Certain corporations dissolved. Company, United Leather & Rubber Corporation, United V. H. Fowler Company, Velso Selling Corporation, W. C. Welsh, Incorporated, W. D. Kendall Company, W. E. Davis Company, W. F. Kearns Company, W. F. Loud & Sons Co., W. F. Whitmarsh, Inc., W. G. & H. C. Russell Co., W. H. Bradley Productions Inc., W. H. C. Aircraft Co., The, W. H. Connor and Son Company, W. H. Holbrook Company, W. H. Simpson Company, W. H. True Co. Inc., W. J. Barry Shoe Company, W. J. Freeman, Inc., W. J. Sullivan Co., The, W. L. Prowse, Inc., W. N. Wright Company, Inc., W. W. Ballard, Inc., Waban Garage, Inc., Waban Rose Conservatories, Wachusett Shoe Co., Waite-Wild Asbestos Company, Waitt & Bond, Inc., Wakefield Slipper Company, Walter A. Parrish Audit Company, Incorporated, Walter B. Fogg Corporation, Walter E. Sargent Shoe Company, Walter Rapp Company, Walter Reid Company, Waltham Auto Electric Co., Inc., Waltham Housing Corporation, Waltham Laundry Company, Waltham Motor Manufacturers, Inc., Waltham Spaghetti Manufacturing Co., Ware Transportation Company, Warfield Shoe Company, Inc., Warren Tanning Company, The, Washburn-Skilton Company, Washington Apron Manufacturing Co., Inc., Washington Heights Building Corporation, Washington-Idaho Water, Light & Power Company, Waterbury Last Block Company, Wateree Mills, Waterproof Cushion Sole Co., Inc., Wayside Fruit & Produce Co., Weatherill Drug Co., Webber Company, The, Webber Shoe Company, Webster Spinning Company, Weco Manufacturing Company, Weeks & Scott Inc., Weeweeantic Barrel Company, Incorporated, Wehar System, Inc., Weinz Trimming Company, The, Weiss Shoe Store Inc., Wellesley Textile Company, Wenham Lake Ice Corporation, West Stockbridge Box Company, Western Crockery Co., The, corporations Western Reed Company, Inc., Westfield Agricultural and Certain Yarnall Tanning Company, Yates Sales Corporation, Ye Z. B. Davis Corporation. CHARITABLE AND OTHER CORPORATIONS. Acushnet Social Club. Berkshire Music Colony, Incorporated. Corps 35, Volunteer Life Saving Service. Dorchester Relief Society. East End Social Club, Elks Building Association of Malden. Fairhaven Country Club. Federated Massachusetts Beekeepers' Association, Incorporated, The, Franklin County Young Men's Christian Association, Inc., The, Free Home for Consumptives, in the City of Boston, The. Groton Charitable Recreation Committee Inc. Holy Child Day Nursery, The. Leominster Athletic Association, The, Little Building Certain charitable and other corporations dissolved. Pending suits not affected, etc. Proceedings in suits upon how brought, etc. Benefit Association, Lowell Community Service (Incorporated). Massachusetts State Employees' Benefit Association, The, Medford Scholarship of Harvard University, Incorporated, The Trustees of the. New England Swedish Baptist Sunday School Union and Bethel Beach Summer Assembly. Phil Sheridan Camp Association, Polish National Alliance Immigration Aid Society, Pulse Club Inc., The. St. Mark's Community House Inc., Seraphic Institute Inc. of Boston, Mass., Stamp Savings Society of Boston, Syrian National Society, The. United Brotherhood of Malden, Inc. Waltham Canoe Club, West Roxbury Congregational Society, Winthrop Community Hospital, Woodside Athletic Association, Inc. PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS. SECTION 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any suit now pending by or against any corporation mentioned herein, or any suit now pending or hereafter brought for any liability now existing against the stockholders or officers of any such corporation, or to revive any charter previously annulled or any corporation previously dissolved, or to make valid any defective organization of any of the supposed corporations mentioned herein. SECTION 3. Suits upon choses in action arising out of choses in action, contracts sold or assigned by any corporation dissolved by this act may be brought or prosecuted in the name of the purchaser or assignee. The fact of sale or assignment and of purchase by the plaintiff shall be set forth in the writ or other process; and the defendant may avail himself of any matter of defence of which he might have availed himself in a suit upon the claim by the corporation, had it not been dissolved by this act. No relief from obligation to etc. SECTION 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to Alle tax return, relieve the last person who was the treasurer or assistant treasurer, or, in their absence or incapacity, who was any other principal officer, of each of the corporations named in this act, from the obligation to make a tax return as of April first following the date of dissolution and swear to the same as required by section thirty-five of chapter sixtythree of the General Laws. The tax liability of each of the corporations named in this act shall be determined in accordance with the existing laws of this commonwealth. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect as of March thirty-first in the current year. Effective date. Approved April 14, 1926. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ISSUE OF CAPITAL STOCK AGAINST Chap.239 SURPLUS BY TRUST COMPANIES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. companies, Chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the General Laws G. L. 172, § 18, is hereby amended by striking out section eighteen and inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 18. The Capital stock capital stock of such corporation shall be not less than two hun- of trust dred thousand dollars, except that in a city or town whose amount, etc. population numbers not more than one hundred thousand the capital stock may be not less than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; and except also that in towns whose population is not more than ten thousand the capital stock may be not less than fifty thousand dollars divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; and no Payment, etc., business shall be transacted by the corporation until the transacting whole amount of its capital stock is subscribed for and act- business. ually paid in. Any such corporation may, subject to the Increase. approval of the commissioner, increase its capital stock in the manner provided by sections forty-one and forty-four of chapter one hundred and fifty-six. No stock shall be issued Issue regulated. by any such corporation under this section until the par value thereof shall be fully paid in in cash or is in its possession before as surplus; provided, that no stock shall be issued against Proviso. of such corporation after such increase. Any such corpora- Decrease, Approved April 14, 1926. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REMOVING OR PLACING UNDER- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.240 placing wires and SECTION 1. In the month of January in the year nineteen Removal or hundred and twenty-seven, and in said month in each year underground thereafter, to and including the year nineteen hundred and of certain thirty-one, the fire commissioner of the city of Boston shall electrical prescribe and give public notice thereof in at least two daily any of Boston. appliances in newspapers in said city, by advertisement therein, twice a week for two weeks in succession, of not more than four miles of streets in any one year, from which poles shall be removed and the wires buried underground, except such poles and wires as are excepted in chapter three hundred and sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven. Certain sioner of city SECTION 2. The powers conferred and the duties imposed upon the officer mentioned in said chapter three hundred and sixty-four, and other acts mentioned in said chapter, are hereby extended and said powers shall be exercised and said duties performed by said fire commissioner in each of the years nineteen hundred and twenty-seven to nineteen hundred and thirty-one, inclusive. Approved April 14, 1926. Chap.241 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE APPROVAL AND PAYMENT OF AC G. L. 121, new section at end thereof. Approval and payment of accounts against com monwealth on account of state paupers persons, mothers with dependent children and persons infected with diseases dangerous to public health. COUNTS AGAINST THE COMMONWEALTH ON ACCOUNT OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: Section 42. All accounts against the commonwealth for allowances to counties, cities and towns on account of moneys paid for which they are entitled to reimbursement by the commonwealth and other poor under the provisions of section five of chapter one hundred and two, section one hundred and sixteen of chapter one hundred and eleven, sections seventeen and eighteen of chapter one hundred and seventeen, section six of chapter one hundred and eighteen and sections twelve, fifteen and eighteen of chapter one hundred and twenty-two shall be rendered to the department on or before the first day of October annually, and shall be for the twelve months ending on the thirtieth day of June preceding, and, if rendered as aforesaid, approved by the department and certified by the comptroller but not otherwise, shall be paid by the commonwealth; provided, however, that such accounts may be allowed and paid for any period subsequent to said thirtieth day of June upon approval by the department and certificaDisapproval of tion by the comptroller. Failure to comply with the rules and regulations of the department shall be ground for disapproval of any account. Proviso. accounts. G. L. 102, § 5, amended. Relief and transportation so as to SECTION 2. Section five of chapter one hundred and two of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "commonwealth", in the seventh line, the words: subject otherwise to the provisions of section fortytwo of chapter one hundred and twenty-one, read as follows: Section 5. Overseers of the poor of towns of shipwrecked may provide transportation to destitute shipwrecked seamen from one place to another within the commonwealth, and such other assistance while they are awaiting transportation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person, as the Expenses, said overseers deem necessary. A detailed statement of commonwealth, expenses so incurred shall be rendered to the department of public welfare, and, after approval by it, such expenses shall be paid by the commonwealth, subject otherwise to the provisions of section forty-two of chapter one hundred seamen by overseers of the poor. payment by etc. |