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IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX. 



An Act to incorporate the Massachusetts Fruit Preserving Company. 



Be it enacted by the Se7)ate and [louse of Bepreseniatives, in General Court assevibled, 

 and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



Section 1. Charles M. Ilovcy, Daniel Needham, Christopher W. 

 Bellows, their associates and successors, are hereby made a coq)oration 

 by the name of the Massachusetts Fruit Preserving Company, for the 

 purpose of carrying on the business of preserving fruits, foreign and 

 domestic, in the city of Boston ; with all the powers and privileges, 

 and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in all 

 general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force relative to 

 such corporations. 



Section 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed 

 two hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one 

 hundred dollars each ; and said corporation may hold, for the purposes 

 aforesaid, real estate to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, 

 .and shall not commence business until one hundred thousand dollars of 

 its capital stock shall have been paid in. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



House of Representatives, April 10, 1866. 

 Passed to be enacted. 



James M. Stone, Speaker.. 



Passed to be enacted. 



In Senate, April 21, 1866. 

 Joseph A. Pond, President. 



April 2.jd, 1866. 



Approved. 



Alex. IT. Bullock. 



vSecretary's Department, Boston, May 23d, 1866. 

 A true copy. 



Oliver Warner, Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



