Chap. 0170 An Act authorizing the Northampton and Springfield Rail-road Corporation to change their Location.

BE it. enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Sect. 1. The Northampton and Springfield Rail-road Corporation may construct, and open for use, a branch railroad, from the main track of their road, in the village of Cabotville, to and near the mills in said village, passing up the south bank of Chicopee river, near the same, and thence extending up said river, into the Chicopee Falls village; provided, however, that the locatio-n of that part of their branch extending to the mills in said Cabotville, shall be filed with the county commissioners of the county of Hampden, within one year from the passage of this act; and for that part of their branch extending from said Cabotville mills, into said Chicopee Falls village, the location shall be filed with the said county commissioners, in five years from the passage of this act.

Sect. 2. Said corporation may construct, and open for use, their road, commencing at a point in Northampton, defined in the act to which this act is in addition, passing down on the west side of the Connecticut river, and near the same, through a part of Hadley, Easthampton, Northampton South Farms, so called, and West Springfield, and crossing said river at or near the village of Willhnansett, in the town of Springfield, to a line designated in the act to which this act is in addition.

Sect. 3. The said corporation, in the construction of their rail-road and branch, as designated in the foregoing sections, may exercise all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in that part of the thirty-ninth chapter of the Revised States, which relates to rail-road corporations, and in the several statutes subsequently passed relating to such corporations.

Sect. 4. The said Northampton and Springfield Railroad Corporation may construct and maintain a bridge at Willimansett Falls, across Connecticut river, and across the canal and works of " The Proprietors of Locks and Canal on Connecticut river, at South Hadley." and the Court of Common Pleas may, upon the request of said proprietors, appoint commissioners, who, after hearing the parties, shall

award a gross sum to be paid to said proprietors, which shall be in full satisfaction for all claim which they may make for the damage done to their property and works, and for the legal liability, if any, of the proprietors, to persons navigating said river, or canal, for injuries occasioned to them by the construction and maintenance of said bridge.

Sect. 5. The time for filing the location of said Northampton and Springfield Pvail-road, with the county commissioners of the counties of Hampden and Hampshire, from Northampton to its junction with the Western Railroad, and with the Hartford and Springfield Rail-road, in Springfield, is hereby extended to the first day of July next; and the location thus filed, as herein provided, shall be as valid and effectual, as if filed within the time or times prescribed in the act to which this act is in addition.

Sect. 6. Said corporation may divert the course of Mill river, in Northampton, near its mouth, so far as may be necessary to conduct it into the main channel of the Connecticut river, at a point east of said rail-road.

Sect. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.   [Approved by the Governor, March 21, 1845.]