A.Â
A special act relates particularly to a person or
persons, an institution or institutions, one or more cities or towns
or one or more topics or issues. Thus special legislation is narrow
in its application. They also come about largely be request, and they
are not codified. Therefore, they are always referred to by the year
of enactment and chapter number. A few Special Acts, in additions
to legislative approval, need acceptance by the local voters in order
to become fully effective. In the listing which follows, any required
local acceptance is indicated in parentheses after the title.
B.Â
The Boxford history relative to special legislation
appears to be quite unusual, in that no special legislation pertaining
to the town is recorded for a lengthy span of years from 1913 to 1959.
The following is a list of special acts pertaining
to the Town of Boxford.
|
Year
|
Chapter
|
Short Title
|
Date of Passage
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
1782
|
107
|
Resolve on the petition of the Town of Beverly
respecting its valuation (Beverly valuation reduced and apportioned
among Boxford and other towns)
|
July 3, 1782
|
|
1783
|
54
|
Resolve on the petition of Isaac Adams et al.,
for the Town of Boxford, abating a fine for not sending a member (to
the General Court) in 1782
|
Oct. 17, 1783
|
|
1808
|
47
|
An act to incorporate certain persons as trustees,
to improve and manage a fund towards the support of schools in the
north- westerly parish in Boxford
|
Feb. 27, 1809
|
|
1824
|
116
|
An act to incorporate the trustees of the ministerial
fund in the first parish of Boxford
|
Feb 25, 1825
|
|
1825
|
32
|
An act to alter and establish a part of the
boundary line between the Towns of Rowley and Boxford
|
June 18, 1825
|
|
1846
|
81
|
An act to set off a part of the Town of Ipswich
and annex the same to the Town of Boxford
|
March 7, 1846
|
|
1856
|
56
|
Resolve in favor of the Town of Boxford (school
fund reimbursement)
|
May 13, 1856
|
|
1856
|
61
|
An act to set off a part of the Town of Boxford
and annex the same to the Town of Groveland
|
March 21, 1856
|
|
1865
|
65
|
An act to authorize the first parish in Boxford
to sell real estate
|
March 6, 1865
|
|
1893
|
384
|
An act to incorporate the Haverhill, Georgetown
and Danvers Street R.R. Company (permitting the laying of tracks in
Boxford)
|
May 22, 1893
|
|
1897
|
284
|
An act relative to the boundary line between
the Towns of Boxford and Georgetown
|
April 15, 1897
|
|
1898
|
541
|
An act to exempt the Town of Boxford from maintaining
a high school and from paying the tuition of pupils living in said
town and attending a high school in another town or city
|
June 20, 1898
|
|
1899
|
255
|
An act to change the name of the Police Court
of Haverhill and to include the Towns of Georgetown and Boxford within
its judicial district
|
April 10, 1899
|
|
1902
|
295
|
An act to incorporate the Danvers and Georgetown
Street R.R. Company (permitting operations in Boxford)
|
April 11, 1902
|
|
1904
|
147
|
An act to establish the boundary line between
the Towns of Boxford and North Andover
|
March 12, 1904
|
|
1904
|
253
|
An act to establish the boundary line between
the Towns of Georgetown and Boxford
|
April 22, 1904
|
|
1904
|
252
|
An act to establish the boundary line between
the Towns of Middleton and Boxford
|
April 22, 1904
|
|
1912
|
85
|
Resolve to provide for investigating the matter
of a water supply for cities of Salem, Beverly and Woburn and for
certain towns (Boxford included)
|
April 29, 1912
|
|
Year Chapter Short Title
|
Date of Passage
| ||
|
1960
|
700
|
An act authorizing the Town of Boxford to appropriate
funds from its stabilization fund for construction of an addition
to the Cole Elementary School
|
Oct. 17, 1960
|
|
1966
|
298
|
An act authorizing the Town of Boxford to vote
at a Special Town Meeting on the question of granting licenses for
the sale in said town of alcoholic beverages (rejected by the town
June 20, 1966)
|
May 23, 1966
|
|
1967
|
156
|
An act authorizing the formation of a Vocational
Regional School District by the Cities of Haverhill and Newburyport
and the Towns of Amesbury, Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Ipswich,
Merrimac, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury, Topsfield and West Newbury (passed
over by the town March 4, 1968)
|
April 20, 1967
|
|
1968
|
712
|
An act providing tenure of office until age
65 for Douglas A. Warren, incumbent of the office of Police Chief
of the Town of Boxford (approved by the town at Annual Town Election
1969)
|
July 19, 1968
|
|
1971
|
327
|
An act authorizing the Town of Topsfield to
purchase land in the Town of Boxford for conservation purposes
|
May 20, 1971
|
|
1971
|
614
|
An act directing the transfer of certain lands
of the Commonwealth to the control of the Department of Public Works
for highway purposes and authorizing the Department of Public Works
to acquire certain public lands in the Town of Boxford for highway
purposes
|
Aug. 5, 1971
|
|
1972
|
545
|
An act authorizing the formation of a Vocational
Regional School District by the Cities of Beverly, Gloucester, Peabody
and Salem and the Towns of Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Hamilton, Lynnfield,
Manchester, Marblehead, Middleton, Rockport, Swampscott, Topsfield
and Wenham (approved by the town November 7, 1972)
|
June 29, 1972
|
|
1974
|
84
|
An act authorizing the Town of Boxford to issue
an all alcoholic beverages license to the Far Corner Farm Golf Course,
Inc. (subject to local referendum at each biennial state election)
|
April 8, 1974
|
|
1975
|
406
|
An act establishing an Historic and Scenic District
Planning Commission in Essex County (provisions of act ceased on July
1, 1978)
|
July 5, 1975
|
|
2001
|
57
|
An act relative to a boundary change between
the Towns of Georgetown and Boxford
|
August 2, 2001
|
|
2002
|
413
|
An act changing the boundary line between Boxford
and North Andover
|
December 24, 2002
|
|
2018
|
238
|
An act to provide property tax exemptions for certain nonprofit
senior housing in Boxford
|
August 30, 2018
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