The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-26

apart; and if any vessel shall be unressonahl,
delayed or hindered in passing said draw. b.
the negligence of said Corporation or thei
! agents IN discharging the duties enioined b,
:. tniS act, the owners or commanders of sucI
eossels may recover reasonable damages there
: case before any court proper to try the same.
SEC. A. Be at further enacted, That said Cor
Pofatlon shall be holden to make compensatioy
70 any person, persons, or corporation, whose
real estate shall be taken for the use of saif
bfdge, and If there should be a difference n
opinion as to the value of the same, either mar
y may apply to the Court of Common Pleas Il
the county where such real estate lies. for J
committee to estimate the damage such person
persons, or corporation will sustain; and unon
such application, the court, after ten davs' no.
'ice 10 lne ADVERSE party to appear and shew
Cause why such committee should not he on.
pointed, shall if no good reason be shown to tbe
contrary, appoint three or FIVE disinterestec
Heeholders within the county, who, beinr FIRST
sworn before some Justice of the Peace. and
giving due notice to tie parties to apperr. II
they see lit, for hearing, shall proceed to the
duties OF their appointment and estimate the
value OF real estate taken as aforesaid and shall
make return of their doings as soon as NAV be
10 the SAID Court, and, upon acceptance of said
report Judgment may be given thereon with
ccs.s 10 either party, according to the discretion
OF the Court Prooided, that. in all. cases ei-
ther party may claim trial by jury. as in sim
liar cases where lands are taken for public uses
SEC .. BE At further enacted, That either of
the persons, named in this act, is authorized to
call the hrst meeting of said Corporation. by
causing notice thereof to be published IN one or
more Oh the newspapers printed in Boston or
Charlestown, at least seven DAYS previous to
the time OF holding such meeting; and said
proprletors, by vote of a majority of those
present. or represented by proxy at said meet
ing' allowing, IN all cases, one vote to each
snare: snail choose Clerk and Treasurer. who
shaii pc sworn to faithful discharge of the du-
ties OF Ihelr respective Offices the Treasurer to
give bonds OF not less than ten thousand dollars.
WIN suhcIent sureties, and said Offices NAV be
united IN one person, if the proprietors shall 90
elect and at the same or any subsequent meet
| ins' saia pfoprIetors may make and establish
any y-iaWs, rules and regulations, not repuo
haiit TO the constitution and laws of the Com
iHonWedith' That shall be necessary or conyen
lent tor regulating said Corporation, and for Of.
1eeting, completing and executing the purnoscs
AFORESAID and for collecting the toll bereinaf.
yer granted; and the same bylaws, rules and
regulations, may cause to be kept and executed.
c c ioF tne breach thereof may order and enoin
,ines and penalties, not exceeding twenty dol
he SAD proprIetors may also choose and
appoint any other officer or officers of said Cor
poratlon that may be deemed necessary and
TINS act, and all bylaws and votes Of the said
corporation, shall be fairly and truly recorded
W lhe'r Clerk, in book OF books for that .pur
pose provided and kept, which book or books
'il"iI DO SUBJECT to the inspection of any person
S ssisons tor that pnEs'"Sn- -.,.,"i~.e,i
purpose of reimbursing the said proprietors for
the money expended and to be expended in
building and supporting said Bridge, the same
toll be and hereby is granted, for the benefit of
said propretors, as was granted to the proprie-
tors Of Charles River Bridge by their act Of in
corporation, and when said proprietors shall be
reimbursed the money by them expended in and
about the building said Bridge and other neees-
sary expenses with FIVE per cent interest there
on, then the said Bridge shall revert to and be-
come the property of the Commonwealth and
shall De surrendered by said propretors in good
repair, and the obligations herein imposed on
said corporations shall then cease : Prooided,
the term for taking toll aforesaid, by the pro-
prietars aforesaid, shall not exceed six years
SEC. z. Be 1t further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of said proprietors, as soon as said
Bridge Is completed, to make to the Governor
and Council, an exhibit of the cost of the same
which shall not exceed the sum Of sixty thou
sand dollars, and on the second Monday of
January annually to exhibit as aforesaid state
ment of the profits aceruing from the toll, stat
inc particularly the amount of money received
and the amount expended the expenses in no
case to exceed five thousand dollars annually /;
all sid statements to be sworn to by tue Treas
, urer; and if said corporation shall not within
three years, from the passing of this act, locate,
, construct build and complete said Bridge, agree
ablyto the provisions of this act, then this shall
! be null and void.
| Sc. g. BE it further enacted That at the
| expiration of one year from the time of opening
, said Bridge for passengers, and annually there
after until said Bridge shall revert to the Com
monwealth, the said proprietors shall pay, out Of
. the income accruing from tolls one half of the
} sum now required to be paid to Harvard College
1 or University, annually, by the proprietors Of
Charles River Bridge, and the said propretors Of
} Charles River Bridge, shall be exonerated from
. paying to said College or University, so much
as is hereby required to be paid, by the proprle-
tors of the Warren Bridge.
.3pproeed By the Governor, March IL, 1872,