The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-13
STATE LAW S.
AN ACT to change the names OF the per-
snna fhnrnin nnanfinnad.

AIN All TO change the names OF 'ne pa
sons therein mentioned.
BE 1t enacted, &c. That Samuel U Ge,e " p tbs,
ton, may take the name of Frederic .. uole .nas
David Bradse Eaton Of Boston may 'ak1 '"c "oinS
of Albert Caspar Eaton that NeneihlAn Nisp y
Boston, may take the name OF mares 1Ieue''c
William ClapP; that Esiher n Sp Nav Harris nav
take tbe nsme of Mary Esther Harris; that Joanna
B. Berry of Boston, may take the name OF Joanna
b. Sewitt that Julia LecretIa Rogers oil Boston,
minor NAV take the name OF Julia Leonora hogers
tbot Antoinette Wright of Boston, minor, daugh-
Tor of Nathaniel Wright may take the name OF
xnna RnrIin Wright; that James Ivers Austin of
Boston, may take the name Of lvers James Austin,
ali of the County of Sufolk-that Elijah Holt of
Iyun. NAV take the name Of Eli Holt that Lucy
Lovett of Beverly, minor, daughter of Pyam Low
eu NAV take the name of Lucy Davis Lovett; that
stephen Sergeant 9TH, of Amesbury. may take the
name of Stephen N. Sergeant; that Mary Ann
Welch Of Newburyport, may take the name of Ma
nv Ann Wingate; that Nathan Smith OF Salem,
and his wife, Martha |. Smith, may take the name
of Nathan Pool and Martha T. Pool; that James
Augustus Hodgkins of Salem, minor of Eliza
beth w. Hodgkins, may take the name Of Angus
tus Hodgkins Lampson; that Ann Marston, mi
nor, of West Newbury, may take the name of EN-
ma Ann Bailey, all Of the County of Essex-that
'Benonia Boynton of Charlestown in the County of
Middlesex, may take the name of Benonia Boynton
Buckingham; that William Wilder of Lancaster,
may take the name of George Washington Wilder;
shat Daniel Rice of Leicester may take the name
of Daniel Tatman Rice that Charles Austin Hunt
ing Of Barre, may take the name Of Charles Austin,
all of the County of Worcester. That Epaphrodl-
ftus Williams of Conway, in the County OF Frank
lin, may take the name of Francis E. Williams
That Peter r. Bryant of Cummington, may take
the name of Arthur Bryant; that Chical Smith
Douglas of Amherst, may take the name of Solomon
Gilbert, all of the County of Hampshire. That
solomon Hoar, Junior, of Brimfeld, may take the
name of Solomon Homer that William P. Hoar
Of said Brimfeld, may take the name of William
p. Homer, and that Clarinda Hoar, wife of said
William P may take the name of Clarinda Homer,
and that Martha Fullerton Hoar, Harriet Neal
Hoar and George Harding Hoar minor children of
said William P. and Clarinda Hear, may take the
name respectively of Martha Fullerton Homer,
Harriet Neal Homer and George Harding Homer,
all of the County of Hampden that William Beale
Of Milton, may take the name of William Swift
Beale that Isaac Adams of Brookline, may take
the name of Isaac Mahtoa Wansongthi Adams {;
that Charles Doggett of Brookline, may take the
name of Charles Doggett Perry, all of the County
of Norfolk that Nathaniel c. Fowle of Norton,
in the County of Bristol, may take the name ofNa-
thaniel Fowe Bowdoin that James Adams Menu
rem of bingham, in the County of Plymouth, may
take the name of James Adams. And the several
persons herein mentioned hereby allowed to
take and hereafter be known by the respective
names which by this act they severally are author
lied to assume. Approved, June %, 1881
AN ACT to modify an. act entitled " An
Act relating to the separation of the Dis
trict Of Maine from Massachusetts Proper,
and forming the same into separate and
Independent State.
Whereas the Legislature of the State of Maine
did, the nineteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
one, pass an act entitled can Act to modify the
terms and conditions Of the act for separa tion "
which act of the Legislature Of the State Of Maine
is in the following words: I" Section ]. Be it en-
acted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in Legislature assembled, that the terms and con-
ditions mentioned in the act of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,, passed on the nineteenth dav OF
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, entitled " An Act relating
to the separation Of the District of Maine from
Massachusetts Proper, and forming the same into
separate and Independent State" be and they are
so far modified annulled, that the Trustees of any
ministerial school fund.- incorporated by the Leg
islature of Massachusetts, in any town within this
State, shall have, hold, and enjoy their powers and
privileges, subject to be altered, restrained, ex.
tended, or annulled by the Legislature of Maine
with the consent Of such Trustees and of the town
for whose benefit such fund was established. Sec
ton 2 Be it further enacted, That the terms and
conditions of the act aforesaid. be, and they are
hereby so far modified or annulled, that the Legs-
lature of the State Of Maine shall have the power
direct the income of any fund arising from the pro-
ceeds of the sale of land, required to be- reserved
for the benefit of the ministry, to be applied for
the benefit of primary schools in the town in which
such land is situate where the fee in such land has
not already become vested in some particular par
ish within such town, or in some individual. And
this act shall take effect and be in force provided
the Legislature Of the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts shall give its consent thereton And
whereas the Governor of the State of Maine did
pursuant to a Resolve of the Legislature of that
State, transmit to the Governor Of this Common
wealth copy of the aforesaid act, certified by the
Secretary of State for the State of Maine with a
request that the might be laid before the Leg
lslature of Massachusetts,, which having been done
Therefore,
Be ii enacted &c. That the act of the Common.
wealth of Massachusetts, passed on the nineteenth
day oil June, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen entitled " An act re-
lating to the separation of the District of Maine
from Massachusetts, proper, and forming the same
into an Independent State,' be 30 Ear modified as
TO permit an exercise oflegslation by the Govern.
ment oftte State of Maine. over the subject of min.
steral and school lands within its territorial uris
dcton, granted or reserved for those purposes be.
fore the separation of that State from the Common
wealth OF Massachusetts, with the restrictions and
upon the conditions expressed in the aforesaid ac
of the Legislature of Maine.
ResolOed, That in all such cases the consent o.
the Propretor Proprietors Of such lands shall b.
previously obtained Approved, June 20, 1881.
AN ACT further providing for the choice
of Moderators at meetings of Towns, Par
lshes, and Religious Societies.
BE 1t enacted, DC, That, whenever, at meet
ing of any Town, Parish, or Religious Society
there shall be vacancy in the Office of Clerk, o.
the Clerk shall not be present, the Selectmen
Parish Committee, or the Committee of such Re
ligious Society, or, if there be no Parish Commit
tee then the Parish Assessors shall preside in tn,
choice OF Moderator of such meetings, respec
lively record whereof, and his own election, shall
De made by the Clerk who shalafterwards be chosen
Approved by the Governor. June 81, 1881.
COMMONWEALTH OF MAssAcHUsErrs.
In Senate, June 81, 1881.
The Select Committee to whom was referred s.
much of His Excellency, the Governors Speecl