The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-04-14
STATE LAWS, sc.
cOxnOswrlIrH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

AIN All III duQitlO0 10 tue several AClS
for the support and regulation of Mills.
Be 1t enacted, &C., That when any person
shall hereafter raise a head of Water, for the
working ola Water Mill, whereby the lands of
any other person shall be flowed, and the owner
thereof shall cause Jury to be empannelled
agreeably to the provisions of the Acts to which
this is in addition, it shall be the duty of such
Jury as shall be first emPannelled, after the
raising of such head of water, in addition to the
duties pointed out in said Acts, to estimate and
fix, under oath, such sum of money, in gross,
as shall be just and reasonable compensation
for all the damages done, or to be done, to the
owner Of the land flowed, by raising and keep
ing up such head of water, and for the right of
keeping up the same, at such height and for
snch part of the year, as the Jury shall deter
mine to be necessary, and certify the same to
be returned with their verdict by the officer
empannelling such jury; and such verdlcts
being returned, the judgment thereon shall be
final, any law or usage to the contrary notwith-
standing.
SEC. g Be 1t further enacted, That the
owners Of lands so flowed as aforesaid, may
elect and shall be entitled to receive the esti-
mated sum of money in gross aforesaid, instead
of the yearly damages returned by the verdict
of the Jury, and may have an action of debt to
recover the same. Provided, he shall give no.
tice in writing of such election to the owner
owners or occupants of such Mill, within three
months from the acceptance of such verdict by
the Court, and if the owner or owners of such
Mill shall refuse or neglect, for the space of
three months, after the time of notice given as
aforesaid, 10 pay or satisfactorily secure to the
owner of said lands the estimated gross sum of
money aforesaid with the lawful interest there
on, from the finding of such verdict, he or they
shall be for ever precluded from all benefits of
said verdict as we'll as from all rights in regard
TO said lands, which he or they may or might
have by virtue ofthe Acts to which this is in ad-
dition. Proridcd, ko9e0er, that nothing in this
Act shall affect the yearly damage done to lands
flowed as aforesaid, previous to the finding of
such verdict, nor the rights of the parties there
to.
Approved by the Governor, March 12, $780,
AN ACT to authorize the appointment. of
Commissioners without the Common
wealth to administer oaths and take &C.
acknowledgement of deeds.
SEC. /. Be 1t enacted, &C., That the Gov
ernor of this Commonwealth be, and he is here
by authorized to nominate and with the advice
and consent of the Council to appoint and COM
mission one or more Commissioners in each or
such of the other States of the United States or
IN the District of Columbia, as he may deem
expedient, which Commissioners shall continue
in Office during the pleasure of the Governor,
and shall have full power and authority to ad-
minister on oath or affirmation to any person
who shall be willing and DESTROYS TO make such
oath or affirmation before him, and also to any
deponent, and further to take the acknowledge
ment and proof of any deed, contract, letter of
attorney or any other writing TO be used, or re-
corded in this Commonwealth, and such affida-
Wit, deposition or affirmation, and also such ac-
Acknowledgement, taken, made or administered
before such Commissioner, shall be as good and
etfeciual, TO all intents and purposes, if taken,
made or administered by, OF before any Justice
of the Peace in this Commonwealth.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That every
Commissioner, appointed as aforesaid, before
he shall proceed to perform any duty under, and
by virtue of this law, shall take and subscribe
an oath or affirmation before Justice of the
Peace, in the city or county in which such
Commissioner shall reside, we'll and faithfully
TO execute and perform all the duties Of such
Commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws
of this Commonwealth, which oath or attirma-
xion shall be fled in the Office of the Secretary
of this Commonwealth, within six months from
and after the taking of such oath.
Approved by the Governor, March II, 1880.
AN ACT in addition to An Act entitled An
Act to provide for the Instruction of Youth"
Be 1t enacted, &c, That the inhabitants of
the several School Districts within any town in
this Commonwealth, which hath already, or
which shall hereafter define the limits of such
districts, qualified to vote in town affairs, be,
and they hereby are authorized, at any meeting
called in the manner required by an Act passed
on the tenth day Of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
seven, entitled An Act to provide for the In
struction Of YOUTH in addition TO the powers
which they now possess, by vistue of the Act
aforesaid, TO hire, purchase or erect and main
tain more than one School House in any dis
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the sites thereof, and by the Prudential Com
mttee Of the district, TO select, contract with
and employ an Instructor for each of said School
Houses, and TO procure the necessary utensils
therefor agreeaby to the provisions of the tenth
section Of The Act aforesaid Provided, THAI
nothing herein contained shall prevent towns
from carving the provisions of this Act into eff
feet in their corporate capacity, and at The ex
pense of the town and if the inhabitants oi
any School District cannot agree where TO place
such School House, the Selectmen Of the town
to which such district belongs, may, upon ap.
plication, determine the places thereof, agreea.
bly, to the provisions Of the fifteenth section Of
the Act aforesaid.
Approved by the Governor, March 12, 1880
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,.
House of Representatives Feb 25, 1880.
The committee on the Judiciary, to whom
was referred an order IHstructlng them to en-
quire whether it is expedent TO make any
further provision by law for protecting the
SEPULCHRES OF TIE DEAD, have had
the subject under their consideration. Their
attention has been called to the legal embar
rasments and dangers that now attend the cu
aviation of the science of Anatomy, and the
removal Of which would in their opinion tend
to the more efectual protection OF the sepul
chres Of the dead, and they respectfully submit
the following report on the importance Of the
science Of anatomy to the practice Of surgery
and medicine, and the necessity Of disseciionI
to the knowledge Of anatomy.
The medical art has been considered neces
sary and important " mankind from the ear
lest ages The surgical department of il es