. Terms of court changed.
2. Actions and processes to be as of new
terms.
Section
3. Repealing clause.
4. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Terms to be SECTION 1. That the Supreme judicial court for the western judi-
Tuesdays of cial district of the county of Grafton, now by law held on the third
■tember?'^* ^^^'" T^iesday of March and the third Tuesday of Sej^tember annually,
shall hereafter be held on the fourth Tuesday of March and the
fourth Tuesday of September annually.
All actions to Sect. 2. All actions and processes now pending or hereafter
\tvmB. °^ *^^^^ brought shall be as of the terms held on the fourth Tuesday of March
and the fourth Tuesday of September respectively.
Repealing Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
clause. hereby repealed.
Act takes effect Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage,
onitspassage. [Approved July 9, 1874.]
1874] Chapters XCII, XCIII. 335
CHAPTER XCII.
AN ACT TO SEVER CERTAIN TERRITORY FROM DISTRICT NUMBER ELEVEN IN
THE TOWN OF IIOPKINTON AND ANNEX THE SAME TO DISTIUCT NTJMBER
ONE IN THE TOWN OF WAHNER.
Section
1. Territory changed from one district to
another.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1, That the Silas Hardy premises, so called, situated in Territory
Warner, be, and are hereby, severed from district number eleven in o'^^e°|fg^tj.icrto
Hopkinton and annexed to district number one in Warner, for school '^""'^'i^^-
purposes.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 9, 1874.] on its passage.
CHAPTER XCIIL
AN ACT IN AMENTDJIENT OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DOVER.
Section
1. Dividing line between wards one and two
defined.
2. Line between wards two and tliree defln-
ed
3. Line between wards three and four de-
fined.
SECTION
4. Number of aldermen and councihncu in
each ward.
5: Number of school committee in each ward.
6. Repealing clause.
7. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The dividing line between wards one and two in said Dividing line
city, instead of the dividing line heretofore established, shall here- one and two de-
after be as follows: Commencing at the centre of the bridge which ^°^'^'
crosses Cocheco river, and known as the Fourth-street bridge, thence
southeasterly following the centre of Fourth street to Chestnut street,
thence northeasterly in the centre of Chestnut to Sixth street, thence
southwesterly in the centre of Sixth to Franklin street, thence north-
erly in the centre of Franklin to New York street, thence easterly in
the centre of New York to Charles street, or EoUinsford road, so
called, thence across said road to the north corner of land formerly
belonging to the H. Evans estate, thence on the said Evans estate to
the Boston and Maine railroad, thence northeasterly to the line of the
town of E-ollinsford ; and all the territory between the above de-
scribed line and the present line between said wards shall be severed
from ward two and annexed to ward one.
336 Chapter XCIIL [1874
Line between Sect. 2. The dividing line bet^veen wards two and three in said
tiiree detined"'^ ^^ty' ii^stead of the dividing line heretofore established, shall here-
after be as follows : Commencing on the southerly side of the old
channel of the Cocheco river at the point where the Portsmouth and
Dover railroad crosses the same, thence running easterly in a direct
line to the south-west corner of land of Dennis Grady, thence east-
erly on his southerly line to his south-east corner on Green street,
thence across said street to the north-west corner of the S. D. Gil-
man estate, thence easterly in a direct line to the south-east corner of
the Levi Brown estate on Fayette street, thence easterly across Fayette
and down the centre of Orchard street to Central street, thence south-
erly down the centre of Central street to the north-west corner of land
of James D. Townsend, thence easterly and southerly on said Towns-
end's northerly and easterly line to his south-east corner, thence south-
easterly to the south-west corner of land of John Hanghey, thence
easterly to his south-east corner on George street, thence across said
street and south-easterly down the centre of Sonnett street to Hanson
street, thence north-easterly in the centre of Hanson to Payne street,
thence south-easterly down the centre of Payne street to the present
boundary line between wards three and four ; and all the territory
between the above described line and the present line between said
wards two and three shall be severed from ward three and annexed
to ward two.
Line between Sect. 3. The dividing lines between wards three and four in said
and four de- city, instead of the dividing line heretofore established, shall here-
'^^*'' after be as follows : Commencing on the line of the town of Mad-
bury, south of the point where the Boston and Maine railroad crosses
the same, and at the point where a branch of the Bellamy river
crosses the same, thence easterly down the centre of said river to a
point opposite the south-east corner of Sawyer's upper mill, so called,
thence in a direct line to the Dover Point road at the north-east corner
of the farm occupied by William F. O'Neil, thence northerly follow-
ing the centre of the Dover Point road to the junction of said road
with the road leading by the pound to Mount Pleasant ; and all the
territory between the above described line and the present line be-
tween wards three and four shall be severed from ward four and an-
nexed to ward three.
1 . f , Sect. 4. At the next annual election of the city council the first
dennenaud and fourth wards of said city shall choose one alderman and two
each ward. members of the common council respectively; and ward two three
aldermen and six members of the common council ; and ward three
three aldermen and six members of the common council ; and such
shall continue to be their respective representation in the city council.
Number of Sect. 5. At the ncxt annual election of the school committee, and
tee in eacb all subsequent elections of the same, wards one and four shall choose
ward. jjj^g member each, and wards two and three two members each of
said committee, and the term of office of said committee shall be the
same as now provided.
Repealing Sect. 6. So much of chapter sixteen hundred and ninety-nine of
cause. ^j^g pamphlet laws of 1855, entitled "An act to establish the city of
Dover," and of chapter eighteen hundred and sixty-six of the
pamphlet laws of 1856, entitled "An act in amendment of an act
1874] Chapter XCIV. 33T
to establish the city of Dover," and of chapter one hundred and
thirteen of the pamphlet laws of 1869, entitled "An act in amend-
ment of the charter of the city of Dover, in relation to school dis-
tricts," and of chapter fifty-four of the pamphlet laws of 1872, en-
titled "An act in amendment of an act entitled 'an act in amendment
of the charter of Dover, in relation to school districts,' " and all
other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, are hereby repealed.
Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passai^e. Act takes effect
^ ^ on its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.] ^ ^
CHAPTER XCIV.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO CHAPTEE SIXTY-SEVEN OF THE GENERAL
STATUTES, IN RELATION TO REPAIRS ON HIGHWAYS IN UNINCORPORATED
PLACES,
Section
1. Lands in unincorporated places liable for
repairs of higliways.
Section
2. Repealing clause ; act takes effect on its
passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. That section second of chapter sixty-seven of the Gen- Lands inunin.
eral Statutes, relating to repairs on highways in unincorporated places, places iiabie for
be amended so as to read as follows : "The owners of lands lying in waysr °^^'^^
a body, surrounded in whole or in part by towns or places liable to
repair highways therein, shall pay to the county the expenses of mak-
ing and repairing the highways within such lands, except such part
thereof as the county is ordered to pay under the provisions of the
next section." ^
Sect. 2. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, ^lau^l^ft
and this act shall take effect on its passasre. ^^^^^ ^ff*"^* *^
PA TTirw-inwjn "^ Its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
338
Chapters XCV, XCVI.
CHAPTER XCV.
[1874
AN ACT TO AJEEND SECTION THIRTEEN OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY
OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, ENTITLED "SALE, REPAIRS AND MODIFICA-
TIONS OF MEETING HOUSES."
Section
1. Tliree-fourths of the pew-holders voting
may remove or repair meeting-house.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by tJie Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
may^bfre?'"'"" SECTION 1. That the thirteenth section of chapter one hundred and
repaired" by a ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ General Statutes be amended by inserting after the word
tiiree-fourths "votc/' in the second line, the words "of those present and voting,"
holders. SO that said section may read as follows :
"At such meeting, the pew-holders, by a three-fourths vote of
those present and voting, may determine to make such removal, re-
pairs or changes as they may deem advisable, and appoint agents to
Pews liable for carry their votes into effect, and the pews or other interest of any pew-
in said house, and any estate connected therewith, shall be
liable as hereinbefore provided in the case of repairs made by a ma-
jority of the proprietors for his proportion of the expenses of such
removal, repairs or changes, which proportion shall be determined by
the selectmen on application to them for that purpose, unless the
pew-holders at such meeting unanimously agree upon a committee for
that purpose."
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
exiDenses of re- Virklrl/^r
niovalorre- -liu^u^i
pairs; select-
men to deter-
mine propor-
tion.
Act takes effect
on its passage.
CHAPTER XCVI.
AN ACT TO SEVER THE TOWN OF DANBURY FROM GRAFTON COUNTY AND AN-
NEX IT TO MERRIMACK COUNTY.
Section
1. Danbury annexed to Merrimack county.
2. Suits pending to be determined in Grafton
county.
3. Town to pay its proportion of the debt of
Grafton county; referees to decide in
case of disagreement.
Section
4. County paupers ft-om Danbury to be sup-
ported by Merrimack county.
5. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Danbury an- SECTION 1. That the town of Danburv, in the county of Grafton,
nexed to Mem- , jii- -> r ' -, -, -, ^
mack county, be, and hereby is, severed from said county, and annexed to the county
of Merrimack ; and said town is hereby made part of such coun-
cillor and congressional districts as now embrace the entire county of
Merrimack.
1874] Chapter XCVI. 339
Sect. 2. All suits now commenced by or acrainst any person in said suits pending
• • to 1)G UGtemi-
town shall be returnable in the same manner as if this act had not been inea in Grafton
passed; and all suits and prosecutions now pending in any court in^"'^"^'
said county of Grafton in favor or against any person in said town,
shall remain therein and proceed there to final disposition.
Sect. 3. Said town shall pay its just proportion of the debt of the ^^^/^^^^jP^^I'^
county of Grafton, and in the determination of that proportion, the t''e'lebtofG^af-
^ /• 11 r- n -1 11 1 1 • ton county ; ref-
valuc 01 property now bclong[ingJ to said county shall be taken into erees to decide
the account, and in case of disagreement as to said proportion, Daniel greoment.
Clark, Samuel N, Bell and Clinton VV. Stanley, all of Manchester,
shall be a board of referees to determine the same, upon the request
of either party ; and in no case shall said town be compelled to con-
tribute more towards defraying the present debts of either one or both
of said counties than if it had remained in Grafton county ; and it
shall hereafter be assessed and pay its county tax in Merrimack county.
Sect. 4. Such portion of the county paupers of Grafton county as County pau-
have come to it from said town, shall be taken and be supported by bury to be sup-
Merrimack county, and in case of any disagreement in relation thereto, ri^a^ck county!
it shall be settled by the aforesaid referees.
Sect. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are ^^epeaiing
1 1 11 11* iiii'f- r • clause ; act
hereby repealed, and this act shall be m force from its passage. takeseffect
[Approved July 10, 1874.] onlte passage.
340
Chapter XCVII.
CHAPTER XCVII.
[1874
AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE PRESENT JUDICIARY SYSTEM AND ESTABLISH A NEW
ONE.
Section
1. Superior court of Judicature, and circuit
court established.
2. Jurisdiction of the circuit court
3. Jurisdiction of the superior court of judi-
cature.
4. The cliief or senior justice or justices of
the circuit court may sit in any cause in
which a justice of the superior court is
disqualified to sit.
5. Trial terms to he holden by the circuit
court, bxit may be holden by one or more
justices of either the circuit or the supe-
rior court.
6. Law terms to be holden by the superior
court, except as provided by section four.
7. Grand and petit jurors to be dra^vn for at-
tendance at the terms of the circuit court.
8. Que^ions of law reserved, and excep-
tions and writs of error brought from the
circuit to the superior court.
9. Appointment of clerks, clerks to give
bond, clerks of supreme judicial court
to officiate until new clerks appointed.
Writs, &c., returnable at terms of the
circuit court to bear teste of the chief
justice thereof. Writs of en-or and other
process returnable at superior court to
bear teste of tlie chief justice of that
court.
Section
10. Writs, process, &c., transferred from trial
temis of the supreme judicial- court to
the circuit court.
IL Writs, process, &c., transferred from law
terms of the supi-eme judicial court
to the superior court.
1'2. Records and files of supreme judicial court
to be transterred to the custody of the
superior court. Clerks of superior court
may certify copies thereof. Superior
court may issue and amend process
tliereon. Superior court may send issues
of fact to the circuit court for trial.
13. Superior and circuit court may send caus-
es and issues of fact to referees for trial.
Proceedings of referees and reports and
compensation thereof.
14. Every judge who sits in a cause shall fur-
nish to state reporter his separate opin-
ion at or before the close of the term at
which the same is delivered.
15. Salaries of the judges.
16. Repealing and modiiying clauses.
17. Act to take effect from and after Aug. 17,
1874.
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Superior court SECTION 1. From and after the time when this act takes effect, in-
and ^drcult^''^^*'' stead of the supreme judicial court heretofore existing, there shall
Mshecf ^'''^'^" ^® established in this state a superior court of judicature, consisting
of one chief and two associate justices, to be appointed and commis-
sioned as prescribed by the constitution ; also a circuit court, to con-
sist of one chief and two associate justices, to be appointed and
commissioned in the same manner.
Jurisdiction of Sect. 2. Said circuit court, and the justices thereof, shall have
court!^^*^^* jurisdiction of all actions, appeals, process and matters and things
whatsoever, both civil and criminal, now provided by law to be entered
at or done, and which may be entered at or done, at the trial terms
of said supreme judicial court, and also concurrent jurisdiction with
the justices of the superior court of judicature of all matters and
things which may now be done by any of the justices of said supreme
judicial court in vacation.
Jurisdiction of Sect. 3. Said Superior court of judicature, and the justices thereof,
court of jud'ica- ^hall have jurisdiction of all other writs, process, appeals, and mat-
ture. ters and things whatsoever, of which said supreme judicial court now
has jurisdiction, and also full power and authority to do any act in
vacation which the justices of said supreme judicial court or any one
of them may now do.
1874] Chapter XCVII. 341
Sect. 4. Incase of the disqualification of one or more of the J'If. '^H',ff,.''^„ _
X ntililO JUhllOG OI
iustices of the superior court of iudicature to sit in any cause, or in the circuit court
case any such justice may have tried any cause at the term oi the causo in which
circuit court, the chief or senior justice or justices of the circuit superior court
court not disquaUfied, and who has not tried the cause, shall sit in [o ^j^j"*'!"''^^^^*^'^
said cause, and is hereby empowered so to do.
Sect. 5. The trial terms of said supreme judicial court, as now j^"^,\^*^j^^ ^*y
established by law in the several counties, shall hereafter be called ^'^° '''^'f"'}
r ^ •• 111111111 court, but may-
End known as terms ot the circuit court, and shall be held by some.be hoWen by
one or more of the justices of said circuit court, or may be held by justices of eith-
some one or more of the justices of said superior court of judica- the' superior ^^
ture ; and the justices of said superior court of judicature are hereby ^°"^'*-
empowered to hold any of said terms.
Sect. 6. The law terms of said supreme judicial court, as i^ow ^'^j^^j'^"^^''''^.}^!
established by law, shall be called and known as terms of said su- superior court,
perior court of judicature, and shall be held by the justices of said vided by sec-
superior court of judicature, except as provided in the fourth section
of this act.
Sect. 7. Grand and petit iurors shall be drawn and returned '{"™''^*5'^®„^
'^ . '> . . , drawn for at-
to attend the terms of the circuit court in the same manner as is now tendance at the
,,, r.i •! />! • ^■ • 1 terras of the cir-
requireci by law tor the trial terms oi the supreme judicial court. cuit court.
Sect. 8. Questions of law arising at any term of the circuit court Questions of
may be transferred by the presiding justice to the superior court of and exceptions
judicature for their determination. And any person aggrieved by ror brou'?h't ^^'
any opinion, ruling, direction or judgment of the circuit court, or of [g°jh"^gjjpg^|;^Q*
any justice holding a term of said court, may allege exceptions thereto court.
in writing at the same term, which exceptions, being conformable to
the truth of the case, shall be signed by the presiding justice and
become part of the record in the cause. And writs of error may be
sued out upon the records of any judgment of the circuit court re-
turnable at the superior court of judicature.
Sect. 9. One clerk of the courts of each county shall be appointed Appointment
by the joint action of the justices of said courts, and shall be re- clerks to' give
movable at their pleasin-e. He shall give bonds and perform all the suprem^e'^'^^^ud'i-
duties of clerk of both courts, as the clerk of the supreme ji^idicial^|!j|g°^Jj"°°^
\court is now required to do. And until said justices shall appoint ^erks appoint-
^id clerks, and the same are duly qualified to enter upon the dis- returnable at '
charge of their respective duties, the clerks of said supreme judicial cTiYt^cmirt to*'"^'
coUyrt in the several counties shall act as clerks of the superior court cMeVfustice*'^^
of ii;dicature and circuit court in their respective counties, and do "J*'^"®'-*' '^^^f
r \ ,. 11 1 1 • • • 1 1 • . rt> °f error and
and periorm all the duties incident to their respective offices. All"ther process
writs aiTid other process returnable at the terms of the circuit court superior court
shall b^ar teste of the chief justice of said court, and be issued iu the the'cluef'fustioe
name of that court. All writs of error and other process returnable °^ "^''^' ^'^^^'
at the superior court of judicature shall bear teste of the chief justice
thereof.
Sect. 10. All writs and process heretofore issued, and all precepts, Y^^^l' Process,
T ,.^ ,. 1- T ,, '■ , ^. ' &c., transferred
recognizances and proceedings or every kind returnable at the trial ft-omti-iai terms
terms of said supreme judicial court in any county, shall be taken to jluiickifcourt to
be returnable at the corresponding terms of the circuit court next to
be holden in said counties after this act shall take eJEFect. And all
causes and proceedings now pending upon the trial dockets of said
the circuit
coui't.
342 Chapter XCVn. [1874
supreme judicial court, shall be heard and tried at the corresponding
terms of the circuit court.
Writs, process, Sect. 11. All writs and process of every kind heretofore issued,
from law terms returnable at the law terms of said supreme judicial court, shall be
^^cLicourrto f ^^^^ ^o ^^ returnable at the corresponding terms of the superior
ftesBperior court of judicature next to be holden after this act shall take effect.
And all causes and proceedings now pending upon the law dockets
of said supreme judicial court, shall be heard and determined at the
Corresponding terms of the superior court of judicature. And the
justices of said superior court of judicature shall do and perform all
the duties now required by law to be done and performed by the
justices of said supreme judicial court, except such as are required
to be done and performed by this act by the justices of said circuit
court.
^cordsand Sect. 12. All records and files of said supreme iudicial court, and
judicial conrttooi every court which has neretotore existed in this state, which are
to the rastodj-now in the custody and under the control of said supreme judicial
cot;^;cre?k? of court, shall be in the custody and under the control of said superior
mar certifT'''^ court of judicature, and the clerk thereof may certify copies of the
copies thereof; same. And the superior court of iudicature may issue writs of exe-
Eupenor court . •^•jni ^ ^
may issue and cution, scire lacias, and all other proper process thereon, and may
tiiereon .^"^p^ amend the same as if they had been originally files and records of
eend'^i^e^^jY^^id court. And said superior court of judicature shall have power
CTit «)^ ^""'to send to the circuit court for trial by jury any issue or issues of fact
triaL that may be allowed in said superior court of judicature, the verdict,
when found, to be certified back to said superior court of judicature.
&iperiorand Sect. 13. The superior or circuit court, or anv iustice thereof, at
arcait court in • r ' i • i
may send the trial term, shall commit to one or more referees, to be appointed
causes and is- , , . . t • i i ■ i
eues of fact to by such court or justice, any cause pending in such court which may
trial; proceed- be by law triable by a jury, or the determination of any question of
JJJ^f'j^J^I^I fact which is not by law triable by a jurj^, or any cause which may
compensation require an extended examination of accounts, books or vouchers,
which for any reason cannot be conveniently tried by a jury or in
court, unless it shall be made to appear to such court or justice that
it is inexpedient to make such reference. Said referee or referees
may hold sessions for the trial of any cause committed to him or them
at such time and place as may be convenient, under the direction of
the court by which the cause was referred. Said referee or referees
shall proceed in all cases, unless the parties otherwise agree, accord-
ing to the rules of law or of equity, as the case may be, and according
to the practice in court, and shall report his or their decision as soon
as may be to the court by M'hich the cause was referred, stating
specifically his or their rulings upon all questions of law, and stating
all matters of fact found proved by him or them, if either party shall
request. All reports of said referee shall be revised or recommitted
by the court to which the same may be returned, or judgment may
be rendered thereon, which judgment shall be final and conclusive.
In all cases referred without the consent of the parties, wherein they
are by law entitled to a trial by jury, the same may, at the request of
either party, be tried by jury after the report of the referee has been
made, in the same manner and with the same limitations as in the
case of the report of an auditor ; and upon such trial by jury said
15T4] Chaptex XCTTL 545
repDrr shiH l-r evidence cf all the facts rii-te-d therein, riz^jir-cz to l-e
their s-errices and exp>en.>es i:: eich ca.-as-e jn:h lomr'ens.i.tiin is ni"
t>2xt tiifercoi. to i>e piiu. t;v tne couXttr in "^ZlICZ^ tne c^'^i-e is 7*^"^' '"- '■■ '^' ?j
or to be taxed in £iTor of eitber pozty as pait of the ia-g«^>l^» costs in
the cause.
Sect. 14. At eveiy law tenn, each judge wlio atsin a cause shall J
deliTer his separaie opinion, statii^ die g;roands ^bexeoi farieAy^ ; and 1
all the opinions so delivered shall be fbnmhed to the reporter at or*
before the dose of sodi law term, and be poblidied in the reports^
Sect. 15. The annnal saLny of the chief jostice of said snperiorg*^™"
court of jndicataie shall be twoit^-lbar hundred dollars, and that
of each jostioe of said court and of said orcuit court shaD. be
twenty-two hundred dollars, to be paid quaiierlj £rom the state
tzeasmy.
Sect. 16. All laws hereto&re passed whidi establish or continue ]
in existence a supreme judicial court, and proTide for justices cf 5aM
court, and all acts and parts of acts whatsoever, inconst 5 ten: ~
proTisions of this act, are hereby repealed, ndifle £ ' ' ~~
force for the proper transaction of budn^ in the s
court, shall be taken to be in £arce in said sup^ : :
ture and circuit court, so £ar as the same mar nc: r
the provisions of this act.
Sect. 17. This act shal' :^ - ^ _i^ =:-
after the seTenteenth dajo: ;^ u,
the justioes of said courts Lr
commissioned before that tiniT
[ApproTed July 10, 1874.]
]U
Chaptee XCVIII.
CHAPTER XCVIII.
[1874
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A RAILROAD POLICE AND THE BETTER PROTECTION
OF PASSENGERS UPON RAILRO^iD TRAINS AND AT RAILROAD STATIONS.
Section
1. Employes of railroads to be appointed po-
lice officers. Tenure of office.
2. Copy of record of appointment to be filed
with town and city clerks.
3. Officers of railroad police to wear a badge,
except when on duty as detectives.
4. Powers and duties of such officers.
5. Noisy or disorderly passengers may be ar-
rested, detained and committed without
warrant.
6. Loiterers about station-houses, grounds,
&c., may be fined if remaining after re-
quest to leave.
Section
7. No person to be ejected from the cars for
non-payment of fare, except at a passen-
ger-station. Railroad police may arrest
a passenger for non-payment of fare, &c-
8. Compensation of railroad police officers.
Liable for official misconduct.
9. Power of railroad police officers to cease
upon notice filed with town and city
clerks in which notice of appointment
has been filed.
10. Act takes efl'ect upon its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
^a?oads^to^be SECTION 1. The selectmen of any town, or the mayor and alder-
appointed po- men of any city, may, upon the petition of any railroad corpoi'ation
tenure of office, having a passenger station within the limits of such town or city, ap-
point as many of the employes of said company as they may deem
proper, police officers, to act as railroad police, for the purposes and
with the powers hereinafter set forth. Such police officers shall hold
their offices during the pleasure of the selectmen, or mayor and alder-
men, by whom they ai'e appointed, unless their powers shall be termi-
nated as provided in section nine.
S'app^o^intment Sect. 2. A copy of the rccords of the appointments of any rail-
to be filed with road police officer shall be filed by the clerk of the corporation, upon
town and city r . . . J . i i i i A^ ,
clerks. wnose petition such order is made, with the cJerk oi each town or
city through or into which such railroad runs, and in which it is in-
tended that such police shall act ; and the filing of such order shall
constitute the persons named therein railroad police within such towns
or cities.
Officers of rail- Sect. 3. Every officer of the railroad police shall, when on duty,
wear a badge, exccpt as detectives, wear a metallic badge in plain view, with the
duty'^ar^fetec^ words "railroad police" and the name of the corporation for which
tives. ]^g jg appointed, inscribed thereon.
Powers and du- Sect. 4. Officers of the railroad police may preserve order within
ties of such offi- 111 • -1 1 r 1
cers. and about the premises and upon the cars oi the corporation upon
whose petition they are appointed ; they may arrest, without a written
warrant, all idle, intoxicated, or disorderly persons frequenting such
premises or cars, and obstructing or annoying, by their presence or
conduct, or by profane or indecent language or behavior, the travel-
ing public using the same, and all persons committing thereon any
oftence known to the laws of this state, and may take the persons so
arrested to the nearest police station, or other place of lawful deten-
tion in the county where the ofience is committed ; and for this pur-
pose they may carry the persons so arrested to the next railroad sta-
tion at which the train on which they are traveling stops, although in
another county, and detain them there until the next passenger train
1874] Chapter XCIX. 345
goes to the county Avherein the offence was committed, on which they
shall be carried back to be taken to said police station or other place
of lawful detention. The persons so arrested shall be discharged or
taken before a court of justice to ansAver for their offence within
twenty-four hours after their arrest.
Sect. 5. Whenever any passenoer upon a railroad train behaves in Noisy or disor-
a noisy or disorderly manner, any railroad police officer may arrest gcrs may be ar-
,. ., . ,1 1'i.i.uu rested, detained
him without a written warrant, and remove him to the baggage car .,,,,1 committed
of such train, where such officer may confine him until the arrival of warrTut?^'"*^"^
the train at some station where he can be placed in charge of an of-
ficer Avho shall take him to a place of lawful detention.
Sect. 6. Whoever, without right, loiters or remains within any ^j^J-fJ^^^^^^^a^e^g*
station-house of a railroad company, or upon the platform or grounds si^»»j8^&c- .^
adjacent to such station, after being requested to leave the same by remaiuing after
any railroad police officer, shall be punished by a fine of not less than leave.
two, nor more than twenty, dollars.
Sect. 7. No railroad corporation shall eject any person from its No person to^be
cars for non-payment of fare, excepting at some passenger station on cars for non-
its road. Officers of the railroad police may arrest any passenger re- [are?^lxcept at
fusing to pay his fare, and may dehver him into custody at any feg- gtatfoT''"'^'^
ular passenger station.
Sect. 8. The compensation of all railroad police shall be paid by the Compensation
\ . . , '- . , • i. 1 of railroad' po-
corporations upon whose petition they are respectively appointed, uce officers;
And such railroad police shall be liable to parties aggrieved, for cfJi'j^is^con'?
any official misconduct, to the same extent as police officers of towns *^"°'-
and cities are liable.
Sect. 9. Whenever any corporation shall cease to require the ser- roaTpoUce^offi-
vices of any of the railroad police appointed upon its petition, it ^p^^ "^^ftice.
may file a notice to that effect in the several offices in which notice
of such appointment was originally filed, and thereupon the power
of such officers shall cease.
Sect. 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage. f *'l^il^?.5^'''
■'- J. I— I upon Its ptio-
[Approved July 10, 1874.] sage.
CHAPTER XCIX.
AN ACT TO EQU^VLIZE THE APPRxVISAL OF PROPERTY FOR THE ASSESSMENT
OF TAXES.
Section
1. Oath to be taken by selectmen and as-
sessors.
2- Assessors to estimate value of property
every fourth year.
Section-
3. Penalty for violation of this act.
4. Repealing clause; act takes effect on its
passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The selectmen and assessors of the several cities and oathtobetaEen
towns in this state, shall take and subscribe upon the copies or origi-^y^fJlg^eg'^ors.
346
Chapteh C.
[1874
Assessors to
appraise all
taxable proper-
ty in Sept. 1875,
and in every
fourth year
thereafter, and
taxes to be
based thereon.
Penalty forvio-
laflon ol this
act.
Repealing
clause; act
takes effect on
its passage.
nal invoices and assessments of both resident and non-resident taxes,
furnished by them to the town clerks in their respective cities and
towns, to be recorded in said clerks' records, the following oath,
which may be subscribed before any justice of the peace or notary
public:
*' We, the selectmen and assessors of
do solemnly swear that in making the invoice for the purpose of
assessing the foregoing taxes, we appraised all taxable property at its
full value, and as we would appraise the same in payment of a just
debt due from a solvent debtor. So help us God.'*
Sect 2. The assessors and selectmen of the several cities and towns
in this state shall, in the month of September, 1875, and in the same
month in every fourth year thereafter, make a careful examination
and estimate of the value of all the real estate in their respective
cities and towns for the purpose of equalizing the value thereof, and
the assessment and taxes of the subsequent years thereafter shall be
based upon such valuation, subject to such changes as may occur from
year to year. The county commissioners of the several counties shall,
in the same manner, examine and appraise the real estate in all un-
organized towns and grants as a basis for taxation in such towns and
grants.
Sect. 3. Any assessor or selectman who shall be convicted of will-
ful violation of any of the existing laws for the appraisal and taxation
of property, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than
five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the common jail not less
than three nor more than twelve months, or by such fine and impris-
onment both.
Sect. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on its passage.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER C.
A>t ACT TO 8ECUEE PURITY IN THE ADMlKlSTPtATlON OF LAW.
Section
1. Judges not to hear ex parte statements.
2. Parties making such statements guilty of
contempt.
Section
3. Such statement ground for continuance
with costs.
4. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Judges hotto SECTION 1. No iudffe, lustice or masristrate in whose court or be-
statements. fore whom any suit at law or in equity, or other proceeding, is pend-
ing or to be heard or tried, shall listen to any statements in regard
thereto, except in open court, or in the presence of all parties thereto.
Parties making Sect. 2. Any person who shall make any statements in regard to
meuts guilty of the merits of any such cause, suit or proceeding, to any judge, justice
contempt. ^^ magistrate, except in open court, or in the presence of all parties.
1874]
Chapter CI.
347
shall be deemed guilty of contempt of court and fined not less than
fifty dollars.
Sect. 3. Any such statement, if made by a party to such suit or
proceeding, shall be the ground for a continuance thereof with costs.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
Such Btatement
jcrouiul for con-
tinuance with
costs.
Act takes effect
on its passage.
CHAPTER CI.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE NASHUA AND LOWELL AND THE BOSTON AND
LOWELL RAILROAD CORPORATIONS TO UNITE AND BECOME ONE CORPORA-
TION.
Section
1. Nashua and Lowell and Boston and Low-
ell railroad corporations may unite.
2. Certilied copies of votes for that purpose
to be filed in the secretary of state's office .
Sectiox
3. Takes effect upon its passage; subject to
repeal and amendment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1 . The Nashua and Lowell railroad corporation is hereby Nashua and
authorized to unite with the Boston and Lowell railroad corporation i}os\on and
on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by ^o^rpolations^**
said corporations at meetings of the stockholders thereof, duly called "^'"'5' "i^i^*
for that purpose ; and upon such union being formed, and a corporate
name adopted, by vote of said stockholders, the corporation thus
formed shall become entitled to, and hold and enjoy, all the franchises,
powers, privileges, property and rights of every kind belonging to
said Nashua and Lowell and Boston and Lowell railroad corporations,
and shall assume and become subject to all the duties, debts and liabil-
ities of the same ; provided that the capital stock of said corporation
formed as aforesaid, shall not exceed the amount of the present capital
stock of the aforesaid corporations ; and provided further, that the cor-
poration, formed as aforesaid, shall not, by virtue of this act, have
or enjoy in this state any rights, powers, or privileges not held and
enjoyed by said Nashua and Lowell railroad corporation under the ex-
isling laws of the state of New Hampshire ; and nothing in this act
shall be construed as authorizing the consolidation of the Boston
and Lowell railroad corporation with any other railroad in this state,
except said Nashua and Lowell railroad corporation.
Sect. 2. Whenever said corporations shall vote to unite as pro- Certified copies
vided in this act, copies of the votes of the stockholders forming such filed iu the sec-
union, certified by their respective clerks, shall be filed in the office of officZ °^^'^**'^
the secretary of state.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and may be Act takes effect
amended, altered or repealed whenever, in the opinion of the legisla-subje^cUore?^'
ture, the public good shall require it. ^^^^^'
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
848 Chapter CIL [1874
CHAPTER CII.
AN ACT IN AJIENDMENT OF SECTION EIGHTEEN OF THE TENTH CHAPTER OF
THE GENERAL STATUTES, IN RELATION TO THE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE,
Section
1. Committals to asylum.
2. Duty of trustees.
3. Duty of superintendent.
SECTION
4. Coroner's inquest on patient suddenly de-
ceased.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rcprese7itatives in General
Court convened :
qiLreTto^com- SECTION 1. No persoH shall be committed to the asylum for the
™i'- insane without the certificate of two reputable physicians that such
person is insane, given after a personal examination made within one
week of the committal ; and such certificate shall be accompanied by
a certificate from a judge of the supreme court, or court of probate
or mayor, or chairman of the selectmen, testifying to the genuineness
of the signatures and the respectability of the signers.
piSe hS'^ Sect. 2. Some one of the board of trustees of the asylum shall,
vie\ys to pa^- without prcvious noticc, visit that institution, at least twice every
tients;may dis- ,i i • • ii • • i • i
charge pa- month, ancl^ givc suitable oppoi'tumty to every patient therein, who
tients, or order i • v x i x !• • • j. j.\. j. i x* ^
change of treat- Kiay oesire it, to make to him, in private, any statements such patient
ment. may wish to make, and, whenever in his opinion it may be deemed
proper, he shall call to his aid two other members of said board, who
shall with him make a further examination of such patient and of the
statements by him made. If, in their view, the cause of commitment
no longer exists, or a further residence at the asylum is not necessary,
it shall be their duty to discharge such patient. Should they deem
the treatment of any patient injudicious , they shall order such an im-
mediate change of the same as to them seems proper ; and in case of
failure to secure it, they shall at once summon a meeting of the whole
board, whose duty it shall be to take such measures as the exigency of
the case demands.
WuSrS Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish
tieuts\iid ^^ stationery to any patient who may desire it, and transmit any letter
ietters"t IJ?^^^ ^^^^^ patient may address to the board of trustees, to such member as
tees. said board shall have designated to receive such correspondence ; and
all such letters shall be promptly transmitted without inspection .
tten"^ suddenly Sect. 4. In cvcut of the suddcn death of any patient in the asylum
deceased. j^ coroucr's inquest shall be held, as provided for by law in other cases.
wiitSssM-f * Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
[Approved July 10, 1874.
1874]
Chapter CIII.
849
CHAPTER CIII.
AN ACT TO REORGANIZE TIES COUNCIL AND SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.
Section
1. Number of councillor districts.
2. Council district No. 1.
H. Council district No. 2.
4. Council district No. 3.
.5. Council district No. 4.
6. Council district No. .5.
7. Number of senatorial districts.
8. Senatorial district No. 1.
9. Senatorial district No. 2.
10. Senatorial district No. 3.
Section ,
11. Senatorial district No. 4.
12. Senatorial district No. 6.
13. Senatorial district No. G.
14. Senatorial district No. 7.
15. Senatorial disti-ict No. 8.
16. Senatorial district No. 9.
17. Senatorial district No. 10.
18. Senatorial district No. 11.
19. Senatorial district No. 12.
20. Repealing clause.
District No. 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The state shall be, and is hereby, divided into five j^^^j^^^g^. ^^
council districts, each of which may choose one councillor annually, councillor di&-
Sect. 2. Council district number one is composed of and contains jj. fj." f^
the county of Strafford and the county of Rockingham, except the
towns of Middleton, New Durham and Strafford in the county of
Strafford, and Auburn, Candia, Deerfield, Deny, Londonderry,
Northwood, Nottingham and Windham in the county of Rocking-
ham.
Sect. 3. Council district number two is composed of and contains
th6' county of Carroll, the county of Belknap, and the towns of Mid-
dleton, New Durham, Strafford, Deerfield, Northwood, Nottingham,
Hill, Franklin, Northfield, Boscawen, Webster, Canterbury, Con-
cord, Loudon, Chichester, Pembroke, Pittsfield, Epsom and Aliens-
town.
Sect. 4. Council district number three is composed of and con-^. , . .^. „
1 ^Ai /-^ ^• \ • T-t in T T^ • District No. 3.
tarns the towns of Auburn, Uandia, Antrim, Bedford, Bennington,
Deeriug, Francestown, Goffsiown, Greenfield, Hancock, Hillsborough,
Mont Vernon, New Boston, Weare, Windsor, Marlow, Stoddard,
Washington, Unity, Lempster, Sunapee, Goshen, Bradford, New
London, Sutton, Wilmot, Andover, Salisbury, Warner, Henniker.
Hopkinton, Dunbarton, Bow, Hooksett, Newbury, and the city of
Manchester.
Sect. 5, Council district number four contains and is composed of jj- ^^,- .jr
the towns of Acworth, Charlestown, Langdon, Peterborough, Sharon,
Temple, New Ipswich, Lyndeborough, Amherst, Brookline, Green-
ville, Milford, Merrimack, Mason, Hudson, Litchfield, Hollis, Pel-
ham, Londonderry, Deny, Windham, Wilton, the city of Nashua,
and the county of Cheshire except the towns of Marlow and Stod-
dard.
Sect. 6. Council district number five is composed of and contains district No. 5.
Coos county, Grafton county, and the towns of Plainfield, Grantham,
Springfield, Cornish, Croydon, Clareraont and Newport.
Sect. 7. The state is divided into twelve senatorial districts, each dumber of sen-
of which may elect one senator to the legislature annually. teicts^^ "^'^
Sect. 8. Senatorial district number one contains Exeter, Green- Djatrict No. i.
land, Gosport, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, North Hamp-
ton, New Castle, Portsmouth, Seabrook, Stratham and Rye.
6
350
Chapter CIII.
[1874
District No. 2.
District No. 3.
District No. 4.
District No. 5.
District No. G.
District No. 7.
District No. 8.
District No. 9.
District No. 10,
District No. 11
District No. 12,
Eepealing
clause.
Sect. 9. Senatorial district number two contains Atkinson, Au-
burn, Barnsteacl, Canclia, Chester, Danville, DeerfielcTT^Derry, Ep-
ping. East Kingston, Fremont, Hampsteacl, Hooksett, Hudson,
Kingston, Litchfield, Londonderry, Lee, Newton, Northwood, Not-
tingham, Pelham, Plaistow, Raymond, Salem, Sandowii, South Hamp-
ton, Strafford and Windham.
Sect. 10. Senatorial district number three contains the city of
Manchester.
Sect. 11. Senatorial district number four contains Allenstown,
Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Canterbury, Chichester, Concord, Epsom,
Loudon, Northfield, Pembroke, Pittsfield, Salisbury and Wilmot.
Sect. 12. Senatorial district number five contains Barrington,
Brentwood, Dover, Durham, Madbury, Newington, Newmarket, Rol-
linsford, Somersworth and South Newmarket.
Sect. 13. Senatorial district number six contains all the towns and
places in the county of Carroll, and the towns of Alton, Belmont,
Farmington, Gilford, Gilmanton, Laconia, Middleton, Milton, New
Durham and Rochester. '
Sect. 14. Senatorial district number seven contains Amherst,
Bedford, Brookliue, Hollis, Greenville, Mason, Merrimack, Milford
and Nashua.
Sect. 15. Senatorial district number eight contains Antrim, Brad-
ford, Bennington, Deering, Dunbarton, Francestown, Goffstown,
Greenfield, Hancock, Hillsborough, Henniker, Hopkinton, Lynde-
borough, Mont Vernon, New Boston, New London, Sutton, Temple,
Warner, "Weare, Webster, Windsor and Wilton.
Sect. 16. Senatorial district number nine contains Chesterfield,
Dublin, Fitzwilliam, Hinsdale, Harrisville, Jaffrey, Keeiie, Marlbor-
ough, New Ipswich, Peterborough, Roxbury, Kindge, Richmond,
Sharon, Swanzey, Troy and Winchester.
Sect. IT. Senatorial district number ten contains Acworth, Al-
stead, Charlestown, Claremont, Cornish, Croydon, Gilsum, Goshen,
Langdon, Lempster, Newport, Nelson, Newbury, Mario w, Sunapee,
Stoddard, Sullivan, Surry, Unity, Walpole, Washington, and West-
moreland.
Sect. 18. Senatorial district number eleven contains Alexandria,
Ashland, Bristol, Bridgewater, Canaan, Campton, Center Harbor,
Danbury, Dorchester, Ellsworth, Enfield, Franklin, Grafton, Groton,
Grantham, Hebron, Hill, Holderness, Lebanon, Meredith, New
Hampton, Orange, Plainfield, Plymouth, Rumney, Sanbornton,
Springfield, Tilton, Thornton, Warren, Wentworth and Woodstock.
Sect. 19. Senatorial district number twelve contains all the towns
and places in Coos county and the towns of Bath, Bethlehem, Benton,
Franconia, Hanover, Haverhill, Landaff, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton,
Lyman, Lyme, Monroe, Orford, Piermont and Waterville.
Sect. 20. All- acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
1874]
Chapter CIV.
CHAPTER CIV.
351
AN ACT FIXING TIMES TOR FURNISHING COPIES OF AND PRINTING AifNUAL RE-
PORTS.
Section
1. Reports to be furnished March 1.
2. Reports to be f'uruisheil April 1.
3. Reports to be furnished May 1.
Section
4. Reports to be furnished June 1.
5. When to be printed.
6. Repealing clause.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rcpresentatitcs in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The copy of the report of the commissioners on fish- Reports to lie
eries ; of the report of the state librarian and of the report of the March *i.
adjutant-general, shall be annually furnished the state printer on or
before the first day of March.
Sect. 2. The copy of the report of the insurance commissioner ; Reports to be
/•I c 1 11 n • 1 1 r ^ i furnished April
01 the report oi the college oi agriculture and oi the state normal i.
school, shall be annually furnished the state printer on or before the
first day of April.
Sect. S. The copy of the report of the bank commissioners ; of Reports to be
the report of the state prison; of the report of the New Hampshire i'^^^^ ^ ^^
asylum for the insane ; of the report of the reform school and of the
report of the state superintendent of public instruction, shall be an-
nually furnished the state printer on or before the first day of May.
Sect. 4. The copy of the report of the state treasurer and of the Reports to be
railroad commissioner shall be annually furnished the state printer i/"^^ "^^
on or before the first day of June.
Sect. 5. All of the said reports shall be printed and laid before the When to be
legislature during the first week of its session annually, excepting
those of the state treasurer and railroad commissioners, and these
shall be printed and laid before the legislature annually during the
two first weeks of the session.
Sect. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act arcRepeaimg
hereby repealed.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
clause.
352
Chapters CV, CVI.
CHAPTER CV.
[1874
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE OF THE GENERAL STATUTES
IN RELATION TO THE COLLECTION OF TAXES OF NON-RESIDENTS,
Section
1. Non-regident tax lists, duty of collectors.
Section
2. Repealing clause; act takes effect June 1,
1875.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Collector to SECTION 1. Section two of chapter fifty-five of the General Stat-
send bill of tax- i n i i i ^ i ^i
estoowner.andutes shall be SO amended as to read thus:
propJrt?!^*^ "Such list shall be delivered to the collector on or before the thir-
tieth day of May, and said collector shall, on or before the first day
of September, send to the owners of non-resident property, or their
ao-ents, if known, a bill of their taxes, and shall, on or before the
first day of January following, advertise the property on which the
taxes have not been paid for sale, in the New Hampshire Patriot, a
newspaper printed at Concord, and also in some newspaper printed
in the county where the property is situate, if any, otherwise in some
adjacent county."
Sect. 2. Sections three, four, five and six of said chapter are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on the first day of June,
1875.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
Repealing
clause ; act
takes effect.
CHAPTER CVI.
JOmT RESOLUTION TENDERING THANTKS TO HON. B. F. PRESCOTT AND OTHERS.
For securing and giving portraits of eminent men.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Thanks to B.F. That the thanks of the people of the state of New Hampshire are
o&s!" ^^*^ due to the Hon. B. F. Prescott for his successful efforts during the
past year in obtaining so many valuable portraits of New Hampshire's
distinguished sons and revolutionary patriots to adorn the walls of
the capitol, also to the relatives and friends of eminent men, who
have so generously aided the same object by liberal donations, and
that the secretary of state be requested to furnish a copy of this reso-
lution to the Hon. B. F. Prescott and to the friends and relatives
who have so kindly contributed to this noble and patriotic under-
taking.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CVII, CVIII. 353
CHAPTER CVII.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO TIIE CLAIM OF THE TOWN OF CAIMPTON.
Governor and council to audit claim.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the governor and council are hereby authorized to examine Governor and
and audit the claim of the town of Campton for state bounties, and if claim,
said claim is found to be covered by the provisions of chapter four
thousand and sixty-seven of the pamphlet laws, to pay the same out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, with inter-
est upon the same at the rate of six per cent, per annum from the
date when the assignments were filed with the state auditor ; and the
governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CVIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE CONTRACT FOR LABOR AT THE STATE
PRISON.
Governor and council authorized to make allowance to prison contractor.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That his excellency the governor, with the advice and consent of Governor and
the council, be and hereby is authorized to make such allowance to LecTtonmkeai'
the present contractor for the labor of the convicts in the state prison on^c'ontractOT?'
as he may deem just and for the best interests of the state ; whether
with reference to the labor of the past year or for the remaining time
during which the contract runs.
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
354 Chapters CIX, CX. [1874
CHAPTER CIX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF ROADS AMONG THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
$800 for road from west line of Bartlett to Crawford House.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
from west^tae "^^-^^^ ^^® ^^^"^ ^^ eight hundred dollars be and hereby is appropri-
of Bartlett to ated to be laid out on the road between the west line of the town of
House. Bartlett and the Crawford house, to be expended by an agent or
agents appointed by the governor and council, and to be paid out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated ; and the gov-
ernor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
CHAPTER CX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF PLNKHjUM ROAD THROUGH MARTIN'S LOCA-
TION.
$300 for Pinkham road through Martin's Location.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
$300 for Pink- That the sura of three hundred dollars be and hereby is appropri-
through Mar- ated for the repairs of the highway from a point on the road leading
from the Glen house to Gorhara, where the Randolph and Jefferson
road leaves the said road, through Martin's Location on the Pinkham
road, so called, to the dwelling-house of George Wood in the town
of Randolph, and that the same be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by an agent to
be appointed by the governor and council for that purpose ; and the
governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the said sum,
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
tin's location.
1874] Chapter CXI, CXII. 355
CHAPTER CXI.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE FRANCONIA
NOTCH RO^VD IN LINCOLN.
$300 for Fraucouia Notch road in Lincoln.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of three hundred dollars be, and the same is, hereby $300 for Frfln-
appropriated to be laid out in building and repairing that part of the roadinLin-
road leading through Franconia Notch which lies in the town of
Lincoln, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, the same to be laid out by an agent appointed by the governor,
with advice of the council ; and the governor is authorized to draw
his warrant for the same.
[Approved July 2, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE GLEN ROAD IN THE TOWN OF GORHAM.
$300 for Glen road in Gorham.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of three hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, ^f^^oo forGien
appropriated for the purpose of repairing the Glen road, so called, ham.
in the town of Gorham, and that the same be paid out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by an
agent to be appointed by the governor and council for that purpose;
and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the
said sum.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
356 Chapters CXIII, CXIV, CXV. [1874
CHAPTER CXIII.
JOINT EJESOLUTION EST FAVOR OF ROADS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
$400 for road from Crawford to Fabyian House.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
$400 for road That the sum of four laundred dollars be and hereby is appropri-
toFabyan ated to be laid out on the road between the Crawford house and the
House. Fabyan house, to be expended by an agent or agents appointed by
the governor and council, and to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated ; and the governor is hereby au-
thorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXIV.
JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR DIXVILLE ROAD.
$200 for highway in Dixville Notch.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
wa^inDixvfue "^^^^ ^^® ^^^ °^ ^-^^^ hundred dollars be appropriated for the pur-
Notch, pose of repairing the highway in Dixville notch ; and the Governor
be authorized to draw his warrant for the same out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXV.
JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIR OF ROADS THROUGH
PD^vHAM NOTCH.
$900 for roads through the Pinkham Notch.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives i?i General Court
convened :
$600 from Jack- That the sum of nine hundred dollars be, and hereby is, appropri-
H?use.*^^^^ ated for the repair of roads through the Pinkham notch, in the county
of Coos, in manner following : From the town line of Jackson to
the Glen house, six hundred dollars ; from the south line of Gorham
1874] Chapters CXVI, CXVII. 357
to the Glen house, three hundred dollars; to be laid out in repairs $3oo from south
',. . *iu ""^ '^' Gorham
as aforesaid under the direction oi an agent or agents appointed by to Giea House.
the governor and council, and to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the governor is hereby auth-
orized to draw his warrant for the same.
[Approved July 7, 1874,]
CHAPTER CXVI.
JOINT EESOLUTION IN RELATION TO THE ACCOUNTS OF THE ADJUTANT-
GENERAL.
Governor and council requested to investigate accounts of adjutant-general.
Hetolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the governor and council be requested to investigate the man- Governor and
agement, expenditures and accounts of the adjutant-general's office vest'igate'ac-"^
from the eleventh of July, 1870, to the present time, and to report ^^^^^i^ge^graL"
the result to the legislature at its next session.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXVII.
/
V
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
$5000 appropriated to state normal school.
Resolved hy the Senate mid House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is, hereby ^5000 appropri-
appropriated to the state normal school for the purpose of such im-^^^j!^*^j^^^*® ^
provements and repairs on the buildings, furnishing rooms, appara-
tus, books, &c., as may be necessary, and for the procuring the
necessary teachers needed therein ; to be expended in such manner
as the trustees of said school may deem for its best interests ; and
the governor is authorized to draw his warrant for the same.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
358 Chapters CXVIII, CXIX. [1874
CHAPTER CXVIII.
JOINT EESOLUTION OF THAKKS FOR PORTRAITS.
Thanks to those "who have presented porti-aits to the state.
Resolved ly the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Thanks to those That the thanks of the state of New Hampshire be presented to
seutedpoi-ti-aits the following named persons, families and associations, for their gen-
to the state. ^^^^^ g-f^g ^^ ^^le state, as follows : To Mark H. Wentworth, for the
portraits of Lieut. -Governor John AVentworth, Governor Benning
Wentworth, and Governor John Wentworth ; to the friends of Hon.
John P. Hale, for the portrait of John P. Hale ; to Frank H. Pierce,
for the portrait of Ex-President Franklin Pierce ; to the children of
Governor Levi Woodbury, for the portrait of Levi Woodbury ; to
Mrs. Jesse A. Gove, for the portrait of Col. Jesse A. Gove ; to the
children of Henry Hubbard, for the portrait of Governor Henry
Hubbard ; to the surviving children of Gen. John McNeil, Mrs. H.
W. Benham and Mrs. F. McNeil Potter, for the portrait of Gen.
John McNeil; to the family of Gen. James Miller, for the portrait
of Gen. James Miller ; to John Q,. A. Bean, for the portrait of Ben-
ning M. Bean. And his excellency the governor and the honorable
council and the secretary of state are hereby constituted, ex ojficiis, a
committee to solicit, in behalf of the state, the portraits of those per-
sons who have been prominently identified with the ecclesiastical,
civil and military history of New Hampshire.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXIX.
JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE APPOESfTBIENT OF A COIMIMISSION TO
REVISE, CODIFY AND AMEND THE LAWS OF THE STATE RELATING TO TAX-
ATION, AND THE EXEMPTIONS THEREFROM.
Three persons to be appointed to revise tax laws.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Three persons That three suitable persons be appointed by his excellency the
to revise tax governor, with the advice of council, to revise, codify and amend the
laws. j^^g ^£ ^l^jg state relating to taxation and the exemptions therefrom,
and to recommend such alterations as they may find necessary to es-
tablish an equal system of taxation in this state, and that they report
at the next session of the general court.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CXX, CXXI. 359
CHAPTER CXX.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE LIBRARY OF
THE STATE PRISON.
$100 appropriated to prison library.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of one hundred dollars be appropriated for the re- $ioo appropri-
pairs of the library of the state prison and for the purchase of books library.
for the same, out of the treasury from any money not otherwise ap-
propriated, to be expended at the discretion of the chaplain.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXI.
JOESTT RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE CASE OF GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTER.
Re-examination of tlie case of Gen. Porter asked for.
Whereas, General Fitz John Porter, a native of this state, was, in jyoif ofThe case
January, A. D. 1863, convicted by a court martial of disobedience ^^Sfi '^^^^'^
to orders in the presence of the enemy, and of other military offences,
and was sentenced to be cashiered and to be forever disqualified from
holding any office under the United States ; and whereas, it is now
generally believed that injustice was done him by the want of im-
portant evidence which has since become accessible.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the president of the United States be respectfully requested
to cause the charges against General Porter to be re-examined, that
justice may be done to him and to the country ; and that his excel-
lency the governor be requested to transmit a copy of the above pre-
amble and resolution to the president of the United States.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
360 Chapters CXXII, CXXIII. [1874
CHAPTER CXXII.
JOINT RESOLUTION FOR AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CHERRY MOUNTAIN ROAD;
$200 appropriated for Cherry Mountain road.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
$200 appropri- That the sum of two hundred dollars be, and the same is, hereby
ated for Cherry . , , i i • i • /• n /-ii -» r
Mountain road, appropnated, to DC expended in the repair oi the Uherry Mountain
road, in the town of Carroll, to be expended by an agent or agents ap-
pointed by the governor, out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN RELATION TO FURNISHING CERTAIN BOOKS AND DOCU-
MENTS TO THE LIBRARIAN OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF
CANADA.
Secretary of state to furnish books to library of Dominion of Canada,
Secretary of Whereas, by chapter four of our General Statutes it is required of
books to library the secretary of the state to distribute certain designated state pub-
CanadT^°^°^ ligations to the several states and territories, and to the secretary of
each of the British provinces, and whereas it appears by a communi-
cation from the librarian of parliament of the Dominion of Canada,
dated May 1, 1874, to the secretary of our state, that they lack sev-
eral of our law reports to make their set complete, therefore
J5e it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
That the secretary of the state be authorized and directed to procure
such missing volumes as are necessary to make the set of New Hamp-
shire reports complete, and that he send the same to the librarian of
said library, and that his excellency the governor is hereby author-
ized to draw his warrant on the treasury for such sum as may be
necessary to pay for the same out of any money not otherwise appro-
priated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CXXIV, CXXV, CXXVI. 361
CHAPTER CXXIV.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF INDIGENT BLIND PERSONS AND DEAF MUTES.
Appropriation for blind and deaf and dumb.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of four thousand dollars be and hereby is appropri- $4000 for deaf
ated for the support, clothing and education of the indigent deaf and ''"' ^™
dumb persons of this state in the asylum at Hartford and at Mystic
River, Connecticut, and in the asylums or schools for deaf and dumb
persons in Massachusetts; and the sum of three thousand dollars for $3000 for bUnd.
the support, clothing and education of indigent blind persons of this
state at the asylum in Boston, Massachusetts, for the current year ;
and that said sums be expended as needed, under the direction of the
governor, and that he be authorized to draw his Avarrant therefor.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXV.
JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE
GO\"ERNOR.
$500 appropriated for contingent fund.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of five hundred dollars be allowed as the contingent ssoo appropri-
fund of the governor, and that he may draw his warrant therefor in pen{ fund?^''"^'
such sums and at such times as he may deem proper.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXVL
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE STATE LIBRARY.
$300 appropriated to state library.
Resolved by the Senate and Hoicse of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of three hundred dollars be appropriated for the use $300 appropd-
of the state library, to supply deficiencies therein, and defray the ex-K/!' ^^^^^'
362 Chapters CXXVII, CXXVIII. [1874
penses of binding certain books and publications, and that the gov-
ernor be authorized to draw his Avarrant therefor out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 18T4.]
CHAPTER CXXVII.
JOINT RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE INTERFERENCE OF FEDERAl, OFFICERS
WITH THE ELECTIONS.
Attention of president called to the interference of federal ofllcers with elections.
Attention oi Whereas, in defiance of acts of congress, and in derosration of the
president called . . ' . , „ , i r i • t c ?
to the interfer- constitutional rights 01 the people oi this state and oi the sovereign-
officers with ' ty thereof, the patronage of the federal government has been notori-
e ections. ously and persistently exerted, at the navy yard in Kittery, Maine,
and in that part of this state which is adjacent thereto, to bribe, cor-
rupt and intimidate voters, and to control elections as well of state
and municipal as of national officers,
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the attention of the president of the United States be called
to this grave and dangerous abuse, and that he be requested hence-
forward to discountenance and prevent a practice so detrimental to
the purity of our elections and insulting to the laws and dignity of
the state.
[Approved July 9, 18T4.]
CHAPTER CXXVIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN RELATION TO A NEW STATE PRISON.
Governor and council to appoint commission to examine report and upon the expediency
and cost of a new state prison.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened .'
Governor and That his excellency the governor, with advice of the council, be
poSf ^^comnf^! requested to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to
and repor™in> ^''^^^ ^^^^° Consideration the expediency and necessity of the construe-
on the expe- tioii of a uew state prison, to procure estimates of the probable ex-
diGiic'v fiUQ cost i ' i 1.
of a new state pense of such prison, ascertain and report the most desirable and
appropriate location for such an institution, and the advantages of its
construction upon the most approved plan, and any other matters
1874] Chapters CXXIX, CXXX. 363
pertaining to the importance and necessity of an improved penitenti-
ary for the use of the state, and make report in print to the next
session of the legislature.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXIX.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE SALARY OF
THE CHAPLAIN OF THE STATE PRISON.
$800 appropriated for salary of chaplain to prison.
Be it resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
That the sum of ($800) eight hundred dollars be, »nd the same is, $80o appropri-
hereby appropriated as the salary of the chaplain of the state prison of^^ii^'ilfn^to
and for the instruction of the convicts, the same to be paid out of the pi'^-^n.
treasury from any moneys not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN RELATION TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRI-
CULTURE AND THE JMECHANIC ARTS.
$5000 appropriated for agricultural college.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, ^gQ^^g appropri-
appropriated for the purpose of building a barn and suitable out-'^ted for agi-i-
ctilturo.! col*
buildings on the experimental farm at Hanover, and that the gov- lege.
ernor is authorized to draw his warrant for the same upon any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874. [
S64 Chapters CXXXI, CXXXII. [1874
CHAPTER CXXXI.
JOINT EESOLUTIOK IN FAVOR OF A ROAD IN RANDOLPH.
$200 for repair of road in Randolph.
Hesolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
$200 for repair That the sum of two hundred dollars be, and the same is, hereby
doiph. ' "appropriated for the repair of the road in the town of Randolph, the
same to be expended by an agent or agents to be appointed by his
excellency the governor, and to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXXII.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE COMPILING OF THE STATE AND PROVIN-
CIAL RECORDS.
Compiling of provincial records suspended, except papers relating to towns previous to 1783.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Compiling of That the compiling and publication of the state and provincial
ords suspended records be forthwith suspended and stopped, and that all papers,
relating to ^'^'^ documents and books in the hands of any person for such purposes
toT?^.^'^^^^^""^ ^® immediately filed in the office of the secretary of state ; and that
chapter four thousand two hundred and eighty-nine of the pamphlet
laws of 1866, and any and all laws relating to this matter, be and
hereby are repealed, and all offices created under them, be and hereby
are abolished ; provided, however, that all matter now in the hands
of the printer shall be printed and distributed agreeably to said
chapter four thousand two hundred and eighty-nine of the pamphlet
laws, — and further provided, that certain papers relating to towns
in the state, previous to the adoption of the constitution in 1783,
may be published and distributed agreeably to said chapter four
thousand two hundred and eighty-nine of the pamphlet laws.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CXXXIII, CXXXIV, CXXXV. 365
CHAPTER CXXXIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE PRINTING OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Agricultural report to be made to legislature in ivritiug.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the annual report of the board of aarriculture shall be made -'^PfricuUurai
,, r-ii T ^ ^ • ^ • • • ^ I'eport to be
by the secretary oi said board to the legislature in writing, on or be- made to legis-
fore the second Wednesday in June, and all acts and parts of acts ing.
inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXXIV.
.^J>f ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM H. H. ALLEN, JUDGE OF PROBATE,
AND OTHER OFFICERS OF SULLIV^VN COUNTY.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, I!v«™°X^i of.,
• . >Vni. H. XI. Al-
satisfied that the public good requires that William PI. H. Allen, len, ira Corny,
judge of probate for the county of Sullivan, Ira Colby, jr., solic-ciaggett.
itor for said county, and Rufus P. Claggett, sheriff of said county,
should no longer hold and retain their said offices, respectfully ad-
dress and request your excellency, with the consent of the council, to
remove the said William H. IP. Allen, the said Ira Colby, jr., and
the said Rufus P. Claggett from the offices which they respectively
hold.
[Passed June 18, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXXV.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SILAS ILiRDY.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor.
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, p°i?"^'?i ^^ ^^'
satisfied that the public good requires that Silas Hardy, judge of pro- '
bate for Cheshire county, should no longer hold and retain said office,
respectfully address and request your excellency, with the advice and
consent of the council, to remove said Hardy from his said office.
[Passed June 2S, 1874.]
366 Chapters CXXXVI, CXXXVIT. [1874
CHAPTER CXXXVI.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVj^iX OF LAEKIN D. MASON, LEAVITT H. EASTJIAN
AND JOSLVH [H.] HOBBS.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamf-
shire :
Removal of L. The Senate and house of representatiA^es in general court convened,
EaBtnianandj! Satisfied that the public good requires that Larkin D. Mason, judge of
H. Hobbs. probate for Carroll county, and Leavitt H. Eastman, sheriff for said
county, and Josiah H. Hobbs, solicitor for said county, should no
longer hold and retain said offices, respectfully address and request
your excellency, with advice and consent of the council, to remove the
said Mason, Eastman and Hobbs from their said offices.
[Passed June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXXVII.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF CERTAES" OFFICERS IN COOS COUNTY.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp'
shire :
Removal of E. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
^ar^idricii'^B' satisfied that the public good requires that E. George Eogers, sheriff,
r.'^uddeu ami Edgar Aldrich, solicitor, Benjamin F. Whidden, judge of probate,
' and John M. Whipple, register of probate, all of the county of Coos
in said state, should no longer hold and retain their said offices, re-
spectfully address and request your excellency, with the consent of
the council, to remove the said E. George Rogers, sheriff, Edgar Al-
drich, solicitor, Benjamin F. Whidden, judge of probate, and John
M. Whipple, register of probate, from their said offices.
[Passed June 26, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CXXXVIII, CXXXIX, CXL. 367
CHAPTER CXXXVIII.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF DANIEL G. BEEDE, STATE SUPERDfTENDEXT
OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Q^^^gJ^g ^^ ^'
satisfied that the public good requires that Daniel G. Beede, state
superintendent of public instruction, should no longer hold and retain
his said office, respectfully address and request your excellency, with
the advice of the council, to remove the said Daniel G. Beede from
the office which he holds.
[Passed June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXXXIX.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF IS^IAC A. HILL, REGISTER OF PROBATE FOR
THE COUNTY OF MERRIM.VCK, AND FRANK S. DODGE, SHERIFF OF SAID
COUNTY.
[Jb His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire .•]
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Removal ot
satisfied that the public good requires that Isaac A. Hill, register ofaiia^F. s".' ^
probate for the county of Merrimack, and Frank S. Dodge, she riff •'^°'^=®'
for said county, should no longer hold and retain said offices, respect-
fully address and request your excellency, with the advice of the
council, to remove the said Hill and Dodge from their said offices
respectively.
[Passed June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXL.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF DAVID CROSS AND OTHERS FROM OFFICE.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened. Removal of Da-
satisfied that the public good requires that David Cross, judge of pro- Dearborn, "
bate for the county of Hillsborough ; Cornelius V. Dearborn, register samuei Uptou!
of probate for the county of Hillsborough; Charles Scott, shenff of i-|;^^\^^^l;
the county of Hillsborough ; Samuel Upton, judge of the police court MusSf"^^^^'^^'
368 Chaptees CXLI, CXLII. [1874
of Manchester ; Henry E. Burnham, special justice of the police
court of Manchester; Edward P. Emerson, judge of the police court
of Nashua, and Henry Parkinson, special justice of the police court
of Nashua, should no longer hold and retain their said offices, re-
spectfully address and request your excellency, with advice and con-
sent of the council, to remove said Cross, Dearborn, Scott;, Upton,
Burnham, Emerson and Parkinson from their said offices.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLI.
AN ADDKESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF LYUIAN T. FLINT.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
Removal of L. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
T. Flint. . . , "
satisfied that the public good requires that Lyman T. Flint, solic-
itor for Merrimack county, should no longer hold and retain his
said office, respectfully address and request your excellency, with ad-
vice and consent of the council, to remove the said Lyman T. Flint
from said office.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLIL
[AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF DANIEL HALL, JUDGE OF THE POLICE
COXJRT OF DOVER.]
To His Excellency James A, Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
Removi^of Xhe senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
satisfied that the public good requires that Daniel Hall, judge of the
police court of the city of Dover, should no longer hold and retain
said office, respectfully address and request your excellency, with
consent of the council, to remove said Daniel Hall therefrom.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CXLIII, CXLIV. 369
CHAPTER CXLIII.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF DAVED C. BATCHELDER, SHERIFF OF THE
COUNTY OF BELKNAP.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Q®BaM?eider?'
satisfied that the public good requires that David C. Batchelder,
sheriff for the county of Belknap, should no longer hold and retain
said office, respectfully address and request your excellency, with the
consent of the council, to remove the said David C. Batchelder from
said office.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLIV.
ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF DAVID R. LANG, TYLER WESTGATE, EVARTS
W. FARR AND M ANSON S. BROWN.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened. Removal of d.
satisfied that the public good requires that David R. Lang, judge of ^/g^tgafe.i^w!
probate for the county of Grafton, Tyler Westgate, register of pro- g^Jj^^^'^ ^" ^'
bate for said county, Evarts W. Farr, solicitor for said county, and
Manson S. Brown, sheriff of said county, should no longer hold and
retain their said offices, respectfully address and request your excel-
lency, with the consent of the council, to remove the said David E..
Lang, Tyler Westgate, Evarts W. Farr and Manson S. Brown from
the offices which they respectively hold.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
3T0 Chapters CXLV, CXLVI. [1874
CHAPTER CXLV.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JAIMES H. EDGERLY, JOHN R. VARNEY
AND JOSEPH JONES, JUDGE AND REGISTER OF PROBATE AND SHERIFF
RESPECTIVELY OF THE COUNTY OF STRAFFORD.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
Removal of J. The senate and house of representatives In general court convened,
R.' Vffmey^aiici Satisfied that the public good requires that James H. Edgerly, judge
Joseph Jones, of probate, John E. Varney, register of probate, and Joseph Jones,
sheriff, respectively, for the county of Strafford, should no longer
hold and retain their said offices, respectfully address and request
your excellency, with the advice and consent of the council, to re-
move the said James H. Edgerly, John R,. Varney and Joseph Jones
from said offices respectively.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLVI.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF ELISHA F. LANE, DAUPHIN Vf. BUCKMIN-
STER AND LEONARD WELLINGTON.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor :
Removal of E. Xhe senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
Buckminster satisfied that the public good requires that Elisha F. Lane, sheriff of
ton. ' "' the county of Cheshire, Dauphin W. Buckminster, register of probate
for said county, and Leonard Wellington, solicitor for said county,
should no longer hold and retain their said offices, respectfully ad-
dress and request your excellency, with the advice and consent of the
council, to remove the said Lane, Buckminster and Wellington from
the offices which they respectivelv hold.
[Passed June 30, 1874.]
1874] CiiAPTEKs CXLVII, CXLVIII, CXLIX. 371
CHAPTER CXLVII.
AJ^ ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JA>IES W. ODLIN, SHERIFF OF ROCKING-
HAM COUNTY.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives In general court convened, Removal of J.
satisfied that the public good requires that James W. Odlin, the
sheriff of the county of Rockingham, should no longer hold that
office, respectfully address and request you to remove him therefrom.
[Passed July 2, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLVIII.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JOHX W. CURRIER FROM THE OFFICE OF
SOLICITOR FOR THE COUNTY OF BELKNAP.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Removal of j.
satisfied that the public good requires that John W. Currier, solicitor ' ^^^^^'
for the county of Belknap, should no longer hold and retain said
office, respectfully address and request your excellencv, with the ad-
vice of the honorable council, to remove said John AV, Currier from
said office.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXLIX.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JOSEPH CLARK.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Removal of Jo-
satisfied that the public good requires that Joseph Clark, of Plymouth, ^^^
a justice of the peace for the county of Grafton, by reason of the
causes stated in the annexed report and decree of the supreme court
thereon, should no longer hold and retain said office, respectfully ad-
dress and request your excellency, with consent of the council, to re-
move said Joseph Clark therefrom.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
372 Chapteks CL, CLI, CLII. [1874
CHAPTER CL.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JOHN B. HASELTESTE AJSTD MARTIN H.
COCHRAN.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor:
Removal of J. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
and M.H.Coch- satisfied that the public good requires that John B. Haseltine, justice
^^^' of the police court of the town of Pembroke,, and Martin H. Coch-
ran, associate justice of said court, should no longer hold and retain
said offices, respectfully address and request your excellency, with the
advice and consent of the council, to remove said John B. Haseltine
and Martin H. Cochran from their offices.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLI.
AN aU)DRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF CHARLES A. TUFTS, SPECIAL JUSTICE OF
THE POLICE COURT FOR THE CITY OF DOVER.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of New Hampshire :
Removal of c. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
A. Tufts. satisfied that the public good requires that Charles A. Tufts, special
justice of the police court for the city of Dover, should no longer
hold and retain his said office, respectfully address and request your
excellency, with the advice and consent of the council, to remove the
said Charles A. Tufts from said office.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLII.
AN ADDRESS FOR THE REMOV^VL OF JOHN M. m\JNES.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
Removal of J. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
M.Hames, satisfied that the public good requires that John M. Haines, adjutant,
inspector and quartermaster general of said state, should no longer
hold and retain the said office of adjutant, inspector and quartermas-
1874] Chapters CLIII, CLIV. 373
ter general, respectfully address and request your excellency, with
the consent of the council, to remove the said John M, Haines from
said office.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLIII.
AN AJDDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM W. FLETCHER, THOMAS E.
HATCH AJSTD WINEORN A. SANBORN, COM]\nSSIONERS ON FISHERIES.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire :
The senate and house of representatives In general court convened, Removal of w.
satisfied that the public good requires that William W. Fletcher, ^; Hatoh^'a^
Thomas E. Hatch and Winborn A. Sanborn, should no longer hold w. a. Sanborn.
and retain the offices of commissioners on fisheries, respectfully ad-
dress and request your excellency, with consent of the council, to
remove said Fletcher, Hatch and Sanborn from their said offices.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLIV.
ADDRESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JOSEPH H. WORCESTER AND EBENTIZER J.
MATHAS, JUSTICE AND SPECL\L JUSTICE OF THE POLICE COURT OF THE
TOWN OF ROCHESTER.
To His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire:
The senate and house of representatives in general court convened, Removal of j.
satisfied that the public good requires that Joseph H. Worcester, jus- arid e. j.
tice of the police court of the town of Rochester, and Ebenezer J. ^^^has.
Mathas, special justice of said court, should no longer hold and
retain said offices, respectfully address and request your excellency,
with consent of the council, to remove said Joseph H. Worcester
and Ebenezer J, Mathas therefrom.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
374 Chapters CLV, CLVI. [1874
CHAPTER CLV.
AN ADDEESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF HON. DANIEL W. EDGERLY, JUDGE OF THE
POLICE COURT FOR THE TOWN OF FARMINGTON.
[Tb His Excellency James A. Weston, Governor of the State of New Hamp-
shire .•]
Removal of D. The senate and house of representatives in general court convened,
^^^^' satisfied that the public good requires that Hon. Daniel W. Edgerly,
judge of the police court for the town of Farmington, should no longer
hold and retain his said office, respectfally address and request your
excellency, with the consent of the council, to remove the said Hon.
Daniel W. Edgerly from the office which he now holds.
[Passed July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLVI.
#
NAMES CHANGED BY THE JUDGES OF PROBATE.
Change of
names. E.OCKINGHAM CouNTY. — Charles Franklin Cary takes the name of
Charles Franklin Wells ; Lillian Ann Diedrich takes the name of
Lillian Ann Abbott.
Strafford County. — Hattie May Varney, of Straffiard, takes the
name of Hattie May Tuttle ; Winnie B, Jenkins, of Rollinsford,
takes the name of Winnie B. Wormwood ; Annie Bell Tuttle of
Dover, takes the name of Annie Bell Hall.
Belknap County. — Clarinda D. Oilman, of Laconia, takes the
name of Clarinda D. Knowles ; Ellen A. Moulton, of Gilford, takes
the name of Ellen A. Corliss ; Aslinie M. Elkins, of Gilford, takes
the name of Aslinie M. Hill ; Warren C. Howard, of Center Harbor,
takes the name of Warren Howard Leavitt.
Carroll County. — Capatola L. Bradley takes the name of Cap-
atola L. Kenney ; Albert Johnson takes the name of Albert Johnson
Ham ; Katie Meserve takes the name of Katie Effer Chase.
Cheshire County. — Susan Sophia Pierce Mansfield, of Keene,
takes the name of Susan Sophia Pierce.
Grafton County. — Rosetta M. Colby, of Lyme, takes the name
of Rosetta M. Balch ; George B. Greenough, of Lyme, takes the
name of George B. Balch ; Hattie Jane Brooks, of Lyme, takes the
name of Hattie Jane Balch ; William Manson Abel, of Plymouth,
takes the name of William Manson Brown.
Coos County. — Ellen Minerva Thomas, of Lancaster, takes the
name of Ellen Minerva Banfield ; Anna Belle Pottle, of Lancaster,
takes the name of Anna Belle Whipple ; Jennie Hartshorn, of Lan-
caster, takes the name of Jennie Wilson ; Clara Loller, of Gorham,
1874] Chapter CLVI. 375
takes the name of Clara Reed ; William LoUer, of Gorham, takes
the name of William Reed ; Joseph B. Cloutman, of Lancaster, takes
the name of Joseph B. Cloudman ; William Henry Wentworth, of
Lancaster, takes the name of William Henry Hanson ; 011a M.
Brackett, of Lancaster, takes the name of Flora Belle Remick.
PRIVATE ACTS.
CHAPTER CLVII.
j^ ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME AND INCREASE THE CAPITAL OF THE IMAN-
CHESTER PRINT WORKS AND MILLS.
Section I Section
1. Name changed to Manchester Mills. 3. Act takes effect on its passage.
2. Capital stock increased $500,000. I
Be it enacted hij the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The Manchester Print Works and Mills, a corporation to Manchester
duly incorporated and organized at Manchester, in the county of
Hillsborough, shall hereafter be called and known as the Manchester
Mills.
Sect. 2. Said INIanchester Mills corporation is hereby authorized ?^^4Sed ^*°*^^
to increase its capital stock not exceeding in the aggregate five huii- $500,000.
dred thousand dollars.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. oultSS*
[Approved June 18, 1874.]
378 Chapters CLVIII, CLIX. [1874
CHAPTER CLVIII.
AN ACT TO INCOEPORATE THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS, LODGE NUM-
BER TWO, IN NASHUA.
Section
1. Corporation established; its purposes
and powers.
2. Eii-st meeting, how and by whom called. '
Section
3. Act subject to repeal ; takes effect on pas-
sage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Daniel McKenna, Timothy Eock, Peter Key-
tabiished; its nolcls. Jeremiah C. Sullivan and M. Charles McGlynn, their associ-
purposesand ' ^ . , t i , t i ■,
powers. ates, successors and assigns, be, and hereby are, created a body
corporate and politic, by the name of Lodge Number Two, Ancient
Order of Hibernians, in Nashua, for such charitable and benevolent
purposes as the corporation may designate ; and by that name may
sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, to final judgmeat and execu-
tion; and shall be, and hereby is, invested with all the powers and
privileges, and made subject to all the liabilities, of corporations of a
similar nature ; and may take and hold real and personal estate, by
donation, bequest, or otherwise, for the purpose of said corporation,
to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and the
same sell, convey or otherwise dispose of at pleasure,
how' aiuf'^'iw Sect. 2. The first five persons above named, or any three of them,
whom called, may call the first meeting of said corporation, by giving notice to
each of the persons named in this act, or by one publication in some
daily newspaper published in said Nashua, seven days at least prior
to said meeting.
Act subject to Sect. o. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act at
effect 'oif pas- their pleasure ; and the act shall take efiect upon its passage,
sage. [Approved June 18, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLIX.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PHARMACEUTIC^iE ASSOCIA-
TION.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. Its purposes and powers.
3. First meeting, how and by Whom called.
SECTION
4. Subject to repeal.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Charles A. Tufts, Charles F. Hildreth, Henry B,
tabiished. j'oster, Charles S. Eastman, George F. Underbill, Isaac N. Perley,
James W. White, William H. Vickery, Joseph H. Thacher, Charles
1874] Chapter CLX. 379
C. Toplif, Charles A. Merrill, William R. Preston and Samuel F.
Murry, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name of the New Hampshire Pharma-
ceutical Association, for the purpose of promoting the knowledge of
pharmacy, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the
duties, restrictions and liabilities by law incident to corporations of a
similar nature.
Sect. 2. That said corporation be authorized to adopt such course its purposes
and take such measures as may be deemed best, to promote the knowl- ^'^ ^' ^^ ^^'
edge in compounding medicines and articles in accordance with the
method and rules of the United States Dispensatory and Pharmaco-
poeia, and for the purposes of the association, may purchase, hold or
sell real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars.
Sect. 3. That the two persons first named in this act may call the ^i^st meeting,
first meeting of the corporation, by giving a written notice to each of whom called,
the grantees, of the time and place of meeting, twelve days at least
before such day of meeting.
Sect. 4. That the legislature may at any time alter, amend or re- Subject -to re-
peal this act whenever in their opinion the public good requires it.
Sect. 5. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. o^nits^paLage?*
[Approved June 18, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLX.
AN ACT TO IXCOEPORATE THE FREKCH CANilDIAN SOCIETY TST CONCORD.
Section
1. Corporation established; its purposes
and powers.
2. First meeting, how and by whom called.
Section
3. Act may be repealed ; takes eflfect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. That James McCauley, Nazaine Isabelle, Samuel coi-poratiou es-
McCauley, Joseph Phaneuf, Magloire Bienvenue, Benjamin Oiuelette, purposlg' \^nd
Trank X. Larocque, Noe Phaneuf, Louis Rocheleau, Amable Bien- powers,
venue and Louis Boule, their associates, successors and assigns, be,
and hereby are, created a body corporate and politic b}^ the name of
the French Canadian Society in Concord, for such charitable and be-
nevolent purposes as the corporation may designate ; and by that
name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, to final judgment
and execution, and shall be, and hereby is, invested with all the pow-
ers and privileges, and made subject to all the liabilities, of corpora-
tions of a similar nature; and may take and hold real and personal
estate, by donation, bequest, or otherwise, for the purpose of said cor-
poration, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars,
and the same sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of at pleasure.
380 Chapter CLXI. [1874
First meeting, Sect. ^. The first five persons above named, or any three of them,
how and by n ^ f • r - -i • t • • •
whom called, may caii tne nrst meeting oi said, corporation, by giving notice to
each of the persons named in this act, or by one publication in some
daily newspaper published in said Concord, seven days, at least, prior
to said meeting.
Act maybe re- 8ect. 3. The legislature may alter, amend, or repeal this act at
eflectonits'pas- their pleasure, and the act shall take effect upon its passage.
^^^^- [Approved June 18, 18T4.]
CHAPTER CLXI.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WIXNIPESAUKEE CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. Its purposes and powers.
3. First meeting, how and by whom called.
SECTION'
4. Property exempt from taxation.
5. Act subject to repeal.
C. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- Section 1. That Silas G. Kellogg, Theodore L. Flood, George N.
Bryant, Otis Cole, Joseph H. Brown, B. Whiteraore Chase, Levi E.
AVeeks, A. H. Jewett, Hiram Gilman, L. P. Durgin, John L. Keelley,
William P. Hill, Chase W. Cawley, Dustin D. Keniston, Jeremiah
L. Jewett and Jason Titus, their associates, successors and assigns,
be, and hereby are, made a body politic and corporate, by the name
of the Winnipesaukce Camp Meeting Association, for the purpose of
promoting earnest Christianity, and the maintenance of an annual
camp meeting near the Weirs station, on the Boston, Concord and
Montreal railroad, in the town of Laconia, under the auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and for such other religious, moral,
charitable and benevolent purposes as said corporation may from time
to time designate ; and by that name may sue and be sued, defend
and be defended, use a common seal, and establish all by-laws and
regulations which may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
act; and have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the
liabilities, by law incident to corporations of a similar nature.
and^powera^ Sect. 2. Said Corporation may purchase, take and hold, by deed,
gift, bequest, devise or otherwise, real and personal estate, for the
purposes of said corporation, to an amount not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars, and may improve, use, sell and convey, or other-
wise dispose of the same at pleasure. It shall also have the power
to build and keep in repair such highways as it may deem necessary
for the purposes aforesaid, with the right to connect with and inter-
sect any other highway in said town of Laconia. Said corporation
is hereby vested with authority to appoint so many special agents to
act as conservators of the peace as it may deem necessary, who shall
have the same power and authority in relation to the disturbance of
1874]
Chapter CLXII.
381
any meeting, or any breach of the peace committed upon or about
the grounds or property of said corporation, as is given by existing
laws to poUce officers and watchmen.
Sect. 3. The three persons first named in this act are authorized First meeting,
to call the first meeting of the members of said corporation, at such whom called,
time and place as they shall see fit, within ninety days after the pas-
sage of this act, by personal notice to each member, or by publication
in such paper as they may designate, three weeks successively.
Sect. 4. Any real or personal estate held by said corporation as Property ex-
aforesaid, shall be exempt from taxation. aUon/*^"^
Sect. 5. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal Act subject to
this act whenever the public good shall require the same. '^*''"^'' '
Sect. 6. This act shall take effect from its passasre. Act takes effect
loiQ-r/T on Its passage.
[Approved June 18, 18^4.]
CHAPTER CLXII.
AN ACT TO incorporate THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
Sectiox
1. Qorporation established.
2. Its purpose.
3. May create a fund; how used.
4. Its members.
5. May make by-laws,
6. Board of trustees.
7. Officers of the corporation.
Section
8. Vacancies may be filled, how.
9. Place of annual meeting.
10. Bond of treasurer.
11. First meeting.
12. Act subject to repeal.
13. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hij the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Orren J. "Wait, John W. Simonds, Person C. Shaw, corporation i
John Proctor, H. W. Eaton, S. A. Hutchinson, John W. Tilton, Charles tabiished.
P. Smith, Isaac K. Gage, E. H. Wright, Nathan A. Moultou, John
P. Carr, Warren F. Daniell, Jesse Simonds and C. A. Tillinghast be
and are hereby constituted a corporation by the name Christian Ed-
ucational Society ; and they and such other persons as shall be duly
elected members of said corporation at the annual meeting thereof,
according to such by-laws as may hereafter be established, shall re-
main a body politic and corporate by said name, and shall be vested
with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the liabilities of
corporations of similar nature.
Sect. 2. Said corporation may establish and maintain an institution its purpose.
of learning for the education of youth of both sexes and for their in-
struction in useful knoM^edge, may erect and maintain suitable build-
ings therefor, and may hold real and personal estate to any amount
not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the income of which shall be
applied for the use and benefit of said institution.
382 Chapter CLXII. [1874
May create a Sec'T. 3. Said corporation may create and hold a permanent fund
n'sed.' to any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the principal of
Avhich shall remain intact, but said corporation may, at its option, use
the income thereof, or, if any portion of said fund shall stand in stock
or subscription notes and the like securities, may assess the same, as
its wants may require, not exceeding six per centum annually. These
incomes may be used and applied for the purpose of maintaining said
institution of learning, or in aiding indigent and worthy students in
acquiring an education. All gifts, donations, bequests or legacies
made or may hereafter be made to said corporation for the purposes
stated in this and in the preceding section shall be held as disposed
of according to the directions of the person or persons so giving or
bequeathing, if made at or before the time such property passes to
said corporation ; but if no such directions as aforesaid be made, said
gifts, bequests or legacies shall be deemed a part of said permanent
fund.
Its members. Sect. 4. The members of said corporation shall not exceed thirty-
six at any one time, a majority of whom shall be members of the
Christian denomination, so called, and shall be elected in three equal
classes for a term of three years, one class retiring annually.
May make by- Sect. 5. Said corporation shall have power to make such by-laws
^^^®" as are necessary and proper for the management of its affairs, pro-
vided they are not repugnant to the laws of the state nor to the pro-
visions of this act.
Board of trus- Sect. 6. Said Corporation at its annual meeting shall elect by bal-
lot a board of trustees, not exceeding fifteen in number, who shall be
divided into three equal classes and shall hold their office for a term
of three years or until others are duly chosen and qualified, one class
retiring annually. Said trustees shall be sworn to a faithful per-
formance of the duties of their office, and a majority of said trustees
shall be members of the Christian denomination, so called.
Officers of the Sect. 7. Said trustees shall annually elect from their number a
coi-pora ion. president of the board and of the corporation, a vice-president, sec-
retary, treasurer and an executive committee consisting of not less than
three persons. The persons named in the first section of this act
shall constitute the board of trustees until others be duly chosen,
yacanciesmay Sect, 8. Vacancies occurring in the members of aforesaid corpo-
be filled, how. . ^ t n ^ r^^ ^ r ^ -i
tion or board oi trustees may be tilled, for the unexpired terms, at a
legal meeting of said corporation or said board of trustees, wherein
the vacancies may exist.
Place of annu- Sect. 9. Annual meetings of said corporation shall be held at the
place where the aforesaid institution of learning is located.
Bond of treas- Sect. 10. The treasurer of said trustees and said corporation shall
give bonds, with two good and sufficient sureties, for the faithful per-
formance of duty in a sum that shall amply secure said trustees and
corporation for all funds and other property which may come into his
hands. Said sum shall not be less than the amount of funds en-
trusted to his keeping.
First meetmg. Sect. 11. The three first persons named in this act, or any two of
them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corpora-
tion by giving personal notice to said corporators herein named of
the time and place of said meeting.
1874] Chapter CLXIII. 383
Sect. 12. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repealAct subject to
this act, whenever in their opinion the public good requires it. ^^^^^ '
Sect. 13. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Act takes efl-ect
FA 1 -r r,4 ic,^ < -, i'& on Its passage.
[Approved June 24, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXIII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WINCHESTER CONGREGATIONAX, SABBATH-
SCHOOL.
Section
1. Corporation established; its powers.
2. First meeting.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That William M. Hubbard, Samuel Atherton, Mo wry corporation es-
tablishei'
powers.
Saben, Sampson W. Buffum, William Atherton, Ellery Albee, John '''^'^"'^'"'^' "^
I, Coxeter, Harvey Dudley, Levi Saben, William Smith, Lucius
Smith, La Fayette Buffum, Jonathan B. Atherton, Jedediah Buffum
and Alvin H. Holman, their associates and successors, be, and they
hereby are, made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the
Winchester Congregational Sabbath-School, and by that name may
sue and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgment and execu-
tion, and shall be vested with all the privileges, and subject to all
the liabilities incident to similar corporations; and may acquire and
hold, by donation or otherwise, real and personal estate not exceed-
ing ten thousand dollars in value at any one time, and may sell or
otherwise dispose of the same at pleasure.
Sect. 2. Said corporators, or any three of them, may call the first First meeting.
meeting of the corporation, at such time and place and in such man-
ner as they may deem expedient.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved June 36, 1874.] on its passage.
184
Chapters CLXIV, CLXV.
CHAPTER CLXIV,
[1874
AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF THE FRANIvLIN LODGE OF FREEMASONS.
Section
1. Act revived, and officers recognized.
2. Annual meeting; lodge may hold prop-
erty.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives in General
Court convened :
Act revived, SECTION 1. The provisions of the act, passed December 20, 1820,
ogniz^?^^^^°' entitled ''An act to incorporate Franklin Lodge, Number Six, in
Lebanon," are hereby revived and continued in force as fully and
completely as if hereby re-enacted anew ; and the officers of said
lodge are hereby recognized as duly and legally elected to their re-
spective offices under the provisions of said act hereby revived.
Annual meet- Sect. 2. The annual meeting of said lodge shall be holden at such
h^d property.^ time and upon such notice as the by-laws may prescribe, and said
lodge is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase and hold real
and personal estate, for the purposes of said lodge, to an amount not
exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in value.
Act takes effect Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
onits passage. [Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXV.
AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF THE MOUNT WASHINGTON LODGE OF
FREEMASONS.
Section
1. Act revived.
2. First meeting.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The act entitled "An act to incorporate the Mount
Washington Lodge of Freemasons," passed June session, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-three, shall be, and the same is
hereby, revived, and shall be in force.
Sect. 2. Section three of said act shall be so amended that the
first meeting of said corporation shall be called within six months
after the passage of this act, instead of thirtv davs as therein provid-
ed.
Act takes effect Sect. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
on its passage. [Approved June 26, 1874.]
Act revived.
First meeting.
1874] Chapters CLXVl, CLXVII. 385
CHAPTER CLXVL
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COLU^NIBIAN MANIITACTURING COMPANY TO IN-
CREASE ITS CAPITAL STOCK.
Section I Section
1. Capital 6tock increased. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hij the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. The Columbian Manufacturing Company, a corpoi\a- ^'J.^^SeJ,*'^^
tion duly established by law, and having its principal place of busi-
ness at Greenville, in the county of Hillsborough, is hereby authoriz-
ed to increase its capital stock not exceeding the sum of two hundred
thousand dollars.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
r 1 a on its passage.
[Approved June 26, 18/4.]
CHAPTER CLXVII.
AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF ANDOVER ACADEMY.
Section | Section
1. Charter revived. 4. Act takes effect on its passage.
2. First meeting, how and by whom called. 3. Corporation may lease or convey its
I property.
Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That the act passed June 23, 1848, incorporating Charter re-
Andover Academy, is hereby revived. vived.
Sect. 2. That John Proctor, John M. Shirley and Nathan Wood- First meeting,
bury, jr., or any two of them, may call a meeting of said corporation, ^^^mcaUed. ^
by posting notices therefor at two public places in said Andover,
ten days prior to such meeting, at which all necessary officers may
be chosen, and any business may be transacted.
Sect. 3. Said corporation may lease any of its buildings, or other corporation
property, or convey the same, to be used for educational purposes, in conveylts^prop^-
said town, to any association, corporation, or individuals, upon such ^'^■'^*
terms and conditions as it may see fit.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. xVct takes effect
[Approved June 26, 1874.] on its passage.
386 Chapter CLXVIII. [1874
CHAPTER CLXVIII.
AN ACT TO INCORPOEATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE ORPHANS' HOIVIE AT CON-
CORD.
Section
1. Corporation established ; its powers and
purposes.
2. First meeting, Avliat may be done at.
Section
3. Act subject to repeal; takes effect on its
passage.
Be if, enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That William W. Niles, Henry A. Coit, Joseph H.
tablished ' its ... .•
powers and Coit, Josiah Minot, Albert R. Hatch, and their associates are hereby
pmposes. incorporated and made a body politic, under the name of The Trus-
tees of the Orphans' Home of Concord. Said corporation may take,
hold and manage such property as may be obtained by donation or
otherwise, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for the
purpose of maintaining, educating, or otherwise aiding children who
have lost one or both parents, or are otherwise destitute, and of aid-
ing or supporting the families of deceased clergymen, and of persons
devoted to the care, nursing and relief of the sick and indigent.
They may also receive all such minor children as may be bound to
them under indenture by their surviving parent or guardian, accord-
ing to the laws of this state relating to master and apprentice, and
shall have the same rights and be subject to the same liabilities in
regard to children so bound, as other masters may lawfully have.
First meeting, Sect. 2. William W. Nilcs, Henry A. Coit and Joseph H. Coit,
done at. or any two of them, may call the first meeting of this corporation,
at which or any subsequent meeting associates may be admitted, va-
cancies supplied, and by-laws established, not inconsistent with the
laws of the state.
Act subject to Sect. 3. This act shall be subject to alteration, amendment or
effect on its ims'^ repeal by the general court ; and the same shall take effect and be in
sage. force from its passage.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CLXIX, CLXX. 387
CHAPTER CLXIX.
AN ACT CHANGING THE NAME OF THE FIRST UNIVEESALIST SOCIETY IN
WINCHESTER.
Section | Section
1. Name ehangecL I 2. Act takes eflect on Its pasaage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The First Univcrsalist Society in Winchester shall Name changed,
hereafter be known as the First Univcrsalist Parish in Winchester, and
by that name may sue and be sued, and generally shall have and possess
all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities of like corporations
under the laws of this state.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved June 26, 1874.] "" "^ ''''''^'•
CHAPTER CLXX.
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OE THE CHARTER OF THE UPRER CONNECTICUT RIVER
AND LAKE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, APPROVED JULY 1, 1803, AND OF THE
ACT IN AMENDJIENT THERETO, APPROVED JULY 1, 1867.
Section
1. Remedy of party injured by Baid compa-
ny.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Sp:ction 1, That if the owner of any property situated within the Remedy of par-
chartered limits of said named acts, shall feel that his property is said compauy.'^
damaged by any improvement made, or act done, by virtue of the
second section of said first mentioned act, he may apply by petition
to the supreme court of the judicial district of the county of Coos, in
which said property is situated, and said court shall cause said com-
pany to be cited to answer to the same; and said court shall cause
said matters and claim for damages, as well past as prospective, to be
tried and estimated by a committee of three disinterested freeholders
of said county, whose report being made to said court, and judgment
being rendered thereon, the same shall be final and conclusive be-
tween the parties ; provided, however, if either party is dissatisfied
with said report of the committee, and shall at the term of said court
at which such report is returned, apply to said court for a trial by
jury, the court shall grant such trial, and shall try and determine the
same ; and judgment being rendered upon the verdict of the jury
shall be final.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved June 26, 1874.] • on its passage.
388
Chapter CLXXI.
CHAPTER CLXXI.
[1874
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HINSDALE SAVINGS BANK.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. Duties in regard to deposits.
3. Limitation as to real estate; duties as to
loans.
4. Not to issue bills ; as to compensation of
officers; books to be open to inspection.
5. Officers, their election and tenure of of-
fice.
6. Members may be chosen; a quorum.
Section
7. May make by-laws.
8. May have a seal; bound by acts of treas-
urer.
9. Deposit made by minor may be paid to
him ; not liable as trustee of minor.
10. First meeting, how and by whom called.
11. Act subject to repeal; takes effect on its
passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That C. J. Amltlon, Geo. Robertson, Geo. S. Wilder,
tabiished. ^ jjg^^.y Hopkins, Lorenzo Stebbins, Geo. W. Lewis, Geo. E.
Howe, J. S. Beaman, T. W. Sabin, C. N. Welch, Philip Barrett,
Henry M. Jones, J. R. Holman, F. W. Robertson, C F. Polley and
Robt. McCoughren be, and they hereby are, constituted a corporation
by the name of the Hinsdale Savings Bank, to be located in the town
of Hinsdale, and they and such others as shall be duly elected members
of said corporation, as hereinafter provided, shall be and remain a body
politic and corporate by said name, and shall be vested with all the
powers and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities of corpo-
rations of a similar nature.
Duties in re- Sect. 2. That for the purpose of enabling industrious persons of
fts'"'^ *° depos- q\\ descriptions to invest such portions of their earnings as they can
conveniently spare in a safe and profitable manner, the said corpora-
tion shall be capable of receiving from any person or persons so dis-
posed, any deposit or deposits of money, Avhich they shall use, man-
age and improve for the benefit and advantage of the person or per-
sons by or for whom the same shall be respectively deposited, and the
net income and profit of all deposits of money received by said cor-
poration shall be paid out and distributed in just proportions among
the several persons by and for whom the said deposits shall have been
made, agreeably to such reasonable rules and by-laws as may be
established by said corporation; and the amount of such deposits may
be withdrawn by the persons entitled thereto at such reasonable
times and in such manner as said corporation may direct and appoint,
or according to such lawful conditions and limitations as the deposit-
ors, agreeably to the regulations of said corporation, may have re-
spectively prescribed and annexed to their deposits.
Limitation as Sect. 3. Said Corporation shall be Capable of receiving and holding
duties a/to^*^' such buildings and real estate as shall be necessary and convenient
loans. £qj. managing its aflfairs, provided such real estate held at any one
time for such purposes shall not exceed in value, at the time of the
purchase or acceptance thereof by said corporation, the sum of ten
thousand dollars ; and the said corporation shall be further allowed
to take, hold and dispose of any real estate whatever, which may be
mortgaged or pledged for the security of its loans or debts due to it,
or which may be conveyed to or taken by said corporation in satisfac-
1874] Chapter CLXXI. 389
tion or discharge of debts, demands or liabilities which shall have
been previously contracted or incurred ; and provided, further, that
of the gross amount of deposits in said bank the sum of forty per
cent, at least shall be loaned upon real estate securities in this or
some other of the New England states, or on notes of individuals
with sufficient securities or good collaterals.
Sect. 4. Said corporation shall not make and issue any bill or Not to issue
^ ^ . 1 , 1,1 • 1 1. 1 bills; as to com-
promissory note to circulate as currency, ana the president and mem-pensationof of-
bers of said corporation shall receive no compensation for their {^^'^^'J^^Jj^^^q^^*^
services in said bank, nor derive any emolument therefrom ; provided, spectiou.
however, that a reasonable allowance may from time to time be made
to their treasurer or secretary, and such agents as the business of the
institution shall render necessary. And the books and accounts of
the corporation shall be open at all times to the inspection of the
governor of this state, of the bank commissioners, or of a committee
of either branch of the legislature.
Sect. 5. The officers of this corporation shall consist of a presi- officers; their
dent, a treasurer, who shall give bonds in a sum not less than twenty- teuur e'er office,
five thousand dollars, and when the deposits shall amount to one
hundred thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars additional bonds shall
be required, and ten thousand dollars additional bonds for every one
hundred thousand dollars deposits thereafter, for the faithful discharge
of his duty ; a secretary, and as many trustees and directors as the
corporation may deem necessary, and such other officers as may be
required for managing the affairs of the institution — which officers
shall be elected by ballot, shall hold their offices for one year and
until others are chosen and have accepted in their stead, and shall be
sworn to the faithful performance of the duties of their offices re-
spectively.
Sect. 6. This corporation shall, at their first meeting, under this Members may
act, and at any subsequent annual meeting thereafter, have power to quorum. '
elect by ballot any other person or persons, not exceeding fifty, in-
cluding those who are at the time of such election members of said
corporation; and any number not less than seven shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting which shall
have been duly warned in accordance with the provisions of the by-
laws of said corporation.
Sect. 7. This corporation shall have power to make such by-laws May make by-
as are necessary and proper for the management of the affitiirs of the^''^"'®-
institution ; provided, however, they are not repugnant to the con-
stitution and laws of the state.
Sect. 8. This corporation may have a common seal which they May have a
, 1 1 n 1 1 s^'**! ' l>ound by
may change or renew at pleasure, and all deeds, conveyances, grants, acts of treas-
covenants and agreements made by the treasurer, or any other per-
son by their authority, shall be good and valid in law; and said cor-
poration may sue and be sued, and shall have power to prosecute and
defend to final judgment and execution, by the name and style afore-
said.
Sect. 9. Whenever any deposit shall be made by any minor, the by^mluor'^ay
trustees of said corporation may at their discretion pay to such de- not^''' uabi^^'^l
positor such sum as may be due to him or her, although no guardian ^q/'^*^ °^ ™^'
shall have been appointed for such minor, or the guardian shall not
390 Chapter CLXXIL [1874
have authorized the drawing of the same, and the check, receipt or
acquittance of such minor shall be as valid as if the same was exe-
cuted by the guardian of said minor or said minor, was of full age, if
such deposit was made personally by said minor ; nor shall this cor-
poration be charged as trustees in any action on account of any de-
posit made by any minor.
First meeting, Sect. 10. C. J. Amidon, George Robertson and Geo. S. Wilder,
how and by or any two of them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of
whom called. •' , ,.. -^ . /■!• t i f
said corporation, by giving personal notice of the time and place of
such meeting to each of the corporators herein named, or by leaving
a like notice at the place of abode of each, at least ten days before
the day of such meeting.
Act subject to Sect. 11. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this laAV
efl^ctonitspal^^^®^^ ^^ their opinion the public good shall require it, and the same
sage. shall take effect from and after its passage.
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXII.
AN ACT TO INCOKPORATE THE GRAXITE STATE FmE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Section i Section
1. Corporation establislied;. powers and 4. May adoi^t by-laws.
purposes. 5. Returns and taxes.
2. Capital stock ; limitation as to real estate. I G. Act subject to repeal.
3. First meeting, how and by whom called. I 7. Act takes eflect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That George W . Burleigh, John W. Sanborn, Edward
erf 'and' ^pm-: A. Kollins, Oliver H. Lord, Hiram R. Roberts, Micajah C. Burleigh,
poses. Nathaniel Wells, Samuel C. Fisher, Charles Woodman and Frank
Jones, and their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they are
hereby, incorporated and made a body politic by the name of The
Granite State Fire Insurance Company, to be located at Somersworth,
in the county of Strafford, with authority to have and exercise all
the powers and privileges incident to corporations of a similar na-
ture, for the purpose of making and effecting insurance against losses
by fire.
Capital stock; Sect. 2. Said Corporation shall have a capital stock of fifty thou-
reafestate.^^ *** sand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with liberty to
increase the capital stock to five hundred thousand dollars ; and may
acquire and hold real estate, for its own use, to the value of twenty-
five thousand dollars, exclusive of such real estate as may be taken
for debt, or may be held for collateral security.
First meeting, Sect. 3. Said George W. Burleigh and John W. Sanborn may call
wiiom caiied^^^ ^^® ^^'^^ meeting of the members of the corporation by an advertise-
ment printed in some newspaper in said county of Strafford, at least
fifteen days before the day named for such meeting.
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Chapter CLXXIII.
391
Sj;ct. 4. Scaid corporation, at any meeting duly held, may adopt May adopt by
such by-laws and regulations, not repugnant to the laws of this state,
as shall be convenient and necessary for the proper management of
the business and concerns of the corporation and the prosecution of
fire insurance.
Sect. 5. The treasurer of said corporation shall make the returns, Ketums and
and said corporation shall be taxed in the manner provided in chap-
ter ninety of the laws of 1870, entitled "An act in amendment of
the charter of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company," ap-
proved July 2, 1870.
Sect. 6. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal Act subject to
this act whenever the public good may require it.
Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. KassS'*"''
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXIII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ALTON BAY CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION OF
THE ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Section
1. Corporation established; its powers and
purpo ses.
2. First meeting, how and by whom called.
Section
3. Property exempt from taxation.
4. Act subject to repeal.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represc7itatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. John Couch, James G. Smith, Theodore H. roixl,co^iJg"™«o^e8.
Benjamin Young, John D. Swain, James W. C. Pickering and powers and
George B. Choate, their associates and successors, be, and they here-
by are, made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Alton
Bay Camp Meeting Association of the Advent Christian Church, for
such religious, moral, charitable and benevolent purposes as said
corporation may from time to time designate, and by that name may
sue and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgment and execu-
tion, and shall be vested with all the powers and privileges, and
subject to all the liabilities, of corporations of a similar nature ; and
may take and hold real and personal estate, by deed, donation, be-
quest or otherwise, for the purposes of said corporation, to an amount
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and may sell, convey or other-
wise dispose of the same, at pleasure.
Sect. 2. That the said John Couch, James G. Smith, Theodore H. First meeting,
lord, or any two oi them, may call the first meeting oi said corpora- whom caUed.
tion, by publishing a notice thereof in the " World's Crisis," two
weeks successively, the last publication to be at least ten days prior
to said meeting.
Sect. 3. That the said estate, real and personal, so held by said Property ex-
,.,,,, ^ . ^ •' emptflrom tax-
corporation, snail be exempt irom taxation. atiou.
393 Chapter CLXXIV. [1874
Act subject to Sect. 4. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act, or
any of its provisions, whenever in their opinion the public good may
require it.
Takes effect on Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passao-e.
its passage. pa t t r^n -low^ -, r o
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXIV.
AN ACT TO mCORPORATE THE ANCIEXT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS, LODGE NUM-
BER TWO, OF THE CITY OF JIANCHESTER.
Section
1. Corporation established; its powers and
purposes.
2. May hold real estate.
Section
3. May make by-laws.
4. First meeting, how and by whom called.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
tibMied •'^'^ its Section 1. That Daniel F. Healey, Daniel McKenna, Peter Mi-
powers and Ion, John J. Hayes, John Hogan, Patrick J. O'Neil, Thomas P.
puiposes. Glancy, James Gillis, John F. Sullivan and John Willis, their asso-
ciates, successors and assigns, be, and hereby are, made a body politic
and corporate, by the name of Ancient Order of Hibernians, Lodge
Number Two, to be established at Manchester, New Hampshire, for
the purposes of charity and mutual benefit, with all the powers and
privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions,
common to corporations of that kind.
May hold real Sect. 2. Said corporation shall have the power to hold real estate
estate. j.^ ^^^ amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, to sue and be sued,
and do all the business incident to the purposes of the corporation.
May make by- Sect. 3. Said corporation shall have the power to make all the
needful rules and regulations for the government and management of
its affairs.
First meeting, Sect. 4. The first three grantees, or either two of them, named in
wiiom caUed. ^ this act, shall have the power to call the first meeting of the corpora-
tion, by notice to each grantee in writing, at least one week before
the day of the meeting.
^*^U^^^Lo?o°* Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
on Its Utisoage. _ _ i c
[Approved June 26, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CLXXV, CLXXVI. 393
CHAPTER CLXXV.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE LODGE NUMBER ONE, AJSTCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNI-
ANS, NASHUA.
Section
1. Corporation established ; its powers.
2. May adopt by-laws.
Section
3. First meeting:, how and by whom called.
4. Act takes efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. That Patrick Lonergan, Dennis D. Sullivan, Thos. SJCd °?tf *
F. Wills, Patrick McQuade, John Moran, Michael O'Connell, John rovers. *
Mulvanerty, Martin Bordman, Michael Welsh, Robert Lee, Michael
Hallisey, John McCauly, John Pollen, John Cullin, Thos. Burns, - '
Cornelius O'Neil, Barney Moran, John Doyle, Florcence Sullivan,
James Degnan, their associates, successors and assigns, shall be, and
they hereby are, constituted a corporation by the name of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians of Nashua, Lodge Number One, and shall be,
and hereby are, vested with all the privileges and powers which by
law are incident to corporations of a similar nature, and by that name
may hold property for the objects of the society, by gifts, grants, be-
quests, purchase or otherwise, any estate, real or personal, which
shall not exceed in value twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sect. 2. The aforesaid society may adopt such rules and by-laws May adopt by-
the same not being repugnant to the laws of this state as they may ^''^"^"
deem expedient.
Sect. 3. The three first named in this act may call the first meet-fii"^* meeting,
mg 01 this said society, by giving notice in one ot the daily papers wiiom caUed.
printed in Nashua, at least one week before the date of said meeting-
is to be held.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 1, 18T4.] ''' "^^'^^'^"
CHAPTER CLXXVI.
AN ACT TO CHi\:NGE THE NAME AND INCREASE THE MEMBERS OF THE NATION-
AL SAVINGS BANK.
Section
1. Name changed.
2. New grantees.
Section
3. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section L The National Savings Bank, a corporation duly estab- Name changed,
lished at Concord, in the county of Merrimack, shall hereafter be
called and known by the name of the Concord Savings Bank.
394
Chapter CLXXVII.
[1874
New grantees. Sect. 2. Edward L. Know]ton, Sargent C. Whitcher, Augustine
C. Pierce, Benjamin A. Kimball, Ephraira W. Woodward, Joseph C.
A. Hill, George Jones, Asa P. Gate, Isaac Story, Thomas A. Ambrose,
Gyrus Hill, George G. Fogg, Albert B. Wood worth, Edwin G. Bai-
ley, John Proctor, John M. Shirley, Edward B. S. Sanborn, George
W. Crockett, John E. Robertson, Stillman Humphrey, William B.
Stearns, Jonathan T. Underbill, John F. Jones, Samuel H. Dow,
Mason W. Tappan, George E. Jenks, Alvah W. SuUoway, Ai B.
Thompson, Joseph Smith, John M. Hill, Albert Langmaid, Lowell
Eastman, Prescott F. Stevens, Dustin W. Waldron, Charles H. Rob-
erts and Joseph M. Greeley, are hereby made members of said Con-
cord Savings Bank corporation as fully and completely as if they had
been named as grantees in the original act of incorporation.
Act takes effect Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
on its passage. ta iTi-i-in-^in
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXVII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TIOGA MILLS.
Section
1. Coi'poration establisliecL
2. Its purposes and powers; capital stock
$100,000.
3. First meeting, how and by whom called,
and what may be done thereat.
Section
4. Subject to repeal ; takes effect on its pas-
sage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Corporation es
tabllshed.
Its purjioscs
and powers ;
capital stock
$100,000.
Section 1. Samuel B. Smith, Albert G. Folsom, Woodbury S.
Melcher, their successors, associates and assigns are hereby incorpo-
rated and made a body politic and corporate, by the name of The
Tioga Mills, and shall be, and hereby are, vested with all the powers
and privileges, and made subject to all the liabilities incident to manu-
facturing corporations.
Sect. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to commence and
carry on the business of manufacturing cotton and woolen goods, or
either of them, and other textile fabrics, and the usual branches of
machinery necessary for carrying on the same, and the various
branches of the mechanic arts usually connected therewith, at Laconia,
in the county of Belknap, and to purchase and erect such mills,
buildings and works as may be necessary and convenient for carrying
on the business of the corporation, and, for that purpose, may
acquire, by purchase or otherwise, such real and personal estate as
may be necessary or useful in conducting such business. The capi-
tal stock of said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand
dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.
1874] Chapter CLXXViJI. ^^^
\
Sect. 3. Either of the persons named in the first section m.- caUT^!fJ^ Tn^^ y^
the first meeting of said corporation, by giving to each of the gn>tees ^'•■^^?"^vuai' tnay
named in this act notice in writing of the time, place and olectSYjeaoBctberea •
thereof, at least six days prior thereto ; at which meeting, or any ad-
journment thereof, associates may be admitted, a clerk chosen, by-
laws for the government of the corporation be adopted, all necess!(xry
oflficers for the management of its affairs be chosen, thy modeof chfj-
ing future meetings be determined, and any other business necessary
to complete the organization and carry into elfect the purposes of this ^' "'
act be transacted.
Sect. 4. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act when- subject to -
ever the public good requires such alteration, amendment or repeal :}elaou'u8\
and this act shall take effect upon its passage. ^'"^s®-
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXVIII.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE Hn^LSBOROUGH LAND AND WATER-POWER
COMPANY TO ISSUE BONDS.
Section i Section
1. May issue bonds and mortgage property. | 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1 . The Hillsborough Land and Water Power Company May issue
are authorized to issue the bonds of said corporation for a sum not nXtgageVop-
exceeding twenty thousand dollars, with interest at seven per cent., ^^''^•
secured by a mortgage of the property of the corporation.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 1, 1874.] oui'vs passage.
ma\ le(
in Vi
396 CHAPrEES CLXXIX, CLXXX. [1874
CHAPTER CLXXIX.
AN Aprr TO TNCOEPO-^TE "THE TOETSMOUTH SOCIETY TO PREVENT CRUELTY
_Ci lU X. ^^ ANIHIALS."
CTJ.J Section
?^^ , 11 >ryperty to the amount of
jie? ,May hold- '■ ■'
1\ / $50,000. , , „ .
' I . [ uff, by whom called.
' First mf ^' •'
4. May establish by-laws.
5. Subject to repeal.
6. Act takes effect on its passage.
J ., icted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
p , convened:
Corporation esi ACTION 1. That Icliabod Goodwin, Daniel ]\Iarcy, Sarah T.
tabhshed. ^kering, Margaret W. Hanen, William H. T. Hackett and Eliza-
eth C. Pearson, their associates and successors, be, and hereby are,
created a body politic, by the name of " The Portsmouth Society to
Prevent Cruelty to Animals."
May ho]f'"'°P" Sect. 2. Said society may hold real or personal property, which
erty to;^ it may acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise, in a sum not exceeding
$5o,or fifty thousand dollars.
J,;,. meetiDs, Sect. 3. Any one of the above corporators may call the first meet-
u/whom call- • j? • i . • • i
p. mg of said corporation m such manner as may seem proper.
May estabUsh Sect. 4. Such Corporation may make and establish such by-laws forits
^" ^^^' own government as may seem best to subserve the purposes for which
said corjDoration is established, and to afFoi'd greater protection to
animals, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state.
Subject to re- Sect. 5. The legislature may at any time amend or repeal this
act.
Takes effect on Sect. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
itspassage. [; Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXX.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ALPINE AQUEDUCT COMPANY AT GORHAM.
ibj' .xiM iV-
Section
1. Corporation established; its purpose.
3. Capital stock.
3. Annual meeting.
4. Powers of the corporation.
5. Town to have the use of the water.
S.
6. Ill jy meeting, how called, and what may
be done thereat.
7. Prior action ratified.
8. Other acts repealed.
9. Subject to repeal; takes effect on its pas-
sage.
Se it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Warren Xoyes, Albert S. Twitchell, Chas. W.
JiS-p?6?' "' Bean, Augustus Evans, Wesley Wight, Rufus F. Ingalls, Thomas
GifFord, Pierson G. Evans, and their asssociates, successors and
1874] Chapter CLXXX. 397
assigns shall be, and arc hereby made a body politic and corporate,
by the name of the Alpine A(|ueduct Company, for the purpose of
bringing fresli water into the village of Gorham, in the town of Gor-
ham, in subterraneous pipes, and by that name may sue and be sued,
prosecute and defend to final judgment and execution, and are hereby
vested with all the powers and subject to all liabilities incident to cor-
porations of a similar nature.
Sect. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall consist of such Capital stock,
number of shares, not exceeding one hundred dollars each, as may
be from time to time determined by tlie directors of said corporation,
not exceeding in the whole the sum of ten thousand dollars.
Sect. 3. The annual meeting of said corporation shall be holden Annual mcet-
at such time and place as may be prescribed by the by-laws or ap-'"°'
pointed by the directors, at which meeting not less than three nor
more than seven directors shall be chosen by ballot. The directors
may call a special meeting of the corporation whenever it shall be
necessary, , giving such notice as the by-laws may prescribe.
Sect. 4. Said corporation is empowered to purchase and hold, or powers of the
having purchased to still hold, in fee simple or otherwise, any real ^^^^i'""^"'^®"-
estate necessary for carrying into effect the purposes of this act, not
exceeding in value at the time of its purchase the sum of five thou-
sand dollars ; and said corpox-ation is authorized to enter upon and
break up ground and dig ditches in any land or enclosure, or in any
street, highway or common through which it may be necessary for
said aqueduct to pass, for the purpose of placing such pipes as may
be necessary for building said aqueduct, and to relay and repair the
same, subject to such i-egulations as to the safety of the citizens and
the security of the public travel, as may be prescribed by the select-
men of the tOAvn of Gorham ; provided that in case said corporation,
and the owners of land through which said aqueduct may pass shall
not agree, either upon the place of laying the same or upon the
amount of compensation to be made for the damage done to said
land, by said corporation, or the owner of said land shall be unknown,
either party may apply to the selectmen of said town of Gorham to have
the same laid out and the damage determined, and the said selectmen
shall appoint a time and place of hearing, and give notice thereof in
the same manner as is now provided by law for laying out highways.
If either party is aggrieved by the report of the selectmen upon the
question of damages, they may be entitled to trial by jury, in the
same manner as is provided in the case of appeals from the decision
of selectmen in laying out highways.
Sect. 5. The said town of Gorham shall have the use of the Town to hare
water for extinguishing fires and such other purposes as may beneces-water^
sary on paying a ftiir compensation therefor, and said corporation may
make any contract with said town and with such other persons and
corporations as may be deemed necessary by the directors to carry out
this act.
Sect. 6. Either of the persons named in this act, may call the First meetiug-,
first meeting of the corporation by personal notice to all the grantees, ^°iSt^\i!ay'^ be
at which meeting associates may be elected, by-laws adopted, and a "^"^"^ *''^^'^^''*'-'
president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers and agents
as may be deemed necessary may be chosen.
398 Chapter CLXXXI. [1874
Prior action Sect. 7. The actioii of saicl corporation prior to tliis act is hereby
ratified and approved ; provided however that it shall have been done
in conformity to the meaning of this charter.
other acts re- Sect. 8. All Other acts incorporating any aqueduct company or
companies, in said town of Gorhani, are hereby repealed.
Subject to re- Sect. 9. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this actwhen-
FecVon'i^s'pas-^^^^ ^^® public good may require the same, and this act shall take
sage. effect on its passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXXI.
AN ACT TO INCOKPORATE BROWN'S LUINIBER COMPANY OF WHITEFIELD.
Section
1. Corporation est-ablished.
2. Capital stock $500,000.
3. Purposes and powers of the corporation.
Section
4. May establish by-laws.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reiiresentatives in General
Court convened:
Corporation es- SECTION 1. Alison L. Brown and Warren G. Brown of White-
field, Nathan R. Perkins of Jefferson, in the county of Coos, and
Aaron Ordway of Lawrence, Massachusetts, their associates, succes-
sors and assigns, are hereby made a body politic and corporate, by
the name and style of Brown's Lumber Company of Whitefield, and
by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, to final
judgment and execution, may have and use a common seal, and the
same may break, alter or renew at pleasure.
Capital stock Sect. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the
' ■ sum of five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be issued in shares
of the number and value provided in the by-laws of said corporation.
Purposes and Sect. 3. The business of said corporation shall be the purchase
corporation, ^ and Sale of lands, and the manufacture of lurabei', in the counties of
Coos and Grafton, and to this end the capital stock may be invested
and employed in lands, mills, improvements, means of transportation,
and such other property as may be essential to the proper manage-
ment of said business.
May establish Sect. 4. Said corporation may make and establish a code of by-
by-iaws. laws, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state, for its
government and the issue of its stock, and the same may alter or
amend as therein provided.
Act takes effect Sect. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
on its passage. .
its passage.
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CLXXXII, CLXXXIIL 399
CHAPTER CLXXXII.
AN ACT IX ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FREEWILL BAPTIST
PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.
Section
1. Corporation may hold its meetings in
Massachusetts.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted bij the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. That the said Freewill Baptist Printing Establishment Corporation
be, and hereby is, authorized to hold its meetings, transact business, "Joetings in ^ *
and hold and control property in the state of Massachusetts, and its -Massachusetts.
secretary and treasurer may reside in said state.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 1, 1874.] onitspassage.
CHAPTER CLXXXIIL
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE OCEANIC HOTEL COMPANY TO ISSUE BONDS.
Section
1. Corporation may issue bonds and mort-
gage its property.
section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Ho2ise of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. It shall be lawful for the Oceanic Hotel Company, a corporation
corporation duly established by the laws of this state, at any meeting {^^jj^^g ^^jf^|
of its stockholders, duly notified and held for that purpose within n^^o^tgage its
one year from the passage of this act, to fund its debt, by issuing
bonds with interest coupons, in common form, secured by a mortgage
of its real or personal estate, in Gosport, made to such trustee or
trustees resident in this state, as may be selected for that purpose, and
payable at such times and at such rates of interest as said corporation
may determine.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Act takes effect
^ , _ X a on its passage-
[Approved July 1, 1874.]
400 Chapter CLXXXIV. [1874
CHAPTER CLXXXIV.
AJSr ACT TO INCORPORATE ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE AND
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF NASHUA.
Section
1. Corporation established; may hold prop-
erty.
2. May adopt by-laws.
Sbctiok
3. First meeting, how and by whom called.
4. Act takes efl'ect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate o,nd House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Timothy B. Crowley, David Lonergan, John
hold property. Lyoiis, Michael Hallisey, John Joyce and Michael Downing, their as-
sociates, successors and assigns, shall be, and they hereby are, consti-
tuted a corporation by the name of St. Mary's Catholic Total Absti-
nence and Benevolent Society of Nashua, and shall be, and hereby are,
vested with all the privileges and powers which by law are incident
to corporations of a similar nature, and by that name may hold prop-
erty for the objects of the society, by gift, grant, bequest, purchase
or otherwise, any estate, real or personal, which shall not exceed in
value twenty-five thousand dollars.
May adopt by- Sect. 3. The aforesaid society may adopt such rules and by-laws
the same not being repugnant to the laws of this state, as they may
deem expedient.
First meeting, Sect. 3. Any three of the above named persons may call the first
wh^m called, meeting of this said society, by giving notice of the same by causing
said notice to be published at least once in any of the daily newspa-
pers printed at Nashua, at least one week before the date such meet-
ing is to be held.
Act takes effect Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
on its passage. [-^pp^.^^g^ j^^ly 1^ 1874.]
1874]
Chapters CLXXXV, CLXXXVI.
CHAPTER CLXXXV.
401
AN ACT IN RELATION TO AND IN AMENDISIENT OF SECTION TWO OF AN ACT TO
INCORPORATE THE PORTSMOUTH TRUST AND GUARANTY COMPANY, AP-
PROVED JULY 1-2, 1871, CHAPTER FORTY-TWO OF THE LAWS PASSED JUNE
SESSION, 1871.
Section
1. Said coi'poration may become surety on
official bonds.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened:
Section 1. Section two of said act shall be amended by adding at said corpora- •
the close thereof the following words: "The said Portsmouth Trust ^'^^^ggfj^i-y^jj
and Guaranty Company are authorized and empowered to become ^^'^^^^ bonds.
sureties upon the official bonds of any person, to the United States,
to any state, to any judge of probate, or to any party, given for the
faithful performance of the duties of the principal giving the bonds."
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passasre. ^^\ t'^^^es effect
[Approved July 2, 1874.] on its passage.
CHAPTER CLXXXVI.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE SOMERSWORTH SAYINGS BANK.
Section
1. Bank may hold real estate.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The Somersworth Savings Bank is hereby authorized Bank may hold
to purchase and hold real estate, to an amount not exceeding fifty real estate,
thousand dollars.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. ^ - Act takes effect
[Approved July 7, 1874.] onits passage.
/
402 Chaptek CLXXXVII. [18T4
CHAPTER CLXXXVII.
AN ACT TO INCOKPORATE THE GKAFTON COUNTY LUMBER COilPANY.
Section
1. Coi-poration established; its purposes
and powers.
2. Capital stock.
Section
3. May mortgage its property.
4. May establish by-laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Daniel Saunders, Nathan H. Weeks, William A.
purposes and JRussell, Charles W. Saunders and Caleb Saunders, are hereby made
powers. ^ corporation by the name of the Grafton County Lumber Company,
for the purpose of cutting, manufacturing, carrying to market and
selling lumber ; and for these purposes said corporation may purchase
and hold real estate, timber lands, erect, own and maintain mills, and
do any and all legitimate acts necessary to carry on said business.
Capital stock. Sect. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be divided in-
to shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; the amount
of which capital stock shall be fixed at the time of the organization
of the corporation, and may thereafter be increased or diminished by
the stockholders at any meeting called for that purpose.
May mortgage Sect. 3. Said corporation, by a vote of two-thirds of its stock,
represented at any legal meeting called for that purpose, may pledge
or mortgage its real estate, property or franchises, to secure the pay-
ment of its debts and the performance of any of its legal obligations*
May establish Sect. 4. For the holding of its meetings, the election or appoint-
by-iaws. ment of its officers, and the management of its business, said corpo-
ration may make and establish by-laws not inconsistent with the laws
of the state.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874]
Chapter CLXXXVIII.
CHAPTER CLXXXVIII.
403
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE GUARA2JTY SAVINGS BANK.
Section
f). May hold real estate.
7. First meeting, l)y wliom and how called.
Act subject to repeal.
Act takes effect on its passage.
Any savings bank may avail itself of the
provisions of this act, — on what condi-
tions.
Guaranty fund liable to taxation like
stock in banks ; treasurer to return lists
of depositors for that purpose.
8.
!).
10.
11.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. May receive deposits on terms prescribed
or agreed upon; and invest and use its
funds in its discretion.
3. Shall have a permanent guaranty fund;
amount and conditions thereof.
4. May receive special deposits to constitute
said fund; interest and dividends on
deposits.
5. Special depositors to be members of the
corporation by virtue tliereof ; rights and
liabilities of members. Officers of the
corporation and their powers.
Be it enacted bij the Senate and House of Rejrresentatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Onslow Sfceavns, Nathaniel White, John Kimball, Corporation es-
Josiah Minot, John M. Hill, John H. Pearson, Asa Fowler, Benja-
min A. Kimball, Woodbridge Odiin, Edward L. Knowlton, James
B,. Hill, George Jones, Mason W. Tappan, Samuel K.. Dow, John
Proctor, and theij- associates, successors and assigns are hereby made
a body politic and corporate under the name of the Guaranty Sav-
ings Bank, to be located at Concord, with all the rights and privi-
leges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities, except so far as oth-
erwise provided in this charter, which by the laws of this state are
incident to savings bank corporations.
Sect. 2. Said bank may receive deposits of money and valuable May receive de-
...f. 1. J T.' posits on terms
securities irom any person or persons on sucli terms and conditions prescribed or
as may be prescribed by it or its directors, or be agreed to by the parties affnnvest°ami
making the same ; and may invest, use and manage the moneys de- itl^t^s^crelYdu^"
posited in or belonging to it, in such securities and stocks, and in such
ways, as may be for the convenience and advantage of the bank, sub-
ject however to the provisions of section three of the act of July
ninth, A. D, 1869, in relation to savings banks.
Sect. 3. For the better protection and security of the general de- Shall have a
positors of the bank, it shall provide for and have a permanent guar-|uar;mtyVud;
anty fund of not less than fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to in- conditious*^
crease the same at pleasure to not exceeding two hundred thousand *'^^^®°*-
dollars. Said fund shall be kept and maintained as a guaranty to
the general deposits for the repayment of said deposits according to
the terms and conditions thereof, in case of any insufficiency of the
assets of the bank to pay all of its liabilities ; and the general de-
posits shall have precedence of payment from the assets of the bank
before payment from said assets on account of said guaranty fund.
And no business in the way of receiving general deposits shall be
transacted by the bank imless the amount of fifty thousand dollars
shall then have been provided for said guaranty fund, nor to a greater
amount of general deposits than five hundred thousand dollars un-
less the amount of one hundred thousand dollars shall then have been
provided for said fund.
404 Chapter CLXXXVIII. [1874
May receive Sect. 4. Special deposits may be received by tlie bank to consti-
it^*^to'consStute tute the guaranty fund befoi-e mentioned ; which shall not be with-
teres/aud'diVT-cli'awn except by the permission of the bank, nor at any time so as to
dends on de- redvice Said fund below the amount required for the same as hereinbe-
fore provided. The general deposits shall be entitled to such rate
of interest from the bank as may be prescribed or agreed to, not
however in any case to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum ;
and the special deposits for the guaranty fund shall not be entitled to
any interest, but instead thereof shall have all the net income and
profits of the bank above its expenses, the interest due to the general
deposits as aforesaid, and all losses of the bank. And said net in-
come and profits may be divided proportionally among said special
deposits, at such times and in such ways as the bank or its directors
may order ; provided, however, that such dividends shall be made
only when the net resources of the bank, above its expenses, its lia-
bilities for the general deposits, and the guaranty fund aforesaid, shall
be sufficient to pay the same.
Special deposit- Sect. 5. The special depositors for the guaranty fund, and their
beraot^the^cor- assigns, shall by virtue thereof become and be members of the cor-
u°e thereof- "^"Po^"^'^^^^^' and have and exercise all the rights and powers of the
ris-iits and lia- same : and said depositor beina; entitled to one vote for each one
nilitiGS 01 m ©111- X kj?
bers; officers of hundred dollars of his said deposit. But no member shall incur, or
and'tifeir^po^v^ be subject to, any individual liability, in any case, for any debts or
®'''^" liabilities of the corporation. And the management and control of
the affairs of the corpoi-ation shall be vested in a board of not less
than seven nor more than ten directors, to be chosen by the members
of the corporation. A majority of said board, at any meeting duly
notified, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business ;
and said board shall have the power to make and establish such rules
and regulations as they may think proper for transacting and govern-
ing the business of the corporation.
,, ,, , Sect. G. Said bank may purchase and hold real estate to the value
estate. when purchased of not exceeding forty thousand dollars ; and may
hold such amounts as may at any time be deemed advisable, for the
security and satisfaction of any dues to it.
First meeting, Sect. 7. Any four of the six grantees first named may call the
how^aUMi.^'^ first meeting of the corporation by notice in writing to each grantee,
or by one publication in some newspaper printed at Concord, at least
one week before the day of meeting.
Act subject to Sect. 8. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act, Avhen-
ever in their opinion the public good shall require.
Act takes effect Sect. 9. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Any^saviiigs " Skci'. 10. Any savings bank that shall elect so to do by a majority
Itsei'f of tL^pri! of '^1^^ members of the corporation present at a legal meeting, duly
visions of this galled for that purpose, may avail itself of the provisions of this act,
act,— onwliat -, ■, -n ■, • n i n i • i • m i • -i.-
conditions. and shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities con-
ferred by this act, upon complying with all the conditions of this act ;
provided such bank so making its election, shall file a notice thereof
with the secretary of state within thirty days after such election is
made, and shall organize under said act within ninety days from the
time such notice is filed with the secretary of state.
1874] Chapters CLXXXIX, CXC. 405
Sect. 11. The special deposit or guaranty fund shall be assessed and Guaranty ^flmd
taxed in the same manner as is now by law provided for the taxation uon like stock
of stock in banks, and the treasurer shall make return, on or before ["rer^tff return
the fifth day of April in each year, to the assessors of the several J,'^^'!.;^^ J^Pj^^''"
towns in the state in which any depositor in said special deposit or punioso.
guaranty fund resides, and if any depositor in said special deposit is
not resident in the state, then to the town where the bank is located,
a list of the names of such depositors, with the amount of their sev-
eral deposits on the first day of said month.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CLXXXIX.
Jls act in relation to the farmington bank.
Section
1. Charter revived to enable bank to close
up its affairs.
Section
2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. The Farmington Bank is hereby revived and extended [JJ^^y^^i^j^g^^ijj^
for the term of five years fi-om the passage of this act, for the purpose to close up its
of prosecuting and defending suits by and against it, and enabhng it
to close up its affairs, but not for the purpose of continuing the busi-
ness of a bank.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Act takes effect
[Approved July 7, 1874.] omts passage.
CHAPTER CXC.
AN ACT TO incorporate THE MOUNT CARRIGAN HOTEL COIMPANY.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. Capital stock.
3. May hold real estate.
4. Purpose of the corporation.
Section
5. Its officers ; first meeting.
6. Subject to repeal.
7. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Arthur L. Meserve, S. E. Whitten, H. U. Jose,Coi-porationes-
C. F. Ordway, P. H. Brown, U. T. Stillings, Edward C. Gardner t^^^^^^-^'
and John R. Gillis, their associates, successors and assigns, under the
406 Chapter CXCL [1874
name and style of the Mount Carrigan Hotel Company, are hereby
made a. body corporate and politic, with all the rights, powers and
privileges usually conferred on corporations of a similar nature.
Capital stock. Sect. 2. The capital stock of this corporation shall be fifty thou-
sand dollars, with the privilege of increasing it to seventy-five thou-
sand dollars, which may be divided into shares of one thousand
dollars each.
May hold real Sect. S. Said corporation may acquire and hold real estate in the
esta e. town of Bartlett, in the couaty of Carroll, not exceeding in value the
amount of its capital stock, and may improve and occupy the same,
or sell and alienate it at its pleasure.
Purpose of the Sect. 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall be employed
corporation. -^^ ^-^q purchase of real estate as aforesaid, and in the erection and
maintenance of hotels and other buildings connected therewith, in the
town of Bartlett.
Its officers; Seot. 5. The affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a
first meetmg. })Qa^i^.(j of five directors, to be elected annually. The first meeting of
said corporation shall be holden at such time and place, and may be
called in such manner, as any three of the above corporators shall
designate.
Subject to re- Sect.G. The legislature may alter and amend this act whenever
^^'^ ■ the public good requires it.
Act takes eflfect Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
onitspassage. ["Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXCL
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAINT PATRICK'S JNIUTUAL BENEFIT AND PRO-
TECTIVE SOCIETY.
Section
1. Corporation estahlished ; its purposes
and powers.
2. May hold real estate.
Section
3. First meeting, how and by whom called.
4. May adopt a constitution and by-laws.
5. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represe7itativcs in General
Court convened :
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That John Lee, John Goggin, Patrick Sullivan, John
pui-i)oses ami Cahill, Michael McDonald, Charles A. O'Coniior, John Sweeny, Mi-
powers, chael O'Dowd, WilHam Brown, James T. Donahoe, Lawrence
Dowd, Patrick Fahey and Denis V. O'Leary, their associates, succes-
sors and assigns, be, and the same are hereby, created a body corpo-
rate and politic, by the name of the Saint Patrick's Mutual Benefit
and Protective Society of Manchester, for such charitable and benev-
olent purposes as the corporation may designate, and by that name
may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, to final judgment and
execution, and shall be, and hereby are, invested with all the powers
and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, incident to similar
corporations.
1874]
Chapter CXCll.
407
Sect. 2. The corporation may acquire and hold real and personal May hold real
estate to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, by lease,
purchase, donation and otherwise, and the same may sell, convey or
otherwise dispose of at pleasure.
Sect. 3. The first six persons above named, or any three of them. First meeting,
may call the first meeting of said corporation by giving notice to each w"hom'ca'ued/
of the persons named in this act, or by one publication in some daily
newspaper published in Manchester, at least seven days prior to said
meeting.
Sect. 4. Said corporation may make and adopt a constitution, by- co'^^^titulkJii ^
laws, rules and regulations, for the admission, government, suspension ami by-laws.
or expulsion of its members, the collection of fees and dues, the
number and election of its officers, to define their duties, provide for
the safe keeping of its property and the management of its aff"airs,
and may from time to time alter and amend the same.
Sect, 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
Act takes effect
ou its passage.
CHAPTER CXCII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE STRATFORD HOLLOW BRn)GE COIVIPANY.
Section
1. Coi-poratioa established.
2. Its purpose and powers.
3. Capital stock.
4. Its tolls and their collection.
5. River not to be obsti-ucted; act void,
when.
Section
6. By-laws and officers.
7. First meeting, by whom and how called.
8. Directors to be chosen, when ; grantees
to act until then.
9. Subject to existing laws.
10. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Reuben B. Marden, Edward B. Merriam, John co^^°j[^^^|''» es-
C. Stanley and William Douglass, their associates, successors and
assigns, are hereby made a body corporate and politic, by the name
of the Stratford Hollow Bridge Company, and are vested with all the
powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, by law inci-
dent to corporations of a similar nature.
Sect. 2. Said corporation may build and maintain a toll bridareitspm-poseand
across the Connecticut river, from Stratford, N. H., to Maidstone,
Vt., at some point between the south line of said Stratford and the
northerly line of the farm of Guy C. Burnside, in said Stratford, and
for this purpose may purchase and hold by deed so much land as may
be necessary or convenient, not exceeding six acres, and may sell and
convey the same at pleasure.
Sect. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed the Capital stock,
sum of six thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of fifty
dollars each, which shall be transferable in such manner as the corpo-
ration may prescribe, shall be holden and liable for all assessments
408 Chapter CXCIL [1874
made thereon by the directors, and upon non-payment thereof may
be sold at public auction, or so many of them as may be necessary to
pay said assessments with incidental charges, under such regulations
as said corporation may prescribe.
Its toUs and Sect. 4. A toll is hereby granted and established as follows : Each
their collection, r , .ii ^ • ^ n , in
toot passenger, one cent ; each horse and rider, nve cents ; each horse
and chaise or other carriage of pleasure drawn by one horse, ten
cents ; each coach or other four-wheeled carriage for passengers,
drawn by two horses, twenty cents ; each cart, wagon, sleigh, sled or
other carriage of burthen drawn by one horse, eight cents ; each
cart, wagon, sleigh, sled or other carriage of burthen drawn by two
beasts, ten cents, for each additional beast, three cents ; for each
horse, or neat creature exclusive of that rode upon, or in carriage,
two cents ; for each sheep or swine, one half cent ; and to each team
one person shall be allowed to pass free. And the toll-gatherer ap-
pointed by the directors of said corporation may stop all persons or
property from passing said bridge until said toll shall be paid or ten-
dered.
River not to be Sect. 5. In building and repairing said bridge, no obstruction
void, when.' ^^ shall be created to prevent the free passage of boats and rafts up and
down said river; and in case said corporation shall not build a bridge
within six years next after the passage of this act, the same shall be
void.
By-laws and Sect. 6. At any annual meeting, or at any meeting called for that
° '^^^^' purpose, the corporation may pass by-laws not repugnant to the laws
of this state, may elect directors and such other officers as they may
think proper, and prescribe their powers and duties.
First meeting, Sect. 7. The said grantees, or any two of them, may call the first
how^caEed.^"'^^ i^^seting of this corporation, by posting notices thereof at two or more
public places in said town of Stratford, and one public place in said
town of Maidstone, Vt., at least ten days prior thereto.
Dii-ectors to be Sect. 8. Said grantees may open stock-books, and the business of
grantees to act the corporation shall be done by three directors, to be elected by the
until then. stockholders after two thousand dollars of stock shall be taken, and
until that time said grantees may act as directors.
Subject to ex- Sect. 9. This corporation shall be subject to all the laws in force
" ' relating to similar corporations.
Acttakes effect gjjcT. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage,
on Its passage. -iTioio-(n
[Approved July 8, 18^4.]
1874] Chapters CXCIII, CXCIV. 409
CHAPTER CXCIII.
AN ACT IN AJIEXDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT TO DTCORPORATE THE
SAWYER WOOLEN MILLS," AND TO ENA15LE SAID COKPOHATIOX TO ACCEPT
CERTAIN MILLS AND MACHINERY IN PAYMENT FOR CAPITAL STOCK.
Section I Section
1. May issue stock to pay for mills, &c. ' 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Home of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Section 1. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered ^^1>^'^™°j^*^2f^
to issue shares of its capital stock in payment for the mills, raachin- &«•
ery, water power and other property sold and deeded to said corpo-
ration by the late firm of F. A. & J. Sawyer, to the amount of six
hundred thousand dollars, and the property so sold and deeded shall
be in payment of the capital stock so issued the same as if money
had been paid therefor.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Act takes eflfect
^ '- on its Dassase*
[Approved July 8, 1874.] ^ °
CHAPTER CXCIV.
AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF PHINEHA8 PARKHURST.
Section i Skotiok
1. Allowed $100 for military service. I 2. Act takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy tlic Senate and House of Represc?itatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. Phinehas Parkhurst, of Concord, in the county of Mer- snowed $100
rimack, who enlisted and was mustered into the service of the United service.
States, to serve for three years or during the war, at said Concord on
the tenth day of February, 1863, as a volunteer from said Concordj
and who actually served until the close of the war, and was honorably
discharged on the fourth day of July, 1865, but who has been de-
prived of any bounty and all benefit from the recent legislation of
the state, in consequence of the error or omission of the enlisting or
mustering officer in not returning said Parkhurst as having volun-
teered from said Concord, or any other town, having faithfully served
upon the quota of the state, is hereby allowed and entitled to receive
from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum
of one hundred dollars, in full compensation of his claim for bounty
on account of his said enlistment and service, and the governor is
authorized and requested to draw his warrant therefor.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. ^nits^passagel*
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
410 Chapters CXCV, CXCVL [1874
CHAPTER CXCV.
AiH ACT ENABLING THE PITBCHASE OF THE PORTSMOUTH BEEDGE.
Section
1. Rockingham county and Portsmouth may
purchase bridge, separately or with
other parties.
Section
2. May raise money thei-efor.
3. Act takes eflfect on its passage.
£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Rockingham SECTION 1. That the couiitv of Kockingham and the city of Ports-
countj' and ■, . ■, i ■ • ^ ^ f •^ •
Portsmouth mouth, either separately or jointly, upon such terms oi contribution
bitdge!*" «!par- as they may agree, or either separately or jointly in conjunction with
other parties!''^' any county or town organization in the state of Maine, be, and hereby
are, authorized to purchase so much of the Portsmouth bridge across
the Piscataqua river as is necessary for public travel with horses,
oxen and carriages, or by passengers on foot, and to hold and keep
the same open for public use, without toll or charge therefor.
May raise mon- Sect. 2. Said county or city are authorized to raise money there-
ey therefor. ^^^ ^^ \oviTi. or otherwise.
Act takes effect Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage.
onitspassage. ^^pproved July 9, 1874.]
CIIAPTER CXCVI.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CONCORD 1>L.^NUFACTURING COMPANY.
Section
1. Corporation established.
2. Its purposes and powers.
3. First meeting, how and hy whom called,
and what may be done thereat.
Section
4. Subject to repeal.
5. Takes effect on its passage.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Corporation es- SECTION 1. That Benjamin F. Holden, Daniel Holden, Joseph
tabhshed. Eastman, George W. Brown and Wyman W. Holden, their associ-
ates, successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are, made a body-
corporate and politic forever, by the name of the Concord Manufac-
turing Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute
and defend to final judgment, and execution, and shall be, and here-
by are, vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, and
made subject to all the liabilities, of corporations of a similar nature.
Its purposes Sect. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized to establish, man-
poweis. ^^^ ^^^ carry on the business of manufacturing woolen, cotton and
linen goods, or either of them, or any of the various branches of
manufacture or the mechanic arts, conveniently or necessarily con-
1874] Chapteh CXCVII. 411
nectecl therewith, at Concord, in the county of Merrimack ; and for
that purpose may purchase, take, have and hold such personal and
real estate as may be found necessary and proper, not exceeding in
value the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, and the same may
sell, alienate and dispose of at pleasure.
Sect. 3. Benjamin F. Holdeu and Daniel Holden, or either of First meeting,
them, may call the first meeting of said corporation by giving each whom called,
of their associates, herein named, notice in writing of the time and Redone tiiereaf.
place thereof, at least four days prior thereto ; at which, or any fu-
ture meeting, by-laws, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the
constitution and laws of this state, may be adopted, such officers
chosen, the capital stock and number of shares into which the same
shall be divided fixed and agreed upon, and all such other matters
and things done and transacted as may be necessary to the organiza-
tion of said corporation and its future operations, and for the full
enjoyment of the rights and privileges hereby guaranteed.
Sect. 4. The legislature may alter, amend or repeal this charter subject to re-
whenever in their opinion the public good may require it. ^'^'^''
Sect. 5. This act shall take efifect upon its passage. Takes effect on
[Approved July 9, 1874.] its passage.
CHAPTER CXCVII.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE DOVER OIL CLOTH COjSIPANY.
Section
1. Coiijoratiou established.
2. Its pov/ers and purposes.
3. Capital stock.
4. Fii'st meeting, how and by whom called.
SECTION
5. Subject to existing laws.
6. Takes effect on its passage; subject to
repeal.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section 1. That Andrevf H. Young, Charles H. Tricl^ey, Charles (lorporation cs-
H. Sawyer, Charles M. Murphy, Cyrus Littlefield, Samuel C. Fisher, ^''^'■^li^'^^d.
Moses D. Page, John C. Varney, Josiah B. Folsom, Eli V. Brewster,
Joseph Hayes, Oliver Wyatt, Washington P. Hayes, George W.
Benn and James H. Davis, all of Dover, in the county of Strafford
and state of New Hampshire, their associates, successors and assigns,
be, and hereby are, incorporated and made a body politic by the
name of the Dover Oil Cloth Company, and by that name may sue
and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgment and execution,
and shall be, and hereby are, vested v/ith all the powers and privi-
leges, and subject to all the liabilities incident to incorporations of a
similar nature.
Sect. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to its powers and
commence, establish and carry on the business of manufacturing oiP'"^"^'°^^^"
cloths and carpetings, together with such other branches of manufac-
412 Chapter CXCVIII. [1874
ture as from time to time may be necessarily or conveniently con-
nected therewith, at the carpet fiictory on Locust street in the city of
Dover, and may acquire and hold, or alienate, real and personal
estate to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
Capital stock. Sect. 3. The Capital stock of said corporation shall consist of fifty
thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars
each ; and said corporation may commence business when twenty-five
thousand dollars shall have been subscribed and actually paid in.
howami by^"^' Sect. 4. Either of the three first named corporators in this act
whom called. ^nRj call the first meeting of said coi-poration, by giving personal no-
tice to each of the other corporators seven days previous to the meet-
ing, at which meeting, or any subsequent meeting duly holden, all
proper officers may be chosen, and their duties prescribed, and by-
laws adopted, and all such other business done, and all such other
regulations made, as may be meet and proper.
Subject to ex- Sect. 5. This act shall be subject to all the provisions and restric-
18 mg aws. j-JQj-^g of |-}^g laws of this state in relation to corporations.
Takes effect on Sect. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
sub'ect '^lo' re- ^^^ passage, and may be altered, amended, or repealed, whenever the
peal. public good shall require.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CXCVIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF DAVID H. APPLEBEE.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That David H. Applebee be allowed the sum of fifty dollars for
Appropriation attendance, and seventeen dollars for travel, as a member of the house
opayc.n . ^^ representatives at the June session, 1857, and sixty-eight dollars
and thirty-four cents as interest thereon, and that the same be paid
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved July 1, 1874.
1874] Chapters CXCIX, CC. 413
CHAPTER CXCIX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF ISAAC EMERSON.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hj the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That Isaac Emerson be allowed the sum of fifty-four dollars for at- Appropriation
tendance, and seven dollars and sixty cents for travel; as a member "I'^^J^^"^^-
of the house of representatives at the June session, 18G2, and forty-
four dollars and thirty-five cents as interest thereon ; and that all the
same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, and that the governor be authorized to draw his warrant
therefor.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CC.
JOINT RESOLUTION EST FAVOR OF WILLIAM LITTLE ANTD DANIEL CONNOR.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents be allowed Win. tV'pay daim^*^
Little, and an equal sum be allowed Daniel Connor, in full for their
claims, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
10
414 Chapters CCI, CCII. [1874
CHAPTER CCI.
JOmT RESOLUTION EST FAVOR OF THE HEmS OF 'WTLLIAM RA^'D.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Appropriation Whereas, it appears that William Rand served a portion of the
June session of legislature in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, as a member of this house, representative from ward number
one of the city of Portsmouth, authorized so to do by a proper cer-
tificate from the election officers of said ward ; and whereas, no pay
was ever allowed to the said William Rand during his lifetime, nor
to his legal heirs since his decease, therefore
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of thirty dollars be allowed the legal representatives
of William Rand, deceased, for his services as said representative ;
that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated, and that the governor be authorized to draw his
warrant therefor.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF CHARLES H. ROBERTS AND OTHERS.
Appropriation to pay old door-keepers.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
s^ppropriation That Charles H. Roberts be allowed the sum of ten dollars and
lee 3 Jrs^'^ *^°'''^' ^^^y cents, C. H. Long the sum of seventeen dollars, F. G. Moody
ten dollars and fifty cents, A. B. Farmer eleven dollars and fifty
cents, and Zelotus Stevens ten dollars and fifty cents, in full for their
claims, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
1874] Chapters CCIII, CCIV, CCV. 415
CHAPTER CCIII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LEWIS W. BREWSTER AND MOORE & LANGLEY.
Appropriation to pay olaimB.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That Lewis W. Brewster be allowed the sum of fifteen dollars and Appropriation
seventy-five cents, and Moore & Langley be allowed the sum of
twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, in full for their claims, and that
the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated.
[Approved July 7, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCIV.
JOES'T RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE ENGROSSING CLERK.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hy the Senate and Hoxise of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of one hundred dollars be allowed Geo. P. Johnson, to^^^^y ciSm?''
engrossing clerk, for extra clerk hire, the same to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the governor
is authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCV.
JOIFT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF NATILi.NIEL H.
WHEELER.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-seven cents r^PPi"op[i'^^ci^
be allowed to the legal representatives of Nathaniel H. Wheeler,
late of Dunbarton, deceased, in full for his claim, and that the same
be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
and that the governor be authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 8, 1874.]
416 Chapters CCVI, CCVII. [1874
CHAPTER CCVI.
JOIXT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF JOHN B. CLARKE AXD OTHERS.
Appropriation to pay for advertising.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Jiepresejitatives in General Court
convened:
Appropriation That John B. Clarke be allowed the sum of thirty-one dollars and
vertismg°^ '^"^ ' thirty-fivc cents ($31.35) ; and that Carleton «& Harvey be allowed
the sum of eight dollars ($8.00) ; O. A. J. Yaughan the sum of
nine dollars ($9.00) ; B. B. & F. B. Whittemore the sum ot seven
dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) ; William M. Sargent the sum of four
dollars and seventy-two cents ($4.72) ; Julius M. ISIorse the sum of
five dollars ($5.00) ; George J. Foster & Co. the sum of ten dol-
lars, in full for their several claims, the same to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.].
CHAPTER CCVIL
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LUTHER S. MORRILL AND S, C. CLARK.
Appropriation to pay old cleAs.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Appropriation That Luther S. Morrill be allowed twenty dollars ($20.00) for
clerks. '^ ^ Services as clerk of the senate, and that Samuel C. Clark be allowed
ninety- six dollars and twenty cents ($96.20) for expense, travel and
services as clerk of the house, preparing roll and other work, at June
session, 1874.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
1874] CiiAPTE«s CCVIII, CCIX, CCX. 41T
CHAPTER CCVIII.
JOINT RESOLXJTION IN FAVOR OF ABNER FROST, ELISIIA A. HUNTLEY, ALLEN
N. CLAPP AND CHARLES F. CAVERLY.
Appropriation to pay claims.
Resolved hj the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sum of umcty-four dollars be allowed to Charles F. Cav-^j,p^Qpj.j.^(j^^jj
erley, the sum of one hundred dollars be allowed to Elisha A. Hunt- to pay claim ,.
ley, the sum of eighty-nine dollars be allowed to Abner Frost, the
sum of sixty dollars be allowed to Allen N. Clapp ; said several
sums to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCIX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF WILLIAM F. O'NEIL.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
That the sum of four hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents AppTOpriation
be allowed William F. O'Neil, in full for his claim, and that the " I'^y '^ '^""•
governor be authorized to draw his warrant for the same, alid pay
the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropria-
ted.
[Approved Julv 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCX.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF JOSIAH R. DEARBORN.
Appropriation to pay claim. •
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives iti General Court
convened:
That the sum of elo-htv-nine dollars and ninetv-five cents be allow- Appropriation
o J .J ^ to pay claim.
ed Josiah R. Dearborn, and that the same be paid out of any moneys
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and that the governor is-
sue his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
418 Chapters CCXI, CCXII, CCXIII. [18T4
CHAPTER CCXI.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF DUDLEY B. WALDRON AND OTHERS,
Appropriation to pay claims.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened:
Appropriation That the sum of eighty-three dollars and thirty-six cents be allow-
to pay claims, ed Dudley B. Waldron and others in full for claim for costs in said
case, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 9, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCXII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF CHARLES C. PEARSON & CO.
Appropriation to pay for newspapers.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Appropriation That Charles C. Pearson & Co. be allowed the sum of $207.50 for
papers. 415 copies of the Daily People newspaper, furnished the house and
senate this June session of 1874, and that the same be paid out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and that the
governor be authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCXIII.
JOINT? RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF CLARK F. ROWELL ANT) OTHERS.
Appropriation to pay sergeant-at-arms, door-keepers, chaplain, pages, &c.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Appropriation That the sum of one hundred and fifty-five dollars be allowed
to pay sergeant- Clark F. Rowell ; that the sum of one hundred and thirty-six dol-
at-arms, door- . ' i i i»
keepers, chap- lars and Sixty cents be allowed Oscar G. Farmer ; that the sum oi
' one hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty cents be allowed Den-
ison Currier ; that the sum of one hundred and thirty-five dollars
and sixty cents be allowed James M. Burnham ; that the sura of one
1874] Chapters CCXIV, CCXV. 419
hundred and fifty dollars and twenty cents be allowed D. P. Evans ;
that the sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty cents
be allowed Rev. John Currier ; that the sum of one hundred and
forty-nine dollars be allowed Samuel T. Page ; that the sum of one
hundred and forty dollars and ten cents be allowed George P.
Johnson ; that the sum of one hundred and seventeen dollars be al-
lowed Henry C. Mace ; that the sum of seventy-six dollars be al-
lowed Charles H. Adams ; that the sura of seventy-six dollars be
allowed William F, Tucker, in full for their claims, and that the gov-
ernor be authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer therefor.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCXIV.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCLATION ANT)
OTHERS.
Appropriation to pay for newspapers and stationery.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the Republican Press Association be allowed the sum of two Appropriation
hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents; E. C. & G. G. Bailey the g^P^^/^^^^^^l:
sum of two hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents ; Morrill and tionery.
Silsby the sum of two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-
one cents ; in full for their several claims ; that the same be paid
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
CHAPTER CCXV.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LEWIS L. MOWER.
Appropriation for exti-a services.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
That the sura of one hundred dollars be allowed Lewis L. Mower Appropriation
. . , , 1-1 t< ^^^ extra
for extra services as janitor, and the same be paid out of any money services.
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the governor is here-
by authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
420 Chaptees CCXVI, CCXVII. [1874
CHAPTER CCXVI.
JOINT KESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION AND
E. C. & G. G. BAILEY.
Appropriation to pay for newspapers.
Be it resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Appropriation That the Republican Press Association be allowed the sum of sev-
papS"'"''^'^'' enty-four dollars and seventy cents ; and that E. C. and G. G. Bailey
be allowed the sura of seventy-four dollars and seventy cents, in full
for their several claims, and that the same be paid out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[Approved July 10, 1874]
CHAPTER CCXVII.
JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF JEREMIAH D. SLEEPER.
Appropriation to pay claim.
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
convened :
Appropriation That the sum of one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty-
seven cents be allowed Jeremiah D. Sleeper, and that the same be
paid out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
and that the governor be authorized to draw his warrant therefor.
[Approved July 10, 1874.]
to pay claim.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Seceetaky of State's Office,
Concord, September 5, 1874.
I HEREBY certify that the acts, resolutions and addresses con-
tained in this pamphlet have been compared with the originals in
this office, and proved to be correctly printed.
WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD,
Secretary of State.
INDEX
TO
PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS,
PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1874.
Advertising non-resident taxes
Adjutant-general, salary of
accounts of
Accounts of clerks of courts
Asylum for the iusane, authorized to borrow money
inmates of .
Armories, rent of, limited
Appraisal of property for taxation
Assessors (see selectmen)
Annual reports, when furnished to printer
when pi-inted
Agriculture, board of, report of
Agricultural college, appropriation for
Animals, fines imposed for cruelty to, go to society prosecuting
justices' jurisdiction in cases of cruelty to
fur-bearing, protection of
AUen, W. H. H., address for removal of
Aldi'ich, Edgar, address for removal of
Address for the removal of W. H. H. AUen and others
Silas Hardy
Larkin D. Mason and others
Coos county officers
Daniel G. Beede
Isaac A. Hill and F. S. Dodge
David Cross and others
Lyman T. Flint
Daniel Hall
David C. Batchelder
David K. Lang and others
James H. Edgerly and others
Elisha F. Lane and others
James "W. Odlin
John W. Currier
Joseph Clark
John B. Haseltine and M. H. Cochran
Charles A. Tufts
270, 352
27S
357
297
310
348
318
845
345
351
351
365
363
283
283
297
365
366
365
365
366
366
367
367
367
368
368
369
3G9
370
370
371
371
371
373
372
424
Index.
Address for the removal of John M. Hahies
W. W. Fletcher and others
J. H. Worcester and E. J. Mathas
Daniel \V. Edgerly
Bass, black, protection of
Burglary, punishment of
Breaking buildings, punishment of
Bunker, J. M., ftirm in RoUinsford annexed to Dover
Bonds to judge of probate
Birds, preservation of
song, protection of
insectivorous, protection of .
Beaver, preservation of
Banks (see savings banks)
Bonds, state, may be registered
how transferred
interest on, how paid
to the judges of probate
Bath, farms in, annexed to Monroe
Blind, appropriation for
Boats, fishing, to be registered
Beede, D. G., address for removal of
Burnham, H. E., address for removal of
Batclielder, D. C, address for removal of
Brown, M. S., address for removal of
Buckminster, D. "\V., address for removal of
372
373
373
374
285
286
286
288
290
297
298
298
297
321
324
324
324
290
327
361
320
367
368
369
369
370
Cruelty to animals
Cemetery corporations to hold funds in trust
Corporations, directors of to reside in state
may be sureties on probate bonds
Commons and parks, how laid out and discontinued
Courts, probate, in Rockingham coiinty
Carroll county .
Belknap county
police, of Keene
Manchester
Nashua
Concord
Clerks of courts, accounts of
City councils, not to alter wards
vacancies in, to be filled by new election
Children, enumeration of
Chichester, votes of in regard to high school ratified
Canaan, land in, annexed to Enfield for schooling
Courts, all terms in Belknap county in Laconia
change of terms in Grafton county
supreme and circuit, established, powers and duties
Clarksville, farm in Pittsburg, annexed to
Collectors of taxes, to account montlily
Circuit court (see courts)
Councillor districts reorganized
Campton, claim of
Contract for labor at prison
Contingent expenses of governor .
Cruelty to animals, jurisdiction of justices and police courts
fines for, go to society prosecutin.
Concord, superintendent of schools in
Canada, books for
Colby, Ira, jr., addi-ess for removal of
Claggett, Rufus P., address for removal of
Cross, David, address for removal of
Currier, J. W., address for removal of
Clark, Joseph, address for removal of
Cochran, M. H., address for removal of
thereof
in cases of
286
287
290
289
282
325
326
274
280
284
299
297
302
308
309
315
323
326
334
340-43
330
831
340
349
353
353
361
283
283
290
360
365
365
367
371
371
372
Directors of corporations to reside in state
Duston monument, protection of
287
304
Index.
425
Dcei'flcld, farms in, annexed to Nottingliam for schooling
Durham, i)art ofscliool district in, annexed to Newmarket
Distribution of state publications .
Dover, city charter of, amended
Danbury, town of, annexed to I>rerrimack county
Dominion of Canada, liooks to library of
Deaf, dumb and blind, appropriations for
Disturbance of schools
Districts, council and senatorial, reorganized
Dodge, Frank S., address for removal of
Dearborn, C. V., addi'ess for removal of
Encampments and parades of militia suspended
Enlield, land in C;;naan annexed to
Enumeration of children
Eastman, Leavitt II., adffresa for removal of
Emerson, E. 1'., address for removal of
Edgerly, J. II., address for removal of
Edgerly, D. W., address for removal of
Fish, protection of, m Gregg's pond
black bass and other
m Bartlett's pond, repealed
generally
in Elisha Goodwm's pond .
Fish commissioners, duty of
wardens, appointment and duty of
Fishing boats to be registered
Fines imposed by police courts belong to towns
for cruelty to animals
Fradulent election to house of representatives .
Frauconia Notch road
Federal officers, interference of, in elections
Flint, L. T., address for removal of
Farr, E. W., address for removal of
Fletcher, W. W., address for removal of
Gambling in railroad cars and steamboats
Gilford, portion of, annexed to Laconia
Game, preservation of
Game bird.s, preservation of <
Grouse, isreservation of
Greenland, laud in, annexed to Stratham for schooling
Gilsum, a portion of Sullivan annexed to
Gun-houses, rent of, limited
Greenville, state tax of, abated
Goodwin, Elisha, fish in pond of, protected .
Hares, protection of .
High schools, may be established by a majority vote
town or school district may contract for
Hardy, Sflas, premises changed from one district to another
Highways, repairs of, in unincorporated places
House of 1-epre.^entatives, fradulent election to
Hardy, Silas, address for removal of
Hobbs, Josiah H., address for removal of
Hill, Isaac A., address for removal of
Hall, Daniel, address for removal of
Haseltine, J. B., address for removal of
Haines, J. M., address for removal of
Hatch, T. E., address for removal of
Instruction, public, superintendent of
tenur? of office and duties
salary of
report of
school committees to report to
304
317
320
335
338
360
361
278^
3-19
367
307
318
323
309 h
366
308
370
374
281
28.J
317
320
331
320
320
320
307
283
316
355
362
3i;8
3G9
373
272
205
2D7
298
293
309
316
31S
330
207
312
319
335
337
316
365
336
3G7
368
372
372
373
302
302
303
303
303
426
Index.
Insane, asylum foi*
committal of, to asylum
treatment of .
duty of trustees and superintendent of
coroner's inquest on deceased
Justices of superior and circuit oourta > .
powers and duties of
salaries of
Judges and other magistrates not to hear ex jmrte statements
Justices of the peace, jurisdiction of, in cases of cruelty to animals
Judiciary system ....
Jones, Joseph, address for removal of .
Keene, police court of . . . >
Lobsters, protection of . > .
Laconia, portion of Gilford annexed to . .
Lockups, to be provided . .
Law, purity in the administration of .
Labor at state prison, contract for
Library of stiite prison, appropriation for .
state, appropriation for . . .
Lang, D. R., address for removal of .
Lane, E. F., address for removal of
Manchester, amendment of city charter of .
Moulton, Charles, farm of, in Wakefield, changed fi'onl district one to nine
Monroe, town of, to send a representative
farms in Bath annexed to .
Mink, preservation of .
Muskrats, preservation ot .
Monument, Duston, protection of .
Militia, encampments and parades of, suspended
rent of armories and gun-houses limited
Meredith, proportion of public taxes
Mason, state tax of, abated
Meetiag'houses, repair or-removal of .
Mason, Larkin D., address for removal of
Mathas, E. J., address for removal of .
Naturalization, repeal of act of 18C8
to be free
Nashua, amendment of charter of .
police court of
Nottingham, farms in Deeiileld annexed to, for schooling
Notices required by act of 1871, chap. 2, to be posted
Newmax-ket, part of school disti-ict in Durham annexed to
Normal school, state, appropriation for
Non-resident taxes
Names changed by judges of probate
Otter, protection of .
Ossipee, land in Wolfeborough annexed to, for schooling
farms in, changed ft'om one district to another
Odlin, J. W., address for removal of
Pilotage, commissioners of
Police court of Keene .
Manchester
Nashua
Concord
fines imposed by, to go to towns
jurisdiction of, in cases of cruelty to animals
Prosecutor for violation of fish or game laws entitled to half of the penalty
Penalty, prosecutor to have half
Pike perch protected ....
Parks and commons to be laid out or discontinued by vote of town
310, 319
348
348
848
348
340
340-43
343
346
283
340-43
370
274
272
295
310
346
358
859
861
369
370
278
288
291
327
297
297
804
318
318
328
330
338
366
373
276
280, 285, 399
2«4
284
BH
313
317
357
70, 287, 352
374
297
313
333
371
274
280
284
299
307
283
285
285
28S
Index.
427
Portsmouth, amendment to charter of .
Partridge, protection of
Poison, exposing, for destruction of animals
Public instruction, superintendent of
Prudential committee to i)ost notices required by act of 1871
Probate courts in Rockingham county
Carroll county
Belknap county
Publications, state, distribution of .
Pittsburg, farm in, annexe<l to Clarksville
Police, railroad, appointment of
powers and duties of
to wear badge
who may be arrested by
compensation and liability of .
dischai'ge of
Passengers, protection of, upon railroads
not to be ejected from cars except at stations
disorderly, may be arrested
Parties to suits, guilty of contempt in certain cases
Prescott, B. F., thanks to
Porter, Gen. Fitz John, resolution in regard to case of
Provincial records, compilation of .
Portraits, thanks for
Parkinson, Henry, address for removal of
Quail, protection of .
Railroad, Nashua, Acton and Boston .
Concord and Rochester
Manchester and Keene
Portsmouth and Dover
Windsor and Forest Line
Nashua and Plaistow .
Spicket River
Lowell and Windham
Manchester and Lawrence, to build a branch
Exeter and Salisbury
Pemigewasset Valley
SwiCt River
Nashua and Lo-well and Boston and Lowell
Eailroad police
Randolph and Success classed
Reimburse, towns may, in certain cases
Reform school, aiding escape from, concealing or employing runaways
Rollinsford, farms in, changed from one district to another
Referees, sujjerior and circuit courts may send cases to
proceedings, reports and compensation of
Report of superintendent of public instruction
board of agricultui-e
Reports, annual, when furnished to printer
printed
Repair of highways in unincorporated places .
Roads, repairs of, among the White Mountains
Rogers, E. G., addi-ess for removal of
Students, right to vote
Schools, disturbance of ...
Simonds Free School fund exempt from taxation
Superintendent of schools in Concord
Sable, protection of .
Superintendent of public instruction
School committees to report to superintendent of pubhc instruction
number of children not attending school
post notices .
Sti'atham, land m Greenland annexed to
Selectmen, to make enumeration of children
provide lockups
Sullivan, a portion of, annexed to Gilsum
354, 355,
292
298
297
302
313
283
325
326
328
330
344
344
344
345
845
345
344
345
345
346
3.')2
359
364
358
368
271
273
277
277
291
300
301
305
307
313
328
331
347
344
283
314
325
333
343
343
303
365
351
351
337
356, 360, 364
366
275
278
289
290 *
297
303
303
309
313
309
309
310
316
428
Index.
Seats in house of representatives, fi-audulent occupation of .
Salary of state ti-easurer . . , ^
adjutant-general . . .
superintendent of public instruction
School districts may be re-established
contract with academj^ to form high school
Savings banks, trustees of, to make examinations and report
report to be pubUshed
kept with national banks
treasurer of, proceedings in case of neglect of
penalty for embezzlement by officers of
guaranty fund to be created by
rate of interest and dividends . i
funds to be kept separate
stocks held by, as collateral, to be reported .
deposits not to be invested in certain stocks
■when assets are reduced, proceedings
State tax pi-ovided for
publications, distribution of . . i
Snielts, protection of .
Swine, taxation of .
Superior c6urt of judicature (see courts)
Selectmen, oath to be taken by .
to appraise real estate every fourth year
punishment of, for neglect . i
_. Senatorial districts reorganized
State normal school . . .
State prison, appropriation for library of
salary of chaplain
commission on new prison
State library, appropriation for
Surety, corporations may be, on probate bonds
State bonds (see bonds, state)
Scott, Charles, address for removal of
Sanborn, W. A., address for removal of
Trustees of estates . .
cemeteries
Taxes, non-resident, advertising
town may purchase land sold for
list of, to be delivered to collector, when
collector to senil bill of, to owner of land
Towns may re-establish school districts >
reimburse citizens in certain cases
Treasurer, state, salarj' of
Town may contract with academy to form high school
penalty of, for illegal election of representative
Tax, state, provided for
Taxation, of swine
act to equalize
conmiission to revise laws relating to
Simonds Free School fund exempt from
Thanks to B. F. Prescott and others
for porti'aits presented to state
Tufts, Charles A., address for removal of
Upton, Samuel, address for removal of
Village precinct districts may light streets
Varney, J. E., address for removal of
■Wliite-fish, protected
Warren, farm in, changed from one district to another
Wolfeborough, land in, annexed to Ossipee, for schooling
AVakelield, farm in, changed from one district to another
Awards of cities not to be changed by city councils
Whidden, B. F., address for removal of
Whipple, J. M., address for I'emoval of
Westgate, Tyler, address for removal of
Wellington, L., address for removal of
Worcester, J. H., address for removal of
m
319
273
303
3U
319
321
321
321
321
322
322
322
322
322
322
322
323
32G
327
332
340
346
346
346
349 ^
357
359
363
362
361
290
324
367
373
270
286
270, 352
287
352
352
311
314
319
319
316
323
332
345
358
289
352
358
372
367
276
370
285
308
313
288
302
366
366
369
370
373
INDEX
TO *
PRIVATE ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS,
PASSED JUNE SESSION, 1874.
Association, Pliarmaceutical, X. H.
378
AYiiinipesaukee Camp Meeting
380
Alton Bay Camp Meeting
391
Republican Press
419, 420
Academy, Andover, charter revived
385
Animals, Portsmouth society to prevent cruelty to
39(J
Aqueduct Company, Alpine, incorporated
39(5
Applebee, D. H., claim paid
412
Adams, Charles H. .
419
Brown's Lumber Company incorporated
398
Bank, Farmington ....
405
Bridge Company, Sh-atford Hollow
407
Bridge, Portsmouth, purchase ol .
410
BrcM'ster, Lewis W. ....
415
Burnham, .James M. .
418
Bailey, E. C. & G. G. ....
. 419, 420
Camp Meeting Association, Winnipesaukee
, 380
. Alton Bay
391
Christian Educational Society, act to incorporate
381
Congregational Sabbath-School, Winchester
333
Columbian IManufacturing Company
385
Cruelty to Animals, Portsmouth Society
39C
Catholic Total Abstinence Society, St. Mary's .
400
Concord Manufacturing Companj- .
410
Couuor, Dauiel ....
413
Clarke, .John B., and others
416
Carlton & Ilarvey ....
416
Clark, S. C.
41G
Caverly, Charles F. .
417
Clapp, Allen X. . . . . '
417
Currier, Denison ....
418
Rev. John ....
419
Dover Oil Cloth Company
411
Dearborn, .Josiah R. .
417
430
Index.
[1874
Educational Society, Cliristiau, act to incorporate
Emerson, Isaac
Evans, D. P.
3S1
413
419
French Canadian Society, Concord
Free Masons, Franklin Lodge, act to revive
Mt. Washington Lodge, act to revive
Freewill Baptist Printmg Establishment
Farmington Banlv
Farmer, A. B. . . .
Oscar G.
Foster, George J. & Co.
Frost, Abuer
379
384
384
399
405
414
418
41(i
417
Grauite State Fire Insurance Company
Grafton Lumber Company
Guaranty Savings Baiik
390
402
403
Hibernians, Ancient Order of. Lodge Xo. 2, Nashua
Manchester
1, Nasliua
Hinsdale Savings Bank
Hillsborough Land and Water Power Company
Hotel Company, Oceanic, to issue bonds
Mount Carrigan .
Hmitley, Elisha A. .
378
392
393
388
395
399
405
417
Improvement Company, Upper Connecticut and Lake
Insurance Company, Granite State Fire
387
380
Johnson, Geo. P.
415, 419
Lumber Company, Brown's, incorporated
Grafton
Little, AViUiam
3Ianchester Print Works, name changed
Mamxfacturing Company, Columbian
Concord
Mills, Tioga, act to incorporate
Sawyer AVoolen .
Mount Carrigan Hotel Company
Mutual Benefit and Protective Societj-, St. Patrick's
Moody, F. G.
Moore & Langley
Morse, Julius M.
Morrill, Luther S.
Morrill & Silsby
Mack, Henry C.
Mower, Lewis L. ,
National Savings Bank, name changed
Orphans' Home, Concord, act to incorporate
Oceanic Hotel Company to issue bonds
Oil Cloth Company, Dover
O'Neil, William F.
Print Works, Manchester, name changed
Pharmaceutical Association
Printing Establishment, Freewill Baptist
Parkhurst Pliinehas, relief of
-Portsmouth Bridge, purchase of
Society to prevent cruelty to animals
Trust and Guaranty Company
Pearson, Charles C. & Co.
Page, Samuel T.
398
403
413
377
385
410
384
409
405
406
414
415
416
416
419
419
419
393
.^83
309
411
417
377
378
399
409
410
396
401
418
419
1874]
Index.
431
llaiul, William. Jicirs ol"
Koberts, Charles 11.
Uowfll, Clark V.
]{epiil)lican Press Association
Saving,-: I'aiik, Hinsdale, act to incorporate
National, act to change name of
Concord
Somcrswortli
tJuaranty
St. Mary's Catholic Total Abstinence .Society
St. Patrick's Mutnal Benelit Society
Stratford Hollow I'ridge Company
Sawyer Woolen Mills, charter amended
Stevens, Zclotiis
Sargent, William M.
Sleeper, Jeremiah I).
Tioga 3Iills, act to incorporate
Trust and Guaranty Company, Portsmouth
Tucker, William F. . .
Universalist Society, Winchester, name ch.ange<l
Vaughan, O. A. J. .
Winchester Congregational Sabbath-School
Wheeler, Nathaniel II.
Whittemore, P.. B. & F. P.
Waldron, Dudley B., et als.
4-14
414
418
419, 4-20
303
.393
401
403
400
400
407
409
4U
410
420
304
401
410
387
41G
383
415
410
418
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