Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-01

shall SO elect; and at the same or any
subsequent meeting, said proprietors
may make and establish any bylaws, rules,
and regulations, not repugnant to the con-
stitution and laws of'the Commonwealth,
that shall be necessary or convenient for
regulating said corporation, and for effect
ing, completing, and executing the pur-
poses aforesaid and for collecting the
toll herein after granted; and the same
bylaws, rules, and regulations, may cause
to be kept and executed or for the
breach thereof may order and enjoin fines
and penalties, not exceeding twenty dol
lars. The said proprietors may also
choose and appoint any other officer or
officers of said Corporation, that may be
deemed necessary and this act and all
bylaws and votes of the said Corporation
shall be fairly and truly recorded by their
Clerk, in book or books, for that purpose
provided and kept, which book or books
shall be subject to the inspection of any
person or persona for that purpose APP
pointed by the Legislature.
Sec. 6. Be 1t further enacted, That
for the purpose Of reimbursing the said
proprietors for the money expended and
to be expended in building and support
ing said Bridge, the same toll be and
hereby is granted, for the benefit of said
proprietors, as was granted to the propri-
etors of Charles River Bridge by their act
of incorporation, and when said propri-
etors shall be reimbursed the money by
them expended in and about the building
said Bridge, and other necessary expen-
ses with five per cent interest thereon,
then the said bridge shall revert to and
become the property Of the Common
wealth, and shall be surrendered by said
proprietors in good repair, and the obi
cations herein imposed on said Corpora
ton shall then cease. Provided, The
term for taking toll aforesaid, by the pro-
prietors aforesaid, shall not exceed six
years.
SEC. z. Be 1t further enacted, That il
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 thousand dollars;
and on the second Monday of January
annually, to exhibit as aforesaid a state
ment of the profits accruing from the toll,
stating particularly the amount of money
received and the amount expended the
expenses in no case to exceed five thou
sand dollars annually all said statements
to be sworn to by the Treasurer F.; and il
said Corporation shall not within three
years from the passing of this act, locate,
construct, build, and complete said Bridge,
agreeably to the provisions of this act,
then this act shall be null and Noid.
SEC. 8. BE 1t further enacted, That at
the expiration of one year from the time
ofopening said Bridge for passengers, and
annually thereafter until said Bridge shall
revert to the Commonwealth, the said
proprietors shall pay, out of the income
accruing from tolls, one half the sum now
required to be paid to Harvard College or
University, annually, by the proprietors Of
Charles River Bridge, and the said pro-
prietors of Charles River Bridge, shall be
exonerated from paying to said College OF
University, so much as is hereby required
to be paid by the proprietors Of the War
rem Bridge.
Approved by the Governor, March IL, 1928