competent to try the same, one moiety for the benefit of the person or persons complaining of the same, the other moiety for the benefit of the Commonwealth..

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That to such persons as,

from time to time, may obtain from the "Trustees of the Pilots how Boston Marine Society," a certificate, duly signed by the appointed. president and secretary of said society, certifying that in their opinion such persons are duly qualified to undertake the business of the outward and inward pilotage of said harbour of Boston, the Governor, with the advice of Council, may grant commissions or branches during pleasure, authorizing such persons respectively and severally to exercise the business of pilots for said harbour of Boston, and to employ such deputies as they may deem necessary.

SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Governor, with

diminish num

pilots.

the advice of Council, may, from time to time, increase or Governor may diminish the number of branch pilots for the harbour of Bos- increase or ton, by granting additional commissions or branches, or by ber of branch annulling those already granted, or by granting commissions or branches, with special limitations and restrictions, as the case may require, on the recommendation of the trustees of the Boston Marine Society; and said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, by votes duly passed at their regular meetings, to record, to ordain and establish such rules and regulations for fixing the duties to be performed by said branch pilots, with penalties for the non-performance or mal-performance thereof, the amount of fees by said pilots to be charged and received, the form of their commissions or branches, and of the oath of office, and the form and amount of the bonds severally securing the faithful performance by said pilots, and by their respective deputies, of their duties aforesaid; and in general to establish and ordain all such rules and regulations, for the government of the pilots and of the pilotage into and out of the harbour of Boston, as said trustees may deem necessary or expedient, and the same to alter, annul, and repeal; and the same shall be of as full force and effect as if herein specially enacted, any thing in any former acts notwithstanding. Provided, however, that such rules and regulations shall not Proviso. take effect until the same shall be approved by the Governor, with the advice of Council, after a due hearing of the parties interested by petition or remonstrance.

SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, That in case no Boston branch pilot shall offer his services to the master of a vessel

In what case a master may pilot his own vessel.

Repeal.

1819 ch. 45, &c.

Chap. 3.

bound into Boston harbour, before such vessel shall have passed a line drawn from "Harding's Rocks," to the "outer Graves," and from thence to "Nahant Head," such master shall be at liberty to pilot his own vessel, or to employ any other person to pilot his vessel into Boston harbour, without incurring the penalties of this act.

SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act, be and the same hereby are repealed, from and after the approval by the Governor, with the advice of Council, of the rules and regulations herein before authorized, to be ordained and established by the trustees of the Boston Marine Society. [June 11, 1829.] Add. act

1829 ch. 42.

An Act to establish a Fire Department in the Town of Marblehead. [June 11, 1829.]

Chap. 4.

An ACT authorizing the Selectmen of Medford to appoint a Company of Hook and Ladder men. [June 11, 1829.]

Chap. 5.

An Act empowering the Selectmen of the Town of Lynn to appoint a number of Hosemen. [June 11, 1829.]

Chap. 6.

An Act to incorporate the Essex Mutual Fire Insurance Company. [June 11, 1829.]

Chap. 7.

1804 ch. 13.

Chap. 8.

Chap. 9.

Chap. 10.

Grand jurors

to serve as in

An ACT in addition to an Act, entitled "An Act to establish the Central Turnpike Corporation." [June 11, 1829.] Further add. act— 1829 ch. 60.

An ACT to incorporate the Saxon Cotton and Woollen Factory. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act to incorporate the Canton Manufacturing Company. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act regulating the Service of Grand Jurors in the County of
Bristol.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the grand jurors, who shall be returned to serve at the Court of Common Pleas in the county other counties. of Bristol, may be required to serve at every term of said court throughout the year, and until another grand juryshall be empannelled in their stead, at such times as the Court of Common Pleas may direct.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the fourth section of "An Act regulating the selections, the em- Repeal. pannelling, and the services of Grand Jurors, and repealing such laws or clauses of laws touching these subjects, so far

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as they are provided for by this act," passed on the twelfth 1807 ch. 140, day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, as relates to the times of service of grand jurors in the county of Bristol, be, and the same hereby is repealed. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Northfield Academy of Chap. 11. Useful Knowledge. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act to incorporate the Providence and Bristol Turnpike Cor- Chap. 12. poration. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act to confirin a certain tract of Land to the Town of Athol and Chap. 13. the County of Worcester. [June 11, 1829.]

An Act in further addition to An Act incorporating the Massachusetts Chap. 14. Mutual Fire Insurance Company. [June 11, 1829.].

1797 ch. 67.

An Act to incorporate the Provincetown Fire and Marine Insurance Chap. 15. Company. [June 12, 1829.]

An Act further providing for the Government and Regulation of the Chap. 16.

State Prison.

1827 ch. 118.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the time the new prison shall have been erected, the number of the watch- Ten watchmen employed at the State Prison shall be ten, any thing in the first section of the act to which this is an addition to the contrary notwithstanding.

men.

15.

SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the articles composing the rations as provided in the fifteenth Rations. section of said act, there be allowed two quarts of rye or 1827 ch. 118, barley for every hundred rations, to be furnished to the convicts in a warm drink at their meals each morning and evening, and this beverage, and the beer now allowed by law, shall be distributed according to the occasion of the convict, at the discretion of the warden. [June 12, 1829.] Further add. act-1829 ch. 114.

An Act to change the Names of the several Persons therein men- Chap. 17. tioned. [June 12, 1829.]

Change of county line.

Proviso.

annexed to the town of Athol, and county of Worcester, beginning at a northeasterly corner of New Salem, at a stake and stones; thence south, four degrees east, two hundred and thirteen rods on the line between said towns, to a stake and stones; thence west, four degrees south, about one hundred and forty rods, to a heap of stones; thence north, four and a half degrees west, two hundred and twelve rods, to a stake and stones on the line between said towns ; thence on said line east, four degrees north, about one hundred and forty rods, to the first mentioned corner: Provided, that all taxes, heretofore assessed or raised, shall be paid as if this act had not passed. [Feb. 5, 1830.]

Chap. 34. An Act in addition to "An Act regulating the building with wood within the Town of Boston." [Feb. 5, 1830.]

1821 ch. 31.

Chap. 35. An Act in addition to an Act, entitled "An Act to set off a part of the Town of Stockbridge, and annex the same to the Town of West Stockbridge. [Feb. 6, 1830.]

1828 ch. 108.

Chap. 36.

Chap. 37.

1826 ch. 88.

An Act establishing a Fire Department in the Town of Lowell. {Feb. 6, 1830.]

An ACT in addition to "An Act to Regulate Pilotage from the Sea into New Bedford and Fairhaven."

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That whenever any non-commissioned pilot shall conduct any vessel bound into either of the ports of New Bedford or Fairhaven, so far towards the said ports, as to Compensation intersect a line drawn from the south part of Noman's Land of pilots. to Seconnet Point, and shall there surrender said vessel to either of the pilots commissioned by the wardens of the port and district of New Bedford, as is provided by the act to which this act is in addition, the said non-commissioned pilot shall receive one fourth of the sum provided by said act, to be paid for piloting a vessel from sea into the harbour of New Bedford and Fairhaven; which sum, so allowed, shall be deducted from the amount allowed to the warrant pilot by the fifth section of the act aforesaid, so that the sums paid to both pilots shall not exceed the whole sum provided by said act to be paid for piloting a vessel from sea into the harbours of New Bedford and Fairhaven. [February 8,

Chap. 38.

An Act concerning the two Congregational Parishes in Deerfield. [Feb. 9, 1830.]

An ACT in addition to an Act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Chap. 39. Trustees of the Sheldon English and Classical School of Southamp- 1828 ch. 39. ton." [Feb. 10, 1830.]

An Act in addition to the Acts to prevent the destruction, provide a Chap. 40. passage, and regulate the taking of Alewives, and other Fish, in 1825 ch. 78, Ipswich River. [Feb. 10, 1830.]

&c.

An Act for the preservation and regulating the taking of Shad in Chap. 41. Mattapoisett River in the Town of Rochester. [Feb. 10, 1830.]

1814 ch. 99, &c.

An Acr in addition to An Act regulating the Pilotage for the Harbour Chap. 42

of Boston.

1829 ch. 2.

continue in

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of an act passed on Former acts to the eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one force till May thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled "An Act 1 1830. to regulate the Pilotage for the Harbour of Boston," shall be, and continue in full force, until the first day of May next, any thing in said act to the contrary notwithstanding: Pro- Proviso. vided, however, that the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council, may appoint and commission the pilots as in said act contemplated, at any time before said first day of May next. [February 11, 1830.]

An ACT in addition to an Act entitled "An Act for incorporating a certain part of the Town of Lee into a School District by the name of the Hopland School District." [Feb. 12, 1830.]

An ACT to incorporate the Charitable Association of the Boston Fire
Department. [Feb. 13, 1830.]

Chap. 43. 1790 ch. 26.

An Act to authorize the Nantucket Union Marine Insurance Com- Chap. 45.

pany to reduce its Capital Stock. [Feb. 13, 1830.]

An Act to provide for the Inspection of Salt manufactured in this Chap. 46.

Commonwealth.

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That there shall be three Inspectors General of salt manufactured in this Commonwealth, who shall be well skilled in the manufacture, and have a competent knowledge of the quality thereof; one for the county of Barnstable and Dukes County; one for the county of Bristol; and one for the remaining counties of this ComVOL. III.

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