The General Court of 1856 assembled in the State House in Boston, on Wednesday, the second day of January, and was prorogued on Friday, the sixth day of June.

The oaths of office were administered to His Excellency, HENRY J. Gardner, on the third day of January.

GENERAL STATUTES

AND

SPECIAL ACTS

OF

MASSACHUSETTS,

1856.

AN ACT establishing a Probate Court in North Andover, in the County of Chap. 1.

Essex.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:

established.

SECT. 1. The probate court now required to be holden in Probate court Andover, in the county of Essex, on the second Tuesday in February in each year, shall hereafter be holden in North Andover in said county, and the act requiring a court of Act repealed. probate to be holden in North Andover, on the third Tuesday in January annually, is hereby repealed.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved by the Governor, January 12, 1856.]

AN ACT Continuing the Tremont Insurance Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chap. 2.

continued.

SECT. 1. The Tremont Insurance Company in the city Corporation of Boston, is hereby continued a body corporate for the purpose of closing its affairs, till the first day of July which will be in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty

seven.

SECT. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Approved by the Governor, January 26, 1856.]