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ACTS

RESOLVES

PASSED BT THE

General d^aurt of ^assacltwjictts

IN THE TEAR

1929

TOGETHER WITH

RETURNS OF VOTES UPON QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO VOTERS,
TABLES SHOWING CHANGES IN THE STATUTES, ETC.

PUBLISHED BT THE

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

BOSTON

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING COMPANY

1929

ACTS AND RESOLVES

MASSACHUSETTS
1929

S^ The General Court, which was chosen November 6, 1928, assembled
on Wednesday, the second day of January, 1929, for its first annual session.

The oaths of office were taken and subscribed by His Excellency Frank
G. Allen and His Honor William S. Youngman on Thursdaj^, the third
day of January, in the presence of the two Houses assembled in convention.

ACTS.

Chap.

An Act authorizing the town of watertown to ap-
propriate MONEY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE
COST OF ERECTION OF A MEMORIAL TO THE FOUNDERS OF
THE TOWN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Court assembled, and hy the authority of the same,
as follows:

Section 1. The town of Watertown may appropriate Town of
money in nineteen hundred and twenty-nine and in nineteen mny''ap°pro-
hundred and thirty for the purpose of paying the cost of pii^te money
erection of a memorial to the founders of Watertown and for of paying
other purposes in connection with the celebration of the erect°on of a
tercentenary of the founding of the town. the7ound*°

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. of the town.

Approved January 23, 1929.

etc.

Chap.

An Act validating the registration of certain voters

prior to the last state PRIxMARY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The registration of any voter between ten o'clock in the Kegistration
evening on the twentieth day preceding the state primary "oterspdor
of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and the day following to last state
said primary in violation of section twenty-six of chapter validated.
fifty-one of the General Laws, as most recently amended by
section one of chapter one hundred and three of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, to the extent that
such registration is invalid by reason thereof, is hereby made
valid. Approved January 29, 1929.

Chap.

An Act relative to certain police officers of the

CITY of boston pensioned ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Once each year the police commissioner for the city of ;^"'j"^\
Boston shall require every retired police officer of said city examination
under age fifty-five, who is in receipt of a pension on ac- ofK^ers'^of
count of disability under any law, other than chapter five |;',^j °/;f °®*°°'
hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred lifty-five,
and twenty-two, providing for the retirement and pensioning d'isabiiity'.
of any police officer of said city, to submit to an examination
to be given by the medical board provided for by section

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 4, 5.

Certification to
police com-
missioner as
to physical and
mental fitness
of police
officer for
service, etc.

Restoration to
service, etc.

Pension to
cease, etc.

Pension to
cease upon
failure to
submit to
examination.

eighteen of said chapter five hundred and twenty-one at a
time and place designated by it, or to be given by a physician
designated by said board in case the retired pohce officer
resides without the commonwealth. Said board by itself
or by such physician in the case aforesaid shall make such
examination and upon completion thereof shall report and
certify to said police commissioner whether or not said
retired police officer is physically and mentally fit for service
in the police department of said city and of the rank or grade
held by him when he was retired. If said board shall report
and certify to said police commissioner that said retired police
officer is physically and mentally fit for service as aforesaid,
said police commissioner shall restore him to said police
department in the same rank or grade which he had when he
was retired, in the first vacancy occurring in such rank or
grade, and shall send him written notice when and where to
report for duty; and upon so reporting for duty his pension
shall cease and he shall again become eligible to the benefits
of the law under which he was formerly retired and shall
not be subject to the provisions of said chapter five hundred
and twenty-one. If said retired police officer fails to submit
to such examination or to return to duty as required by said
notice, his pension shall cease.

Approved January 30, 1929.

Chap. 4 An Act authorizing the Middlesex college of medi-
cine AND surgery, inc., TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY.

The Middlesex
College of
Medicine and
Surgery, Inc.,
may hold
additional
real and
personal prop-
erty.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery, Inc., a
corporation incorporated under chapter twenty-eight of the
acts of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under the name of
Worcester Medical Institution, and whose name was changed
to its present one under general law December fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby authorized to hold
real and personal property to an amount not exceeding one
million dollars for the purposes of said corporation.

Approved January 31, 1929.

Chap. 5 An Act to authorize the children's hospital in the

CITY OF BOSTON TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL
ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Children's Hospital, incorporated by chapter forty-
four of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby
authorized to hold, for the purposes for which it is incorpo-
rated, real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding
six milUon dollars in value, including the amount which it is
already authorized by law to hold.

Approved January 31, 1929.

The

Children's
Hospital
may hold
additional
real and
personal estate.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 6, 7.

An Act repealing certain provisions of law relative PJiQry a

TO LLOYDS associations. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one hundred and sixty-one of chap- Repeal,
ter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws is
hereby repealed.

Section 2. Section six of chapter one hundred and ten g. l. no, § e.
of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out in '*"'^"<^«"^-
the fourth, fifth and sixth lines, the words " , nor to associ-
ations authorized to transact insurance in the common-
wealth under section one hundred and sixty-one of chapter
one hundred and seventy-five", so as to read as follows: —
Section 6. The preceding section shall not apply to any Certain
corporation doing business under its true corporate name, exempt V°om
nor to any partnership doing business under any title which statfn^Tea?*'^**'
includes the true surname of any partner; nor to any nameof
association which has complied with sections five and six of actfng bus'iness,
chapter one hundred and fifty-nine; nor to any partnership, ^*''-
joint stock company or association the business of which
is conducted by trustees under a written instrument or
declaration of trust, provided that the names of such trustees Proviso.
with a reference to such instrument or declaration of trust
shall be filed as provided in section five.

Approved February 2, 1929.

An Act permitting certain limited fraternal benefit (JJiaj) 7
societies to amend their charters under general

LAW.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section forty-six of chapter one hundred and seventy-six g. l. i76,
of the General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter amend^e^d.
one hundred and fifty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, by chapter four hundred and ninety-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, by section
three of chapter eighty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-five and by chapter two hundred and eighty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
further amended by inserting after the word "ten" in the
fifty-seventh line the word : — , eleven, — so that the third
paragraph of said section will read as follows : —

Any such limited society may be incorporated, and limited frLTernai
fraternal benefit corporations may be formed, in the manner benefit
prescribed in and be subject to this section and to sections hoTiJfcor-
six, seven, nine, ten, eleven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, poi'ated, etc.
thirty-six, forty-seven, forty-seven A and forty-nine of
this chapter and the seventh clause of section five of chapter
fifty-nine; provided, that no proceeding shall be instituted Proviso,
under said section thirty-six because such society has a
membership of less than four hundred.

Approved February 2, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 8, 9.

Reserve
police force
in town of
Natick,
establishment,
etc.

Chap. 8 An Act providing for the establishment of a reserve

POLICE FORCE IN THE TOWN OF NATICK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Natick may establish a re-
serve police force consisting of not more than five members,
and appointments thereto shall, subject to chapter thirty-
one of the General Laws, be made in the same manner as
appointments to the regular police force of said town. The
chief of police of said town may assign the members of such
reserve force to duty in said town whenever and for such
length of time as he may deem necessary; and when on duty
the members of said reserve force shall have all the powers
and duties of members of the regular police force of said
town.

Section 2. This act may be submitted to the voters of
said town for acceptance at any annual town meeting, and,
for the purpose of such submission only, shall take effect
upon its passage. The vote shall be taken in answer to the
following cjuestion which shall be placed upon the official
ballot to be used for the election of town officers at said
meeting: — "Shall an act passed by the general court in the
year nineteen hundred and twentj^-nine, entitled 'An Act
providing for the establishment of a reserve police force in
the town of Natick', be accepted?" If a majority of the
votes in answer to said question are in the affirmative, this
act shall thereupon take full effect, but not otherwise.

Approved February 2, 1929.

Submiesiun
to voters,
etc.

Chap.

G. L. 40, § 5,
cl. (12), etc.,
amenileii.

Cities and
towns may
appropiiate
money for
decoration of
soldiers'
graves and
for observance
of Meinoriiil

9 An Act relative to the participation of local chapters

OF the MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE MUNICIPAL OBSERVANCE
OF MEMORIAL DAY AND OTHER PATRIOTIC HOLIDAYS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Clause (12) of section five of chapter forty of the General
Laws, as amended by section six of chapter four hundred and
eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one,
by chapters two hundred and two and four hundred and
one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, by
chapter sixteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
seven and by chapter nine of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by inserting
after the word "America" in the twenty-second line of said
clause the following : — and of local chapters of the Massa-
chusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, —
so as to read as follows: — (12) For erecting headstones or
other monuments at the graves of persons who served in the
war of the revolution, the war of eighteen hundred and
twelve, the Seminole war, the Mexican war or the war of
the rebellion or who served in the mihtary or naval service
of the United States in the Spanish American war or in the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 10. 7

World war; for acquiring land by purchase or by eminent Day and
domain under chapter seventy-nme, purchasing, erecting, holidays, etc.
equipping or dedicating buildings, or constructing or dedi-
cating other suitable memorials, for the purpose of properly
commemorating the services and sacrifices of persons who
served as aforesaid; for the decoration of the graves, monu-
ments or other memorials of soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United
States in time of war or insurrection and the proper observ-
ance of Memorial Day and other patriotic holidays under
the auspices of the local posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, The American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States and under the auspices of the Kearsarge Association
of Naval Veterans, Inc. and of local garrisons of the Army
and Navy Union of the United States of America and of
local chapters of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution; or for keeping in repair graves,
monuments or other memorials erected to the memory of
such persons or of its firemen who died from injuries received
in the performance of their duties in the fire service or for
decorating the graves of such firemen or for other memorial
observances in their honor. Money appropriated in honor
of such firemen may be paid over to, and expended for
such purposes by, any veteran firemen's association or similar
organization. Approved February 2, 1929.

An Act to incorporate the cathedral church of the Chav 10

DIOCESE OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Thomas F. Davies, John M. McGann, chnst church
William C. Simons, Henry M. Morgan, Stedman W. Craig, ufeofocteof
Ralph Carleton, Herbert G. Farquhar, Philip W. Simons, yjf'^^'""^
Laurence D. Chapin, William H. Shuart, William C. Hill, incorporated.^'
Lennox F. Beach, A. Ohn Sinclair, Oscar D. Dillman, Philip
S. Beebe, Edward T. Davis, Charles W. Burt, Morton Snow
and Addison L. Green, their associates and successors, who
shall be appointed or elected as hereinafter prescribed, are
hereby made a corporation by the name of Christ Church
Cathedral of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, with
all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties,
restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws now or
hereafter in force relating to charitable corporations, so far
as the same are appHcable.

Section 2. The object of the said corporation shall be object of
the establishment, erection, maintenance, and management corporation.
in accordance with the doctrine, discipline, and worship of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of
America, of a cathedral church and its appurtenances in
the city of Springfield, and of such incidental foundations,
schools, faculties, and other religious and charitable works

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 11,

May sue and
be sued, may
acquire by
purchase, gift,
etc., real or
personal
estate, etc.

May change
name.

First

members of
corporation.

Vacancies.

Proviso.

Corporation
to have power
to adopt a
constitution,
etc.

Adoption of
statutes not
inconsistent
with constitu-
tion.

Proviso.

as may properly be connected with such cathedral in and
for the diocese of which the said city of Springfield is a part.

Section 3. The said corporation shall be capable of
suing and being sued and shall have power to acquire by
purchase, gift, grant, devise or bequest, and to hold in trust
or otherwise, any estate or property, real or personal, neces-
sary or proper for any of the objects of the said corporation,
and to sell, mortgage, convey or otherwise dispose of any
property held by it. The said corporation shall have power,
at a meeting duly called for the purpose, to change the name
of the corporation.

Section 4. The persons named in the first section of
this act shall be, and are hereby constituted the first mem-
bers of said corporation and they shall hold office and have
power to fill vacancies in their number until their successors
shall be appointed or elected and qualified, under the con-
stitution to be adopted as hereinafter prescribed; provided,
that the bishop of the said Protestant Episcopal church of
the diocese in which the said cathedral shall be situated,
exercising jurisdiction as such for the time being, shall be
ex-officio a member and the official head and presiding
oflEicer of the said corporation.

Section 5. The said corporation shall have power to
adopt a constitution, which shall prescribe the number of
members of the corporation other than the said bishop, and
the mode of electing or appointing such members and their
powers and duties, and from time to time to amend or to
repeal the same. The corporation shall also have power to
adopt statutes not inconsistent with said constitution, and
from time to time to amend or to repeal the same. Such
statutes shall provide for the management and administra-
tion of the business, property and affairs of the corporation,
and for maintaining the worship and carrying on the work
of the cathedral. The constitution shall determine how
and upon what notice it may be amended or repealed, and
also how and upon what notice the said statutes may be
adopted, amended or repealed; provided, that the con-
stitution and statutes, and any amendments thereof, shall
not be inconsistent with this act or with any law of the
commonwealth.

Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 7, 1929.

Chap. 11 A^ -^CT authorizing the city of NORTHAMPTON TO AP-
PROPRIATE MONEY TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR HOLDING
IN SAID CITY DURING THE CURRENT YEAR THE ANNUAL
REUNION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH UNITED
STATES INFANTRY VETERANS ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN
EXPEDITIONARY FORCES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

NOTthimpton SECTION 1. The city of Northampton may appropriate
may appro- a sum, uot exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the purpose

pnate money / r- r-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 12, 13. 9

of providing proper facilities for public entertainment at the to provide
time of the annual reunion of the one hundred and fourth lroTding1n°^
United States infantry veterans association, American ^fjrin'^^current
expeditionary forces, to be held in said city during the cur- year the
rent year and of paying expenses incidental to such enter- oFthe'one""'°"
tainment. Money so appropriated shall be expended under I'nlTrth^united
the direction and control of the mayor of said city. states infantry

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Issoc^"!on,

Approved February 7, 1929. American '

^ ^ 'J ' expeditionary

: forces.

An Act enabling the town of milton to sell a portion phf^rt 1 9

OF ITS PLAYGROUND ON BLUE HILL AVENUE. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Milton may sell at public auc- Town of
tion or private sale, and convey, the whole or any part of a seiia'po^tlon
certain parcel of real estate situated in that town, which ofitspiay-
has been held for playground purposes and is no longer needed Biue'nifr
for public use, and shall use the proceeds of such sale for si^enue, etc.
the purposes stated in section sixty-three of chapter forty-
four of the General Laws, inserted by section four of chapter
three hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three. Said parcel of land is bounded and described Boundaries
as follows: Commencing at a stone bound in the county description,
commissioners' line forming the southeasterly boundary of
Blue Hill avenue, set at land now or formerly of Bridget
Will; thence running southerly along said land of Will one
hundred and four and five one hundredths feet to a point;
thence running northwesterly eighty-five feet to said
county commissioners' line and forming an angle of ninety
degrees therewith; thence running northeasterly along
said county commissioners' line sixty feet to the point of
beginning; containing twenty-five hundred and fifty square
feet, more or less.

Section 2. Action hereunder may be taken by the town when action
at the annual meeting to be held in March in the current ™ay be taken.
year, but not thereafter, except so far as is necessary to
carry out the provisions of any vote passed at said meeting
or to use as aforesaid the proceeds of said sale.

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

Approved February 7, 1929.

An Act placing the chief of police and the members QJiaj) 13

OF THE REGULAR OR PERMANENT POLICE FORCE OF THE
TOWN OF ROCKPORT UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The chief of police and members of the chief of
regular or permanent police force of the town of Rockport member^s^of
shall, upon the effective date of this act, become subject to regular or
the civil service laws and rules and regulations relating to poiicefor^e
the appointment and removal of police officers in towns, Rocl^orf
and the tenure of office of anv incumbent thereof shall be pieced under

civil service

laws.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 14.

Submission to
voters, etc.

unlimited, except that he may be removed in accordance
with such laws and rules and regulations; but the present
chief of police and the present members of the regular or
permanent police force of said town may continue to serve
as such without taking a civil service examination.

Section 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance
to the voters of said town at the annual town election in
the current year in the form of the following question which
shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used at said
election: ''Shall an act passed by the general court in the
year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled, 'An Act
placing the chief of police and the members of the regular
or permanent police force of the town of Rockport under
the civil service laws', be accepted?" If a majority of the
votes in answer to said question are in the affirmative, then
this act shall thereupon take effect, but not otherwise, except
that for the purpose of such submission it shall take effect
upon its passage. Approved February 7, 1929.

Town of
Amesbury
may establish
and maintain
a public
hospital and
may purchase
the Amesbury
hospital
association
property for
such purpose.

Chap. 14 An Act authorizing the town of amesbury to establish

AND maintain A PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND TO PURCHASE THE
AMESBURY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION PROPERTY FOR SUCH
PURPOSE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Amesbury may establish and
maintain a public hospital for the use of the inhabitants of
said town, and others admitted thereto, who may require
medical or surgical treatment, and may appropriate money
for the establishment and maintenance of said hospital and
for the purchase of property therefor as hereinafter pro-
vided. Said town may purchase for use as aforesaid the
buildings and other property of the Amesbury hospital
located in said town and owned by the Amesbury hospital
association.

Section 2. For the purpose of providing funds for the
purchase aforesaid, said town may borrow from time to
time, within a period of five years from the passage of this
act, such sums as may be necessarj'^, not exceeding in the
aggregate fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or
notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words,
Amesbury Hospital Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized
issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be
paid in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but
no issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal
to an amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized
issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax
levy of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred
under this act shall be inside the statutory limit and shall,
except as herein provided, be subject to the provisions of
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.
Trustees, SECTION 3. Said towu shall, within sixty days from the

tirms°"tc. effective date of this act, elect at an annual or special elec-

Amesbury
Hospital
Loan, Act of
1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 15, 16. 11

tion a board consisting of five trustees to manage said public
hospital, who shall hold office, two until the expiration of
three years, two until the expiration of two years, and one
until the expiration of one year, from the date of the first
annual meeting following said effective date. Thereafter as
the terms of office expire, the town shall annually elect such
number of trustees for the term of three years each as are
necessary to fill any vacancies. Any vacancy occurring in vacancies.
said board otherwise than by the expiration of a term of
office shall be filled by appointment by the board of select-
men for the residue of the term.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance submission to
by a majority of the registered voters of the town present of°Amesbu°ryr
and voting thereon by ballot at any town meeting called etc.
for the purpose within three years from the passage of this
act; but, for the purpose of such acceptance, it shall take
effect upon its passage. Approved February 7, 1929.

An Act exempting from local taxation the stock of Qhav 15

DOMESTIC insurance COMPANIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Clause thirty-first of section five of chapter g. t>. 59, §.5.
fifty-nine of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding aJ^Jn^Jed^"''''®'
at the end thereof the following : — , and stock in domestic
insurance companies subject to taxation under section twenty
or twenty-two of said chapter, — so that said clause thirty-
first will read as follows: — Thirt3^-first, Stock in domestic stock in
business corporations, as defined in section thirty of chapter buSnlsg"
sixty-three, and stock in domestic insurance companies sub- corporations
ject to taxation under section twenty or twenty-two of said dom^tic'^ *"

chapter. insurance

COITlDiiniGS

Section 2. This act shall take effect as of the thirty- exempt from
first day of March in the current year. EffltrlTe

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act relative to the observance by certain Chap. 16
municipalities of their three hundredth anniver-
saries.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to Emergency
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an P''«^'"'''e-
emergency law, necessary for the unmediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Every municipality which was settled or began its corpo- Certain
rate existence in sixteen hundred and twenty-nine or six- "av make*'"**
teen hundred and thirty, and every other municipality in- appropriations
eluding within its limits any territory which was a part of igmorThl
such first mentioned municipality at the time of the settle- thli>thre*e^ °^
ment or beginning of corporate existence aforesaid, may hundredth
make appropriations in nineteen hundred and twenty-nine '^°°'''^'"^'''''^-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 17, 18.

Town of
Wilmington
may borrow
money for
school purposes

and/or in nineteen hundred and thirty for the observance in
nineteen hundred and twenty-nine or nineteen hundred and
thirty of the three hundredth anniversary of the settlement
or beginning of corporate existence aforesaid. Any such
municipaHty may employ a secretary and such other em-
ployees and perform such other acts as may be necessary to
prepare for and carry out the observance of such anniversary.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Chap. 17 An Act authorizing the town of Wilmington to bor-
row MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing additional
school accommodations in the town of Wilmington by the
acquisition of land and/or the construction of a new school
building or buildings, or by enlarging, remodelling and/or
constructing additions to its present school buildings, in-
cluding the original equipment and furnishing of such new
buildings or of such additions as increase the floor space of
said present buildings, said town may borrow from time to
time, within a period of five years from the passage of this
act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or
notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words,
Wilmington School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized
issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be
paid in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but no
issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal
to an amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized
issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax
levy of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred
under this act shall be inside the statutory limit and shall,
except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four
of the General Laws exclusive of the limitation contained in
the first paragraph of section seven thereof, as revised by
chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Wilmington
School Loan,
Act of 1929.

Chap. 18 An Act extending the time within wthich certain

INDEBTEDNESS FOR HIGH SCHOOL PURPOSES MAY BE IN-
CURRED BY THE CITY OF NEWBURYPORT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter forty-six of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended by
striking out, in the seventh line, the word "five" and in-
serting in place thereof the word : — ten, — so as to read
as follows : — Section 1 . For the purpose of purchasing or
otherwise acquiring land in the city of Newburyport for
high school purposes, together with the buildings thereon,

1924, 46, 5 1
amended.

City of New-
buryport may
borrow money
for high

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 19, 20. 13

and for the original construction of a high school building on ^.t^hooi
said land including the cost of the original equipment and p^^'p''^^^
furnishings of such building, said city may borrow from Time within
time to time, within a period of ten years from the passage of indebtedness
this act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in f^'^y^^^^
the aggregate, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and '" """^^ '
may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their
face the words, Newburyport High School Loan, Act of 1924. ^il^^;'';:^^]:^^^'
Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and j.fjj'j"- '^''^"f
such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this section
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to
be raised in the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be
subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws exclusive
of the new provisions inserted in section seven of said
chapter by chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of westfield to appro- (yifip 19

PRIATE money to PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR HOLDING IN
SAID CITY THE STATE CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN
LEGION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Westfield may appropriate a cityof
sum, not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars, for the pur- "ay appro-
pose of providing proper facilities for public entertainment f^'pro^de"^^
at the time of the state convention of The American Legion, faciiitiesfor
to be held in said city during the current year, and of pay- sa°idcifythe
ing expenses incidental to such entertainment. Money so tJon''o'f°Thr"
appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the Ameiioan
mayor of said city.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

r,oa:inn

An Act authorizing the town of westport to refund C/mp. 20

OR extend certain temporary LOANS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Westport may refund from To«nof
time to time any revenue loan of the year nineteen hundred refumror""^^
and twenty-eight for a period of not more than eighteen temporary*^'"
months from the date of the passage of this act and may issue loans.
a note or notes of the town therefor, which shall bear on their
face the words, Westport Revenue Refunding Loan, Act of J^|fgP°Jg'
1929. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in uefimdiug
excess of the statutory limit. None of the unappropriated |o?m)"' '^"^ ''^
funds in the treasury on January first, nineteen hundred and

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 21, 22.

twenty-nine, nor the receipts from the collection of taxes of
the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and prior
years, nor other accounts receivable of the town as of said
January first, shall be applied to or appropriated for any
purpose except the payment of the revenue loans of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight or the revenue refunding loans
herein authorized, so long as there are any such loans out-
standing.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Chap. 21 An Act enabling the town op marblehead to present
A set of flags or other appropriate gift to the

UNITED STATES FOR THE USE OF THE U. S. S. " MARBLE-
HEAD ".

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Marblehead may appropriate
a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the
purpose of purchasing a set of flags or such other appropriate
gift as the town may determine, to be presented to the
United States for the use of the U. S. S. "Marblehead".

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Town of
Marblehead
may present
a set of
flags or other
appropriate
gift to the
United States
for the use
of the U.S. S.
"Marblehead."

1925, 339, § 18,
etc., amended.

Chap. 22 An Act postponing the time for allocating and appor-
tioning THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATION OF THE SOUTH ESSEX SEWERAGE DISTRICT AND
OTHERWISE AMENDING THE ACT ESTABLISHING SAID DIS-
TRICT,

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section eighteen of chapter three hundred
and thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
five, as amended by section one of chapter thirty-six of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and by sections
two, three, four and five of chapter two hundred and ninety-
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is
hereby further amended by striking out the eleventh, twelfth
and thirteenth paragraphs and inserting in place thereof
the following: —

Beginning in the year nineteen hundred and thirty, said
board shall determine annually on or before February
apportionments fifteenth, what part of the retirement and interest pay-
consT/uction, meuts falfiug due that year on bonds or notes issued under
basis, etc. sectiou fifteen, including notes issued to pay annual interest

on bonds or notes previously issued and any and all other
sums, shall be allocated to each account described in sub-
divisions (a) to (h), inclusive, as its share for that year of
the cost of construction. Each share so determined in the
case of subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (e), (/) and (g) shall be
apportioned to the institutions, town and/or cities partici-
pating in that share, one third in proportion to their re-

South Esse.f
Sewerage
District,
annua'

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 22. 15

spective valuations as determined as hereinafter provided
for the year nineteen hundred and thirty by the commis-
sioner of corporations and taxation, and two thirds in
proportion to their respective normal average flow of sewage
as determined by said board for the period covered by the
years nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine; it being hereby provided that, Determination,
until the construction of the sewers and other works herein n°pnor[^°fnfent,
provided for and until the sewerage system thus made is in °f fl°'^ °' ,.,

^ , . . , , 1 • 1 , • • r e sewage until

operation, said board in determining, tor purposes oi ap- construction
portionment, the flow of sewage, shall make use of the flow ^^ sewers, etc.
of sewage of the existing systems from said institutions and
cities, and as said town of Danvers has at present no sewer- Such
age system and will not have one for some years adequate fn cl's""rruow"n
to dispose of the sewage from said town, the flow of sewage °f Danvers.
from said town of Danvers shall for said purposes be de-
termined at one million two hundred and fifty thousand
gallons per day. The cost of maintenance and operation of Annual
said sewers and other works for each account described in oFcosto"'"^"''*
subdivisions (a) to (g), inclusive, shall be estimated by said ^n'doprrltfon,
board for each year on or before February fifteenth and shall basis, etc.
be apportioned by said board to the institutions, town
and/or cities participating in that account, one third in pro-
portion to their respective valuations as last determined as
hereinafter provided by the commissioner of corporations
and taxation and two thirds in proportion to their respective
flow of sewage as determined by said board for the previous
year, except that the cost of maintenance and operation for
the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, or any part
thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and thirty shall
first be estimated and apportioned as aforesaid in the year
nineteen hundred and thirty on or before February fifteenth
and that the two thirds of the cost of maintenance and
operation for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine,
or any part thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and
thirty, shall be apportioned in proportion to the flow of
sewage as determined by said board for the period covered
by the years nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine. Any balance remaining at Balance
the end of any year on account of assessments herein pro- etJ^'.^tS'be'
vided for shall be credited to the institution, town or cities credited, etc.
as the case may be in the same proportion as assessed, and P*'^'''*' *'**^"d
any deficit on account of any year shall be assessed the etc.
following year in the same proportion as for the year in
which the deficit occurred. For the purposes of apportion- Determination
ing the annual cost of maintenance and operation, the flow slwagehom
of sewage from the town of Danvers shall in no year prior town of
to the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five be determined apportioning
at less than one million two hundred and fifty thousand mnLfenance

gallons per day. and operation,

i,A The annual apportionments so deteraiined, including the Notice and
annual allocations under subdivisions (d) and (h), both, for ^fg^j.^pt'^fo^^
cost of construction and for maintenance and operation, payment by

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 22.

said cities,
town and
institwtioTisi

Recovery upon
failure to pay

Anuual
determination
and report of
taxable
valuations of
said cities and
town and of
valuations of
said
institutions.

Proviso.

I'JliS, 339, § 2.
etc., amended

On M-ucli 31,
1930, two
members to
nease to be
members, etc

1925, 339, § 15,
etc., amended.

Issue of
notes to
meet expenses
of maintenance
and operation,
ote.

shall in the case of each of said cities, town and institutions
be added together, and on or before the fifteenth day of
February in each year, beginning in nineteen hundred and
thirty as aforesaid, the treasurer of said South Essex Sewer-
age District shall notify each of the amount to be paid by
it, and shall in writing demand that such amount be paid
on or before the first day of November in that year, and
said amount shall be so paid; and in case of failure to pay
after a written demand therefor, said district may' recover
such amount in contract from those liable to pay the same.
The commissioner of corporations and taxation shall
annually, beginning in the year nineteen hundred and
thirty, determine and report to said board prior to Feb-
ruary first the respective taxable valuations of said cities of
Salem, Beverly and Peabody and of said town of Danvers,
as of the first day of April next preceding, and the valuations,
as of said day, as determined by said commissioner, of the
institutions served by the sewerage system herein provided
for; provided, that no part of the valuations of the* Essex
county sanatorium, Danvers state hospital, Essex county
agricultural school and the industrial camp shall for pur-
poses of apportionment be included in the valuation of the
town of Danvers.

Section 2. Section two of said chapter three hundred
and thirty-nine, as amended by section two of said chapter
thirty-six, is hereby further amended by striking out the'
fourth paragraph thereof and inserting in place thereof the
following: —

On March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty, the
engineer acting as county engineer for the county of Essex
and the chief engineer of the department of public health
shall cease to be members of said board, and the sewers
and other works shall thereafter be managed, controlled and
operated by the remaining five members.

Section 3. Section fifteen of said chapter three hundred
and thirty-nine, as amended by section one of said chapter
two hundred and ninety-four, is hereby further amended by
striking out the second paragraph and inserting in place
thereof the following: —

To meet the expenses of maintenance and operation of
said sewers and other works, so far as the same cannot be
met from other sources, the treasurer of said South Essex
Sewerage District shall, upon vote of said board, borrow
from time to time and issue notes of the district therefor;
said notes to be payable in not more than one year from their
dates of issue from receipts from and assessments levied
for the maintenance and operation of said system and other
works; provided, that notes issued for a shorter period than
one year may be refunded by the issue of other notes matur-
ing within the required time, if the period from the date
of issue of the original loan to the date of maturity of the
last refunding loan does not exceed one year; and provided,
further, that notes so issued during the year nineteen hun-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 23, 24. 17

dred and twenty-nine for a period of one year or less may be
refunded, as hereinbefore provided, so that the period from
the date of issue of the original loan to the date of maturity
of the last refunding loan shall not exceed two years.
Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city library association of Chap. 28

SPRINGFIELD TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL
ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter forty of the acts of nineteen hun- i9i-', 4o, § i,
dred and twelve is hereby amended by striking out, in the ''™^"^^'^-
fifth Line, the word "three" and inserting in place thereof
the word : — six, — so as to read as follows : — Section 1 . JJ{^^^^^^^
The City Library Association of Springfield is hereby au- Association of
thorized to hold real and personal estate for the purposes nfay"hoid'^
named in its act of incorporation, chapter one hundred and ^g![{'^'°^"'
forty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and personal estate
sixty-four, to an amount not exceeding six million dollars,
exclusive of its library, art and science buildings and of
the books and collections of natural history and works of
art in its library and museum buildings.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act repealing certain provisions of law relative fhr... 94

TO ASSESSMENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. ^ '

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of ^" gijip"' '''^'^ •
the General Laws, as amended by chapter three hundred
and eighty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
four and as affected by section seventeen of chapter four
hundred and six of the acts of said year, is hereby repealed.

Section 2. Section three of chapter one hundred and ^^^ ^'■imended
seventy-five of the General Laws, as amended by section one
of said chapter four hundred and six, is hereby further
amended by striking out all after the word "or" in the
sixth line and inserting in place thereof the words : — chapter
one^ hundred and seventy-six or one hundred and seventy-
eight, — so as to read as follows: — Section 3. No com- insurance
pany shall make a contract of insurance upon or relative to contlaryV
any property or interests or lives in the commonwealth, or ^^■j^j''^''' ^""^
with any resident thereof, and no person shall negotiate, forbidden
solicit, or in any manner aid in the transaction of such in-
surance or of its continuance or renewal, except as author-
ized by this chapter or chapter one hundred and seventy-six
or one hundred and seventy-eight.

Section 3. Section three A of said chapter one hun- g.l. 175, §3a,
dred and seventy-five, inserted by section two of said chapter '^^^e"'^*'^'
four hundred andj six, is hereby amended by striking out, in
the second and third lines, the words "chapters one hundred

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 24.

Commissioner

of insurance

to enforce

certain

provisions of

law.

To report

certain

violations

to attorney

general, etc.

G. L. 175, >^ 25,
etc., amended.

and seventy-six and one hundred and seventy-seven", —
and inserting in place thereof the words: — chapter one
hundred and seventy-six, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 3 A. The commissioner shall administer and enforce
the provisions of this chapter and chapter one hundred and
seventy-six, and, so far as is provided therein, chapter one
hundred and seventy-eight. If upon complaint, examination
or other evidence exhibited to him he is of the opinion that
any provision of said chapters has been violated, he shall
forthwith report the facts to the attorney general, to the
proper district attorney or to the commissioner of public
safety, who shall cause the offender to be prosecuted therefor.
Section 4. Section twenty-five of said chapter one hun-
dred and seventy-five, as amended by section two of chapter
one hundred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-one and by chapter eighty-six of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended
by striking out the heading "Forms B and C. — Mutual
Companies and United States Branches of Companies
OF Foreign Countries" and also the paragraph immedi-
ately following the same, all as printed in the General Laws,
and inserting in place thereof the following : —

Change in
Forms B
and C, annual
statement
of certain
insurance
companies.

G. L. 175, § 29,
amended.

Companies
subject to
chapter 175.

Forms B and C. — Companies Not Elsewhere Pro-
vided FOR and United States Branches of Com-
panies OF Foreign Countries.

The form of return required from mutual companies and
from the United States branches of companies of foreign
countries, and from all other companies except those here-
inbefore provided for and except life and those reporting
under chapter one hundred and seventy-six or one hundred
and seventy-eight, shall be the same as outlined above,
with such modifications as the commissioner may deem
necessary to make the foregoing form apphcable to the
business of such companies.

Section 5. Section twenty-nine of said chapter one
hundred and seventy-five is hereby amended by striking out,
in the third and fourth lines and in the eighth and ninth
lines, the words "chapters one hundred and seventy-sLx and
one hundred and seventy-seven" and inserting in place
thereof, in each instance, the words: — chapter one hundred
and seventy-six, — so as to read as follows : — Section 29.
All companies now or hereafter incorporated or formed by
authority of any general or special law of the commonwealth
shall, except as provided in section one hundred and fourteen
and in chapter one hundred and seventy-six, be subject to
this chapter. Trade unions and other associations of wage
workers whose principal objects are to deal with the relations
between employers^and employees^relative to wages, hours
of labor and other conditions of emplojonent shall not be
subject to this chapter or chapter one hundred and seventy-
six.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 24. 19

Section 6. Said chapter one hundred and seventy-five, g. l. 175. § se,
as amended in section fifty-six by section seven of chapter etc., amended.
four hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section fifty-six and inserting in place thereof the fol-
lowing:— Section 56. Any domestic corporation subject to Reincorpora-
chapter one hundred and seventy-six and confining its fr°ternar''^'"
membership to a particular order or fraternity may by a benefit
two thirds vote of its policy or certificate holders voting stock*'^^'*^
thereon adopt this section at a meeting called to consider the companies,
same, of which meeting written or printed notice shall be
mailed to each policy or certificate holder at least thirty
days before the day fixed for the meeting, and be reincorpo-
rated under this chapter as a stock company to insure only
against the disability of the insured by sickness and the
bodily injury and death of the insured by accident as pro-
vided in subdivisions (a) and (6) of the sixth clause of section
forty-seven. The members of such corporation may vote voting by
on this proposition by proxy, if the instrument appointing p'""''^-
the proxy is filed with the secretary of the corporation at
least five days before said meeting, and the aforesaid notice
to the pohcy and certificate holders shall so state. A copy copyofyote
of such vote certified to by the president, secretary and a g°one™'etc.'
majority of the directors of the corporation shall be filed with
the commissioner. If such vote be in the affirmative the Notice of
recording officer shall cause a notice to be mailed to each v!!t™o pofioy
policy or certificate holder at his last known address, reciting or certificate
the substance of such vote, and stating that books for cash
subscriptions for stock in said company have been opened
in the home office and will continue open for sixty days
from the date of said notice, and that a policy or certificate
holder in said corporation may have a prior right within
said period to subscribe for said stock; and stating also that
no member shall subscribe for more than ten shares thereof,
and that the par value shall be twenty-five dollars per share ;
and stating also, in a form satisfactory to the commissioner,
the financial condition of the corporation at the time of the
meeting aforesaid. If within said period of sixty days the oversubscrip
capital, as fixed, shall be oversubscribed by poHcy or cer- ^'°p"j?f, ^j^
tificate holders, the directors shall allot to each his propor-
tionate part of the amount subscribed. At the expiration Ces.s.ition of
of said period of sixty days, the said right of priority to ^Ifteeriije.
subscribe shall cease, and subscriptions for stock then undis-
posed of may be received from any member or certificate
holder or other person and to any amount. Within thirty Meetinfror
days after the stock has been subscribed, a meeting of the noS'ete^'
subscribers shall be called by a notice signed by the re-
cording officer of the corporation, stating the time, place
and purpose of the meeting, a copy of which notice shall,
seven days at least before the day appointed for the meeting,
be given to each subscriber, or left at his usual place of
business or residence, or deposited in the post office, postpaid,
and addressed to him at his usual place of business or resi-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 24.

Adoption
of by-laws,
election of
officers, etc.

Certificate of
organization,
submission to
commissioner,
etc.

Filing with
state secretary,
fee, etc.

Liabilities,
rights, etc., of
reincorporated
companies,
etc.

Policies to
continue in
force, etc.

Proviso.

Reincorpoi a ted
companies
may increase
capital stock,
etc.

G. L. 155, § 10,
etc., amended.

dence. Said recording officer shall make an affidavit of his
doings, which, with a copy of the notice, shall be recorded
in the records of the corporation. At such meeting, includ-
ing any necessary or reasonable adjournment thereof, by-laws
of such stock company shall be adopted, and the secretary,
directors and such other officers as the by-laws require shall
be chosen. The president, treasurer and other officers that
the said by-laws authorize them to choose shall be elected
by the directors at a meeting held directly after the ad-
journment of the stockholders' meeting. A certificate of
organization, containing a statement that the capital stock
has been paid in in cash, shall be signed and sworn to by
the president, secretary and a majority of the directors of
such corporation, and shall, with the records of the corpo-
ration pertaining to the reincorporation, be submitted to the
commissioner. If it appears that the requirements of this
section have been complied with, the commissioner shall so
certify and approve the certificate by his endorsement thereon.
Such certificate shall thereupon be filed with the state secre-
tary, who, upon payment of a fee of one twentieth of one per
cent of the total amount of the authorized capital, but not
less than one hundred dollars, shall issue to such corporation
a certificate of reincorporation as a stock company, with the
powers retained and hereby conferred. Upon the issuance
of such certificate such company shall cease to issue policies
or certificates upon its former plan, and shall then be em-
powered to transact its business under this chapter, with
all the obligations, rights and privileges that it would be
subject to had it been incorporated thereunder.

The company shall be subject to all the liabilities of the
former corporation, and be entitled to all its assets. All
policies or certificates in force at the date of reincorporation
shall continue in full force and effect in all their provisions,
agreements and undertakings, and shall be construed ac-
cording to the laws under which they were issued, except
that the policy or certificate holder shall not be liable to any
extra assessment; provided, that the rates for benefits for
death from natural causes may from time to time be raised
if the experience of the company shows it to be necessary.
Any defences or evidence relative to such policies or cer-
tificates open under such provisions shall constitute a
defence, and shall be received as evidence in any controversy
between the parties to or interested in such pohcies or cer-
tificates. No such reincorporated company shall declare a
stock dividend unless its surplus thereafter would be equal
to the amount of the surplus at the time of reincorporation.

Any company reincorporated under this section may in-
crease its capital stock in the manner provided in section
seventy, and may, if it has sufficient capital, transact all
the kinds of business permitted to domestic companies by
section fifty-one.

Section 7. Section ten of chapter one hundred and
fifty-five of the General Laws, as amended by section three

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 25. 2]

of chapter three hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended
by striking out the comma in the thirty-third Hne and in-
serting in place thereof the word : — or, — and by striking
out, in the thirty-fourth hne, the words "or one hundred
and seventy-seven", — so as to read as follows: — Section change of
10. A corporation, except one subject to chapter one "ertohf
hundred and fifty-six or chapters one hundred and sLxty to corporations
one hundred and sixty-three, inclusive, may at a meeting
duly called for the purpose, by vote of two thirds of each
class of stock outstanding and entitled to vote, or, in case
such corporation has no capital stock, by vote of two thirds
of the persons legally qualified to vote in meetings of the
corporation, or by a larger vote if its agreement of associ-
ation or by-laws shall so require, change its name; pro- Proviso.
vided, that no corporation subject to section twenty-six of
chapter one hundred and eighty shall change its name until
after approval of such change by the state secretary. Articles Articles of
of amendment signed and sworn to by the president, treas- b™p?epareci. "
urer and a majority of the directors or other officers having ''*'■
the powers of directors, shall within thirty days after such
meeting be prepared, setting forth such amendment, and
stating that it has duly been adopted by the stockholders.
Such amendment shall be submitted to the commissioner Submission to
who shall examine it, and if he finds that it conforms to the ^^^^""^^'""'''■'
requirements of law, he shall so certify and endorse his
approval thereon. Thereupon the state secretary shall di- state
rect the officers of the corporation to publish in such form dlrecfpub"
as he may see fit, in a newspaper published in the county lication.etc.
where the corporation has its principal office or place of
business, notice of such change of name. When the state To grant
secretary is satisfied that such notice has been published as trname^of""*
required by him, he shall upon the payment of a fee of one corporation.
dollar grant a certificate of the name which the corporation
shall bear, which name shall thereafter be its legal name,
and he shall cause the article of amendment and the en-
dorsements thereon to be recorded in his office. In the case Approval of
of corporations subject to chapter one hundred and seventy- onnTuram-e^'
five or one huildred and seventy-sLx, the approval of the ^gl^^'^j.^^i
commissioner of insurance shall be required before the com-
missioner of corporations and taxation approves the article
of amendment. No article of amendment changing the Article of
name of any corporation shall take effect until it has been w^ient'^take
filed in the office of the state secretary as aforesaid. effect.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act providing that the civil service laws shall Qj^dj)^ 25
NO longer apply to the office of chief of police

OF THE TOWN OF WAREHAM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter ninety-nine of the Special Acts of '^'y,'^'- ^^•
nineteen hundred and eighteen is hereby repealed.

Acts, 1929. ~ Chap. 26.

Submission
to voters, etc.

Section 2. This act shall be submitted to the registered
voters of the town of Wareham at the annual town meeting
in the current year, in the form of the following question
which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used for
the election of town officers at said meeting: — "Shall an act
passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine, entitled 'An Act providing that the civil
service laws shall no longer apply to the office of chief of
police of the town of Wareham' be accepted?" If a ma-
jority of the votes in answer to said question are in the
affirmative, then this act shall thereupon take effect, but
not otherwise, except that, for the purpose of such submis-
sion, it shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Chap. 26 An Act authorizing the town of ipswich to construct

AND operate a SYSTEM OF SEWERS.

Town of
Ipswich may
construct and
operate a
system of
sewers, etc.

May make and
maintain con-
necting drains,
etc.

LJoard of sewer
commissioners,
election, terms,
etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Ipswich may lay out, construct,
maintain and operate a system or systems of main drains
and common sewers for a part or the whole of its territory,
with such connections and other works as may be required
for a system of sewage disposal, and may construct such
sewers or drains over and under land or tidewater in said
town as may be necessary to conduct the sewage to the filter
beds, treatment works and/or to the Ipswich river, the
Atlantic ocean or Plum Island river, sometimes called Plum
Island sound, or to any of said waters, and, for the purpose
of providing better surface or other drainage, may make,
lay and maintain such drains as it deems best. And for the
purposes aforesaid, the town may, within its limits, make
and maintain sub-drains.

Section 2. The town may make and maintain in any
way therein where main drains or common sewers are con-
structed, such connecting drains, under-drains and sewers
within the limits of such way as may be necessary to connect
any estate which abuts upon the way.

Section 3. The town may, at the meeting when this act
is accepted, vote that the selectmen shall act as a board of
sewer commissioners. If the town does not so vote at said
meeting, the town shall elect by ballot at any town meeting
not later than the second annual meeting after the com-
mencement of construction hereunder of a system of sewer-
age and sewage disposal, a board of three sewer commis-
sioners who shall be citizens of the town, to hold office, if
elected at an annual meeting, one until the expiration of
one year, one until the expiration of two years, and one until
the expiration of three years, from such annual town meet-
ing, and until their successors are qualified, or, if elected
at a special meeting, one until the expiration of one year,
one until the expiration of two years, and one until the
expiration of three years, from the next succeeding annual

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 26. 23

town meeting, and until their successors are qualified; and
thereafter at each annual town meeting, the town shall
elect one member of the board to serve for three years and
until his successor is elected and qualified. Any selectman
shall be eligible to election to said board. In either case,
whether the town votes that its selectmen shall act as a
board of sewer commissioners or elects a board of sewer
commissioners, the town may at any time thereafter, by any
or all the methods permitted by general law, provide for the
election of a board of three sewer commissioners, or that the
selectmen may act as a board of sewer commissioners, as
the case may be.

Section 4. Said board of sewer commissioners, acting Board may
for and on behalf of said town, may take by eminent domain wite^Hghts.
under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire etc.
by purchase or otherwise, any lands, water rights, rights of
way or easements, public or private, in said town, neces-
sary for accomplishing any purpose mentioned in this act,
and may construct such main drains and sewers under or
over any bridge, railroad, railway, boulevard or other
public way, or within the location of any railroad, and
may enter upon and dig up any private land, public way or
railroad location, for the purpose of laying such drains and
sewers and of maintaining and repairing the same, and
may do any other thing proper or necessary for the pur-
poses of this act; provided, that they shall not take in fee Proviso.
any land of a railroad corporation, and that they shall not
enter upon or construct any drain or sewer within the lo-
cation of any railroad corporation except at such time and
in such manner as they may agree upon with such corpo-
ration, or, in case of failure to agree, as may be approved
by the department of public utilities.

Section 5. Until the board of sewer commissioners has Authorized
first been elected as provided in this act or the selectmen carrion wodt
have first been authorized by vote to act as such board, as ""^ii board is
the case may be, but not in any event later than the second '^ '^'^ ^' ■ ® ^•
annual meeting after the commencement of the work of con-
struction authorized hereby, the town may carry on such
work by a duly authorized committee of the town. The
committee shall serve without pay and shall have all the
powers and authority given to the board of sewer commis-
sioners in this act or by general law. Whenever the phrase "Said board
"said board of sewer commissioners" or "said board" here- commfs^sioners-
inafter occurs, it shall mean and include the board of sewer or "said
commissioners, the selectmen acting as such or the com- definition,
mittee of the town provided for in this section, as the case
may be.

Section 6. Any person injured in his property by any Recovery of
action of said board of sewer commissioners under this act damages.
may recover damages from said town under said chapter
seventy-nine.

Section 7. The town shall, by vote, determine what Town to
proportion of the cost of said system or systems of sewerage proportion 'of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 26.

To determine
method of
providing
remaining
portion of
post.

May borrow
money, issue
bonds, etc.

Ipswich Sewer-
age Loan, Act
of 1929.

Receipts from
sewer assess-
ments, etc.,
how apphed.

Board may ap-
point cleric
and superin-
tendent of
sewers, etc.

Rentals for use
of sewer
systems.

Contracts.

Rules and
regulations.

and sewage disposal the town shall pay; provided, that it
shall pay not less than one fourth nor more than two thirds
of the whole cost. In providing for the payment of the
remaining portion of the cost of said sj^stem or systems or
for the use of said system or systems, the town may avail
itself of any or all of the methods permitted by general
laws, and the provisions of said general laws relative to the
assessment, apportionment, division, reassessment, abate-
ment and collection of sewer assessments, to liens therefor
and to interest thereon shall apply to assessments made
under this act, except that interest shall be at the rate of six
per cent per annum. At the same meeting at which it
determines the proportion of the cost which is to be borne
by the town, it may by vote determine by which of such
methods the remaining portion of said cost shall be provided
for. The collector of taxes of said town shall certify the pay-
ment or payments of such assessments or apportionments
thereof to the sewer commissioners, or to the selectmen
acting as such, who shall preserve a record thereof.

Section 8. For the purpose of paying the necessary
expenses and liabilities incurred under this act, the town
may borrow such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding,
in the aggregate, three hundred thousand dollars, and may
issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face
the words, Ipswich Sewerage Loan, Act of 1929. Each au-
thorized issue shall constitute a separate loan. Indebtedness
incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory
limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.

Section 9. The receipts from sewer assessments and
from payments made in lieu thereof shall be applied to the
payment of charges and expenses incident to the maintenance
and operation of said system of sewerage and sewage disposal
or to the extension thereof, to the payment of interest upon
bonds or notes issued for sewer purposes or to the payment
or redemption of such bonds or notes.

Section 10. Said board of sewer commissioners may
annually appoint a clerk and may appoint a superintendent
of sewers who shall not be a member of the board, and shall
define their duties. It may remove the clerk or superin-
tendent at its pleasure. Said board may, in its discretion,
prescribe for the users of said sewer systems such annual
rentals or charges based upon the benefits derived therefrom
as it may deem proper, subject however to such rules and
regulations as may be fixed by vote of the town.

Section 11. All contracts made by the board of sewer
commissioners shall be made in the name of the town and
shall be signed by the board, but no contract shall be made
or obligation incurred by said board for any purpose in
excess of the amount of money appropriated by the town
therefor.

Section 12. Said board may, from time to time, pre-
scribe rules and regulations for the connection of estates

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 27, 28. 25

and buildings with main drains and sewers, and for inspec-
tion of the materials, the construction, alteration and use
of all connections and drains entering into such main drains
or sewers, and may prescribe penalties, not exceeding
twenty dollars, for each violation of any such rule or regu-
lation. Such rules and regulations shall be published at Effective upon
least once a week for three successive weeks in some news- P"'^''cation.
paper published in the town of Ipswich, if there be any, and
if not, then in some newspaper published in the county of
Essex, and shall not take effect until such publications have
been made.

Section 13. No act shall be done under authority of f g"^J°Jf
the preceding sections, except in the making of surveys and sewerage,
other preliminary investigations, until the plans for said stote°diepMt-
system of sewerage and sewage disposal have been approved "^bHc^heaith
by the state department of public health. Upon applica-
tion to said department for its approval, it shall give a
hearing, after due notice to the public. At such hearing,
plans showing in detail all the work to be done in construct-
ing said system of sewerage and sewage disposal shall be
submitted for approval by said department.

Section 14. For the purpose of submission to the voters Effective upon
of said town, this act shall take effect upon its passage, and mafoHtrvo'te
it shall take full effect upon its acceptance by vote of the °f voters, etc.
majority of the voters of said town voting thereon at a town
meeting called for the purpose within five years after its pas-
sage. No expenditure shall be made and no liability in-
curred hereunder until such acceptance.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act authorizing the durant incorporated to hold Phn^ 27

ADDITIONAL PROPERTY. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Durant Incorporated, a corporation organized under The Durant
chapter one hundred and eighty of the General Laws, is maJToi'd*'''^
hereby authorized to hold real and personal property to an "^^'g""'""'
amount not exceeding five million dollars.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act prohibiting the certification of municipal and QJiav 28

DISTRICT NOTES WHEN THE PROCEEDS THEREOF ARE NOT
TO BE USED FOR AUTHORIZED PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section twenty-four of chapter forty-four of the General .*^;, ^^f'^j ^ -*■
Laws is hereby amended by adding the words: — , or if it ''""^"'"^
appears that the proceeds of the note are not to be used
for the purpose specified in the vote authorizing the loan for
which the note is issued, — so as to read as follows: —
Section 24- Whenever a town or a fire, water, light or im- issue of town
provement district votes to raise money otherwise than by nStls."'*"''*

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 28.

Issue of town
and district
notes.

Certification of
municipal and
district notes
when proceeds
are not to be
used for au-
thorized pur-
poses, pro-
hibited.

the issue of bonds, the treasurer thereof shall make notes
for the amount of the proposed loan, and shall use one or
more, in serial order, of the forms provided for in the pre-
ceding section, with the blank spaces properly filled in.
Town notes shall be signed by the treasurer thereof, and
a majority of the selectmen shall countersign and approve
each note in the presence of the town clerk, who shall certify
to the fact on the face thereof and affix thereon the town
seal. Notes of districts shall be signed by the treasurer
thereof, and a majority of the prudential committee or
commissioners shall countersign and approve them in the
presence of the clerk of the district, who shall certify to the
fact on the face thereof. The treasurer of the town or dis-
trict, after making a record of the transaction in accordance
with the preceding section, shall forward, with the fee required
by section twenty-six, every such note to the director, with
a copy of said record and a copy of the vote authorizing the
loan, certified by the clerk of the town or district, and a
certification by said clerk that the person whose signature
appears upon the note as treasurer was the duly authorized
treasurer of the town or district when such signature was
made, and that the persons whose signatures appear upon the
note as those of a majority of the selectmen or of the pru-
dential committee or commissioners were duly qualified as
such when such signatures were made; and the treasurer
of such district shall furnish such other information with
reference to the financial condition of the district as the
director may require to enable him properly to certify the
note. If upon examination the note appears to the director
to have been duly issued in accordance with the vote of the
town or district authorizing it, or in accordance with an act
of the general court, and to have been signed by the duly
qualified officials of such town or district, he shall so certify
and shall thereupon return the note by registered mail to
the treasurer of such town or district; but, under such regu-
lations as he may prescribe, if so authorized by the town
treasurer with the approval of the selectmen, or by the
treasurer of the district with the approval of the prudential
committee or commissioners, the director may deliver a
certified note to the payee thereof. He may certify to the
issue of a note on any date not earlier than three days prior
to the date of issue appearing on the note, if the other con-
ditions of this chapter have been complied with. He shall
not certify a note payable on demand, nor shall he certify
any note unless the laws relating to municipal indebtedness
have been complied with, or if it appears that the proceeds
of the note are not to be used for the purpose specified in the
vote authorizing the loan for which the note is issued.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 29, 30. 27

An Act extending to optometrists the provisions of ^j r>Q

LAW RELATIVE TO THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS FOR MAL- ^ ^^^V ' ^^
PRACTICE, ERROR OR MISTAKE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty of the g. l. 26o, § 4,
General Laws, as amended in section four by section one ^^'^■' amenfied.
of chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-one and by section ten of chapter
three hundred and forty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section four and inserting in place thereof the following:
— Section 4- Actions for assault and battery, false im- Limitation of
prisonment, slander, actions against sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, '""^^'-'"^ actions.
constables or assignees in insolvency for the taking or con-
version of personal property, actions of tort for injuries to
the person against counties, cities and towns, and actions of
contract or tort for malpractice, error or mistake against
physicians, surgeons, dentists, optometrists, hospitals and
sanitaria, shall be commenced only within two years next
after the cause of action accrues; and actions for libel and
actions of tort for bodily injuries or for death the payment of
judgments in which is required to be secured by chapter
ninety, suits by judgment creditors in such actions of tort
under section one hundred and thirteen of chapter one
hundred and seventy-five and clause (10) of section three
of chapter two hundred and fourteen and suits on motor
vehicle liability bonds under section thirty-four G of said
chapter ninety shall be commenced only within one year next
after the cause of action accrues.

Section 2. This act shall apply only to causes of action Application of
arising after its effective date. ^'^^ limited.

Approved February 8, 1929.

An Act exempting probation officers from the laws QJiaj) 30

APPLICABLE TO PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section sLxty-one B of chapter two hundred and seventy- g. l. 276,
six of the General Laws, inserted by section two of chapter Imended!"
four hundred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two and as amended by section one of chapter
three hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-SLx, is hereby further amended by adding at the
end thereof the words: — or to probation officers, — so as
to read as follows: — Section 61 B. Any person proposing Professional
to become bail or surety in a criminal case for hire or re- wh"t''i™reo'ns
ward, either received or to be received, and any person be- deemed to be.
coming bail or surety in a criminal case after having become rfg'istrltion,
bail or surety in criminal cases on more than three separate ''*°'
occasions in any twelve months' period, shall be deemed
to be a professional bondsman and shall not be accepted as

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 31.

Revocation of
approval and
registration.

District at-
torney, etc., to
give certain
notice to chief
justice, etc.

Rules govern-
ing pro-
fessional
bondsmen.

Penalty for
unregistered
persons be-
coming bail or
surety for hire
or reward in
criminal cases,
etc.

Not appli-
cable to surety
companies or to
probation
officers.

bail or surety until he shall have been approved and registered
as a professional bondsman by the superior court or by a
justice thereof. Such approval and registration may be
revoked at any time by such court or a justice thereof, and
shall be revoked in case such a bondsman fails for thirty
days after demand to satisfy in full a judgment recovered
under section seventy-four or a new judgment entered on
review under section seventy-six. The district attorney or
prosecuting officer obtaining any such judgment which is
not satisfied in full as aforesaid shall, forthwith upon the
expiration of such period of thirty days, notify in writing
the chief justice of such court. All professional bondsmen
shall be governed by rules which shall be established from
time to time by the superior court. Any unregistered person
receiving hire or reward for his services as bail or surety in
any criminal case, and any unregistered person becoming
bail or surety in any criminal case after having become bail
or surety in criminal cases on more than three separate
occasions in any twelve months' period, and any person
herein defined as a professional bondsman violating any
provision of the rules established hereunder for such bonds-
men, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thou-
sand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year,
or both. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
surety companies or to probation officers.

Approved February 8, 1929.

Dukes county
may issue
temporary
notes for
certain pur-
pose, etc.

Chap. 31 An Act to enable the county of dukes county to

PAY PROMPTLY ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COST OF A
CERTAIN HIGHWAY IN THE TOWNS OF WEST TISBURY AND
CHILMARK.

Be it ejiacied, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of paying promptly the
contributions of Dukes county to the cost of construction of
a certain highway in the towns of West Tisbury and Chil-
mark, the county treasurer of said county, with the approval
of the commissioners, may issue temporary notes of the
county payable in not more than one year from their dates,
in anticipation of the issue of serial bonds or notes author-
ized by chapter one hundred and thirty-four of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, but the time within
which such serial bonds or notes shall become due and pay-
able shall not, by reason of such temporary notes, be ex-
tended beyond the time fixed by said chapter. All notes
issued in anticipation of the issue of said serial bonds or
notes shall be paid from the proceeds thereof.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 12, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

Chaj). 32

An Act establishing the basis of apportionment of

STATE and county TAXES.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would cause Emergency
great inconvenience in the collection of state and county p'"^^™'^'^.
taxes, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency
law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The number of polls, the amount of property and the Basis of
proportion of every thousand dollars of state tax, including of st°ateTnd^"'
polls at one tenth of a mill each, for each city and town in °°y'?V'^^^®®
the several counties of the commonwealth, as contained in
the following schedule, are hereby established, and shall con-
stitute a basis of apportionment for state and county taxes
until another is made and enacted by the general court, to
wit: —

Polls, Property and Apportionment of State and
County Tax of $1,000.

BARNSTABLE COUNTY.

Tax of Sl.OOn,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls

at one tenth

of a mill each.

Barnstable

2,034

$23,467,337

$2 81

Bourne .

1,080

9,922,961

1 21

Brewster

203

2,050,772

Chatham

623

5,575,276

Dennis .

618

3,522,044

Eastham

181

1,259,214

Falmouth

1,684

22,310,617

2 64

Harwich

691

5,568,226

Mashpee

106

1,034,162

Orleans .

408

3,972,431

Provincetown

990

4,997,797

Sandwich

504

2,819,718

Truro .

155

1,142,733

Wellfleet

265

1,586,448

Yarmouth

546

4,796,650

Totals

10,088

§94,026,386

$11 44

BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Adams ....

3,427

$15,484,288

$2 06

Alford ....

394,098

Becket ....

263

885,669

Cheshire

493

1,880,269

Clarksburg

369

1,183,468

Dalton ....

1,181

7,756,178

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

BERKSHIRE COUNTY

— Concluded.

Tax of $1,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls

at one tenth

of a mill each.

Egremont

157

$1,029,770

$0 13

Florida .

119

1,715,620

Great Barrington

1,899

12,966,124

1 63

Hancock

159

631,567

Hinsdale

355

1,135,319

Lanesborough

336

1,459,556

Lee

1,229

6,495,708

Lenox

849

7,145,945

Monterey

106

978,325

Mount Washington

230,734

New Ashford .

150,438

New Marlborough

297

1,744,620

North Adams .

6,449

33,355,200

4 35

Otis

154

586,448

Peru

408,930

Pittsfield

13,777

72,984,442

9 48

Richmond

184

865,613

Sandisfield

150

776,151

Savoy

119

332,055

Sheffield

509

1,648,977

Stockbridge

589

5,747,141

Tyringham

559,691

Washington .

194,811

West Stockbridge

362

1,406,882

Williamstown .

1,307

7,876,605

1 00

Windsor

114

514,899

Totals

35,272

$190,525,541

$24 67

BRISTOL COUNTY.

Acushnet

1,077

$4,388,375

$0 59

Attleboro

6,409

28,946,684

3 85

Berkley .

321

964,545

Dartmouth

2,607

12,853,921

1 69

Dighton

865

5,322,637

Easton .

1,657

6,917,930

Fairhaven

3,127

13,585,674

1 82

Fall River

34,370

163,328,392

21 56

Freetown

527

2,217,412

Mansfield

2,007

9,015,803

1 20

New Bedford .

35,255

201,174,032

25 85

North Attleborough

3,008

11,849,139

1 62

Norton .

782

2,879,433

Ravnham

587

2,135,293

Rehoboth

713

2,336,971

Seekonk

1,193

4,806,624

Somerset

1,424

13,210,795

1 61

Swansea

1,102

4,721,956

Taunton

10,908

45,634,820

6 16

Westport

1,252

6,764,836

Totals

109,191

$543,055,272

$71 19

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

COUNTY OF DUKES COUNTY

Tax of $1,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

T, i including Polls
Property. at one tenth

of a mill each.

Chilmark

1660,053

$0 08

Edgartown

399

5,040,861

Gay Head

124,885

Gosnold

1,408,574

Oak Bluffs

437

5,045,995

Tisbury .

425

6,126,477

West Tisbury

950,460

Totals

1,558

$19,357,305

$2 29

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

ESSEX COUNTY.

Amesbury

3,673

$14,304,198

$1 95

Andover

2,871

23,721,861

2 92

Beverly .

7,607

50,706,949

6 39

Boxford .

219

1,364,483

Danvers

3,237

13,784,078

1 85

Essex

506

1,654,738

Georgetown

589

2,046,335

Gloucester

7,359

40,398,928

5 22

Groveland

727

2,112,925

Hamilton

647

5,962,264

Haverhill

15,084

70,463,705

9 33

Ipswich .

1,890

8,409,531

1 12

Lawrence

22,804

148,467,176

18 76

Lynn

31,882

146,426,464

19 44

Lynnfield

466

3,400,232

Manchester

804

13,996,068

1 63

Marblehead

2,726

20,296,975

2 53

Merrimac

776

2,510,082

Methuen

5,747

24,417,746

3 28

Middleton

356

1,773,851

Nahant .

594

5,297,348

Newbury

505

2,533,197

Newburyport

4,764

14,880,597

2 13

North Andove

1,954

10,784,871

1 39

Peabody

6,165

27,697,801

3 69

Rockport

1,241

6,012,703

Rowley .

461

1,713,911

Salem

11,939

62,064,334

8 08

Salisbury

733

3,886,658

Saugus .

4,097

14,282,384

1 99

Swampscott

3,040

27,296,133

3 33

Topsfield

361

3,144,136

Wenham

368

3,770,626

West Newbury

408

1,294,283

Totals

146,600

$780,877,571

$101 31

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

Tax of $1,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls
at one tenth
of a mill each.

Ashfield ....

290

$1,496,842

$0 20

Bernardston

252

1,020,490

Buckland

490

3,466,090

Charlemont

286

1,322,292

Colrain .

465

1,913,431

Conway

279

1,012,413

Deerfield

803

5,554,770

Erving .

391

3,236,869

Gill

284

1,006,862

Greenfield

4,784

32,283,422

4 06

Hawley .

272,516

Heath .

502,075

Leverett

197

609,139

Leyden .

362,350

Monroe .

1,568,633

Montague

2,209

15,751,775

1 97

New Salem

168

663,932

Northfield

517

2,764,174

Orange .

1,779

6,622,058

Rowe

1,004,546

Shelburne

532

3,305,115

Shutesbury

473,526

Sunderland

291

1,619,560

Warwick

110

578,793

Wendell

112

1,195,650

Whately

293

1,591,435

Totals

15,042

$91,198,758

$11 65

HAMPDEN COUNTY.

Agawam

1,917

$9,725,192

$1 27

Blandford

165

1,208,490

Brimfield

251

1,556,910

Chester .

473

1,703,239

Chicopee

11,342

61,536,646

7 96

East Longmeadow

918

3,864,516

Granville

220

819,823

Hampden

228

679,048

Holland .

257,817

Holyoke

16,527

130,375,708

16 12

Longmeadow .

1,138

11,171,449

1 35

Ludlow .

2,064

11,425,442

1 47

Monson .

1,169

4,206,353

Montgomery .

284,570

Palmer .

2,728

13,313,360

1 75

Russell .

389

5,298,001

Southwick

416

2,059,311

Springfield

43,048

337,864,716

41 80

Tolland .

397,693

Wales .

126

521,998

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

HAMPDEN COUNTY — Concluded.

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

West Springfield

Westfield

Wilbraham

Totals

4,751

5,579

713

94,309

$32,362,950

25,330,478

3,863,081

Basis of

T. c <n nnn apportionment

TaxofSUOO of state and

including Polls county ta.xes

at one tenth established,
of a mill each.

$659,826,791

$4 07

3 37

$82 65

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.

Amherst

1,738

$12,367,358

$1 55

Belchertown

627

2,038,679

Chesterfield

155

605,446

Cummington

170

606,990

Easthampton

2,995

16,609,455

2 14

Enfield .

208

748,986

Goshen .

460,604

Granby .

272

1,218,154

Greenwich

573,855

Hadley .

669

3,510,672

Hatfield

673

3,456,228

Huntington

419

1,580,261

Middlefield

376,970

Northampton
Pelham .

6,023
160

34,514,926
819,914

4 43
11

Plainfield

457,611

Prescott

176,816

South Hadley

1,938

11,238,731

1 44

Southampton

260

978,628

Ware

2,178

8,537,227

1 17

Westhampton

119

426,959

Wilhamsburg

558

1,905,347

Worthington

146

708,424

Totals

19,688

$103,918,241

$13 49

MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

Acton ....

808

$3,814,865

$0 50

Arhngton

10,000

59,012,938

7 55

Ashby .

273

1,168,604

Ashland

749

2,893,520

Ayer

931

4,107,347

Bedford .

499

2,913,327

Belmont

5,731

37,341,787

4 72

Billerica

1,573

11,592,182

1 44

Boxborough

114

387,046

Burlington

499

2,468,517

Cambridge

84,512

206,194,438

26 33

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY —Concluded.

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

Tax of $1,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls

at one tenth

of a mill each.

Carlisle ....

184

$911,918

$0 12

Chelmsford

2,031

9,981,876

1 31

Concord

1,960

9,686,586

1 27

Dracut .

1,691

5,624,763

Dunstable

121

533,599

Everett .

13,510

75,489,874

9 73

Framinghani

6,499

38,728,100

4 95

Groton .

736

5,002,440

Holliston

861

3,944,614

Hopkinton

792

3,043,276

Hudson .

2,558

8,963,073

1 25

Lexington

2,576

19,975,906

2 47

Lincoln .

495

2,963,768

Littleton

484

2,785,298

Lowell .

27,979

143,080,132

18 68

Maiden .

16,658

73,926,887

9 87

Marlborough

4,705

19,625,907

2 65

Maynard

2,321

8,270,961

1 15

Medford

16,447

77,329,390

10 23

Melrose .

6,591

37,287,609

4 80

Natick .

4,228

17,559,796

2 37

Newton .

17,213

160,555,304

19 54

North Reading

518

2,390,411

Pepperell

923

3,752,259

Reading

2,772

16,617,331

2 12

Sherborn

312

1,838,609

Shirley .

647

2,502,413

Somerville

30,955

127,799,943

17 28

Stoneham

2,859

13,600,617

1 80

Stow

379

1,824,333

Sudbury

388

3,059,278

Tewksbury

757

3,783,788

Townsend

600

2,555,085

Tyngsborough

318

1,234,653

Wakefield

4,849

24,703,006

3 23

Waltham

10,696

61,134,536

7 85

Watertown

9,754

58,127,777

7 43

Wayland

831

5,710,565

Westford

1,005

5,223,666

Weston .

1,150

9,143,341

1 13

Wilmington

1,075

4,085,053

Winchester

3,437

32,013,468

3 90

Wobum

5,605

22,679,665

3 08

Totals .

266,159

$1,460,945,445

$188 77

NANTUCKET COUNTY.

Nantucket

1,080

$11,666,982

$1 40

Totals .

1,0S0

$11,666,982

$1 40

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

NORFOLK COUNTY.

Tax of 51,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls
at one tenth
of a mill each.

Avon ....

727

$2,392,046

$0 34

Bellingham

828

3,038,522

Braintree

4,133

25,347,017

3 23

Brookline

12,530

173,055,685

20 46

Canton .

1,795

10,746,130

1 37

Cohasset

989

10,951,188

1 31

Dedham

3,901

26,543,480

3 34

Dover

336

4,108,978

Foxborough

1,331

6,435,698

Franklin

2,184

10,415,705

1 37

Holbrook

975

4,177,941

Medfield

736

3,357,896

Medway

895

3,664,681

MUlis .

563

3,536,714

Milton .

4,367

39,890,118

4 86

Needham

2,912

21,836,033

2 71

Norfolk .

350

1,904,380

Norwood

4,569

30,235,448

3 81

Plainville

462

1,859,175

Quincy .

20,330

140,099,818

17 58

Randolph

1,787

6,167,366

Sharon .

954

6,694.652

Stoughton

2,358

10,652,016

1 42

Walpole

2,054

16,733,317

2 06

Wellesley

2,503

34,538,663

4 08

Westwood

615

4,591,438

Weymouth

5,883

46,430,115

5 74

Wrentham

590

3,728,608

Totals

81,657

$653,132,828

$80 64

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

PLYMOUTH COUNTY.

Abington

1,844

$7,378,490

$1 00

Bridgewater .

1,983

7,967,562

1 08

Brockton

19,911

85,417,652

11 47

Carver

438

3,192,422

Duxbury

596

7,085,239

East Bridgewater

1,110

6,206,316

Halifax .

206

1,590,943

Hanover

902

3,819,976

Hanson .

716

2,878,676

Hingham

1,8^

15,263,143

1 88

HuU

821

18,377,692

2 12

Kingston

853

4,564,860

Lakeville

426

1,688,927

Marion .

503

5,116,090

Marshfield

610

6,809,940

Mattapoisett .

518

3,909,532

Middleborough

2,665

10,108,376

1 39

Norwell .

496

2,152,561

Pembroke

488

2,969,650

Plymouth

4,059

32,292,001

3 99

Plymptoii

155

779,787

Acts, 1929. — (hap. 152.

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

PLYMOUTH COUNTY— Concluded.

Cities and Towns.

Rochester

Rockland

Scituate

Wareham

West Bridgewater

Whitman

Totals

Polls.

Property.

Tax of 81,000,
including Polls

at one tenth
' of a mill each.

361
2,411
1,118
1,830

960
2.417

50,235

$1,579,217
10,047,594
13,260,270
13,472,409
3,315,327
9,560,858

$280,805,510

m 21

1 36
1 58
1 68
46
1 30

$36 19

SUFFOLK COUNTY.

Boston .
Chelsea .
Revere .
Winthrop

Totals

238,116

13,335

9,392

4,973

265,816

2,123,538,723
66,464,677
42,907,105
26,449,010

$2,259,359,515

$259 47
8 71
5 70
3 43

$277 31

WORCESTER COUNTY.

Ashburnham

682

$2,019,123

$0 29

Athol .

; 3,071

12,810,273

1 73

Auburn .

1,710

6,329,197

Barre

982

4,679,391

Berlin

322

1,069,361

Blackstone

1,164

3,190,179

Bolton .

243

1,332,384

Boylston

309

875,047

Brookfield

385

1,707,466

Charlton

593

2,290,118

Clinton .

3,837

18,814,654

2 47

Dana

191

813,004

Douglas

630

2,216,255

Dudley .

1,159

5,237,334

East Brookfieh

311

1,230,752

Fitchburg

12,299

64,928,457

8 44

Gardner

5,559

29,417,975

3 82

Grafton .

1,677

5,520,280

Hardwick

808

3,706,077

Harvard

311

2,800,494

Holden .

JUr,078
"^ 956

3,875,695

Hopedale

6,424,923

Hubbardston

335

998,616

Lancaster

700

3,521,139

Leicester

1,210

4,644,888

Leominster

6,201

29,961,325

3 95

Lunenburg

550

2,546,980

Mendon

353

1,370,278

Milford .

4,299

16,383,807

2 25

Millbury

1,950

6,329,078

Millville

584

2,034,003

New Braintree

115

656,296

North Brookfield

803

3,344,677

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 32.

WORCESTER COUNTY

— Concluded.

Tax of $1,000,

Cities and Towns.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls
at one tenth
of a mill each.

Northborougli

573

$2,285,370

$0 31

Northbridge .

3,094

12,894,510

1 74

Oakham

176

564,667

Oxford .

1,246

3,961,204

Paxton .

192

1,061,104

Petersham

207

2,038,632

PhilHpston

113

482,870

Princeton

233

1,599,754

Royalston

209

1,332,621

Rutland

516

1,559,509

Shrewsbury

1,749

8,381,524

1 11

Southborough

668

3,989,581

Southbridge

4,229

15,851,447

2 18

Spencer .

1,969

4,869,225

SterHng .

469

2,057,123

Sturbridge

532

1,330,138

Sutton .

616

2,027,657

Templeton

1,065

3,924,525

Upton .

628

1,607,430

Uxbridge

1,746

9,051,244

1 18

Warren .

1,158

4,812,310

Webster

1,617

15,863,491

1 92

West Boylston

562

1,965,664

West Brookfield

406

1,741,926

Westborough .

1,287

4,735,926

Westminster .

426

1,586,481

Winchendon .

1,955

7,169,819

Worcester

57,121

376,004,610

47 44

Totals

140,139

$747,829,888

$97 00

Basis of
apportionment
of state and
county taxes
established.

RECAPITULATION.

Tax of $1,000,

Counties.

Polls.

Property.

including Polls
at one tenth
of a mill each.

Barnstable

10,088

$94,026,386

$11 44

Berkshire

35,272

190,525,541

24 67

Bristol .

109,191

543,055,272

71 19

Dukes .

1,558

19,357,305

2 29

Essex

146,600

780,877,571

101 31

Franklin

15,042

91,198,758

11 65

Hampden

94,309

659,826,791

82 65

Hampshire

19,688

103,918,241

13 49

Middlesex

266,159

1,460,945,445

188 77

Nantucket

1,080

11,666,982

1 40

Norfolk .

81,657

653,132,828

80 64

Plymouth

50,235

280,805,510

36 19

Suffolk .

265,816

2,259,359,515

277 31

Worcester

140,139

747,829,888

97 00

Totals

1,236,834

$7,896,526,033

$1,000 00

Recapitulation.

Approved February 12, 1929.

Acts, 1929. - (Jhaps. 33, 34.

Chap. 33 An Act relative to town landings and other common

PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER AND TOWN OF
ROCKPORT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. So much of the town landings and water
privileges, including clam flats, and all other real and personal
estate, which are common to the inhabitants of the city of
Gloucester and of the town of Rockport by reason of the
provisions of sections three and four of chapter eight of the
acts of eighteen hundred and forty, as is situated within the
limits of the said city or town shall after the effective date
hereof be owned exclusively by the municipality wherein
situated.

Section 2. Chapter three hundred and forty-seven of
the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and all other
acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of
the preceding section, are hereby repealed.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance by vote of the municipal council of the city of Gloucester
and also by vote of a majority of the registered voters of
the town of Rockport present and voting thereon at any
town meeting. If it is so submitted to the voters of said
town at an annual town meeting, the following question
shall be placed upon the oflacial ballot to be used for the
election of town officers at said meeting: "Shall an act passed
by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, entitled 'An Act relative to town landings and
other common property in the city of Gloucester and town
of Rockport', be accepted?"

Approved February 12, 1929.

Town landings
and other
common prop-
erty in city of
Gloucester and
town of Rock-
port to be
owned exclu-
sively by
municipality
wherein situ-
ated.

Certain
inconsistent
provisions
repealed.

Submission to
municipal
council of city
of Gloucester
and to voters
of town of
Rockport, etc.

G. L. 175, § 80,
etc., amended.

Chap. 34 An Act relative to the classification of risks of

mutual insurance COMPANIES OTHER THAN LIFE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of
the General Laws, as amended in section eighty by chapter
one hundred and sixty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one and by chapter one hundred and fifteen of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-sLx, is hereby further
amended by striking out the first paragraph of said section
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 80.
From time to time the directors of a mutual fire company
may by vote fix and determine the percentages of dividend
or expiration return of premium to be paid on expiring or
cancelled policies which may, in their discretion, and with
the written approval of the commissioner, and upon such
conditions, if any, as he may prescribe, be different for
policies insuring for the same term against the different kinds
of risks mentioned in the several provisions of the clause or
clauses of section forty-seven under which such a company

Mutual fire
insurance com-
panies, classi-
fication of
kinds of
business writ-
ten for purpose
of apportioning
dividends, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 34. 39

may (,ran>s;ici. business; and the percentage aforesaid for
fire policies insuring farm risks, fireproof risks, including
risks equipped with automatic sprinkler and fire alarm
systems, or manufacturing or storage risks may in like
manner be different from that for policies insuring other
risks against fire for the same term. Policies insuring risks
in this commonwealth in the same classification shall have
an equal rate of dividend or return of premium. If an
assessment is levied under section eighty-three the rate
thereof may be different for policies insuring risks in any
classification from that for policies insuring other classi-
fications of risks for the same term; but policies insuring
risks in the same classification shall have the same rate of
assessment, and all funds of the company, actual and con-
tingent, shall be available for the payment of any claim
against it. Every policy placed in any classification made
under this section shall, when issued, bear an endorsement,
satisfactory to the commissioner, to the effect that it is so
classified.

Section 2. Section one hundred and thirteen B of said PjigB^e^V
chapter one hundred and seventy-five, as inserted by section amend'od. '
four of chapter three hundred and forty-six of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-five and as amended by chap-
ter one hundred and eighty-two of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-seven and by section sLx of chapter three
hundred and eightj^-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by adding at the
end thereof the following new paragraph : —

Every mutual company issuing or executing motor vehicle classification
liability policies or bonds, both as defined in said section c(fm™ani'e*s'of
thirty-four A, shall constitute such policies or bonds as a {|!fh(J-'t^®'^'''^®
separate class of business for the purpose of paying dividends, policies, etc.,
Any dividends on such policies or bonds shall be declared p°aVmg ditl-°^
on the profits of the company from said class of business. dends, etc.

Section 3. Section ninety of said chapter one hundred ^' ^' ^^^;j j h**
and seventy-five, as amended by section four of chapter one
hundred and fifty-four and by section sLx of chapter two
hundred and sixty-seven, both of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-five, and by section eleven of chapter two
hundred and eighty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by striking out,
in the tenth line, the word "and" and inserting in place
thereof a comma, and by inserting after the words "ninety-
three D" in the same line the words: — and one hundred
and thirteen B, — so that the first paragraph will read as
follows: — Section 90. Mutual companies, other than life, Certain mutual

e 1 . , , 1 1 • 1 • 1 companies and

formed to transact or transactmg busmess under any one their officers,
or more of clauses three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ta^m^niT^
ten, twelve and thirteen of section forty-seven, or under fire company
clause (a), (6), (d) or (e) of section fifty-four, and the officers, ^'^^'
directors, agents and members of such companies shall,
except as provided in clause (e) of said section fifty-four
and in sections ninety A, ninety B, ninety-two, ninety-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 35, 36.

three, ninety-three A, ninety-three B, ninety-three C, ninety-
three D and one hundred and thirteen B, be subject to all
the provisions of this chapter relating to mutual fire com-
panies and their officers, directors, agents and members, so
far as applicable. Approved February 12, 1929.

City of Boston
and town of
Milton may
reimburse
Thomas
Gordon for
money paid
by him in
satisfaction of
a certain
execution.

Chap. 35 An Act authorizing the city of boston and the town

OF MILTON TO REIMBURSE THOMAS GORDON FOR MONEY
PAID BY HIM IN SATISFACTION OF A CERTAIN EXECUTION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of discharging a moral
obligation, the city of Boston and the town of Milton may
each pay to Thomas Gordon a sum not exceeding seven hun-
dred and forty-six dollars and fifteen cents to reimburse
him for money paid for expenses of defense of, and in satis-
faction of an execution issued in, an action brought against
him, as an individual, in the superior court for the county
of Suffolk, to recover damages for a certain act done in the
performance of his duties as an employee of the Granite
avenue bridge commission, created by the provisions of
section ten of chapter seven hundred and seventy-one of the
acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen and consisting of the
mayor of the city of Boston and the chairman of the select-
men of the town of Milton for the time being.

Section 2. This act shall take effect, in so far as it applies
to the city of Boston, upon its acceptance during the current
year by the city council of said city, subject to the pro-
visions of its charter, and, in so far as it applies to the town
of Milton, upon its acceptance during the current year by a
town meeting. If this act is so accepted by said town, it
may make an appropriation for the purposes hereof at the
same meeting when accepted.

Section 3. This act, however, for the purpose of sub-
mission for acceptance as aforesaid, shall take effect upon its
passage. Approved February 12, 1929.

Submission to
city council
of Boston and
to town of
Milton at town
meeting.

Effective
upon passage
for purpose of
submission.

Chap. 36 An Act relative to the appointment by town boards
of their members to hold other town offices or
positions.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would, in
part, defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to
be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public convenience.

G. L. 41, new
section after
§4.

Town board
may appoint
any member
thereof to
another town
ofBce or
position.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended
by inserting after section four the following new section : —
Section J^-A. Except as otherwise expressly provided, a
town board may, if authorized by vote of the town, appoint
any member thereof to another town office or position for
the term provided by law, if any, otherwise for a term not

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 37, 38. 41

exceeding one year. The salary of any such appointee shall fl^^J^' ^°^
be fixed by vote of the town, notwithstanding the provisions
of section one hundred and eight. In this section, the word 1^^,°^^^ ^?°* *°
"town" shall not include city.

Approved February 12, 1929.

An Act relative to amounts payable under annuity ni,„^ 07

CONTRACTS ISSUED BY SAVINGS AND INSURANCE BANKS. ^ '

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-eight of the General g- ^- ,i^|' ^ ^o-
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section ten and ^"^^^
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 10. No Amount of
savings and insurance bank shall write any policy or annuity annuity "con-
contract binding it to pay more than one thousand dollars, tracts issued
exclusive of dividends or profits, upon the death of any one an/fnsuSnce
person, except for such amount, if any, as it may be bound ^-'^'^^s-
to pay upon the death of such person under an employees'
group policy, or under an annuity contract embodying an
agreement to refund, upon the death of the holder, to his
estate or to a specified payee, a sum not exceeding the
premiums paid thereon with compound interest, nor shall
it write any annuity contract otherwise binding it to pay
in any one year more than two hundred dollars, exclusive
of dividends or profits. Approved February 12, 1929.

An Act establishing a town manager form of govern- (Jhav 38

MENT FOR THE TOW^N OF ORANGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Upon the acceptance of this act, as here- Town of
inafter provided, the annual town meeting of the town of of'^anluai^*^
Orange shall be held on the first Monday in February. All estlbiShed."^
matters to be considered at said meeting, other than the adjournment,
election of town officers and votes on referenda, shall be ^ °'
considered on said day or at an adjournment of said meeting.
The election of officers and the votes on referenda shall be
held at an adjournment of the annual town meeting to be
held on the second Monday in February.

SELECTMEN, ELECTION, TERMS.

Section 2. At a special election which shall be held fieo^fonr"'
within thirty days after the acceptance of this act, the voters terms.
shall elect by official ballot five selectmen who shall hold
office, two until the expiration of three years, two until the
expiration of two years and one until the expiration of one
year, from the first Monday in February, nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine. At each annual meeting thereafter, be-
ginning with the year nineteen hundred and thirty, there
shall be elected in place of those selectmen whose terms are
about to expire an equal number of selectmen, each to serve
for three years. The selectmen shall serve until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified and shall receive no salary.

AcTis, 1929. — Chap. 38.

Vacancies,
how filled.

Regular meetings of the selectmen shall be held twice each
month on such days and at such times as may be arranged
with the town manager. Special meetings of the selectmen
shall be held when called by the town manager or by the
chairman or a majority of the selectmen. If, except as the
result of a recall election, a vacancy occurs in the member-
ship of the selectmen, the remaining members shall call a
special town meeting to fill the vacancy or vacancies for the
unexpired term or terms, except that if a vacancy or vacancies
occur less than three months prior to the annual meeting,
and not less than three selectmen remain in office, the vacancy
or vacancies shall remain unfilled until such annual meeting.
A vacancy resulting from a recall election shall be filled as
hereinafter provided in this act.

Selectmen to
be lawful
successors of
certain town
officers, etc.

Transfer of
rights, etc.,
not to affect
any liability
incurred, etc.

Selectmen to
act as
board of
public welfare.

Election, etc.,
of school
committee not
affected.

Town clerk
and accountant,
appointment,
etc.

Powers, rights,
etc.

To be sworu.

SELECTMEN TO BE LAWFUL SUCCESSORS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

Section 3. Upon the election and qualification of the
selectmen as provided in section two, all the powers, rights,
duties and liabilities conferred or imposed by law upon the
offices of board of public welfare, board of health, cemetery
commissioners, water commissioners, tree warden and park
commissioners shall be transferred to and conferred and
imposed upon the selectmen, and the said offices shall be
abolished. The aforesaid transfer of rights, powers, duties
and liabilities shall not affect any liability incurred, contract
made, fine, special assessment, rate, penalty, forfeiture or
tax imposed before such transfer, nor any suit or other pro-
ceeding pending; and the selectmen elected thereunder
shall in all respects and for all purposes whatsoever be the
lawful successors of the said officers. Said selectmen shall
act as the board of public welfare of the town, with all the
powers and subject to all the duties conferred or imposed
by law upon the board of public welfare.

Section 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as
affecting the election, powers and duties of the school com-
mittee as now provided by law, except as hereinafter pro-
vided.

TOWN CLERK AND ACCOUNTANT.

Section 5. The selectmen first elected and qualified as
provided in section two shall forthwith appoint a suitably
qualified person to the office of town clerk and accountant.
The office of town clerk and the office of accountant shall
be continued until the person appointed to said office of
town clerk and accountant shall have qualified, at which
time the office of town clerk and the office of town account-
ant shall be abolished. The town clerk and accountant shall
enjoy all the powers and rights and be subject to all the
duties and liabilities now or hereafter conferred or imposed
by law upon town clerks and upon town accountants. He
shall hold office during the pleasure of the selectmen, and
shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties
by the chairman of the selectmen or by a justice of the peace.

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In case of death, resignation or removal from office of the vacancy,
town clerk and accountant, the selectmen shall forthwith
appoint a suitably qualified person to fill the vacancy.

TOWN MANAGER, APPOINTMENT.

Section 6. The selectmen first elected and qualified as Town manager,
provided in section two, as soon as is practicable, shall ap- ^pp"'"*"^*""*,
point a town manager for a period not exceeding one year
who shall be the administrative head of all departments of
the town government, the conduct of which is by the general
laws and by this act placed upon the selectmen, except as
otherwise provided in this act. The town manager shall be
subject to the direction and supervision of the selectmen,
and shall be a person specially fitted by education, train-
ing or experience to perform the duties of his office. He
shall be appointed without regard to his political belief and
he may or may not be, when appointed, a resident of the
town or commonwealth. His approval of vouchers for
obligations incurred by any department of which he has
supervision shall be sufficient authority, with the approval
of the selectmen, to authorize pajonent by the town treas-
urer and collector of taxes upon the warrant of the town
clerk and accountant. His appointment may be extended
from year to year, indefinitely, at the will of the selectmen.
He shall be responsible for the efficient administration of
all departments within the scope of his duties. Before To be swom,
entering upon the duties of his office, the town manager ^**''
shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial performance
thereof by the town clerk, and accountant or in his absence,
a justice of the peace, and a certificate thereof shall be filed
with the town clerk and accountant. He shall execute a Bond.
bond in favor of the town for the faithful performance of his
duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as may
be fixed or approved by the selectmen and the expense of
procuring such bond shall be paid by the town.

POWERS AND DUTIES.

Section 7. The powers and duties of the town manager Powers and

-------'--- ° duties of ■^'•■

manager.

shallinclude the following: °" '^"t^^^ °f *«-''

(a) To organize, continue or discontinue, from time to
time, such divisions or departments, not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act, as may be determined by vote
of the selectmen.

(b) To appoint upon merit and fitness alone, and except
as otherwise provided herein, to remove all superintendents
or chiefs of the said departments and all subordinate officers
and employees therein and to fix the salaries and wages of
all subordinates and employees except as otherwise pro-
vided. The superintendents or chiefs of departments shall
not be removed by the town manager, except after five
days' notice in writing, which notice shall state the cause of
the removal.

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dTiToftowii (^) l^xcept as otherwise provided herein, to exercise control

manager. of all departments or divisions now established, or that may

hereafter be established, and made subject to his supervision.

(d) To attend all regular meetings of the selectmen when
requested by them, and to recommend to the selectmen for
adoption such measures requiring action by them or by the
town as he may deem necessary or expedient.

(e) To keep full and complete records of his office, and to
render as often as may be required by the selectmen a full
report of all operations during the period reported on; and
annually, or oftener if required by the selectmen, to make
a synopsis of all the reports for publication.

(f) To keep the selectmen fully advised as to the needs
of the town within the scope of his duties, and to furnish
the selectmen on or before the thirty-first day of December
of each year a detailed list of the appropriations required
during the next ensuing fiscal year for the proper conduct
of all departments of the town under his control.

(g) To keep in repair all public buildings except school
buildings, which he shall repair only on request in writing
of the school committee.

(h) To purchase all supplies for every department of the
town, except books for the schools or the pubhc library;
but purchases of supplies for departments over which he
has no control shall be made only upon requisition therefor
by them or their authorized representative.

(i) To have control and supervision of the police depart-
ment of the town, subject, however, to the direction of
the selectmen. The appointment and removal of the chief
or head of the police department shall not be subject to the
civil service laws of the commonwealth but shall be made
in accordance with the provisions of this act.

(j) To administer the poor relief of the town either
directly or through a person or persons appointed by him,
and under the supervision of the selectmen as the board of
public welfare.

(k) To appoint a health officer, who shall be a registered
physician holding the degree of doctor of medicine from a
"Class A" medical school, and holding a diploma in pubHc
health administration from a recognized medical or technical
institution or having an equivalent qualification by training
or experience in public health administration. He shall
hold office for such term, not exceeding three years, as the
selectmen may prescribe and shall receive such fixed com-
pensations as they shall determine. The health ofl&cer
may also serve as school physician. He shall have charge
of the health department and shall exercise all the powers
and perform the duties imposed upon health officers in towns
by law and by the by-laws of the town. With the approval
of the town manager, the health officer shall appoint and
fix the salary of his subordinates.

(1) To perform such other duties as may be required of
him by the by-laws of the town or by vote of the selectmen.

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EXAMINATION OF DEPARTMENTS.

Section 8. The town manager may, without notice, Examination
cause the affairs of any division or department under his by'lXr™^"'^^
control or the conduct of any officer or employee thereof to m'^nager.
be examined. He shall have access to all town books and
papers for information necessary for the proper performance
of his duties.

TOWN MANAGER MAY BE REMOVED FOR CAUSE.

Section 9. The selectmen, by a majority vote, may re- Removal of
move the town manager by filing a written statement with for^aJTse"^^"'
the town clerk and accountant setting forth in detail the
specific reasons for his removal, a cop3^ of which statement
shall be delivered to the town manager. Such removal shall
not take effect until after the expiration of five days from the
filing of the said statement with the town clerk and account-
ant ; but if it is so recited in the statement the town manager
shall be suspended from office forthwith. If the town Public hearing
manager so requests within said five-day period, a public '^^°" request,
hearing shall be given him by the selectmen, and in such
event the removal of the town manager shall not take effect
until a written decision following the hearing shall have
been filed with the town clerk and accountant. Such
decision made by a majority of the selectmen shall be final.

vacancy.
Section 10. Any vacancy in the office of town manager vacancy in

office of f
manager.

shall be filled forthwith by the selectmen. Pending the ""^'''""°""

appointment of a town manager or the filling of a vacancy,
the selectmen may appoint a person to perform temporarily
the duties of the office who shall be sworn to the faithful
performance thereof.

estimate of expenditure.

Section 11. On or before the thirty-first day of De- Town manage:
cember of each year, the town manager shall submit to the estimate of
selectmen a careful, detailed estimate in writing of the expenditures

. ' CI '1'"^' income.

probable expenditures oi the town government tor the en-
suing fiscal year, stating the amount required to meet the
interest and maturing bonds and notes or other outstanding
indebtedness of the town, and showing specifically the
amount necessary to be provided for each fund and depart-
ment. He shall also submit at the same time an estimate
in writing of the amount of income from all sources of
revenue, exclusive of taxes upon property, and of the prob-
able amount required to be levied and raised by taxation to
defray all expenses and liabilities of the town. For the Boards, officers,
purpose of enabling the town manager to make up the fnfo'rmati'on!^''
annual estimate of expenditures, all boards, officers and
committees of the town shall, upon his written request,

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furnish all information in their possession and submit to him
in writing a detailed estimate of the appropriations required
for the efficient and proper conduct of their respective de-
partments during the next fiscal year.

Finance com-
mission to con-
sider articles
in warrant.

Annual report
of selectmen.

ANNUAL REPORT OF SELECTMEN.

Section 12. All articles in the warrants for the annual
and special town meetings requiring the appropriation of
money shall be considered by the finance commission, which
shall report thereon in writing to the selectmen, with its
recommendations. The selectmen shall make a report in
writing to the annual town meeting, which shall include the
report of the finance commission made as aforesaid and shall
be pubhshed as a part of the annual town report, making
such recommendations regarding the finances of the town
and action thereon as they deem proper.

Investigations
relative to
certain pay
rolls, hills, etc.

Employment
of experts, etc.

DUTIES RELATIVE TO CERTAIN PAY ROLLS, BILLS.

Section 13. Whenever any pay roll, bill or other claim
against the town is presented to the town manager, town
clerk and accountant, town treasurer and collector of taxes,
library trustees or school committee, he or they shall, if
the same seems to him or them to be of doubtful validity,
excessive in amount, or otherwise contrary to the interests
of the town, refer it to the selectmen who shall immediately
investigate the facts and determine what payment, if any,
should be made. Pending such investigation and determina-
tion by said selectmen payment shall be withheld.

Section 14. For the purpose of making investigations,
the selectmen may employ such experts, counsel and other
assistants, and incur such other expenses, not exceeding in
any year the sum of five hundred dollars, or such additional
sum as may be appropriated for the purpose by the town, as
they may deem necessary, and the same shall be paid by the
town treasurer and collector of taxes upon requisition by
the selectmen.

Treasurer and
collector of
taxes, ap-
pointment, etc.

Assessors,
appointment,
terms of
office, etc.

town treasurer and collector of taxes.

Section 15. A treasurer and collector of taxes shall be
appointed by the town manager and shall continue in office
subject to his pleasure. The office of town treasurer and the
office of town collector of taxes shall be continued until the
person appointed to said office of treasurer and collector of
taxes shall have qualified, at which time the office of town
treasurer and the office of town collector of taxes shall be
abolished.

assessors, appointment, terms.

Section 16. The town manager shall forthwith appoint
three suitable persons as assessors, who shall hold no elective
office in the town of Orange, and who, upon their appoint-
ment and qualification, shall organize for the proper conduct

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of their duties. One of said persons shall be appointed for
a term of one j^ear, one for a term of two years, and one for
a term of three years, and annually thereafter there shall be
appointed by the town manager, an assessor for a term of
three years, in the place of the assessor whose term is about
to expire. The assessors shall serve until their successors
are appointed and qualified. If for any reason a vacancy Vacancies.
occurs in the membership of the assessors, the vacancy shall
be filled forthwith by the town manager, in like manner, for
the unexpired term. Upon the appointment and qualifica-
tion of the said assessors, the existing elective offices of
assessors of the town shall terminate. The assessors ap- Powers, rights,
pointed hereunder shall possess all the powers and rights, **"•
and be subject to all the duties and liabilities conferred or
imposed by law upon assessors of towns. Before entering To be sworn,
upon the duties of their office, the assessors shall be sworn
to the faithful and impartial performance thereof in com-
pliance with the provisions of section twenty-nine of chapter
forty-one of the General Laws.

FIRE UEPARTxMENT CHIEF.

Section 17. The town manager shall appoint a chief of *f^^^,
the fire department, who shall also act as superintendent of chferip-
buildings and wires, and shall receive such salary as the sa"kry™etc.'
manager may from time to time determine. He shall be
exempt from jury duty and shall hold no other town office
except that of forest warden. He may be removed for Removal,
cause by the town manager after a hearing. A vacancy in vacancy.
the office shall be filled by appointment by the manager.

The chief shall have the powers and duties conferred or Powers and
imposed by statute upon fire engineers in towns, and by and " '^^' ®*'^'
with the consent of the manager, he shall appoint a deputy
chief and may appoint such other officers and firemen as
may be deemed necessary and, with the consent of the
manager may remove the same at any time for good and
sufficient reason, after a hearing.

He shall have full and absolute authority in the adminis- 0"^'^'''^'^°+'*-^'
tration of the department, and when, in his opinion, it is for ment, etc.
the best interests of the department, he may suspend or
transfer any officer or member thereof.

He shall have sole command of ail persons who may be soie command
present at fires, shall direct all proper measures for the ^* ^'''^^' ^''^
extinguishment of fire, the protection of fife and property,
and the preservation of order and observance of the laws, by-
laws and regulations respecting fires. In his absence the Deputy chief.
deputy chief shall perform the duties of the chief with full
power.

The chief may make such rules and regulations for the Ruif ^nd

•^ ,",.... c 1 regulations tor

prevention of fire, the government and discipline 01 the fire prevention,
department, and the preservation of order in time of fire, ^^'^
as he may deem expedient provided that they are not in-
consistent with the laws of the commonwealth.

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Library
trustees,
appointment,
terms, etc.

Vacancy.

LIBRARY TRUSTEES.

Section 18. The selectmen first elected and qualified as
provided in section two shall forthwith appoint six library
trustees, two of whom shall be appointed for the term of
three years, two for the term of two years, and two for the
term of one year, from the first day of March in that year
and annually thereafter, in February, the selectmen shall
appoint in place of those trustees whose terms expire, two
trustees to serve for the term of three years from the follow-
ing first day of March. A vacancj^ in the board of trustees
shall be filled by appointment by the selectmen for the
residue of the term.

Planning
board,

appointment,
terms, etc.

Vacancy.
Duties.

Submission to
planning board
of acts af-
fecting town
plan, etc.

Annual report
to selectmen,
etc.

PLANNING BOARD.

Section 19. The selectmen first elected and qualified as
provided in section two shall forthwith appoint a planning
board consisting of five persons, one of whom shall be ap-
pointed for the term of five years, one for the term of four
years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of
two years and one for the term of one year from the first day
of March in that year; and annually thereafter the select-
men shall, in February, appoint one member of said board
for the term of five years from the following first day of
March. A vacancy in the board shall be filled by appoint-
ment for the residue of the term.

Section 20. It shall be the duty of the planning board
to keep itself informed of the progress of town planning in
this and other sections of the country, make studies and
recommendations for the improvement of the plan of the
town with a view to the present and future movement of
traffic, the general convenience, amenity, health, recreation
and welfare, and any needs of the town dependent on the
town plan; to consider and report upon the designs, and
their relation to the town plan, of all new public ways, lands,
places, buildings, bridges and other public structures, and of
additions to and alterations in those already existing, and of
the layout or plotting of new subdivisions of the town.

Section 21. All acts of the selectmen or of any other
board or officer of the town government affecting the town
plan shall be submitted to the planning board for report
and recommendations. The selectmen may at any time
call upon the board for report with recommendations. The
board of its own volition may also report to the selectmen,
or to the annual town meeting, on any matter which in its
opinion affects the plan of the town. Any matter referred
by the selectmen to the board shall be acted upon within
such time as may be designated by the selectmen in their
order of reference. The planning board shall submit to the
selectmen an annual report summarizing its activities for the
fiscal year.

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CONSTABLES.

Section 22. The selectmen first elected and qualified ^°'o[n[^*^|,'jt
as provided in section two shall forthwith appoint two con- terms, etc.
stables, each for the term of one year from the following
first day of March and annually thereafter in February, the
selectmen shall appoint two constables, each for the term
of one year from the following first day of March ; and may,
at any time, appoint so many additional constables as, in
their opinion, may be necessary, who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the selectmen.

FINANCE COMMISSION, ELECTION, TERMS, ETC.

Section 23. At the special election to be held within Finance
thirty days after the acceptance of this act as provided in ei'e™tk)n!"'"'
section two, the voters of the town shall elect by official terms, etc.
ballot from among their number five persons who shall serve
and be known as the finance commission and shall hold
office, one until the expiration of five years, one until the
expiration of four years, one until the expiration of three
years, one until the expiration of two years and one until
the expiration of one year, from the first Monday in Feb-
ruary, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. Thereafter,
beginning with the year nineteen hundred and thirty, one
member of such commission shall be elected annually at
the annual meeting to serve for five years therefrom. The No salary.
members of the finance ' commission shall serve until their
successors are elected and qualified and shall not receive
any salary. During the term for which they are chosen they ineligible to
shall be ineligible, either by appointment or by election, to office!""^ °*^''^'^
any town office other than that for which they have been
chosen, nor shall they, during any such term, hold any such
other office. They shall be sworn to the faithful performance To be sworn.
of their duties by the moderator, the town clerk and account-
ant, or by a justice of the peace.

VACANCY.

•
Section 24. If for any reason whatsoever a vacancy vacancy in
occurs in the finance commission, it shall be the duty of the commfssion.
remaining member or members forthwith to give notice
thereof to the selectmen. The selectmen shall, within five
days thereafter, call a special town election to fill the vacancy
or vacancies for the unexpired term or terms, respectively.
Any vacancy or vacancies occurring in the finance commis-
sion less than three months prior to any town election shall
remain unfilled until the date of such election.

HOLDER OF AN ELECTIVE OFFICE MAY BE RECALLED.

Section 25. Any holder of an elective office may be Recaii of
recalled therefrom by the qualified voters of the town as ^iec*tive°office.
herein provided.

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Recall petition,

preparation,

filing.

Record book,
entry of
petition, etc.

RegibtraiH i
voters to
certify sig-
natures.

RECALL PETITION, PREPARATION, FILING,

Section 26. Any qualified voter of the town may file
with the town clerk and accountant an affidavit containing
the name of the officer sought to be recalled and a statement
of the grounds for recall. The town clerk and accountant
shall thereupon deliver to the voter making the affidavit
copies of petition blanks demanding such recall, printed forms
of which he shall keep on hand. The blanks shall be issued
by the town clerk and accountant with his signature and
official seal attached thereto. They shall be dated, shall be
addressed to the selectmen, and shall contain the name of
the person to whom they are issued, the name of the person
whose recall is sought, the grounds of recall as stated in
the affidavit, and shall demand the election of a successor
in the said office. A copy of the petition shall be entered
in a record book to be kept in the office of the town clerk and
accountant. The recall petition shall be returned and filed
with the town clerk and accountant within twenty days after
the filing of the affidavit, and must also have been signed
by at least one hundred registered voters of the town, who
shall add to their signatures the street and number, if any,
of their residences. The recall petition shall be submitted,
at or before five o'clock in the afternoon of the Saturday
preceding the day on which it must be filed, to the registrars
of voters in the town, and the registrars shall forthwith
certify thereon the number of signatures which are names of
registered voters of the town.

Removal and
election.

Proviso.

Nomination
candidates.

REMOVAL AND ELECTION.

Section 27. If the petition shall be found and certified
by the town clerk and accountant to be sufficient, he shall
submit the same with his certificate to the selectmen with-
out delay, and the selectmen shall forthwith give written
notice of the receipt of the certificate to the officer sought
to be recalled, and shall, if the officer does not resign within
five days thereafter, thereupon order an election to be held
on a Tuesday fixed *by them not less than twenty-five nor
more than thirty-five days after the date of the town clerk
and accountant's certificate that a suflBcient petition is
filed; provided however, that if any other town election is
to occur within sixty days after the date of the certificate,
the selectmen may, in their discretion postpone the holding
of the recall election to the date of such other election. If a
vacancy occurs in said office after a recall election has been
ordered, the election shall nevertheless proceed as provided
in this section.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.

Section 28. The question of recalling any number of
officers may be submitted at the same election. But as to
each officer whose recall is sought, there shall be a separate

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ballot. The nomination of candidates to succeed an officer
whose recall is sought, the publication of the warrant for the
recall election and the conduct of such election shall all be
in accordance with the provisions of law relating to elections.

Section 29. Ballots used in a recall election shall sub- Propositions on
mit the following propositions in the order indicated: — re^caii Election

For the recall of (name of officer).

Against the recall of (name of officer).

Immediately at the right of each proposition there shall
be a square in which the voter, by making a cross mark (X)
may vote for either of the said propositions. Under the
proposition shall appear the word "Candidates" and the
direction ''Vote for one," and beneath this the names of
candidates nominated as hereinbefore provided. The bal- Fonn of
lots used in a recall election shall be substantially in the fol-
lowing form : —

Recall Election.
(Month and day of month, and year)

For the recall of (name in full) , . . . .
Against the recall of (name in full),.

Candidates
Vote for one

(Name of candidate)

Section 30. If a majority of the votes cast on the ques- officer to
tion of recalling an officer shall be against his recall, he shall office?wh'en.
continue in office but subject to recall as before. If a etc.
majority of such votes be for the recall of the officer desig-
nated on the ballot, he shall, regardless of any defects in
the recall petition be deemed removed from office. When an
officer is recalled from office, the candidate to succeed the
officer recalled who received the highest vote shall be de-
clared elected to fill the unexpired term.

Section 31. If an officer in regard to whom a sufficient ^^®''4°-o„ ^f
recall petition is filed resigns within five days after notice officer named
thereof, the election shall be held as hereinbefore provided, petition.

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Time of
filing recall
petition.

except, that the title of the ballot shall be "town election,"
that the proposition in regard to the recall shall be omitted
from the ballot, and that above the names of the candidates
there shall appear on the ballot the words "Candidates to
succeed (name of officer), resigned."

Section 32, No recall petition shall be filed against an
officer within three months after he takes office, nor in case
of an officer subjected to a recall election and not recalled
thereby, until at least three months after that election.

Persons recalled
not to be ap-
pointed to any
town office
within two
years.

Salaries.

PERSONS RECALLED NOT TO BE APPOINTED TO ANY TOWN
OFFICE WITHIN TWO YEARS.

Section 33. No person who has been recalled from an
office, or who has resigned from an office while recall pro-
ceedings were pending against him, shall be appointed to any
town office within two years after such recall or such resig-
nation.

SALARIES.

Section 34. The town clerk and accountant, treasurer
and collector, assessors and town manager shall receive such
compensation for their services as the selectmen shall de-
termine, but not exceeding the amounts appropriated there-
for by the town. Members of the finance commission, school
committee, library trustees and planning board shall receive
no salary or compensation.

Certain town
officers not to
make contracts
with the town.

Penalties.

certain town officers not to MAKE CONTRACTS WITH
THE TOWN.

Section 35. It shall be unlawful for any selectman, the
town manager, any member of the school committee, any
library trustee, or any other elective or appointive official,
except as otherwise provided by law or in this act, directly
or indirectly to make a contract with the town, or to receive
any commission, discount, bonus, gift, contribution or re-
ward from, or any share in the profits of, any person or
corporation making or performing such a contract, unless
the official concerned, immediately upon learning of the
existence of such contract, or that such a contract is pro-
posed, shall notify the selectmen in writing of the contract
and of the nature of his interest therein and shall abstain
from doing any official act on behalf of the town in reference
thereto. In case such interest exists on the part of an
officer whose duty it is to make a contract on behalf of the
town, the contract may be made by another officer or person
of the town, duly authorized thereto by vote of the select-
men. Violation of any provision of this section shall render
the contract in respect to which such violation occurs void-
able at the option of the town. Any person violating any
provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not
more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not
more than one year, or both.

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Section 36. This act shall be submitted to the voters of ^^t^e^y'^t^^^ext
the town of Orange for acceptance at the next annual elec- annual elec-
tion. The town clerk shall, before said election, transmit, '°"' ® '^'
by mail or otherwise, to every registered voter in said town a
copy of this act. The vote shall be taken by ballot in answer
to the following question which shall be printed on the
official ballot to be used at said election for the election of
town officers: "Shall an act passed by the general court in
the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled, 'An
Act estabhshing a town manager form of government for
the town of Orange,' be accepted?" If this act shall be
accepted by a majority of the voters voting thereon, it
shall take effect for the special election to be held within thirty
days after the acceptance of this act as provided in section
two, for all things that pertain to said election and shall go
into full force and effect upon the election of the selectmen
and other town officials at said special election as herein
provided; except that the appointees of the officials and
boards whose offices shall be aboUshed and consolidated,
then in the service of the town shall continue to draw com-
pensation at the same rate and exercise like powers, authority
and jurisdiction as theretofore, until other provision is made.
The terms of office of all elective and appointive officers then
in office shall terminate upon the qualification of their suc-
cessors elected or appointed under the provisions of this
act.

DUTIES OF CERTAIN TOWN OFFICIALS RELATIVE TO ELEC-
TION, ETC.

Section 37. It shall be the duty of the selectmen, the Duties of
town clerk, and any other town official upon whom by reason offictafs as"to
of his office a duty devolves by the provisions of this act, election, etc.
and who is in office when this act is accepted as herein pro-
vided, to comply with all the requirements of this act re-
lating to elections, to the end that all things may be done
necessary for the nomination and election of the officers
first to be elected under this act.

BY-LAWS, RULES, ETC.

Section 38. All laws, by-laws, rules and regulations in By-iaws, rules.
force in the town of Orange when this act takes effect, not
inconsistent with its provisions, whether enacted by au-
thority of the town or any other authority, shall continue
in full force and effect until otherwise provided by law, by-
law, or vote; all other laws, by-laws, rules and regulations,
so far as they refer to the town of Orange, are hereby repealed
and annulled, but such repeal shall not revive any pre-
existing enactment.

Section 39. So much of this act as authorizes the sub-
mission of the question of its acceptance to the registered
voters of said town and section thirty-seven shall take effect
upon its passage.

Acts, 1929. - Chap. 89.

Revocation of
acceptance.

When act
becomes null
and void.

REVOCATION OF ACCEPTANCE.

Section 40. At any time after the expiration of four
years and within six years from the date on which this act
is accepted, and not less than ninety days before the date
of any annual meeting, a petition signed by not less than
fifteen per cent of the registered voters of the town may be
filed with the selectmen requesting that the question of
revoking the acceptance of this act be submitted to the
voters. Thereupon the selectmen shall call a town meet-
ing to be held not later than forty-five days after the filing
of the petition, but not between the first day of June and the
first Tuesday of September, both dates inclusive. At such
meeting, the vote shall be taken by official ballot in answer
to the following question which shall be printed thereon:
"Shall the acceptance of the town of Orange of an Act passed
by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, entitled: "An Act establishing a town manager
form of government for the town of Orange,' be revoked?"
If such revocation is favored by a majority of the voters
voting thereon by ballot, the acceptance of this act shall be
revoked from and after the date of the annual town meeting
next following such vote. The said revocation shall not
affect any contract then existing or any action at law or suit
in equity or other proceeding then pending. If the ac-
ceptance shall be revoked as aforesaid, this act shall become
null and void, and thereafter all general laws relative to town
government and town officers shall apply to the town of
Orange and any special laws relative to said town which
are repealed by this act shall be revived by such revocation.
By-laws in force when the said revocation takes effect, so
far as they are consistent with general laws respecting town
government and town officers and with said special laws,
shall not be affected thereby.

Approved February 13, 1929.

Chap. 39 An Act relative to the repeal or modification of

ZONING BY-LAWS IN TOWNS.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public convenience.

G. L. 40, § 30,
etc., amended.

modification of
ordinances or
by-laws limit-

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty of the General Laws, as amended in section
thirty by chapter forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-two and by chapters fifty-nine and two hundred and
sixteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is
hereby further amended by striking out said section thirty
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section SO.
No ordinance or by-law enacted under section twenty-five
shall be repealed or modified except after reasonable notice

AcTb, 1929. Chap. 40. 55

of the proposed repeal or modification and an opportunity ing particular
to the objectors to be heard thereon, and, in a town, noti- buiTdfngsto
fication as provided by law of a town meeting duly called tJ^cti^o^ "^'^
in pursuance of a warrant warning that such proposed repeal zones in cities
or modification is to be acted upon thereat shall be sufficient ^^'^ towns.
notice for the purposes hereof. In a city, such a hearing
shall be before the city council or any committee designated
or appointed for the purpose by the city council. If in a
city any owner of real estate which would be affected by the
proposed repeal or modification objects thereto by a writing
filed with the city clerk, the ordinance shall not be repealed
or modified except by a unanimous vote of all the members
of a city council of less than nine members or by a three
fourths vote of all the members of a city council of nine or
more members; and in no case shall such an ordinance be
repealed or modified except by a two thirds vote of all the
members of the city council. If in a town any person shall,
prior to the day named in the warrant for the town meeting
at which such proposed repeal or modification is to be acted
upon, file with the town clerk his objections thereto in writ-
ing, together with his name and address, the town clerk shall
give notice of such fact to the town meeting which shall not
act on such proposed repeal or modification until it has re-
ferred the objections to a committee thereof to hear the
objecting party and report to said meeting or an adjourn-
ment thereof or has referred the same to the town planning
board for such purpose and has received a report made in
pursuance of such reference after giving the objector an
opportunity to be heard. If no objections are filed as afore-
said the meeting may consider and act upon the proposed
repeal or modification without further notice. In no case
shall such a by-law be repealed or modified except by a two
thirds vote of a town meeting.

Approved February 15, 1929.

An Act relative to the local taxation of yachts and (Jjiav, 40

CERTAIN OTHER WATER CRAFT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section eighteen of chapter fifty-nine of the g. l. 59, § is.
General Laws, as amended by section two of chapter three ^*° ' ^"^^''^^e^
hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, by chapter sixty-four of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-five and by section two of chapter
one hundred and forty-three of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by strik-
ing out clauses first, sixth and seventh and inserting in
place thereof the following: — First, All tangible personal Tangible
property, including that of persons not inhabitants of the prop°erty,
commonwealth, except ships and vessels used in or designed Assessed,
for use in carrying trade or commercial fishing, shall, unless
exempted by section five, be taxed to the owner in the town
where itissituated on April first.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 41, 42, 4.3.

Tangible per-
sonal property
of partnerships,
where
assessed.

Certain ships,
etc., owned
by partner-
ships, where
assessed.

Effective date.

Sixth, Partners, whether residing in the same or different
towns, shall be jointly taxed under their firm name, for all
tangible personal property belonging to the partnership,
except ships and vessels used in or designed for use in carry-
ing trade or commercial fishing, in the place where such
property is situated. Each partner shall be liable for the
whole tax.

Seventh, Ships or vessels, other than yachts and other
pleasure craft, owned by a partnership, shall be assessed to
the several partners in their places of residence, if within
the commonwealth, proportionally to their interests therein;
but the interests of the several partners residing without the
commonwealth shall be assessed to the partnership in the
place where its business is carried on.

Section 2. This act shall take effect as of the thirty-
first day of March in the current year.-

Approved February 15, 1929.

Chav. 41 An Act repealing the law providing that the general

COURT SHALL HOLD NO SESSION FOR THE TRANSACTION OF
ORDINARY BUSINESS ON A LEGAL HOLIDAY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

r^'kied^^' Section twenty-five of chapter three of the General Laws

is hereby repealed. Approved February 15, 1929.

Chart. 42 An Act relative to the disposition of unclaimed ac-
counts CARRIED on the BOOKS OF CERTAIN COUNTY

officers.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter thirty-five of the General Laws is hereby amended
by inserting after section twenty-three the following new
section: — Section 23 A. County officers holding funds un-
claimed after two years from the time of receipt thereof and
not otherwise subject to statutory disposition shall pay
over such funds to their county treasury for the use of the
county; provided, that any person or persons establishing
a lawful claim thereto before the county commissioners
within six years of such payment over may receive satis-
faction thereof from any available funds in the county
treasury. Approved February 15, 1929.

G. L. 3.5, new
section after
§ 23.

Disposition of
unclaimed
accounts
carried on the
books of
certain county
officers.

Proviso.

Chap. 43 An Act permitting the parking of motor vehicles

WITHOUT display OF LIGHTS IN CERTAIN CASES.

G. L. 90, § 7,
etc., amended.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section seven of chapter ninety of the General Laws, as
most recently amended by section one of chapter three
hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by inserting
after the word "direction" in the forty-third line the words:
— ; provided, that an automobile need display no light

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 43. 57

when parked within the hmits of a way in a space in which
unlighted parking is permitted by the rules or regulations
of the board or officer having control of such way, — so as
to read as follows: — Section 7. Every motor vehicle Brakes on
operated in or upon any way shall be provided with brakes ""^ °^ ^^ ''^ ^^'
adequate to control the movement of such vehicle and
conforming to rules and regulations made by the registrar,
and such brakes shall at all times be maintained in good
working order. Every automobile shall be provided with
at least two braking systems, each with a separate means of
application, each operating directly or indirectly on at least
two wheels and each of which shall suffice alone to stop said
automobile within a proper distance as defined in said
rules and regulations; provided, that if said systems are Proviso.
connected, combined or have any part in common, such
systems shall be so constructed that a breaking of any one
element thereof will not leave the automobile without
brakes acting directly or indirectly on at least two wheels.
One braking system shall be so constructed that it can be
set to hold the automobile stationary. Every motor cycle
shall be provided with at least one brake adequate to stop
it within a proper distance as defined as aforesaid. Every other equip-
motor vehicle so operated shall be provided with a muffler '"®"*'
or other suitable device to prevent unnecessary noise and
with a suitable bell, horn or other means of signalling, and
with suitable lamps; and automobiles shall be provided
with a lock, a key or other device to prevent such vehicle
from being set in motion by unauthorized persons, or other-
wise, contrary to the will of the owner or person in charge
thereof. Every automobile operated during the period Lights.
from one half an hour after sunset to one half an hour before
sunrise shall display at least two white lights, or lights of
yellow or amber tint, or, if parked within the limits of a Parking lights,
way, one white light on the side of the automobile nearer
the centre of the way, and every motor cycle so operated at
least one white light, or light of yellow or amber tint, and
every such motor cycle with a side-car attached, in addition,
one such light on the front of the side-car, and every motor
truck, trailer and commercial motor vehicle used solely as
such, having a carrying capacity of three tons or over, in
addition, a green light attached to the extreme left of the
front of such vehicle, so attached and adjusted as to indi-
cate the extreme left lateral extension of the vehicle or load,
which shall in all cases aforesaid be visible not less than two
hundred feet in the direction toward which the vehicle is
proceeding or facing; and every such motor vehicle shall
display at least one red light in the reverse direction; pro- Proviso.
vided, that an automobile need display no light when parked
within the limits of a way in a space in which unlighted
parking is permitted by the rules or regulations of the board
or officer having control of such way. Every automobile
so operated shall have a rear light so placed as to show a
red light from behind and a white light so arranged as to

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 44.

Keadlaiii pA ai
rear lamps,
approval by
registrar, etc.

Mirrors or
reflectors.

illuminate and not obscure the rear register number. No
headlamp shall be used upon any motor vehicle so operated
unless such lamp is equipped with a lens or other device,
approved by the registrar, designed to prevent glaring rays.
No rear lamp shall be used upon any motor vehicle so
operated unless approved by the registrar. Application for
the approval of a lens, or other device, or of a rear lamp,
accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars, may be made to the
registrar by any manufacturer thereof or dealer therein.
Every automobile used for the carriage of passengers for
hire, and every commercial motor vehicle or motor truck, so
constructed, equipped or loaded that the person operating
the same is prevented from having a constantly free and
unobstructed view of the highway immediately in the rear,
shall have attached to the vehicle a mirror or reflector so
placed and adjusted as to afford the operator a clear, re-
flected view of the highway in the rear of the vehicle.

Approved February 15, 1929.

ChaV. 44 ^N -^^"^ RELATIVE TO THE IMPORTATION AND LIBERATION
OF CERTAIN LIVE BIRDS AND QUADRUPEDS.

G. L. 131, § 41.
amended.

Importation
and liberation
of certain
live birds
and quad-
rupeds, per-
mits, etc.

Rules and
regulations.

Penalty for
violation.

Birds found to
be diseased
may be
confiscated.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out section forty-one and
inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 41 • No
person shafl import or cause to be imported into the com-
monwealth any live game bird or any live wild fur-bearing
or game quadruped unless he first obtains a permit so to
do from the director, nor shall any person liberate any such
bird or quadruped except in accordance with the provisions
of an outstanding permit. The director may, in his dis-
cretion, issue such a permit and may include therein reason-
able conditions as to the importation, inspection and libera-
tion of such birds or quadrupeds; and he may at any time
revoke such a permit. He may make reasonable rules and
regulations relative to the issue of such permits and to the
importation, inspection and liberation of such birds and
quadrupeds. Whoever violates any provision of this section
or of any rule or regulation made hereunder or any condi-
tion of a permit granted hereunder shall be punished by a
fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars
for each bird or quadruped in respect of which the violation
occurs. Any bird or quadruped which is imported into
the commonwealth in violation of this section, or which is
so imported under authority of a permit granted hereunder
and is found upon inspection to be diseased, may be con-
fiscated by any officer empowered to enforce the fish and
game laws and shall be forfeited and be disposed of as the
director deems best. Approved February 15, 1929.

Acts, 1929. Chaps. 45, 46. 59

An Act regulating the use of names by certain as- Chap 45

SOCIATIONS and TRUSTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the General Laws g. l. i82, new
is hereby amended by inserting after section two the follow- f 2*'°° ^"^'
ing new section: — Section 2 A. No association or trust use of names
shall assume the name of any corporation established under by certain
the laws of the commonwealth, or of a corporation, firm, and trusts
or association or trust whether or not as defined in section '^"guiated.
one, or of an individual, carrying on business in the com-
monwealth at the time when the association or trust is
created or within three years prior thereto, or assume a
name so similar thereto as to be likely to be mistaken for it,
except with the written consent of such existing corporation,
firm, association or trust or of such individual, previously
filed with the commissioner; and the commissioner shall
refuse to receive for filing the written instrument or declara-
tion of trust of an association or trust if it appears to him to
have assumed a name in violation hereof. The supreme
judicial or superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity,
upon the application of any person interested or affected,
to enjoin an association or trust from doing business under
any name assumed in violation hereof, although the written
instrument or declaration of trust of such association or
trust has been received for filing as aforesaid.

Approved February 15, 1929.

An Act enlarging the corporate powers of the new Chav. 46

BEDFORD PORT SOCIETY.

Be it eriacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter tw^enty-nine of the acts of eighteen }^^^\f'.^ '■
hundred and thirty-two is hereby amended by inserting after "'""'" ^
the word "seamen" in the eleventh line the words: — and
the furnishing of material relief to needy seamen and their
families, — and by inserting after the word "seamen" in
the twentieth line the words : — and the furnishing of ma-
terial relief to needy seamen and their families, — so as
to read as follows: — Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate New Bedford
and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, co°rporate^ ^'
and by the authority of the same, That Samuel Rodman, Jr., fa°g|d^®"'
James Arnold, Sylvester Holmes, John Howland, Jr.,
Jonathan Tuttle, Timothy I. Dyre, Charles W. Morgan,
Orville Dewey, Jared Parkhurst, William H. Taylor, John
Coggeshall and Nehemiah Leonard, their associates and
successors, be, and they hereby are incorporated, by the
name of the New Bedford Port Society, for the moral im-
provement of seamen and the furnishing of material relief
to needy seamen and their famihes, with power to make
by laws and regulations for their own government, and the
management of the concerns of the society, not inconsistent

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 47, 48.

with the laws of this Coniinouwealtli, and to take, hold and
receive, by gift or otherwise, real and personal estate, not
exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, and the same to
sell and convey, if necessary, the income thereof to be
applied to the religious, moral and professional instruction
of seamen and the furnishing of material relief to needy
seamen and their families, in such manner as the society
shall direct. Approved February 15, 1929.

Chap. 47 An Act relative to the taking, possession and sale

OF calico bass and crappie.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 130,
§ 78A, etc.,
amended.

Chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws is

hereby amended by striking out section seventy-eight A,

inserted by chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the

acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one and amended by

section four of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the

acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three and by chapter

six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and

tefdn'^lafe^ °" inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 78 A.

etc., of certain No pcrsou shall take or have in possession more than six

fresh water fish. ^^^^y. ^^^^^ g^^^^^ pickerel, forty horned pout, forty yellow

perch, five wall eyed pike sometimes called pike perch,
forty blue gills or sunfish, twenty calico bass or twenty
crappie, taken from the waters of the commonwealth in
any one day, nor shall he take from said waters or have in
possession horned pout between March first and June fif-
teenth in any year, yellow perch between March first and
April first in any year, or blue gills, sunfish, calico bass or
crappie between December first and July first of the year
following, nor shall he at anj'- time buy, sell, offer or expose
for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale a horned
pout, yellow perch, blue gill, sunfish, calico bass or crappie,
taken from the waters of the commonwealth, nor shall he
have in possession at any time a blue gill, sunfish, calico bass
or crappie, taken from said waters which is less than six
inches in length except when taken by him while lawfully
fishing and immediately returned alive to the water whence
Penalty. [^ ^g^g taken. Whoever violates any provision of this sec-

tion shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars
for every fish in respect to which such violation occurs.

Approved February 15, 1929.

Chap. 48 An Act relative to state reimbursement of small
towns for compensation paid to inspectors of ani-
mals.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section seventeen of chapter one hundred and twenty-nine
of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the
word "commonwealth" in the seventh line the words: — ,
upon certificate of the selectmen, approved by the director.

G. L. 129, § 17,
amended.

Acts, 1929. — C haps. 49, 50. Gl

— so as to read as follows: — Section 17. Each inspector Oaths of inspec-
shall be sworn to ' the faithful performance of his official *°" ° ^°™'' ^'
duties, and shall receive from the town for which he is ap- Compensation.
pointed reasonable compensation, if appointed by the town,
or such compensation as shall be fixed by the director, but
not in excess of five hundred dollars a year, if appointed by
the director. Towns having a valuation of less than two state reim-
and one half million dollars shall be reimbursed by the com- ^S to'wL"^
monwealth, upon certificate of the selectmen, approved by {"^^''^^''to'''
the director, for one half of such compensation, not exceed- inspectors.
ing two hundred and fifty dollars for each inspector in any
one year. Approved February 18, 1929.

An Act establishing the salaries of the deputy as- Chap. 49

SESSOES OF the CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section three of chapter ninety-three of the ^"^^^ ^-^^ ^hl^'
Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended ^ ^" ^^^
by chapter ninety-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty and by section one of chapter six of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, is hereby further amended
by inserting after the word "thousand" in the eighth line
the words: — five hundred, — so as to read as follows: —
Section 3. The mayor shall also appoint for an indetermi- ^®P"f^it^^o^f"
nate term, under the laws and rules governing the classified Boston, civil
civil service of the commonwealth, five deputy assessors ment^saiSy"*'"
and such appointees shall hold office in accordance with duties, etc.
such laws and rules. Appointments to fill vacancies shall
be made in like manner. Each deputy assessor shall re-
ceive an annual salary of four thousand five hundred dollars
and shall perform such duties as the board of assessors
may prescribe.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept- 1"^™^^^°^/°
ance during the current j^ear by vote of the city council of etc.
the city of Boston, subject to the provisions of its charter,
but not otherwise. Approved February 18, 1929.

An Act authorizing the Suffolk savings bank for Chap. 50
seamen and others to hold additional real es-
tate.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and S^if^^f
Others, incorporated by chapter seventy-three of the acts men and others
of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, may, subject to the ditwnai
approval of the commissioner of banks, invest a sum not ^eai estate
exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in ad-
dition to any sums heretofore authorized, in land and
buildings in the city of Boston to be used in whole or in j)art
for the conduct of a branch office or offices.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its~passage.

Approved February 20, 1929.

62 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 51, 52, 53, 54,

Chap. 51 An Act authorizing the Gardner trust company to

HOLD additional REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY OF GARDNER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Com "an ^mav- Section 1. The Gardner Trust Company, a trust com-
hoid additional pany Organized under the laws of this commonwealth and
cfty of oi^rdner. having its usual place of business in the city of Gardner,
may, subject otherwise to the provisions of section forty-
one of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the General
Laws, as amended by chapter three hundred and twenty-one
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and to the
approval of the commissioner of banks, invest in real estate
in said city suitable for and to be used in whole or in part
for the transaction of its business to an amount, including
the cost of alterations and additions in the nature of perma-
nent fixtures, not exceeding, directly or indirectly, sixty-
three thousand dollars, in addition to the amount permitted
by said section forty-one, amended as aforesaid, to be in-
vested by said trust company, but in no event exceeding
one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars in the ag-
gregate.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 20, 1929.

Chap. 52 An Act authorizing the hitchcock free academy in

THE TOW^N of BRIMFIELD TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^^^^^fil""^^ The Hitchcock Free Academy in the town of Brimfield

town of Brim- may hold, for the purposes for which it is incorporated,

fddltSi''"''^ real and personal property to an amount not exceeding five

Bona? property, ^uudred thousand dollars. Approved February 20, 1929.

Chap. 53 An Act reviving cape cod camps, inc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Cam ?°nic Cape Cod Camps, Inc., a corporation dissolved by chapter

revived, etc.' two hundred and seventy-three of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-eight, is hereby revived with the same
powers, duties and obligations as if said chapter had not been
passed; and all acts and proceedings of the officers, direc-
tors and stockholders of said corporation acting as such
which would be legal and valid but for the passage of said
chapter are hereby ratified and confirmed.

Approved February 20, 1929.

Chap. 54 An Act authorizing the universalist publishing

HOUSE TO HOLD ADDITIONAL PROPERTY.

Beit enacted, etc., as follows:

Itc^' .amended Chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the acts of eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, incorporating the Universalist

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 55, 56. 63

Publishing House, as amended in section two by section one

of chapter twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred and five

and chapter eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and

ten, is hereby further amended by striking out said section

two, and inserting in place thereof the following: — Sec- Uniyersaiist

Hon 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal prop- Hous'e may

erty necessary for conducting its_ business to an amount [-onaf property.

not exceeding one milhon dollars in value.

Approved February 20, 1929.

An Act relative to increasing the number of trustees (jj^g^jy 55

OF AMHERST COLLEGE ELECTED BY THE GRADUATES THEREOF ^'

AND EXTENDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE THEREFOR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The number of trustees of Amherst college Number of
to be elected by the graduates of said college is hereby in- Amher8t°coi-
creased from five to six. The first vacancy among the lege increased.
members of the board of trustees of said college elected by horEfied.
said board which shall occur after the thirty-first day of
July in the current year, and after the adoption of any
necessary changes in rules or regulations by said board and
the society of the alumni of said college, shall be filled by
the graduates thereof in the same manner as is provided
for the election of the five trustees heretofore elected by
the graduates of said college. Whenever any person so
chosen by the said graduates to fill such vacancy shall
cease to be a member of the corporation, his place and that
of every successor shall be filled by the graduates in like
manner.

Section 2. All acts and parts of acts, in so far as pro- Certain acts
viding that no graduate of Amherst college be entitled to actl repealed,
vote for the trustees of said college to be chosen by the
graduates thereof prior to the fourth annual commencement
after his graduation, are hereby repealed.

Approved February 20, 1929.

An Act authorizing charles a. cushman and edith (JJiap. 56
w. cushman to build and maintain a foot-bridge
over the lower level of somerville avenue in the

CITY OF somerville.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Upon petition and after a public hearing chariesA.
thereon, notice of which shall be published at least three EdHh"w"cush-
times in a newspaper published in the city of Somerville, manmaybuiid

1 • .i^-i'i -jiji icii and maintain

the city council of said city may, with the approval of the afoot-bridge
mayor, issue a permit to Charles A. Cushman and Edith orsolnerviilr"^
W. Cushman, both of Cambridge, their heirs and their o{'|o'^e^"-J5e^
successors in title from time to time to the building hereinafter
referred to, to build and maintain a foot-bridge from the
second story of the building now owned by them and num-
bered forty-three Somerville avenue, at the northwest

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 57,

Revocation
of permit.

Restrictions
as to height
and width.

Liability for
bodily injury
or damage
to property.

Proviso.

Remedy not
exclusive, etc.

Unconstitution-
ality of any
part of act not
to affect valid-
ity of remaining
provisions.

Submission to
city council, etc

Proviso.

corner of said building, over the lower level of Somerville
avenue to the upper level thereof, otherwise called the
northern artery, for the purpose of connecting the building
with said northern artery, upon such conditions and subject
to such restrictions as the said city council may prescribe.
Any permit so issued may be revoked by vote of said city
council, with the approval of the mayor.

Section 2. Any bridge built under a permit granted as
aforesaid shall be constructed and maintained at a height
not less than sixteen feet above the grade line of the lower
level street, and shall not be more than ten feet in width,
and no part of said foot-bridge or its supports shall rest on
the surface of the upper or lower level street.

Section 3. If a traveler on the highway while in the
exercise of due care sustains bodily injury or damage in his
property by reason of the construction or maintenance of
said foot-bridge, he may recover damages therefor in an
action of tort brought in the superior court against said
Charles A. Cushman and Edith W. Cushman, or their heirs
or their successors in title from time to time to said build-
ing, within one year after the date of such injury or damage;
provided, that such notice of the time, place and cause of
the said injury or damage be given to said Charles A. Cush-
man and Edith W. Cushman, or their heirs or successors in
title aforesaid, by, or on behalf of, the person sustaining the
same as is, under the provisions of chapter eighty-four of
the General Laws, valid and sufficient in cases of injury
or damage sustained by reason of a defect or a want of re-
pair in or upon a way, if such defect or want of repair is
caused by or consists in part of snow or ice, or both. The
remedy herein provided shall not be exclusive, but shall be
in addition to any other remedy provided by law.

Section 4. If any part or section of this act be de-
clared unconstitutional, the validity of its remaining pro-
visions shall not be affected thereby.

Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
by vote of the city council of said city, subject to the pro-
visions of its charter; provided, that such acceptance occurs
during the current year. Approved February 20, 1929.

Chap. 57 An Act authorizing the acceptance op certain pro-
visions OF LAW RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN TOWNS BY THE TOWN OF NATICK
BY THE USE OF THE OFFICIAL BALLOT.

Town of Natick
may place upon
official ballot
question of ac-
ceptance of cer-
tain provisions
of law relative
to establish-
ment of police
departments
in towns.

Be it enacted; etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Natick is hereby authorized
to place upon the official ballot to be used for the election of
town officers at any annual town election the following
question: — "Shall the town of Natick accept the provisions
of section ninety-seven of chapter forty-one of the General
Laws relative to the establishment of police departments in
towns?" If a majority of the votes cast in answer to said

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 58, 59. 65

question are in the affirmative, said provisions shall there-
upon become effective in said town, but not otherwise.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 20, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of marblehead to make QJiqj) 53

AN additional SEWERAGE LOAN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of completing and extend- TownofMarbie-

, f-i'i r J. head may make

mg its system 01 mam drams and common sewers lor a part an additional
or the whole of its territory, with such connections and other ^^^^erage loan.
works as may be required for a system of sewage disposal,
and of exercising any power or authority relative to the
taking by purchase or otherwise of land, water rights and
easements, or any other right or authority conferred by
chapter three hundred and nine of the Special Acts of nine-
teen hundred and sixteen or by chapter eighty-three of the
General Laws, the town of Marblehead may, from time to
time, borrow, in addition to any sum or sums heretofore
authorized, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding
in the aggregate one hundred thousand dollars, and may
issue bonds or notes therefor which shall bear on their face
the words, Marblehead Sewerage Loan, Act of 1929. Each Marblehead
authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such AtTo?f929.°^°'
loans shall be payable within fifteen years from their re-
spective dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this
act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per
cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same purposes
to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized.
Indebtedness incurred hereunder shall be in excess of the
statutory limit, but shall, except as herein provided, be
subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive
of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of section
seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. Said town may, at any annual or special May authorize
town meeting or at any adjourned session thereof, by vote nwney'not-
in accordance with the articles for the warrant for said ^Ygt'istandmg,
meeting, authorize the borrowing of money under the pro-
visions of this act, and such authorization shall be fully
effective, notwithstanding that the warrant for said meet-
ing was served prior to the passage of this act.

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

Approved February 21, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of brookline to erect QJidj) 59

A BUILDING FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES ON LONG WOOD PLAY-
GROUND, SO-CALLED.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Brookline may erect a building Town of Brook-
for school purposes on that part of a playground therein a'buihiuirfor*^

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 60, 61, 62.

»o-called
Boundaries

school purposes known ES the Longwood playground and dedicated to the

on LongwooQ ^ »^ -^ ^. , . , , , en

playground, usc 01 the pubhc as 9. park, which is bounded as lollows: —
southerly by Francis street, eighty feet; easterly by other
land of said town known as the Lawrence school lot, two
hundred and twenty feet; northerly and westerly by the
remaining land of said playground, eighty feet and two
hundred and twenty feet, respectively, containing seven-
teen thousand six hundred square feet.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 21, 1929.

Chap. 60 ^^ ^^'^ VALIDATING THE ISSUE BY THE TOWN OF SPENCER
OF CERTAIN BONDS FOR WATER PURPOSES.

Issue by town
of Spencer of
certain bonds
for water pur-
poses vali-
dated.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The issue by the town of Spencer under
chapter forty-seven of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred
and seventeen of bonds for water purposes to the amount
of thirty-three thousand dollars, in accordance with a vote
of the town passed at a meeting held on August twelfth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, in so far as such issue
may be illegal by reason of the fact that such vote purported
to authorize the issue of bonds in excess of the amount
permitted by said chapter, is hereby made legal.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 21, 1929.

Chap. 61 An Act relative to facsimile signatures of registers

OF DEEDS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter thirty-six of the General Laws is hereby amended
by striking out section nineteen and inserting in place thereof
the following: — Section 19. A facsimile of the signature of
any register, imprinted by him, by an assistant register or
by such office assistant as the register in writing may desig-
nate, upon any original instrument in attestation of the
fact that the same has been recorded in his registry or upon
any copy of the records or plans which the register is au-
thorized by law to certify or attest as a true copy, shall
have the same validity as his written signature.

Approved February 21, 1929.

G. L. 36, § 19,
amended.

Facsimile sig-
natures of
registers of
deeds to have
same validity
as written
signatures.

Chap. 62 An Act authorizing the trustees of the Bristol county

agricultural school to PROVIDE A DOMESTIC WATER
SUPPLY FOR SAID SCHOOL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The trustees of the Bristol county agricul-
tural school may expend a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars to provide wells, pipe lines, pump house and pumping
equipment, power line and other essentials to a complete
water system for said school.

Trustees of
Bristol county
agricultural
school may
expend a cer-
tain sum to
provide a
domestic water
supply for
said school.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 63, 64. 67

Section 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the county
commissioners of said county may borrow from time to time,
on the credit of the county, such sums as may be necessary,
not exceeding, in the aggregate, five thousand dollars, and
may issue bonds or notes of the county therefor, which
shall bear on their face the words, Bristol County Agricul- AgHcuiSirar*^
tural School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall Schoo" Loan,
constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable ^''^ °* *^^^-
in not more than three years from their dates. Such bonds
or notes shall be signed by the treasurer of said county and
countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners.
The county may sell such securities at public or private sale,
and the proceeds shall be used only for the purposes specified
in this act. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall,
except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five
of the General Laws.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance submission to
during the current year by said county commissioners. mi'^si^oners'"'

Approved February 21, 1929.

An Act relative to granting one day off in every (Jhap. 63

EIGHT DAYS TO POLICE OFFICERS IN THE TOWN OF BRAIN-
TREE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The provisions of section sixteen of chapter one hundred ^i^-ons^o^Taw
and forty-seven of the General Laws and the pertinent pro- relative to
visions of section seventeen of said chapter, relative to ex- laToffln "*
cusing police officers from duty for one day out of every ^ay/to police
eight days without loss of pay, shall apply in the town of offic'ers to apply
Braintree, upon acceptance of this act by vote of its select- Braint?ee upon
men prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirty; acceptance, etc.
and, for the purpose of such acceptance, this act shall take
effect upon its passage. Approved February 21, 1929.

An Act authorizing the county of Bristol to borrow (JJia/n. 64

MONEY for the PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A SEWER
BED AT THE BRISTOL COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The county commissioners of the county of ^^j®*°^*'end*a
Bristol, acting as the trustees of the Bristol county tubercu- certain sum for
losis hospital, may expend a sum not exceeding twenty-five tk)n''o"a*^8ewer
thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a sewer bed fe^f t^ipount
at said hospital, in accordance with plans approved by the tuberculosis
state department of public health. hospital.

Section 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the said county May borrow
commissioners may borrow money on the credit of the no°tesfetc'"°
county and issue notes of the county therefor to an amount
not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. Such notes
shall be payable by such annual payments beginning not
more than one year from the date thereof as will extinguish
each loan within five years from its date. The amount of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 65.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc.

such annual payment in any year shall not be less than the
amount of the principal of the loan payable in any subse-
quent year. The notes shall be signed by the county
treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the county
commissioners. Each authorized issue shall constitute a
separate loan. All sums necessary to meet interest pay-
ments on said notes and payments on account of principal
as the same mature shall be assessed upon the towns and
cities of said county that constitute the hospital district, in
accordance with section eighty-five of chapter one hundred
and eleven of the General Laws.

Section 3. This act shall take full effect upon its ac-
ceptance, during the current year, by the county commis-
sioners of said county, but not otherwise. For the purposes
of such acceptance only, it shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 21, 1929.

Bay State Life
Insurance Com-
pany incor-
porated.

Chap. 65 An Act to incorporate the bay state life insurance

COMPANY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Edward M. Hamhn, Charles B. Strout,
William K. Beane, Forris W. Norris, Roscoe Walsworth,
Herbert S. Mabey, Charles H. Bucek, Joshua Harron,
Walter E. McLane and Nicholas DuVally, their associates
and successors, are hereby created a corporation under the
name of Bay State Life Insurance Company, to be situated
in the city of Boston, for the transaction of life and endow-
ment insurance, the sale of annuities, and for insuring
against the sickness and the bodily injury or death of the
insured by accident; with all the rights, powers and privi-
leges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restric-
tions set forth in all general laws, now or hereafter in force,
applicable to domestic stock life insurance companies, so far
as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
act.

Section 2. The board of directors shall consist of not
less than fifteen members, who shall be chosen by ballot
from the stockholders, and a majority of whom shall be
residents of the commonwealth. Not less than eight shall
constitute a quorum to do business, although a less number
may adjourn from time to time. The number of directors
and the number constituting a quorum may be increased
or diminished within the said limits at any annual or special
meeting of the stockholders. The directors shall have power
to choose from their number an executive committee of not
less than seven, which may exercise all the powers of the board
of directors whenever the board shall not be in session, and
also all powers expressly conferred upon it by the by-laws.
The corporation may determine by its by-laws the manner
of calling and conducting all meetings, and the mode of
voting by proxy. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one
vote for every share of capital stock owned by him.

Board of direc-
tors, members,
election, etc.

Quorum.

Executive
committee.

Voting by
proxy.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 66. 69

Section 3. The capital stock of the corporation shall be Capital stock.
four hundred thousand dollars, divided into twenty thou-
sand shares of the par value of twenty dollars each. The
capital stock together with a surplus of not less than six
hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in, in cash, within
two years after the date of the passage of this act; and no
certificates of shares and no policies shall be issued until
the whole capital stock and surplus are so paid in.

Approved February 21, 1929.

An Act relative to the financing of the essex county (JJmy QQ

TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows. •

Section 1. The county commissioners of the county of ^eeds mi"^*be
Essex may apply, toward the reduction of the existing in- applied toward
debtedness, including interest, of said county incurred on [ndebteXefs
account of the hospital constructed in said county for the |j"p"[,n^J'f"
care of persons suffering from tuberculosis, the net proceeds Essex county
derived from the sale or disposition by them of property Lospitr/"^'^
under authority of section five of chapter four hundred and
forty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four
and the proceeds of assessments heretofore credited under
section six of said chapter but not paid.

Section 2. Said county commissioners shall thereafter Balance of in-
apportion the remaining balance of such indebtedness to the be'^a'ppor'tToned
cities and towns in said county, except the cities of Haver- to cities and

• towns in

hill, Lawrence, Lynn, Newburyport and Salem, in accord- county,
ance with their latest valuation used in assessing the county ^'"^''p*" ^^'^■
taxes; and each of such cities and towns shall pay the sum
so apportioned to it into the treasury of said county at such
time and in such instalments as the said county commissioners
shall by special order direct. The county commissioners Remedies for
shall have the remedies for the collection of sums so ap- '^o''^'^*'""- ^*''-
portioned, and the several cities and towns shall have the
right to incur indebtedness to provide funds for the pay-
ment thereof, provided in sections eighty-three and eighty-
four, respectively, of chapter one hundred and eleven of the
General Laws. Any city or town which neglects or refuses Procedure in
to pay its assessment shall pay, and the county commis- town'^n^rects,
sioners may collect, interest thereon as and for money due etc., to pay, etc.
the county under section twenty-four of chapter thirty-five
of the General Laws. The county commissioners may issue Temporary
temporary notes in anticipation of the payment of such re°newareTc.
assessment and may renew such notes or any portion thereof
from time to time, until such assessment shall have been paid.

Section 3. All sums hereafter received by said county Apportionment
commissioners as dividends on account of moneys deposited ll ci'tTesTnd
to the credit of David L Robinson, treasurer, Essex county, towns in
special account in the Tremont Trust Company shall be et"." ^' ^""^^^ '
apportioned and paid to the cities and towns in said county,
except said cities of Haverhill, Lawrence, Lynn, Newbury-
port and Salem, in accordance with their latest valuation

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 67, 68.

used in assessing the county taxes. Losses on account of
said deposit shall be deemed a part of the cost of construc-
tion of said hospital.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance during the current year by the county commissioners
of said county. Approved February 21, 1929.

Chap. 67 An Act reviving richards & cc, incorporated.

Submission to
county com-
missioners.

Emergency
preamble.

Richards & Co

Incorporated,

revived.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Richards & Co., Incorporated, a corporation
dissolved by section one of chapter two hundred and thirty-
eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is
hereby revived with the same powers, duties and obligations
as if said chapter had not been passed.
When operative. Section 2. This act shall bc operative as of March
thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

Approved February 23, 1929.

Chap.

Town of Dan-
vers may main-
tain a public
hospital for the
use of the
inhabitants
of said town.

Board of trus-
tees, election,
terms, etc.

Vacancies.

Submission
to voters
of town, etc.

68 An Act authorizing the town of danvers to maintain
A public hospital for the use of the inhabitants of

SAID TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Danvers may maintain a public
hospital for the use of the inhabitants of said town and
others who may be admitted thereto who may require
medical or surgical treatment, and may appropriate money
for the maintenance of said hospital.

Section 2. Said town shall, within sixty days from the
effective date of this act, elect at an annual or special elec-
tion a board consisting of seven trustees to manage said
hospital, who shall hold office, three until the expiration of
three years, two until the expiration of two years, and two
until the expiration of one year, from the date of the first
annual election following said effective date. Thereafter,
as the terms of office expire, the town shall annually elect
such number of trustees for terms of three years each as is
necessary to fill any vacancies. Any vacancy in said board,
other than by the expiration of term of office, shall be filled
by appointment by the board of selectmen and the re-
maining trustees for the residue of the term.

Section .3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
by a majority of the registered voters of the town present
and voting thereon at any town meeting called for the
purpose within three years from its passage, but, for the
purpose of such acceptance, it shall take effect upon its
passage. Approved February 25, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 69, 70. 71

An Act subjecting the office of superintendent of QJiav, 69

PUBLIC buildings AND INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS IN THE
CITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The office of superintendent of public build- [^fgn^dent"?^''"
ings and inspector of buildings in the city of Cambridge public buUd-
shall, upon the effective date of this act, become subject to Inspector of
the civil service laws and rules and regulations, and the term gi"'''||"5am-
of office of any incumbent thereof shall be unlimited, except bridge subject
that he may be removed in accordance with such laws servVceiaws.
and rules and regulations; but the person holding said office
on said effective date may continue therein without taking
a civil service examination.

Section 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance Submission
to the registered voters of the city of Cambridge at its city ^° ^°*''"' ^^'^^
election in the current year in the form of the following
question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be
used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general
court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, en-
titled 'An Act subjecting the office of superintendent of
public buildings and inspector of buildings in the city of
Cambridge to the civil service laws', be accepted?" If a
majority of the voters voting thereon vote in the affirmative
in answer to said question, this act shall thereupon take
effect, but not otherwise. Approved February 25, 1929.

An Act relative to non-compliance by registered Chav. 70

DENTISTS WITH PROVISIONS OF LAW REQUIRING THEIR
ANNUAL LICENSING AND WITH CERTAIN OTHER PROVISIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section forty-four of chapter one hundred and twelve of *i- ^- ^^^' j !*•

etc ftHlGnClGCl.

the General Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and
forty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
seven, is hereby further amended by striking out the third
sentence, — so as to read as follows: — Section 44- Every Registered
registered dentist when he begins practice, either by himself notify*board of
or associated with or in the employ of another, shall forth- dental examin-
with notify the board of his office address or addresses, and address.
every registered dentist practicing as aforesaid shall an- Annual license
nually, before April first, pay to the board a license fee of ^^®"
two dollars. Every registered dentist shall also promptly to notify
notify the board of any change in his office address or ad- ci°ange°in office
dresses and shall furnish such other information as the address, etc.
board may require. The board shall publish annually com- Board to pub-
plete lists of the names and office addresses of all dentists I'sh annual hsta.
registered and practicing in the commonwealth, arranged
alphabetically by name and also by the towns where their
offices are situated. Every registered dentist shall exhibit Exhibit of^uii
his full name in plain readable letters in each office or room ^^'^^^
where his business is transacted.

Approved February 25, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 71, 72, 73.

Certain nom-
inations of town
officers in cur-
rent year in
town of Brain-
tree validated.

Chap. 71 An Act validating certain nominations of town of-
ficers IN THE CURRENT YEAR IN THE TOWN OF BRAIN-
TREE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. All nominations of candidates for town
offices to be filled at the annual town meeting of the town
of Braintree in the current year made by nomination papers
filed with and accepted by the town clerk of said town on or
before February twenty-first in said year, in so far as such
nominations are invalid by reason of being submitted to
the registrars, for the purpose of having the signatures
thereon certified, after the time prescribed by section seven
of chapter fifty-three of the General Laws, as most recently
amended by chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, are hereby made
valid.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 25, 1929.

Chav. 72 An Act relative to the election of selectmen in the

TOWN of BROOKFIELD.

Certain action
of town of
Brookfield
relative to
election of
selectmen
validated.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The action of the town of Brookfield taken
at its special town meeting held on January twenty-fifth of
the current year, whereby it purported to vote, under article
three of the warrant for said special town meeting, to elect
at its annual town meeting in the current year three select-
men, and at its annual town meeting to be held in the year
nineteen hundred and thirty to elect four selectmen, and
thereafter at its annual town meetings to elect five select-
men, each to hold office for the term of one year, is hereby
confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if said vote
had conformed to said article; and on and after the date
of the annual meeting of said town to be held in the current
year said board of selectmen shall consist of five members
until otherwise provided.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 25, 1929.

Chap. 73 An Act authorizing the city of Cambridge to borrow

MONEY for the ERECTION OF AN ADDITION TO THE CAM-
BRIDGE CITY HOSPITAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of erecting an addition to
the Cambridge city hospital which increases the floor space
of such building, including the cost of original equipment and
furnishing of such addition, the city of Cambridge may
borrow, from time to time within a period of five years from

City of Cam-
bridge may
borrow money
for the erection
of an addition
to the Cam-
bridge city
hospital.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 74. 73

the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not
exceeding in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars,
and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Cambridge City Hospital Loan, Act of Cambridge
1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate Lo!7n. Act"*^^
loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen °^^^-^-
years from their dates, but no issue shall be authorized
under this act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than
ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same
purpose to be raised in the tax levy of the year when au-
thorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be
in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except as provided
herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws,
exclusive of the limitation contained in the first paragraph
of section seven thereof as revised by chapter three hundred
and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 26, 1929.

An Act increasing the amount that the city of cam- phr,q-, <ia

BRIDGE MAY BORROW FOR THE WIDENING AND CONSTRUC- ^'

TION OF MAIN STREET AND BROADWAY IN THE CITY OF
CAMBRIDGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of meeting the expenses in- cityofcam-
curred under chapter two hundred and fifty-four of the acts bolTow^n*'
of nineteen hundred and twenty-five for the widening and additional
construction of Main street and Broadway in the city of wddln^niTud
Cambridge, including judgments on account of land dam- MafnXeeT °^
ages awarded on account of said widening, the city of Cam- ?nci Broadway
bridge may borrow, in addition to the amount authorized ^''^''"^'''^y-
by said chapter two hundred and fifty-four, such sums as
may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate one hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or
notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words.
Main Street and Broadway Widening Loan, Act of 1929. Main street
Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and widening'^LSi^.
such loans shall be paid in not more than ten years from ^^t of 1929.
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit, but shall, except as herein provided, be
subject to the provisions of chapter forty-four of the Gen-
eral Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the first
paragraph of section seven thereof as revised by chapter three
hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 26, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 75, 76, 77.

Chap. 75 An Act relative to the powers of the trustees of the

MINISTERIAL FUND OF THE BAPTIST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
IN HAVERHILL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ten of the acts of eighteen hundred and twenty-
three, being an act approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred
and twenty-three and entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Trustees of the Ministerial Fund of the Baptist Religious
Society in Haverhill", is hereby amended by striking out
section four and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Sec. 4- Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees and
their successors be and they are hereby empowered to take,
receive and hold all lands, goods, monies or securities or the
interest or income of them, which have been or may here-
after be given, contributed, devised or bequeathed to them
or to the said Baptist Religious Society in Haverhill, for the
support of the Gospel ministry in said Society, or for any
other laudable or pious uses connected with said Society:
Provided, that the annual income of their funds shall never
exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars; and said Trustees
and their successors or the major part of them shall have
power to sell and convey all such real estate as they may
become seized of, when duly authorized by said Society, at
a legal meeting warned for that purpose.

Approved February 26, 1929.

1823, 10, § 4,
amended.

Powers of the
Trustees of the
Ministerial
Fund of the
Baptist Reli-
gious Society
in Haverhill.

Proviso.

Chap. 76 An Act relative to the powers of railroad corpora-
tions IN RESPECT TO THE SECURITIES OF CERTAIN EXPRESS
COMPANIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and sixty of the General Laws, as
amended in section seventy by section two of chapter one
hundred and twenty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section seventy and inserting in place thereof the fol-
lowing:— Section 70. A railroad corporation may acquire,
mvest in securi- hold, votc, scll and negotiate the stock and securities of
companierand terminal companies organized under the laws of the com-
compan^es"^^^^ monwcalth, and of express companies operating in whole or
in part on its lines, and may guarantee the bonds of such
companies. Approved February 26, 1929.

G. L. 160, § 70,
etc., amended.

Railroad cor-
porations may

Chap. 77 An Act authorizing the appointment of health officers

BY unions of two OR MORE TOWNS.

G. L. Ill, new

section after
§27.

Appointment
of he.alth
officers by

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws is
hereby amended by inserting after section twenty-seven the
following new section : — Section 27 A . Two or more towns
may, by vote of each, form a district for the purpose of

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 78, 79. 75

employing a health officer therein who shall annually be unions of two
appointed by a joint committee composed of the chairman ^™°'"®
and secretary of the board of health of each of the said towns
and shall perform such duties as said joint committee may
prescribe. The committee shall determine the relative Salary, etc.
amount of service to be performed by him in each town, fix
his salary, apportion the amount thereof to be paid by each
town and certify the same to each town treasurer. Such a
health officer insofar as his duties in a given town are con-
cerned shall be the employee of and responsible to the regu-
larly constituted board of health of said town. This section Not applicable
shall not apply to the county of Barnstable. coJSy"^'"'''^

Approved February 28, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of concord to contract nhrj.^ 70

TO PAY CERTAIN SUMS OF MONEY TO THE CONCORD FREE ^'
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Concord may contract to pay TownofCon-
annually to the Concord Free Public Library, during the conlrSo
lives of the widow and daughter of Loring N. Fowler, late pay certain
of said Concord, and the survivor of them, an amount equal toThe'c^cord
to the interest, at a rate not exceeding four per cent per £[brary.'^'"'
annum, upon such sums, not exceeding thirty thousand
dollars in the aggregate, as may be expended by said Library
for the purchase of land in that part of said town known as
West Concord and the erection thereon of a building for use
as a branch library thereof; provided, that the inhabitants Proviso.
of said town have free access to and use of said branch li-
brary.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 1, 1929.

Chap. 79

An Act relative to the placing underground of wires

AND electrical APPLIANCES IN THE CITY OF EVERETT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and fifty-three of the 1915 (S) 253,
Special Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen is hereby ^ '^' a^iended.
amended by striking out section two and inserting in place
thereof the following : — Section 2. The provisions of this The placing
act shall apply to the following streets or parts of streets: — wTrll'^fnd'"'^ °^
Broadway from the Boston line to the Maiden line; Ferry electrical
street from Chelsea street to the Maiden line ; Chelsea street ci^ty oTIfverett
from Broadway to Everett avenue; Church street from certei^' streets
Broadway to Linden street. All the overhead wires, cables,
conductors, poles and structures in that part of Broadway
above specified, except such as are hereinafter excepted, shall
be removed or placed underground prior to the first day of
January, nineteen hundred and thirty-five; and all the over-
head wires, cables, conductors, poles and structures in those
parts of Ferry, Chelsea and Church streets above specified,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 79.

Proviso.

1915 (S) 253,
§ 3, amended.

Dutie.s of
owners or users
of overhead
wires, etc.

except such as are hereinafter excepted, shall be removed or
placed underground prior to the first day of January, nine-
teen hundred and thirty-seven; provided, that such permits
as are necessary are granted in due season, so that the work
may be completed within the time aforesaid; it being the
purpose of this act to cause the removal from the parts of
streets above named of all wires, cables, conductors, poles
and structures, except those hereinafter excepted, within
the periods above specified. And it shall be the duty of said
officer or officers to see that the same are so removed. But
any company or person subject to the provisions of this act
may petition the department of public utilities for the ex-
emption from the provisions of this act of any wires, cables,
conductors, poles and structures, or for any extension or
extensions of time for compliance with said provisions. And
said department may grant any such exemption or extension
which it deems reasonable; and any exemptions or exten-
sions granted by said department, by an order passed after
notice to the mayor and aldermen of the said city, who shall
be entitled to be heard, and a public hearing, shall have the
same force and effect as if specially provided for herein.

Section 2. Section three of said chapter two hundred
and fifty-three is hereby amended by striking out, in the
fifth line, the word "twenty-one" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — thirty-five, — by striking out, in the
thirteenth line, the words "that part of Ferry street" and
inserting in place thereof the words: — those parts of Ferry,
Chelsea and Church streets, — by striking out, in the four-
teenth and fifteenth lines, the word "twenty-three" and
inserting in place thereof the word: — thirty-seven, — and
by striking out, in the sixteenth and seventeenth lines, the
words "that part of said Ferry street" and inserting in place
thereof the words: — those parts of said Ferry, Chelsea and
Church streets, — so as to read as follows: — Section 3.
Every owner or user of overhead wires, cables or conductors,
and of poles and other structures for the support thereof,
in that part of Broadway specified in section two, shall,
prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
thirty-five, construct the underground conduits, ducts and
manholes which it shall desire to use in that part of said
Broadway, and remove therefrom its overhead wires, cables
and conductors and any poles or other structures used for
the support thereof, except such as may be exempted under
the provisions of this act; and every owner or user of over-
head wires, cables or conductors and of poles and other
structures for the support thereof, in those parts of Ferry,
Chelsea and Church streets specified in section two, shall,
prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
thirty-seven, construct the underground conduits, ducts
and manholes which it shall desire to use in those parts of
said Ferry, Chelsea and Church streets, and remove there-
from its overhead wires, cables and conductors and any
poles or other structures used for the support thereof, except

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80. 77

such as may be exempted under the provisions of this act;
and upon the removal from overhead of such wires, cables
or conductors, the owners or users thereof may place the
same and any other necessary wires, cables or conductors
or any extensions thereof in such underground conduits. It
shall be the duty of the officer or officers provided for in
section one to see that the requirements of this section are
complied with.

Section 3. Said chapter two hundred and fifty-three is i9i5 (S) 253,
hereby further amended by striking out section seven and ^ ^' '""^"«^«'^-
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 7. Except Exemptions.
as herein otherwise provided, this act shall not apply to
posts for the support of lamps exclusively, or to poles used
exclusively for local distribution from underground wires,
cables or conductors, or to street railway trolley, feeder, guard
and span wires or to poles for the support of the same; nor
shall it revoke or affect any rights already granted to any
person, firm or corporation to place or maintain any conduits,
pipes, wires, cables or conductors underground; but any
such conduits, pipes, wires, cables or conductors, laid here-
after in pursuance of any such grant, shall be laid subject
to the provisions of this act so far as they are not incon-
sistent with the terms of such grant.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 8, 1929.

An Act to establish harbor lines in the acushnet Q}iqj) §q

RIVER and FAIRHAVEN AND NEW BEDFORD HARBORS. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The harbor lines in the Acushnet river and ^"'^^cygj^^et"
Fairhaven and New Bedford harbors are hereby changed riverand
and established as follows: The location of each angle in N^ew Bedford'*
the lines hereinafter described is fixed by a distance herein- g^Yabiisiaed
after called longitude in feet, from a meridian passing ®* *
through a point called "Mark 1" located by the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey and known as "New
Bedford Fort" north latitude forty-one degrees, thirty-seven
minutes, twenty-seven and sixty-six thousandths seconds,
and west longitude seventy degrees, fifty-four minutes, ten
and four hundred nine thousandths seconds, and by a dis-
tance hereinafter called latitude, in feet, from a line at right
angles to said meridian and passing through said point and
the bearings refer to the true meridian passing through
said point.

Beginning at point A in latitude six hundred fifty-one
and seventy-one one hundredths feet north and longitude
eight hundred sixty and thirty-seven one hundredths feet
west, said point A being north fifty-two degrees, fifty-one
minutes, twenty-five seconds west, true bearing, one thou-
sand seventy-nine and thirty-three one hundredths feet
from above described Mark 1; thence north one degree,
fifty minutes, seven seconds west, true bearing, one thou-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80.

Harbor lines in
the Acushnet
river and
Fairhaven and
New Bedford
harbors,
established.

sand eight hundred twenty feet to point B in latitude,
two thousand four hundred seventy and seventy-seven one
hundredths feet north and longitude nine hundred eighteen
and sixty-five one hundredths feet west, said point B be-
ing located north twenty-two degrees, thirty-four minutes,
thirty seconds west, true bearing, six hundred and fifty-one
one hundredths feet from Mark 2 on the southwesterly cor-
ner of Atlas Tack Company's wharf in Fairhaven; thence
north forty-six degrees, ten minutes, forty-five seconds west,
true bearing, one thousand one hundred seventy-two and
sixty-seven one hundredths feet to point C in latitude
three thousand two hundred eighty-two and seventy-three
one hundredths feet north and longitude one thousand seven
hundred sixty-four and seventy-four one hundredths feet
west, said point C being located south sixty-eight degrees,
fourteen minutes, fifty-six seconds west, true bearing, two
hundred eighty-six and eighty-five one hundredths feet
from Mark 3 on the northwesterly corner of Central wharf
in Fairhaven; thence north three degrees, fifty-three sec-
onds west, true bearing, nine hundred seventy-six and forty-
five one hundredths feet to point D in latitude four thousand
two hundred fifty-seven and eighty-three one hundredths
feet north and longitude one thousand eight hundred six-
teen and one tenth feet west, said point D being located
north twenty degrees, fifteen minutes, ten seconds west,
true bearing, one hundred fifty-one and thirteen one hun-
dredths feet from Mark 4 on the southwesterly corner of
Old South wharf in Fairhaven; thence north, thirty-six
degrees, thirty minutes, thirty seconds east, true bearing,
six hundred thirty-five and eight one hundredths feet to
point E in latitude four thousand seven hundred sixty-eight
and twenty-nine one hundredths feet north and longitude
one thousand four hundred thirty-eight and twenty-six one
hundredths feet west, said point E being located north
seventy-five degrees, forty-one minutes, forty-six seconds
west, true bearing, three hundred sixty-eight and sixty-one
one hundredths feet from a stone monument at the south-
east corner of Washington street and Water street in Fair-
haven; thence north twelve degrees, ten minutes, fifty-seven
seconds west, true bearing, one thousand seven hundred
eighteen and nine tenths feet to point F in latitude six
thousand four hundred forty-eight and forty-eight one hun-
dredths feet north and longitude one thousand eight hun-
dred one feet west, said point F being located north twenty-
two degrees, six minutes, twenty-five seconds west, true
bearing, thirty-three and fifty-four one hundredths feet
from Mark 5 on the southerly side of the New Bedford and
Fairhaven bridge near the Fairhaven end; thence north
forty-six degrees, sixteen minutes, forty-one seconds west,
true bearing, three thousand four hundred six and thirty-
seven one hundredths feet to point G in latitude eight
thousand eight hundred two and eighty-two one hundredths
feet north and longitude four thousand two hundred sixty-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80. 79

two and seventy-eight one hundredths feet west, said point Harbor lines in
G being located south twelve degrees, twenty minutes, Hve^and""**
fortj^-one seconds west, true bearing, one thousand and five Fairhaven and
one hundredths feet from Mark 6 on Marsh island so-called h^rl^r!^^''"^
in Fairhaven; thence north, ten degrees, twenty-three established,
minutes, fifty-three seconds west, true bearing, one thousand
two hundred sixteen and ninety-two one hundredths feet
to point H in latitude nine thousand nine hundred ninety-
nine and seventy-six one hundredths feet north and longi-
tude four thousand four hundred eighty-two and forty-two
one hundredths feet west, said point H being located north
sixty-three degrees, five minutes, sixteen seconds west,
true bearing, four hundred eighty-six and eight one hun-
dredths feet from Mark 6 on Marsh island in Fairhaven;
thence north twenty-four degrees east, true bearing, eighteen
hundred feet to point I in latitude eleven thousand six
hundred forty-four and fourteen one hundredths feet north
and longitude three thousand seven hundred fifty and
twenty-nine one hundredths feet west, said point I being
located south fourteen degrees, seven minutes, twenty-nine
seconds west, true bearing, nine and ninety-eight one hun-
dredths feet from Mark 7 on the southerly side of Coggeshall
street bridge near the Fairhaven end; thence north two
degrees, four minutes, thirty-nine seconds east, true bearing,
two thousand seventy-seven and twenty-eight one hun-
dredths feet to point J in latitude thirteen thousand seven
hundred twenty and five one hundredths feet north and
longitude three thousand six hundred seventy-four and
ninety-nine one hundredths feet west, said point J being
located north fifty-four degrees, thirty-nine minutes, seven-
teen seconds west, true bearing, eight hundred sixty-four
and twenty-eight one hundredths feet from Mark 8 near the
westerly end of Veranda street in Fairhaven; thence north
eleven degrees, thirty-two minutes, twenty seconds west,
true bearing, two thousand eight hundred twenty-five and
twenty-two one hundredths feet to point K in latitude
sixteen thousand four hundred eighty-eight and seventeen
one hundredths feet north and longitude four thousand two
hundred forty and thirteen one hundredths feet west, said
point K being located north seventy degrees, thirty-six
minutes, twenty-two seconds west, true bearing, five hun-
dred ninety-two and thirty-three one hundredths feet from
Mark 9, the above described point K being the northerly
end of the harbor line hereby established in the easterly side
of Acushnet river.

Beginning at point L in latitude sixteen thousand four
hundred twenty-eight and sixteen one hundredths feet north
and longitude four thousand five hundred thirty-four and
seven one hundredths feet west, said point L being the most
northerly point of the harbor line hereby established on the
westerly side of Acushnet river, being located north four
degrees, twenty-one minutes, fifty-five seconds east, true
bearing, three hundred sixty-three and fifty-eight one hun-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80.

river and
Fairhaven and
New Bedford
harbors,
established.

the'Acus'hnet*" dredths feet from Mark 10 on the Manomet mill property;
thence south five degrees, twenty minutes, thirty-three
seconds east, true bearing, three thousand seven hundred
fifteen and three tenths feet to point M in latitude twelve
thousand seven hundred twenty-nine feet north and longi-
tude four thousand one hundred eighty-eight and fourteen
one hundredths feet west, said point M being located north
seventy-six degrees, forty-two minutes, fifty-seven seconds
east, true bearing, one thousand seven hundred thirteen and
forty-seven one hundredths feet from a stone monument at
the southeasterly corner of Belleville avenue and Sawyer
street in New Bedford; thence south thirty-four minutes,
two seconds west, true bearing, one thousand one hundred
forty-four and eighty-eight one hundredths feet to point
N in latitude eleven thousand five hundred eighty-four and
seventeen one hundredths feet north and longitude four
thousand one hundred ninety-nine and forty-eight one
hundredths feet west, said point N being located south two
degrees, thirty-two minutes, forty-nine seconds east, true
bearing, fifty-nine and forty-eight one hundredths feet from
Mark 11 on the Coggeshall street bridge near the New
Bedford end; thence south twenty-seven degrees, thirteen
minutes, eight seconds west, true bearing, one thousand
one hundred two and seven one hundredths feet to point 0
in latitude ten thousand six hundred four and fifteen one
hundredths feet north and longitude four thousand seven
hundred three and fifty-five one hundredths feet west, said
point 0 being located south twenty degrees, fifty-one minutes,
sixteen seconds east, true bearing, two hundred eighty-five
and seven one hundredths feet from Mark 12 at the easterly
end of Washburn street in New Bedford; thence south
twelve degrees, thirty-eight minutes, twenty seconds west,
true bearing, one thousand five hundred fifty-four and
ninety-seven one hundredths feet to point P in latitude nine
thousand eighty-six and eighty-six one hundredths feet
north and longitude five thousand forty-three and seventy-
nine one hundredths feet west, said point P being located
north eighty-two degrees, forty-one minutes, thirty seconds
east, true bearing, three hundred thirteen and eight one
hundredths feet from Mark 13 near the southeasterly corner
of Wamsutta wharf in New Bedford; thence south three
degrees, forty-six minutes, fifty seconds west, true bearing,
three thousand ninety-nine and thirty-eight one hundredths
feet to point Q in latitude five thousand nine hundred ninety-
four and twenty-three one hundredths feet north and
longitude five thousand two hundred forty-eight and fifteen
one hundredths feet west, said point Q being located north
seventy-five degrees, twenty minutes, thirty seconds east,
true bearing, six hundred twenty-six and forty-six one hun-
dredths feet from a stone monument, at the intersection of
the southerly line of Hillman street, extended easterly, and
the westerly line of North Water street extended northerly,
in New Bedford ; thence south three degrees, fifteen minutes,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80. 81

forty-four seconds east, true bearing, five hundred forty- Harbor lines in
seven and seventy-three one hundredths feet to point R rhfefand'"^*
in latitude five thousand four hundred forty-seven and Fairhaven a^d
thirty-eight one hundredths feet north and longitude five haTbors,
thousand two hundred sixteen and ninety-eight one hun- established.
dredths feet west, said point R being located south eighty-
one degrees, fifty-eight minutes, twenty seconds east, true
bearing, six hundred two and thirteen one hundredths feet
from a stone monument at the southwest corner of North
street and North Water street in New Bedford; thence
south fifteen degrees, twenty-one seconds east, true bear-
ing, four hundred fifty feet to point S in latitude five thousand
twelve and seventy-three one hundredths feet north and
longitude five thousand one hundred and forty-seven one
hundredths feet west, said point S being located north
seventy-seven degrees, twenty-eight minutes, twenty-one
seconds east, true bearing, fifteen and forty-four one hun-
dredths feet from Mark 14 on the southerly side of the
New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge near the New Bedford
end; thence south, nine degrees, thirty-seven minutes,
fifty-six seconds east, true bearing, four hundred eighty and
fifty-seven one hundredths feet to point T in latitude four
thousand five hundred thirty-eight and ninety-three one
hundredths feet north and longitude five thousand twenty
and six one hundredths feet west, said point T being located
south nineteen degrees, fourteen minutes, fifty-three seconds
east, true bearing, one hundred sixty-seven and eighty-two
one hundredths feet from Mark 15 near the southeasterly
corner of the Union street railway wharf in New Bedford;
thence south fifty-six degrees, nineteen minutes, twenty-six
seconds east, true bearing, eight hundred twenty-two and
sixty-four one hundredths feet to point U in latitude four
thousand eighty-two and seventy-eight one hundredths feet
north and longitude four thousand three hundred thirty-
five and forty-seven one hundredths feet west, said point U
being located south sixty-nine degrees, forty-four minutes,
twenty-four seconds east, true bearing, seventy-seven and
seventy-two one hundredths feet from Mark 16 near the
northwesterly corner of the state pier in New Bedford;
thence south fourteen degrees, three minutes, ten seconds
east, true bearing, six thousand five hundred ninety-three
feet to point V in latitude two thousand three hundred
twelve and ninety-one one hundredths feet south and longi-
tude two thousand seven hundred thirty-four and fifty-nine
one hundredths feet west, said point V being located north
forty-two degrees, fourteen minutes, thirty-one seconds east,
true bearing, two hundred fifty-one and sixty-one one hun-
dredths feet from Mark 17 on the easterly end of the Cove
street storm sewer, point V being the southerly end of the
harbor line hereby established on the easterly side of New
Bedford harbor.

Beginning at point CA in latitude four thousand one hun-
dred nine and forty-eight one hundredths feet north and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80.

the Acushnet
river and
Fairhaven and
New Bedford
harbors,
estabhahed.

the'^Acuslfnet'" loHgitude two thousand three hundred ninety-three and
forty-one one hundredths feet west, said point CA being
located south nineteen degrees, forty-eight minutes, thirty-
three seconds west, true bearing, four hundred twenty-two
and two tenths feet from Mark 18 on Crow island; thence
north forty-five degrees, nine minutes, five seconds east,
true bearing, five hundred four and seventeen one hun-
dredths feet to point CB in latitude four thousand four
hundred sixty-five and three one hundredths feet north and
longitude two thousand thirty-five and ninety-seven one
hundredths feet west; thence north five degrees, thirty-two
minutes, twelve seconds east, true bearing, five hundred
eight and seventy-nine one hundredths feet to point CC
in latitude four thousand nine hundred seventy-one and
forty-five one hundredths feet north and longitude one
thousand nine hundred eighty-six and eighty-eight one
hundredths feet west; thence north seventy-seven degrees,
twenty minutes, forty-eight seconds west, true bearing, three
hundred sixty and three tenths feet to point CD in latitude
five thousand fifty and thirty-seven one hundredths feet
north and longitude two thousand three hundred thirty-
eight and forty-three one hundredths feet west, said point
CD being located north nine degrees, twelve minutes, four-
teen seconds west, true bearing, five hundred fifty and
seventy-seven one hundredths feet from Mark 18 on Crow
island; thence south nineteen degrees, forty-nine minutes,
twelve seconds west, true bearing, one thousand forty feet
to point CE in latitude four thousand seventy-one and
ninety-eight one hundredths feet north and longitude two
thousand six hundred ninety-one and six one hundredths
feet west; thence north eightj^-two degrees, forty-nine
minutes, twelve seconds east, true bearing, three hundred
feet to point CA, the point of beginning.

Beginning at point PA in latitude five thousand nine
hundred sixty-three and three one hundredths feet north
and longitude two thousand two hundred twelve and sixty-
three one hundredths feet west, said point PA being located
south forty-one degrees, five minutes, ten seconds east,
true bearing, three hundred thirty-five and seventy-eight
one hundredths feet from Mark 19 on the southerly side of
the New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge near the east side of
Popes island; thence north thirty-six degrees, thirty-six
minutes, forty-one seconds west, true bearing, four hundred
feet to point PB in latitude six thousand two hundred
eighty-four and eleven one hundredths feet north and
longitude two thousand four hundred fifty-one and eighteen
one hundredths feet west, said point PB being located north
fourteen degrees, forty-four minutes, three seconds west,
true bearing, seventy and thirty-one one hundredths feet
from aforesaid M 19; thence north forty-six degrees, six-
teen minutes, forty-one seconds west, true bearing, one
thousand four hundred thirty-four and sixty-six one hun-
dredths feet to point PC in latitude seven thousand two

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80. 83

hundred seventy-five and sixty-nine one hundredths feet Harbor lines in
north and longitude three thousand four hundred eighty-eight nVe^and^"*^*^
and one one hundredth feet west, said point PC being lo- Nmv Bedford*^
cated north forty degrees, twenty-five minutes, five seconds harbors,
east, true bearing, nine hundred two and thirty-five one ^^^^bi'^^^ed.
hundredths feet from Mark 20 near the northerly end of
Popes island; thence south eighty-three degrees, forty-three
minutes, nineteen seconds west, true bearing, five hundred
ten and eighty-three one hundredths feet to point PD in
latitude seven thousand two hundred nineteen and eighty-
three one hundredths feet north and longitude three thou-
sand nine hundred ninety-five and seventy-eight one hun-
dredths feet west, said point PD being located north six
degrees, fifty-eight minutes, fifty-two seconds east, true
bearing, six hundred thirty-five and eighty-four one hun-
dredths feet from aforesaid Mark 20; thence south fifteen
degrees, thirty-four minutes, eight seconds west, true bear-
ing, one thousand ninety-two and eighty-seven one hun-
dredths feet to point PE in latitude, six thousand one hun-
dred sixty-seven and six one hundredths feet north and
longitude four thousand two hundred eighty-nine and one
tenth feet west, said point PE being located south twenty-
seven degrees, seven minutes, forty-seven seconds west,
true bearing, four hundred seventy-three and seventy-six
one hundredths feet from aforesaid Mark 20; thence south
forty-one degrees, fifty-six minutes, forty-one seconds east,
true bearing, one thousand thirty-seven and six tenths feet
to point PF in latitude five thousand three hundred ninety-
five and three tenths feet north and longitude three thousand
five hundred ninety-five and fifty-five one hundredths feet
west, said PF being located south forty-one degrees, ten
minutes, forty-seven seconds east, true bearing, three Iiuut
dred fifteen and two tenths feet from Mark 21 on the south-
erly side of the New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge near the
westerly side of Popes island; thence north sixty-seven
degrees, forty minutes, fifty seconds east, true bearing, one
thousand four hundred ninety-four and ninety-two one hun-
dredths feet to point PA the point of beginning.

Beginning at point FA in latitude four thousand seven
hundred thirty-nine and three one hundredths feet north
and longitude four thousand six hundred fifty and twenty-
two one hundredths feet west, said point FA being located
south sixteen degrees, thirty-seven minutes, twenty-three
seconds east, true bearing, one hundred fourteen and two
one hundredths feet from Mark 26 on the southeasterly
corner of the Standard Oil Company wharf on Fish island;
thence north twenty-eight degrees, fifty-five minutes,
twenty-three seconds east, true bearing, five hundred
seventy-three and thirty-four one hundredths feet to point
FB in latitude five thousand two hundred forty and eighty-
five one hundredths feet north and longitude four thousand
three hundred seventy-two and ninety-four one hundredths
feet west, said point FB being located south twenty-four

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 80.

Harbor lines in
the Acushnet
river and
Fairhaven and
New Bedford
harbors,
established.

degrees, twelve minutes, forty-one seconds east, true bear-
ing, one hundred four and sixty-one one hundredths feet
from Mark 22 on the southerly side of New Bedford and
Fairhaven bridge at the easterly side of Fish island; thence
north twenty degrees, four minutes, thirty-seven seconds
west, true bearing, six hundred forty-four and nineteen one
hundredths feet to point FC in latitude five thousand eight
hundred forty-five and eighty-nine one hundredths feet
north and longitude four thousand five hundred ninety-four
and eight one hundredths feet west, said point FC being
located north twenty-two degrees, thirty-two minutes,
forty-nine seconds east, true bearing, forty-six and forty-six
one hundredths feet from Mark 23 near the northeasterly
corner of John Duff's wharf on Fish island; thence south
sixty-nine degrees, twenty-nine minutes, seventeen seconds
west, true bearing, two hundred thirty-nine and one one
hundredth feet to point FD in latitude five thousand seven
hundred sixty-two and fourteen one hundredths feet north
and longitude four thousand eight hundred seventeen and
ninety-three one hundredths feet west, said point FD being
located north eighty degrees, forty-seven minutes, ten
seconds west, true bearing, seventy-three and twenty-three
one hundredths feet from Mark 24 near the northwesterly
corner of John Duff's wharf on Fish island; thence south
eleven degrees, three minutes, forty-one seconds west,
true bearing, seven hundred eighty-six and sixty-one one
hundredths feet to point FE in latitude four thousand nine
hundred ninety and fourteen one hundredths feet north and
longitude four thousand nine hundred sixty-eight and eighty-
five one hundredths feet west, said point FE being located
south thirty-eight degrees, thirty minutes, thirty-six seconds
west, true bearing, one hundred seventy-eight and fifty-two
one hundredths fe(>t from Mark 25 on the southerly side of
New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge near the westerly side
of Fish island; thence south four degrees, twelve minutes,
thirty-seven seconds east, true bearing, fifty-one and thirty-
nine one hundredths feet to point FF in latitude four
thousand nine hundred thirty-eight and eighty-nine one hun-
dredths feet north and longitude four thousand nine hun-
dred sixty-five and eight one hundredths feet west, said
point FF being located south twenty-nine degrees, twenty-
one minutes, nine seconds west, true bearing, two hundred
nineteen and seven one hundredths feet from Mark 25 above
described; thence south, twenty degrees, twenty minutes,
four seconds east, true bearing, one hundred thirty-one and
twenty-two one hundredths feet to point FG in latitude four
thousand eight hundred fifteen and eighty-four one hun-
dredths feet north and longitude four thousand nine hun-
dred nineteen and forty-eight one hundredths feet west,
said point FG being located south eleven degrees, seven
minutes, fifty-four seconds west, true bearing, three hun-
dred twenty and one one hundredth feet from Mark 25
above described; thence south seventy-four degrees, four

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 81, 82. 85

minutes, thirty-seven seconds east, true bearing, two hun-
dred eighty feet to point FA, the point of beginning.

Section 2. The harbor hues hereinbefore described are pian of harbor
shown on a plan filed in the office of the department of 'Jt"^* ""^ '^'^•
public works, entitled "Harbor Lines, Acushnet River,
Fairhaven and New Bedford Harbors, in Acushnet, Fair-
haven and New Bedford, Scale 1-4000. Jan. 1929. Francis
L. Sellew, Dist. Waterways Engineer, Ace. 0879."

Section 3. All harbor lines previously established in certain
Acushnet river. New Bedford and Fairhaven harbors, are ^Xwisife'd
hereby abolished. aboHshed"^^

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 8, 1929.

An Act to relieve certain municipal officers from (JJiQp^ g\

LIABILITY TO THEIR MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE LOSS OF
PUBLIC MONEYS BY REASON OF THE LIQUIDATION OF
CERTAIN DEPOSITORIES THEREOF.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty-four of the General Laws is hereby amended Skkin IVtir
by inserting after section fifty-five the following new sec- § 55.
tion : — Section 65 A . A city or town officer receiving public Certain
money and lawfully and in good faith and in the exercise of ™ffic"e'r8 Relieved
due care depositing the same in a savings bank or trust ['„°"^gji?'''''*^^
company organized under the laws of the commonwealth municipalities
or in a national bank doing business in the commonwealth p°ubilc*' moneys
shall not be personally liable to the city or town for any ^^^''if ^°j°/ion
loss of such mone}^ by reason of the closing up of such de- of certain
pository for the liquidation of its affairs. twif""''

Approved March 8, 1929.

An Act relative to the taking, possession or sale QJiap. 82

OF GREAT NORTHERN PIKE OR MUSCALLONGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws is g. l. no new
hereby amended by inserting after section sixty-two A, in- f62A"*
serted by chapter two hundred and twelve of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the following new
section: — Section 62B. No person shall take from the Taking, posses-
waters of this commonwealth, or sell, offer for sale, or have gr°eat°nor'the°rn
in possession a great northern pike or muscallonge so taken P'};sg°[|onge
between February fifteenth and May thirtieth following, regulated.
both dates inclusive, nor at any time take or have in pos-
session a great northern pike or muscallonge less than twenty
inches in length so taken unless taken by a person lawfully
fishing and immediately returned alive to the water whence
it was taken. Violation of any provision of this section Penalty,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more
than twenty-five dollars for each fish so taken, sold, offered
for sale or had in possession. Approved March 8, 1929.

Acts, 1929. -- Chaps. 83, 84, 85.

G. L. 131, § 58,
etc., amended.

ChaV. 83 ^^ ^*^'r PROVIDING for the protection OF CERTAIN ANIMALS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows. •

Section fifty-eight of chapter one hundred and thirty-one
of the General Laws, as amended by section three of chapter
ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, by chapter three hundred and thirty-four of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-five and by chapter two
hundred and twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
■ twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking out,
in the third hne, the word "quadruped" and inserting in
place thereof the word: — animal, — so as to read as fol-
lows:— Section 68. Whoever places poison in any form
whatsoever for the purpose of killing any animal shall be
punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more
than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less
than three months nor more than one year, or both; pro-
vided, that this section shall not prohibit any person from
placing in his orchard or in or near his house, barn or other
buildings poison for the purpose of destroying rats, wood-
chucks or other pests of like nature, or from placing with
like intent under the surface of his lands carbon disulphide
in any of its forms or any other poison applied in a manner
similar to that in which carbon disulphide is apphed. Pos-
session of the raw fur of any quadruped killed by poison,
except rats, woodchucks or other pests of like nature, shall
be prima facie evidence that the person having such pos-
session has violated this section.

Approved March 8, 1929.

Placing of
poison for
killing of
animals
prohibited.

Proviso.

Possession of
raw fur of
certain
quadrupeds
killed by
poison to be
prima facie
evidence of
violation.

ChaV 84 ^^ ^^'^ AUTHORIZING THE UNITED BANCROFT HOTEL COM-
PANY TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN A BUILDING UPON ITS
PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER TO A HEIGHT OF
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE FEET ABOVE TPIE STREET
GRADE.

United Ban-
croft Hotel
Company
may build and
maintain a
building upon
its property
in city of
Worcester to a
height of 155
feet above
street grade.

Chap. 85

G. L. 194, § 1,
amended.

Public

administrators,
appointment,
etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The United Bancroft Hotel Company may erect and/or
alter a building upon its land situated on Franklin, Portland
and Federal streets in the city of Worcester to a height of
one hundred and fifty-five feet above street grade, subject
otherwise to the building laws, rules and regulations ap-
plicable in said city. Approved March 8, 1929.

An Act providing for an additional public adminis-
trator IN THE county OF SUFFOLK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the
General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word
"Middlesex" in the second line the words: ^ — and in Suf-
folk, — so as to read as follows: — Section 1. There shall be
in each county one or more public administrators, not ex-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 86, 87. 87

ceeding six in Middlesex and in Suffolk or five in any other
county, appointed by the governor with the advice and
consent of the council, who shall hold office for five years
from the time of their appointment.

Approved March 8, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of hopkinton to borrow (Jhnj) c«

MONEY FOR WATER SUPPLY PURPOSES. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of enlarging and improving Town of
its water supply, the town of Hopkinton may borrow, from ,n°^''borr°ow
time to time within five years from the passage of this act, money for
such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the ag- purpoles^^^
gregate, sixty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or
notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words,
Hopkinton Water Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue Hopkinton
shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid ][^t^^n929'
in not more than twenty years from their dates. Indebted-
ness incurred hereunder shall be outside the statutory limit
of indebtedness, but shall, except as herein provided, be
subject to the provisions of chapter forty-four. General Laws.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 9, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of chicopee to borrow (JJid'j) §7
money for central heating plant, city hall and

LIBRARY purposes.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing a central chko°^
heating plant and remodelling its city hall and public library may borrow
buildings, the city of Chicopee may borrow, from time to Antral h'eating
time within a period of five years from the passage of this {^!^^"and'^^
act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the library
aggregate fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or p"''p°^^^-
notes therefor which shall bear on their face the words,
Chicopee Municipal Building Loan, Act of 1929. Each chicopee
authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such Bi^"dTnT'
loans shall be paid in not more than ten years from their ^"f"', ,9,9
dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless
a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of
such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred hereunder shall be within the statutory
limit and shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the
limitation contained in the first paragraph of section seven
thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and twenty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 9, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 88, 89, 90.

1924, 488, § 16,
par. (8)
amended.

Building
area pro-
visions not
applicable to
certain lots
under Boston
zoning law.

Chap. 88 An Act relative to the building area of certain lots

UNDER the boston ZONING LAW, SO-CALLED.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph (8) of section sixteen of chapter
four hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-four is hereby amended by striking out, in
the second and third Hnes of said paragraph, the words
"may be increased thirty per cent" and inserting in place
thereof the words: — provisions herein shall not apply, —
so as to read as follows: — (8) In a sixty-five foot or eighty
foot district on a lot where no yard is required the building
area provisions herein shall not apply.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 89 An Act authorizing la ligue' des patriotes to hold

REAL ESTATE AND CONFIRMING TITLE TO ITS PRESENT
HOLDINGS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The corporation known as La Ligue des
Patriotes located in the city of Fall River and incorporated
under general law, is hereby authorized to hold real estate
in said city to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
All of said property and the income derived therefrom shall
be used for the purposes of said corporation as set forth in
its charter or certificate of incorporation.

Section 2. The title of said corporation to all real estate
standing in its name on the effective date hereof, in so far
as it is affected by lack of statutory authority for the in-
vestment of funds of such corporations in real estate, is
hereby confirmed.

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

Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 90 An Act authorizing an increase in the number of

TRUSTEES of THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF
WORCESTER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The number of authorized trustees of The
Memorial Hospital in the city of Worcester, incorporated
under the name of Trustees of the Memorial Hospital by
chapter eighty-seven of the acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-one and whose name was changed to its present one
by chapter twelve of the acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety-one, may be increased to such number, not exceeding
twenty-one, as may be prescribed, from time to time, by the
by-laws of the corporation. Any additional trustees pro-
vided for by said by-laws shall be elected by vote of at least
two thirds of the then existing trustees.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 9, 1929.

La Ligue des
Patriotes may
hold real
estate to
certain
amount in
citv of
Fall River.

Title to
present
holdings
confirmed.

The Memorial
Hospital in
city of
Worcester,
number of
trustees in-
creased, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 91, 92. 89

An Act relative to the powers of the division of (JJi^p^ gi

PLANT pest control IN RESPECT TO WHITE PINE BLISTER
RUST.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of ^c^ameAded^'
the General Laws, as amended in section twenty-two by '
section one of chapter fifty-eight of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section twenty-two and inserting in place thereof
the following : — Section 22. If the director, either per- Powers of
sonally or through his assistants, finds ribes, that is, any piaJftTes"/
variety of currants or gooseberries, whether wild or culti- ""^^llf f^^°
vated, or five leafed pines, which are either infected with blister rust.
white pine blister rust, or so situated that in his opinion they
are likely to become so infected, he or his assistants may
destroy or cause to be destroyed such ribes or five leafed
pines. In carrying out his duties under this section the
director shall as far as practicable co-operate with the state
forester, local tree wardens, moth superintendents, city
foresters and forest wardens.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, g. l. 128, § 25,

, 1 • ,• , ,£• 1 .• J. {• -J etc., amended.

as amended m section twenty-five by section two 01 said
chapter fifty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section twenty-five and inserting in place thereof
the following: — Section 25. In case of objection to the Appeals to
proposed action of the director or his assistants in executing ofTgricuiture
any provision of sections sixteen to thirty-one, inclusive, an ^^p^^^jf^fP"^'''^
appeal in writing may be taken within ten days to the director, etc.
commissioner, and the appeal shall operate as a stay of pro-
ceedings until it has been heard and decided by the com-
missioner, whose decision shall be final.

Approved March 9, 1929.

An Act to establish a two year term of office for the nh„^ no

MAYOR OF the CITY OF HOLYOKE. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. At the municipal election to be held in the Two year term
city of Holyoke in the year nineteen hundred and twenty- for°mayorof
nine and in every odd-numbered year thereafter, there shall ^y^ °^^^
be elected a mayor who shall hold office for two years from established,
the first Monday of January next following his election and
until his successor is elected and qualified.

Section 2. So much of chapter four hundred and i^go*n^"atent
thirty-eight of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, provisions of
and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, as ''''* repealed,
is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.

Section 3. This act shall be submitted for acceptance submission to
to the registered voters of the city of Holyoke at the annual ^° ''"' ^ '^'
city election to be held in said city in the current year, in
the form of the following question which shall be placed

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 93.

upon the official ballot to be used at said election: "Shall
an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, entitled 'An Act to establish a
two year term of office for the mayor of the city of Holyoke ',
be accepted?" If a majority of the votes cast on said ques-
tion are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon take full
effect, otherwise it shall be of no effect and the person
elected mayor of said city at said election shall hold office
for one year only from the first Monday of January follow-
ing his election and until his successor is elected and qualified.

Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 93 An Act relative to the form of application for bal-
lots BY ABSENT VOTERS.

G. L. 54, § 87,
etc., amended.

Form of
application
for ballots
by absent
voters.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section eighty-seven of chapter fifty-four of the General
Laws, as amended by chapter thirty-eight of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended
by striking out paragraph (b) and inserting in place thereof
the following: — (6) Blank forms of application for such
ballots, worded as follows:

I, , hereby apply for an official absent voting

ballot. I am a legal resident of the city or town of

and a duly registered voter at

(Street and Number)

(City or Town)

and, as I believe, entitled to vote at the next state election

at precinct ,ward ,

in the city or town of

(Signature) (Date)

Mail official absent voting ballot to

(Street and Number)

(City or Town)

(State)

(If in the service of the United States, the apphcant
will fill out the following:) I am in the military, naval,
civil service of the United States, and my rank or official

position is

(Signature) (Date)

We, the undersigned, a majority of the registrars of

voters of the of , hereby

certify that the above signature, to the best of our knowledge
and belief, appears to be genuine, and that we believe said
is a duly registered voter in said pre-
cinct , ward , city or town

of Registrars of voters of

the of

Approved March 9, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 94, 95. 91

An Act relative to the amount of income legally (JJidf)^ 94

RECEIVABLE BY CERTAIN CHURCHES FROM CERTAIN GIFTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section nine of chapter sixty-eight of the General Laws is g. l 68. § 9,
hereby amended by striking out, in the second Hne, the word ^""^^
"two" and inserting in place thereof the word: — ten, — so
as to read as follows: — Section 9. The income of the gifts, income of
grants, bequests and devises made to or for the use of any ti^church'ea
one church shall not exceed ten thousand dollars a year, limited.
exclusive of the income of any parsonage land granted to or
for the use of the ministry. Approved March 9, 1929.

An Act establishing the office of assistant clerk for njiQ'r) 95

THE municipal COURT OF THE BRIGHTON DISTRICT OF THE ^'

CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section ten of chapter two hundred and ^g^^mended''
eighteen of the General Laws, as most recently amended by
chapter one hundred and sixty-two of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by
inserting after the word "district" the first time it occurs in
the tenth line the words: — , the municipal court of the
Brighton district, — so as to read as follows: — Section 10. ^'^J[^*'*
The clerk of a district court may, subject to the approval assistant
of the justice, appoint one or more assistant clerks, who shall appointment.
be removable at his pleasure or at the pleasure of the court, etc.
for whose official acts the clerk shall be responsible and who
shall be paid by him unless salaries payable by the county are
authorized in this section or in section fifty-three. Assistant
clerks with salaries payable by the county may be appointed
in the central district court of northern Essex, the municipal
court of the Charlestown district, the municipal court of the Municipal
Brighton district, the district court of western Hampden, the BHght°on
district court of Newton, the district court of northern Nor- district.
folk and in courts the judicial districts of which have, accord-
ing to the national or state census last preceding, a popula-
tion of sixty thousand or more. Second assistant clerks with Second
salaries payable by the county may be appointed in the cflrkJ!"*
municipal court of the Roxbury district, the East Boston appointment.
district court, the municipal court of the Charlestown dis-
trict, the municipal court of the West Roxbury district, and,
subject to the approval of the county commissioners, in the
first district court of eastern Middlesex, the third district
court of eastern Middlesex, the district court of southern
Essex and the third district court of Bristol. Third assistant Third assistant
clerks with salaries payable by the county may be appointed appomtment.
in the municipal court of the Roxbury district and, subject etc.
to the approval of the county commissioners, in the first dis-
trict court of eastern Middlesex and the third district court
of eastern Middlesex.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 96, 97, 98, 99.

tocHy^^'"" Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance

council of during the current year by vote of the city council of the

oston, etc. ^-^^ ^£ Bostou, subjcct to the provisions of its charter, but
not otherwise. Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 96 An Act relative to the united Presbyterian church in

FALL river.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The United Presbyterian Church in Fall River is hereby
authorized to receive and enjoy the income of any gifts,
grants, bequests or devises made to it or for its use to a total
amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

Approved March 9, 1929.

The United
Presbyterian
Church in
Fall River
may receive
income of
gifts, etc., to
certain amount.

Chap. 97 An Act relative to the filing of certificates of in-
crease OF CAPITAL STOCK OF CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS

corporations.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight
of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new sentence: — If such a certificate is
not filed as aforesaid within said period of thirty days, it
may thereafter be received by the commissioner for examina-
tion in accordance with section forty-one upon payment to
him of such sum, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, as he may
determine, and be filed as hereinbefore provided, subject to
the provisions of sections forty-one and forty-three to the
same extent as if such certificate had been filed as aforesaid
within said period. Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 98 An Act relative to the property-holding powers of

THE trustees OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY.

G. L. 158, § 39,
amended.

Filing of
certificates
of increase of
capital stock
of certain
miscellaneous
corporations.

Trustees of

Phillips

Academy,

Eroperty-
olding
powers.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Trustees of Phillips Academy shall be capable of
taking and holding in fee simple or any less estate by gift,
grant, bequest, devise or otherwise any lands, tenements
or other estate, real or personal, without limitation as to
amount. Approved March 9, 1929.

Chap. 99 An Act authorizing the cities of everett and malden
TO contract with each other relative to the con-
struction OF certain sidewalks, edgestones and
streets.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The cities of Everett and Maiden may con-
tract with each other, upon such terms as may be mutually
agreed upon, for the construction and building of streets
now forming the boundary fines between said cities, and the
sidewalks and edgestones of such streets.

Cities of
Everett and
Maiden may
contract with
each other for
the con-
struction of
certain
sidewalks, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 100, 101. 93

Section 2. Any estate in either of Said cities which re- Betterment
ceives benefit by reason of sidewalks, edgestones or streets etc!^^
constructed under a contract or contracts made under au-
thority of this act, shall be subject to assessments therefor,
such assessments to be levied and collected by the city in
which the estate is situated in the manner and to the extent
now provided by law for the levy and collection of sidewalk,
edgestone and betterment assessments in that city.

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

Approved March 11, 1929.

An Act authorizing thomas j. wood of the town of Chap. 100

ATHOL TO FILE A PETITION FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF DAM-
AGES SUSTAINED BY REASON OF A CERTAIN LAND TAKING
BY SAID TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Thomas J. Wood of Athol may, within six Thomas j.
months from the effective date of this act, file a petition At°hoimay
under section fourteen of chapter seventy-nine of the General f^'^ asfe'ssment
Laws for the assessment of damages sustained by him by of damages
reason of the taking by the town of Athol of land owned by r^*son"of a*'^
him for street widening purposes, notwithstanding any t^k\n'"b''"M,id
limitations prescribed by law as to the time for filing such a town.
petition.

Section 2. This act shalUtake effect upon its passage.

A pproved March 11,1 929.

An Act providing that written demands of the regis- PJku) 101
trar of motor vehicles for the return of cer-
tificates of registration and licenses to operate
may be used temporarily in lieu thereof.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section eleven of chapter ninety of the General Laws is o. l. 9o, § ii.
hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: a'"e°'ie<i-
— If, in comphance with a written demand of the registrar
or any of his authorized agents, a certificate of registration
or hcense to operate is returned for inspection or for any
other purpose, except for suspension or revocation, such
written demand shall be carried in lieu of the certificate or
license, as the case may be, and for the period of thirty
days from its date said demand shall have the same force
and effect given to the certificate or license by this chap-
ter,— so as to read as follows: — Section 11. Every person certificate of
operating a motor vehicle shall have the certificate of regis- ifclnsrtoTe''"^
tration for the vehicle and of the trailers, if any, and his carried by

, • . , 1 • • i 1 1 • 1 • operator of

license to operate, upon his person or m the vehicle in some motor vehicle,
easily accessible place, except that the certificates of regis-
tration of dealers need not so be carried. If for any reason Temporary
the registrar or his agents are unable to issue promptly to "or^fei^^fd'i'n
an applicant the certificate of registration or the license ap- lieu of certifi-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 102.

Temporary
use of written
demands of
registrar for
return of
certificates of
registration or
license in lieu
of certificate,
etc.

plied for, they may issue a receipt for the fee paid, and
said receipt shall be carried in heu of the certificate or license
as the case may be, and for the period of thirty days from
the date of its issue said receipt shall have the same force
and effect given to the certificate or license by this chapter.
If, in comphance with a written demand of the registrar or
any of his authorized agents, a certificate of registration or
license to operate is returned for inspection or for any other
purpose, except for suspension or revocation, such written
demand shall be carried in lieu of the certificate or license,
as the case may be, and for the period of thirty days from
its date said demand shall have the same force and effect
given to the certificate or license by this chapter.

Approved March 11, 1929.

Chap. 102 An Act relative to the signing and sealing of stock

CERTIFICATES OF BUSINESS CORPORATIONS.

G. L. 156, § 33,
etc., amended.

Certificates of
stocli of
business
corporations,
signing,
sealing, etc.

To contain
statement of
certain
limitations
and preferences
or a notification
as to record
of same.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the General Laws,
as amended in section thirty-three by chapter one hundred
and twenty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section S3.
Each stockholder shall be entitled to a certificate, in form
conformable to section fifteen, which shall be signed by the
president or a vice president and either the treasurer or an
assistant treasurer of the corporation, shall be sealed with
its seal and shall certify the number of shares, and the class
thereof, owned by him in such corporation; but when any
such certificate is signed by a transfer agent or transfer clerk
and by a registrar and the registrar is not the same person,
partnership, association, trust or corporation as the transfer
agent or transfer clerk, the signature of the president or a
vice president or of the treasurer or an assistant treasurer
or the seal of the corporation upon such certificate may be
a facsimile thereof, engraved or printed, and such certificate
shall be as valid and effectual for all purposes as if signed
by such officer, or sealed with its corporate seal, as the case
may be. Each certificate of stock, which by the agreement
of association or amended agreement of association or, in
the case of a corporation created by special law, by its
articles of organization or by amendment is limited as to its
voting rights or is preferred as to its dividend or as to its
share of assets upon dissolution, shall have plainly written,
printed or stamped thereon either a sufficient statement of
such limitation or preference or a notification that its pref-
erences, voting powers, restrictions and quahfications are
fixed in the agreement of association or articles of organ-
ization or amendments recorded in the office of the state
secretary. Approved March 11, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 103. 95

An Act relative to the sale of kosher food. Chav 103
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety-four of the General Laws is hereby amended ^jj^^^dg^j^ ^^^•
by striking out section one hundred and fifty-six and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 156. Who- Penalty for
ever falsely stamps or labels any can, jar or other package ing%tc^!^'i;Tns,
containing fruit or food of any kind, or permits such stamp- «t.c.
ing or labelling or violates either of the two preceding sec-
tions, or whoever sells or exposes for sale any meat or meat
product or any food containing meat ingredients or pre-
pared with meat substance or meat fat and falsely represents
the same to be kosher or as having been prepared in accord-
ance with the orthodox Hebrew religious requirements
either by direct statements, orally or in writing, or by the
display of the word "kosher" in any language or by the
display of any sign or mark in simulation of such word, or
by the display of any insignia, six-pointed star or any mark
which might reasonably be calculated to deceive or lead a
reasonable person to believe that a representation is being
made that the food sold is kosher or prepared in accord-
ance with the orthodox Hebrew religious requirements, or
whoever sells or exposes for sale both kosher and non-kosher
meat or meat products or food containing meat ingredients
or prepared with meat substance or meat fat, and at the
same time displays a sign on his door or window or any-
where in front of his place of business where such food
products are sold bearing the word "kosher" in any language
or any sign or mark in simulation of such word or of any
insignia, six-pointed star or any mark which might reason-
ably be calculated to lead a reasonable person to believe
that the food sold in such place is kosher or prepared in
accordance with the orthodox Hebrew religious require-
ments, and who fails to display on his window-signs and all
display advertising in block letters at least four inches in
height "non-kosher food also sold here", shall be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than five
hundred dollars; and whoever knowingly sells such goods
so falsely stamped or labelled shall be punished by a fine of
not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

This section shall be enforced by the local board of health, Enforcement.
and for such purpose any person designated by it shall have
the right to enter at any reasonable time during business
hours upon premises where food represented to be kosher is
sold or exposed for sale and inspect such food.

Approved March 11, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 104, 105.

Chap. 104 An Act relative to the erection and maintenance of

A HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUILDING WITHIN THE LIMITS OF
THE BACK BAY FENS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Boston, acting through its
health department, may erect and maintain a health de-
partment building within the limits of the Back Bay Fens,
if the mayor and city council of said city so determine. The
location of said building shall be subject to the approval of
the park department of said city.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance, during the current year, by vote of the city council of
said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not
otherwise. Ay-proved March 11, 1929.

City of Boston
may erect a
health
department
building
within limits
of Back Bay
Fens, etc.

Submission to
city council,
etc.

G. L. 123,

§ lOOA,

etc., amended.

Chap. 105 An Act making accessible to probation officers certain

reports relative to THE MENTAL CONDITION OF CERTAIN
PERSONS HELD FOR TRIAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one hundred A of chapter one hundred and twenty-
three of the General Laws, as inserted by chapter four
hundred and fifteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one, and as amended by chapter three hundred and
thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three,
by chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-five and by section one of chapter fifty-
nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is
hereby further amended by inserting after the word "court"
in the twenty-third line the words : — , the probation officer
thereof, — so as to read as follows: — Section 100 A. When-
ever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital offense
or whenever a person, who is known to have been indicted
for any other offense more than once or to have been pre-
viously convicted of a felony, is indicted by a grand jury or
bound over for trial in the superior court, the clerk of the
court in which the indictment is returned, or the clerk of the
district court or the trial justice, as the case may be, shall
give notice to the department of mental diseases, and the
department shall cause such person to be examined with a
view to determine his mental condition and the existence of
any mental disease or defect which would affect his criminal
responsibility. Whenever the probation officer of such court
has in his possession or whenever the inquiry which he is
required to make by section eighty-five of chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-six discloses facts which if known to the
clerk would require notice as aforesaid, such probation
officer shall forthwith communicate the same to the clerk
who shall thereupon give such notice unless already given.
The department shall file a report of its investigation with
the clerk of the court in which the trial is to be held, and the

Investigation
by department
of mental
diseases of
mental
condition of
certain persons
held for trial.

Probation
officer to give
certain facts
to clerk, etc.

Filing of report
with clerk of
court, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 106, 107. 97

report shall be accessible to the court, the probation officer
thereof, the district attorney and to the attorney for the
accused. In the event of failure by the clerk of a district Failure of
court or the trial justice to give notice to the department as department,
aforesaid, the same shall be given by the clerk of the superior ^^''■
court after entry of the case in said court. Upon giving the Certification of
notice required by this section the clerk of a court or the trial
justice shall so certify on the papers. The physician making Fees, etc., of
such examination shall, upon certification by the department, n|?ikTng^°
receive the ,same fees and traveling expenses as provided in examination.
section seventy-three for the examination of persons com-
mitted to institutions and such fees and expenses shall be
paid in the same manner as provided in section seventy-four
for the payment of commitment expenses. Any clerk of court Penalty for
or trial justice who wilfully neglects to perform any duty by^c!erk°of "'^
imposed upon him by this section shall be punished by a fine <'°"''*' ^*°-
of not more than fifty dollars. Approved March 11, 1929.

An Act authorizing the department of public health (JJidj) \QQ
TO make regulations for the inspection, handling,

STORAGE, sale AND EXCHANGE OF GAME, POULTRY AND
CERTAIN OTHER MEAT INTENDED FOR FOOD PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety-four of the General Laws is hereby g. l. 94, new
amended by inserting after section one hundred and forty- section after
seven the following new section: — Section 147 A. The Department
department of public health may make regulations for the ?^Ph^'^^
inspection of game, poultry, and other meat except that of inake reguia-
cattle, sheep or swine, intended for sale or exchange for use iJTspMtfon^'etc.,
as food, and as to the conditions under which such game, of game, etc.
poultry and other meat may be handled, stored, sold or
exchanged. Whoever violates any provision of such a regu- Penalty for
lation shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty ^'oi^tion.
dollars. Approved March 11, 1929.

An Act relative to seals of certain voluntary associa- QJiap, 107

TIONS AND TRUSTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Clause twenty-ninth of section seven of chap- g. l. 4, § 7.
ter four of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting ^tath, ^^^^^^'
after the word "corporation" in the second line of said clause amended,
the words : — , or of an association or trust as defined in
section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-two or of the
trustee or trustees of such an association or trust, — so as
to read as follows: — Twenty-ninth, If the seal of a court. Meaning of^
public office, public officer or corporation, or of an association i^^con'strulng
or trust as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and statutes.
eighty-two or of the trustee or trustees of such an association
or trust, is required by law to be affixed to a paper, the word
"seal" shall mean either an impression of the official seal

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 10§.

G. L. 182, § 6.
etc., amended.

Voluntary
associations
and trusts,
use of seals,
etc.

upon the paper or an impression on a wafer or wax affixed
thereto.

Section 2. Section six of chapter one hundred and
eighty-two of the General Laws, as amended by section five
of chapter two hundred and ninety of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new paragraph : —

An association or trust may have a seal, which it may alter
at pleasure, and which may be used by the trustee or trustees
of such association or trust as his or their seal. An impres-
sion of a seal purporting to be the seal of such an association
or trust shall be sufficient for all purposes without the use of
a wafer or wax. Approved March 11, 1929.

Chap

.108 An Act relative to the participation of local camps

OF THE sons of UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR IN
THE MUNICIPAL OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY AND
OTHER PATRIOTIC HOLIDAYS.

Emergency
preamble.

G.L. 40, § 5,
el. (12), etc.,
amended.

Cities and
towns may ap-
propriate
money for
decoration of
soldiers' graves
and for ob-
servance of
Memorial Day
and other

gatriotio
olidays, etc.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in
part defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to
be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section five of chapter forty of the General Laws, as
amended in clause (12) by section six of chapter four hun-
dred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one, by chapters two hundred and two and four
hundred and one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, by chapter sixteen of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, by chapter nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight and by chapter nine of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, is hereby further
amended by striking out said clause (12) and inserting in
place thereof the following: — (12) For erecting headstones
or other monuments at the graves of persons who served in
the war of the revolution, the war of eighteen hundred and
twelve, the Seminole war, the Mexican war or the war of
the rebellion or who served in the military or naval service
of the United States in the Spanish American war or in the
World war; for acquiring land by purchase or by eminent
domain under chapter seventy-nine, purchasing, erecting,
equipping or dedicating buildings, or constructing or dedi-
cating other suitable memorials, for the purpose of properly
commemorating the services and sacrifices of persons who
served as aforesaid; for the decoration of the graves, monu-
ments or other memorials of soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United
States in time of war or insurrection and the proper observ-
ance of Memorial Day and other patriotic holidays under
the auspices of the local posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, The American

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 109, 110. 99

Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States and under the auspices of the Kearsarge Association
of Naval Veterans, Inc. and of local garrisons of the Army
and Navy Union of the United States of America and of
local chapters of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution and of a local camp of the Sons of
Union Veterans of the Civil War in the case of a town in
which there is no post of the Grand Army of the Republic;
or for keeping in repair graves, monuments or other me-
morials erected to the memory of such persons or of its fire-
men who died from injuries received in the performance of
their duties in the fire service or for decorating the graves of
such firemen or for other memorial observances in their
honor. Money appropriated in honor of such firemen
may be paid over to, and expended for such purposes by,
any veteran firemen's association or similar organization.

Approved March 11, 1929.

An Act providing a penalty for trespass on boats, fhny ino

WHARVES or piers. ^ *

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one hundred and twenty of chapter two hundred G- ^'l^l' * ^^°'
and sixty-six of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after the word "buildings" in the second line the
word: — , boats, — and by inserting after the word "land"
in the same line the words : — , wharf or pier, — so as to
read as follows : — >Secf?o?i 120. Whoever, without right, Penalty for
enters or remains in or upon the dwelling house, buildings, bufidtngs*,'*
boats or improved or enclosed land, wharf or pier of another, ''roygd Vj.™'
after having been forbidden so to do by the person who has enclosed land,
the lawful control of said premises, either directly or by piersretc?*^
notice posted thereon, shall be punished by a fine of not
more than twenty dollars. A person who is found com-
mitting such trespass may be arrested by a sheriff, deputy
sheriff, constable, watchman or police officer and kept in
custody in a convenient place, not more than twenty-four
hours, Sunday excepted, until a complaint can be made
against him for the offence, and he be taken upon a war-
rant issued upon such complaint.

Approved March 11, 1929.

C/iap. 110

An Act including claims for materials employed
among those which are required to be secured by
contractors and sub-contractors in connection
with the construction or repair of public works

FOR A county, city OR TOWN, AND REGULATING THE
APPLICATION OF SUCH SECURITY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section twenty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty- g. l. 149, § 29,
nine of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting ^n^ended.
after the word "used" in the fifth line the words: — or

100 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 111.

employed, — and by adding at the end thereof the follow-
ing:— , and shall, within one year after the filing of such
claim, file a petition in the superior court for the proper
county to enforce his claim or intervene in a petition already
Security for gjg(j — gQ ^s to read as follows: — Section 29. Officers or

payment oi ' • i i i c r

labor per- agents who coutract m behalf of any county, city or town

materia'i^used for the coustruction or repair of public buildings or other

consTructTon'of" P^iblic works shall obtain sufficient security, by bond or

public works othcrwisc, for payment by the contractor and sub-contrac-

c?tyVrTown! tors for labor performed or furnished and materials used or

Filing of employed in such construction or repair; but to obtain the

claim, etc. benefit of such security the claimant shall file in the office

of the county treasurer or of the city or town clerk a sworn

statement of his claim within sixty days after the claimant

ceases to perform labor or furnish labor or materials, and

shall, within one year after the filing of such claim, file a

petition in the superior court for the proper county to enforce

his claim or intervene in a petition already filed.

Approved March 11, 1929.

Chap. IW An Act regulating the application op security re-
quired OF contractors and sub-contractors in con-
nection with the construction or repair of public
works for the commonwealth.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^tc ^amended Scctiou thirty-ninc of chapter thirty of the General Laws,
as amended by chapter four hundred and sixteen of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, is hereby further
amended by striking out all after the word "the" the first
time it occurs in the ninth line and inserting in place thereof
the following : — claimant ceases to perform labor or furnish
labor or materials, and shall, within one year after the
fifing of such claim, file a petition in the superior court for
the proper county to enforce his claim or intervene in a
petition already filed; and the provisions of chapter two
hundred and fifty-eight shall apply to such petitions, — so
Security against as to read as f ollows : — Section 39. Officers or agents con-
iTens on public tractiug in behalf of the commonwealth for the construction
buildings, etc. qj. repair of pubfic buildings or other pubHc works shall
obtain sufficient security, by bond or otherwise, for pay-
ment by the contractor and sub-contractors for labor per-
formed or furnished and for materials used or employed
Filing of in such coustruction or repair; but in order to obtain the

claim, etc. benefit of such security, the claimant shall file with such
officers or agents a sworn statement of his claim, within sixty
days after the claimant ceases to perform labor or furnish
labor or materials, and shall, within one year after the fifing
of such claim, file a petition in the superior court for the
proper county to enforce his claim or intervene in a petition
already filed; and the provisions of chapter two hundred
and fifty-eight shall apply to such petitions.

Approved March 11, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 112, 113. 101

An Act providing for a sitting of the Middlesex county Chav. 112

PROBATE COURT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and fifteen of ^c.!^amfnded.'
the General Laws, as amended by chapters forty-one and
two hundred and fifty-seven, both of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, and by section one of chapter
three hundred and twenty-five and by chapter four hundred
and eighty-three, both of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, is hereby further amended by striking out
the paragraph contained in lines forty-three to forty-seven,
inclusive, as printed in the General Laws, and inserting in
place thereof the following: — Middlesex, at Cambridge, when and
every Monday, every Tuesday except the third Tuesday of TreTieid!"'^ ^
each month, and every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, co'unty^^''
between the second Monday of September and the fourth
Tuesday of July, both dates inclusive, and the third Thurs-
day of August; at Lowell, the third Tuesday of each month
except August. Approved March 11, 1929.

C/iap. 113

An Act establishing a soldiers' memorial commis-
sion IN THE CITY OF HOLYOKE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L For the purpose of establishing and main- soldiers' Me-
taining a memorial or memorials in the city of Holyoke to mf/sion^in"*"
the men and women who served with the armed forces of city of Hoiyoke,
the United States or of any nation allied or associated ^^ ^ '^ ""''" '
with the United States in any war, there is hereby estab-
lished in said city an unpaid commission to be known as
the Soldiers' Memorial Commission of the city of Holyoke,
hereinafter called the commission, to consist of the mayor
and city treasurer, ex officiis, and five other members, four
of whom, as long as available, shall be men resident in said
city who were honorably discharged or released from active
world war service in the United States army, navy or marine
corps, or from service in the armed forces of any nation allied
or associated with the United States in the world war, who
shall be appointed in the manner and for the terms herein-
after provided. For the said purpose, the commission May receive
shall have power and authority to receive and hold gifts of gifts of rea' and

^ •' 1 ,, * , personal prop-

property, real and personal, from any and all sources, to erty, etc.

purchase real estate in said city and to contract for the

erection, care, maintenance and supervision of any building,

buildings, monument or monuments to be used as such a

memorial or memorials. Upon the organization of the city treasurer

commission and the furnishing of the bond required of the certain^money

city treasurer under section three, the said treasurer shall tocommis-

transfer to the account of the commission all moneys re- ^'°°'®°'

ceived by said city from the commonwealth under the pro-

102

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 114.

Appointment
of members,
terms, etc.

Vacancies.

City treasurer
to be custodian
of funds, etc.

Bond.

Annual re-
port, etc.

Submission
to board of
aldermen.

visions of chapter four hundred and eighty of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and said moneys shall
thereupon be available for the purposes of this act.

Section 2. The mayor of said city shall appoint, not
later than September first in the current year, two members
of said commission to serve until the expiration of one year,
two members to serve until the expiration of two years, and
one member to serve until the expiration of three years,
from the first Monday in September in the current year,
and thereafter as the terms of members expire, successors
shall be appointed for terms of three years each. Vacancies
shall be filled in like manner for unexpired terms. The
members shall in all cases hold office until their successors
are qualified. The members of the commission as first
constituted shall meet and organize within thirty days after
all its members have been duly qualified.

Section 3. The city treasurer shall be the custodian of
all funds and securities received by the commission and
shall, as directed by the commission, invest and reinvest
said funds and the proceeds of said securities. He shall
furnish a bond satisfactory to the commission for the faith-
ful performance of his duties. The commission shall keep
a record of its doings, and shall annually make a report to
the city showing the total amount of its assets and their
investment and its receipts and disbursements during the
year preceding, setting forth in detail the sources of said
receipts and the purposes of the expenditures. Said report
shall be incorporated in the printed annual report of said
city.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance,
prior to August first in the current year, by the board of
aldermen of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter,
but not otherwise. Approved March 11, 1929.

Chap. 114: An Act relative to the salaries of the mayor and

OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LAWRENCE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Part II of chapter six hundred and twenty-
one of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby
amended by striking out section fifty-two and inserting in
place thereof the following: — Section 52. The salary of
the mayor shall be five thousand dollars per annum, and
the salary of each of the remaining four members of the
city council shall be four thousand dollars per annum.
These salaries shall be payable in equal monthly instalments.

Section 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance
to the registered voters of the city of Lawrence at its annual
city election in the current year in the form of the following
question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to
be used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general

1911, 621, Part
II, § 52,
amended.

Salaries of
mayor and
other members
of city council
of city of
Lawrence.

Submission to
voters, etc.

fraternal benefit
society, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 115, 116. 103

court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, en-
titled 'An Act relative to the salaries of the mayor and
other members of the city council of the city of Lawrence',
be accepted?" If a majority of the voters voting thereon
vote in the affirmative in answer to said question, this act
shall thereupon take effect, but not otherwise.

Approved March 13, 1929.

An Act relative to the Massachusetts blind men's Chap.Wb

BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Massachusetts Bhnd Men's Benefit Association, a Massachusetts
voluntary fraternal benefit association, as now or hereafter Bene'fitAsso-
constituted, is hereby authorized to transact business as a elation may

,..,,(., ^ ^ n , • i ^ ii •• c transact busi-

limited fraternal benefit society under the provisions oi ness as a limited
section forty-six of chapter one hundred and seventy-six of
the General Laws, and any amendments thereof, without
limiting its membership as provided in said section forty-
six and in section four of said chapter; but said association,
as now or hereafter constituted, and its officers and mem-
bers shall otherwise be subject to all of the provisions of
said section forty-six. Approved March 13, 1929.

An Act regulating the holding of real estate for QhaV-^-^^

BANKING PURPOSES BY TRUST COMPANIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the General ^c^amenJedV
Laws, as amended in section forty-one by chapter three
hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 41- Such corporation may hold real estate suitable Trust com-
for the transaction of its business, provided that if the hoki'^rearestate
aggregate amount invested and proposed to be invested for banking
therein, including the cost of alterations and additions in p"''p°^''^-
the nature of permanent fixtures, exceeds, directly or indi- ^''°^''^°-
rectly, twenty-five per cent of its capital actually paid in
and its surplus account, any such excess investment shall
be made only with the approval of the commissioner. The
amount of any mortgage on real estate owned by a trust
company directly or indirectly and in whole or in part used
by it for the transaction of its business, and the amount of
money invested by a trust company in the securities of any
corporation, trust or other organization which holds real
estate in whole or in part used for the transaction of the
business of such trust company or intended for such use,
shall be included in determining the amount of real estate
that may be held by such trust company under this section.

Approved March 13, 1929.

104

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 117, 118.

Chap. 117 An Act relative to the penalty for violation of the

LAWS relating TO THE WEEKLY PAYMENT OF WAGES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one hundred and forty-eight of chapter one hun-
dred and forty-nine of the General Laws, as most recently
amended by chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby further
amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in
place thereof the following: — Whoever violates this section
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more
than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the house of cor-
rection for not more than two months, or both.

Approved March I4, 1929.

G. L. 149, § 148,
etc., amended.

Penalty for
violation of
laws relating
to weekly pay-
ment of wages.

Chai

G. L. 136, § 6,
etc., amended.

[).118 An Act authorizing the sale, between certain hours

ON THE lord's DAY, OF BREAD BY LICENSED INNHOLDERS
AND COMMON VICTUALLERS AND CERTAIN OTHERS WHO
ARE AUTHORIZED BY LICENSE TO KEEP OPEN THEIR PLACES
OF BUSINESS ON THAT DAY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section six of chapter one hundred and thirty-six of the
General Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and
seventy-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
seven and by chapter two hundred and thirty-four of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further
amended by inserting after the word "week" in the eleventh
line the following: — ; the retail sale of bread, before ten
o'clock in the forenoon and between the hours of four
o'clock and half past six o'clock in the afternoon by licensed
innholders and by licensed common victuallers authorized
to keep open their places of business on the Lord's day and
by persons licensed under the following section to keep open
their places of business as aforesaid, — so as to read as
follows : — Section 6. The preceding section shall not pro-
hibit the manufacture and distribution of steam, gas or
electricity for illuminating purposes, heat or motive power;
the distribution of water for fire or domestic purposes;
the use of the telegraph or the telephone; the retail sale
of drugs and medicines, or articles ordered by the prescrip-
tion of a physician, or mechanical appliances used by phy-
sicians or surgeons; the retail sale of tobacco in any of its
forms by licensed innholders, common victuallers, druggists
and newsdealers whose stores are open for the sale of news-
papers every day in the week; the retail sale of bread,
before ten o'clock in the forenoon and between the hours
of four o'clock and half past six o'clock in the afternoon by
licensed innholders and by licensed common victuallers au-
thorized to keep open their places of business on the Lord's
day and by persons licensed under the following section to
keep open their places of business as aforesaid; the retail

Certain busi-
ness not
prohibited on
Lord's day.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 118. 105

sale of ice cream, soda water and confectionery by licensed certain busi-
innholders and druggists, and by such licensed common prohibited on
victuallers as are not also licensed to sell certain non-in- lord's day.
toxicating beverages, as defined in section one of chapter
one hundred and thirty-eight, and who are authorized to
keep open their places of business on the Lord's day; the
sale of ice cream, soda water, confectionery or fruit by
persons licensed under the following section or the keeping
open of their places of business for the sale thereof; work
lawfully done by persons working under permits granted
under section nine; the sale by licensed innholders and
common victuallers of meals such as are usually served by
them, consisting in no part of intoxicating liquors, which
meals are cooked on the premises but are not to be consumed
thereon; the operation of motor vehicles; the sale of gaso-
line and oil for use, and the retail sale of accessories for im-
mediate necessary use, in connection with the operation of
motor vehicles, motor boats and air craft; the letting of
horses and carriages or of boats; unpaid work on pleasure
boats; the running of steam ferry boats on established
routes; the running of street railway cars; the running of
steamboat lines and trains or of steamboats, if authorized
under section nineteen; the preparation, printing and pub-
lication of newspapers, or the sale and delivery thereof; the
wholesale or retail sale and delivery of milk, or the trans-
portation thereof, or the delivery of icecream; the making
of butter and cheese; the keeping open of public bath
houses; the making or selling by bakers or their employees,
before ten o'clock in the forenoon and between the hours
of four o'clock and half past six o'clock in the afternoon, of
bread or other food usually dealt in by them; whenever
Rosh Hashonah, or the Day of Atonement, begins on the
Lord's day, the retail sale and delivery of fish, fruit and
vegetables before twelve o'clock noon of that day; the
selling of kosher meat by any person who, according to his
religious belief, observes Saturday as the Lord's day by
closing his place of business during the day until six o'clock
in the afternoon or the keeping open of his shop on the
Lord's day for the sale of kosher meat between the hours of
six o'clock and ten o'clock in the forenoon; the performing
of secular business and labor on the Lord's day by any
person who conscientiously beheves that the seventh day
of the week ought to be observed as the Sabbath and actually
refrains from secular business and labor on that day, if he
disturbs no other person thereby; the carrying on of the
business of bootblack before eleven o'clock in the forenoon;
the digging of clams; the icing and dressing of fish; the
cultivation of land, and the raising, harvesting, conserving
and transporting of agricultural products during the existence
of war between the United States and any other nation and
until the first day of January following the termination
thereof; the sale of catalogues of pictures and other works
of art in exhibitions held by societies organized for the

106

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 119, 120.

purpose of promoting education in the fine arts or the ex-
posure of photographic plates and films for pleasure, if the
pictures to be made therefrom are not intended to be sold
and are not sold. Approved March 14, 1929.

G. L. 229, § 1,
amended.

Damages for
death from
a defective
way, etc.

Chap.W^ An Act relative to the rights of the surviving hus-
band IN RESPECT TO ACTIONS FOR DEATH AND INJURIES
RESULTING IN DEATH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and
twenty-nine of the General Laws is hereby amended by
striking out the word "widow" wherever it occurs and in-
serting in place thereof, in each instance, the words: — sur-
viving wife or husband, — so as to read as follows: —
Section 1. If the life of a person is lost by reason of a defect
or a want of repair of or a want of a sufficient railing in or
upon a way, causeway or bridge, the county, city, town or
person by law obliged to repair the same shall, if it or he had
previous reasonable notice of the defect or want of repair or
want of railing, be liable in damages not exceeding one
thousand dollars, to be assessed with reference to the de-
gree of culpability of the defendant and recovered in an action
of tort commenced within one year after the injury causing
the death by the executor or administrator of the deceased
person, to the use of the surviving wife or husband and
children of the deceased in equal moieties, or, if there are
no children, to the use of the surviving wife or husband, or,
if there is no surviving wife or husband, to the use of the
next of kin.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and twenty-nine
is hereby further amended by striking out section four and
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 4- If, as
the result of the negligence of an employer himself, or of a
person for whose negligence an employer is liable under
section one of chapter one hundred and fifty-three, an em-
ployee is instantly killed, or dies without conscious suf-
fering, the surviving wife or husband of the deceased or, if
there is no wife or husband surviving, the next of kin, who,
at the time of such death, were dependent upon the wages
of the deceased for support, shall have a right of action for
damages against the employer. This section shall not
apply to injuries caused to domestic servants or farm laborers
by fellow employees. Approved March 14, 1929.

G. L. 229, § 4,
amended.

Action against
employer for
death.

Chap. 120 An Act to permit trust companies to invest their

FUNDS IN THE STOCKS, BONDS OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF
INDEBTEDNESS OF CERTAIN ASSOCIATIONS OR TRUSTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

?mendld'. ^ ^^' Scctlou thirty-three of chapter one hundred and seventy-
two of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting
after the word "corporations" in the sixth fine the words: —

Acts, 1929. —Chap. 121. 107

or of associations or trusts, both as defined in chapter one
hundred and eighty-two, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 33. Such corporation may, subject to the limita- investment of
tions of the following section, advance money or credits, l^^l^^l^fJ"-"^*

, ii- 1 • 1 complines in

whether capital or general deposits, on real estate situated stocks, bonds
in the commonwealth and on personal security, on terms to dences^of^''
be agreed upon, and also invest its money or credits, whether o^'J.ertlfn ^^^
, capital or general deposits, in the stocks, bonds or other associations
evidences of indebtedness of corporations or of associations °^
or trusts, both as defined in chapter one hundred and eighty-
two, or of governments, both foreign and domestic.

Approved March 14, 1929.

An Act relative to group life insurance covering phr,^ loi

MEMBERS OF LABOR UNIONS. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General G- l. i75, § 133,
Laws, as amended in section one hundred and thirty-three ^ ''" '^'"'^" ^
by chapter one hundred and forty-one of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-one and by section one of chapter
two hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section one hundred and thirty-three and inserting in
place thereof the following: — Section 133. Group life i'n- Group life
surance is hereby defined to be that form of life insurance ji°fined''^
covering (a) not less than fifty employees, with or without
medical examination, written under a policy issued to the
employer, the premium on which is to be paid by the em-
ployer or by the employer and employees jointly, and in-
suring only all of his employees, or all of any class or classes
thereof determined by conditions pertaining to the employ-
ment, or by duration of service in which case no employee
shall be excluded if he has been for one year or more in the
emplo}^ of the person taking out the policy, for amounts of
insurance based upon some plan precluding individual
selection, and for the benefit of persons other than the em-
ployer, provided, that when the premium is to be paid by Proviso,
the employer and employees jointly and the benefits of the
policy are offered to all eligible employees, not less than
seventy-five per cent of such employees may be so insured,
or not less than forty per cent if each employee belonging to
the insured group has been medically examined and found
acceptable for ordinary insurance by an individual pohcy;
or (6) the members of any trade union or other association
of wage workers described in section twenty-nine, with or
without medical examination, written under a policy issued
to such union or association, the premium on which is to be
paid by the union or association or by the union or association
and the members thereof jointly, and insuring all of the mem-
bers thereof for amounts of insurance based upon some plan
which will preclude individual selection, and for tlie benefit
of persons other than the union or association or any officers

108 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 122, 123.

Proviso. thereof, provided, that when the premium is to be paid by

the union or association and its members jointly and the bene-
fits of the poHcy are offered to all members, not less than
seventy-five per cent of such members may be so insured,
and provided further that any member or members in-
sured under the policy may apply for amounts of insurance
additional to those granted by said policy, in which case any
percentage of the members may be insured for additional
amounts if they pass satisfactory medical examinations.

Approved March 14, 1929.

Chap. 122 An Act authorizing the city of quincy to borrow

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

may wo4°*'^ SECTION 1. For the purposc of constructing additions to
money for elementary and/or junior high school buildings where such
purposes, gj^^jj^j^j^g increase the floor space of said buildings, and
originally equipping and furnishing such additions, the city
of Quincy may borrow from time to time, within a period
of five years from the passage of this act, such sums as may
be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, four hundred
thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
Quincy School which shall bear on their face the words, Quincy School
1929"' "^ ° Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute
a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more
than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall be
authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount
not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted
for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year
when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act
shall be in excess of the statutory limit but shall, except
as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the
General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the
first paragraph of section seven thereof, as revised by chapter
three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 15, 1929.

Chap. 12S An Act relative to the payment by the county of

MIDDLESEX TO ARTHUR J. MAYNARD OF BRIDGEWATER OF
CERTAIN SUMS FOR EXPENSES INCURRED AND FOR SERVICES
PERFORMED FOR THE BENEFIT OF SAID COUNTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^r'^'^ whereter SECTION 1. The words "cuiTcnt year" wherever used in
used in 1928, chapter three hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hun-
yearT929.''" ^ dred and twenty-eight shall include the year nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-nine.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 15, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 124, 125. 109

An Act authorizing the county of dukes county to (JfiQr) J24

ACQUIRE additional LAND AT SOUTH BEACH IN THAT PART ^'
OF THE TOWN OF EDGARTOWN KNOWN AS "kATAMA".

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For park purposes, the county commissioners Dukes county
of the county of Dukes county may take by eminent domain addiUoMi'knd
under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws or acquire f^ that)y^t%T
by purchase, certain land at South Beach in that part of the Edgartown
town of Edgartown known as Katama, bounded and de- "Krtema."
scribed as follows: — westerly by land of Frederick Kattler
Trustee and land of the county of Dukes county; northerly
by Katama bay; easterly by land of Francis A. Foster; and
southerly by the Atlantic ocean. For the purpose of ac- Appropriation,
quiring such land as aforesaid, there is hereby appropriated,
and said county commissioners are hereby authorized to
levy as a part of the county tax of said county for the cur-
rent year, such sum as may be necessary therefor, not
exceeding fifteen hundred dollars.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March IS, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of quincy to borrow Chap. 125
money for hospital purposes.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of erecting an additional ^^ay bOTroi""^
building for the Quincy city hospital and originall}^ equip- money for hea-
ping and furnishing the same, the city of Quincy may bor- ^^^ purposes.
row from time to time, within a period of five years from
the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not
exceeding, in the aggregate, two hundred thousand dollars,
and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Quincy Hospital Loan, Act of 1929. ^^f^o^n?'
Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and Act of 1929.
such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to
be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. One
half of the indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in
excess of the statutory limit, and all indebtedness incurred
hereunder shall, except as provided herein, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the
limitation contained in the first paragraph of section seven
thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and twenty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 15, 1929.

no Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 126, 127.

Chap. 126 An Act giving to the supreme judicial and superior

COURTS JURISDICTION IN EQUITY IN MATTERS RELATIVE TO
THE OBSERVANCE OF THE PURPOSES OF GIFTS AND CON-
VEYANCES MADE TO COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER
SUBDIVISIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^■^kmeAded SECTION 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and
fourteen of the General Laws, as amended by section three of
chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended by
adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph : —
Equity j^uris- (^j) Suits to enforce the purpose or purposes of any gift

supreme judi- or convcyancc which has been or shall have been made to
c^urts1n"mat-°'^ and acccptcd by any county, city, town or other subdivision
ters reiati^ve^to Qf ^}^g commonwcalth for a specific purpose or purposes in
purposes of trust or otherwisc, or the terms of such trust, or, if it shall
veylncei made havc bccome impracticable to observe or carry out such
to counties, mu- purposc or purposcs, or such terms, or, if the occasion there-
mcipa 1 les. e c. -^^ g}^^^ havc terminated, to determine the purposes or uses
to which the property involved shall be devoted and enforce
the same. Such a suit shall be commenced only on petition
of the attorney general or, by leave of court, on petition of
ten tax-payers of such county, city, town or other subdivision.
The respondent in any such suit may set up such impracti-
cabihty or termination and request the judgment of the
court as to such other use of said property in its answer
without filing a cross bill or other independent proceeding.
In the case of a petition by ten tax-payers as aforesaid, the
attorney general shall be served with notice of the pre-
liminary petition for leave, and may intervene as a party at
any stage of the proceedings; and the petitioners shall be
liable for costs, including reasonable counsel fees in the dis-
cretion of the court, which may, also in its discretion, award
to the petitioners costs, including reasonable counsel fees,
to be paid by the respondent or out of the fund involved,
if any.
When operative. Section 2. This act shall become operative on Sep-
tember first of the current year.

Approved March 16, 1929.

Chap. 127 An Act to regulate the propagation of shellfish in

PLYMOUTH COUNTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^ll^%l^° Section 1. In cities and towns in Plymouth county,

Bheiifiahin the aldermen or selectmen may grant a written license for
county?*'' a term not exceeding fifteen years to any inhabitant of their
city or town to plant, grow and dig shellfish at all times of
the year, or to plant shells for the purpose of catching
oyster seed, upon and in any waters, flats and creeks therein,
at any place where there is no natural oyster bed; not, how-
ever, impairing the private rights of any person, nor ma-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 127. Ill

terially obstructing any navigable waters. Such license Recording, etc.
shall describe by metes and bounds the waters, flats and
creeks so appropriated and shall be recorded by the city or
town clerk before it shall have any force, and the licensee Fee, etc.
shall pay to the aldermen or selectmen, to the use of the city
or town, two dollars, and to the clerk fifty cents. The shore
line of such licensed premises shall be the line of mean low
water for the planting and growing of shellfi.sh, and the line
of high water for the planting of shells, but this section shall
not authorize the placing of such shells upon the land of a
riparian owner between high and low water mark without
his written consent. Such license shall not be granted Public hearing,
until after a public hearing, due notice of which shall have p°^'"^'®°-
been posted in three or more public places in the city or town
where the premises are situated at least seven days before
the time fixed for such hearing, and shall be granted, as-
signed or transferred only to inhabitants of the city or town
where the licensed premises are situated, and shall not be
assigned or transferred without the written consent of the
aldermen or selectmen. The licensee, his heirs and assigns Licensee to have
shall, for the purposes aforesaid, have the exclusive use of of waTe^re,"ltc.
the waters, flats and creeks described in the license during
the time therein specified; and may, in tort, recover treble Recovery of
damages of any person who, without his or their consent, '^'^^'^ges, etc.
digs or takes shellfish or shells from such waters, flats or
creeks during the continuance of the license. The provisions g. l. 1.30, 5 121.
of section one hundred and twenty-one of chapter one hun- *° app'y- etc.
dred and thirty of the General Laws shall apply to licenses
and licensees under this section.

Section 2. No person shall dig, take or carry away any Digging, etc.,
shellfish or shells between one hour after sunset and one uponi'clnsed
hour before sunrise, by any method whatever, from any waters, etc.,
waters, flats or creeks for which a license has been granted ^'^° ' '*" '
under the preceding section. A licensee violating said Hcenle upon^
section shall, in addition to the other penalties provided, violation,
forfeit his license and the shellfish remaining on the licensed
premises.

Section 3. Whoever violates the preceding section, or Penalty for
whoever, without the consent of the licensee, digs or takes preced°ng'sec-
any shellfish or shells from any waters, flats or creeks de- *'°"' ^'■''■
scribed in any Hcense granted under section one during the
continuance of such license, shall be punished by a fine of
not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for
not less than one nor more than six months, or both.

Section 4. Whoever works a dredge, oyster tongs or Penalty for
rakes, or any other implement for the taking of shellfish drTdge.^etc, for
of any description, upon any grounds or beds covered by a g^gh' upon I'Jf "'
license under section one, without the consent of the licensee, licensed
lessee or owner thereof, or whoever, while upon or sailing l^thout'con-'
over any such grounds or beds, casts, hauls, or has overboard f^^^ g^^.
any such dredge, tongs, rake or other implement for the
taking of shellfish of any description, under any pretence
or for any purpose whatever, without the consent of the

112

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 128, 129.

Powers of com
missioner or
department

licensee, lessee or owner, shall, for the first offence, be pun-
ished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars or by
imprisonment for not more than one month, and for a sub-
sequent offence, by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or
by imprisonment for not more than six months.

Section 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to
affect the powers of the commissioner or department of
not^'affected!'''^ pubHc health to regulate the taking, marketing and trans-
portation of shellfish. Approved March 16, 1929.

C hap. 12S A.TSi Act relative to the supplementary registration

AS VOTERS OF PERSONS IN THE MILITARY OR NAVAL SERVICE
OF THE UNITED STATES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

am^dlV^"* Chapter fifty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended
by striking out section fifty and inserting in place thereof
Supplementary the f ollowiug : ■ — Section 50. Any soldier or sailor in the
ofsoidters" service of the United States who had a legal residence in
and sailors. gj^y gj^^y qj. town iu the commouwealth at the time of enter-
ing said service, but who by reason of his being in the army
or navy was absent from the city or town during the periods
when sessions for listing or assessing and for registration
were held, may appear before the city or town clerk in any
city or town where such clerk is also a member of the board
of registrars, and, in any other city or town, before the
chairman of the board of registrars or board performing
like duties therein, during the regular office hours of such
clerk or chairman and, in accordance with this chapter,
prove his qualifications as a voter under section one and
be registered, if he so appears not less than three days
before the election; but such registration shall be subject
to the revision and acceptance of the board.

Approved March 16, 1929.

Chap. 129 An Act to authorize the city of haverhill to discon-
tinue A PUBLIC LANDING AND TO CONSTRUCT WHARVES
ON THE MERRIMACK RIVER IN SAID CITY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Haverhill may discontinue and
close as a pubHc landing a city landing located on the Merri-
mack river, on the southerly side of Water street in said
city, and shown as city landing number seven on a plan on
file in the office of the city engineer of said city.

Section 2. The said city may construct wharves or
abutments and deposit filhng upon the land comprising said
landing, and may extend such wharves, abutments and filling
to the harbor line established by section one of chapter three
hundred and twenty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred
and five, subject, however, to the provisions of chapter
ninety-one of the General Laws.

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

Approved March 18, 1929.

City of Haver-
hill may dis-
continue a
certain public
landing located
on Merrimack

May construct
wharves upon
land compris-
ing said
landing.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 130, 131. 113

An Act fixing the beginning of the official term of (JhnYf IQQ
CERTAIN ELECTIVE TOWN OFFICERS.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in part Emergency
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an p''®^™^'^-
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty-one of the General Laws, as amended in o. l. 4i, § io7,
section one hundred and seven by chapter eighteen of the «*<=■• ^n^ended.
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby
further amended by striking out said section one hundred
and seven and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 107. A person who is elected town clerk shall be Town clerk,
sworn either by the moderator or by a justice of the peace, "'^'^ °^ °^'^^'
and shall enter upon the performance of his duties on the Jn^Hng
seventh day succeeding his election or as soon thereafter as "pon duties.
he is qualified and shall hold office during the term fixed by
law, which shall begin on the seventh day succeeding his
election, and until another person is qualified in his stead.
Every person elected to any other town office designated by other town
name in section one, before entering upon his official duties oathTetc.
shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, either
by the moderator in open town meeting or by the town
clerk, and, unless other provision is specifically made by law,
shall enter upon the performance of his duties on the day
after his election, or as soon thereafter as he is qualified,
and shall hold office during the term fixed by law, which
shall begin on the day after said election, and until another
person is qualified in his stead.

Approved March 18, 1929.

An Act relative to attachments of real estate. Chav ISl

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and twenty-three of g- 1-223, § 66,
the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section '"^^
sixty-six and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 66. If the copy of the writ is deposited, as afore- whenattach-
said, within three days after the day when the attachment J^"egt°te
was made the attachment shall take effect from the time it take effect.
was made, otherwise, from the time when the copy is so
deposited; but attachments of land, and of leasehold
estates which have an original term of more than seven
years, shall in no case be valid against purchasers in good
faith and for value, other than parties defendant, before the
time when the copy is deposited as aforesaid, and no at-
tachment shall be vahd against such purchasers as to any
particular parcel of land, or as to any particular leasehold
estate as aforesaid, in any case where the name of the owner
thereof under which he acquired title thereto as appears on

114 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 132.

the public records is not included in the writ unless the
writ is seasonably amended to include such name and then
only from the time when a correspondingly amended copy
is deposited as aforesaid.

ame^ndld." ^ ^^' Section 2. Sectiou sixty-five of said chapter two hun-
dred and twenty-three is hereby amended by inserting after
the word "name" in the fourth Hne the words: — or names,
— and by inserting after the word "attached" in the fifth
line the words: — as the same appear in such copy, — so

Duty^ of register as to read as follows: — Section 65. The register of deeds
shall note on every such copy the day, hour and minute
of its receipt, and shall file it in his office. He shall also
enter in a book which he shall keep for that purpose the
name of the plaintiff and the name or names of each de-
fendant whose land is attached as the same appear in such
copy, the time when the attachment was made and the time
when the copy was deposited. His fees may be taxed as
part of the plaintiff's costs. If a dissolution of an attach-
ment which has been so entered in a registry of deeds ap-
pears of record in the court in which the action is pending,
the clerk of such court shall forward to such register a
certificate of such dissolution, stating how such dissolution
was made, and the register shall file the certificate with the
copy of the writ and shall make an entry thereof in his
docket of attachments. Approved March' 18, 1929.

Chap. 132 An Act to regulate the refining of oil in the town

OF WEYMOUTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Approval of^ Section 1. No refining of petroleum or any of its

required for products and no manufacturing process applied to oils shall
oi'Hn^town^ °^ bc Carried on in the town of Weymouth unless, in addition
of Weymouth. ^,0 such othcr liccnses and permits as now are or hereafter
may be required by law, the carrying on therein of such re-
fining or manufacturing is approved by the town meeting
of said town or by such body as under any future system of
government may succeed to the powers now possessed by
said town meeting.
PubUc hearing, Section 2. Upou application for such approval filed
with the selectmen by a holder of such other licenses and
permits, a public hearing shall be granted thereon before
the town meeting or such other body, or before a duly au-
thorized committee thereof, notice of which shall be given
as on an application to the selectmen under section fourteen
of chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the General Laws,
in addition to such notice as may by law be required for
hearing and action thereon by the town meeting. At said
hearing the applicant shall have the right to produce wit-
nesses and to be represented by counsel.
fccrtl^nc^^'te Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
accep ance, e c. ^^ ^^^ town meeting of the town of Weymouth.

Approved March 19, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 133, 134. 115

An Act relative to the stay of execution in capital fhr^j. iqq

CASES PENDING THE DECISION OF JUDICIAL QUESTIONS. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of g. l. 279, new
the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after Ifterng.
section forty-nine the following new section: — Section 49A. stayof execu-
The execution of a sentence of death may be stayed from cases' peTd^ng'
time to time for definite and stated periods by the supreme ciecision of ju-

I'-i . • I- ii c Til nil dicial questions.

judicial court, or a justice thereof, pending the nnal de-
termination of any judicial question arising in or out of the
case in which the sentence is imposed.

Section 2. Section forty-five of said chapter two hun- g. l. 279, § 45,
dred and seventy-nine is hereby amended by inserting after ai»ended.
the word "execution" in the fourth line the words: — or
said execution is otherwise delayed by process of law, —
by inserting after the word "respited" in the fifth line the
words: — or stayed by process of law, — and by inserting
after the word "respite" in the seventh line the words: —
or stay, — so as to read as follows: — Section 4-5 ■ The sen- Sentence of
tence of death shall be executed by the warden of the state el^*^^ted'^^°
prison, or by a person acting under his direction, within
the week appointed by the court, unless the governor pardons
the crime, commutes the punishment therefor or respites
the execution or said execution is otherwise delayed by
process of law. If the execution is respited or stayed by
process of law, the sentence of death shall be executed within
the week beginning on the day next after the day on which
the term of respite or stay expires. The sentence of death
shall be executed upon such day within the week appointed
as the warden elects, at some time between midnight and
sunrise; but no previous announcement thereof shall be
made, except to such persons as may be permitted to be
present.

Section 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of Effective date.
September in the current year.

Approved March 19, 1929.

An Act placing under the civil service laws janitors (Jfid^) 134

OF SCHOOL buildings IN CITIES AND IN CERTAIN TOWNS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section four of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, g. l. 31, § 4.
as amended by chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of ^*«'- amended,
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby
further amended by adding at the end thereof the following
new paragraph: — Janitors of school buildings in cities, Janitors of
and in such towns of over twelve thousand inhabitants as in'dtiesand"^^
accept this paragraph. Approved March 19, 1929. 'laced^under^^

civil service
laws.

116 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 135, 136.

ChaV.lS5 ^N ^C^ REGULATING THE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED
TO PLACE ON THE BALLOTS AT STATE PRIMARIES THE
NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR STATE WIDE OFFICES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

amliided^**' Section forty-four of chapter fifty-three of the General
Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the fourth Hne,
the word "less" and inserting in place thereof the word: —
more, — and by striking out, in the fifth line, the words
"each of four different counties" and inserting in place
thereof the words : — any one county, — so as to read as
Nomination foUows '. — Section 44- The nomination of candidates for
of signatures, nomination or election at state primaries shall be by nomina-
tion papers. In the case of offices to be filled by all the
voters of the commonwealth such papers shall be signed in
the aggregate by at least one thousand voters, not more
than two hundred and fifty to be from any one county.
Such papers for all other offices to be filled at a state election,
and for members of committees and delegates to the state
convention, shall be signed by a number of voters equal in
the aggregate to five voters for each ward or town in the
district or county, but in no case shall more than two hun-
dred and fifty be required. Approved March 19, 1929.

Chav.lSQ An Act authorizing the commitment of certain men-
tally AFFLICTED PERSONS TO FEDERAL HOSPITALS FOR
OBSERVATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
G. L. i23^§ 77, Section seventy-seven of chapter one hundred and twenty-
three of the General Laws, as amended by chapter nineteen
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby
further amended by striking out, in the sixth line, the word
"or" and inserting in place thereof a comma, and by in-
serting after the word "hospital" in the seventh line the
words: — , or, in case such person is eligible for admission,
to an institution established and maintained by the United
States government, the person having charge of which is
licensed under section thirty-four A, — so as to read as
Commitment follows : — Scction 77. If a person is found by two physicians
observation as qualified as provided in section fifty-three to be in such
to their sanity, jy^gntal coudition that his commitment to an institution for
the insane is necessary for his proper care or observation,
he may be committed by any judge mentioned in section
fifty, to a state hospital, to the McLean hospital, or, in
case such person is eligible for admission, to an institution
established and maintained by the United States govern-
ment, the person having charge of which is licensed under
section thirty-four A, for a period of thirty-five days pend-
Proviso. ing the determination of his insanity; provided, that such

commitments shall be made to Gardner state colony only
Disposition when legally authorized by the department. Within thirty
mitment!' days after such commitment the superintendent of the in-

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 137, 138. 117

stitution to which the person has been committed shall
discharge him if he is not insane, and shall notify the judge
who committed him, or if he is insane he shall report the
patient's mental condition to the judge with the recom-
mendation that he shall be committed as an insane person,
or discharged to the care of his guardian, relatives or friends
if he is harmless and can properly be cared for by them.
Within the said thirty-five days, the committing judge may
authorize a discharge as aforesaid, or he may commit the
patient to any institution for the insane as an insane person
if, in his opinion, such commitment is necessary. If, in the Additional
opinion of the judge, additional medical testimony as to the {^|fjj,°,on
mental condition of the alleged insane person is desirable,
he may appoint a physician to examine and report thereon.

In case of the death, resignation or removal of the judge Death, resig-
committing a person for observation, his successor in office, of judge^'com-
or, in case of the absence or disability of the judge commit- mitting person

.• r -1 •! -i-i-rj^i lor observation.

tmg a person as aforesaid, any judge or special justice oi the
same court, shall receive the notice or report provided for
by this section and carry out any subsequent proceedings
hereunder. Approved March 19, 1929.

An Act subjecting the offices of assistants in the (JJku) j^qt

ELECTION department OF THE CITY OF BOSTON TO THE
CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The offices of assistants in the election de- offices of assist-
partment of the city of Boston, established under section deplrtntCTrto"
twenty of chapter four hundred and forty-nine of the acts 8u^°ct^o^c°"ii
of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and now exempt from service laws.
the civil service laws by virtue thereof, shall, upon the ef-
fective date of this act, become subject to said civil service
laws and the rules and regulations made thereunder, and
the term of office of any incumbent of any of said offices
shall be unlimited, except that he may be removed in ac-
cordance with such laws, rules and regulations; but the
persons holding said offices on said effective date may con-
tinue therein without taking a civil service examination.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance submission
during the current year by vote of the city council of said c°un^ii etc.
city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not other-
wise. Approved March 19, 1929.

An Act relative to the open season for deer in plym- Qfidj) 138

OUTH county.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The open season for deer in Plymouth county shall be open season
between sunrise of the first Monday of December and sunset piy^^outh
of the following Saturday; but otherwise the provisions of county.
section sixty-three of chapter one hundred and thirty-one
of the General Laws shall continue to apply in said county.

Approved March 19, 1929.

118

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 139, 140, 141.

Chap. 139 An Act authorizing the town of wellesley to ap-
propriate MONEY FOR THE OBSERVANCE AND CELEBRATION
OF THE TERCENTENARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE MASSA-
CHUSETTS BAY COLONY.

Town of

Wellesley may
appropriate
money for the
observance and
celebration of
the tercen-
tenary of the
founding of
Massachusetts
Bay colony.

Be it enacted, etc., as follow s:

Section 1. The town of Wellesley may appropriate
money in nineteen hundred and twenty-nine and in nineteen
hundred and thirty for the observance and celebration of
the tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts
Bay colony.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 20, 1929.

Chap. 140 An Act relative to appropriations by the city of
boston for municipal purposes.

Be it enacted, etc.,' as follows:

by city of*'°"^ Section 1. The city of Boston may by vote of the city
boston for mu- couucil, with the approval of the mayor, in the manner
purposes. Specified in section three of chapter four hundred and eighty-

six of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, make appropri-
ations for municipal purposes to be raised by taxation for
the financial year ending December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, not exceeding the sum of twelve
dollars and seventy-five cents on each one thousand dollars
of the valuation upon which the appropriations by the city
council are based.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 20, 1929.

Chap. 141 An Act providing for biennial municipal elections

in the city of malden.

Biennial
municipal elec-
tions in city
of Maiden for
choice of
certain officers.

Terms of
mayor, alder-
men and
common coun-
cilmen, elected
in 1929.

Terms of school
committee
elected in
1929, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Beginning with the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine, municipal elections in the city of Maiden
for the choice of mayor, aldermen, common councilmen and
members of the school committee shall be held biennially
on the second Tuesday in December in each odd-numbered
year.

Section 2. Beginning with the biennial municipal elec-
tion to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine, the mayor, aldermen and common councilmen of said
city shall be elected for terms of two years from the first
Monday in January following their election and until their
successors are qualified.

Section 3. At the biennial municipal election to be
held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine and at
every biennial municipal election thereafter, all members
of the school committee to be elected shall be elected to

Acts, 1929. —Chap. 142. 119

serve for four years each and until their successors are
qualified. The member of said committee elected in the
year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven shall continue to
hold office until the qualification of his successor who shall
be elected at the biennial municipal election in the year
nineteen hundred and thirty-one. If a vacancy occurs in vacancy.
the school committee by failure to elect, or otherwise, the
city council and the remaining members of the school com-
mittee shall meet in joint convention and elect a suitable
person to fill the vacancy until the first Monday in January
following the next regular municipal election; and, if there
would be a vacancy on said first Monday, it shall be filled
at such regular municipal election for the balance of the
unexpired term.

Section 4. So much of chapter one hundred and sixty- inconsistent
nine of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and Repealed"*
acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, as is
inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed.

Section 5. This act shall be submitted for acceptance submission
to the qualified voters of said city at the annual city election *° ^^ters, etc.
in the current year in the form of the following question,
which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used
at said election: — "Shall an act passed by the general
court in the current 3^ear, entitled 'An Act providing for
biennial municipal elections in the city of Maiden' be ac-
cepted?" If a majority of the votes cast on said question
are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon take full
effect; otherwise it shall be of no effect and the officers
elected at said election shall respectively hold office for the
terms now provided by law. Approved March 20, 1929.

An Act relative to the transaction of business by (JJkjj) ^42

CERTAIN limited FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows. •

Section forty-six of chapter one hundred and seventy-six g. l. i76, § 46.
of the General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter ^**'' ^'"^'^'^®'^-
one hundred and fifty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, by chapter four hundred and ninety-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, by section
three of chapter eighty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-five, by chapter two hundred and eighty-four of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and by
chapter seven of the acts of the current year, is hereby
further amended by striking out all after the word "fra-
ternity" in the eighth line down to and including the word
"only" in the eleventh hne, — so that the first paragraph
of said section forty-six will read as follows: — Section \6. f^aterLa/'b^nt^
A domestic society which limits its membership as provided fit societies may
in section four, or which limits its membership to the mem- n^sTn com-'"
bers and ex-members of any social organization having a ™^hout con-
lodge system and secret form of work; or a secret order or formin? to

certain provi-
sions of law.

120

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 143.

Certain limited
fraternal bene-
fit societies may
transact busi-
ness in com-
monwealth
without con-
forming to
certain provi-
sions of law.

fraternity which operates on the lodge system with a rep-
resentative form of government and grants insurance bene-
fits as incidental only to the work of the order or fraternity;
or a purely charitable association or corporation existing on
May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, any one of
which pays a death or funeral benefit limited to not more
than two hundred dollars, disability benefits not exceeding
ten dollars a week, or any or all of such benefits, or a do-
mestic society which limits its membership as provided in
said section four to the employees of a designated firm,
business house or corporation, or any department thereof,
and pays disability benefits not exceeding fifteen dollars a
week, and which is not conducted as a business enterprise
or for profit, and a subordinate lodge of a secret fraternity
or order as defined in this section which is not conducted
as a business enterprise or for profit, which pays death
benefits to families or dependents of deceased members as
fixed by its by-laws, but not more than two hundred dollars
if the lodge membership is two hundred or less, and if over
two hundred not in excess of the amount of an assessment
of one dollar upon each member thereof in good standing
at the time of the death of the member, and a society, either
domestic or foreign, which confines its membership to
members of organizations defined in the second sentence of
section twenty-nine of chapter one hundred and seventy-
five, and which embraces therein only persons of the same
occupation, may transact business in the commonwealth
without conforming to the provisions of this chapter except
this section and sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-six,
forty-seven, forty-seven A and forty-nine, of chapter one
hundred and seventy-five, or of chapter one hundred and
seventy-seven; provided, that no proceeding shall be in-
stituted under said section thirty-six because such society
has a membership of less than four hundred. The seventh
clause of section five of chapter fifty-nine shall apply to such
a society. Approved March BO, 1929.

Chap. 143 An Act authorizing county treasueers to advance

MONEY TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS WHEN NECESSARY IN
THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter twelve of the General Laws is hereby amended
by inserting after section twenty-five the following new
section: — Section 25 A. Money to be used for necessary
expenses to be incurred in the performance of the duties
of a district attorney in relation to any investigation or
proceeding in any county in his district, to an amount not
exceeding two thousand dollars in any one month, shall be
advanced to him by the treasurer of said county, or placed
to his credit for advance under his direction to persons
designated by him, upon the presentation of a certificate

G. L. 12, new
section after
§25.

County treas-
urers may
advance money
to district
attorneys when
necessary in
performance of
their duty.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 144, 145. 121

signed by him certifying that such amount is necessary for
use as aforesaid. Every sum so advanced shall be ac- District attor-
counted for by the said district attorney within two months "oTadlanTed"*
after such advance and said accounts shall be approved in sums, etc.
the manner provided in section twenty-four for approving
bills incurred by district attorneys; provided, that all sums Proviso,
so advanced by the treasurer of any county during any
financial year shall be accounted for, and any unexpended
balances thereof be repaid to said treasurer, prior to Janu-
ary tenth next following the close of said financial year.

Approved March 21, 1929.

An Act relative to the commercial travellers' boston (JJidj) 144

BENEFIT ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED).

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Commercial Travellers' Boston Benefit Association commercial
(Incorporated), a corporation duly established by law, may Boston Benefit
include within its membership, and extend its benefits to, Association

,. 1.^ c-i i- (Incorporated)

persons engaged m any business or proiessional occupation, may include
subject to the approval of the directors under its by-laws. wuwnitr^°"^

Approved March 21, 1929. membership.

An Act relative to the disposition of certain funds Chap. 145

IN the custody of the MARLBOROUGH CO-OPERATIVE
BANK IN THE NAME OF CO. F, SIXTH REGIMENT, M. V. M.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Marlborough co-operative bank is hereby Disposition of
authorized and directed to transfer all funds, consisting of fn'^Justod'y of
matured shares, now in its possession and standing in the Marlborough
name of Co. F, Sixth Regiment, M. V. M., to three residents ba'nkfn nime
of the city of Marlborough to be designated by the adjutant Re?hnJntf"*^
general of the commonwealth to act as trustees of said fund, m. v. m. '
and thereupon all liability of said bank in relation to said
funds shall terminate. Said funds or the proceeds of said
matured shares shall be held by said trustees for the benefit
of the officers and enlisted men who constituted company
F, sixth infantry, Massachusetts national guard on April
sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Said trustees shall
from time to time disburse said funds among such officers
and men, but only in accordance with regulations to be made
by said trustees, subject to the approval of the adjutant
general. Upon the termination of said trust, said trustees
shall transmit to the adjutant general all books, records and
papers in their possession relating to the administration of
said trust.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 22, 1929.

122

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Chap. 146 An Act making appropriations for the maintenance of

DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND
^f' CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, FOR IN-
I TEREST, SINKING FUND AND SERIAL BOND REQUIREMENTS,
, AND FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Appropriations
for maintenance

sinliingfund
and bond re-
quirements,
and for certain
improvements.

Section 1. To provide for the maintenance of the
etc'^ToTi^Swe^s^' ^^^eral departments, boards, commissions and institutions,
" 'of sundry other services, and for certain permanent im-

provements, and to meet certain requirements of law, the
sums set forth in section two, for the several purposes and
subject to the conditions therein specified, are hereby
appropriated from the general fund or revenue of the com-
monwealth unless some other source of revenue is expressed,
subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement
of public funds and the approval thereof, for the fiscal year
ending November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine, or for such other period as may be specified.

Section 2.

Legislative
Department.

Item
1

Service of the Legislative Department.

For the compensation of senators, the sum of sixty-
one thousand five hundred dollars . . . $G 1,500 00

For the compensation for travel of senators, a sum

not exceeding fifty-nine hundred dollars . . 5,900 00

For the compensation of representatives, the sum of
three hundred sixty-one thousand five hundred
dollars 361,500 00

For the compensation for travel of representatives,
a sum not exceeding thirty-six thousand six
hundred dollars 36,600 00

For the salaries of William II. Sanger, clerk of the
senate, and Frank E. Bridgman, clerk of the house
of representatives, the sum of ten thousand
dollars 10,000 00

For the salaries of Irving N. Hayden, assistant
clerk of the senate, and Lawrence R. Grove,
assistant clerk of the house of representatives, the
sum of seven thousand dollars .... 7,000 00

For such additional clerical assistance to, and with
the approval of, the clerk of the house of rep-
resentatives, as may be necessary for the proper
despatch of public business, a sum not exceeding
four thousand dollars 4,000 00

For such additional clerical assistance to, and with
the approval of, the clerk of the senate, as may
be necessary for the proper despatch of public
business, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars 1,500 00

For the salary of the sergeant-at-arms, a sum not

exceeding thirty-seven hundred dollars . . 3,700 00

For clerical assistance, office of the sergeant-at-arms,
a sum not exceeding forty-nine hundred and
twenty dollars 4,920 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146. 123

Item

11 For the compensation for travel of doorkeepers, as- Legislative

sistant doorkeepers, messengers, pages and other Department,
employees of the sergeant-at-arms, authorized by
law to receive the same, a sum not exceeding sixty-
five hundred dollars $6,500 00

12 For the salaries of the doorkeepers of the senate and

house of representatives, and the postmaster,
with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, a sum
not exceeding seventy-five hundred dollars . 7,500 00

13 For the salaries of assistant doorkeepers and mes-

sengers to the senate and house of representatives,
with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, a sum
not exceeding forty-five thousand six hundred
dollars 45,600 00

14 For compensation of the pages of the senate and

house of representatives, with the approval of the
sergeant-at-arms, a sum not exceeding eighty-four
hundred and fifty dollars 8,450 00

15 For the salaries of clerks employed in the legislative

document room, a sum not exceeding fifty-two

hundred and fifty dollars 5,250 00

16 For certain other persons employed by the sergeant-

at-arms, in and about the chambers and rooms of
the legislative department, a sum not exceeding
three thousand dollars 3,000 00

17 For the salaries of the chaplains of the senate and

house of representatives, the sum of fifteen hun-
dred dollars 1,500 00

18 For personal services of the counsel to the senate

and assistants, a sum not exceeding thirteen

thousand three hundred and fifty dollars . . 13,350 00

19 For personal services of the counsel to the house of

representatives and assistants, a sum not exceed-
ing thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars 13,950 00

20 For clerical and other assistance of the senate com-

mittee on rules, a sum not exceeding four thousand

dollars . . 4,000 00

21 For clerical and other assistance of the house com-

mittee on rules, a sum not exceeding four thou-
sand dollars 4,000 00

22 For authorized traveling and other expenses of the

committees of the present general coiu't, with the
approval of a majority of the committee incurring
the same, a sum not exceeding four thousand
dollars . ... . . 4,000 00

23 For expenses of advertising hearings of the commit-

tees of the present general court, including ex-
penses of preparing and mailing advertisements
to the various newspapers, with the approval of
the comptroller of the commonwealth, a sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars .... 100 00

24 For printing, binding and paper ordered by the

senate and house of representatives, or by con-
current order of the two branches, with the ap-
proval of the clerks of the respective branches, a
sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars . . 50,000 00

24a For printing the manual of the general court, with
the approval of the clerks of the two branches, a
sum not exceeding fifty-three hundred dollars 5,300 00

25 For expenses in connection with the puVilication of

the bulletin of committee hearings, with the ap-
proval of the joint committee on rules, a sum not
exceeding twelve thousand five hundred dollars . 12,500 00

124

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Legislative
Department.

Item

26 For stationery for the senate, purchased by and with

the approval of the clerk, a sum not exceeding

seven hundred dollars ..... $700 00

27 For office expenses of the counsel to the senate, a

sum not exceeding two hundred dollars . . 200 00

28 For stationery for the house of representatives, pur-

chased by and with the approval of the clerk, a

sum not exceeding eleven hundred dollars . . 1,100 00

29 For office expenses of the counsel to the house of

representatives, a sum not exceeding two hundred

dollars 200 00

30 For contingent expenses of the senate and house of

representatives, and necessary expenses in and
about the state house, with the approval of the
sergeant-at-arms, a sum not exceeding seventeen
thousand dollars 17,000 00

30a For the purchase of outline sketches of members of
the senate and house of representatives, a sum not
exceeding twelve hundred dollars . . . 1,200 00

30b For the payment of witness fees to persons sum-
moned to appear before committees of the general
court, and for expenses incidental to summoning
them, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms,
a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars . . 200 00

Total

$702,220 00

Judicial
Department.
Supreme Ju-
dicial Court.

Reporter of
Decisions.

Service of the Judicial Department.

Supreme Judicial Court, as follows:

31 For the salaries of the chief justice and of the six

associate justices, a sum not exceeding ninety-
nine thousand dollars $99,000 00

32 For traveling allowance and expenses, a sum not

exceeding forty-five hundred dollars . . . 4,500 00

33 For pensions of retired justices, a sum not exceeding

seventy-five hundred dollars .... 7,500 00

34 For the salary of the clerk for the commonwealth,

a sum not exceeding sixty-five hundred dollars . 6,500 00

35 For clerical assistance to the clerk, a sum not ex-

ceeding one thousand dollars .... 1,000 00

36 For law clerks, stenographers and other clerical

assistance for the justices, a sum not exceeding
twenty-four thousand dollars .... 24,000 00

37 For office supplies, services and equipment of the

supreme judicial court, a sum not exceeding forty-
five hundred dollars ..... 4,500 00

38 For the salaries of the officers and messengers, a sum

not exceeding three thousand and forty dollars 3,040 00

39 For the commonwealth's part of the salary of the

clerk for the county of Suffolk, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars .... 1,500 00

Reporter of Decisions:

40 For the salary of the reporter of decisions, a sum not

exceeding six thousand dollars .... 6,000 00

41 For clerk hire and office supplies, services and equip-

ment, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars 8,000 00

Pensions :

42 For the pensions of retired court officers, a sum not

exceeding four hundred and sixty-four dollars . 464 00

Total

$166,004 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

125

Item

44
45
46

Superior Court, as follows:

For the salaries of the chief justice and of the thirty-
one associate justices, a sum not exceeding three
hundred eighty-five thousand dollars

For traveling allowance and expenses, a sum not
exceeding nineteen thousand five hundred dollars

For the salary of the assistant clerk, Suffolk county,
a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars .

For clerical work, inspection of records and doings
of persons authorized to admit to bail, for an
executive clerk to the chief justice, and for certain
other expenses incident to the work of the court,
a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars

For pensions of retired justices, a sum not exceeding
twenty-four thousand dollars ....

Superior Court.

Total

$385,000 00

19,500 00

1,000 00

12,000 00
24,000 00

. $441,500 00

Justices of District Courts:

For compensation of justices of district courts while
sitting in the superior court, a sum not exceeding
thirteen thousand six hundred dollars

For expenses of justices of district courts while sitting
in the superior court, a sum not exceeding twenty-
five hundred dollars . . . . .

For reimbursing certain counties for compensation of
certain special justices for services in holding
sessions of district courts in place of the justice,
while sitting in the superior court, a sum not ex-
ceeding six thousand dollars ....

Total

Judicial Council:

For expenses of the judicial council, as authorized
by section thirty-four C of chapter two hundred
and twenty-one of the General Laws, inserted
by chapter two hundred and forty-four of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, as amended,
a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars

For compensation of the secretary of the judicial
council, as authorized by section thirty-four C of
chapter two hundred and twenty-one of the Gen-
eral Laws, inserted by chapter two hundred and
forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, as amended, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five hundred dollars ....

Total

Administrative Committee of District Courts:
For compensation and expenses of the administrative
committee of district courts, a sum not exceeding
three thousand dollars .....

Probate and Insolvency Courts, as follows:

For the salaries of judges of probate of the several

counties, a sum not exceeding one hundred eleven

thousand five hundred dollars ....

For pensions of retired judges, a sum not exceeding

ten thousand five hundred dollars
For the compensation of judges of probate when
acting outside their own counties for other judges
of probate, a sum not exceeding eighty-five hun-
dred dollars .......

Justices of
District Courts

$13,600 00 Superior Court.

2,500 00

6,000 00
$22,100 00

Judicial
Council.

$3,000 00

3,500 00

$6,500 00

$3,000 00

Administrative
Committee of
District Courts.

111,500 00

Probate and

Insolvency

Courts.

10,500 00

8,500 00

126

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Probate and

Insolvency

Courts.

Item

Clerical assist-
ance to Regis-
ters of Probate
and Insolvency.

60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72

District
Attorneys.

For expense.s of judges of probate when acting out-
side their own counties for other judges of probate,
as authorized by section forty of chapter two hun-
dred and seventeen of the General Laws, as
amended by chapter three hundred and eighty-
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three and by chapter three hundred and seventy-
six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars

For the salaries of registers of the several covmties,
a sum not exceeding fifty-nine thousand five
hundred and seventy-five dollars

For the salaries of assistant registers, a sum not
exceeding sixty-six thousand seven hundred and
eighty-five dollars . . . . • .

$300 00

59,575 00

Total

66,785 00
. $257,160 00

For clerical assistance to Registers of the several
counties, as follows:

Barnstable, a sum not exceeding twenty-four hun-
dred and sixty dollars . . . . $2,460 00

Berkshire, a sum not exceeding thirty-six hundred

and sixty dollars ...... 3,660 00

Bristol, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand four

hundred dollars ...... 12,400 00

Dukes county, a sum not exceeding nine hundred

and sixty dollars ...... 960 00

Essex, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand two

hundred and seventy dollars .... 15,270 00

Franklin, a sum not exceeding ten hundred and

fifty dollars . . ... . . 1,050 00

Hampden, a sum not exceeding eighty-three hun-
dred dollars 8,300 00

Hampshire, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred

and thirty dollars ...... 1,530 00

Middlesex, a sum not exceeding forty-seven thou-
sand dollars . 47,000 00

Norfolk, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand four

hundred and seventy-five dollars . . . 11,475 00

Plymouth, a sum not exceeding thirty-nine hun-
dred dollars 3,900 00

Suffolk, a sum not exceeding sixty-one thousand

dollars . ... . . 61,000 00

Worcester, a sum not exceeding sixteen thousand
two hundred and thirty dollars, provided that the
cost of photostatic service may be paid from this
item 16,230 00

Total $185,235 00

District Attorneys, as follows:

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the Suffolk district, a sum not exceeding
sixty thousand dollars . . . . $60,000 00

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the northern district, a sum not exceeding
twenty-four thousand dollars .... 24,000 00

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the eastern district, a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars 15,000 00

For the salaries of the district attorney, deputy
district attorney and assistants for the south-
eastern district, a sum not exceeding fifteen thou-
sand six hundred dollars ..... 15,600 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

127

Item

77
78
79
80
81

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the southern district, a sum not exceed-
ing ten thousand four hundred dollars

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the middle district, a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars .....

For the salaries of the district attorney and assist-
ants for the western district, a sum not exceeding
eighty-four hundred dollars ....

For the salary of the district attorney for the north-
western district, a sum not exceeding three thou-
sand dollars .......

For traveling expenses necessarily incurred by the
district attorneys, except in the Suffolk district,
a sum not exceeding ninety-five hundred dollars

Total

District
Attorneys.

$10,400 00

15.000 00

8,400 00

3,000 00

9,500 00
$160,900 00

Service of the Land Court.

82 For the salaries of the judge, associate judges, the

recorder and court officer, a sum not exceeding
thirty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars

83 For engineering, clerical and other personal services,

a sum not exceeding thirty-seven thousand six
hundred dollars . . . . . .

84 For personal services in the examination of titles,

for publishing and serving citations and other
services, traveling expenses, supplies and office
equipment, and for the preparation of sectional
plans showing registered land, a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-five thousand dollars

Total

Land Court.

$38,800 00

37,600 00

25,000 00
$101,400 00

Service of the Commission on Probation.

85 For personal services of the deputy commissioner,

clerks and stenographers, a sum not exceeding
forty thousand three hundred dollars

86 For services other than personal, including printing

the annual report, traveling expenses, office sup-
plies and equipment, a sum not exceeding forty-
eight hundred dollars .....

Total

Commission
on Probation.

$40,300 00

4,800 00
$45,100 00

Service of the Board of Bar Examiners.

87 For personal services of the members of the board,

a sum not exceeding eleven thousand dollars

88 For other .services, including printing the annual

report, traveling expenses, office supphes and
equipment, a sum not exceeding thirty-eight
hundred dollars ......

Total

Board of Bar
[ 1,000 00 Examiners.

3,800 00

$14,800 00

Service of the Executive Department.

89 For the salary of the governor, the sum of ten

thousand dollars ......

90 For the salary of the lieutenant governor, the sum

of four thousand dollars . .

91 For the salaries of the eight councillors, the sum of

eight thousand dollars .....

Executive
$10,000 00 Department.

4,000 00

8,000 00

128

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Executive
Department.

Item

92 For the salaries of officers and employees of the de-

partment, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand

dollars $30,000 00

93 For travel and expenses of the lieutenant governor

and council from and to their homes, a sum not

exceeding one thousand dollars . . . 1,000 00

94 For postage, printing, office and other contingent

expenses, including travel of the governor, a

sum not exceeding eleven thousand dollars . 11,000 00

95 For postage, printing, stationery, traveling and con-

tingent expenses of the governor and council,
a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars . 3,000 00

90 For expenses incurred in the arrest of fugitives
from justice, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars . . 1,000 00

97 For payment of extraordinary expenses and for

transfers made to cover deficiencies, with the
approval of the governor and council, a sum not
exceeding one hundred thousand dollars . . 100,000 00

98 For the purchase of a portrait of a former governor,

as authorized Ijy section nineteen of chapter eight
of the General Laws, a sum not exceeding three
thousand dollars 3,000 00

Total $171,000 00

Adjutant
General.

Service of the Adjutant General.

99 For the salary of the adjutant general, a sum not

exceeding forty-one hundred dollars . . $4,100 00

100 For personal services of office assistants, including

services for the preparation of records of Massa-
chusetts soldiers and sailors who served in the
Civil War, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thou-
sand five hundred dollars .... 35,500 00

101 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report, and for necessary office supplies and ex-
penses, a sum not exceeding seventy-five hundred
dollars . . 7,500 00

102 For expenses of delegates attending the national

guard convention, for expenses of the party at-
tending the inauguration exercises at Washing-
ton, and for expenses not otherwise provided for
in connection with military matters and accounts,
a simi not exceeding seventy-five hundred dollars 7,500 00

Total $54,600 00

Service of the Militia.

Militia. 103 For allowances to companies and other adminis-

trative units, a sum not exceeding one hundred
fifty-four thousand dollars .... $154,000 00

104 For certain allowances for national guard officers, as

authorized by paragraph (d) of section one hun-
dred and forty-five of chapter thirty-three of the
General Laws, as appearing in chapter four hun-
dred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, as amended, a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-two thousand dollars . . . 22,000 00

105 For pay and transportation of certain boards, a sum

* not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars . . 2,500 00

106 For pay and expenses of certain camps of instruction,

a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars . . 6,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

129

Item

107 For pay and transportation in making inspections

and surveys, and for escort duty, a sum not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars ....

108 For transportation of officers and non-commissioned

officers for attendance at military meetings, a
sum not exceeding sixty-five hundred dollars

109 For transportation to and from regimental and

battalion drills, a sum not exceeding three thou-
sand dollars .......

110 For transportation when appearing for examination,

a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars .

111 For expenses of rifle practice, a sum not exceeding

eighteen thousand dollars ....

112 For compensation, transportation and expenses in

the preparation for camp duty maneuvers, a sum
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars

113 For maintenance of horses, a sum not exceeding

twenty-seven thousand six hundred dollars

114 For incidental and maintenance expenses of division

headquarters, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars ......

115 For compensation for special and miscellaneous duty,

a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand seven
hundred dollars ......

116 For compensation for accidents and injuries sus-

tained in the performance of military duty, a
sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars

117 To cover certain small claims for damages to private

property arising from military maneuvers, a sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars

118 For expenses of organizing and maintaining an aero

squadron, a sum not exceeding three thousand
dollars ........

119 For premiums on bonds for officers, a sum not

exceeding fourteen hundred and fifty dollars

120 For instruction in military authority, organization

and administration, and in the elements of mili-
tary art, a sum not exceeding seventy-eight hun-
dred dollars .......

Total . . . ...

Service of Special Military Expenses.

121 For the expense of furnishing certificates of honor

for service on the Mexican border, as authorized
by law, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars

122 For expense of testimonials to soldiers and sailors

of the World War, to be expended under the
direction of the adjutant general, a sum not ex-
ceeding twelve hundred dollars

123 For the expense of obtaining from the War De-

partment at Washington, D. C, copies of certain
records, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars
123a For the expense of obtaining from the Navy De-
partment at Washington, D. C, copies of certain
records, a sum not exceeding seven hundred dollars

Total

»
Service of the State Quartermaster.

124 For personal services of the state quartermaster,

superintendent of armories, superintendent of
arsenal and certain other employees of the state
quartermaster, a sum not exceeding twenty thou-
sand five hundred dollars ....

Militia.

$5,000 00

6,500 00

3,000 00

200 00

18,000 00

30,000 00
27,600 00

2,500 00

13,700 00

10,000 00

500 00

3,000 00
1,450 00

7,800 00
$313,750 00

$200 00

1,200 00

1,000 00

700 00
$3,100 00

Special Military
Expenses.

State Quarter-
master.

$20,500 00

130

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

State Quarter-
master.

Item

125

126

127

128

129
130

131

132

133

134

135

13fi

State Surgeon. 137

138

State Judge
Advocate.

Commission
on Adminis-
tration and
Finance.

139

140

141

For expert assistance, the employment of which may
be exempt from civil service rules, in the dis-
bursement of certain money to the officers and
enlisted men of the militia for compensation and
allowances, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred
dollars ........

For the salaries of armorers and assistant armorers of
first class armories, and acting superintendent
of armories, a sum not exceeding one hundred
thirty-three thousand eight hundred dollars

For clerical and other expenses for the office of the
property and disbursing officer, a sum not ex-
ceeding seventy-five hundred dollars .

For certain incidental military expenses of the
quartermaster's dej^artment, a sum not exceeding
eight hundred and fifty dollars ....

For office and general supplies and equipment, a
sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars

For the care and maintenance of the camp ground
and buildings at Framingham, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars .....

For the maintenance of armories of the first class,
including the purchase of certain furniture, a sum
not exceeding one hundred sixty thousand dollars

For reimbursement for rent and maintenance of
armories of the second and third classes, a sum
not exceeding nine thousand dollars .

For allowances for a mechanic for each battery of
field artillery, a sum not exceeding seventeen
thousand six hundred dollars ....

For the rental of stables, including water and cer-
tain other incidental services, for the housing of
horses and mules, a sum not exceeding thirteen
thousand six hundred dollars ....

For expense of maintaining and operating certain
trucks, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred
dollars ........

For expense of maintaining and operating the Camp
Curtis Guild rifle range, a sum not exceeding six-
teen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars

Total

Service of the State Surgeon.

For personal services of the state surgeon and regu-
lar assistants, a sum not exceeding sixty-nine
hundred dollars ......

For services other than personal, and for necessary
medical and office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding three thousand dollars

For the examination of recruits, a sum not exceed-
ing ten thousand dollars .....

Total

Service of the State Judge Advocate.

For compensation of the state judge advocate, as
provided by law, a sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars ......

$1,200 00

133,800 00

7,500 00

850 00
12,000 00

1,000 00

160,000 00

9,000 00

17,600 00

13,600 00

2,500 00

16,150 00
$395,700 00

$6,900 00

3,000 00

10,000 00

$19,900 00

$1,500 00

Service of the Commission on Administration and Finance.

For personal services of the commissioners, a sum
not exceeding twenty-five thousand six hundred
eight dollars and eighty-seven cents . . . $25,608 87

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

131

Item
142

143

144

For personal services of assistants and employees,
a sum not exceeding one hundred seventy-three
thousand dollars ......

For other expenses incidental to the duties of the
commission, a sum not exceeding twenty-four
thousand dollars ......

For expenses of certain studies relative to the future
building construction needs of the commonwealth,
a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars

Total

Commission
on Adminis-

$173,000 00 rfni'!"*^

24,000 00

2,500 00
$225,108 87

Purchase of paper:
145 P'or the purcha.se of paper u.sed in the execution of the
contracts for state printing, other than legislative,
with the approval of the commission on adminis-
tration and finance, a sum not exceeding fifty-five
thousand dollars ......

Purchase
of paper.

$55,000 00

Service oj the Armory Commissioners.

146 For compensation of members, a sum not exceed-

ing twenty-three hundred dollars

147 For office and traveling expenses, a sum not ex-

ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars

148 For the construction, including furniture and equip-

ment, of an armory for the National Guard, plans
and specifications for which are to be approved
by the governor, a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred forty thousand dollars ....

Armory Com-
$2,300 00 missioners.

250 00

140,000 00

Total .

. $142,550 00

149

150

151

152

153

Service of the Commissioner of State Aid and Pensions.

For personal services of the commissioner and
deputy, a sum not exceeding seventy-seven hun-
dred dollars .......

For personal services of agents, clerks, stenographers
and other assistants, a sum not exceeding twenty-
three thousand three hundred and forty dollars

For services other than personal, including print-
ing the annual report, traveling exj^enses of the
commissioner and his employees, and necessary
office supplies and equipment, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirty-eight hundred dollars .

Total

For E.tpenses on Account of Wars.

For reimbursing cities and towns for money paid
on account of state and military aid to Massa-
chusetts soldiers and their families, the sum of
two hundred ten thousand dollars, the same to
be paid on or before the fifteenth day of Novem-
ber in the current year, in accordance with the
provisions of existing laws relative to state and
military aid .......

For the maintenance of the Soldiers' Home in Massa-
chusetts, with the approval of the trustees thereof,
a sum not exceeding two hundred eight thousand
doUars ........

$7,700 00

Commissioner
of State Aid
and Pensions.

23,340 00

3,800 00

$34,840 00

Expenses on
Account of
Wars.

Reimburse-
ment of cities
and towns for
state and
military aid.

$210,000 00

Soldiers' Home
in Massachu-
setts.

208,000 00

132

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Memorial Park
in St. Mihiel,
France.

Item

154

Art Com-
mission.

Commissioners
on Uniform
State Laws.

Board of
Appeal, etc.

For improvements at the memorial park established
in St. Mihiel, France, a sum not exceeding thirty
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose,
and to be expended with the approval of a ma-
jority of the appointees under authority of chap-
ter forty-three of the resolves of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, after plans and specifications
have been approved by the governor .

Total

$30,000 00
$448,000 00

Service of the Art Commission.

155 For expenses of the commission, a sum not exceeding

two hundred dollars $200 00

Service of the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

156 For expenses of the commissioners, a sum not exceed-

ing seven hundred and fifty dollars . . . $750 00

Service of the Board of Appeal from Decisions of the
Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation.

157 For expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding two

hundred dollars $200 00

Service of the State Library.

State Library. 158 For personal services of the Iil)rarian, a sum not

exceeding five thousand dollars . . . $5,000 00

159 For personal services of the regular library assist-

ants, temporary clerical assistance and for services
for cataloguing, a sum not exceeding thirty-five
thousand one hundred dollars .... 35,100 00

160 For services other than personal, including printing

the annual report, office supplies and equipment,
and incidental traveling expenses, a sum not ex-
ceeding three thousand dollars .... 3,000 00

161 For books and other publications and things needed

for the library, and the necessary binding and
rebinding incidental thereto, a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars ..... 15,000 00

Total $58,100 00

Service of the Superintendent of Buildings.

162 For personal services of the superintendent and office
assistants, a sum not exceeding ten thousand one
hundred and forty dollars . . . . . $10,140 00

163 For personal services of engineers, assistant engi-
neers, firemen and helpers in the engineer's depart-
ment, a sum not exceeding fifty-seven thousand
eight hundred dollars . . . . 57,800 00

164 For personal services of watchmen and assistant
watchmen, a sum not exceeding forty-two thou-
sand five hundred dollars . . . . . 42,500 00

165 For personal services of porters, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five thousand three hundred and ten
dollars . . ... . . 25,310 00

166 For other personal services incidental to the care and
maintenance of the state house, a sum not exceed-
ing sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars . 64,500 00

Superintendent
of Buildings.

Total

$200,250 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

133

Item

167

168

169

170

171

Other Annual Expenses:

For contingent, office and other expenses of the Other Annual

superintendent, a sum not exceeding three hun- Expenses,

dred dollars $300 00

For telephone service in the building and expenses in
connection therewith, a sum not exceeding thirty-
eight thousand five himdred dollars . . . 38,500 00

For services, supplies and equipment necessary to
furnish heat, light and power, a sum not exceeding
forty-one thousand dollars .... 41,000 00

For other services, supplies and equipment necessary
for the maintenance and care of the state house
and grounds, including repairs of furniture and
equipment, a sum not exceeding thirty-six thou-
sand dollars 36,000 00

For expenses of the preservation of battle flags in the
state house, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 10,000 00

Total

. $125,800 00

For the Maintenance of Old State House.

172 For the contribution of the commonwealth toward
the maintenance of the old provincial state house,
the sum of fifteen hundred dollars

$1,500 00

Old State
House Main-
tenance.

Service of the Commission on Necessaries of Life.

173 For expenses of the commission, a sum not exceed-
ing ninety-three hundred and fifty dollars .

).350 00 °f li^f-

Commission
on Necessaries

Service of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

174 For the salary of the secretary, the sum of six thou-

sand dollars .......

175 For the salaries of officers and employees holding

positions established by law, and other personal
services, a sum not exceeding one hundred five
thousand dollars ......

176 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,

office supplies and equipment, and for the ar-
rangement and preservation of state records and
papers, a sum not exceeding twenty-one thousand
dollars ........

177 For postage and expressage on public documents,

and for mailing copies of bills and resolves to
certain state, city and town officials, a sum not
exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars

178 For printing registration books and blanks and in-

dexing returns, a sum not exceeding four thou-
sand dollars .......

179 For the purchase of copies of certain town records

prior to eighteen hundred and fifty, a sum not
exceeding eight thousand dollars

180 For the purchase of certain supplies and equipment,

and for other things necessary in connection with
the reproduction of the manuscript collection
designated "Massachusetts Archives", a sum not
exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars

Secretary of
$6,000 00 the Common-
wealth.

105,000 00

21,000 00

3,500 00

4,000 00

8,000 00

2,500 GO

134

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Secretary of
the Common-
wealth.

Item

181

182

183

184

For the purchase and distribution of copies of cer-
tain journals of the house of representatives of
Massachusetts Bay from seventeen hundred and
fifteen to seventeen hundred and eighty, inchisive,
as authorized by chapter four hundred and thir-
teen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty,
a sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty
dollars ........

For the purchase of ink for public records of the
commonwealth, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars .......

For traveling expenses of the supervisor of public
records, a sum not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars ........

For expenses of the census division of the depart-
ment of the secretary of the commonwealth, a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars

Total

$750 00

1,000

200

$152,950 00

Indexing vital
statistics.

Indexing vital statistics:
185 For the preparation of certain indexes of births,
marriages and deaths, a sum not exceeding ten
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
the amount appropriated in the preceding year

$10,000 00

Printing
laws, etc.

For printing laws, etc.:

186 For printing the pamphlet edition of the acts and

resolves of the present year, a sum not exceeding

forty-two hundred dollars . . . . $4,200 00

187 For the printing of a cumulative index to the acts and

resolves, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars 500 00

188 For printing and binding the blue book edition of

the acts and resolves of the present year, a sum

not exceeding six thousand dollars . . . 6,000 00

189 For the printing of reports of decisions of the su-

preme judicial court, a sum not exceeding thirty-
two thousand seven hundred dollars . . . 32,700 00

190 For printing and binding public documents, a sum

not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars . . 3,500 00

Total $46,900 00

Election
matters.

For matters relating to elections:

191 For the printing of blanks for town officers, election

laws and blanks and instructions on all matters
relating to elections, a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars $1,000 00

192 For furnishing cities and towns with ballot boxes,

and for repairs to the same, a sum not exceeding

one thousand dollars ..... 1,000 00

193 For the purchase of apparatus to be used at polling

places in the canvass and counting of votes, a

sum not exceeding five hundred dollars . . 500 00

194 For administering the law to permit absent voters

to vote at state elections, a sum not exceeding

five hundred dollars ..... 500 00

195 For expenses of supplying registrars of voters with

copies of extracts from the constitution, a sum

not exceeding two thousand dollars . . . 2,000 00

Total

$5,000 00

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135

Item

Medical Examiners' Fees:
196 For medical examiners' fees, as provided by law,

a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars .

I f\f\n nn Medical Exam-
1,000 00 iners' Fees.

Service of the Treasurer and Receiver-General.

197 For the salary of the treasurer and receiver-general,

the sum of six thousand dollars . . . $6,000 00

198 For salaries of officers and employees holding posi-

tions established bj' law and additional clerical
and other assistance, a sum not exceeding fortj^-
eight thousand four hundred dollars . . . 48,400 00

199 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,

office supplies and equipment, a sum not ex-
ceeding ten thousand eight hundred dollars . 10,800 00

Total $65,200 00

Treasurer and
Receiver-
General.

Commissioners on Firemen's Relief:

200 For relief disbursed, with the approval of the com-

missioners on firemen's relief, subject to the pro-
visions of law, a sum not exceeding seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars ....

201 For expenses of administration by the commissioners

on firemen's relief, a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars ......

Total

Commissionera
on Firemen's
Relief.

$17,500 00

500 00

$18,000 00

Payments to Soldiers:

202 For expenses of administering certain laws relating

to payments in recognition of military service in
the world war, a sum not exceeding thirty-three
hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid from the re-
ceipts from taxes levied under authority of chap-
ters two hundred and eighty-three and three
hundred and forty-two of the General Acts of
nineteen hundred and nineteen

203 For making pa5'ments to soldiers in recognition of

service during the world war, as provided by law,
a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, to
be paid from receipts from taxes levied as speci-
fied in item two hundred and two

204 For payments to soldiers and sailors in the volunteer

service of the United States during the Spanish-
American war, and to certain of their dependents,
as authorized by section one of chapter five hun-
dred an"d sixty-one of the acts of eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, as amended by section one
of chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the
acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars

Total

Payments to
Soldiers.

$3,350 00

15,000 00

200 00

$18,550 00

State Board of Retirement:

205 For personal services in the administrative office

of the state board of retirement, a sum not ex-
ceeding ten thousand one hundred dollars . . $10,100 00

206 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report, and for office supplies and equipment, a

sum not exceeding forty-eight hundred dollars . 4,800 00

State Board
of Retirement.

136

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

State Board
of Retirement.

Item

207

For requirements of annuity funds and pensions for
employees retired from the state service under
authority of law, a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred sixtj'-one thousand five hundred dollars . $161,500 00

Total $176,400 00

Special Fund.

Special Fund. 208 For the reduction of the direct debt, so-called, of
the commonwealth, a sum not exceeding two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which
purpose the state treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to purchase for not more than the
par value, and thereafter cancel, certain bonds
becoming due and maturing at a time later than
the present fiscal year and issued for any of the
following loan accounts : — armory, development
of the Port of Boston, harbor improvement, prisons
and hospitals, including hospitals for consump-
tives, hospital for epileptics, and Medfield in-
sane asylum, and state house construction .

$250,000 00

Requirements 209
for Extinguish-
ing State Debt.

Requirements for Extinguishing the State Debt.

For sinking fund requirements and for certain serial
bonds maturing during the present year, the sum
of one million one hundred forty-two thousand
seventeen dollars and forty-nine cents, payable
from the following accounts and funds in the
following amounts: — from receipts from loans
for the abolition of grade crossings, the sum of
thirty-four thousand dollars; from the Highway
Fund, the sum of three hundred sixty-three thou-
sand seventeen dollars and fifty cents; from the
balance of the receipts of the sale of the Boston
dry dock, two hundred fifty thousand dollars;
from the balance of the receipts of the sale of bonds
for the defence of the commonwealth, sixty-five
thousand six hundred ten dollars and thirty-six
cents; and the remainder from the general fund $1,142,017 49

Interest on
Public Debt.

Interest on the Public Debt.

210 For the payment of interest on the direct debt and
temporary loans of the commonwealth, a sum not
exceeding one millipn dollars, of which sum three
hundred sixty-two thousand six hundred fifty-one
dollars and twenty-five cents shall be paid from
the Highway Fund $1,000,000 00

Auditor of
the Common-
wealth.

Service of the Auditor of the Commonivealth.

212 For the salary of the auditor, the sum of six thousand

dollars $6,000 00

213 For personal services of deputies and other assist-

ants, a sum not exceeding forty-four thousand

five hundred dollars 44,500 00

214 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,

office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceed-
ing fifty-six hundred dollars .... 5,600 00

Total

$56,100 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

137

Item
215

216

217

218

219

Service of the Attorney General's Department.

For the salary of the attorney general, the sum of
eight thousand dollars .....

For the compensation of assistants in his office, and
for such other legal and personal services as may
be required, a sum not exceeding eighty-nine
thousand dollars ......

For services other than personal, traveling expenses,
office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceed-
ing nine thousand dollars .....

For the settlement of certain small claims, as au-
thorized by section three A of chapter twelve of
the General Laws, inserted by chapter three hun-
dred and ninety-five of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-four, a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars ......

For services of the special attorney appointed to
conduct certain cases relative to electric light rates,
a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars

Total

Attorney
5,000 00 g-|£ent.

89,000 00

9,000 00

5,000 00

25,000 00
$136,000 00

Service of the Department of Agriculture.

220 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-

ceeding six thousand dollars ....

221 For personal services of clerks and stenographers,

a sum not exceeding twenty-two thousand dollars

222 For traveling expenses of the commissioner, a sum

not exceeding twelve hundred dollars

223 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report, office supplies and equipment, and print-
ing and furnishing trespass posters, a sum not
exceeding eighty-eight hundred dollars

224 For compensation and expenses of members of the

advisory board, a sum not exceeding two thou-
sand dollars .......

225 For services and expenses of apiary inspection, a

sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars

Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry:

226 For personal services, a sum not exceeding ninety-

seven hundred dollars .....

227 For other expenses, including the enforcement of the

dairy laws of the commonwealth, a sum not ex-
ceeding forty-eight hundred dollars

Division of Plant Pest Control :

228 For personal services, a sum not exceeding eleven

thousand five hundred dollars ....

229 For other expenses, a sum not exceeding sixty-three

hundred dollars ......

Division of Ornithology:

230 For personal services, a sum not exceeding thirty-

eight hundred dollars .....

231 For other expenses, a sum not exceeding five hundred

dollars ........

232 For the purchase of certain manuscript necessary for

the preparation and printing of the third volume
of the report on birds of the commonwealth, a sum
not exceeding seven hundred dollars .

Department
$6,000 00 of Agriculture.

22,000 00
1,200 00

8,800 00

2,000 00
2,500 00

Division of
Q 700 no Dairying and
y,/UU UU Animal Hus-
bandry.

4,800 00

Division of
11,500 00 Plant Pest
' Control.

6,300 00

Division of
3,800 00 Ornithology.

500 00

700 00

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Division of
Markets.

Division of
Reclamation,
Soil Survey
and Fairs.

Item

233
234

235
236
237

Specials.

238

239

240

Division of Markets:
For personal services, a sum not exceeding twenty

thousand seven hundred dollars . . . $20,700 00

For other expenses, a sum not exceeding fifty-one

hundred dollars 5,100 00

Division of Reclamation, Soil Survey and Fairs:
For personal services, a sum not exceeding twelve

thousand five hundred dollars .... 12,500 00
For travel and other expenses, a sum not exceeding

sixty-four hundred dollars .... 6,400 00

For state prizes and agricultural exhibits, a sum
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for this purpose, and any unexpended
balance remaining at the end of the current fiscal
year may be used in the succeeding year . . 30,000 00

Specials:

For work in protecting the pine trees of the com-
monwealth from white pine bUster rust, and for
payments of claims on account of currant and
gooseberry bushes destroyed in the work of sup-
pressing white pine blister rust, a sum not ex-
ceeding nineteen thousand dollars . . . 19,000 00

For quarantine and other expenses in connection
with the work of suppression of the European corn-
borer, so-called, a sum not exceeding seven thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 7,000 00

For quarantine and other expenses in connection
with the work of suppression of the Japane.se
beetle, so-called, a sum not exceeding five thou-
sand dollars 5,000 00

Total $185,500 00

State Reclama-
tion Board.

Service of State Reclamation Board.

241 For expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five hundred dollars ....

$2,500 00

Department of
Conservation.

Service of the Department of Conservation.

Administration :

242 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-

ceeding six thousand dollars ....

243 For traveling expenses of the commissioner, a sum

not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars

$6,000 00
250 00

Total $6,250 00

Division of Forestry:
Division of 244 For personal services of office assistants, a sum not
Forestry. exceeding thirteen thousand three hundred dollars $13,300 00

245 For services other than personal, including printing

the annual report, and for traveling expenses,
necessary office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding five thousand dollars . . . 5,000 00

246 For the salaries and expenses of foresters and for

nece.ssary labor, supplies and equipment in main-
taining forest tree nurseries, a sum not exceeding
thirteen thousand dollars ..... 13,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

139

Item

247

248

249

250

251
252

253

254
255

256
257
258

259

For the purchase of land and reforesting the same,
as authorized by section ten of chapter one hun-
dred and thirtj'-two of the General Laws, as
amended, a sum not exceeding forty-five hundred
dollars ........

For aiding towns in the purchase of equipment for
extinguishing forest fires and for making protec-
tive belts or zones as a defence against forest fires,
for the present and previous years, a sum not
exceeding two thousand dollars ....

For the personal services of the state fire warden and
his assistants, and for other services, including
traveling expenses of the state fire warden and his
assistants, necessary supplies and equipment and
materials used in new construction in the forest
fire prevention service, a sura not exceeding sixty-
three thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any funds allotted to Massachusetts by the
federal authorities ......

For the suppression of the gypsy and brown tail
moths, and for expenses incidental thereto, a sum
not exceeding sixty-five thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for this purpose, and any unex-
pended balance remaining at the end of the cur-
rent fiscal year may be used in the succeeding
year ........

For the planting and maintenance of state forests,
a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars

For the purchase and development of state forests,
and for the maintenance of nurseries for the grow-
ing of seedlings for the planting of state forests, as
authorized by section thirty-six of chapter one
hundred and thirty-two of the General Laws, a
sum not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for this purpose, and any
unexpended balance remaining at the end of the
current fiscal year may be used in the succeeding
year . . . . . .

For the maintenance of the Standish monument
reservation, a sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars ........

For the maintenance of Mount Grace state forest,
a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars

For reimbursement to certain towns, as authorized
by section twenty-four of chapter forty-eight of
the General Laws, as amended, a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-five hundred dollars

Total

Division of Fisheries and Game :

For the salary of the director, a sum not exceeding
four thousand dollars .....

For personal services of office assistants, a sum not
exceeding ten thousand one hundred dollars

For services other than personal, including printing
the annual report, traveling expenses and neces-
sary office supplies and equipment, a sum not
exceeding seventy-five hundred dollars

For expenses of exhibitions and other measures 1o
increase the interest of the public in the protection
and propagation of fish and game, a sum nc t
exceeding one thousand dollars

Division of
Forestry.

$4,500 00

2,000 00

63,000 00

65,000 00
25,000 00

150,000 00

2,000 00
500 00

2,500 00
$345,800 00

Division of
$4,000 00 Fisheries
and Game.

10.100 00

7,500 00
1,000 00

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Enforcement
of laws.

Biological
work.

Propagation of 264
game birds, etc.

Damages by-
wild deer and
wild moose.

Protection of
wild life.

Item

Enforcement of laws :

260 For personal services of fish and game wardens, a

sum not exceeding sixty-seven thousand six hun-
dred dollars .......

261 For traveling expenses of fish and game wardens,

and for other expenses necessary for the enforce-
ment of the laws, a sum not exceeding forty thou-
sand dollars .......

Biological work:

262 For personal services to carry on biological work, a

sum not exceeding fifty-four hundred and fifty
dollars ........

263 For traveling and other expenses of the biologist and

his assistants, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars ......

Propagation of game birds, etc.:
For the maintenance of game farms and fish hatch-
eries, and for the propagation of game birds and
animals and food fish, a sum not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars ....

Damages by wild deer and wild moose :

265 For the payment of damages caused by wild deer

and wild moose, for the present year and previous
years, as provided by law, a sum not exceeding
thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars .

Protection of wild life:

266 For expenses incurred in the protection of certain

wild life, a sum not exceeding thirty-seven hun-
dred dollars .......

Marine
fisheries.

Enforcement
of shellfish
laws.

Specials.

Bounty
on seals.

Marine fisheries:

267 For personal services for regulating the sale and cold

storage of fresh food fish, a sum not exceeding
eleven thousand one hundred dollars .

268 For other expenses for regulating the sale and cold

storage of fresh food fish, a sum not exceeding
thirty-six hundred dollars ....

Enforcement of shellfish laws :

269 For personal services for the enforcement of laws

relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding eleven
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars

270 For other expenses for the enforcement of laws

relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding seven
thousand dollars ......

271 For expenses of purchasing lobsters, subject to the

conditions imposed by chapter two hundred and
sixty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars ........

Total

Specials :

272 For improvements and additions at fish hatcheries

and game farms, a sum not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose

Bounty on seals:

273 For bounties on seals, a sum not exceeding eight

hundred dollars . . .

$67,600 00
40,000 00

5,450 00
2,500 00

100,000 00

13,250 00

3,700 00

11,100 00
3,600 00

11,250 00
7,000 00

10,000 00
$298,050 00

$10,000 00
800 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

141

Item

274
275

276

277

278

279

280

Division of Animal Industry:

For the salary of the director, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five hundred dollars ....

For personal services of clerks and stenographers,
a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand five hun-
dred dollars ........

For services other than personal, including printing
the annual report, traveling expenses of the di-
rector, and office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding six thousand dollars

For personal services of veterinarians and agents en-
gaged in the work of extermination of contagious
diseases among domestic animals, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifty-three thousand dollars .

For the traveling expenses of veterinarians and
agents, including the cost of any motor vehicles
purchased for their use, a sum not exceeding
twenty-two thousand dollars ....

For reimbursement of owners of horses killed during
the present and previous years, travel, when al-
lowed, of inspectors of animals, incidental ex-
penses of killing and burial, quarantine and
emergency services, and for laboratory 'and
veterinary supplies and equipment, a sum not
exceeding sixty-three hundred dollars

For reimbursement of owners of tubercular cattle
killed, as authorized by section twelve A of chap-
ter one hundred and twenty-nine of the General
Laws, inserted by section one of chapter three
hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, and in accordance with certain
provisions of law and agreements made under
authority of section thirty-three of said chapter
one hundred and twenty-nine, as amended, during
the present and previous year, a sum not exceed-
ing two hundred thousand dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose, and any unexpended
balance remaining at the end of the current fiscal
year may be used in the succeeding year .

Total

«„ ../^/^ n^ Division of
$3,500 00 Animal

Industry.

13,500 00

6,000 00

53,000 00

22,000 00

6,300 00

200,000 00

$304,300 00

Reimbursement of towns for inspectors of animals :
281 For the reimbursement of certain towns for com-
pensation paid to inspectors of animals, a sum
not exceeding fifty-five hundred dollars

Reimburse-
ment of towns

$5,500 00 ^7anTris°"

Service of the Department oj Banking and Insurance.

Division of Banks:

282 For the salary of the commissioner, the sum of six

thousand dollars ......

283 For services of deputy, directors, examiners and

assistants, clerks, stenographers and experts, a
sum not exceeding two hundred fifty-seven thou-
sand dollars .......

284 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report, traveling expenses, office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding sixty-three
thousand dollars ......

Total

Department of
$6,000 00 Banking and
Insurance.

Division
of Banks.

257,000 GO

63,000 00
$326,000 00

142

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Supervisor of
Loan Agencies.

Item

285

286

Supervisor of Loan Agencies:

For personal services of supervisor and assistants,
a sum not exceeding ninety-five hundred and
seventy dollars . . . . . . $9,570 00

For services other than personal, printing the annual
report, office supplies and equipment, a sum not
exceeding twelve hundred dollars . . . 1,200 00

Total $10,770 00

Division of
Insurance.

Division of Insurance:

287 For salary of the commissioner, a sum not exceeding

six thousand dollars $6,000 00

288 For other personal services of the division, including

expenses of the board of appeal and certain other
costs of supervising motor vehicle liability in-
surance, a sum not exceeding one hundred sixty
thousand dollars, of which sum not more than
twenty-eight thousand dollars may be charged
to the Highway Fund . . . . . 160,000 00

289 For other services, including printing the annual

report, traveling expenses and necessary office
supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars . 38,500 00

290 (This item omitted.)

Total

. $204,500 00

Board of
Appeal on
Fire In-
surance Rates.

Division of
Savings Bank
Life Insurance.

Board of Appeal on Fire Insurance Rates :

291 For expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding two

hundred dollars $200 00

Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance:

292 For personal services of officers and employees, a

sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars 25,000 00

293 For publicity, including traveling expenses of one

person, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars 2,000 00

294 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report and traveling expenses, office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding sixty-five hun-
dred dollars . . . . . . . 6,500 00

295 For encouraging and promoting old age annuities

and the organization of mutual benefit associations
among the employees of industrial plants in the
commonwealth, a sum not exceeding thirty-two
hundred dollars 3,200 00

Total $36,700 00

Department of
Corporations
and Taxation.

Corporation
and Tax
Divisions.

Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation.

Corporation and Tax Divisions:

296 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-

ceeding seventy-five hundred dollars . . . $7,500 00

297 For the salaries of certain positions filled by the

commissioner, with the approval of the governor
and council, and for additional clerical and other
assistance, a sum not exceeding two hundred
five thousand dollars, of which sum not more than
twenty thousand dollars may be charged to the
Highway Fund to cover the estimated cost of
collection of the gasoline tax, so-called . . 205,000 00

298 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding nine

thousand dollars 9,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

143

Item

299

For other services and for necessary office supplies
and equipment, and for printing the annual re-
port, other publications and valuation books, a
sum not exceeding thirty-nine thousand four
hundred dollars ......

Total

Corporation
and Tax
Uivisions.

$39,400 00
$260,900 00

Income Ta.x Division (the three following ap-
propriations are to be made from the receipts
from the income tax) :

300 For personal services of the deputy, assistants,

assessors, assistant assessors, clerks, stenographers
and other necessary assistants, a sum not ex-
ceeding four hundred five thousand dollars

301 For traveling expenses of members of the division,

a sum not e.xceeding ten thousand dollars .

302 For services other than personal, and for office

supphes and equipment, a sum not exceeding one
hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars

Total

Income Tax
Division.

$405,000 00

10,000 00

128,000 00
$543,000 00

Division of Accounts:

303 For personal services, a sum not exceeding sixty-

nine thousand five hundred dollars

304 For other expenses, a sum not exceeding thirteen

thousand dollars . . . . . .

305 For services and expenses of auditing and installing

systems of mvmicipal accounts, the cost of which
is to be assessed upon the municipalities for which
the work is done, a sum not exceeding one hundred
fifty-one thousand dollars ....

306 For the expenses of certain books, forms and other

material, which may be sold to cities and towns
requiring the same for maintaining their system
of accounts, a sum not exceeding sixteen thousand
dollars ........

Total

Division of
$69,500 00 Accounts.

13,000 00

151,000 00

16,000 00

$249,500 00

Reimbursement for loss of taxes:
307 For reimbursing cities and towns for loss of taxes on
land used for state institutions and certain other
state activities, as certified by the commissioner
of corporations and taxation for the fiscal year
ending November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, a sum not exceeding one hundred six
thousand seven hundred dollars

Reimburse^
ment of cities
and towns for
loss of certain
taxes.

$106,700 00

Service of the Deparlmeiit of Education.

308 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not

exceeding nine thousand dollars

309 For personal services of officers, agents, clerks,

stenographers and other assistants, but not in-
cluding those employed in university extension
work, a sum not exceeding ninety- two thousand
five hundred dollars .....

310 For traveling expenses of members of the advisory

board and of agents and employees when re-
quired to travel in discharge of their duties, a
sum not exceeding eighty-five hundred dollars

Department
$9,000 00 of Education.

92,500 00

8,500 00

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Department
of Education.

Item

311 For services other than personal, necessary office

supphes, and for printing the annual report and
bulletins as provided by law, a sum not exceed-
ing thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars . $13,800 00

312 For expenses incidental to furnishing school com-

mittees with rules for testing the sight and hear-
ing of pupils, a sum not exceeding eight hundred
dollars 800 00

313 For printing school registers and other school blanks

for cities and towns, a sum not exceeding three

thousand dollars . . . . . . 3,000 00

314 For assisting small towns in providing themselves

with school superintendents, as provided by law,
a sum not exceeding one hundred one thousand
dollars ........ 101,000 00

315 For the reimbursement of certain towns for the

payment of tuition of pupils attending high
schools outside the towns in which they reside,
as provided by law, a sum not exceeding one
hundred ninety thousand dollars . . 190,000 00

316 For the reimbursement of certain towns for the

transportation of pupils attending high schools
outside the towns in which they reside, as pro-
vided by law, a sum not exceeding one hundred
eighty-five thousand dollars .... 185,000 00

317 For the reimbursement of certain cities and towns

for a part of the expense of maintaining agricul-
tural and industrial vocational schools, as pro-
vided by law, a sum not exceeding one million
three hundred eighty-six thousand eight hun-
dred seventy-two dollars and twenty-two cents . 1,386,872 22

318 For the promotion of vocational rehabilitation in co-

operation with the federal government, with the
approval of the department of education, a sum
not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars . . 16,000 00

319 For aid to certain persons receiving instruction in

the courses for vocational rehabilitation, as au-
thorized by section twenty-two B of chapter
seventy-four of the General Laws, inserted by
chapter four hundred and thirty-four of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, a sum
not exceeding three thousand dollars . . 3,000 00

320 For the education of deaf and blind pupils of the

commonwealth, as provided by section twenty-
six of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws, a
sum not exceeding three hundred eighty-five thou-
sand dollars . . . . . . . 385,000 00

321 For expenses of holding teachers' institutes, a sum

not exceeding three thousand dollars . . 3,000 00

322 For aid to certain pupils in normal schools, under

the direction of the department of education, a

sum not exceeding four thousand dollars . . 4,000 00

323 For the training of teachers for vocational schools

to comply with the requirements of federal au-
thorities under the provisions of the Smith-
Hughes act, so-called, a sum not exceeding thirty-
one thousand six hundred dollars . . . 31,600 00

Total $2,433,072 22

English-speak-
ing Classes
for Adults.

English-speaking Classes for Adults:
324 For personal services of administration, a sum not
exceeding ten thousand nine hundred dollars .

$10,900 00

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145

Item
325

326

327

328

329
330

331

332

333

334
335

336

337
338

339

For other expenses of administration, a sum not
exceeding four thousand dollars

For reimbursement of certain cities and towns, a
sum not exceeding one hundred fif tj'-five thousand
dollars ........

Total

University Extension Courses:
For personal services, a sum not exceeding one

hundred thirty-three thousand eight hundred

dollars ........

For other expenses, a sum not exceeding forty-one

thousand dollars ......

Total

Division of Immigration and Americanization:
For personal services, a sum not exceeding thirty-
nine thousand six hundred dollars
For other expenses, a sum not exceeding eighty-four
hundred dollars ......

Total

Division of Public Libraries:

For personal services of regular agents and office
assistants, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand
three hundred and thirty dollars

For other services, including printing the annual
report, traveling expenses, necessary office supplies
and expenses incidental to the aiding of public
libraries, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand
three hundred dollars .....

Total

Division of the BUnd:

For general administration, furnishing information,
industrial and educational aid, and for carrying
out certain provisions of the laws establishing said
division, a sum not exceeding forty-three thou-
sand eight hundred dollars ....

For the maintenance of local shops, a sum not ex-
ceeding seventy-eight thousand dollars

For maintenance of ^^'oolson House industries, so-
called, to be expended under the authority of said
division, a sum not exceeding thirty-two thousand
five hundred dollars .....

For the maintenance of certain industries for men,
to be expended under the authority of said divi-
sion, a sum not exceeding one hundred sixty
thousand five hundred dollars ....

For instruction of the adult blind in their homes, a
sum not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars

For expenses of providing sight-saving classes, with
the approval of the division of the blind, a sum not
exceeding fifteen thousand five hundred dollars .

For aiding the adult Wind, subject to the conditions
provided by law, a sum not exceeding one hundred
thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars

Total

$4,000 00

English-speak-
ing Classes
for Adults.

155,000 00

$169,900 00

University Ex-
tension Courses.

$133,800 00

41,000 00

$174,800 00

$39,600 00
8,400 00

Division of
Immigration
and Ameri- 4
canization.

$48,000 00

$12,330 00

Division of

Public

Libraries.

14,300 00
$26,630 00

Division of
the Bhnd.

$43,800 00

78,000 00

32,500 00

160,500 00
16,000 00

15,500 00

137,500 00
$483,800 00

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Teachers'

Retirement

Board.

Item

340
341

342
343

Teachers' Retirement Board:

For personal services of employees, a sum not ex-
ceeding eleven thousand three hundred dollars . $11,300 00

For services other than personal, including printing
the annual report, traveling expenses and office
supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
twenty-two hundred dollars .... 2,200 00

For payment of pensions to retired teachers, a sum

not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars . 600,000 00

For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for
pensions to retired teachers, a sum not exceeding
one hundred fifty-eight thousand eight hundred
ten dollars and forty-two cents .... 158,810 42

Massachusetts

Nautical

School.

Total $772,310 42

Massachusetts Nautical School:

344 For personal services of the secretary and office

assistants, a sum not exceeding forty-six hundred

and seventy dollars ..... $4,670 00

345 For services other than regular clerical services, in-

cluding printing the annual report, rent, office
supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
twenty-three hundred dollars .... 2,300 00

346 For the maintenance of the school and ship, a sum

not exceeding eighty-nine thousand seven hundred

and thirty dollars 89,730 00

Total $96,700 00

Maintenance
and improve-
ment of state
normal schools.

Bridgewater 347

normal school.

Fitchburg
normal school.

348
349
350
351

Framingham o-n
normal school. "'^'^

353

Hyannis 354

normal school.

355
356

Lowell
normal school.

North Adams
normal ecbooJ.

357
358

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the state normal schools, and the
boarding halls attached thereto, with the ap-
proval of the commissioner of education, as
follows :

Bridgewater normal school, a sum not exceeding one

hundred fifty-three thousand one hundred dollars $153,100 00

Bridgewater normal school boarding hall, a sum not

exceeding eighty thousand dollars . . . 80,000 00

Fitchburg normal school, a sum not exceeding one

hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars 165,700 00

Fitchburg normal school boarding hall, a sum not

exceeding forty-eight thousand dollars . . 48,000 00

For the cost of replacing the electric wiring in a
certain dormitory at the Fitchburg normal school,
a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars . . 6,000 00

Framingham normal school, a sum not exceeding one
hundred sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars . . . . . . . 167,950 00

Framingham normal school boarding hall, a sum
not exceeding eighty-eight thousand two hundred
dollars . 88,200 00

Hyannis normal school, a sum not exceeding sixty

thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars . 60,325 00

Hyannis normal school boarding hall, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars 34,500 00

For expenses of renovating and constructing an
addition to the kitchen facilities at the Hyannis
normal school, a sum not exceeding fifteen thou-
sand dollars ....... 15,000 00

Lowell normal school, a sum not exceeding seventy-
eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars . 78,450 00

North Adams normal school, a sum not exceeding
ninety thousand two hundred and fifty dollars . 90,250 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

147

Item

359
360

361
362

363

364
365
366

North Adams normal school boarding hall, a sum not
exceeding thirty-two thousand dollars

Salem normal school, a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred eleven thousand seven hundred and seventy-
five dollars .......

Westfield normal school, a sum not exceeding eighty-
one thousand two hundred dollars .

Westfield normal school boarding hall, a sum not
exceeding twenty thousand two hundred dollars .

Worcester normal school, a sum not exceeding
ninety-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dol-
lars ........

Worcester normal school boarding hall, a sum not
exceeding nine thousand dollars

Massachusetts School of Art, a sum not exceeding
one hundred six thousand seven hundred dollars .

For the cost of completing the new building for the
Massachusetts School of Art, as authorized by
item three hundred and seventy-three of chapter
one hundred and twenty-seven of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight, a sum not ex-
ceeding four hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose

North Adams
$32,000 00 normal school.

Salem normal
school.

Westfield
00 normal school.

111,775
81,200
20,200

95,750

9,000

106,700

Worcester
normal school.

00
00

Massachusetts
00 School of Art.

450,000 00

Total

$1,894,100 00

Textile Schools:

367 For the maintenance of the Bradford Durfee textile

school of Fall River, a sum not exceeding seventy
thousand and fifty dollars, of which sum ten
thousand dollars is to be contributed by the city
of Fall River, and the city of Fall River is hereby
authorized to raise by taxation the said sum of
ten thousand dollars .....

368 For the maintenance of the Lowell textile institute,

a sum not exceeding one hundred sixty-five thou-
sand one hundred dollars, of which sum ten thou-
sand dollars is to be contributed by the city of
Lowell, and the city of Lowell is hereby authorized
to raise by taxation the said sum of ten thousand
dollars ........

369 For the maintenance of the New Bedford textile

school, a sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand
two hundred dollars, of which sum ten thousand
dollars is to be contributed by the city of New
Bedford, and the city of New Bedford is hereby
authorized to raise by taxation the said sum of
ten thousand dollars .....

Total

Massachusetts Agricultural College:

370 For maintenance and current expenses, a sum not

exceeding nine hundred ninety-two thousand six
hundred and ten dollars .....

371 For an emergency fund to meet the needs of harvest-

ing big crops or other unforeseen conditions, which
clearly indicate that additional revenue will be
produced to equal the expenditure, a sum not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars, provided, however,
that this appropriation be available only after
approval of particular projects covered by it has
been obtained from the governor and council

Bradford Dur-
fee textile school
of Fall River.

$70,050 00

Lowell textile
institute.

165,100 00

New Bedford
textile school.

75,200 00
$310,350 00

$992,610 00

Massachusetts

Agricultural

College.

5,000 00

148

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Massachusetts

Agricultural

College.

Item

372 For the construction and equipment necessary for a

building for horticultural manufactures, a sum
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, the same
to be in addition to the unexpended balance
remaining from item three hundred and seventy-
nine of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
said balance being hereby made available for the
construction and equipment of said building for
horticultural manufactures .... $30,000 00

373 For the construction and equipment of an addition

to a certain building to be used as an abattoir for
the purpose of teaching animal husbandry, a sum
not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars . . 14,000 00

374 For the renovation of the dairy laboratory, a sum

not exceeding four thousand dollars . . . 4,000 00

375 For the construction of a six-car garage, a sum not

exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars . . 2,500 00

376 For the construction of roads, a sum not exceeding

ten thousand dollars 10,000 00

377 For the construction of a poultry house and hot

water brooder, a sum not exceeding two thousand

and fifty dollars 2,050 00

378 (This item omitted.)

378a For renovating and repairing the Brooks Farm barn,
so-called, and for the cost of a silo in connection
with the same, a sum not exceeding fifty-four hun-
dred dollars 5,400 00

Total

$1,065,560 00

Department of
Civil Service
and Registra-
tion.

Service of the Department of Civil Service and Registration.

Administration :
379 For personal services of telephone operator for the
department, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred
and thirty dollars $1,230 00

Division of 380

Civil Service.

381

382

383

Division of Civil Service:

For the salaries of the commi.s.sioner and associate
commissioners, a sum not exceeding nine thou-
sand dollars . . . . . . $9,000 00

For other personal services of the division, a sum not
exceeding ninety-one thousand seven hundred
dollars . . . . . . 91,700 00

For other services and for printing the annual report,
and for office supplies and equipment, a sum not
exceeding thirty thousand five hundred dollars . 30,500 00

For services and travehng expenses in conducting
investigations, as provided by sections thirty-three
and thirty-four of chapter thirty-one of the
General Laws, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars 5,000 00

Total $136,200 00

Division of Registration:
Division of 384 For the salary of the director a sum not exceeding
Registration. eighteen hundred dollars ..... $1,800 00

385 For clerical and certain other personal services of the
division, a sum not exceeding twenty-nine thou-
sand three hundred dollars .... 29,300 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

149

Item
386

For services of the division other than personal,
printing the annual reports, office supphes and
equipment, except as otherwise provided, a sum
not exceeding thirteen thousand nine hundred
dollars ........

Total

Division of
Registration.

$13,900 00
$45,000 00

Board of Registration in Medicine:

387 For services of the members of the board, a sum not

exceeding forty-three hundred dollars

388 For personal services of members of the board and

examiners for the registration of chiropodists, a
sum not exceeding six hundred dollars

389 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding five

hundred dollars ......

Total

Board of Regis-
,300 00 tration in
Medicine.

600 00
500 00

$5,400 00

Board of Dental Examiners:

390 For services of the members of the board and clerical

assistance, a sum not exceeding thirty-eight hun-
dred dollars .......

391 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding twelve

hundred dollars ......

Total

Board of Dental
Examiners.

$3,800 00

1,200 00

$5,000 00

Board of Registration in Pharmacy :

392 For personal services of members of the board, a

sum not exceeding forty-three hundred dollars

393 For personal services of agent, a sum not exceeding

twenty-two hundred and eighty dollars

394 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding fifty-one

hundred dollars, the same to include the purchase
of an automobile for the use of the agent .

Total

Board of Registration of Nurses :

395 For services of members of the board, a sum not

exceeding twenty-one hundred dollars

396 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding three

hundred and sixty dollars ....

Total

Board of Registration in Embalming:

397 For compensation of members of the board, a sum

not exceeding three hundred dollars .

398 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding one

hundred and seventy-five dollars

Total

Board of Regis-
54,300 00 tration in
Pharmacy.

2,280 00

5,100 00
$11,680 00

Board of Regis-
^100 00 tration of
' Nurses.

360 00

$2,460 00

Board of Regis-
$300 00 tration in

Embalming.

175 00

$475 00

Board of Registration in Optometry :

399 For personal services of members of the board, a sum

not exceeding nineteen hundred dollars

400 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding two

hundred and fifty dollars .....

Board of Regis-
$1,900 00 tration in
Optometry.

250 00

Total

$2,150 00

150

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Item

Board of Regis- 401
tration in
Veterinary
Medicine.

402

Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine :
For services of the members of the board and secre-
tary, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars . $600 00
For other services, printing the annual report, travel-
ing expenses, office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding three hundred dollars . . . 300 00

Total $900 00

State Examin-
ers of Elec-
tricians.

Board of Regis- 404
tration of Pub-
lic Accountants.

405

State Exam-
iners of
Plumbers.

State Examiners of Electricians :
403 For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding sixteen

hundred dollars $1,600 00

Board of Registration of Public Accountants:
For services of members of the board, a sum not ex-
ceeding six himdred and seventy-five dollars . 675 00
For expenses of examinations, including the prepa-
ration and marking of papers, and for other ex-
penses, a sum not exceeding twenty-two hundred
and twenty-five dollars 2,225 00

Total $2,900 00

State Examiners of Plumbers:

406 For services of the members of the board, a sum not

exceeding eleven hundred dollars . . . $1,100 00

407 For travehng expenses, a sum not exceeding twelve

hundred dollars 1,200 00

Total $2,300 00

Department of 408
Industrial
Accidents. .„q

410

411

412

Service of the Department of Industrial Accidents.

For personal services of members of the board, a sum

not exceeding thirty-nine thousand dollars . . $39,000 00

For personal services of .secretaries, medical adviser,
inspectors, clerks and office assistants, a sum not
exceeding one hundred twenty-five thousand five
hundred dollars ... . . 125,500 00

For expenses of impartial examinations, a sum not

exceeding twenty thousand dollars . . . 20,000 00

For traveling expenses, a sura not exceeding seventy-
seven hundred and fifty dollars .... 7,750 00

For other services, printing the annual report, neces-
sary office supplies and equipment, a sum not ex-
ceeding eleven thousand dollars . . . 11,000 00

Total

$203,250 00

Department of
Labor and
Industries.

Service of the Department of Labor and Industries.

413 For the salaries of the commissioner, assistant and

associate commissioners, a sum not exceeding

twenty thousand five hundred dollars . . . $20,500 00

414 For clerical and other assistance to the commissioner,

a sum not exceeding forty-seven hundred and

seventy dollars . . . . . 4,770 00

415 For personal services for the inspectional service, a

sum not exceeding one hundred twenty-nine thou-
sand five hundred dollars 129,500 00

416 For personal services for the statistical service, a sum

not exceeding forty-three thousand five hundred

dollars 43,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

151

Item

417

418

419

420
421

422

423

424

425

426

427

For clerical and other personal services for the
operation of free employment offices, a sum
not exceeding fifty-four thousand five hundred
dollars $54,500 00

For clerical and other assistance for the board of
conciliation and arbitration, a sum not exceeding
sixteen thousand dollars ..... 16,000 00

For personal services of investigators, clerks and
stenographers for the minimum wage service, a
sum not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars . 13,000 00

For compensation and expenses of wage boards, a

sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars . 2,500 00

For personal services for tlie division of standards, a
sum not exceeding thirty-one thousand two hun-
dred dollars 31,200 00

For traveling expenses of the commissioner, assist-
ant commissioner, associate commissioners and
inspectors of labor, and for services other than
personal, printing the annual report, rent of district
offices, and office supplies and equipment for the
inspectional service, a sum not exceeding thirty
thousand five hundred dollars .... 30,500 00

For services other than personal, printing reports
and publications, traveling expenses and office
supplies and equipment for the statistical service,
a sum not exceeding eleven thousand dollars . 11,000 00

For rent, necessary office supplies and equipment
for the free employment offices, a sum not exceed-
ing fourteen thousand five hundred dollars . . 14,500 00

For other services, printing, traveling expenses and
office supplies and equipment for the board of con-
ciliation and arbitration, a sum not exceeding four
thousand dollars . . . . . . 4,000 00

For services other than personal, printing, traveling
expenses and office supplies and equipment for
minimum wage service, a sum not exceeding
thirty-three hundred dollars .... 3,300 00

For other services, printing, traveling expenses and
office supplies and equipment for the division of
standards, a sum not exceeding ten thousand eight
hundred dollars . . . . . . 10,800 00

Department of
I>abor and
Industries.

Total .

$389,570 00

Service of the Department of Mental Diseases.

428 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not exceed-

ing nine thousand dollars .....

429 For personal services of officers and employees, a

sum not exceeding one hundred three thousand
dollars ........

430 For transportation and medical examination of state

charges under its charge for the present year
and previous years, a sum not exceeding fourteen
thousand dollars ......

431 For the support of state charges boarded in families

under its charge, or temporarily absent under its
authority, for the present year and previous years,
a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars .

432 For the support of state charges in the Hospital

Cottages for Children, a sum not exceeding
eighteen thousand dollars ....

Department

).ooo 00 °if,S4^i

103,000 00

14,000 00

5,000 00
18,000 00

152

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Department
of Mental
Diseases.

Item
433

434

For the expenses of investigating the nature, causes
and results of mental diseases and defects and the
publication of the results thereof; and of what
further preventive or other measures might be
taken and what further expenditures for investi-
gation might be made which would give promise of
decreasing the number of persons afflicted with
mental diseases or defects; and for making a sur-
vej' of the feeble-minded within the common-
wealth and an estimate of the number requiring
hospital or custodial care or training such as the
institutions for the feeble-minded are especially
equipped to give, a sum not exceeding thirty-six
thousand dollars . . . . . . $36,000 00

For other services, including printing the annual
report, traveling expenses and office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding seventeen thou-
sand five hundred dollars ..... 17,500 00

Total $202,500 00

Psychiatric
examination.

Psychiatric examination :
435 For services and expenses of psychiatric examina-
tions of prisoners, a sum not exceeding sixty-five
thousand dollars ......

$65,000 00

New Metro-
politan Hos-
pital.

New Metropolitan Hospital :

436 For maintenance, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand

dollars; provided, that the comptroller is hereby
authorized to approve for payment in the fiscal
year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, from the
date of opening of this hospital, until an appro-
priation is made, such sums as may be necessary
for the maintenance of its patients and the opera-
tion of the hospital ......

437 For the further development of the new hospital in

the metropolitan district, a sum not exceeding one
million one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to and for the
same general purposes as appropriations pre-
viously made .......

50,000 00

Total

1,125,000 00
$1,175,000 00

Institutions
under control
of Department
of Mental

Boston psycho-
pathic hospital.

Boston state
hospital.

Danvers
state hospital.

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the following institutions under the
control of the Department of Mental Diseases:

438 Boston psychopathic hospital, a sum not exceeding

two hundred fifty-four thousand seven hundred

dollars $254,700 00

439 Boston state hospital, a sum not exceeding eight

hundred fifty thousand one hundred and eighty

dollars 850,180 00

440 For renewing and enlarging certain steam fines at the

Boston state hospital, a sum not exceeding forty
thousand dollars . . . . . 40,000 00

440a For the purchase of certain land with buildings
thereon for the Boston state hospital, a sum not
exceeding forty thousand dollars . . 40,000 00

441 Danvers state hospital, a sum not exceeding seven

hundred twenty-nine thousand seven hundred

dollars 729,700 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

153

Item

442 For providing further for the disposal of sewage at

the Danvers state hospital, a sum not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars .....

443 For the expense of remodeling the gas house, so-

called, and improving Grove Hall at the Danvers
state hospital, a sum not exceeding thirty-seven
thousand dollars ......

444 For demolishing the old power house, changing

steam mains and other supply lines, and improv-
ing pumping facilities at the Danvers state hospi-
tal, a sum not exceeding seventeen thousand
dollars ........

445 Foxborough state hospital, a sum not exceeding four

hundred eight thousand dollars

446 For constructing and furnishing a building for em-

ployees at the Foxborough state hospital, a sum
not exceeding one hundred ten thousand dollars .

447 For building a salvage yard at the Foxborough state

hospital, a sum not exceeding three thousand
dollars ........

448 For the construction of a cottage for an officer at the

Foxborough state hospital, a sum not exceeding six
thousand dollars ......

449 Gardner state colony, a sum not exceeding four

hundred forty-one thousand six hundred dollars .

450 For the expense of providing building accommoda-

tions for dairy purposes at the Gardner state
colony, a sum not exceeding three thousand
dollars ........

451 For constructing and furnishing a building for semi-

disturbed men at the Gardner state colony, a sum
not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand dollars

452 Grafton state hospital, a sum not exceeding five

hundred eighty-six thousand six hundred dollars .

453 For the cost of building a sun porch on the building

known as Pines D at the Grafton state hospital,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars

454 For the purchase of certain land for the Grafton

state hospital, a sum not exceeding fifty-seven
hundred dollars ......

455 Medfield state hospital, a sum not exceeding six

hundred sixty-nine thousand five hundred and
eightjf dollars .......

456 For the cost of providing additional water supply

for the Medfield state hospital, a sum not exceed-
ing forty thousand dollars ....

457 Northampton state hospital, a sum not exceeding

four hundred ninety-nine thousand dollars .

458 For the cost of furnishing a nurses' home at the

Northampton state hospital, a sum not exceeding
ten thousand dollars .....

459 For constructing and furnishing a superintendent's

house at the Northampton state hospital, a sum
not exceeding twenty-two thousand five hundred
dollars ........

460 Taunton state hospital, a sum not exceeding five

hundred eighty-five thousand six hundred and
twenty dollars ......

461 For completing the renovation of the rear center,

including the kitchen, and the construction of new
dining rooms at the Taunton state hospital, a sum
not exceeding one hundred forty thousand dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose

Danvers
state hospital.

S20,000 00

37,000 00

17,000 00

Foxborough
408,000 00 state hospital.

110,000 00
3,000 00
6,000 00

Gardner

441,600 00 ^^^^^ '=°'°"y-

3,000 00
150,000 00

Grafton

586,600 00 ^*^'® hospital.

10,000 00

5,700 00

669,580 00

40,000 00

Medfield
state hospital.

Northampton
499,000 00 state hospital.

10,000 00

22,500 00

Taunton
state hospital.

585,620 00

140,000 00

154

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Taunton
state hospital.

Westborough
state hospital.

Worcester
state hospital.

Monson
state hospital.

Belchertown
state school.

Item

462 For the cost of equipment for the kitchen and cafe-

teria at the Taunton state hospital, a sum not

exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . $15,000 00

463 Westborough state hospital, a sum not exceeding five

hundred seventy-six thousand three hundred and

forty dollars . . . . . . . 576,340 00

464 For constructing an addition to Codman building

at the Westborough state hospital, a sum not

exceeding thirty-seven thousand dollars . . 37,000 00

465 Worcester state hospital, a sum not exceeding eight

hundred seventy-one thousand four hundred and

ten dollars 871,410 00

466 For the construction of two cottages for officers at

the Worcester state hospital, a sum not exceeding

twelve thousand dollars 12,000 00

467 For the construction of a cow barn and hay barn

at the Worcester state hospital, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirty thousand dollars . . . 30,000 00

468 Monson state hospital, a sum not exceeding four

hundred sixty-eight thousand three hundred and

forty dollars 468,340 00

469 For the construction of a hay barn at the Monson

state hospital, a sum not exceeding eight thou-
sand dollars 8,000 00

470 For the cost of furnishing a male attendants' home

at the Monson state hospital, a sum not exceeding

sixty-eight hundred dollars .... 6,800 00

471 For the construction of certain additions to male

and female hospital buildings at the Monson state
hospital, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand
dollars . ... . 35,000 00

472 For the cost of furnishing a children's building at

the Monson state hospital, a sum not exceeding

ninety-four hundred dollars .... 9,400 00

473 Belchertown state school, a sum not exceeding three

hundred seventy-seven thousand one hundred

and seventy dollars ...... 377,170 00

474 For the cost of building additional walks at the

Belchertown state school, a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 2,000 00

475 For the purchase of certain buildings known as

Hillside school, for the Belchertown state school,

a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars . . 500 00

476 For extension of the water and sewerage system at

the Belchertown state school, a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-three thousand dollars . . . 23,000 00

477 For constructing and furnishing a hospital building

at the Belchertown state school, a sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred five thousand dollars . . 105,000 00

478 For furnishing and equipping the dairy at the

Belchertown state school, a sum not exceeding

twenty-one hundred and ninety dollars . . 2,190 00

479 For remodeling a house on the Town Farm property,

so-called, and for increasing the food service and
other facilities at the farm cottage group at the
Belchertown state school, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five thousand dollars .... 25,000 00

480 For the cost of furnishing the schoolhouse at the

Belchertown state school, a sum not exceeding
twenty-eight hundred dollars .... 2,800 00

481 For the cost of furnishing employees' cottage No. 5

at the Belchertown state school, a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty-five hundred dollars . . . 2,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

155

Item

482 Walter E. Fernald state school, a sum not exceed-

ing six hundred forty-five thousand five hundred
and eighty dollars .....

483 For the extension of hot water lines at the Walter

E. Fernald state school, a sum not exceeding
twelve thousand five hundred dollars

484 For demolishing the old power house and laundry

building, and for the erection of a storehouse,
including the cost of refrigeration, upon the site
of said power house at the Walter E. Fernald
state school, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand
dollars .......

484a For the construction of a garage at the Walter E.
Fernald state school, a sum not exceeding seventy-
five hundred dollars .....

485 For equipment for certain school-rooms at the

Walter E. Fernald state school, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars ....

486 For the purchase of additional laundry machinery

for the Walter E. Fernald state school, a sum not
exceeding ninety-two hundred and ten dollars

487 Wrentham state school, a sum not exceeding five

hundred nine thousand four hundred dollars

488 For expense of resetting certain boilers at the Wren-

tham state school, a sum not exceeding forty-
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose ........

489 For furnishings for contagious hospital at the Wren-

tham state school, a sum not exceeding fifty-six
hundred dollars ......

490 For the cost of constructing an addition to Dormi-

tory K at the Wrentham state school, a sum not
exceeding ninety-five hundred dollars

491 For furnishings for nursery building at the Wren-

tham state school, a sum not exceeding six
thousand dollars ......

492 (This item omitted.)

493 For constructing a nursery building at the Wrentham

state school, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars ........

494 For the construction of a garage at the Wrentham

state school, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars ........

Walter E.
Fernald

$645,580 00 ^^^*^ ^'=*'°°'-
12,500 00

80,000 00
7,500 00
1,500 00
9,210 00

Wrentham
509,400 00 state school.

4,500 00
5,600 00
9,500 00
6,000 00

50,000 00
5,000 00

Total

$9,634,920 00

Service of the Department of Correction.

495 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not

exceeding six thousand dollars .... $6,000 00

496 For personal services of deputies, members of the

board of parole and advisory board of pardons,
agents, clerks and stenographers, a sum not ex-
ceeding eighty-three thousand four hundred
dollars _ . 83,400 00

497 For services other than personal, including printing

the annual report, necessary office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding seventy-five
hundred dollars 7,500 00

498 For traveling expenses of officers and employees of

the department when required to travel in the
discharge of their duties, a sum not exceeding
ninety-nine hundred and fifty dollars . . 9,950 00

Department
of Correction.

156

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Department
of Correction.

Item
499

500

501

502

For the removal of prisoners, to and from state in-
stitutions, a sum not exceeding nine thousand
dollars . . . . . . $9,000 00

For assistance to prisoners discharged from the
state prison, Massachusetts reformatory, prison
camp and hospital, and state farm, and to dis-
charged female prisoners, a sum not exceeding
fourteen thousand five hundred dollars . . 14,500 00

For services of guards, and for the purchase of
equipment needed for the employment of pris-
oners authorized by section eighty-two of chap-
ter one hundred and twenty-seven of the Gen-
eral Laws, a sum not exceeding sixty-two hun-
dred dollars 6,200 00

For the relief of the families and dependents of in-
mates of state penal institutions, a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars .... 500 00

Total $137,050 00

Institutions
under control
of Department
of Correction.
State farm.

State prison.

Massachusetts
reformatory.

503
504

505

506

507
508

509

Prison camp
and hospital.

510

511

512

Reformatory
for women.

513

514

515

516

State prison

517

colony

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the following institutions under the
control of the Department of Correction:

State farm, a sum not exceeding six hundred fifty-
one thousand seven hundred dollars . . . $651,700 00

For the construction of an addition to the building
for defective delinquent females at the State farm,
a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars 100,000 00

For the construction of an office building for the
department of criminal insane at the State farm, a
sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . 15,000 00

For the purchase of certain equipment for the new
kitchen at the State farm, a sum not exceeding ten
thousand five hundred dollars .... 10,500 00

State prison, a sum not exceeding three hundred

seventy-eight thousand nine hundred dollars . 378,900 00

Massachusetts reformatory, a sum not exceeding
three hundred ninety-four thousand seven hun-
dred dollars 394,700 00

For the purchase of certain land for the Massachu-
setts reformatory, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars , . 1,000 00

Prison camp and hospital, a sum not exceeding

seventy thousand eight hundred dollars . . 70,800 00

For the construction of a storehouse and office build-
ing at the prison camp and hospital, a sum not
exceeding thirty-six hundred dollars . . . 3,600 00

For the purchase of certain barns for the prison camp
and hospital, a sum not exceeding six hundred
dollars . 600 00

Reformatory for women, a sum not exceeding one
hundred seventy-one thousand eight hundred
dollars 171,800 00

For the town of Framingham, according to a con-
tract for sewage disposal at the reformatory for
women, the sum of six hundred dollars . . 600 00

For the cost of draining certain lands at the reforma-
tory for women, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars 2,500 00

For the construction of fire walls at the reformatory
for women, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars 1,000 00

State prison colony, a sum not exceeding seventy-
three thousand eight hundred dollars . . . 73,800 00

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157

Item

518

519

For continuing the work at the state prison colony of
construction of buildings and purchase of certain
land, and for expenses incidental to the completion
of the wall, for grading, and for any necessary ex-
penditure in connection with the development
of said colony, a sum not exceeding one hundred
twenty-five thousand dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

For the cost of driving test wells for water supply at
the state prison colony, a sum not exceeding
fifteen hundred dollars .....

State prison
colony.

$125,000 00

Total

1,500 00
$2,003,000 00

Service of the Departmenl of Public Welfare.

Administration :

520 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-
ceeding six thousand dollars ....

621 For personal services of officers and employees and
supervision of homesteads and planning boards,
a sum not exceeding forty-two thousand nine
hundred dollars ......

522 For services other than personal, printing the annual

report, traveling expenses, including expenses of
auxiliary visitors, office supplies and expenses, and
contingent expenses for the supervision of home-
steads and planning boards, a sum not exceeding
seventy-two hundred dollars ....
522a For an investigation and survey to ascertain the
number of crippled children in the commonwealth
who are not receiving the benefit of treatment at
the Massachusetts hospital school, at a cost not to
exceed ten thousand dollars, of which amount five
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated in antic-
ipation of a further sum to be appropriated in
nineteen hundred and thirty ....

Total

Division of Aid and Relief:

523 For personal services of officers and employees, a

sum not exceeding one hundred eighteen thousand
dollars ........

524 For services other than personal, including traveling

expenses and office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars .

525 For the transportation of poor persons under the

charge of the department, for the present year and
previous years, a sum not exceeding eight thou-
sand dollars .......

The following items are for reimbursement of
cities and towns for expenses of the present year
and previous years, and are to be in addition to
any amounts heretofore appropriated for the
purpose :

526 For the payment of suitable aid to mothers with

dependent children, a sum not exceeding four
hundred seventy-three thousand dollars

527 For the burial by cities and towns of poor persons

who have no legal settlement, a sum not exceeding
seventy-three hundred dollars ....

Department of
$6,000 00 Public Welfare.

42,900 00

7,200 00

5,000 00

$61,100 00

Division of Aid
and Relief.

$118,000 00

21.000 00

8,000 00

Reimburse^
ment of cities

473,000 00 ^p^J^^e^o/"

certain aid, etc.

7,300 00

158

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Item

Reimburse- 528

merit of cities
and towns for
payment of
certain aid, etc. 529

530

Division of
Child Guar-
dianship.

531

532

533

534

Division of 535

Juvenile Train-
ing, Trustees of
Massachusetts ~r,r-
Training ""J"

Schools.

Boys' Parole. 537

Girls' Parole.

538

539

540

541

For expenses in connection with smallpox and other
diseases dangerous to the public health, a sum not
exceeding fifty-nine thousand dollars .

For the support of sick poor persons who have no
legal settlement and for cases of wife settlement,
a sum not exceeding seventy-one thousand dollars

For temporary aid given to poor persons with no
legal settlement, and to shipwrecked seamen by
cities and towns, a sum not exceeding eight hun-
dred ten thousand dollars .....

$59,000 00

71,000 00

810,000 00
Total $1,567,300 00

Division of Child Guardianship:

For personal services of officers and employees, a sum
not exceeding one hundred seventy thousand five
hundred dollars $170,500 00

For services other than personal, office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding four thousand
dollars . . . ... . 4,000 00

For tuition in the public schools, including trans-
portation to and from school, of children boarded
or bound out by the department, for the present
and previous years, a sum not exceeding two hun-
dred five thousand dollars . . . . 205,000 00

For the care and maintenance of children, for the
present and previous years, a sum not exceeding
one million and fifty thousand dollars . . 1,050,000 00

Total

$1,429,500 00

Division of Juvenile Training, Trustees of Massa-
chusetts Training Schools:

For services of the secretary and certain other per-
sons employed in the executive office, a sum not
exceeding twelve thousand four hundred dollars $12,400 00

For services other than personal, including printing
the annual report, traveling and other expenses
of the members of the board and employees,
office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceed-
ing thirty-three hundred dollars . . . 3,300 00

Boys' Parole:

For personal services of agents in the division for
boys paroled and boarded in families, a sum not
exceeding thirty-eight thousand one hundred and
ninety dollars . . . . . . 38,190 00

For services other than personal, including traveling
expenses of the agents and boys, and necessary
office supplies and equipment, a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty thousand five hundred dollars . 20,500 00

For board, clothing, medical and other expenses in-
cidental to the care of boys, a sum not exceeding
seventeen thousand five hundred dollars . . 17,500 00

Girls' Parole:

For personal services of agents in the cUvision for
girls paroled from the industrial school for girls, a
sum not exceeding twenty-nine thousand nine
hundred and seventy dollars .... 29,970 00

For traveling expenses of said agents for girls pa-
roled, for board, medical and other care of girls,
and for services other than personal, office sup-
plies and equipment, a sum not exceeding four-
teen thousand five hundred dollars . . . 14,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

159

Item

542

Tuition of children:
For reimbursement of cities and towns for tuition
of children attending the public schools, a sum
not exceeding forty-five hundred dollars .

Total

Reimburse-
ment of cities

t.500 00 -d^S

of children.

$140,860 00

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the institutions under the control of
the trustees of the Massachusetts training
schools, with the approval of said trustees, as
follows :

543 Industrial school for boys, a sum not exceeding

one hundred sixty-three thousand five hundred
dollars ........

544 For the expense of providing a new system of sew-

age disposal at the industrial school for boys, a
sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars .

545 Industrial school for girls, a sum not exceeding one

hundred fifty-four thousand six hundred dollars
540 For expenses of constructing an addition to and re-
modeling certain wards in the infirmary building
at the industrial school for girls, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifteen thousand dollars

547 For the purchase of certain electrical equipment,

and for constructing a line for the same, at the
industrial school for girls, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five hundred dollars ....

548 Lyman school for boys, a sum not exceeding two

hundred forty-four thousand six hundred dollars

549 For the construction of a brick cottage at the Lyman

school for boys, a sum not exceeding seventy-
five thousand dollars .....

Total

Institutions
under control
of Massachu-
setts training
schools.

Industrial
school for boys.

$163,500 00

8,000 00

Industrial
154,600 00 school for girls.

15,000 00

3,500 00

Lyman school
244,600 00 for boys.

75,000 00
$664,200 00

Massachusetts Hospital School:
550 For the maintenance of the Massachusetts hospital
school, to be expended with the approval of the
trustees thereof, a sum not exceeding one hundred
ninety-five thousand one hundred dollars .

Massachusetts
Hospital School.

$195,100 00

State Infirmary:

551 For the maintenance of the state infirmary, to be

expended with the approval of the trustees thereof,
a sum not exceeding one million seven thousand
one hundred dollars ....

552 For the construction of a new building to be used

as a maternity ward, a sum not exceeding thirty-
one thousand dollars .....

553 For the purchase of certain land with buildings

thereon, a sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars ........

554 For the purchase of certain land to protect the

source of water supply, a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars ......

State Infirniary.

1,007,100 00

31,000 00

2,000 00

2.000 00

Total

$1,042,100 00

555

Service of the Department of Public Health.

Administration :
For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-
ceeding seventy-five hundred dollars .

Department of
$7,500 00 Public Health.
Administration .

160

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Department of
Public Health.

Administration.

Item

556

557

For personal services of the health council and office
assistants, a sum not exceeding nineteen thousand
dollars $19,000 00

For services other than personal, including printing
the annual report, traveling expenses, office sup-
plies and equipment, a sum not exceeding four-
teen thousand dollars ..... 14,000 00

Division of
Hygiene.

Division of Hygiene:

558 For personal services of the director and assistants,

a sum not exceeding thirty-three thousand dollars 33,000 00

559 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,

office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding

sixteen thousand six hundred dollars . . . 16,600 00

Maternal and 560
Child Hygiene.

561

Maternal and Child Hygiene:

For personal services for extending the activities of
the division in the protection of mothers and con-
servation of the welfare of children, a sum not
exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars . . 21,000 00

For other expenses for extending the activities of
the division in the protection of mothers and con-
servation of the welfare of children, a sum not
exceeding ten thousand nine hundred dollars . 10,900 00

Division of 562

Communicable

Diseases.

563

Division of Communicable Diseases:
For personal services of the director, district health
officers and their assistants, epidemiologists, bac-
teriologist and assistants in the diagnostic labora-
tory, a sum not exceeding sixty-five thousand

dollars 65,000 00

For services other than personal, traveling expenses,
laboratory, office and other necessary supplies,
including the purchase of animals and equipment,
and rent of certain offices, a sum not exceeding
eighteen thousand five hundred dollars . . 18,500 00

Venereal
Diseases.

Venereal Diseases:

564 For personal services for the control of venereal dis-

eases, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand three

hundred dollars 12,300 00

565 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,

office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceed-
ing thirty-four thousand dollars . . . 34,000 00

Wassermann 566

Laboratory.

567

Wassermann Laboratory:
For personal services of the Wassermann laboratory,

a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . 15,000 00
For expenses of the Wassermann laboratory, a sum

not exceeding fifty-two hundred dollars . . 5,200 00

Antitoxin and 568

Vaccine

Laboratories.

569

Antitoxin and Vaccine Laboratories:
For personal services in the investigation and pro-
duction of antitoxin and vaccine lymph and other
specific material for protective inoculation and
diagnosis of treatment, a sum not exceeding
sixty-three thousand four hundred dollars . . 63,400 00
For other services, supplies, materials and equip-
ment necessary for the production of antitoxin and
other materials as enumerated above, a sum not
exceeding thirty-nine thousand five hundred
dollars 39,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

161

Item

Inspection of Food and Drugs:

570 For personal services of the director, analysts, in-

spectors and other assistants, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifty thousand dollars .... $50,000 00

571 For other services, including traveling expenses,

supplies, materials and equipment, a sum not

exceeding fifteen thousand two hundred dollars . 15,200 00

Shellfish Law:

572 For personal services for administering the law

relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding twenty-
one hundred dollars .....

573 For other expenses for administering the law

relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding nine
hundred dollars ......

Water Supply and Disposal of Sewage, Engineer-
ing Division:

574 For personal services of the director, engineers,

clerks and other assistants, a sum not exceeding
sixtj'-six thousand dollars ....

575 For other services, including traveling expenses,

supplies, materials and equipment, a sum not
exceeding eighteen thousand dollars .

Water Supply and Disposal of Sewage, Division of
Laboratories:

576 For personal services of laboratory director, chem-

ists, clerks and other assistants, a sum not ex-
ceeding forty thousand dollars ...

577 For other services, including traveling expenses,

supplies, materials and equipment, a sum not
exceeding eighty-three hundred dollars

Total

Cancer Climes:

578 For personal services of certain cancer clinics, a sum

not exceeding twenty-nine thousand five hundred
dollars ........

579 For other expenses of certain cancer clinics, a sum

not exceeding thirty-three thousand nine hundred
dollars ........

580 For the care of radium after purchase, as authorized

by chapter three hundred and twentj'-eight of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twentj'-seven,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars . . 10,000 00

Total $73,400 00

Division of Tuberculosis:

581 For personal services of the director, stenographers,

clerks and other assistants, a sum not exceeding

thirty-five thousand three hundred dollars . S35,300 00

582 For services other than personal, including printing

the annual report, traveling expenses and office
supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding ten
thousand four hundred dollars .... 10,400 00

583 To cover the payment of certain subsidies for the

maintenance of hospitals for tubercular patients,
a sum not exceeding two hundred forty-five thou-
sand dollars . . ... . 245,000 00

584 For personal services for certain children's clinics

for tuberculosis, a sum not exceeding fortj'-three

thousand five hundred dollars .... 43,500 00

Inspection of
Food and
Drugs.

Shellfish Law.

2,100

900

66,000

Water Supply
and Disposal
nr^ of Sewage,
^ Engineering
Division.

18,000

40,000

Water Supply

P,^ of Sewage,
"O Division of
Laboratories.

8,300

$575,400 00

Cancer Clinics.

$29,500 00

33,900

Division of
Tuberculosis.

162

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Division of
Tuberculosis.

Item
585

For other services for certain children's clinics for
tuberculosis, a sum not exceeding nineteen thou-
sand five hundred dollars .... $19,500 00

Total $353,700 00

Lakeville state
sanatorium.

North Reading
state sana-
torium.

Rutland state
sanatorium.

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the sanatoria, as follows:

586 Lakeville state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding

two hundred forty-three thousand dollars . . $243,000 00

587 For additional fire protection at the Lakeville state

sanatorium, a sum not exceeding fifty-seven hun-
dred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose 5,700 00

588 For the construction and furni.shing of a new build-

ing for children at the Lakeville state sanatorium,
a sum not exceeding one hundred thirty-two
thousand five hundred dollars .... 132,500 00

589 North Reading state sanatorium, a sum not ex-

ceeding two hundred eleven thousand dollars . 211,000 00

590 For the construction and furnishing of an admis-

sion and isolation building at the North Reading
state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred seventy-two thousand dollars . 172,000 00

591 For the expense of remodeling and increasing the

facilities at the power hou.se of the North Read-
ing state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding nine-
teen thousand dollars . . . . . 19,000 00

592 For improving the water supply and for additional

fire protection at the North Reading state sana-
torium, a sum not exceeding twenty-one thou-
sand dollars 21,000 00

593 Rutland state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding

three hundred twenty-three thousand nine hun-
dred dollars 323,900 00

For furnishings for the building for women and
married employees at the Rutland state sana-
torium, there may be expended out of the unex-
pended balance of the appropriation for the con-
struction of said Ijuilding in item five hundred
and ninety-six of chapter one hundred and
twenty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, a sum not exceeding eight
thousand dollars.

Westfield state
sanatorium.

594 For improving the water supply system and install-

ing additional sprinkler heads at the Rutland state
sanatorium, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand
dollars . 15,000 00

595 Westfield state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding

two hundred fifty-eight thousand nine hundred

dollars . 258,900 00

596 For improving the water supply and for additional

fire protection at the Westfield state sanatorium,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand seven hundred
dollars „ 10,700 00

Total

$1,412,700 00

Pondville can-
cer hospital.

Pondville Cancer Hospital:
597 For maintenance of the Pondville cancer hospital,
a sum not exceeding one hundred ninety-three
thousand four hundred dollars ....

$193,400 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

163

Item
598

599
600

For construction to provide additional hospital
facilities, including furnishings, and an out-
patient department, a sum not exceeding seventy-
eight thousand dollars .....

For the installation of automatic sprinklers, a sum
not exceeding twentj'-five hundred dollars .

For improvements to sewer beds, a sum not exceed-
ing twelve hundred dollars ....

Total

Pondville can-
cer hospital.

$78,000 00
2,500 00
1,200 00

$275,100 00

Service of the Department of Public Safety.

Administration :

601 For the salary of the commissioner, a sum not ex-

ceeding six thousand dollars ....

602 For personal services of clerks and stenographers,

a sum not exceeding forty-eight thousand six
hundred dollars ......

603 For contingent expenses, including printing the

annual report, rent of district offices, supplies and
equipment, and all other things necessary for the
investigation of fires and moving picture licenses,
as required by law, and for expenses of adminis-
tering the law regulating the sale and resale of
tickets to theatres and other places of public
amusement by the department of public safety,
a sum not exceeding seventy-two thousand dollars

Division of State Police :

604 For the salaries of officers, including detectives, a

sum not exceeding three hundred thirtj^-nine
thousand dollars ......

605 For personal services of civilian employees, a sum

not exceeding forty-five thousand six hundred
dollars ........

606 For other necessary expenses of the uniformed divi-

sion, a sum not exceeding three hundred thirty
thousand dollars ......

607 For traveling expenses of detectives, a sum not ex-

ceeding nineteen thousand dollars

608 For maintenance and operation of the police steamer,

a sum not exceeding eleven thousand dollars

609 For personal services, rent, supplies and equipment

necessary in the enforcement of statutes relative
to explosives and inflammable fluids and com-
pounds, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand
dollars ........

Division of Inspection:

610 For the salary of the chief of inspections, a sum not

exceeding thirty-eight hundred dollars

611 For the salaries of officers for the building inspection

service, a sum not exceeding fifty-four thousand
dollars ........

612 For traveling expenses of officers for the building

inspection service, a sum not exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars ......

613 For the salaries of officers for the boiler inspection

service, a sum not exceeding sixty-six thousand
dollars ........

614 For traveling expenses of officers for the boiler in-

spection service, a sum not exceeding twenty-three
thousand dollars ......

Department of
$6,000 00 Public Safety.

Administration.

48,600 00

Division of
State Police.

72,000 00

339,000 00

45,600 00

330,000 00
19,000 00
11,000 00

12.000 00

Division of
3,800 00 Inspection.

54,000 00
15,000 00
66,000 00
23,000 00

164

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Division of
Inspection.

Item

615

For services, supplies and equipment necessary for
investigations and inspections by the division, a
sum not exceeding one thousand dollars

$1,000 00

Board of

Elevator
Regulations.

Board of Elevator Regulations:
616 For expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding one
hundred and fifty dollars .....

150 00

Board of
Boiler Rules.

Board of Boiler Bules:

617 For personal services of members of the board, a sum

not exceeding one thousand dollars

618 For services other than personal and the necessary

traveling expenses of the board, oflice supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ........

1.000 00

500 00

Total

$1,047,650 00

Troop head-
quarters.

State police
Bub-stations.

Specials :

619 For the cost of constructing necessary buildings for

troop headquarters, a sum not exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to the
amount appropriated in item six hundred and
twenty-two of chapter one hundred and twenty-
seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight ........

620 For the cost of constructing necessary buildings for

two state police suli-stations, a sum not exceeding
fiftv thousand dollars .....

$15,000 00

50,000 00

Total

$65,000 00

Fire Prevention Q2\
District Service.

State fire
marshal.

622
623

624

625

Fire Prevention District Service (the maintenance
of this service, as provided in items 621, 623
and 625, is to be assessed upon certain cities and
towns making up the fire prevention district,
as provided by law) :
For the salary of the state fire marshal, a sum not

exceeding thirty-eight hundred dollars . . $3,800 00

For personal services of fire inspectors, a sum not

exceeding thirty thousand three hundred dollars . 30,300 00
For other personal services, a sum not exceeding

nineteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars . 19,950 00
For traveling expenses of fire inspectors, a sum not

exceeding twelve thousand one hundred dollars . 12,100 00
For other services, office rent and necessary office
supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
fifty-five hundred dollars 5,500 00

Total $71,650 00

State Boxing
Commission.

626

627

State Boxing Commis.sion:
For compensation and clerical assistance for the

state boxing commission, a sum not exceeding

twelve thousand eight hundred and forty dollars . $12,840 00
For other expenses of the commission, a sum not

exceeding eleven thousand dollars . . . 11,000 00

Total

$23,840 GO

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165

Item

628

629

630

Service of the Departjnent of Public Works.

The appropriations made in the following three
items are to be paid two thirds from the High-
way Fimd and one third from the Port of Bos-
ton receipts:
For the salaries of the commissioner and the asso-
ciate commissioners, a sum not exceeding nineteen
thousand five hundred dollars .... $19,500 00
For personal services of clerks and assistants to the
commissioner, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
eight hundred dollars . . . . . 10,800 00

For traveling expenses of the commissioners, a sum

not exceeding four thousand dollars . . . 4,000 00

Total $34,300 00

Department of
Public Works.

Functions of the department relating to highways
(the following appropriations, except as other-
wise provided, are made from the Highway
Fund) :

631 For the personal services of the chief engineer,

engineers and office assistants, including certain
clerks and stenographers, a sum not exceeding
seventy-eight thousand eight hundred dollars . $78,800 00

632 For services other than personal, including printing

pamphlet of laws and the annual report, and
necessary office supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding twelve thousand dollars . . 12,000 00

633 For the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths

on state highways, a sum not exceeding fifteen

thousand dollars 15,000 00

634 For the construction and repair of town and county

ways, a sum not exceeding two million dollars . 2,000,000 00

635 For aiding towns in the repair and improvement of

public wavs, a sum not exceeding nine hundred

thousand dollars . . . _ . . 900,000 00

636 For the maintenance and repair of state highways,

including care of snow on highways, expenses of
traffic signs and lights, and payment of damages
caused by defects in state highways with the ap-
proval of the attorney general, and for care and
repair of road-building machinery, a sum not
exceeding six million five hundred thousand dollars 6,500,000 00

637 For the maintenance and operation of the Newl^ury-

port bridge and the Brightman street bridge in Fall
River and Somerset, in accordance with the pro-
visions of existing laws, a sum not exceeding
eighteen thousand dollars .... 18,000 00

638 For the purpose of enabling the department of

public works to secure federal aid for the construc-
tion of highways, a sum not exceeding one milhon
five hundred thousand dollars . . . . 1,500,000 00

639 For administering the law relative to advertising

signs near highways, a svnn not exceeding fifteen
thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid from the
general fund .......

Highways.

Total

15,500 00
$11,039,300 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:
640 For personal services, a sum not exceeding eight
hundred eighteen thousand dollars, to be paid
from the Highway Fund .....

Registration of
Motor Vehicles.

$818,000 00

166

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Registration of
Motor Vehicles.

Item

641

642

Department
relating to
waterways and
public lands.

643

644

645

646

647

648

649

650

For services other than personal, including traveling
expenses, purchase of necessary supplies and
materials, including cartage and storage of the
same, and for work incidental to the registration
and licensing of owners and operators of motor
vehicles, a sum not exceeding five hundred twenty-
two thousand dollars, to be paid from the High-
way Fund . S522,000 00

For printing and other expenses necessary in con-
nection with publicity for certain safety work, a
sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars,
to be paid from the Highway Fund . . . 2,500 00

Total $1,342,500 00

Functions of the department relating to water-
ways and public lands :

For personal services of the chief engineer and assist-
ants, a sum not exceeding fifty-two thousand
dollars . . . . . . . $52,000 00

For services other than personal, including printing
pamphlet of laws and the annual report, and for
necessary office and engineering supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding three thousand
dollars . . . . . . . 3,000 00

For the care and maintenance of the province lands
and of the lands acquired and structures erected
by the Provincetown tercentenary commission,
a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars . . 5,000 00

For the maintenance of structures, and for repair-
ing damages along the coast line or river banks of
the commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks
and other obstructions from tidewaters and great
ponds, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars 40,000 00

For the improvement, development and protection
of rivers and harbors, tidewaters and foreshores
within the commonwealth, as authorized by sec-
tion eleven of chapter ninetj'-one of the General
Laws, and of great ponds, a sum not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars, and any unexpended
balance of the appropriation remaining at the end
of the current fiscal year may be expended in the
succeeding fiscal year for the same purposes;
provided, that all expenditures made for the pro-
tection of shores shall be upon condition that at
least fifty per cent of the cost is covered by con-
tributions from municipalities or other organiza-
tions and individuals, and that in the case of
dredging channels for harbor improvements at least
twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so covered 100,000 00

For re-establishing and permanently marking certain
triangulation points and sections, as required by
order of the land court in accordance with section
thirty-three of chapter ninety-one of the General
Laws, as amended, a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars . . . . . 1,000 00

For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries,
by the department of public works, a sum not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars .... 1,000 00

For the supervision and operation of commonwealth
pier five, including the salaries or other compen-
sation of employees, and for the repair and replace-
ment of equipment and other property, a sum not
exceeding one hundred ten thousand dollars, to be
paid from the Port of Boston receipts . . . 110,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

167

Item

651
652

653

654
655

For the maintenance of pier one, at East Boston, a
sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, to be
paid from the Port of Boston receipts

For the maintenance and improvement of common-
wealth property under the control of the depart-
ment in connection with its functions relating to
waterways and public lands, a sum not exceeding
seventy thousand dollars, to be paid from the
Port of Boston receipts .....

For the operation and maintenance of the New Bed-
ford state pier, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars ........

For the compensation of dumping inspectors, a sum
not exceeding five thousand dollars

For continuing the work in gauging the flow of water
in the streams of the commonwealth, a sum not
exceeding four thousand dollars

Total

Department
relating to
«c r\f\(\ f\n waterways and
fS,UUU W public lands.

70,000 00

5,000 00
5,000 00

4,000 00
$404,000 00

Specials :

656 For dredging channels and filling flats, a sum not

exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid
from the Port of Boston receipts and to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

657 For expenses of locating state boundary monuments,

a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars .

Total

Specials.

$25,000 00
1,000 00

$26,000 00

Service of the Deparlment of Public Utilities.

658 For personal services of the commissioners, a sum not

exceeding thirty-six thousand dollars, of which
sum one half shall be assessed upon the gas and
electric companies in accordance with existing
provisions of law ...... $36,000 00

659 For personal services of secretaries, employees of the

accounting department, engineering department
and rate and tariff department, a sum not exceed-
ing twenty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars,
of which sum ten thousand and ninety dollars shall
be assessed upon the gas and electric companies
in accordance with existing provisions of law . 27,800 00

660 For personal services of the inspection department,

a sum not exceeding forty thousand six hundred

and eighty dollars 40,680 00

661 For personal services of clerks, messengers and office

assistants, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand
two hundred and fifty-five dollars, of which sum
one half shall be assessed upon the gas and elec-
tric companies in accordance with existing pro-
visions of law ....... 12,255 00

662 For personal services of the telephone and telegraph

division, a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand

seven hundred dollars ..... 13,700 00

663 For personal services and expenses of special in-

vestigations, including legal assistants as needed,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, pro-
vided that in case of emergency this sum may
be made available for expenses in the service of
gas and electric companies .... 10,000 00

Department of
Public Utilities.

168

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Department of
Public Utilities.

Item

664
665

666

667

For stenographic reports of hearings, a sum not

exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars . . $3,500 00

For traveling expenses of the commissioners and
emplovees, a sum not exceeding eighty-two hun-
dred and fifty dollars . . . 8,250 00

For services other than personal, printing the annual
report, office supplies and equipment, a sum not
exceeding forty-eight hundred dollars . . 4,800 00

For stenographic reports of evidence at inquests held
in cases of death by accident on or about rail-
roads, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred
.dollars ........

Total .

2,500 00
. $159,485 00

Items to be ggg

assessed upon
gas and electric
companies.

669

670

671

672
673

The following six items are to be assessed upon
the gas and electric companies:

For personal services of the cUvision of inspection of
gas and gas meters, a sum not exceeding twenty-
two thousand five hundred dollars . . . $22,500 00

For expenses of the division of inspection of gas and
gas meters, including office rent, traveling and
other necessary expenses of inspection, a sum not
exceeding seventy-nine hundred dollars . . 7,900 00

For services and expenses of expert assistants, as
authorized 1)y law, a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars 5,000 00

For other services, printing the annual report, for
rent of offices and for necessary office supplies and
equipment, a sum not exceeding thirteen thou-
sand dollars ....... 13,000 00

For the examination and tests of electric meters, a
sum not exceeding six hundred dollars . . 600 00

For expenses of the department of public utilities
incurred in the performance of its functions rela-
tive to gas, electric, and water companies and
municipal lighting plants, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five thousand dollars .... 35,000 00

Total $84,000 00

Smoke Abate-
ment.

Smoke Abatement:
674 For services and expenses in connection with the
abatement of smoke in Boston and vicinity, under
the direction and with the approval of the de-
partment of pulilic utilities, a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, the same to be assessed
upon the cities and town of the district set forth
in section one of chapter six hundred and fifty-
one of the acts of nineteen hundred and ten, as
amended .......

$15,000 00

Sale of
Securities.

Sale of Securities:

675 For personal services in administering the law

relative to the sale of securities, a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty-three thousand six hundred dol-
lars . 23,600 00

676 For expenses other than personal in administering

the law relative to the sale of securities, a sum

not exceeding seventy-three hundred dollars . 7,300 00

Total

$30,900 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

169

Item

677

678

Miscellaneous.

For the maintenance of Bunker Hill monument and
the property adjacent, to be expended by the
metropolitan district commission, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirteen thousand dollars . . . $13,000 00

For certain grading and other improvements on the
grounds at Bunker Hill monument, to be ex-
pended by the metropolitan district commission,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars . . 10,000 00

Total $23,000 00

Bunker Hill
monument,
etc., main-
tenance.

679

680

681

682

683

684

685

686

The following five items are to be paid from the
Highway Fund:

For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, with
the approval of the metropolitan district com-
mission, a sum not exceeding two hundred thirty-
seven thousand six hundred dollars, represent-
ing the state's portion or one half of the estimated
cost of maintenance ......

For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, with
the approval of the metropolitan district com-
mission, a sum not exceeding fiftj' thousand dol-
lars, representing the state's portion or one half
of tne estimated cost of resurfacing .

For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, with
the approval of the metropolitan district commis-
sion, for the installation of a certain electric light-
ing system, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand
five hundred dollars, representing the state's
portion or one half of the estimated cost

For the construction of a certain parkway or boule-
vard along the southerly side of the Charles
river basin, as authorized by chapter three hun-
dred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, a sum not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars, representing the state's
portion or one half of the estimated cost of
construction, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .

For maintenance of Wellington bridge, with the
approval of the metropolitan district commis-
sion, a sum not exceeding thirty-one hundred
dollars ........

Total

Unclassified Accounts and Claims.

For the compensation of veterans of the civil war
formerly in the service of the commonwealth,
now retired, a sum not exceeding thirty-three
thousand dollars ......

For the compensation of any veteran who may be
retired by the governor under the provisions of
sections fifty-six to fifty-nine, inclusive, of chap-
ter thirty-two of the General Laws, as amended,
a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars .

For the compensation of certain prison officers and
instructors formerlj' in the service of the com-
monwealth, now retired, a sum not exceeding
thirty thousand five hundred dollars .

Boulevards and
parkways.

$237,600 00

50,000 00

12,500 00

Parkway or
boulevard along
southerly side
of Charles
river basin.

100,000 00

Wellington
bridge.

3,100 00

$403,200 00

Unclassified
Accounts
and Claims.

$33,000 00

6,000 00

30,500 00

170

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Unclassified
Accounts
and Claims.

Item

687

688

For the compensation of state police officers formerly
in the service of the commonwealth, and now
retired, a sum not exceeding seventy-five hundred
dollars $7,500 00

For the compensation of certain women formerly
employed in cleaning the state house, and now
retired, a sum not exceeding nine hundred dollars 900 00

Total S77,900 00

Certain
other aid.

For certain other aid:

689 For the compensation of certain public employees

for injuries sustained in the course of their em-
ployment, as provided by section sixty-nine of
chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General
Laws, as amended, a sum not exceeding thirty
thousand dollars . . . . . . $30,000 00

690 For the payment of certain annuities and pensions

of soldiers and others under the provisions of
certain acts and resolves, a sum not exceeding
fifty-eight hundred and sixty-one dollars . . 5,861 00

Total $35,861 00

Reimbursing
officials for
premiums, etc.

691 For reimbursing officials for premiums paid for

procuring sureties on their bonds, as provided
by existing laws, a sum not exceeding one hundred
fifty dollars . . . . . . . $150 00

692 For payment in accordance with law of such claims

as may arise in consequence of the death of fire-
men and of persons acting as firemen, from in-
juries received in the discharge of their duties, a
sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars . . 30,000 00

693 For payment of any claims, as authorized by section

eight}'-nine of chapter thirty-two of the General
Laws, as amended, for allowances to the families
of members of the department of public safety
doing police duty killed or fatally injured in the
discharge of their duties, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five hundred dollars .... 2,500 00

694 For small items of expenditure for which no ap-

propriations have been made, and for cases in
which appropriations have been exhausted or have
reverted to the treasury in previous years, a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars . . . 1,000 00

695 For reimbursement of persons for funds previously

deposited in the treasury of the commonwealth on
account of unclaimed savings bank deposits, a
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars . . 500 00

Total $34,150 00

Deficiencies.

Deficiencies. For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previous

years, in certain items, as follows :

Judicial Department.
Superior Court:
Judicial De- For traveling allowance and expenses, the sum of

partment. sixteen hundred ninety-eight dollars and sixty-

Superior Court, eight cents .......

$1,698 68

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

171

Item

Justices of District Courts:
For expenses of justices of the district courts while
sitting in the superior court, the sum of seventy-
six dollars and seventy-three cents

$76 73

Justices of
District Courts.

Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Printing :
For printing and binding the blue book edition of the
acts and resolves of the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, the sum of four hundred seventy-six
dollars and twelve cents .....

Secretary of
the Common-
wealth.

476 12

Department of Education.

For the reimbursement of certain towns for the pay-
ment of tuition of pupils attending high schools
outside the towns in which they reside, as provided
by law, the sum of eighty-five hundred fifty-three .
dollars and six cents ..... 8,553 06

For the reimbursement of certain towns for the
transportation of pupils attending high schools
outside the towns in which they reside, as provided
by law, the sum of sixty-two hundred six dollars
and twenty-seven cents . . . . . 6,206 27

Department
of Education.

Department of Correction.

For the maintenance of the state prison, the sum of
one hundred forty-nine dollars and twenty-five
cents ........

Department of
Correction.

149 25

Massachusetts Agricultural College.

For the renovation of a certain farm house, the sum
of eight hundred dollars .....

Total

Massachusetts
800 00 Agricultural
College.

$17,960 11

Metropolitan District Commission.

The following items are to be assessed upon the
several districts in accordance with the methods
fixed by law, and to be expended under the
direction and with the approval of the metro-
poUtan district commission:

697 For maintenance of the Charles river basin, a sum

not exceeding two hundred fifteen thousand four

hundred dollars . . . . . . $215,400 00

698 For maintenance of park reservations, a sum not

exceeding eight hundred twenty-two thousand and

fifty dollars 822,050 00

699 For the expense of holding band concerts, a sum

not exceeding twenty thousand dollars . . 20,000 00

700 For fining and other improvements to certain land

of the metropohtan parks district in the town of
Dedham, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thou-
sand dollars . . . . . . 25,000 00

701 (This item reserved for further consideration.)

702 For services and expenses of the division of metro-

politan planning, as authorized by chapter three
hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-three, a sum not exceeding
thirty-two thousand dollars .... 32,000 00

Metropolitan
District Com-
mission.

Division of

Metropolitan

Planning.

172

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 146.

Nantasket
beach reser-
vation.

Wellington
bridge.

Item

703
704

Boulevards 7Q5

and parkways.

ro6

Parkway or 707

boulevard along
southerly side
of Charles
river basin.

Boulevards 7O8

and parkways,
lighting system.

North metro- 709
politan sewer-
age district.

South metro-
politan sewer-
age district.

Metropolitan
water system.

710

711

Acquisition of 712
certain property
in Wachusett
water supply
basin.

Additional
Weston aque-
duct supply
main.

Payment of
certain
deficiency, etc.

713

714

For maintenance of the Nantasket beach reserva-
tion, a sum not exceeding eighty-five thousand
dollars . . . . . . . . $85,000 00

For maintenance of Wellington bridge, a sum not
exceeding ninety-three hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to the amount appropriated in
item six hundred and eighty-three . - . . 9,300 00

For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum
not exceeding two hundred thirty-seven thousand
six hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to
the amount appropriated in item six hundred and
seventy-nine 237,600 00

For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, a sum
not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the same
to be in addition to the amount appropriated in
item six hundred and eighty .... 50,000 00

For the construction of a certain parkway or boule-
vard along the southerly side of the Charles river
basin, as authorized by chapter three hundred and
sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, a sum not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to the
amount approjiriated in item six hundred and
eighty-two, and to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 100,000 00

For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, for
the installation of a certain electric lighting sys-
tem, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand five
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to the
amount appropriated in item six hundred and
eighty-one . . . . . . 12,500 00

For the maintenance and operation of a system of
sewage disposal for the north metropolitan sewer-
age district, a sum not exceeding three hundred
forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars . . 347,200 00

For the maintenance and operation of a system of
sewage disposal for the south metropolitan sewer-
age district, a sum not exceeding two hundred
twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars . 223,700 00

For the maintenance and operation of the metro-
politan water system, a sum not exceeding eight
hundred seventy-six thousand two hundred dollars 870,200 00

For acquiring certain property in the Wachusett
water supply basin, with the approval of the
governor and council, for the protection of the
purity of the water supply, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five thousand dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose 25,000 00

For the construction of an additional Weston aque-
duct supply main, a sum not exceeding four hun-
dred thousand dollars . . . . . 400,000 00

For the payment of a certain deficiency for the main-
tenance of the metropolitan -water system, the
sum of seventy-four dollars and eighty-five cents . 74 85

Total $3,481,024 85

General and Highway Funds
Metropolitan District Commission

$54,571,169 11
3,481,024 85

Written ap-
proval of
governor and
council re-
quired for

Section 3. No expenditures in excess of appropriations
provided for under this act shall be incurred by any depart-
ment or institution, except in cases of emergency, and then

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 147. 173

only upon the prior written approval of the governor and expenditures
council.

Section 4. The sums appropriated for maintenance of Certain aiiow-
certain institutions include allowances for the purchase of Tu ■I'j^propria-
coal to April first, nineteen hundred and thirty, and balance ^I'l'^^-ntgnance
representing these sums may be carried forward at the end of certain

(• ,1 n 1 institutions.

or the nscal year.

Section 5. No payment shall be made or obligation No payment
incurred under authority of any special appropriation made consu^ction°Jf
by this act for construction of public buildings or other •J|!,s''etc" 'Ifntii
improvements at state institutions until plans and speci- pirn's have
fications have been approved by the governor, unless other- by''gov^?nor.^
wise provided by such rules and regulations as the governor
may make.

Section 6. The budget commissioner is hereby directed Budget com-

. c5 . . . •' uiissioner to

to send a copy of sections three and five oi this act to each send copies of
departmental, divisional and institutional head immedi- Ind'five to '^^
ately following the passage of this act. part1nents%tc.

Section 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 22jJ.929.

An Act to regulate traffic at intersecting ways. Chap. 147

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter eighty-nine of the General Laws, ^j^, ^;^^^;,^^,g'j
as amended in section eight by section one of chapter three
hundred and thirty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-six and by section four of chapter three hundred
and fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, is hereby further amended by striking out said sec-
tion eight and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 8. Every driver of a motor or other vehicle approach- i^igi't of way

~. „ 1 • 1 c j_i 'it intersecting

mg an intersection or any ways, which for tlie purposes ways,
hereof shall mean the area embraced within the extensions
of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary
lines, of intersecting ways as defined in section one of chapter
ninety, shall grant the right of way to a vehicle which has
already entered such intersection, and every driver of a ve-
hicle entering such an intersection shall grant the right of
way to a vehicle so entering from his right at approximately
the same instant; but the foregoing provisions of this N'ot applicable
section shall not apply at any intersection of ways when a Instates"
driver is otherwise directed by a police officer, or by a law-
ful traffic regulating sign, device or signal maintained by
or with the written approval of the department of public
works and while said approval is in effect or otherwise
lawfully maintained.

Section 2. Said chapter eighty-nine is hereby further g. l, sq, § 9.
amended by striking out section nine, as inserted by section etc., amended.
two of said chapter three hundred and thirty and as amended
by section five of said chapter three hundred and fifty-
seven, and inserting in place thereof the following: —

174

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 148, 149.

Designation of
certain high-
ways as
through
ways.

Revocation.

Warning signs
and signals
to be erected,
etc.

Way joining
through way
at angle
deemed to
intersect it,
etc.

Section 9. For the purposes of this section, the depart-
ment of pubUc works may from time to time designate any-
state or other highway or part thereof as a through way,
and may after notice revoke any such designation; and any
city or town may, with the approval of said department and
while such approval is in effect, designate any way or part
thereof within the control of such city or town as a through
way and may, after notice and like approval, revoke any
such designation. Said department may, after notice, re-
voke any approval granted under this section. No such
designation of a through way shall become effective as to
regulation of traffic at any point of intersection with another
way until said department or the board or officer having
control of ways in a city or town, as the case may be, shall
have caused suitable warning signs and signals to be erected
at or near such point. Every vehicle immediately before
entering the limits of a through way except at a terminus
thereof shall be brought to a full stop except when the
driver is otherwise directed by a police officer, or by a law-
ful traffic regulating sign, device or signal maintained by
or with the written approval of said department and while
such approval is in effect or otherwise lawfully maintained.
For the purposes of this section, a way joining a through way
at an angle, whether or not it crosses the same, shall be
deemed to intersect it, and the word "way", unless the con-
text otherwise requires, shall include a through or other
way. Approved March 22, 1929.

Chap. 14:8 An Act authorizing the trustees of clark university

TO HOLD ADDITIONAL PROPERTY,

Trustees of
Clark Uni-
versity may
hold additional
property.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The trustees of Clark University, incorporated by chapter
one hundred and thirty-three of the acts of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, may hold, for the purposes of its incorpo-
ration, property to an amount not exceeding ten million
dollars. Approved March 22, 1929.

Chap.\4Q An Act subjecting the office of chief engineer of the

FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NORTH ADAMS TO THE
CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The office of chief engineer of the fire de-
partment of the city of North Adams shall, upon the effective
date of this act, become subject to the civil service laws and
^dams subject pulcs and regulations relating to permanent members of
laws. fire departments of cities, and the term of office of any in-

cumbent thereof shall be unlimited, except that he may be
removed in accordance with such laws and rules and regu-
lations; but the person holding said office on said effective
date may continue therein without taking a civil service
examination.

Office of chief
engineer of
fire depart-
ment of city
of North

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 150, 151. 175

Section 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance Submission to
to the registered voters of the city of North Adams at its '°*®''^'
city election in the current year in the form of the following
question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be
used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general
court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, en-
titled 'An Act subjecting the office of chief engineer of the
fire department of the city of North Adams to the civil
service laws', be accepted?" If a majority of the voters
voting thereon vote in the affirmative in answer to said
question, this act shall thereupon take effect, but not other-
wise. Approved March 22, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of marlborough to appro- (^hnjy 1 50

PRIATE MONEY TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR HOLDING IN ^'

SAID CITY DURING THE CURRENT YEAR THE STATE CONVEN-
TION OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED

STATES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Marlborough may appropriate a City of
sum, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, for the may awr^o^pri-
purpose of providing proper facilities for public entertain- •'^^f,,'!^^" fwi-
ment at the time of the state convention of the Veterans of ities for holding
Foreign Wars of the United States to be held in said city 'ruHng cur^rent
during the current year and of paying expenses incidental ^^jj^^gntjon'^of
to such entertainment. Money so appropriated shall be veterans of
expended under the direction of the mayor of said city. nf^t hi united

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. states.

Approved March 23, 1929.

An Act extending the boundaries of the dracut water (Jjidjf \^\

SUPPLY district AND AUTHORIZING SAID DISTRICT TO MAKE
AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The boundaries of the Dracut Water Supply pracut water
District, established by chapter four hundred and thirty- f^^t?'^ ^'^'
three of the acts of nineteen hundred and five and extended boundaries
by section one of chapter one hundred and eighteen of the "^^^ ^ ■
Special Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, are hereby
further extended so as to include the territory hereinafter
described and such taxable inhabitants of the town of Dracut
as reside in said territory : —

Beginning at a point on the Lowell and Dracut line three
hundred feet westerly of the middle of Mammoth road ; and
thence running northerly by a line parallel with and three
hundred feet westerly from the middle of Mammoth road
to a point one thousand feet northerly of the intersection of
the middle line of Mammoth road with the middle line of
Gerrish avenue; thence northeasterly by a line parallel with

176 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 152.

and one thousand feet northwesterly from the middle line
of Gerrish avenue crossing Donahue road and running to a
point three hundred feet northeasterly from the middle of
said Donahue road; thence running southeasterly by a line
parallel with and three hundred feet northeasterly from the
middle of Donahue road to the intersection of the westerly
line of the present water district; thence southerly or south-
westerly by the westerly line of the present water district
to the Lowell line ; thence westerly by the Lowell line to the
point of beginning.
SJrrow^i^m SECTION 2. For the purpose of meeting the expense of

etc. ' laying mains and pipes in the district as extended by this

act, the said district may borrow from time to time such
sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate
ten thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
Dracut Water which shall bear on their face the words, Dracut Water
iZn.'-A^t'of'''' Supply District Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue
1920. shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be

payable in not more than thirty years from their dates.
Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.
/oanTtc*^"^ Section 3. The said district shall, at the time of au-

thorizing the said loan or loans, provide for the payment
thereof in accordance with section two of this act; and when
a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the
income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay
the annual expense of operating the water works and interest
as it accrues on bonds or notes issued as aforesaid, and to
make such payments on the principal as may be required
under this act, shall, without further vote, be assessed upon
the said district by the assessors of the town of Dracut
annually thereafter until the debt incurred by said loan or
loans is extinguished.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 23, 1929.

Chap. 152 An Act extending the time within which the Chatham

WATER COMPANY SHALL COMMENCE OPERATIONS UNDER ITS
CHARTER.

Be it enacted, etc., asfolloivs:
1926, 346 §10, Section 1. Section ten of chapter three hundred and
amen e forty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentj^-six is

hereby amended by striking out, in the fourth line, the word
"three" and inserting in place thereof the word: — five, —
Time within SO as to read as follows: — Section 10. This act shall take
wttwCom-^^'" effect upon its passage, but any action thereunder shall be
pany shall yoid uulcss watcr is actually withdrawn or diverted under
operations authority thereof within five years from the date of its
chart;;^^ passage.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Ajjproved March 23, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 153. 177

An Act relative to additional water supply for the nj^pj^ i kq

AMHERST WATER COMPANY. ^ '

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of isso, i79, § 2,
the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty, as amended in sec- ^ ° '^™^'^ ®
tion two by section one of chapter one hundred and ninety-
eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and three, is hereby
further amended by striking out said section two and insert-
ing in place thereof the following : — Section 2. Said corpo- The Amherst
ration may take, hold and convey into and through the town p^n^^r^aT'
of Amherst or any part thereof, the water of what is known take certain
as the Amethyst brook, formerly valley, situated in the town Tstate^'e'te!
of Pelham, the same to be diverted at any point or points
upstream from the Amherst-Pelham boundary line, and
likewise may take, hold and convey the waters of the tribu-
taries thereof in the town of Pelham including Buffum brook,
and may also take and convey into said town of Amherst the
water of what is known as Atkins pond and of the basin
connected therewith and of the outlet brook therefrom which
is a tributary of Mill river, of Nurse brook and of Dean
brook, so-called, said Nurse and Dean brooks being about
eighteen hundred feet distant from said pond and running
parallel with each other where they cross the highway lead-
ing from the Amherst town line to East Leverett; and may
divert into said Atkins pond the water of said Nurse and
Dean brooks or any part thereof and may also take and con-
vey into said town of Amherst or divert into said Atkins
pond the water of Adams brook, of which said Nurse and
Dean brooks are tributaries, at any point or points not more
than twenty-five hundred feet downstream from the above
mentioned highway leading from the Amherst town line to
East Leverett; said pond, basin. Nurse and Dean brooks
being situated in the town of Shutesbury in the county of
Franklin, and said Adams brook and said outlet brook
from Atkins pond being situated part in the town of Shutes-
bury in the county of Franklin and part in the town of
Amherst in the county of Hampshire; and may take and
hold by purchase or otherwise any real estate necessary for
the preservation and purity of the same, or for forming any
dams or reservoirs including the raising of said Atkins pond
and basin connected therewith, and for laying and main-
taining aqueducts and pipes for distributing the waters so
taken and held; and may lay its water pipes through any
private lands, with the right to enter upon the same and dig
therein for the purpose of making all necessary repairs;
and for the purposes aforesaid may carry its pipes under or
over any water course, street, railroad, street railway, high-
way or other way, in such manner as not to obstruct the
same; may, for the purposes aforesaid, under the direction
of the town, county or state authorities, as the case may be,
raise or change the location of any street or highway, and

178

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 153.

May take water
from certain
wells in town
of Leverett.

May take
necessary lands,
etc.

May erect
dams, etc.,
make excava-
tions, etc.

Proviso.

May lay aque-
ducts, etc.,
under and over
any land, water
courses, rail-
roads, public
or other ways,
etc.

Restrictions as
to entry upon
railroad
locations.

may, under the direction of the board of selectmen, enter
upon and dig up any road or other way for the purpose of
laying or repairing its aqueducts, pipes or other works; and
in general may do any other acts and things convenient or
proper for carrying out the purposes of this act.

Section 2. Said corporation may for the purposes stated
in said chapter one hundred and seventy-nine, and all amend-
ments thereof, including this act, take by eminent domain
under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire
by purchase or otherwise, and may hold and convey, the
waters or so much thereof as may be necessary, of any under-
ground water from wells which may be constructed or sunk
at any suitable points for such supply in the town of Leverett
not farther than one mile from the southerly boundary of
said town, and may take or acquire and hold as aforesaid
any water rights connected therewith, and also all lands,
rights of way and easements necessary for holding such
water, for preserving and protecting the quality thereof and
for conveying the same to the town of Amherst. For the
purposes set forth in said chapter one hundred and seventy-
nine and all amendments thereof including this act, said
corporation may erect on the land thus taken or held proper
dams, buildings, standpipcs, fixtures and other structures,
and may make excavations, procure and operate machinery
and provide such other means and appliances, and do such
other things, as may be necessary for the establishment and
maintenance of complete and effective water works for the
purposes aforesaid ; provided, that no source of water supply
for domestic purposes or lands necessary for preserving or
protecting the quality of such water shall be acquired under
this act without the consent of the department of public
health, and that the location of all dams, reservoirs, wells,
or other works for collecting or storing the water shall be
subject to the approval of said department. The provisions
of section six of said chapter one hundred and seventy-nine
shall apply to water taken under this section.

Section 3. For the aforesaid purposes, said corporation
may construct, lay and maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes
and other works under and over any land, water courses,
canals, dams, railroads, railways and public or other ways,
and along, under or over any highway or other way in the
towns of Amherst, Shutesbury and Pelham and in the said
part of Leverett, in such manner as not unnecessarily to
obstruct the same; and for the purpose of constructing,
laying, maintaining and repairing such aqueducts, conduits,
pipes and other works, and for all such purposes, said cor-
poration may dig up, raise and embank any such lands,
highways or other ways in such manner as to cause the least
hindrance to public travel, and may, for the purposes afore-
said, under the direction of the town, county or state au-
thorities, as the case may be, raise or change the location of
any street or highway. Said corporation shall not enter upon,
construct or lay any aqueduct, conduit, pipe or other works

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 153. 179

within the location of any raih'oad or street railway company
except at such times and in such manner as it may agree
upon with such company, or, in case of failure so to agree,
as may be approved by the department of public utilities.
For the aforesaid purposes, said water corporation may take May take
by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General IH^"^"^ ''*°'^^*
Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, all
lands, rights of way and easements in said towns of Amherst
and Pelham or said parts of said towns of Leverett and
Shutesbury, necessary for receiving, holding and distributing
said water, and any person injured in his property by any Recovery of
such taking or by a taking under section two may recover '*'*"*'*ees.
damages from said corporation under said chapter seventy-
nine.

Section 4. Said corporation may distribute water May distribute
throughout the said parts of the towns of Leverett and parts'^of"towM°
Shutesbury and in that part of the town of Pelham adjacent shute^sbu"'and
to the distributing pipes, may regulate the use of the water Peiham, fix
and may, subject to the approval of the department of public ''^^^^' ®*^''"
utilities, establish and fix from time to time, and may collect,
the rates for the use of said water. Said corporation shall
upon application supply water for the extinguishment of
fires and for domestic and other purposes to said parts of
the towns of Leverett, Shutesbury and Pelham and to any
fire or water district hereafter established in any of said towns,
and to any individual firm, association or corporation therein,
upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon or, in case
of failure so to agree, as may be determined by the depart-
ment of public utihties.

Section 5. Said corporation may hold all such lands. May hold aii
waters, water rights, easements and property of every kind waTef dght^?^^'
and description as may be necessary for the purposes set etc.
forth in said chapter one hundred and seventy-nine and all
amendments thereof, including this act, and may issue, in May issue
addition to the stock and bonds of the corporation heretofore stock'and
issued, such other and additional stock and bonds under the bonds, etc.
direction of the department of public utilities as that depart-
ment shall determine to be reasonably necessary for the
acquirement of and payment for the aforesaid property and
the payment of debts and all other expenditures in connection
with the operation, extension and carrying on of its business.

Section 6. Section five of said chapter one hundred and etc''' repealed
seventy-nine, as amended by section three of chapter one
hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and
three and by section one of chapter five hundred and nine
of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby repealed.
But such repeal shall not affect any act done, ratified or Certain acts
confirmed, any liability incurred or any right accruing or fi"* affected,
established before this repeal takes effect.

Section 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 23, 1929.

180

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 154, 155.

Chap. 154: An Act to provide for suspension of payment of assess-
ments FOR betterments IN THE CASE OF THE MYSTIC
society OF MEDFORD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Suspension of Section 1. The city council of the city of Medford may
a^seSments for In its discretioii suspend payment of betterments assessed
case^oTMystic" upou the property of the Mystic Society of Medford, a
Society of rcHgious society, for a pubhc improvement resulting from
the laying out, widening and construction of Salem street
in said city, and may at any time thereafter in its discretion
revoke such suspension.
Same subject. SECTION 2. If the payment of an assessment is sus-
pended under the provisions of this act, such assessment
shall not bear interest unless and until such suspension shall
be revoked, and, upon such revocation, the assessment shall,
notwithstanding such suspension, be subject thereafter to
the provisions of chapter eighty of the General Laws so far
as applicable, in the same manner as though the assessment
were made at the time of such revocation.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 23, 1929.

County com-
missioners of
Barnstable
county may
acquire a cer-
tain parcel of
land for
purpose of
enlarging the
county court
house grounds
in town of
Barnstable.

Chap. 155 ^^ ^^^ AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE
COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE TO ACQUIRE A CERTAIN PARCEL
OF LAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENLARGING THE COUNTY
COURT HOUSE GROUNDS IN THE TOWN OF BARNSTABLE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of enlarging the county
court house grounds in the town of Barnstable, of providing
more light and air for and better means of access to the
county court house and of providing space for the future
enlargement of said building, the county commissioners of
the county of Barnstable may, at any time within five years
from the effective date of this act, acquire in fee by purchase
or by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of the
General Laws, a parcel of land, containing approximately
one quarter of an acre, and bounded on the north by the
county road, so-called, on the east by land of Mabel Cox and
on the south and west by said county court house grounds
as now existing; provided, that said land shall not be ac-
quired by purchase at a price in excess of eight thousand
dollars.

Section 2. In order to provide funds for carrying out
the provisions of section one, the treasurer of said county,
with the approval of the county commissioners, may borrow
from time to time, on the credit of the county, such sums as
may be necessary, not exceeding eight thousand dollars in
case of a purchase as aforesaid or the amount of the judg-
ment in case of a taking as aforesaid, and may issue notes of
the county therefor payable in not more than one year from

County treas-
urer may
borrow money,
issue notes,
etc.

amended.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 156, 157, 158. 181

their dates. Such notes shall bear on their face the words,
Barnstable County Court House Grounds Improvement BarnstaWe
Loan, Act of 1929 and shall be signed by the treasurer of the House^GrouJids
county and countersigned by a majority of the county com- Lo!rn°Ac?Sr
missioners. The county may sell the said notes at public or 1929. '
private sale upon such terms and conditions as the county
commissioners may deem proper, but not for less than their
par value. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall,
except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five
of the General Laws. Approved March 23, 1929.

An Act relative to the membership rights and liabili- QJiavA^Q

TIES OF cities AND TOWNS AND OTHER POLITICAL SUB-
DIVISIONS OP THE COMMONWEALTH HOLDING POLICIES
ISSUED BY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section seventy-six of chapter one hundred and seventj^- aL.^175, §76,
five of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out
the paragraph included in hnes nine to eleven, inclusive, and
inserting in place thereof the following : — Any city or town Membership
or other political subdivision of the commonwealth or any [i'abUittel of
other corporation becoming a member of such a company tj,*^i,n^g''^'„'^ji
may authorize any person to represent it in such company, other political
and such representative shall have all the rights of any indi- of common-^
vidual member. The contingent mutual liability of any city ""oflc^gs'irsuld^
or town or other political subdivision of the commonwealth by mutual ^
becoming a member of such a company shall not be deemed companies.
a liability within the meaning of section thirty-one of chapter
forty-four. The commissioner shall, upon request of any
official of a city or town or other political subdivision of the
commonwealth, furnish a hst of the mutual companies
authorized to transact business in the commonwealth.

Approved March 25, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of falmouth to appro- Chap. 157

PRIATE MONEY FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Falmouth may, by a two thirds Jo^nof

. , i r j-U il Falmouth may

vote, appropriate each year a sum not exceedmg three thou- appropriate
sand dollars for providing amusements or entertainments of pui"n^imuse-
a public character. The money so appropriated by the town ments.
shall be expended under the direction of the board of select-
men.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 26, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of Orleans to appropriate Chap. 158

MONEY FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Orleans may, by a two thirds Town of

. , ii-ij-/: Orleans may

vote, appropriate each year a sum not exceedmg twenty-nve appropriate

182

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 159, 160.

money for
public amuse-
ments.

hundred dollars for providing amusements or entertainments
of a public character. The money so appropriated by the
town shall be expended under the direction of the board of
selectmen.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 26, 1929.

Chap. 159 An Act relative to certain assignments of wages.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 154, § 3,
amended.

Requisites for
validity of
assignments
of wages.

Chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out section three and inserting
in place thereof the following : — Section 3. No assignment
of or order for future wages other than one subject to the
preceding section shall be valid for a period exceeding two
years from the making thereof, nor unless made to secure a
debt contracted prior to or simultaneously with the execution
of said assignment or order, nor unless executed in writing in
the standard form set forth in section five and signed by the
assignor in person and not by attorney, nor unless such
assignment or order states the date of its execution, the money
or the money value of goods actually furnished by the assignee
and the rate of interest, if any, to be paid thereon. Three
fourths of the weekly earnings or wages of the assignor shall
at all times be exempt from such assignment or order, and no
assignment or order shall be valid which does not so state
on its face. No such assignment or order shall be valid
unless the written acceptance of the employer of the assignor,
and, if the assignor is a married man, the written consent of
his wife to the making thereof, are endorsed thereon or at-
tached thereto. Approved March 27, 1929.

Chap. 160 An Act providing for the prompt payment of soldiers'

relief in certain cases.

G. L. 115, § 17,
etc., amended.

Notice to
certain officials
of application
for military
aid or soldiers'
relief.

Procedure in
case of un-
reasonable de-
lay in aiding
applicant.

Penalty.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section seventeen of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the
General Laws, as amended by chapter three hundred and
eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is
hereby further amended by striking out the second paragraph
and inserting in place thereof the following : —

If an applicant for military aid or soldiers' relief has a
settlement outside of the town where the application is made,
the official required to act thereon shall, within three days,
notify the corresponding official in the town of the applicant's
settlement, and also the commissioner. If the town of settle-
ment of an applicant for soldiers' relief unreasonably delays
in aiding the applicant after receipt of said notice, the town
of the applicant's residence shall forthwith grant such aid as
the commissioner may order, and the town so granting such
aid shall be reimbursed in full therefor by the town of the
applicant's settlement. Any town official required to act on

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 161, 162. 183

such order of the commissioner who refuses and neglects to
comply therewith shall be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.

Approved March 27, 1929.

An Act authorizing the department of public health pUn^) 161
TO disseminate information relative to the public ^'

HEALTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as foUoivs:

Section five of chapter one hundred and eleven of the g. l. iii, § 5,
General Laws, as amended by chapter three hundred and ^*'^' ^n^ended.
twenty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one,
is hereby further amended by inserting after the word
"gather" in the eighth line the words: — and disseminate, —
so as to read as follows : — Section 6. The department shall dutlerof "^
take cognizance of the interests of health and life among the department of
citizens of the commonwealth, make sanitary investigations ''^ ic eat .
and inquiries relative to the causes of disease, and especially
of epidemics, the sources of mortality and the effects of
localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the
public health, and relative to the sale of drugs and food and
adulterations thereof; and shall gather and disseminate such
information relating thereto as it considers proper for diffu-
sion among the people. It shall advise the government con-
cerning the location and other sanitary condition of any
public institution; and shall have oversight of inland waters,
sources of water supply and vaccine institutions; and may,
for the use of the people of the commonwealth, produce and
distribute antitoxin and vaccine lymph and such specific
material for protective inoculation, diagnosis or treatment
against tj^phoid fever and other diseases as said department
may from time to time deem it advisable to produce and
distribute; and may sell, under such rules, regulations or
restrictions as the council may establish, such amounts of the
various biologic products prepared or manufactured in the
laboratories of the department, as constitute an excess over
the amounts required for the diagnosis, prevention and
treatment of infectious diseases within the commonwealth.
It shall annually examine all main outlets of sewers and
drainage of towns of the commonwealth, and the effect of
sewage disposal. Approved March 27, 1929.

An Act relative to reimbursement of the common- fhn^ i AO

WEALTH FOR CERTAIN EXPENDITURES FOR THE DIVISION
OF SAVINGS BANK LIFE INSURANCE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-eight of the General g. l. i78,ji7,
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section seventeen, ^ *'" *™^"
as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and inserting

184

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 163.

Reimbursement
of common-
wealth for cer-
tain expendi-
tures for
division of
savings bank
life insurance.

Apportionment
among savings
and insurance
banks.

Proviso.

in place thereof the following : — Section 1 7. There shall be
paid to the commonwealth on account of sums expended by
it for the division of savings bank life insurance during the
3^ear ended on November thirtieth next preceding, the follow-
ing amounts: On December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, a sum equal to twenty-five per cent thereof; on
December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty, a sum
equal to forty per cent; on December fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-one, a sum equal to fifty-five per cent;
on December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two,
a sum equal to seventy per cent; on December fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and thirty-three, a sum equal to eighty-
five per cent; on December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-four, and on December fifteenth in each year thereafter,
a sum equal to the total amount. Said sums so to be repaid
to the commonwealth shall be apportioned by the trustees
of the General Insurance Guaranty Fund among the savings
and insurance banks in proportion to their premium income,
or on such other basis as the said trustees shall deem equitable
and proper, and said banks shall be assessed therefor in
accordance with such apportionment; provided, that no
savings and insurance bank shall be assessed for any part of
said expenditure unless and until it shall have accumulated
in its insurance department a surplus fund of not less than
twenty thousand dollars as provided in sections five, nineteen
and twenty-one, or unless and until five years shall have
elapsed from the date when it shall have been licensed by the
commissioner of insurance to issue policies and make annuity
contracts, whichever event shall sooner happen. Any sum
so apportioned to banks so exempted shall be paid to the
commonwealth by the trustees of the General Insurance
Guaranty Fund from the interest income thereof on or before
December fifteenth in each year as above provided.

Approved March 27, 1929.

C hap. IQS -^N Act providing for an additional water supply for

THE MEDFIELD STATE HOSPITAL.

Department of
mental diseases
may acquire
land for
purpose of pro-
viding an
additional
water supply
for Med field
state hospital.

May install
wells, erect
buildings, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The department of mental diseases, for the
purpose of acquiring an additional supply of pure water for
domestic and other purposes at the Medfield state hospital,
may, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, take
by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of the Gen-
eral Laws, or acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, and
hold, such lands and interests in land in the town of Med-
field, as are necessary for wells and the protection thereof
and for a pipe line from such wells to said hospital; may in-
stall wells, erect buildings and other structures, make exca-
vations, procure and operate machinery, construct, lay and
maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes and other works under
or over any lands, water courses, railroads, railways and
pubhc or other ways, and along such ways, in said town, in

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 164. 185

such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same, and
for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, operat-
ing and repairing such conduits, pipes and other works, and
for all other proper purposes of this act, said department
may dig up or raise and embank lands, highways or other
ways, in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to
public travel on such ways; provided, that said department Proviso,
shall not enter upon, construct or lay any conduits, pipes or
other works within the location of any railroad corpoi-ation,
except at such time, and in such manner as it may agree
upon with such corporation, or, in case of failure so to agree,
as may be approved by the department of public utilities;
and provided, further, that all water for domestic purposes
and lands necessary for preserving the quality of such
water shall be taken or acquired only with the advice and
approval of the department of public health.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 28, 1929.

An Act relative to the water and sewerage board ChavA^^L

OF THE TOW^N OF WAKEFIELD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter seventy-nine of the 1924, 79, § i,
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended ^'"^"
by striking out, in the first line, the words "sewer commis-
sioners" and inserting in place thereof the words: — water
and sewerage board, — and by striking out, in the ninth
line, the word "commissioners" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — board, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 1. The water and sewerage board of the town of frfeTftstn^town
Wakefield may determine the value of the benefit or ad- of Wakefieid.
vantage to every parcel of real estate in the town beyond the
general advantage to all real estate therein from the con-
struction hereafter of any sewer or extension of any existing
sewer or from the doing of any other work authorized by the
provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-seven of
the acts of nineteen hundred, and may assess on every such
parcel a proportionate share of such part, not exceeding two
thirds, as said board shall deem just, of the expenses in-
curred by the town for the improvements aforesaid, pro- Proviso.
vided that no assessment on any parcel of real estate shall
exceed the value of the special benefit to that parcel.

Section 2. Section two of said chapter seventy-nine is 192-1, 79, § 2,
hereby amended bj^ striking out, in the sixth line, the words '*">®"'*^'*-
"sewer commissioners" and inserting in place thereof the
words: — water and sewerage board, — so as to read as
follows: — Section 2. The town of Wakefield may, how- Same subject.
ever, at any town meeting after this act is accepted, vote
that two thirds of the estimated average cost of the com-
pletion or extension of the existing sewer system or systems
in said town be thereafter assessed upon the estates bene-
fited b}^ said system or systems, and in such case the water

186

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 165, 166.

Proviso.

and sewerage board of said town shall fix a uniform rate
according to the frontage of estates upon any street or way
in which a sewer is constructed or according to the area of
estates within a specified distance from such street or way
or according to both frontage and area, and shall make all
assessments, thereafter levied, in accordance with such rate,
provided that no assessment on any parcel of real estate
shall exceed the value of the special benefit to that parcel.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 28, 1929.

Chap. 165 An Act authorizing the town of oak bluffs to borrow

MONEY TO MEET FINAL JUDGMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF LAND
TAKEN FOR PARK PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of paying final judgments
rendered against the town of Oak Bluffs for the taking of
land for park purposes, the said town may borrow from
time to time, within a period of five years from the passage
of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding,
in the aggregate, seventy thousand dollars, and may issue
bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the
words. Oak Bluffs Park Land Loan, Act of 1929. Each
authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such
loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from their
dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless
a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of
such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit but shall, except as provided herein, be
subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive
of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of section
seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 28, 1929.

Town of Oak
Bluffs may
borrow money
to meet final
judgments
on account
of land taken
for park pur-
poses.

Oak Bluffs
Park Land
Loan, Act of
1929.

Chap

G. L. 175.
§ IISB, etc.,
amended.

.166 An Act relative to the establishment of classifica-
tions OF risks and premium charges under the com-
pulsory motor vehicle liability insurance law,
so-called.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out section one hundred and
thirteen B, as inserted by section four of chapter three hun-
dred and forty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-five, and as amended by chapter one hundred and
eighty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven,
by section six of chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 166. 187

acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and by section
two of chapter thirty-four of the acts of the current year,
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 113B. ^"^J^Sfi"
The commissioner shall, annually on or before September cations of risks
fifteenth, after due hearing and investigation, fix and es- charges to be
tablish fair and reasonable classifications of risks and ade- "hargedl^y
quate, just, reasonable and non-discriminatory premium companies,
charges to be used and charged by companies in connection
with the issue or execution of motor vehicle liability policies
or bonds, both as defined in section thirty-four A of chapter
ninety, for the ensuing calendar year or any part thereof.
He shall, on or before said date, sign memoranda of the Certified copy
classifications and premium charges fixed and established by tfons and"^'
him in such form as he may prescribe and file the same in schedule of
his office, and cause a duly certified copy of such classifica- charges to be
tions and schedule of premium charges forthwith to be compTniesf^"
transmitted to each company authorized to issue such etc.
policies or to execute such bonds. During said calendar
year, the classifications and premium charges fixed and
established by the commissioner for such policies shall be
used by all companies issuing such policies, and the classi-
fications and premium charges for such bonds shall be used
b}^ all companies acting as surety on such bonds.

The commissioner shall cause notice of every such hearing Notice of
to be given by advertising the date thereof once in at least advertised,^e\c.
one newspaper printed in each of the cities of Boston,
Worcester, Springfield, Newburyport, Gloucester, Pittsfield,
Fall River, New Bedford, Haverhill and Lawrence, at least
ten days prior to said date, and he shall incorporate in such
notice or publish therewith a schedule clearly and precisely
setting forth the premium charges proposed to be fixed and
established for the ensuing calendar year. Such notice
and schedule shall be in such form as the commissioner may
deem expedient.

The commissioner may make, and, at any time, alter or Rules and
amend, reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate the '^eguiations.
operation of this section and enforce the application of the
classifications and premium charges fixed and established
by him, and to govern hearings and investigations under this
section. He may at any time require any company to file Filing of data,
with him such data, statistics, schedules or information as etc°Ty*'°"'
he may deem proper or necessary to enable him to fix and companies,
establish or secure and maintain fair and reasonable classi-
fications of risks and adequate, just, reasonable and non-
discriminatory premium charges for such policies or bonds.
He may issue such orders as he finds proper, expedient or Certain orders
necessary to enforce and administer the provisions of this ^fonTr"^""^"
section, to secure compliance with any rules or regulations
made thereunder, and to enforce adherence to the classifi-
cations and premium charges fixed and established by him.
The supreme judicial court for the county of Suffolk shall fujid^court
have jurisdiction in equity upon the petition of the com- may enforce
missioner and upon a summary hearing, to enforce all law- ^^^^^^-

188 >

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 167.

Actions, orders,
etc., of com-
missioner to be
public records.

Review by
supreme ju-
dicinl court of
actions, orders,
etc., of com-
missioner.

Order of
notice, issuance,
service, etc.

Speedy hearing.

Actions, orders,
etc., in effect
pending court
decision, etc.

Jurisdiction
of court, etc.

Court decision
final.

Rules, etc
court to
govern pro-
ceedings, etc

Commissioner
to have access
to certificates,
etc.

Classific^ition
by mutual
companies of
motor vehicle
liability
policies, etc.,
for purpose of
paying divi-
dends, etc.

ful orders of the commissioner. Memoranda of all actions,
orders, findings and decisions of the commissioner shall be
signed by him and filed in his office as public records open
to public inspection.

Any person or company aggrieved by any action, order,
finding or decision of the commissioner under this section
may, within twenty days from the filing of such memo-
randum thereof in his office, file a petition in the supreme
judicial court for the county of Suffolk for a review of such
action, order, finding or decision. An order of notice re-
turnable not later than seven days from the filing of such
petition shall forthwith issue and be served upon the commis-
sioner. Within ten days after the return of said order of
notice, the petition shall be assigned for a speedy and sum-
mary hearing on the merits. The action, order, finding or
decision of the commissioner shall remain in full force and
effect pending the final decision of the court unless the court
or a justice thereof after notice to the commissioner shall by
a special order otherwise direct. The court shall have
jurisdiction in equity to modify, amend, annul, reverse or
affirm such action, order, finding or decision, shall review
all questions of fact and of law involved therein and may
make any appropriate order or decree. The decision of the
court shall be final and conclusive on the parties. The court
may make such order as to costs as it deems equitable.
The court shall make such rules or orders as it deems proper
governing proceedings under this section to secure prompt
and speedy hearings and to expedite final decisions thereon.

The commissioner, his deputies or examiners shall at all
times have access to the certificates defined in said section
thirty-four A filed with the registrar of motor vehicles.

Every mutual company issuing or executing motor
vehicle liability policies or bonds, both as defined in said
section thirty-four A, shall constitute such policies or bonds
as a separate class of business for the purpose of paying
dividends. Any dividends on such policies or bonds shall
be declared on the profits of the company from said class of
business. Approved March 28, 1929.

Chap. 167 An Act authorizing the city of westfield to reimburse

JAMES A. REAGAN FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES INCURRED BY
REASON OF INJURIES SUSTAINED BY HIS MINOR DAUGHTER
IN THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING OF SAID CITY.

City of West-
field may
reimburse
James A.
Reagan for
certain ex-
penses incurred
by reason of
injuries sus-
tained by
his minor
daughter in
high school
building of
said_city.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of discharging a moral
obligation, the city of Westfield may pay to James A.
Reagan, the father of Grace M. Reagan, a minor, the sum
of ninety-nine dollars and ten cents, to reimburse him for
expenses of medical and hospital care incurred by him on
account of injuries received by her on or about March fifth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, by reason of a defect
in the floor of the high school building of said city.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 1G8, 169. 189

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Submission to
during the current year by vote of the city council of said "tl^ *'"""'"''
city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not other-
wise. Approved March 28, 1929.

An Act relative to the management and control of (J]iar).\Q'&

THE STADIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD IN THE CITY OF HAVER-
HILL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The school committee of the city of Haver- School com-
hill shall have sole management and control of the Haver- of'Hrverifiii^to
hill stadium and athletic field, so called, including the land Jj^'lj^naKement
and structures thereon, located in said city and to be used and control of
for purposes of school and other athletics and public events tthietic'fLw,
at which an admission fee may or may not be charged. ^^''■
Said school committee may lease or let said stadium and
athletic field for any of the aforesaid purposes upon such
terms and conditions as it may determine. All revenue
received by said school committee from said stadium and
athletic field shall be paid into the treasury of said city.
Acting on behalf of said city, said school committee shall
collect all money due to, and assume all obligations and
debts incurred by, the Haverhill stadium and athletic
field commission, established by chapter fifty-six of the
Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen.

Section 2. Said chapter fiftj^-six of the Special Acts of j^g^ied^^'
nineteen hundred and eighteen is hereby repealed.

Approved March 28, 1929.

An Act relative to the solemnization of marriage. ChavAQ^

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter two hundred and seven of the General Laws is g. l. 207, § 38,
hereby amended by striking out section thirty-eight and ''"^'^^'^i-
inserting in place thereof the following: — ^edfon 38. A ^f^^^^^^^"""
marriage may be solemnized in any place within the com-
monwealth by a minister of the gospel who resides in the
commonwealth and who is recognized by his church or de-
nomination as duly ordained and in good and regular stand-
ing as a minister of such church or denomination; by a
rabbi of the Israelitish faith, duly licensed by a congregation
of said faith established in the commonwealth, who has
filed with the clerk or registrar of the city or town where he
resides a certificate of the establishment of the synagogue,
the date of his appointment thei'eto and of the term of his
engagement; by a justice of the peace if he is also clerk or
assistant clerk of a city or town, or a registrar or assistant
registrar, in the city or town where he holds such office, or,
if he is also clerk or assistant clerk of a court, in the city or
town where the court is authorized to be held, or, if he has
been designated as provided in the following section and
has received a certificate of designation and has qualified

190

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 170.

Churches, etc.
to file certain
information
with state
secretary.

thereunder, in the city or town where he resides; and it
may be solemnized among Friends or Quakers according to
the usage of their societies; but no person shall solemnize
a marriage in the commonwealth unless he can read and
write the English language.

Churches and other rehgious organizations shall file in the
office of the state secretary information relating to persons
recognized or licensed as aforesaid, in such form and at such
times as the secretary may require.

Approved March 28, 1929.

G. L. 125, § 10,
amended.

Oath of
subordinate
officers in state
prison, state
prison colony,
and in other
penal institu-
tions.

Chap. 170 An Act making certain provisions of law applicable

TO THE STATE PRISON COLONY AND TO OTHER PENAL
INSTITUTIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and twenty-five of
the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
ten and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section
10. All subordinate officers of the state prison, state prison
colony, Massachusetts reformatory or reformatory for
women, before entering upon the performance of their
official duties, shall take and subscribe the following oaths:

I, A. B., do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and will
support the constitution thereof. So help me, God.

I, A. B., do solemnly swear that I will obey the lawful
orders of all my superior officers. So help me, God.

I, A. B., do solemnly swear and affirm that I will faith-
fully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties
incumbent on me in the office to which I have been appointed,
according to the best of my abilities and understanding,
agreeably to the rules and regulations of the constitution,
the laws of the commonwealth and the rules provided in
accordance with law for the government of the state prison
(state prison colony, Massachusetts reformatory or re-
formatory for women). So help me, God.

The oaths may be administered by any officer authorized
by law to administer oaths, and a record thereof shall be in
the possession of the warden or superintendent.

Section 2. Section twelve of chapter one hundred and
twenty-seven of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after the word "the" the second time it occurs
in the second line the words: — state prison colony, — so
as to read as follows: — Section 12. An officer of the state
prison who holds his place at the pleasure of the warden,
or an officer or employee of the state prison colony, Massa-
chusetts reformatory, reformatory for women, prison camp
and hospital or state farm who holds his place at the pleasure
of the superintendent, who is unfaithful or incompetent, or
who uses intoxicating liquor as a beverage, shall be forth-
with removed by him.

G. L. 127, § 12,
amended.

Removal of
incompetent
officers of
prisons.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 171. . 191

Section 3. Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the g. l. 268. § 19.
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section ^™^"'^'^'^-
nineteen and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 19. An officer or other person, who, being employed f^^g^f^ ^"^
in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict con- consenting to
fined therein to escape, or in any way consents to such pe^niTunsti^
escape, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state tutions.
prison for not more than twenty years.

Section 4. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-eight is g. l. 268, § 31.
hereby further amended by striking out section thirty-one *'™''"*^e^-
and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 31 . ^\x^^l%^^^ .
Whoever delivers or procures to be delivered, or has in his .ance of articles
po.'session with intent to deliver, to a convict confined in p°enai [nstitu-
any penal institution, or whoever deposits or conceals in or t'^^s.
about the institution, or the dependencies thereof, or upon
any land appurtenant thereto, or in any boat or vehicle
going into the premises belonging to the institution, any
article, with intent that a convict shall obtain or receive it,
and whoever receives from a convict any article with intent
to convey it out of the institution, contrary to the rules and
regulations thereof, and without the knowledge and per-
mission of the commissioner of correction or of the warden,
superintendent or officer in charge thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by im-
prisonment in the state prison for not more than three years
or in jail for not more than two and one half years.

Approved March 29, 1929.

An Act providing certain financial protection to QJidj) I'Ji

MILK producers IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH LICENSED
MILK DEALERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Section 1. Section forty-one of chapter ninety-four of g. L.94 §41,
the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end
thereof the following : — Every inspector of milk shall J^fi^'^jo"'^^ °^
annually during the month of June, and at any other time furnish com-
upon special request of the commissioner of agriculture, agrfcuitu^rr^
furnish to him a list of dealers holding licenses for the sale annual lists

01 llC6nS6Cl

of milk, skimmed milk or cream who purchase the same miik dealers.
directly from producers in the commonwealth. If any in-
spector revokes such a license or reinstates such a license
previously revoked, he shall, within ten days after the
effective date of such revocation or reinstatement, notify
said commissioner in writing to that effect.

Section 2. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further g. l. 94, new
amended by inserting after section forty-two the following afterT42.
new section : — Section J^2A . Every person licensed under Certain licensed
section forty-one who purchases milk, skimmed milk or to'iubmit^'^^
cream directly from the producer in the commonwealth g'^'^P^f^^Y
shall, annually during the month of September and at such report an-
other times as the commissioner of agriculture shall request, co'lnmisl^oner.
prepare and submit to him upon a form provided therefor

192

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 172, 173.

Pent'lty for
failure to
make report,
etc.

by the department of agriculture a complete financial report
signed by the licensee, and verified by his oath or his written
declaration that it is made under the penalties of perjury.
Any licensee neglecting to make such report or, if defective
or erroneous, to amend it within fifteen days after a request
so to do, shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars
for each consecutive period of twent.y-four hours during
which such neglect continues. Approved March 29, 1929.

Chap.172

G. L. 231. new
section after
§ 59 A.

Expediting the
collection of
debts.

When
operative.

An Act to expedite the collection of debts.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the
General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section
fifty-nine A, inserted by section one of chapter five hundred
and nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
under the title ^'Expediting the Collection of Debts" the
following new section : — Section 59B. In any action of
contract where the plaintiff seeks to recover a debt or
liquidated demand, he may, at any time after the defendant
has appeared or, in a removed case, after its entry, on
affidavit by himself or by any other person who can swear
to the facts of his own knowledge, verifying the cause of
action and stating that in his behef there is no defense
thereto, move for the immediate entry of judgment for the
amount of the debt or demand, together with interest if
any is claimed. The motion may be set down for hear'ng
upon four days' notice and after hearing the court may,
unless the defendant by affidavit, by his own evidence or
otherwise shall disclose such facts as the court finds entitle
him to defend, enter an order for judgment for the amount
of the debt or demand, with interest if any is due, and
costs. Judgment as aforesaid shall be entered at the ex-
piration of seven days from the order unless the defendant
in the meanwhile files a demand for trial; and if such demand
is filed as aforesaid the case shall be advanced for speedy
trial. If the defendant does not appear at said hearing or
file at or before the time set for hearing an affidavit setting
forth specifically and clearly the substantive facts upon which
he relies as a defense, the court may enter judgment by
default.

Section 2. This act shall become operative on Septem-
ber first of the current year. Approved March 29, 1929.

Chap. 173 An Act providing for prompt informal trials in the

superior court.

G. L. 231, new
section after
§60.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the
General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section
sixty, under the title '^ Providing for Prompt Informal Trials

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 174. 193

in the Superior Court", the following new section: — Section Parties may
60 A. In any action at law or suit in equity after issue \va^ive certain
joined in the superior court, any party to the proceeding [,'faction*^^"
may, by a writing filed in the clerk's office, offer to waive atiavvor
any or all of the following : — equity after

(1) A trial by jury if it has been claimed. luplrlor'^co'lirt.

(2) The right to file interrogatories except as allowed
by the court.

(3) The rules of evidence to the end that any evidence
may be received which the court considers probative.

(4) The right to appeal from, or take exceptions to, any
ruling, order, judgment or decree except on a question of
substantive law.

A written notice of such offer with a copy thereof shall "^oi^o^trZ^hT
be served by registered mail, with return receipt requested, served, etc.
upon the other party or his attorney not less than ten days
before the trial of the action or suit. If such offer is not
rejected by a writing filed in the clerk's office within ten
days after such notice or within such further time as the
court may on motion allow, such offer shall be deemed to
have been accepted and the matters in controversy shall be
tried and determined in accordance therewith; and such
action or suit shall be advanced for speedy trial.

Section 2. This act shall become operative on Septem- when
ber first of the current year. Approved March 29, 1929. operative.

An Act eelative to traveling expenses of the board Cha7).174:
OF registration of nurses.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in Emergency
part defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to preamble.
be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section fifteen of chapter thirteen of the General Laws g. l. is, § is,
is hereby amended by striking out, in the sixth line, the '*'"''"'^'^^-
words ", not exceeding three cents a mile each way", —
so as to read as follows: — Section 15. Each member of Board of
the board, except the secretary, shall receive five dollars for mtrses, com-
every day actually spent in the performance of his duties; fraveiinTex-*^
provided, that the total sum paid to any member thereof penses.
shall not in any one year exceed one hundred and fifty P''°"^'^°-
dollars, and the necessary traveling expenses actually in-
curred in attending the meetings of the board. Said com- To be paid by
pensation and traveling expenses, and any incidental ex- commonwealth.
penses necessarily incurred by the board or any member
thereof, shall be paid by the commonwealth; provided, that Proviso.
such compensation and expenses shall not be in excess of
the receipts for registration paid to the commonwealth by
the board. Approved April 1, 1929.

194

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 175.

Chap. 17d ^N Act incorporating the trustees under the will

OF LOTTA M. CRABTREE AND EXEMPTING FROM TAXATION
CERTAIN PROPERTY HELD BY SAID TRUSTEES.

Emergency
preamble.

Trustees Under
the Will of
Lotta M.
Crabtree
incorporated.

May hold
real and
personal estate.

Powers, etc.

Certain
property
held by

trustees exempt
from taxation.

Filing of list
of exempted
property and
statement of
receipts and
expenditures.

When § 2 takes
effect.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Clarence R. Edwards, Frederic H. Chase
and Joseph R. McCoole, trustees appointed under the will
of Lotta M. Crabtree, late of Boston, deceased, and their
successors in said trust, are hereby made a corporation under
the name of Trustees Under the Will of Lotta M. Crabtree,
for the purpose of executing the benevolent and charitable
trusts established under the will of said Lotta M. Crabtree.
Said corporation may hold for the purposes of said trusts
real and personal estate to an amount not to exceed five
million dollars. Except as otherwise provided in this act,
said corporation shall have the powers, privileges and
exemptions, and shall be subject to the duties, restrictions
and liabilities, set forth in all general laws now or hereafter
in force relating to charitable and benevolent corporations
and institutions.

Section 2. Any real estate in this commonwealth left
by said Lotta M. Crabtree, and held in trust under her will
upon charitable trusts exclusively, shall, beginning with and
for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, be exempt
from taxation so long as said real estate, or the net income
therefrom, shall be administered solely for the benefit of
disabled, maimed, wounded and sick soldiers, sailors and
women who were actually in the service of the United States
during the World War, of those dependent upon them, and
of those dependent upon deceased soldiers, sailors and
women who were in the service of the United States during
the World War.

A list of the property so exempted and a statement of
receipts and expenditures in connection therewith shall be
filed at the times and in the manner provided for the filing
of lists and statements in sections twenty-nine to thirty-
five, inclusive, of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws;
and said real estate shall not be exempt for any year in
which the trustees omit to bring in to the assessors the list
and statement required by said section twenty-nine. Ex-
cept as otherwise provided, the provisions of said chapter
fifty-nine shall apply to proceedings for abatement here-
under.

Section 3. Section two of this act shall take effect as
of the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine. Approved April 1, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 176, 177, 178. 195

An Act relative to the purchase and distribution of (JJiq^j) jyg

BOOKS containing PORTRAITS OF MEMBERS OF THE GEN-
ERAL COURT AND OTHER MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter five of the General Laws is hereby g.l 5 §i8.
amended by striking out section eighteen and inserting in '*™°° ^
place thereof the following: — Section 18. The clerks of the Purchase and
two branches of the general court may, in every odd-numbered orboo^ '""
year, purchase three hundred and forty copies of a book con- ''ojfraits^of
taining portraits and biographical sketches of members of the members of
general court and other state officers, lists of committees and etc "'*' ^°^^^'
such other information as the clerks approve. The clerks shall
furnish one such copy to each such member and shall dis-
tribute the other copies as the committees on rules of the
senate and house of representatives may direct. The clerks
may expend therefor a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred
dollars.

Section 2. After a sufficient appropriation has been Applicable to
made, this act shall also apply, for the purpose of preventing copL^of °
loss to the publisher, to the purchase of the copies of the gj^fon*
current edition of said book. Approved April 1 , 1929.

An Act relative to the appointment of assistant as- Chav. 177

SESSORS in the CITY OF MALDEN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and forty-four of the isov, 144, §i,
acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended ^"^"^ ^
by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof
the following : — Section 1 . The board of assessors of the Appointment
city of Maiden is hereby authorized to appoint such number assessor^hi
of assistant assessors and other assistants and subordinates ?J*L°(,

. , , , Maiden.

as said board may deem necessary.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 2, 1929.

An Act relative to the board of election commis- Chap. 17S

SIGNERS in the CITY OF SOMERVILLE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section three of chapter eighty-two of the 1928, 82, §3,
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight is hereby amended '^"^®°
by striking out, in the fifth, sixth and seventh lines, the
words "The city clerk shall always be ex officio one of the
members of the board", — so as to read as follows: — Sec- Board of
tion 3. The members of the board of registrars of voters in
office in said city at the time this act takes effect shall be gomervme

election
commissioners

members of said board of election commissioners, and shall how con-
serve until the expiration of their respective terms and of'office,' etc™^

196

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 179.

Vacancy,
how filled.

Vacancy
resulting
from passage
of act, how
filled, etc.

until their successors are appointed and qualij&ed. As the
terms of the several election commissioners expire, and in
case a vacancy occurs in said board, the mayor shall, sub-
ject to approval by the board of aldermen, so appoint their
successors that the members of the board shall equally
represent the two leading political parties as defined as
aforesaid. Such appointments shall be for terms of three
years beginning April first, except that any appointment
to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term.

Section 2. The vacancy in the membership of said
board of election commissioners resulting by reason of the
passage of this act shall be filled in the manner provided by
the preceding section, and the person appointed to fill such
vacancy shall hold office until the expiration of three years
from April first of the current year.

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

Approved April 2, 1929.

Chap. 179 An Act to change the name of the commission on pro-
bation AND OF ITS executive OFFICER.

G. L. 276, §§ 98
99, 100, etc.,
and 101 to 10.3,
inclusive,
amended.

Board of
probation,
appointment,
term, etc.

Vacancy.

Removal.

Commissioner
of probation,
appointment,
duties, salary.

OfBce

accommoda-
tions, etc.

No compensa-
tion, etc.

Expenditure.

Powers and
duties of board

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and seventy-six of
the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out sections
ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred, as amended by
section three of chapter three hundred and twenty of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and one hundred
and one to one hundred and three, inclusive, and inserting
in place thereof the following : — Section 98. There shall
be a board of probation of five persons, appointed by the
chief justice of the superior court, one or more of whom
may be justices of the courts. Said chief justice shall
annually appoint one member of the board to serve for five
years from the second Wednesday in July. A vacancy in
the board shall be filled in the same manner for the unex-
pired term. Any member of the board may be removed
by the chief justice. The board shall appoint a commis-
sioner of probation as its executive officer, who shall hold
office during its pleasure. He shall perform such duties as
may be required of him by the board and shall receive such
salary as it shall, subject to the approval of the governor
and council, determine. The board shall be provided with
suitable office accommodations, in the Suffolk county court
house or elsewhere, and may employ such assistance as is
needed to perform its work. The members of the board shall
receive no compensation for services hereunder, but they
and the commissioner shall be allowed the necessary expenses
incurred in the performance of their official duties. The
board may expend for the purposes for which it is estab-
lished such sums as the general court may appropriate.

Section 99. The board of probation shall prescribe the
form of all records and of all reports from probation officers,
and shall make rules for the registration of reports and for

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 179. 197

the exchange of information between the courts. It shall
provide for such organization and co-operation of the pro-
bation officers in the several courts as may seem advisable.
To promote co-ordination in the probation work of the
courts, the board may call a conference of any or all of the
justices of the district courts and the Boston juvenile court,
or a conference of any or all of the probation officers and
assistant probation officers, and a member of the board shall
preside. With the approval of the board, the commis-
sioner of correction or the department of public welfare
may hold a conference with any or all of the probation officers
to secure their co-operation in keeping trace of the where-
abouts of persons who are at liberty from the prisons of
the commonwealth. The traveling expenses of said justices
or officers in attending any conference herein named shall
be paid as the other expenses of the respective courts are
paid.

Section 100. Every probation officer, or the chief or Probation
senior probation officer of a court having more than one °^tfin other
probation officer, shall transmit to the board of probation, public officers
in such form and at such times as it shall require, detailed boaS'd^aiied
reports regarding the work of probation in the court, and p'^oba^fion
the commissioner of correction, the penal institutions com- work, paroles,

P -i-> J 1 J 1 J • • f permits to be

missioner ot Boston and the county commissioners oi coun- at liberty, etc.
ties other than Suffolk shall transmit to the board, as afore-
said, detailed and complete records relative to all paroles
and permits to be at liberty granted or issued by them,
respectively, to the revoking of the same and to the length
of time served on each sentence to imprisonment by each
prisoner so released specifying the institution where each
such sentence was served; and under the direction of the Record of
board a record shall be kept of all such cases as the board trbe'kept,''etc.
may require for the information of the justices and proba-
tion officers. Police officials shall co-operate with the Police officials
board and the probation officers in obtaining and reporting toco-operate.
information concerning persons on probation. The infor- Accessibility of
mation so obtained and recorded shall be accessible at all '"fo™ation.
times to the justices and officers of the courts, to the police
commissioner of Boston, and to all chiefs of police and city
marshals. The commissioner of correction and the de- information
partment of public welfare shall at all times give to the m^ssi'o'Ser of
board and the probation officers such information as may correction and

, ,,.,p'^,, , . . ,'' department of

be obtained from the records concerning prisoners under public welfare.
sentence or who have been released.

Section 101. The board of probation shall make an annual Annual report.
report to the general court of the probation work of the
courts for the year ending on September thirtieth preceding.
The report shall include such information as the board
may consider useful, with its suggestions or recommenda-
tions.

Section 102. The four preceding sections shall not af- P^wTt'^oT'
feet the authority of the courts to require the keeping by the courts not
their probation officers of probation records in addition to *^«<=*«'^-

198

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 179.

Notice of
appointment
or removal
of probation
officer.

G. L. 276, § 85,
etc., amended.

Probation
officers to
investigate
criminal cases
and to inform
court as to
prior criminal
prosecutions
of defendants,
etc.

To inform
probation
officers of
other courts
or parole
authorities as
to presence in
court of de-
fendants on
probation in
such other
courts or at
liberty on
parole, etc.

Other duties.
Records.

Probationers to
receive written
statement as to
release.

G. L. 119, § 64,
amended.

Supervision of
probation work
for wayward

those necessary to conform to forms of records and reports
prescribed by the board of probation nor the authority of
the courts to approve expenses and disbursements relating
to the probation system.

Section 103. Upon the appointment or removal of a
probation officer, the clerk of the court by which the ap-
pointment or removal is made shall forthwith give notice
thereof to the board of probation.

Section 2. Section eighty-five of said chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-six, as amended by section two of chapter
three hundred and twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, is hereby further amended by striking out,
in the eleventh line, the words "commission on" and in-
serting in place thereof the words : — board of, — so as to
read as follows : — Section 85. In addition to the other
duties imposed upon him, each probation officer shall, as the
court may direct, inquire into the nature of every criminal
case brought before the court under the appointment of
which he acts, and inform the court, so far as is possible,
whether the defendant has previously been convicted of
crime and in the case of a criminal prosecution before said
court charging a person with an offence punishable by im-
prisonment for more than one year the probation officer
shall in any event present to the court such information as
the board of probation has in its possession relative to prior
criminal prosecutions, if any, of such person and to the
disposition of each such prosecution, and all other avail-
able information relative thereto, before such person is
admitted to bail in court and also before disposition of the
case against him by sentence, or placing on file or probation.
When it comes to the knowledge of a probation officer that
the defendant in a criminal case before his court charged
with an offence punishable by imprisonment for more than
one year is then on probation in another court or is then at
libert}^ on parole or on a permit to be at liberty, such pro-
bation officer shall forthwith certify the fact of the presence
of the defendant before his court to the probation officer
of such other court or the parole authorities granting or
issuing such parole or permit to be at liberty, as the case
may be. He may recommend to the justice of his own
court that any person convicted be placed on probation. He
shall perform such other duties as the court requires. He
shall keep full records of all cases investigated by him or
placed in his care by the court, and of all duties performed
by him. Every person released upon probation shall be
given by the probation officer a written statement of the
terms and conditions of the release.

Section 3. Section sixty-four of chapter one hundred
and nineteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by
striking out, in the first line, the words "commission on"
and inserting in place thereof the words : — board of, — so
as to read as follows : — Section 64- The board of proba-
tion may supervise the probation work for wayward and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 180. 199

delinquent children, and make necessary inquiries in regard unquett
to the same, and in its annual report may make such rec- children,
ommendations as it considers advisable for the improve-
ment of methods of dealing with such children.

Section 4. Section seventeen of chapter one hundred ^c.^'amlAdJd.'
and twenty-seven of the General Laws, as amended by sec-
tion two of chapter three hundred and nine of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby further amended
by striking out, in the twenty-fifth line, the words "com-
mission on" and inserting in place thereof the words: —
board of, — so as to read as follows : — Section 1 7. Speci- Regulations
fications governing the manner and time of such physical and'^ps^^chtatric
examinations and such psychiatric examinations shall be examinations,
respectively promulgated by the departments of public
health and mental diseases. Said departments shall re-
spectively prescribe the medical and psychiatric records
to be kept, shall require such laboratory or other diagnostic
aids to be used as in their judgment are expedient, and shall ff^/gg^ita*^
forward to the commissioner statements of the results of all of examinations
such examinations, together with recommendations relative s°oner!etc.'
thereto, and the psychiatrists making such examination shall
from time to time furnish such other information as the
commissioner may request. For the purpose of obtaining Assembling of
further information relative to such prisoners the com- matl'on Ls^to"
missioner may cause inquiry to be made of court physicians '^^foj^'^^s
and psychiatrists, probation officers and district attorneys,
who have made examinations or investigations of such
prisoners prior to conviction or who have prosecuted them,
and such physicians, psychiatrists and probation officers
shall furnish to the commissioner when requested all perti-
nent information in their possession. The commissioner
may cause such further inquiry to be made relative to the
offences committed by such prisoners and their past history
and environment as he may deem necessary. He shall ^f^inat'ions.
cause records to be made of such examinations and investi- transmission'
gations, and shall transmit copies thereof to the office of toboarHof
the board of probation, which shall cause the same to be probation.
filed with its office records.

Section 5. The board of probation shall have and probation to
exercise whatever powers and duties are by statute con- have statutory
ferred upon the commission on probation. of^TOmmlssion

Approved April 2, 1929. ""^ probation.

An Act permitting unregistered tractors and trailers (Jjiav 180

USED exclusively FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES TO BE
OPERATED UPON WAYS IN CERTAIN CASES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section nine of chapter ninety of the General Laws, as g. l. 90, § 9,
amended by section three of chapter three hundred and ^*''" ^™®'^'^®'^-
three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and
by section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven and
section three of chapter three hundred and eighty-one,

200

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 181.

both of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is
hereby further amended by inserting after the word "six"
in the thirteenth hne the following : — , and except that a
tractor or trailer used exclusively for agricultural purposes
may be operated without such registration upon any way
for a distance not exceeding one half mile for the purpose of
going from property owned or occupied by the owner of
such tractor or trailer to other property so owned or occu-
pied,— so as to read as follows: — Section 9. No person
shall operate any motor vehicle or draw any trailer, and
the owner or custodian of such a vehicle shall not permit
the same to be operated upon or to remain upon any way
except as authorized by section three, unless such vehicle is
registered in accordance with this chapter and carries its
register number displayed as provided in section six, and,
in the case of a motor vehicle, is equipped as provided in
section seven, except that any motor vehicle or trailer
may, if duly registered, be operated or remain upon any
way between the hours of twelve o'clock noon on December
thirty-first of one year and twelve o'clock noon on January
first of the following year if it carries its register number of
either year displayed as provided in section six, and except
that a tractor or trailer used exclusively for agricultural
purposes may be operated without such registration upon
any way for a distance not exceeding one half mile for the
purpose of going from property owned or occupied by the
owner of such tractor or trailer to other property so owned
or occupied; but violation of this .section shall not constitute
a defence to actions of tort for injuries suffered by a person,
or for the death of a person, or for injury to property, unless
it is shown that the person injured in his person or property
or killed was the owner or operator of the motor vehicle
the operation of which was in violation of this section, or
unless it is shown that the person so injured or killed, or
the owner of the property so injured, knew or had reason-
able cause to know that this section was being violated.
A motor vehicle or trailer shall be deemed to be registered
in accordance with this chapter notwithstanding any mistake
in so much of the description thereof contained in the ap-
plication for registration or in the certificate required to be
filed under section thirty-four B as relates to the engine, serial
or maker's number thereof. Approved April 2, 1929.

Chap. ISl An Act prohibiting the discharge of oils and their

PRODUCTS into OR ON CERTAIN WATERS AND FLATS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety-one of the General Laws is hereby amended
by adding thereto the following new section: — Section 59.
Whoever pumps, discharges or deposits, or causes to be
pumped, discharged or deposited, into or on the waters of
any lake or river or into or on tidal waters and flats, any
crude petroleum or any of its products or any other oils or

Unregistered
and im-
properly
equipped motor
vehicles not to
be operated,
etc.

Use of
number
plates be-
tween twelve
o'clock noon
on December
thirty-first
and twelve
o'clock noon
on January
first following.
Unregistered
tractors and
trailers used
exclusively
for agricultural
purposes
may be
operated
upon ways in
certain cases.
Violation of
section not
to constitute
a defence, etc.

Certain mis-
statements in
applications
not to
affect regis-
tration, etc.

G. L. 91, new
section.
Penalty for
discharging
oils and their
products into
or on certain
waters and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 182. 201

any bilge water or water from any receptacle containing

any of the said substances, in such manner and to such

extent as to be a pollution or contamination of said waters

or flats or a nuisance or be injurious to the public health,

shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred

dollars; but this section shall not be construed to prohibit ^terminitkL

the use of oil for the extermination of mosquitoes or other of mosquitoes

insects. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by hibifed'

the department of public safety and by all other officers Enforcement.

authorized to make arrests. Approved April 3, 1929.

An Act relative to the depositing of money with Qhnji i co

OTHERS than BANKS. ^ *

Be it enacted, etc., as follows. •

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the g. l. i69, § i.
General Laws, as amended in section one by section one of etc., amended.
chapter four hundred and seventy-three of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twentj^-three, is hereby further
amended by striking out the first-mentioned section one and
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 1. This Application of
chapter shall apply to all persons who engage or are financially It'IfeposUs"^
interested in the business of receiving deposits of money, J^**'^ u*''^®!^^
for the purpose of transmitting the same or equivalents
thereof to foreign countries, in such sums that the average
of the separate deposits so received during any twelve
successive months, or during such period, if less than twelve
months, that such person has been engaged in such business,
is less than five hundred dollars, except duly incorporated
banks and trust companies, express companies having con-
tracts with railroad or steamship companies for the operation
of an express service upon the lines of such companies, or
express companies doing an international express business,
or transatlantic steamship companies or telegraph com-
panies.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, g. l. i69, § 2,
as amended in section two by section two of said chapter ®*^' amended,
four hundred and seventy-three, is hereby further amended
by striking out the first-mentioned section two and insert-
ing in place thereof the following: — Section 2. Every per- Certain persons
son subject to section one shall, before engaging or becoming dlfpolitl^of
financially interested or continuing to engage or be financially money for

• . ii'iii • r •• I'i r" c transmission

interested m the business 01 receiving deposits of money for to foreign
the purpose of transmitting the same or equivalents thereof gi've"bond!°
to foreign countries, make, execute and deliver to the state etc.
treasurer a bond in a sum equal to twice the amount of
money or equivalents thereof transmitted to foreign coun-
tries by such person in any one week, as determined by the
commissioner of banks, in this chapter called the commis-
sioner, but in no event shall the sum of the bond be less than
fifteen thousand dollars; provided, that the sum of such Proviso,
bond shall be increased on order of the commissioner at any
time to such amount as shall be shown by examination to

202

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 182.

G. L. 169, §3,
etc., amended.

Bonds, by
whom exe-
cuted, sureties,
etc.

Deposits in
lieu of
sureties.

Examination
and approval
of bonds, etc.

Licenses for
business of
receiving
deposits for
transmission
to foreign
countries.

be necessary. Said bond shall be conditioned upon the
faithful holding and transmission of any money or equiva-
lents thereof which shall have been delivered to such person
for transmission to a foreign country, and, in the event of
the insolvency or bankruptcy of the principal, upon the
payment of the full amount of such bond to the assignee,
receiver or trustee of the principal, as the case may require,
for the benefit of such persons as shall have been delivered
money or equivalents thereof to said principal for the pur-
pose of transmitting the same to a foreign country.

Section 3. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine,
as amended in section three by section three of said chapter
four hundred and seventy-three, is hereby further amended
by striking out the first-mentioned section three and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 3. Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, the provisions of this
section shall apply to the bonds required by the preceding
section. Each such bond shall be executed by the person
of whom it is required, as principal, with at least two good
and sufficient sureties who shall be residents and owners of
real estate within the commonwealth or by said person as
principal and a surety company, approved by the com-
missioner. In lieu of the aforesaid sureties, the person may
deposit, and the state treasurer shall accept as security for
the fulfilment of the provisions of the bond, money, bonds
of the United States, of this commonwealth or of any mu-
nicipality thereof, or, if approved by the commissioner,
other bonds, certificates of deposit issued by a national
bank or trust company, or deposit books of depositors in
savings banks or in savings departments of trust companies
or national banks. The money or securities so deposited
shall be held upon the conditions specified in the bond. If
securities be deposited in lieu of sureties and be accepted,
the state treasurer shall require the depositor to maintain
such deposit at a value equal to the amount fixed as the
penalty of the bond, and he may in his discretion permit
the substitution of securities for money, or of money for
securities, in whole or in part, or of money or securities for
any sureties, or of a bond for money or securities deposited,
or the withdrawal 'of securities deposited and the substitu-
tion of others of equal value in their place, and, if the total
value of the securities becomes substantially impaired, he
shall require the deposit of money or additional securities
sufficient to cover the impairment in value. No bond re-
quired by the preceding section shall be accepted until it
has been first examined and approved by the commissioner
and unless also approved by the state treasurer, and upon
such approval by the state treasurer it shall be filed in his
office. Upon notice of such approval by the state treasurer,
the commissioner shall issue a license authorizing said person
to carry on the business of receiving deposits of money for
the purpose of transmitting the same or equivalents thereof
to foreign countries for a period of one year from the date

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 182. 203

of the issuance of the license, at a place to be specified
therein, and no person shall engage or become financially
interested or continue to engage or be financially interested
in the aforesaid business without such authority. The License fee.
fee for such hcense shall be fifty dollars. The license shall Not trans-
not be transferred or assigned. It shall not authorize the ^^^ ^' ^*"'
transaction of business at any place other than that de-
scribed in the license, except with the written approval of
the commissioner. Immediately upon the receipt of the Posting of
license issued by the commissioner, the licensee named "^'^"®^-
therein shall cause the license to be posted and at all times
conspicuously displayed in the place of business for which
it is issued, so that all persons visiting such place may
readily see the same. It shall be unlawful for any licensee
to post the license or to permit the license to be posted
upon premises other than those described therein or those
to which it has been transferred with the written approval
of the commissioner, or knowingly to deface or destroy
any such license. The money and securities deposited with Trust fund
the state treasurer as herein provided and the money which oTdeposftors.
in case of breach of the bond shall be paid by any licensee
or surety thereon, shall constitute a trust fund for the
benefit of such persons as shall deposit money with the
licensee for transmission as aforesaid, and such beneficiaries
shall be entitled to an absolute preference as to such money
or securities over all general creditors of the licensee. The Revocation
license shall be revocable at all times by the commissioner onicM^I." ^'^
for cause shown and in the event of such revocation or of
a surrender of the license no refund shall be made in respect
of any license fee paid. Every license shall be surrendered
to the commissioner within twenty-four hours after written
notice to the holder that the license has been revoked. In
case of the revocation of the license the money and securities
and the bond, if there be one, shall continue to be held by
the state treasurer for a period of one year from the date
of such revocation and until the expiration of sixty days
after final judgment in any action or suit commenced prior
to the end of said period, unless otherwise directed by the
order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

Section 4. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine is g. l. i69. § lo,
hereby further amended by striking out section ten and '^™^"'^®'^-
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 10. The Persons
commissioner shall have the power conferred by the three examfnation.
preceding sections, for the purpose of determining whether
a person is engaged in a business subject to section one or
prohibited by section sixteen.

Section 5. Section twelve of said chapter one hundred ^ j^^J^^'el ^^'
and sixty-nine, as amended by section four of said chapter § is and
four hundred and seventy-three, section thirteen of said ^ ^'°^' '^^p'^^^^'^
chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, and section fifteen A
of said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, inserted by sec-
tion five of said chapter four hundred and seventy-three,
are hereby repealed.

204

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 182.

G. L. 169, § 16,
etc., amended.

Penalty for
violation of
laws relating
to deposits
with others
than banks.

G. L. 169, § 18,
etc., amended.

Violations to
cause revo-
cation of
license, etc.

After effective
date of act,
certain persons
prohibited
from engaging
in business
of receiving
deposits of
money for safe
keeping, etc.

Proviso.

Section 6. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, as
amended in section sixteen by section six of said chapter four
hundred and seventy-three, is hereby further amended by
striking out said section sixteen and inserting in place
thereof the following: — Section 16. Any person engaged
or financially interested in the selling of steamship or rail-
road tickets for transportation to or from foreign countries,
or in supplying laborers, who shall, in conjunction with
said business, engage or become financially interested or
continue to engage or be financially interested in the business
of receiving deposits of money for safe keeping or other pur-
pose than for transmitting the same to foreign countries,
after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, or prior
thereto except as authorized by law, and any person who
shall engage or become financially interested or continue to
engage or be financially interested in the business of receiv-
ing deposits of money for the purpose of transmitting the
same, or equivalents thereof, to foreign countries contrary
to any provision of this chapter, and any person who other-
wise violates any provision of this chapter, shall, except as
otherwise provided in section nine, be punished by a fine of
not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, or
by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more
than one year or both.

Section 7. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, as
amended in section eighteen by section seven of said chapter
four hundred and seventy-three, is hereby further amended
by striking out said section eighteen and inserting in place
thereof the following: — Section 18. The violation of any
provision of section fourteen or fifteen shall be sufficient
cause for the revocation of any license granted hereunder,
and shall be a violation of the condition of the bond which
was prerequisite to the issue of said license or of any bond
substituted therefor.

Section 8. After the effective date of this act, no person
engaged or financially interested in the selhng of steamship
or railroad tickets for transportation to or from foreign
countries, or in supplying laborers, shall, in conjunction
with said business, engage or become financially interested
in the business of receiving deposits of money for safe
keeping or other purpose than for transmitting the same to
foreign countries, under whatever name or by whatever
persons the said business of receiving deposits is carried on;
provided, that, for the purposes only of enabling him gradu-
ally to settle and close his affairs in respect to the business
of receiving deposits as aforesaid, of prosecuting and de-
fending actions and suits by or against him in respect to
said business, and, if incorporated, of dividing the capital
stock and not for the purpose of receiving new deposits as
aforesaid or continuing said business, any person who is
on said date lawfully engaged or financially interested in the
business of receiving deposits as aforesaid, in conjunction
with the business of selling tickets or supplying laborers as

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 183, 184. 205

aforesaid, may, so long as he is duly licensed, under the
provisions of chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the
General Laws as heretofore existing, to carry on the business
of receiving deposits as aforesaid, and carries on such busi-
ness strictly in conformity with said provisions, continue to
be engaged or financially interested in the business of re-
ceiving deposits as aforesaid until July first, nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-two, and until the expiration of sixty days
after final judgment in any action or suit commenced prior
to said date, when such business shall cease. The pro- Provisions of
visions of said chapter one hundred and sixty-nine as here- Sntinlfed in
tofore existing are hereby continued in force, but only to force for

., ,. ill 1 !• "i certain limited

the extent necessary to enable such persons licensed as purposes,
aforesaid on the effective date of this act to continue to be ®'°'
engaged or financially interested in the business of receiving
deposits as aforesaid for the hmited purposes hereinbefore
set forth, notwithstanding the implied or express repeal of
such provisions by the foregoing provisions of this act.

Approved April 3, 1929.

An Act relative to sessions of the probate court in QJiQ^n 183

WORCESTER COUNTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and fifteen of ^c^amended^'
the General Laws, as most recently amended by chapter
one hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, is hereby further amended by striking out the
paragraph contained in line sixty-one, as printed in the Gen-
eral Laws, and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Worcester, at Worcester, each Tuesday of every month when and
except the first, second, fourth and fifth Tuesdays of August. Tre'^heid!'''^*^

Approved April 3, 1929. ""^^^^^^^

An Act to provide additional accommodations at the QJiq^ 184

HAMPSHIRE county SANATORIUM AT LEEDS IN THE CITY
OF NORTHAMPTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L For the purpose of constructing, originally county com-
equipping and furnishing an addition to the Hampshire Hampshire"^
county sanatorium at Leeds in the city of Northampton, county may
the county commissioners of Hampshire county may expend tain sum to
a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, the same uomUc-*^*^*'
to be ultimately paid by the cities and towns of Hampshire, commodations
Franklin and Berkshire counties and of the Hampden county Hampshire
tuberculosis hospital district in the same proportions set sanat^ium
forth for the payment of maintenance expenses of said ''} Leeds »«
sanatorium in existing contracts, entered into under section Northampton,
seventy-nine of chapter one hundred and eleven of the Gen-
eral Laws, for the use of said sanatorium for the purpose of
guaranteeing adequate hospital provision for tubercular
patients residing in said cities and towns: to wit, the cities Apportionment

of expense.

206

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 185.

County

treasurer
may borrow
money, issue
notes, etc.

Hampshire
County
Sanatorium
Loan, Act of
1929.

Submission
to county
commissioners
of Hampshire,
Franklin,
Berkshire and
Hampden
counties.

and towns of Hampshire county, fifteen per cent ; of Frank-
lin county, twenty-five per cent; of Berkshire county,
twenty per cent; and of the Hampden county tuberculosis
hospital district, forty per cent. No work on such addition
shall be commenced unless and until plans thereof are ap-
proved by the state department of public health.

Section 2. For the purpose of meeting the initial ex-
penditure as aforesaid, the county treasurer of the county
of Hampshire, with the approval of the county commis-
sioners, may borrow on the credit of the county such sums
as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, twenty-
five thousand dollars, and may issue notes of the county
therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Hampshire
County Sanatorium Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized
issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall
be payable in not more than one year from their dates.
The notes shall be signed by the county treasurer and coun-
tersigned by a majority of the county commissioners. To
meet payments of principal and interest on account of said
notes, each of the counties of Franklin, Berkshire and Hamp-
den shall, upon the certification to it by the county treasurer
of Hampshire county of the sum due on account of the cities
and towns therein ultimately liable under section one, pay
the same into the treasury of Hampshire county; and, for
the purposes hereof, the sum so required to be paid by each
such county shall be treated as tuberculosis hospital mainte-
nance, and the provisions of section eighty-five of said
chapter one hundred and eleven shall apply to the raising,
apportioning and collection thereof.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
during the current year by the county commissioners of
Hampshire, Franklin, Berkshire and Hampden counties,
but not otherwise. Approved April 3, 1929.

Chap.lS5 An Act to allow defendants in the superior court in

CRIMINAL CASES, OTHER THAN CAPITAL CASES, TO ELECT
UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES TO BE TRIED BY THE
COURT INSTEAD OF BY A JURY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Sn^ndl^d' ^ ''' Section 1. Section six of chapter two hundred and
sixty-three of the General Laws is hereby amended by
adding at the end thereof the following : — or, in any criminal
case other than a capital case, by judgment of the court
rendered as hereinafter provided. Any defendant in the
superior court in a criminal case other than a capital case,
whether begun by indictment or upon complaint, may, if
he shall so elect, when called upon to plead, or later and
before a jury has been impanelled to try him upon such
indictment or complaint, waive his right to trial by jury by
signing a written waiver thereof and filing the same with
the clerk of the court, whereupon he shall be tried by the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 186. 207

court instead of by a jury, but not, however, unless all the
defendants, if there are two or more, shall have exercised
such election before a jury has been impanelled to try any
of the defendants; and in every such case the court shall
have jurisdiction to hear and try such cause and render
judgment and sentence thereon, — so as to read as follows:
— Section 6. A person indicted for a crime shall not be Persons in-
convicted thereof except by confessing his guilt in open crime, how
court, by admitting the truth of the charge against him convicted.
by his plea or demurrer or by the verdict of a jury accepted
and recorded by the court or, in any criminal case other
than a capital case, by judgment of the court rendered as
hereinafter provided. Any defendant in the superior court ^peHor court
in a criminal case other than a capital case, whether begun in criminal
by indictment or upon complaint, may, if he shall so elect, than^'capitai
when called upon to plead, or later and before a jury has l^^^t' under
been impanelled to try him upon such indictment or com- certain cir-
plaint, waive his right to trial by jury by signing a written tobet^ried^'
waiver thereof and filing the same with the clerk of the court, J'n^t°g°'^''of
whereupon he shall be tried by the court instead of by a by jury.
jury, but not, however, unless all the defendants, if there
are two or more, shall have exercised such election before a
jury has been impanelled to try any of the defendants; and in
every such case the court shall have jurisdiction to hear and
try such cause and render judgment and sentence thereon.

Section 2. Section two of chapter two hundred and ^m^ndld.' ^ ^'
seventy-eight of the General Laws is hereby amended by
adding at the end thereof the following: — , unless the person
indicted or complained against elects to be tried by the court
as provided by law, — so as to read as follows : — Section 2. howTrreV.^"'*'
Issues of fact joined upon an indictment or complaint shall,
in the superior court, be tried by a jury drawn and returned
in the manner provided for the trial of issues of fact in civil
causes, unless the person indicted or complained against
elects to be tried by the court as provided by law.

Section 3. This act shall become operative on Septem- when
ber first of the current year. Approved April 8, 1929. "^^"^^ '^^'

C/iap. 186

An Act to provide that the rule making power of
the supreme judicial and superior courts shall
include the making of rules of procedure for
securing the interpretation of written instru-
ments without other relief.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and neJ'ciaus'eyter
thirteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding clause Tenth.
after clause "Tenth" the following new clause: — Tenth A, Rulemaking
Providing that an action at law or a suit in equity shall fuprem'e
not be open to objection on the ground that a mere judg- superk)r ^uru
ment, order or decree interpreting a written instrument or to include

written instruments is sought thereby, and providing pro- ^lea of pro-
cedure for

208

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 187, 188.

securing the
interpretation
of written
instruments
without
other relief.

Proviso.

When
operative.

cedure under which the court may make binding determina-
tions of right interpreting the same, whether any conse-
quential judgment or rehef is or could be claimed or not,
provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed
to authorize the change, extension or alteration of the law
regulating the method of obtaining service on, or juris-
diction over, parties or to affect their right to jury trial.
Section 2. This act shall become operative on Septem-
ber first of the current year. Approved April 3, 1929.

Chap. 1S7 An Act relative to the holding of religious meetings

AND political MEETINGS OR RALLIES IN PUBLIC WAYS
AND PLACES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and forty of the General Laws is
hereby amended by inserting after section fifty the follow-
ing new section : — Section 50 A . The board of street com-
missioners of the city of Boston, the city council of any
other city or the selectmen of any town may, if in their
opinion public convenience so requires, license the holding
of religious meetings, or of political meetings or rallies to
further the interests of candidates for nomination or elec-
tion to public office, in such parts of any public ways or
places and during such periods of time as they may desig-
nate; provided, that public travel is not incommoded
thereby and that no license as aforesaid shall be granted to
use any part of a highway the fee in which is not owned
by the city or town unless the owners of the land abutting
on that part of the way consent in writing to the granting
thereof. Any such license may be revoked by them at
any time. Approved April 3, 1929.

G. L. 140, new
section after
§50.

Licenses for
the holding
of religious
meetings and
political meet-
ings or rallies
in public
ways and
places.

Proviso.

Revocation.

C/jax)-.188 An Act to make available for the extension of the

NEW mystic valley MAIN SEWER THE UNEXPENDED
BALANCES OF CERTAIN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT SEWER
LOANS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The unexpended proceeds of loans, issued under authority
of chapter one hundred and sixteen of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-four for the construction of additional
sewers in the north metropolitan sewerage district, not
required for the purposes of said chapter one hundred and
sixteen or of chapter two hundred and thirteen of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, may be expended for
the purposes of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and the amount
authorized by said chapter one hundred and eighty-four to
be borrowed for the purposes thereof is hereby reduced
accordingly. Approved April 3, 1929,

Unexpended
balances of
certain metro-
politan district
sewer loans
naade available
for the
extension
of the new
Mystic valley
main sewer.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 189, 190, 191. 209

An Act relative to probate records. Chap. 189

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and fifteen of the g, l. 215, § 36,
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section '""^" ^
thirty-six and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 36. Decrees and orders of probate courts shall ^.^batl courts
be in writing, and the registers shall record in books kept ?"''^J"i'^?i'|*j;
therefor all such decrees and orders, and such other pro- o"hercourt
ceedings in said courts and such instruments as shall be and'certem
determined by rules made from time to time under section other instm-

, . "^ nients, to be

thirty. recorded.

Section 2. This act shall take effect on September first Effective date.
in the current year. Approved April 3, 1929.

An Act authorizing the establishment of a reserve Chav.l^^

POLICE force in the TOW^N OF WEYMOUTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The selectmen of the town of Weymouth Establishment
may from time to time, as authorized by the town, ap- poilcelorce
point, subject to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws Weymouth.
except as hereinafter provided, suitable persons to con-
stitute a reserve police force for said town, to a number not
exceeding one for every three members of its regular police
force. Members of said reserve force may be removed by
the selectmen at any time for any reason satisfactory to
them and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as
the selectmen may prescribe.

Section 2. The members of said reserve force shall, dutiM^'"^'^
when on duty, have all the powers and duties of members
of the regular police force of said town, and shall be paid Compensation.
by the town such compensation as the selectmen may fix.

Section 3. All appointments to the regular police Appointments
force in said town shall hereafter be made from the reserve poUcl^force
force, subject to such rules and regulations as the division f°o|^®™sMve
of civil service may prescribe, except that a period of six force,
months of actual service as a reserve officer shall be the
minimum probationary period under said rules and regu-
lations.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 4, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of needham to borrow (7/iax).191

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing a new high Town of
school building and originally equipping and furnishing the bo^-row'^moTey
same, the town of Needham may borrow from time to time, ^°^ ^''^°°i

. , *^ . purposes.

within a period of five years from the passage of this act,
such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the ag-

1929

210 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 192, 193.

gregate, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and may
issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their

Sfgh sXoi ^ace the words, Needham High School Loan, Act of 1929.

Loan, Act of Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and
such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose
to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized.
Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of
the statutory limit, but shall, except as provided herein,
be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclu-
sive of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of
section seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred
and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 4, 1929.

Chap. 192 An Act authorizing cities and towns to compensate

PERSONS SUSTAINING PERSONAL INJURIES OR PROPERTY
DAMAGE WHILE ASSISTING A POLICE OFFICER UPON HIS
REQUIREMENT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^c.^'amenVed'.' Scctiou oue hundred of chapter forty-one of the General
Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and fifty-seven
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby
further amended by adding at the end thereof the follow-
ing new sentence : — This section shall be construed to au-

compensate thorize a city or town to pay compensation, in the manner

persons sus- . . • i i r i f i • • • i ii

taining personal herein pi'ovidcd, for damages tor personal injuries, whether
prop"rty°dam- ^r uot death results, and for property damage sustained by
age while a persou whilc assisting a police officer thereof in the dis-

assisting a , e i • ^ ± ^ • • i.

police officer chargc of his duty upon his requirement.

rTulrement. ApprOVCd April 4, 1929.

Chap. 193 An Act relative to the board of cemetery trustees

IN THE TOWN OF READING.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
femeterj Section L The mcmbers of the board of cemetery

town^of Read- trustces of the town of Reading, as the said board is presently
ing, confirma- coustltuted, are hereby confirmed in their titles to the said
tosaid office. ofif^C6 for the terms for which they were respectively elected,
andjaiidation ^Qfj their official acts and those of their predecessors from
the date when the said board was first instituted to the
time when this act takes effect, are hereby validated, not-
withstanding any defect, want of authority or other in-
validity in the proceedings whereby said board was pur-
ported to be instituted.
Board of Section 2. There shall be in the said town of Reading

tf^tees^estab- a board of Cemetery trustees the members of which shall be

Cities and
towns may

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 194, 195. 211

elected in the same manner, for the same terms, and with Ushed. election.
the same powers and duties in all respects, under law now me^bership!'^'
or hereafter existing, as a board of cemetery commission-
ers created under the authority of section twenty-two of
chapter one hundred and fourteen of the General Laws, ex-
cept that the members of such board of cemetery trustees
shall be six in number, two of whom shall be elected at each
annual town meeting.

Section 3. This act shall not preclude the said town Town not pre-
from accepting the provisions of said section twenty-two of acceptance"i)f
chapter one hundred and fourteen of the General Laws as certain pro-
the same may be amended from time to time, or from taking '^'^'°'** °
advantage of section twenty-one of chapter forty-one of the
General Laws as the same may be amended from time to
time, or of any other provision of general law now or here-
after existing relative to the constitution, election or ap-
pointment of a board having authority over public cemeteries.

Approved April 4, 1929.

Chap.lM

An Act relative to the salary of the deputy com-
missioner OF STATE AID AND PENSIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter six of the General Laws is hereby amended by g. l. 6, § 24,
striking out section twenty-four and inserting in place ^"^^nded.
thereof the following: — Section 2^. The governor, with Deputy com-
the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint a deputy "tate a^^and
commissioner of state aid and pensions for three years, who pensions,
shall devote his whole time to the duties of his office. He ^^ ^^^' ^^'^'
shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the commis-
sioner of state aid and pensions, subject to the approval of
the governor and council, shall be subject to the direction
and control of said commissioner, and shall perform the
duties of said commissioner during his absence on account
of disabihty or other cause. Approved April 4, 1929.

Chap.195

An Act authorizing certain improvements in the

COUNTY court HOUSE IN THE CITY OF QUINCY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing adequate Norfolk county
accommodations at the county court house in the city of mTy"^mlkI^^^^
Quincy, the county commissioners of the county of Norfolk certain im-
may make additions to and alterations in, such court house, county court''
may take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of°QuiJi"y'*^
of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise,
such land or rights therein as may be necessary therefor,
and may furnish and equip said court house as so enlarged
or altered.

Section 2. For the purpose of meeting expenses to be county treas-
incurred in providing such accommodations, including any borroTmoney,
land damages, the county treasurer of said county, with issue notes,
the approval of the county commissioners, may from time

212 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 196, 197.

to time borrow upon the credit of the said county such
sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate,
forty-five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes
of the county therefor, which shall bear on their face the

Norfolk words, Norfolk County Court House Loan, Act of 1929.

House^Lorn^ Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and

Act of 1929. such loans shall be payable in not more than twenty years
from their dates. Such bonds or notes shall be signed by
the treasurer of the county and countersigned by the county
commissioners. The county may sell said securities at
public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as
the county commissioners may deem proper, but not for
less than their par value. Indebtedness incurred hereunder
shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-
five of the General Laws.

Submission to Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its accept-

Norfolk county i • j i , ■ i , i , • •

commissioners, ance, duriug the current year, by the county commissioners
®*'''' of said county; otherwise it shall not take effect.

Approved April 4, 1929.

Chav.l9Q Ajst Act relative to the membership of the board of

PUBLIC WELFARE OF THE CITY OF HAVERHILL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
1^8,^57^4^ § 39, Section 1. Chapter five hundred and seventy-four of
the acts of nineteen hundred and eight is hereby amended
by striking out section thirty-nine and inserting in place
H*v°hiii thereof the following: — Section 39. The mayor shall be,

board^of public cx officio, chairman and a member of the board of public
bership."*^'"' Welfare, and the alderman having supervision of the de-
partment of health and charities shall also be, ex officio, a
member of such board.

Certain pro- SECTION 2. So mucli of scctiou nineteen of chapter sixty-

visions of (.1 (• • ^ 111!' •

1869, 61, § 19, one of the acts oi eighteen hundred and sixty-nme as pro-
repeae . yides that the president of the common council and the

city marshal shall be ex officio members of the board of

o.verseers of the poor is hereby repealed.
Submission to SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its accept-

municipal i • i i r ^ • • i

council, etc. ancc, dunng the current year, by vote ot the municipal
council of the city of Haverhill, subject to the provisions
of its charter, but not otherwise.

Approved April 4, 1929.

Chap. 197 An Act providing for the elimination of diseased

CATTLE FROM BARNSTABLE COUNTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^'im'aTin°dus- '^^^ dircctor of animal industry may, upon his own
try may initiative or upon application to him by not less than sev-

threifminl- cnty-five per cent of the cattle owners owning cattle per-
c'attie froJr'^^^'* mancntly kept in Barnstable county, or upon like appli-
Barnstabie catiou by the owners of eighty-five per cent of such cattle,
county. declare said county a quarantine area and may proceed to

Acts, 1929. — Chap, 198. 213

test by the tuberculin test or otherwise all bovine animals
within said area. If thereafter said director finds and de-
clares that said county is substantially free from bovine
tuberculosis, he may proclaim it to constitute a modified
accredited area and may prescribe rules and regulations
prohibiting the shipment or transportation into the same
of any bovine animal without a permit and health certificate
issued by him or some officer designated by him for the
purpose. Whoever violates the terms and conditions of Penalty,
any such quarantine or any such rule or regulation shall be
punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or
by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

Approved April 4, 1929.

An Act to incorporate weston college. Chav 198

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in Emergency
part defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be p^'^^'^^ie.
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Edward P. Tivnan, Daniel P. Mahoney, vveston coiiege
Arthur J. Sheehan, Edward A. Sullivan, Michael J. Ahern •"°°'P°'-at«d.
and Louis J. Gallagher, their associates and successors, are
hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of Weston
College, with no capital stock and with no authority to grant
degrees, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining
an institution for the education and religious training of
men for the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church.

Section 2. Said corporation shall have the right to May hold, etc.,
hold, purchase, convey, mortgage or lease, within or with- g^af property.
out this commonwealth, real or personal property to an etc.
amount not exceeding five million dollars, which shall be
devoted to the purposes of its incorporation, and it may
receive and hold, in trust or otherwise, funds received by
gift or bequest to be devoted by it to such purposes. It
shall have the right to make contracts and incur liabilities
and borrow money on its credit and for its use.

Section 3. Said corporation may, in its corporate name. May sue or be
sue or be sued, appear, prosecute and defend to final judg- ^"®^' ^^°'
ment or decree and execution; have a corporate seal, which Corporate seal.
it may alter at pleasure; elect in such manner as it may
determine all necessary officers, fix their compensation and
define their duties and obligations; and make by-laws and ^y-iaws.
regulations consistent with, law for its own government, the
due and orderly conduct of its affairs, and the management
of its property.

Section 4. Except as otherwise provided herein, said Powers, etc
corporation shall, in addition to those specifically mentioned
in the preceding sections, have all the powers and privileges,
and be subject to all the restrictions, duties and liabilities
set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may

214

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 199, 200, 201.

be in force relating to corporations formed for educational
and religious purposes.
Eflfectivedate. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect as of the thirtieth
day of March in the current year.

Approved April 5, 1929.

Chap.lQ9 An Act relative to the maintenance by the hingham

TRUST company OF A BRANCH OFFICE IN THE TOWN OF
HULL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Hingham Trust Company of Hingham
may, subject to the approval of the board of bank incorpo-
ration, maintain a branch office in the town of Hull; pro-
vided, that when action hereunder is taken by said board
no other trust company or branch office of such a company
is then located therein.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 5, 1929.

Hingham Trust
Company may
maintain a
branch office
in town of
Hull.

Proviso.

C/ia7).200 An Act relative to the maintenance by the rockland

TRUST company OF A BRANCH OFFICE IN THE TOWN OF

hull.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Rockland Trust Company, of Rockland,
may, subject to the approval of the board of bank incorpo-
ration, maintain a branch office in the town of Hull; pro-
vided, that when action hereunder is taken by said board
no other trust company or branch office of such a company
is then located therein.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 5, 1929.

Rockland Trust
Company may
maintain a
branch office
in town of
Hull.

Proviso.

C/iap. 201 An Act relative to the par value of capital stock
OF trust companies and to the qualifications of
directors thereof.

G. L. 172, § 18,
etc., amended.

Capital stock
of trust com-
panies,
amount, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the
General Laws, as amended in section eighteen by chapter
two hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 18. The capital stock of such corporation shall be
not less than two hundred thousand dollars, except that in
a city or town whose population numbers not exceeding one
hundred thousand but exceeding ten thousand the capital
stock may be not less than one hundred thousand dollars
and in a town whose population numbers not exceeding ten
thousand, not less than fifty thousand dollars. The capital

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 202. 215

stock shall be divided into shares of the par value of not
more than one hundred dollars each. No business shall be Payment, etc.,
transacted by such corporation until the whole amount of actrng business,
its capital stock is subscribed for and actually paid in.
No stock shall be issued by any such corporation under issue of stock
this section until the par value thereof shall be fully paid '"''suiated.
in in cash or is in its possession as surplus; provided, that no Proviso,
stock shall be issued against surplus unless the surplus
remaining after such issue shall amount to at least fifty per
cent of the total capital stock of such corporation after
such increase. Any such corporation may, subject to the increase or
approval of the commissioner, increase or reduce its capital capitai'stocL.
stock in the manner provided by section forty-one, section ^*°-
forty-four, and the first sentence of section forty-five, all
of chapter one hundred and fifty-six; provided, that in the Proviso,
case of a reduction as aforesaid the capital stock as so re-
duced* shall not be less than the amount required by this
section. Any such corporation may decrease the par value Decrease of
of its shares in the manner provided by sections forty-one p'""^"'"^-
and forty-three of said chapter one hundred and fifty-six.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and seventy-two, g. l. 172, § 14,
as amended in section fourteen by chapter three hundred ^tc, amended,
and fifty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
one, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 11^. ^^y^l^'^°^^\.
No person shall be a director in any such corporation unless ">«, quaiiSca-
he is a stockholder of record holding unpledged stock therein *'*'°^"
of an aggregate par value of not less than one thousand
dollars. A majority of the directors shall be citizens of and
resident in the commonwealth and not more than one third
of the directors shall be directors in any other such corpora-
tion. Approved April 5, 1929.

Chap.202

An Act providing for an annual investigation by the
department of public health of the merrimack
river and the pollution thereof.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The department of public health is hereby authorized and veXgat^on by
directed to investigate annually until otherwise ordered by department of
the general court, the condition of the Merrimack river and of^the Mwri-
the pollution thereof within the limits of the commonwealth ™ "dthl^p^oiiu-
and to determine whether the condition of the stream has tion thereof.
changed materially since the last previous investigation
thereof at any point within the aforesaid limits. Said de-
partment may examine in connection with such investiga-
tions all sewers discharging into said river and its tributaries
within any of the cities and towns bordering thereon within
the commonwealth and may enter the premises of any
manufacturing establishment for the purpose of making an
examination of the amount and character of any sewage or
waste discharged therefrom into the river or any tributary

216

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 203, 204.

toTenwa!^"'^* thereof within any such city or town. The department shall
court. report annually to the general court the results of its investi-

gations and its recommendations, if any, by including the
same as a part of its annual report.

Ay-proved April 5, 1929.

Chap. 203 An Act amending the definition of "motor vehicles"

UNDER motor VEHICLE LAWS.

G. L. 90, § 1,
etc., amended.

"Motor

vehicles",
definition.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter ninety of the General Laws, as
amended by section one of chapter four hundred and sixty-
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, by
chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-four and by section two of chapter
three hundred and sixteen and section two of chapter three
hundred and eighty-one, both of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking out,
in the eighth line of the paragraph defining "Motor vehicles",
as appearing in said section two of said chapter three hun-
dred and sixteen, the word "and" and inserting in place
thereof a comma, — and by inserting after the word "sprink-
lers" in said eighth line the words: — , power excavators,
power graders and concrete mixers, — so that said para-
graph will read as follows: — "Motor vehicles", automo-
biles, semi-trailer units, motor cycles and all other vehicles
propelled by power other than muscular power, except
railroad and railway cars and motor vehicles running only
upon rails or tracks, ambulances, fire engines and apparatus,
police patrol wagons and other vehicles used by the police
department of any city or town or park board solely for the
official business of such department or board, road rollers,
street sprinklers, power excavators, power graders and
concrete mixers. Approved April 5, 1929.

Chap. 20^ An Act relative to the control of wedge pond and

WINTER POND IN THE TOWN OF WINCHESTER.

Town of
Winchester
may make
rules, etc., as
to erection,
etc., of public
bath houses on
shores of Wedge
pond and
Winter pond.
Rules and
regulations as
to fishing, etc.

ApprovaL

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Winchester, through its board
of park commissioners, may from time to time make rules
and regulations as to the erection, maintenance and control
of all public bath houses on the shores of Wedge pond and
Winter pond in said town.

Section 2. The board of park commissioners of said
town may from time to time make rules and regulations
governing fishing, boating, bathing, skating and other
recreational activities in or on Wedge pond and Winter
pond in said town.. Such rules and regulations relative to
fishing shall be subject to the approval of the division of
fisheries and game of the state department of conservation,
and such other rules and regulations shall be subject to_the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 205. 217

approval of the state department of public works, and when
so approved shall have the force of law.

Section 3. Any pohce officer of said town may patrol Police patrol,
any part of the waters of said ponds and shall have au-
thority to arrest any person violating any law of the com-
monwealth in, on or adjacent to the waters of said ponds or
violating any rule or regulation established under this act.

Section 4. The violation of any rule or regulation es- Penalty,
tablished under this act shall be punished by a fine of not
more than twenty dollars.

Section 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to Powers, etc.,
abridge the powers and duties of said department of public Cf pubtk""''"*
works under chapter ninety-one of the General Laws. works under

Approved April 5, 1929. abridged'.""

An Act relative to fire prevention. Chav 205

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to Emergency
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an p''®^'"'^'®-
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public safety and convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and forty-eight of ^c ^amended*'
the General Laws, as amended in section thirty by chapter
two hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section thirty and inserting in place thereof the
following : — Section 30. The marshal shall have within Powers of state
the metropolitan district the powers given by sections ten, ^''^ '"''•"s^^'-
thirteen, fourteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two to
license persons or premises, or to grant permits for, or to
inspect or regulate, the use of engines and furnaces as
described in section one hundred and fifteen of chapter one
hundred and forty and the keeping, storage, use, manu-
facture, sale, handling, transportation or other disposition
of gunpowder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, camphine or any
similar fluids or compounds, crude petroleum or any of its
products, or any explosive or inflammable fluids or com-
pounds, tablets, torpedoes, rockets, toy pistols, or any other
explosives, fireworks, firecrackers, or any substance having
such properties that it may spontaneously, or acting under
the influence of any contiguous substance, or of any chemical
or physical agency, ignite, or inflame or generate inflam-
mable or explosive vapors or gases to a dangerous extent;
provided, that cities and towns may by ordinances or by- Provisos.
laws prohibit the sale or use of fireworks or firecrackers within
the city or town, or may limit the time within which fire-
crackers and torpedoes may be used; and provided, further,
that the city council of a city or the selectmen of a town
may disapprove the granting of such a license or permit,
and upon such disapproval or upon the refusal to grant or
issue the same by the officer or board designated for the

218

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 206, 207.

G. L. 148, § 2,
etc., amended.

Fire preven-
tion.

Application of
certain sections.

G. L. 148, § 0,
etc., amended.

Entry into a
one-family or
two-family
dwelling not
authorized, etc.

purpose by the marshal under the following section, the
license or permit shall in no event be granted or issued. In
Boston certificates of renewal of licenses as provided in
section fourteen shall be filed annually for registration with
the fire commissioner, accompanied by a fee of one dollar.

Section 2. Section two of said chapter one hundred
and forty-eight, as amended by section one of chapter four
hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-one and by section one of chapter two hundred
and seventy-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking out, in
the second and third lines, the words "six, seven A," — so
as to read as follows : — Section 2. Except as otherwise
provided in section thirty, sections ten, thirteen, fourteen,
nineteen, twenty and twenty-two shall not apply to the
metropolitan district. Sections twenty-eight to fifty-one,
inclusive, shall apply only to said district.

Section 3. Section six of said chapter one hundred
and forty-eight, as amended by section two of said chapter
two hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby further amended
by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: —
This section shall not authorize entry into a one-family or
two-family dwelling or any investigation or order relative
to conditions existing therein. Approved April 8, 1929.

C hap. 20Q An Act providing for vacations for members of the

REGULAR OR PERMANENT POLICE AND FIRE FORCES IN
TOWNS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended
by inserting after section one hundred and eleven the follow-
ing new section:- — Section 111 A. In any town which ac-
cepts this section, all members of its regular or permanent
police or fire force may be granted a vacation of not less
than two weeks during each year of their employment,
without loss of pay. The provisions of this section shall
not apply in cities. Approved April 8, 1929.

G. L. 41, new
section after
§ 111.

Vacations for
members of
regular or
permanent
police and fire
forces in
towns.

Chap. 207 An Act relative to redemption of land taken or sold

FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES IN PROCEEDINGS TO FORE-
CLOSE THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter sixty of the General Laws is hereby
amended by striking out section sixty-eight and inserting
in place thereof the following : — Section 68. Any person
claiming an interest, within ten days after entering his ap-
pearance or within such further time as may on motion be
fl)"1-e'demptiou*' allowcd by the court, shall, if he desires to redeem, file an
answer setting forth his right in the premises, and an offer
to redeem upon such term's as may be fixed by the court.

G. L. 60, § 68,
amended.

Land taken
or sold for
taxes, filing of
answer, offer
to redeem,

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 208, 209. 219

Thereupon the court shall hear the parties, and may in any
case in its discretion make a finding allowing the party to
redeem, within a time fixed by the court, upon payment to
the petitioner of an amount sufficient to cover the original
sum, costs, interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum,
and all subsequent taxes, costs and interest to which the
petitioner may be entitled under section sixty-one or sixty-
two, together with the costs of the proceeding and such
counsel fee as the court deems reasonable. The court may
impose such other terms as justice and the circumstances
warrant.

Section 2. This act shall become operative on Sep- when
tember first in the current year, operative.

Approved April 8, 1929.

An Act authorizing the appointment of an additional (Jhav 208

COURT officer FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF CHELSEA.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section sixty-two of chapter two hundred ^t^'^^'l^I'
and eighteen of the General Laws, as most recently amended
by section one of chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
further amended by inserting after the word "court" in
the eleventh line the words : — , the district court of Chelsea,
— so as to read as follows : — Section 62. In the municipal ^"^''offic ^rs in
court of the city of Boston the court officers appointed shall district courts.
not exceed ten for criminal business and five for civil business
and one of such court officers for criminal business shall be
designated by the chief justice as chief court officer of said
court for criminal business, and one of such court officers
for criminal business shall be designated as an assistant chief
court officer; in the municipal court of the Roxbury district
four court officers may be appointed ; in the municipal court
of the South Boston district, of the Charlestown district
and of the West Roxbury district, the East Boston district
court, the district court of Chelsea, the third district court ^i*^*^'.*^'""^' ^°^
of eastern Middlesex and the district court of East Norfolk orcheis^"'
two court officers for each court may be appointed; and in
each of the other district courts in the commonwealth one
court officer may be appointed.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept- submission to
ance, during the current year, by vote of the city council of "t*^ council,
the city of Boston, subject to the provisions of its charter;
but not otherwise. Approved April 8, 1929.

An Act continuing the close season on ruffed grouse (Jhdrf 209

UNTIL nineteen HUNDRED AND THIRTY. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Except as provided in chapter thirty-two of the acts of of°cios"e^s^^so
nineteen hundred and twenty-six as to Dukes county, it on ruffed

220

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 210.

grouse until
1930, except,
etc.

Penalty.

shall be unlawful, before the beginning of the open season
for ruffed grouse throughout the commonwealth in the
year nineteen hundred and thirty, to hunt, pursue, take or
kill a ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, or to have
in possession a ruffed grouse or any part thereof taken in
this commonwealth, except ruffed grouse taken under the
provisions of section thirtj^-five A or forty-four A, or propa-
gated under the provisions of section eighty-two, of chapter
one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws. Violation
of any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not
less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each bird or
part thereof in respect to which the violation occurs.

Approved April 9, 1929.

Chap.210 An "Act requiring the marking of containers of scal-
lops WITH designation OF SOURCE.

G. L. 94, new
section after
§88.

Marking of
containers of
scallops with
designation of
source regu-
lated.

Penalty.

No prosecution
if certain guar-
anty is estab-
lished.

Proviso.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety-four of the General Laws is hereby
amended by inserting after section eighty-eight the following
new section: — Section 88 A. No person shall sell, exchange
or deliver, or offer or expose for sale, exchange or delivery, or
have in his custody or possession with intent to sell, ex-
change or deliver, any scallops unless the box, carton or other
container thereof is plainly and conspicuously stamped,
labeled or marked, in such a manner as not to be easily
obhterated or defaced, with (a) the word "Massachusetts",
followed by the name of the town or of the locality where
taken, if taken from waters or flats within the common-
wealth; or (b) the name of the state, country or province
where taken, if taken from waters or flats outside the com-
monwealth but within three miles from the shore; or (c)
the words "SEA SCALLOPS", if taken more than three
miles from the shore.

Whoever, except a common carrier, fails to comply with
any provision of this section, or whoever falsely stamps,
labels or marks such a box, carton or other container, shall
be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars.

No person shall be prosecuted hereunder, in case such a
box, carton or other container of scallops is stamped, labeled
or marked in apparent conformity herewith, whether it is
the original container in which such scallops were shipped or
delivered to him bearing the same stamp, label or mark as
when so shipped or delivered or is a different container
stamped, labeled or marked by him or under his direction
substantially the same, in respect to the source of such
scallops, as such original container, if he establishes a
guaranty signed by the person from whom he purchased the
same that the container in which the scallops were shipped
or delivered as aforesaid was, at the time of shipping or de-
livery, correctly stamped, labeled or marked under this
section, provided that no person shall be entitled to avail

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 211, 212. 221

himself of such a guaranty if it shall appear that he knew
or had good cause to believe that such original container was
not stamped, labeled or marked as required hereby.

Approved April 9, 1929.

An Act reviving the pratt coal company. Char) 211

Be it enacted, etc., as foUoivs:

Pratt Coal Company, a corporation dissolved by chapter Pratt Coai
two hundred and seventy-three of the acts of nineteen revTv^d"^
hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby revived with the
same powers, duties and obligations as if said chapter had
not been passed ; and all acts and proceedings of the officers,
directors and stockholders of said corporation acting as such
which would be legal and valid but for the passage of said
chapter are hereby ratified and confirmed.

Approved April 9, 1929.

An Act relative to appeals from the refusal of as- Chav. 2\2

SESSORS TO ABATE TAXES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section sixty-eight A of chapter fifty-nine of the General g.l.sq §68A,
Laws, inserted by chapter three hundred and twelve of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby amended
by adding at the end thereof the following : — ; except that
payment of the tax shall not be a condition precedent to an
abatement thereof. In any case where a complaint is trans-
ferred to the court hereunder and the tax has not been paid,
if it is not reduced the respondent shall recover costs and
execution shall issue therefor as in actions at law, or if it is
reduced the petitioner shall recover judgment for costs and
the tax as so reduced shall stand as the tax on the property
and shall be collected in the manner provided for an original
tax, — so as to read as follows : — Section 68 A . Upon the Appeals from
filing of a complaint under section sixty-four in case of a aslessdrs^o
refusal to abate a tax exceeding five hundred dollars, the abate taxes,

• . nlinc oi

clerk of the county commissioners or of the board author- complaints,
ized to hear and determine the same, shall forthwith trans- ®*°"
mit a certified copy of such complaint to the assessors, and
the assessors or the city solicitor or town counsel may,
within fifteen days after receipt of said copy, give written
notice to said clerk and to the complainant that the town
elects to have the same heard and determined in the su-
perior court for the county where the property taxed lies.
The said clerk shall thereupon transmit to the court the Hearing and
complaint, together with all documents filed in connection oFco^pMntr
therewith, and the same shall be heard and determined in superior
by the court as an appeal under section sixty-five ; except "^"""^
that payment of the tax shall not be a condition precedent
to an abatement thereof. In any case where a complaint is
transferred to the court hereunder and the tax has not been
paid, if it is not reduced the respondent shall recover costs

222 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 213.

and execution shall issue therefor as in actions at law, or
if it is reduced the petitioner shall recover judgment for costs
and the tax as so reduced shall stand as the tax on the
property and shall be collected in the manner provided for
an original tax. Approved April 10, 1929.

Chap. 21S An Act relative to the commitment or removal of

CERTAIN PRISONERS TO INSTITUTIONS FOR THE INSANE
AND TO THEIR RETURN THEREFROM.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Snended' ^ '*'^' SECTION 1. Chapter ouc hundred and twenty-three of
the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
one hundred and two and inserting in place thereof the
oSlrs.^exam- followiug: — Section 102. The department shall designate
inatio'n. two pcrsons, cxperts in insanity, to examine prisoners in

the state prison, the Massachusetts reformatory, the prison
camp and hospital or the reformatory for women, alleged
to be insane. If any such prisoner appears to be insane or
in such mental condition that his commitment to an institu-
tion for the insane is necessary for his proper care or obser-
vation pending the determination of his insanity, the warden
or superintendent shall notify one or both of said experts,
who shall, with the physician of such penal institution, ex-
amine the prisoner and report the result of their investiga-
tion to the superior court of the county where such penal
of°thi8a^n°d^^ institution is situated. For the purposes of this and the
following sec- followiug sectiou, "superior court" may, in respect to a
co°urt"\o^^"°'^ prisoner in the Massachusetts reformatory, include the
include, etc. district court of central Middlesex, and, in respect to a
prisoner in the reformatory for women, the first district
court of southern Middlesex.
G. L 123, § 103, Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and twenty-three
IS hereby further amended by striking out section one hun-
dred and three and inserting in place thereof the following : —
onlrs.^'removai SectioTi 103. The superior court upon a report under the
to state preceding section, if it considers the prisoner to be insane

08pi a . or in such mental condition that his commitment to an

institution for the insane is necessary for his proper care or
observation pending the determination of his insanity, and
his removal expedient, shall issue a warrant, directed to
the warden or superintendent, authorizing him to cause
the prisoner, if a male, to be removed to the Bridgewater
state hospital, and, if a female, to be removed to one of the
state hospitals for the insane, there to be kept until re-
turned to prison as provided in section one hundred and five.
^L 123. §104, Section 3. Said chapter one hundred and twenty-three
is hereby further amended by striking out section one hun-
dred and four and inserting in place thereof the following: —
oners Removal SectioTi lOIf- If a prisoner under sentence in a jail, house of
from 'jails, corrcction, or prison other than one named in section one

nouses of cor- iiji. j.i_* • u xi

rection. etc. hundred and two, appears to be msane or m such mental
condition that his commitment to an institution for the

Acts, 1029. — Chap. 213. 2^3

insane is necessary for his proper care or observation pend-
ing the determination of his insanity, the physician in at-
tendance shall make a report thereof to the jailer or master
who shall transmit the same to one of the judges mentioned
in section fifty. If the judge finds in accordance with
sections fifty and fifty-one that the prisoner is insane, or if
he finds that the mental condition of the prisoner is such
that his commitment to an institution for the insane is
necessary for his proper care or observation pending the
determination of his insanity, and that his removal is ex-
pedient, he shall order the removal of such prisoner, if a
male to Bridgewater state hospital, if a female to one of the
state hospitals for the insane, there to be kept until returned
as provided in section one hundred and five; provided, that Proviso.
if a male prisoner has not been criminal and vicious in his
life the judge may order him removed to one of the state
hospitals. A physician, other than the physician in at-
tendance at the place of detention, making the certificate,
shall be entitled to the compensation provided by section
seventy-three.

Section 4. Said chapter one hundred and twenty-three, g. l. 123, § 105.
as amended in section one hundred and five by section four ^'^''••*'"^" ®
of chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended
by striking out said section one hundred and five and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 105. When Reconveyance
in the opinion of the trustees and superintendent of the of pHsonwa
state hospital to which a prisoner has been removed under restored to
section one hundred, one hundred and three or one hundred ^^"' ^'
and four, or of the commissioner of correction and the
superintendent of the state farm in case of removal to the
Bridgewater state hospital, the mental condition of the
prisoner is such that he should be returned to the custody
of the person or to the penal institution from which he was
removed, they shall so certify upon the warrant or commit-
ment, and notice, accompanied by a written statement re-
garding the mental condition of the prisoner, shall be given
to such person or to the warden, superintendent, keeper or
master of such penal institution, as the case may be, who
shall thereupon cause the prisoner to be reconveyed to the
custody of such person, or to such penal institution, there
to remain pursuant to the original sentence if removed under
section one hundred and three or one hundred and four, com-
puting the time of his detention or confinement in the said
hospital as part of the term of his imprisonment under such
sentence; provided, that a prisoner removed to a state Proviso,
hospital under section one hundred, one hundred and three
or one hundred and four for his proper care or observation
pending the determination of his insanity shall be returned
in the manner hereinbefore provided to the penal institu-
tion or custody whence so removed, not later than thirty-
five days after such removal, but such prisoner shall in all
other respects be subject to the provisions of this section.

224

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 214, 215.

Discharge or
temporary
release of cer-
tain prisoners.

If a prisoner removed as insane under section one hundred
who has not been restored to sanity is returned as aforesaid
because in the opinion of the trustees and superintendent,
or of the commissioner of correction and superintendent, as
the case may be, neither the pubhc interest nor the welfare
of the prisoner will be promoted by his further retention in
the hospital, they shall so certify upon the warrant or com-
mitment and shall append thereto a report relative to the
prisoner's mental condition as affecting his criminal re-
sponsibility and the advisability of his discharge or temporary
release from the penal institution or custody to which he is
returned. Approved April 10, 1929.

C hap. 214i An Act authorizing the fall river co-operative bank

TO INVEST AN ADDITIONAL SUM OF MONEY IN REAL ESTATE
FOR BANKING PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Fall River Co-operative Bank, a co-
operative bank organized under the laws of this common-
wealth and having its usual place of business in the city of
Fall River, may, subject to the approval of the commis-
sioner of banks, invest in the purchase of a site in said city
and the erection thereon and preparation of a suitable build-
ing to be used in whole or in part for the convenient trans-
action of its business, an amount not exceeding forty thousand
dollars in addition to the amount heretofore authorized by
law to be invested for the aforesaid purposes; provided, how-
ever, that nothing contained herein shall be construed as
authorizing a total investment by said bank for the aforesaid
purposes exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one hundred
and forty thousand dollars.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 11, 1929.

Fall River Co-
operative Bank
may invest an
additional sum
of money in
real estate for
banking pur-
poses.

Proviso.

Chap. 215 An Act to establish in the town of Lexington repre-
sentative TOWN GOVERNMENT BY LIMITED TOWN MEET-
INGS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Upon the acceptance of this act by the
town of Lexington as hereinafter provided, the selectmen shall
forthwith divide the territory thereof into not less than four
nor more than eight voting precincts, each of which shall be
plainly designated, and shall contain not less than five
hundred registered voters. All precincts shall contain ap-
proximately an equal number of registered voters.

The precincts shall be so established as to consist of com-
pact and contiguous territory, to be bounded, as far as
possible, by the center line of known streets and ways or
by other well defined limits. Their boundaries shall be
reviewed and, if need be, wholly or partly revised or the
number of precincts changed within the aforesaid limits by

Precinct voting,
representative
town meetings,
etc., in town
of Lexington.

Precincts,

establishment,

etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 215. 225

the selectmen in December, once in five years, or in Decem-
ber of any year when so directed by a vote of a representative
town meeting not later than November thirtieth of that year.

The selectmen shall, within twenty days after any estab- Selectmen to
lishment or revision of the precincts, but not later than ^^p"''* J^'^gs,
January twentieth of the succeeding year, file a report of
their doings with the town clerk, the registrars of voters and
the assessors with a map or maps or description of the pre-
cincts and the names and residences of the registered voters
therein. The selectmen shall also cause to be posted at
the town hall a map or maps or description of the precincts
as established or revised from time to time, with the names
and residences of the registered voters therein. They shall
also cause to be posted in at least one public place in each
precinct a map or description of that precinct with the
names and residences of the registered voters therein. The Division into
division of the town into voting precincts and any revision chi'^cts^ eff^tive
of such precincts shall take effect upon the date of the ^i^te, etc.
filing of the report thereof by the selectmen with the town
clerk. Whenever the precincts are estabhshed or revised, Z°*;^/'^j;|'
the town clerk shall forthwith give written notice thereof notice to state
to the state secretary, stating the number and designation ^^^^'^^■^^y' «*•=•
of the precincts. Meetings of the registered voters of the Meetings of
several precincts for elections, for primaries, and for voting an|fwiiere^°
upon any question to be submitted to all the voters of the to be held.
town, shall be held on the same day and at the same hour
and at such place or places within the town as may from
time to time be determined by vote at a representative town
meeting under an appropriate article in the warrant there-
for, or, in default of such determination, as the selectmen
shall in the warrants for such meetings direct. The pro- Certain provi-
visions of the general laws, relating to precinct voting at fa\v"^t*o appiT^
elections, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this etc.
act, shall apply to all elections and primaries in the town
upon the establishment of voting precincts as hereinbefore
provided.

Section 2. Other than the officers designated in section Representative
three as town meeting members at large, the representative mrmbCT^Wpf
town meeting membership shall in each precinct consist of number, etc'
the largest number divisible by three which will admit of a
representation of all precincts by an equal number of mem-
bers and which will not cause the total elected town meeting
membership to exceed two hundred and four. The regis- Town meeting
tered voters in every precinct shall, at the first annual town eL®cTion?terms.
election held after the establishment thereof, or at a special etc.
town election held prior to such annual town election and
at the first annual town election following any precinct
revision where the number of precincts is changed, con-
formably to the laws relative to elections not inconsistent
with this act, elect by ballot the number of registered voters
in the precinct, other than the officers designated in section
three as town meeting members at large, provided for in
the first sentence of this section, to be town meeting mem-

226 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 215.

bers of the town. The first third in order of votes received
of members so elected shall serve three years, the second
third in such order shall serve two years, and the remain-
ing third in such order shall serve one year, from the day
of the annual town meeting, if elected at such election, and,
if elected at a special town election, shall also serve from the
date of such special town election to and including the day
of the next following annual town meeting; in case of a tie
vote affecting the division into thirds as aforesaid the mem-
bers elected from the precinct shall by ballot determine the
same; and thereafter, except as is otherwise provided herein,
at each annual town election the registered voters of each
precinct shall, in like manner, elect one third of the number
of town meeting members to which that precinct is entitled
for the term of three years, and shall at such election fill for
the unexpired term or terms any vacancy or vacancies then
existing in the number of town meeting members in their re-
spective precincts. Upon every revision of the precincts
where the number of precincts is changed, the terms of office
of all town meeting members from every precinct shall
Notice to mem- cease upon the election of their successors. The town clerk
ers e ec e . gjj^ll, after every election of town meeting members, forthwith

notify each member by mail of his election.
HmTt"duf^'"^^ Section 3. Any representative town meeting held under
elected town the provislous of this act, except as otherwise provided
berfand'ceT" herein, shall be hmited to the voters elected under section
tow/mlftin*'^'^ ^^^' together with the following, designated as town meeting
members at mcmbcrs at large; namely, any member of the general
^^^^' court of the commonwealth from the town, the moderator,

the town clerk, the members of the board of selectmen and
public works, the town treasurer, the town counsel, the
chairman of the school committee, the chairman of the
appropriation committee, and the chairman of the cemetery
Notice of town commissioncrs. The town clerk shall notify the town
meetmgs, etc. j^eetiug members of the time and place at which representa-
tive town meetings are to be held, the notices to be sent by
mail at least seven days before the meeting.

The town meeting members, as aforesaid, shall be the

judges of the election and qualifications of their members.

Quorum. Qjjg hundred town meeting members shall constitute a

quorum for doing business; but a less number may organize

Notice of temporarily and may adjourn from time to time. Notice

sdjourncQ town . .

meetings to be of every adjoumcd representative town meeting shall be
posted, etc. posted by the town clerk in five or more public places in
the town; and the town clerk shall also notify the members
by mail of the adjournment at least twenty-four hours be-
fore the time of the adjourned representative town meeting,
if the period of adjournment will permit. The notices shall
state briefly the business to be acted upon at any meeting
. and shall include notice of any proposed reconsideration,

pubiio!^^ All town meetings shall be public; and, subject to such

conditions as may be determined from time to time by the
representative town meeting, any voter of the town who is

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 215. 227

not a town meeting member may speak at any representative
town meeting, but he shall not vote. A town meeting Resignations.
member may resign by filing a written resignation with the
town clerk, and such resignation shall take effect upon the
date of such filing. No elected member whose official po-
sition entitles him to be a member at large shall act as a
member at large during such time as he remains an elected
member. A town meeting member who removes from the Removal from
town shall cease to be a town meeting member and an elected ciTct, "effect
town meeting member who removes from one precinct to
another or is so removed by a revision of precincts shall not
retain membership after the next annual election as an
elected member from the precinct from which he has or is
removed. The town meeting members as such shall re-
ceive no compensation.

Section 4. Nomination of candidates for town meeting Nomination of
members to be elected under this act shall be made by town meetin°g'^
nomination papers signed by not less than ten voters of the J^^'J'g'^®''^' ^°'^
precinct in which the candidate resides, and filed with the
town clerk at least fifteen days before the election; pro- Proviso.
vided, that any town meeting member may become a can-
didate for re-election by giving written notice thereof to
the town clerk at least thirty days before election. No Acceptance of
nomination papers shall be valid in respect to any candidate n°"i'°*t'o°-
whose written acceptance is not thereon or attached thereto
when filed.

Section 5. The articles in the warrant for every town Warrant ar-
meeting, so far as they relate to the election of the moderator, ac'ted up^, etc.
town officers, town meeting members, and as hereinbefore
provided, to referenda and all matters to be acted upon and
determined by ballot shall be acted upon and determined by
the voters in their respective meetings by precinct. All other
articles in the warrant for any town meeting, beginning with
the town meeting at which said town meeting members are
first elected, shall be acted upon and determined exclusively
by town meeting members at a meeting to be held at such
time and place as shall be set forth by the selectmen in the
warrant for the meeting, subject to the referendum pro-
vided for by section eight.

Section 6. A moderator shall be elected by ballot at ^^°'^^l^°\
each annual town meeting and shall serve as moderator of
all town meetings, except as otherwise provided by law,
until a successor is elected and qualified. Nominations for
and election of a moderator shall be as in the case of other
elective town officers, and any vacancy in the office may be
filled by the town meeting members at a meeting held for
that purpose. If a moderator is absent a moderator pro Moderator
tempore may be elected by the town meeting members. pro tempore.

Section 7. Any vacancy in the full number of town vacancies in
meeting members from any precinct, whether arising from of'towTmeet-
a failure of the registered voters thereof to elect, or from any jjjs members,
other cause, may be filled until the next annual election by '"^' ^ °'
t^he remaining town meeting members of the precinct frona

228

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 215.

Notices of
vacancy.

Calling of
special meeting

Choice by
ballot.

Certificate of
choice, etc.

Votes, when
operative, etc.

Measures laid
on table, etc.

Referendum.

among the registered voters thereof. Notice of any vacancy
shall promptly be given by the town clerk to the remaining
members from the precinct in which the vacancy or vacancies
exist and the town clerk shall call a special meeting of such
members for the purpose of filling any vacancy, and shall
cause to be mailed to every such member not less than seven
days before the time set for the meeting, a notice specifying
the object, time and place of the meeting. At the said
meeting a majority of the members from such precinct shall
constitute a quorum, and they shall elect from their own
number a chairman and a clerk. The choice to fill any
vacancy shall be by written ballot and a majority of the
votes cast shall be required for a choice. The chairman and
clerk shall count the ballots and shall make a certificate of
the choice and forthwith file the same with the town clerk,
together with a written acceptance by the member or mem-
bers so chosen who shall thereupon be deemed elected and
qualified a town meeting member or members, subject to the
right of all the town meeting members to judge of the elec-
tion and qualifications of the members as set forth in sec-
tion three.

Section 8. No final vote of any representative town
meeting passing or rejecting a measure under any article
in the warrant, except a vote to adjourn or dissolve, or votes
appropriating money for the payment of notes or bonds of
the town and interest thereon becoming due within the
then current financial year, or votes for the temporary
borrowing of money in anticipation of revenue, or a vote
declared by preamble by a two thirds vote of the town
meeting members present and voting thereon to be an
emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation
of the peace, health, safety or convenience of the town, shall
be operative until after the expiration of five days, exclusive
of Sundays and legal holidays, from the dissolution of the
meeting. Any such measure disposed of by a vote to lay
on the table, to postpone indefinitely, or other dilatory vote,
shall be deemed to have been rejected in the form in which
it was presented and perfected or changed by such amend-
ments, if any, as have been adopted by the said meeting.
If, within said five days, a petition, signed by not less than
two hundred and fifty registered voters of the town, con-
taining their names and addresses as they appear on the
list of registered voters, is filed with the selectmen request-
ing that the question or questions involved in any such vote
which has not become operative as aforesaid be submitted
to the voters of the town at large, then the operation of
such vote shall be further suspended pending its determina-
tion as hereinafter provided, and the selectmen, within ten
days after the filing of the petition, shall call a special
meeting, which shall be held within fourteen days after the
issuing of the call, for the purpose of presenting to the voters
at large the question or questions so involved. All votes

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 215. 229

upon any questions so submitted shall be taken by ballot,
and the check list shall be used in the several precinct meet-
ings in the same manner as in the election of town officers.
The questions so submitted shall be determined by vote of de"ttrm°ine'/°''
the same proportion of voters at large voting thereon as etc.
would have been required by law of the town meeting mem-
bers had the question been finally determined at a rep-
resentative town meeting. The questions so submitted ^ated upon"'*'
shall be stated upon the ballot in substantially the same ballot, etc.
language and form in which they were stated when presented
to said representative town meeting by the moderator as
appears from the records of the said meeting. If such peti- votes operative
tion is not filed within the said period of five days, the vote etc!° p®*"'*'""'
of the representative town meeting shall become operative
upon the expiration of the said period.

Section 9. The town of Lexington after the acceptance Powers of town
of this act and the first election of town meeting members metti^ng^^em-
thereunder, shall have the capacity to act through and be ^ers, etc.
bound by its said town meeting members who shall, when
convened from time to time as herein provided, constitute
representative town meetings; and the representative town
meetings shall exercise exclusively, so far as will conform to
the provisions of this act, all powers vested in the municipal
corporation. Action in conformity with all provisions of
law now or hereafter applicable to the transaction of town
affairs in town meetings shall, when taken by any representa-
tive town meeting in accordance with the provisions of this
act, have the same force and effect as if vSuch action had been
taken in a town meeting open to all the voters of the town
as heretofore organized and conducted.

Section 10. This act shall not abridge the right of the Certain rights
inhabitants of Lexington to hold general meetings, as that ^°J^ =*'^"dged,
right is secured to them by the constitution of this common-
wealth; nor shall this act confer upon any representative
town meeting in Lexington the power finally to commit the
town to any measure affecting its municipal existence or
changing its government, without action thereon by the
voters of the town at large, using the ballot and the check
list therefor.

Section 11. This act shall be submitted to the regis- submission to
tered voters of the town of Lexington for acceptance at any of°Llxington°
annual or special town meeting. The vote shall be taken by ®*^*'-
ballot in precincts in accordance with the provisions of the
general laws, so far as the same shall be applicable, in answer
to the question, which shall be placed upon the official ballot
to be used for the election of town officers: "Shall an act
passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine, entitled 'An Act to establish in the town
of Lexington representative town government by limited
town meetings' be accepted by this town?"

Section 12. So much of this act as authorizes its sub- Time of
mission to the registered voters of the town shall take ef- ^''^^''^ ^^^^'

230

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 216.

Resubmission
after rejection,
etc.

feet upon its passage, and the remainder shall take effect
upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters voting
thereon.

Section 13. If this act is rejected by the registered
voters of the town of Lexington when submitted to said
voters under section eleven it may be submitted for ac-
ceptance in like' manner from time to time to such voters at
any annual or special meeting in said town within three years
thereafter. Approved April 11, 1929.

Chap. 216 An Act relative to the revision of the amount of

BAIL OF CERTAIN DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES.

G. L. 218, § 30,
amended.

District courts
may bind over
certain persons
for trial to
superior court.

Certain infor-
mation to be
transmitted to
clerk of
superior court.

Revision of
amount of bail
in certain cases

G. L. 219, § 20,
amended.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section thirty of chapter two hundred and
eighteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting
after the word "shall" in the fifth line the word: — forth-
with, — by inserting after the word "entered" in the ninth
line the words : — and the report of the department of
mental diseases as to the mental condition of the defendant,
if such report has been filed under the provisions of section
one hundred A of chapter one hundred and twentj^-three, —
and by adding at the end thereof the following new sen-
tence:— If such a person is committed for failure to recog-
nize as ordered, the superior court shall thereupon have
jurisdiction of the case against such person for the purpose
of revising the amount of bail theretofore fixed, — so as to
read as follows : — Section 30. They shall commit or bind
over for trial in the superior court persons brought before
them who appear to be guilty of crimes not within their
final jurisdiction, and may so commit or bind over persons
brought before them who appear to be guilty of crimes within
their final jurisdiction. In such cases the clerk of the dis-
trict court shall forthwith transmit to the clerk of the su-
perior court a copy of the complaint and of the record, the
original recognizances, a list of the witnesses, a statement of
the expenses and the appearance of the attorney for the
defendant, if any is entered, and the report of the depart-
ment of mental diseases as to the mental condition of the
defendant, if such report has been filed under the provisions
of section one hundred A of chapter one hundred and twenty-
three, and no other papers need be transmitted. If such
a person is committed for failure to recognize as ordered,
the superior court shall thereupon have jurisdiction of the
case against such person for the purpose of revising the
amount of bail theretofore fixed.

Section 2. Section twenty of chapter two hundred and
nineteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following : — If a person is committed under
this section or under section thirty-one for failure to recog-
nize as ordered, the superior court shall thereupon have
jurisdiction of the case against such person for the purpose

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 216. 231

of revising the amount of bail theretofore fixed, — so as to
read as follows : — Section 20. Whoever is brought before Trial before
a trial justice for any of the crimes named in the preceding f™b).^chesof
section shall be examined by him, and may be tried before the peace, or
him, and, if convicted, may be required to find sureties to to^uperior^'^
keep the peace for not more than one year and be punished °°^^^-
by fine or imprisonment as before provided; or, if the of-
fence is of a high and aggravated nature, he may be com-
mitted or bound over for trial before the superior court.
If a person is committed under this section or under section Revision of
thirty-one for failure to recognize as ordered, the superior fn'c°e"tain^casM
court shall thereupon have jurisdiction of the case against
such person for the purpose of revising the amount of bail
theretofore fixed.

Section 3. Section fifty-eight of chapter two hundred ^- ^l^l' ^ ^^■
and seventy-six of the General Laws is hereby amended by
striking out all after the word "by" in the sixth line, and
inserting in place thereof the words: — the supreme judicial
or superior court or by a justice of either court, for a less
amount than is required by the order or by an order of either
court, or of a justice thereof, revising said amount, — so as
to read as follows: — Section 58. If the person is com- Notice to
mitted without an order fixing the amount of the recog- °wt''fixed!^etc.
nizance, he shall not be admitted to bail under the preceding
section until reasonable notice of his application has been
given to the officer by whom he was committed, or a hear-
ing has been given to the officer in whose custody he is held;
and if committed with such order, he shall not be admitted
to bail, except by the supreme judicial or superior court or
by a justice of either court, for a less amount than is re-
quired by the order or by an order of either court, or of a
justice thereof, revising said amount.

Section 4. Section eighteen of chapter two hundred ^^^^Hl' ^ '^'
and seventy-eight of the General Laws is hereby amended
by inserting after the word "behavior" in the thirteenth line
the following : — If the appellant is committed for failure
to recognize, the superior court shall thereupon have juris-
diction of the case for the purpose of revising the amount
of bail required as aforesaid, — • so as to read as follows: —
Section 18. Whoever is convicted of a crime before a district Appeals in

,..,.,. ij,i • , 1 criminal cases

court or trial justice may appeal to the superior court, and to superior
at the time of conviction shall be notified of his right to take *'°"''*'
such appeal. The case shall be entered in the superior court
on the return day next after the appeal is taken, and the
appellant shall be committed to abide the sentence of said
court until he recognizes to the commonwealth, in such sum
and with such surety or sureties as the court or trial justice
requires, with condition to appear at the superior court on
said return day and at any subsequent time to which the
case may be continued, if not previously surrendered and
discharged, and so from time to time until the final sentence,
order or decree of the court thereon, and to abide such
final sentence, order or decree, and not depart without leave,

232

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 217, 218.

Revision of
amount of bail
in certain
casea.

Effective date.

and in the meantime to keep the peace and be of good be-
havior. If the appellant is committed for failure to recog-
nize, the superior court shall thereupon have jurisdiction of
the case for the purpose of revising the amount of bail re-
quired as aforesaid. In cases of misdemeanor the appellant
may, in the discretion of the court or trial justice, be held on
his own recognizance. The appellant shall not be required
to advance any fees upon claiming his appeal or in prosecut-
ing the same.

Section 5. This act shall take effect September first in
the current year. Approved April 11, 1929.

Chap. 217 An Act authorizing the city of haverhill to compen-
sate KATHERINE E. ROGERS FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED
BY REASON OF CERTAIN ACTS OF MEMBERS OF THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT OF SAID CITY DONE IN THE COURSE OF THEIR
DUTIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of discharging a moral
obligation, the city of Haverhill may pay a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars to Katherine E. Rogers as full

City of

Haverhill may
compensate
Katherine E.
Rogers for

certain injuries, compensation for damage sustained and for expenses incurred
on account of injuries received by her by reason of certain
acts of members of the fire department of said city done in
the course of their official duties.
SiTdpir *° Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
councii, etc. ancc during the current year by vote of the municipal coun-
cil of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter; other-
wise it shall not take effect. Approved April 11, 1929.

Chap

Temporary
reinstatement
of David M.
Cleary as a
member of fire
department of
city of Boston.

Submission to
mayor and
city council,
etc.

.218 An Act authorizing the temporary reinstatement, for

PURPOSES OF retirement ONLY, OF DAVID M. CLEARY AS
A MEMBER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF
BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. David M. Cleary, a former member of the
fire department of the city of Boston who was discharged
therefrom on September fourth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, may be reinstated in said department without
further examination; (provided, that such reinstatement
shall be for the sole purpose of retiring him under the ap-
propriate provisions of chapter five hundred and twenty-one
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two^

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance during the current year by the mayor and city council
of said city, in accordance with the provisions of its charter.

Approved April 11, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 219, 220, 221. 233

An Act relative to the treatment of certain patients QJiav 219

AT the long island HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The commissioner of institutions of the city Treatment of
of Boston, or such officer of its institutions department as paUe'iTts at the
the commissioner may designate, may admit to the Long J;'°"^jJ®,'^"'^
Island hospital in said city for treatment or care any person city of
chronically ill whose legal settlement is in Boston, or any ^°^^°^-
person who is employed by said institutions department, or
any person who may, while on any of the islands in Boston
harbor or on any boat or vessel therein, require in an emer-
gency, temporary treatment or care.

Section 2. Said commissioner may establish fees and fharges'^etc
charges which shall be paid to the use of said city by all
persons admitted as aforesaid or by their kindred as pro-
vided in section six of chapter one hundred and seventeen
of the General Laws; but if, in the judgment of the com- Remittance,
missioner, such persons or their kindred are unable to pay
said fees or charges, he may remit the same.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Submission to
during the current year by vote of the city council of said el*/''""""''
city, subject to the provisions of its charter.

Approved April 13, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of haverhill to compen- Cfinnj 220

SATE EVELYN FOSS FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY REASON
OF CERTAIN ACTS OF A POLICE OFFICER OF SAID CITY DONE
IN THE COURSE OF HIS DUTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L For the purpose of discharging a moral Ha^g°f,iij
obligation, the city of Haverhill may pay a sum not ex- compensatT^^
ceeding twenty-five hundred dollars to Evelyn Foss as full forcertafn^^
compensation for damage sustained and for expenses incurred injuries, etc.
on account of injuries received by her by reason of certain
acts of a member of the police department of said city done
in the course of his official duties.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Submission
during the current year by vote of the municipal council of cou'^cn.'ete'!^
said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not
otherwise. Approved April 13, 1929.

An Act relative to consent and notice upon petitions Chav 221

FOR adoption of CHILDREN. ^ *

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L Chapter two hundred and ten of the Gen- g.l. 210. §2.
eral Laws is hereby amended by striking out section two '^'"^"ded.
and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 2. Written con-
A decree for such adoption shall not be made, except- as perso°ns''r" ''"^
hereinafter provided, without the written consent of the decfefi^

adoption.

234

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 222.

G. L. 210, § 4,
amended.

Notice to
parties when
required
written con-
sent is not
submitted to
court witli
petition.

Publication of
notice in
certain cases.

Notice to
department
of public
welfare in
certain cases.

EfTective date.

child, if above the age of fourteen; of her husband, if she
is a married woman; of the lawful parents or surviving
parent; of the mother only of the child, if illegitimate; or
of the person substituted for any of the above named by this
chapter. Illegitimacy shall in no case be expressly averred
upon the record. A person whose consent is hereby re-
quired shall not thereby be debarred from being the adopt-
ing parent. If the child has been previously adopted, a
subsequent decree of adoption of the child shall not be made
without the written consent of the previous adopting parents
or parent surviving, nor unless notice of the subsequent
petition for adoption has been given to the persons whose
consent to the original adoption was required under this
section; but such subsequent decree may be made without
the consent of such persons. Notice of any petition for
adoption shall be given to the guardian of the child, if any.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and ten is hereby
further amended by striking out section four and inserting
in place thereof the following: — Section 4- If the written
consent required by the two preceding sections is not sub-
mitted to the court with the petition, the court shall order
notice by personal service upon the parties of an order of
notice, in such form as shall be prescribed under section
thirty of chapter two hundred and fifteen, or, if the parties
are not found within this commonwealth, by publication of
said order of notice once in each of three successive weeks
in such newspaper as the court orders, the last publication
to be seven days at least before the time appointed for the
hearing, and the court may require additional notice and
consent. But if such child is of unknown parentage and is a
foundling, publication as herein set forth shall not be re-
quired; but notice of the petition shall be given to the
department of public welfare.

Section 3. This act shall take effect on September first
in the current year. Approved Api'il 15, 1929.

Chap. 222 An Act relative to the temporary care of patients at

INSTITUTIONS FOR THE INSANE AT THE REQUEST OF SHERIFFS
OR DEPUTY SHERIFFS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the General
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section seventy-nin^
and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 79.
The superintendent or manager of any institution for the
insane, in the case of the Gardner state colony when so au-
thorized by the department, may, when requested by a
physician, member of the board of health, sheriff, deputy
sheriff, member of the state police, selectman, police officer
of a town or by an agent of the institutions department of
Boston, receive and care for in such institution as a patient,
for. a period not exceeding ten days, any person needing
immediate care and treatment because of mental derange-

G. L. 123, § 79,
amended.

Temporary
care of insane
persons need-
ing immediate
care, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 223. 235

ment other than delirium tremens or drunkenness. Such
request for admission of a patient shall be put in writing and
be filed at the institution at the time of his reception, or
within twenty-four hours thereafter, together with a state-
ment in a form prescribed or approved by the department,
giving such information as it deems appropriate. Any such
patient deemed by the superintendent or manager not
suitable for such care shall, upon the request of the superin-
tendent or manager, be removed forthwith from the in-
stitution by the person requesting his reception, and, if he is
not so removed, such person shall be liable to the common-
wealth or to the person maintaining the private institution, as
the case may be, for all reasonable expenses incurred under
this section on account of the patient, which may be recovered
in contract by the state treasurer or by such person, as the
case may be. The superintendent or manager shall cause
every such patient either to be examined by two physicians,
qualified as provided in section fifty-three, who shall cause
application to be made for his admission or commitment to
such institution, or to be removed therefrom before the
expiration of said period of ten days, unless he signs a re-
quest to remain therein under section eighty-six. Reason-
able expenses incurred for the examination of the patient
and his transportation to the institution shall be allowed,
certified and paid as provided by section seventy-four.

Approved April 15, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of maynard to borrow (J]i(iy 223

AN additional AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR SEWERAGE PUR- *

POSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purposes specified in chapter three Town of
hundred and forty of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred h'o/rowtiT^^
and sixteen, the town of Maynard may from time to time, additional
within a period of five years from the passage of this act, money for
borrow such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the pt]^po"sll
aggregate, one hundred thousand dollars, in addition to
any sums heretofore authorized for sewerage purposes, and
may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their
face the words, Maynard Sewerage Loan, Act of 1929. Each Maynard
authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such let o^mo!"*"'
loans shall be payable in not more than thirty years from
their dates. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be
in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except as provided
herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws,
including the limitation contained in the first paragraph of
section seven thereof as revised by chapter three hundred
and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 16, 1929.

236

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 224, 225, 226.

Town of
Easton may
borrow money
for school
purposes.

Chap. 224 An Act authorizing the town of easton to borrow

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of acquiring land for, and/or
constructing, new school buildings and originally equipping
and furnishing said buildings, and/or constructing additions
to present school buildings where such additions increase the
floor space and originally equipping and furnishing such
additions, the town of Easton may borrow from time to
time, within a period of five years from the passage of this
act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or
notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words,
Easton School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue
shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid
in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue
shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an
amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue
is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy
of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under
this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall,
except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four
of the General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained
in the first paragraph of section seven thereof as revised by
chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Appi-oved April 16, 1929.

Easton School
Loan, Act of
1929.

Chap. 22^ An Act reviving the howard benevolent society of

CAMBRIDGE.

The Howard
Benevolent
Society of
Cambridge
revived.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The Howard Benevolent Society of Cambridge, a corpo-
ration dissolved by chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of
the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby
revived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if
said chapter had not been passed.

Approved April 16, 1929.

Chap. 22^ An Act reviving the change-over heel company.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Change-Over Heel Company, a corpo-
ration dissolved by chapter two hundred and seventy-three
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
revived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if
said chapter had not been passed.

Section 2. This act shall be operative as of March
thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Approved April 16, 1929.

Change-Over
Heel Company
revived.

When
operative.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 227, 228. 237

An Act authorizing the metropolitan district com- (JJkij) 227

MISSION to expend A FURTHER SUM OF MONEY FOR THE
COMPLETION OF THE BROOKLINE STREET-ESSEX STREET-
COTTAGE FARM BRIDGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

For the cost of construction of the new Brookhne street- Metropolitan
Essex street-Cottage Farm bridge and its approaches, au- commission
thorized by chapter four hundred and ninety-seven of the "urfher^um *
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one and acts in addi- of money for
tion thereto and in amendment thereof, the metropohtan of the Brook-"
district commission may expend a further sum not exceeding Essefst^eet-
three hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amounts Cottage Farm
heretofore authorized. The state treasurer may borrow on stltrtreas-
the credit of the commonwealth such further sums, not ex- urermay
ceeding in the aggregate three hundred thousand dollars, as et°c"°^^ money,
may from time to time be required, and may issue and renew
notes of the commonwealth, carrying such rates of interest
as the state treasurer may fix, with the approval of the
governor and council, said notes to be for such term or terms
as shall be recommended by the governor in pursuance of
section three of Article LXII of the amendments to the
constitution. The additional construction cost incurred Determination

, ., • • (• J.1 • J. • 1 T -J. J. 1 11 1 and assessment

under the provisions oi this act, including interest, shall be of additional
determined and assessed in accordance with the provisions cost.*'^"''''°°
of section five of said chapter four hundred and ninety-seven
relative to the Brookline street-Essex street-Cottage Farm
bridge and approaches.

{The foregoing was laid before the governor on the tenth day
of April, 1929, and after five days it had "the force of a law",
as prescribed by the constitution, as it was not returned by him
with his objections thereto within that time.)

An Act establishing harbor lines on the northerly (Jhav 228

SIDE OF the MYSTIC RIVER IN THE CITY OF EVERETT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The harbor lines on the northerly side of the Harbor unea
Mystic river in the city of Everett are hereby changed and side"ofMystic
established as follows: The location of each of the points in of^'lvMett^
the line hereinafter described is fixed by a distance herein- established,
after called longitude, in feet, from a meridian passing
through the center of the apex of the dome of the state
house in Boston, and by a distance hereinafter called lati-
tude, in feet, from a line at right angles to said meridian
and passing through the said center of the apex of the state
house dome, and the bearings refer to the true meridian
passing through the center of said apex. Beginning at a
point on the southeast corner of the top stone of the bulk-
head wall of the metropolitan sewer pumping station near
Maiden Bridge, so-called, in latitude eleven thousand four
hundred sixty-seven and ninety-four hundredths feet north

238

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 229.

Certain lines
abolished.

and longitude one thousand eight hundred seventy-three and
twenty-eight hundredths feet west, said point being num-
bered 14 on a plan entitled "Mystic River, Mass. proposed
revision of harbor lines, scale 1-5000, U. S. Engineer Office
Boston Mass" and approved July thirty-first, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty by W. R. Williams, the assistant secretary
of war; thence south eighty degrees twenty-six minutes
thirty-one seconds east true bearing three thousand nine
hundred eighty-six feet more or less to a point in latitude
ten thousand eight hundred six and thirteen hundredths feet
north and longitude two thousand fifty-seven and thirteen
hundredths feet east, being point 15 on the above mentioned
plan.

Point 15 is on the westerly side of the mouth of Island
End river at the intersection of line 14-15 and the easterly
line of Elm street, so-called, in Charlestown, extended
northerly.

Section 2. Lines E-F and F-G established by section
three of chapter two hundred and ninety-three of the acts
of eighteen hundred and fifty-six are hereby abolished.

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

Approved April 17, 1929.

Boston Port

Authority

established.

Membership
of board.

Chairman.
Term.

Chap. 229 An Act establishing a board to be known as the

BOSTON PORT AUTHORITY, PRESCRIBING ITS DUTIES AND
DEFINING THE PORT OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby established an unpaid board
to be known as the Boston Port Authority, consisting of two
persons to be appointed by the governor, with the advice
and consent of the council, and three persons to be appointed
by the mayor of the city of Boston. Every member of said
board shall be a resident of a city or town included within
the metropolitan parks district. Said board shall elect one
of its members to act as chairman. Each member of said
board shall serve for a term of five years from the date of his
appointment. Any vacancy occurring in said board shall be
filled by the governor, with the advice and consent of the
council, or by the mayor, according as the original appoint-
ment was made. Any member of the board appointed by
the governor as aforesaid may be removed by the governor,
with the advice and consent of the council, and any member
of the board appointed by the mayor may be removed in
accordance with the provisions of section fourteen of chapter
four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred
and nine.

Section 2. For the purposes of this act, the port of
Boston is hereby defined to be all of the tide water lying
westerly of a line drawn between Point Allerton on the south
and the southerly end of Point Shirley on the north and all
parcels of land adjacent thereto and property thereon. The
board shall, from time to time, investigate any and all

Vacancy.

Removal.

Port of Boston
defined.

Duties of
board.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 230. 239

matters relating to the port of Boston, particularly with
reference to the unification of overseas terminals, belt line
connections, condition and location of piers and channels,
switching, floatage, lighterage, rates, rules, regulations and
practices, dockage, wharfage, water front labor conditions,
grain elevator and warehouse facilities. With the assent
and approval of the mayor, the board may initiate or partici-
pate in any rate proceedings, or any hearings or investiga-
tions, concerning the port of Boston, before any other body
or official. The board shall report annually in I3ccember, or Annual report,
oftener if the board deems it necessary, to the governor, the
general court and the mayor.

Section 3. Said board shall have an office in the city of B^toi!" m-
Boston and may employ such experts, counsel and other pioyme'ntof
assistants and incur such other expense as it may deem •^^p^''^^- «*«•
necessary. All such expenses shall be paid by the city of Expenses.
Boston upon requisition by the board to the extent that
appropriations therefor are available, but not exceeding in
the' aggregate in any one year the sum of fifty thousand dol-
lars; provided, that said board shall have the same right to Proviso,
incur expense in anticipation of its appropriation as if it
were a regular department of said city.

Section 4. The board shall have access to all maps. Board to
charts, plans and documents relating to all matters within to mapT^etc
its jurisdiction in the office or custody of any public board,
commission or official of said city.

Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 17, 1929.

An Act providing for an assistant to the registrar nhfj^ oon
OF motor vehicles and relative to the delegation ' ^'

OF THE registrar's POWERS.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in part Emergency
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an '"^'^^'^ ®'
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public safety and convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety of the General Laws, as most recently g. l. qo. § 29.
amended in section twenty-nine by chapter four hundred etc., amended.
and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 29. Registrar of
The registrar shall appoint competent persons to act as in- to°appo^nt"^ ^^
vestigators and examiners, may remove them for cause, and i^nvestigators,
may determine their compensation and terms of service and
define their duties. He may also appoint, for cause remove May appoint a
and fix the compensation of, a deputy registrar and an trTr^and'^ln^'
assistant to the registrar, and may delegate to such deputy assistant to
and assistant the performance of any duty imposed upon ^f^ ^^j^*
the registrar by any provision of this chapter. Said in- po'^wera^ ^^* *

240

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 230.

Powers of in-
spectors and
examiners.

Investigation
of causes of
accidents, etc.

Special con-
stables to en-
force motor
vehicle laws,
etc.

Reports to
registrar by
local author-
ities of certain
accidents,
etc.

Surrender of
license, regis-
tration cer-
tificate, etc.,
upon sus-
pension or
revocation.

Revocation of
license in fatal
cases.

Hearing.

Issue of
license after
revocation.

spectors and examiners, with respect to the enforcement of
the laws relating to motor vehicles, shall have and exercise
throughout the commonwealth all the powers of constables,
except the service of civil process, and of police officers, in-
cluding the power to arrest any person who violates any
provision of this chapter, and they may serve all processes
lawfully issued by the courts, the department in the exercise
of its functions under this chapter or the registrar. The
registrar may investigate the cause of any accident in which
any motor vehicle is involved, and for this purpose may
send his investigators into other states. The selectmen of
any town and the mayor of any city of less than one hundred
thousand inhabitants where there is no police commission
or police commissioner, and the police commission or police
commissioner, when such exist, of any such city, may ap-
point special constables, who shall serve without cost to
such city or town and who shall have all the powers of police
officers and constables in relation to the enforcement of all
laws and regulations concerning motor vehicles. The chief
officer of the police department of every city and town and
the chairman of the selectmen of such towns as have no
regular police department shall notify the registrar forth-
with, upon blanks furnished by him, of the particulars of
every accident referred to in section twenty-six which hap-
pens within the limits of his city or town in which a motor
vehicle is involved, together with such further information
relative to such accident as the registrar may require, and
shall also, if possible, ascertain the name of the person op-
erating such vehicle and notify the registrar of the same.
Every such officer, upon the request of the registrar, shall
demand forthwith the license of any operator and the cer-
tificate of registration and number plates of any motor
vehicle situated within the city or town where such officer
resides when said license or certificate has been suspended or
revoked by the registrar, and shall forward the same to the
registrar. Whenever the death of any person results from
any such accident, the registrar shall suspend forthwith the
license of the person operating the motor vehicle involved
in said accident, and shall order the said license to be de-
livered to him ; and the registrar shall revoke the same unless,
upon investigation and after a hearing, he determines that
the accident occurred without serious fault upon the part
of the operator or chauffeur of such motor vehicle. No
operator whose license is revoked under this section shall be
licensed again within six months after the date of the sus-
pension, nor thereafter except in the discretion of the regis-
trar. Approved April 17, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 231, 232. 241

An Act authorizing advances for certain expenses (Jjidj) 231

TO BE incurred BY PROBATION OFFICERS OF THE SUPERIOR
COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter two hundred and seventy-six of the General ^Jc^amenJed^'
Laws, as amended in section ninety-four by chapter one
hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 94- The reasonable expenses incurred by probation Expenses of
officers of the superior court in the performance of their offic^ere'o?
duties shall be approved and apportioned by the court, and superior court.
paid by the county to which they are thus apportioned.
Money to be used for the necessary expenses to be incurred ^r cenahi
by such a probation officer in going outside the common- expenses.
wealth for the purpose of bringing back for surrender to the
court a person who is on probation shall be advanced by the
treasurer of the county in which such person was placed
on probation, upon presentation of a certificate signed by
the probation officer and approved by said court. After Filing of item-
his return such probation officer shall account for such money '^^'^ vouchers.
by filing with said county treasurer itemized vouchers, duly
sworn to, approved by the court, setting forth the necessary
expenses so incurred and any unexpended balance of such
money shall be paid to said county treasurer. Probation Reimbursement
officers of district courts and of the Boston juvenile court Officers oVdis-
shall be reimbursed by the county for their actual disburse- l^lf^^'^^l^
ments for necessary expenses incurred while in the perform- Boston juve-
ance of their duties, including their reasonable traveling
expenses in attending conferences authorized by section
ninety-nine, not exceeding three hundred dollars to each in
any one year, upon vouchers approved by the court by
which they are appointed. Approved April 17, 1929.

nile court.

An Act relative to the issue of insurance brokers' C/iai). 232

LICENSES TO PARTNERSHIPS COMPOSED IN WHOLE OR IN
PART OF VETERANS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General pigy^*^^'
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section one hundred amended.
and sixty-seven A, as inserted by section twelve of chapter
four hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 167 A. No fee for a license issued under section one No fee
hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and sixty-seven or one sokTiert^saHors,
hundred and seventy-three shall be required of or on account etc., for certain
of any soldier, sailor or marine resident in this common- censeT '"
wealth who has served in the army or navy of the United

242

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 233, 234.

States in time of war or insurrection and received an honor-
able discharge therefrom or release from active duty therein,
if he presents to the commissioner satisfactory evidence of
his identity. Approved April 17, 1929.

Chap. 233 An Act subjecting the office of superintendent of

BUILDINGS AND INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS OF THE CITY OF
CHELSEA TO THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The office of superintendent of buildings and
inspector of buildings of the city of Chelsea shall, upon the
effective date of this act, become subject to the civil service
laws and rules and regulations, and the term of office of any
incumbent thereof shall be unlimited, except that he inay be
removed in accordance with such laws and rules and regu-
lations; but the person holding said office on said effective
date may continue therein without taking a civil service
examination.

Section 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance
to the registered voters of the city of Chelsea at its next
regular city election in the form of the following question
which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used at
said election: "Shall an act passed by the general court in
the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled 'An
Act subjecting the office of superintendent of buildings and
inspector of buildings of the city of Chelsea to the civil
service laws', be accepted?" If a majority of the voters
voting thereon vote in the affirmative in answer to said
question, this act shall thereupon take effect, but not other-
wise. Approved April 17, 1929.

Office of super-
intendent of
buildings and
inspector of
buildings of
city of Chelsea
subject to civil
service laws.

Submission to
voters, etc.

Chap

.234 An Act relative to the conveyance to the common-
wealth BY the city of WORCESTER OF ANY LAND HELD
BY IT, AS A SITE FOR A NEW STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BUILD-
ING AND RELATIVE TO THE DRAWING OF PLANS FOR SUCH
BUILDING.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

City of Worces-
ter may convey
to common-

site for a new
state normal
school.

Plans, etc.

The city of Worcester is hereby authorized to convey to
the commonwealth, and the department of education, on
h^ by^it^as^a its bchalf , is hereby authorized to accept as a gift, land of
said city held by it for any purpose whatsoever, of sufficient
area, of convenient location, and of general availability, for
the erection of a new normal school building. Said de-
partment, in co-operation with the commission on adminis-
tration and finance, may, under the direction of the governor,
employ an architect and cause plans to be drawn for such
building, and for said purpose may expend such sum, not
exceeding twelve thousand dollars, as may hereafter be ap-
propriated. Approved April 17, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 235, 236. 243

An Act relative to the granting of accidental death (jj^^^jj 235

AND total and PERMANENT DISABILITY BENEFITS BY ^'

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES,

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General 2j^J;-j^J|' ^ ^*'
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section twenty-four
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 34- ^o°^"fni°s'^|
Any life company, whether or not it is authorized to transact provide for
accident and health insurance under clause sixth of section d°e^fh be^'rlefits.
forty-seven, may provide in its policies of life, group life or If'^^^^^^^^^^^^
endowment insurance, issued in compliance with this chap- etc., in case of
ter, for the payment of an accidental death benefit con- ^anent di^"'
sisting of a larger amount if death is caused by accident than ability, etc.
if it results from other causes, and may incorporate therein
or in its annuity or pure endowment contracts, issued in
like compliance, provisions for the waiver of premiums or
for the granting of special benefits in the event that the
insured, or either of them, or the holder, as the case may be,
becomes totally and permanently disabled from any cause.
Such provisions shall state the special benefits to be granted
thereunder, the cost thereof to the insured or to the holder
and shall define what shall constitute total and permanent
disability. The consideration for any benefits granted
under this section shall be stated separately in the policy
or contract.

Any such company may, in conjunction with and sup- issue of sepa-
plementary to any policy of life, group life or endowment ^ate policies,
insurance or annuity or pure endowment contract, issue a
separate policy providing solely for any or all of the benefits
permitted by this section. No such separate policy shall be Approval of
issued or delivered in the commonwealth until a copy of the [^[^io^ifer,°^c.
form thereof has been on file for thirty days with the com-
missioner, unless before the expiration of said thirty days
he shall have approved the form of the policy in writing; nor
if the commissioner notifies the company in writing, within
said thirty days, that in his opinion the form of the policy
does not comply with the laws of the commonwealth, speci-
fying his reasons therefor; provided that such action of the Proviso,
commissioner shall be subject to review by the supreme
judicial court.

The provisions of section one hundred and eight shall not f ^los'not''^ °^
apply to any policy of life, group life or endowment insur- applicable to

^^ -^ ./.t-./ jor- certain policies,

ance or annuity or pure endowment contract or separate etc.
policy or contract providing for any or all of the benefits
permitted by this section. Approved April 17, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of concord to borrow QJiav 236

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing additional conc'J)"] may
school building accommodations by erecting a new building, borrow money

244

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 237, 238.

for school
purposes.

and/or by adding to existing school buildings so as to increase
the floor space thereof, and for the purpose of originally
equipping and furnishing such new building and/or addi-
tions, the town of Concord may borrow from time to time,
within a period of two years from the passage of this act,
such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggre-
gate, three hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds
or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words,
Concordjchooi Coucord School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue
1929. ' shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid

in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue
shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an
amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue
is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy
of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under
this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall,
except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four
of the General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in
the first paragraph of section seven thereof as revised by
chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap. 237 An Act authorizing the city of north adams to abate

CERTAIN PAVING ASSESSMENTS.

City of North
Adams may
abate certain
paving asse.ss-
ments.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of North Adams may abate all
assessments made under authority of chapter seventy-five
of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for the
paving of West Main and Eagle streets in said city, and the
city treasurer of said city is hereby authorized to refund all
of said assessments which have been paid.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap.

238 An Act extending the definition of "dealer" as
affecting the registration of motor vehicles, and
relative to the licensing of second hand dealers

Emergency
preamble.

G. L. 90, § 5,
etc., amended.

THEREIN.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would, in
part, defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section five of chapter ninety of the General
Laws, as amended by section two of chapter three hundred
and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
by section two of chapter four hundred and sixty-four of the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 238. 245

acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three and by section
four of chapter three hundred and sixteen of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended
by adding at the end thereof the following : — The word
"dealer", for the purposes of the registration of motor
vehicles or trailers under any provision of this chapter, may
include, in the discretion of the registrar, a person whose
principal business is financing the purchase of or insuring
motor vehicles, but only in respect to such vehicles as such
person may take in possession by foreclosure or subrogation
of title and all the provisions of this chapter relating to
certificates of registration of dealers shall apply to certificates
issued to such a person under this provision, — so as to
read as follows : — Section 5. Every manufacturer of or Registration of
dealer in motor vehicles or trailers or motor vehicle bodies !^c.*°by mLnu^.'
or tops and every person engaged in the business of repairing [f^^^^f •* °^ °'^
motor vehicles or trailers, instead of registering each such tor vehicles,
vehicle owned or controlled by him, may make application vehide'b"^dfM
for a general distinguishing number or mark, and the regis- fj'"^^ofor'\"^
trar, if satisfied of the facts stated in the application, may hide repairers.
issue to the applicant a certificate of registration containing
the name and business address of the applicant and the
general distinguishing number or mark assigned to him,
and made in such form and containing such further infor-
mation as the registrar may determine; and all motor ve-
hicles or trailers owned or controlled by such manufacturer
of or dealer in motor vehicles or trailers or motor vehicle
bodies or tops, or by such person engaged in the business of
repairing motor vehicles or trailers, shall be regarded as
registered under such general distinguishing number or mark
until sold or let for hire or loaned for a period of five suc-
cessive days; provided, that number plates furnished as Proviso.
hereinafter provided are properly displayed thereon. The Number plates.
registrar shall, upon payment of the fee provided in section manufaTturera,
thirty-three, furnish at his office to every manufacturer of ^leaiers, etc.
or dealer in motor vehicles or trailers or motor vehicle bodies
or tops, and to every person engaged in the business of re-
pairing motor vehicles or trailers, whose vehicles are regis-
tered in accordance with this section, such number of pairs
of number plates as he may request in writing of suitable
design having displayed upon them the register number
which is assigned to the vehicles of such manufacturer,
dealer or person, with a different letter or letters or mark on
each pair of number plates. Number plates furnished here- Duration of
under shall, except as provided by section nine, be valid ^■'''"^'''y-
only for the year for which they are issued. Every regis- Expiration of
tration under this section shall expire at midnight on De- registration.
cember thirty-first of each year. The word "dealer", for Definition of ^^
the purposes of the registration of motor vehicles or trailers TxTended^'''^'^"
under any provision of this chapter, may include, in the dis-
cretion of the registrar, a person whose principal business is
financing the purchase of or insuring motor vehicles, but
only in respect to such vehicles as such person may take in

246

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 239.

G. L. 140, § 57,
amended.

License

required to sell,
etc., second
hand motor
vehicles except
in certain cases.

possession by foreclosure or subrogation of title and all the
provisions of this chapter relating to certificates of regis-
tration of dealers shall apply to certificates issued to such a
person under this provision.

Section 2. Section fifty-seven of chapter one hundred
and forty of the General Laws is hereby amended by insert-
ing after the word "vehicles" in the third line, the words: — ,
or a person whose principal business is financing the pur-
chase of or insuring motor vehicles but who incidentally ac-
quires and sells second hand vehicles, — so as to read as
follows: — Section 57. No person, except one whose prin-
cipal business is the manufacture and sale of new motor
vehicles but who incidentally acquires and sells second hand
vehicles, or a person whose principal business is financing the
purchase of or insuring motor vehicles but who incidentally
acquires and sells second hand vehicles, shall engage in the
business of buying, selling, exchanging or assembling second
hand motor vehicles or parts thereof without securing a license
as provided in section fifty-nine.

Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap. 239 An Act authorizing the city of boston to borrow money

FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A SEWER OR SEWERS
FOR REMEDYING UNSANITARY CONDITIONS IN AND ABOUT
SAVIN HILL BAY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing a sewer or
sewers for remedying unsanitary conditions in and about
that part of Dorchester Bay known as Savin Hill Bay, the
city of Boston may borrow outside the statutory limit of
indebtedness from time to time, within a period of five years
from the passage of this act, such sums as maj^ be necessary,
not exceeding, in the aggregate, four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
which shall bear on their face the words. Savin Hill Bay
Sewer Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall
constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in
not more than twenty years from their dates, but no loan
shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to ten
per cent of the loan so authorized is voted for the same pur-
pose, to be provided from taxes or other sources of revenue.
Any sum to be raised by taxation shall be outside the tax
limit as fixed for the city in the year in which the loan is
authorized. Except as herein provided, indebtedness in-
curred under this act shall be subject to the laws relative to
the incurring of debt by said city.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance during the current year by vote of the city council of
said city, subject to the provisions of its charter.

Approved April 18, 1929.

City of Boston
may borrow
money for
purpose of
constructing a
sewer or sewers
for remedying
unsanitary con-
ditions in and
about Savin
Hill Bay.

Savin Hill Bay
Sewer Loan,
Act of 1929.

Submission to
city council,
etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 240, 241. 247

An Act relative to the property-holding powers of (Jhnjj 240

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF EASTHAMPTON AND ^'

to MUNICIPAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF
ITS LIBRARY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the isea, 157, §2,
acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine is hereby amended '^™'^"'i«<i-
by striking out section two and inserting in place thereof the
following : — Section 2. Said corporation shall have au- Public Library
thority to hold, for the purposes aforesaid, real and personal Ealthampton^,
estate to the amount permitted by general law. "^on '?"'tT'^'

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and fifty-seven is ^^^^ ^^^ "^
hereby further amended by striking out section four and amended,
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 4- So Town may
long as said corporation shall allow the inhabitants of the nfJ'n°^^for®
town of Easthampton free access to its library at reasonable maintenance
hours, for the purpose of using the same on the premises, said ° ' '^^^^'
town may appropriate money for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of maintaining said library.

Section 3. The amount of property which the Public Amount of
Library Association of Easthampton is authorized to hold pu°posMoTa
for the purposes of a museum under section one of chapter "^"^eum, etc.
two hundred and four of the acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-one shall be in addition to the amount of property
which said association may hold for the purposes expressly
set forth in section one of chapter one hundred and fifty-
seven of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Approved April 18, 1929.

An Act authorizing the county of hampden to pro- Chap. 24:1

VIDE adequate court HOUSE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE
DISTRICT COURT OF SPRINGFIELD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing court house Hampden
accommodations and facilities in the city of Springfield for takriandretc,
the district court of Springfield, the county commissioners of cou''rt°hiuL
Hampden county may take by eminent domain under accommoda-
chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire by district court
purchase, such land as may be necessary, and may erect °^ Springfield.
on land so acquired a suitable building for the purposes afore-
said and may equip and furnish the same; provided, that ^'"^i^"-
no land shall be acquired by purchase hereunder at an ex-
pense exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Section 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the treasurer of moLy^'issue
said county, with the approval of the county commissioners, not^^- etc-
may borrow from time to time, on the credit of the county,
such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggre-
gate, /our hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and may issue
bonds or notes of the county therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Hampden County-Springfield District Hampden

* " County-Spring-

248

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 242, 243.

field Distriot
Court House
Loan, Act of
1929.

Submission to
county com-
missioners, etc.

Court House Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall
constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable
in not more than twenty years from their dates. Such bonds
or notes shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and
countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners.
The county may sell the said securities at public or private
sale upon such terms and conditions as the county commis-
sioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par
value. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall, except
as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five of the
General Laws.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
during the current year by the county commissioners of said
county, but not otherwise. Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap. 242 An Act relative to the fees of physicians appearing

BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS ON
BEHALF OF INJURED EMPLOYEES IN CERTAIN CASES.

G. L. 152. new
section after § 9.

Fees of physi-
cians appearing
before depart-
ment of indiLS-
trial accidents
on behalf of
injured em-
ployees in
certain cases.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General Laws
is hereby amended by inserting after section nine the follow-
ing new section : — Section 9 A . Whenever a medical ques-
tion is in dispute in any case, and an impartial physician
has not, prior to seven days before the date assigned for
hearing thereon, been appointed by the department or a
member thereof, the employee may engage his own physician
to appear and testify in his behalf and, if the decision of the
single member or of the department is in favor of the em-
ployee, a reasonable fee shall be allowed by the member or
by the department for such physician's services and shall be
added to the amount awarded to the employee and be paid
by the insurer under the provisions of this chapter.

Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap. 24:^ An Act relative to foreign banking associations and

CORPORATIONS ACTING AS FIDUCIARIES IN THIS COMMON-
WEALTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section forty-five A of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven
of the General Laws, inserted by section one of chapter one
hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby amended by striking out, in the
eighteenth and nineteenth lines, the words "and the ac-
tivities of itself", — so as to read as follows: — Section 45 A.
The board of bank incorporation may, subject to such con-
ditions as the commissioner may prescribe, grant to a bank-
ing association or corporation whose principal office is in
another state, a certificate authorizing it to act in a fiduciary
capacity under the provisions, so far as applicable, of sec-
tions fifty-two to fifty-nine, inclusive, of chapter one hun-

G. L. 167,

§ 45A,
amended.

Banking asso-
ciation or
corporation
having princi-
pal office in
another state
may act as
fiduciary in
this state.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 244. 249

dred and seventy-two; provided, that said association or Provisos.
corporation is authorized so to act by the laws of the state
where its principal office is located; and provided further,
that the laws of such state grant a similar privilege or privi-
leges to like associations or corporations having their prin-
cipal office in this commonwealth. Any such banking as- Subject to
sociation or corporation holding a certificate as aforesaid prwislonsof
and appointed a fiduciary shall be subject to the provisions 1^^*^™' •'*^'
of general law with respect to the appointment of agents by
foreign fiduciaries and to the same taxes, obligations and
penalties, with respect to its activities as such fiduciary and
the property held by it in its fiduciary capacity, as like
associations or corporations having their principal office in
this commonwealth, and no such certificate shall be issued ^^fsInToUer-
to any such banking association or corporation until it has tificate, etc.
filed with the said board of bank incorporation an agreement
in writing in which it binds itself to perform said obligations
and pay any such taxes and penalties as aforesaid as may
be levied or imposed upon it in this commonwealth. Such
a corporation or association, to the extent only that it acts
as fiduciary as hereinbefore authorized, shall not be deemed
to transact business in the commonwealth for the purposes
of sections thirty-seven to forty-five, inclusive.

Approved April 18, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of stoneham to borrow Chav. 24:4:

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of acquiring land for and/or Town of
constructing a school building and originally equipping and borrow'^moMT
furnishing the same, the town of Stoneham may borrow f°J^^Qg°°'
from time to time, within a period of five years from the
passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not
exceeding, in the aggregate, one hundred thousand dollars,
and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Stoneham School Loan, Act of 1929. Ih'^^^i^an.
Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and Act of 1929. '
such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be sub-
ject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of
the limitation contained in the first paragraph of section
seven thereof as revised by chapter three hundred and
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 18, 1929.

250

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 245, 246, 247.

Chap. 24^5 An Act reviving the a b c puzzle advertising company.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The ABC Puzzle Advertising Company, a
corporation dissolved by chapter two hundred and seventy-
three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is
hereby revived with the same powers, duties and obhgations
as if said chapter had not been passed.

Section 2. This act shall be operative as of March
thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twentj^-eight.

Approved April 20, 1929.

ABC Puzzle
Advertising
Company
revived.

When
operative

C/iap.246 An Act relative to practice and procedure under

THE workmen's COMPENSATION LAW.

Emergency
preamble.

G. L. 152, § 12,
amended.

Subsequent
finding by
board that
employee's
incapacity has
ceased not to
be considered
final, etc.

Further
hearings, etc.

Proviso.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section twelve of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of
the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new paragraph : —

When in any case before the board there appears of record
a finding that the employee is entitled to compensation, no
subsequent finding by the board or by a member thereof
discontinuing compensation on the ground that the em-
ployee's incapacity has ceased shall be considered final as
a matter of fact or res judicata as a matter of law, and
such employee or his dependents, in the event of his death,
may have further hearings as to whether his incapacity or
death is or was the result of the injuries for which he re-
ceived compensation; provided, that if the board shall de-
termine that the petition for such a rehearing is without
merit and frivolous, the employee or his dependents shall
not thereafter be entitled to file any subsequent petition
therefor except for cause shown and in the discretion of the
member to whom such subsequent petition may be re-
ferred, and that, in the event of the death of the employee,
such a petition for a rehearing shall be filed within three
months from the time of his decease and within one year
from the date of the finding terminating his compensation.

Approved April 22, 1929.

Chap. 247 An Act authorizing the city of north adams to pur-
chase CERTAIN LANDS IN THE TOWN OF CLARKSBURG FOR
RIFLE RANGE PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

AdJn^s may*^*" SECTION 1. The city of Noi'th Adams may purchase the
purchase cer- following parccls of land in the town of Clarksburg for the
townofciarks- purposc of providing and maintaining a range for small

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 248. 251

arms practice required by section thirty-seven of chapter burg for rifle
thirty-three of the General Laws, as appearing in chapter '"^"^^ p^^^posea.
four hundred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twentj^-f our : —

(1) A certain parcel of land located in the town of Clarks-
burg on the easterly side of Middle road, so-called, and
bounded as follows: — northerly by lands of Grant, Dal-
rymple and Callahan ; easterly by land of Bishop ; southerly
by lands of Oaks and Hosley; and westerly by said Middle
road; being the premises conveyed to Effie B. Keating by
deed dated August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and
nineteen, and recorded with Northern Berkshire registry of
deeds, book three hundred and forty-six, page two hundred
and eighty-one, and

(2) A certain parcel of land located in the town of Clarks-
burg on the westerly side of Middle road, so-called, and
bounded as follows: — northerly by lands of Fuller and
Horrigan; easterly by said Middle road; southerly by lands
of Pratt and Wood; and westerly by lands of Millard; being
the premises conveyed to said Effie B. Keating by deed
dated January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, and recorded with Northern Berkshire registry of deeds,
book three hundred and sixty, page two hundred and nine.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept- ^j"^™^^^^" -, *°
ance during the current year by vote of the city council of etc.
said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not
otherwise. Approved April 22, 1929.

An Act relative to the reconstruction of parts of QJidy 248

CENTRE AND ST. ANN STREETS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. ^

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The board of street commissioners of the Reconstruction
city of Boston may, with the approval of the mayor of said centr* street in
city, lay out, widen, extend, relocate and reconstruct Centre c'ty of isoston.
street in said city from a point at or near May street to a
point at or near Weld street, to a width of not less than one
hundred feet, and, from said last mentioned point to a point
at or near South street, to a width of not less than eighty
feet.

After such construction, said Centre street so recon- To be under
structed from a point at or near said May street to a point of p'lr'k°com-'^'^
at or near said South street shall be under the charge of the "'rk^r'^^tc ^
board of park commissioners of said city as a parkway, and
said last mentioned board shall have the charge and con-
trol of such parkway as if the same had been placed in its
charge under section four of chapter forty-five of the Gen-
eral Laws.

Section 2. The board of street commissioners of said ^f^part oT*'*"'"
city may, with the approval of the mayor of said city, lay st Ann street
out, widen, extend, relocate and reconstruct to a width of Boston°etc.
not less than seventy feet, St. Ann street, from a point at or
near Asticou road, thence over existing ways and public and

252

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 248.

Performance of
work, and
awarding of
damages, etc.,
to be made in
accordance with
certain provi-
sions of law.

City of Boston
may borrow
money, issue
bonds, etc., to
meet expense
authorized by
§1.

City of Boston,

Centre Street

Improvement

Loan, Act of

1929.

May borrow

money, issue

bonds, etc.,

to meet expense

authorized

by § 2.

City of Boston,
St. Ann Street
Extension
Loan, Act of
1929.

Submission to
city council,
etc.

private lands and approximately parallel with the location
of the West Roxbury branch of the Boston and Providence
railroad to a point about opposite a point in said location
about one thousand feet distant northeasterly from its
crossing at South street, thence over or under said location,
and thence over existing ways and public and private lands
to a point at or near said South street in the vicinity of
Roslindale square, and said board of street commissioners
may, with like approval, alter, relocate and discontinue
such existing public ways or portions thereof, if any, as may
"be necessary in connection therewith.

Section 3. The work authorized by sections one and
two shall be performed, and the awarding of damages and
the assessment of betterments therefor shall be made, in
accordance with chapter three hundred and ninety-three of
the acts of nineteen hundred and six, as amended by chapter
five hundred and thirty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred
and thirteen, and by chapters seventy-nine and eighty of
the General Laws.

Section 4. For the purpose of meeting the expense of
the work authorized by section one of this act, the city of
Boston may borrow, outside the statutory limit of indebted-
ness, from time to time within a period of five years from
the effective date of this act, such sums as may be neces-
sary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one million one hun-
dred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes there-
for, which shall bear on their face the words. City of Boston,
Centre Street Improvement Loan, Act of 1929. For the
purpose of meeting the expense of the work authorized under
section two, said city may borrow, outside the statutory
limit of indebtedness, from time to time within a period
of five years from the effective date of this act, such sums
as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, five
hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes
therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, City of
Boston, St. Ann Street Extension Loan, Act of 1929. Each
authorized issue under this section shall constitute a separate
loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more than ten
years from their dates, but no loan shall be authorized under
this section unless a sum equal to ten per cent of the loan
so authorized is voted for the same purpose to be provided
from taxes or other sources of revenue. Any sum to be so
raised by taxation shall be outside the tax limit as fixed for
the city in the year in which the loan is authorized. Except
as herein provided, indebtedness incurred hereunder shall
be subject to the laws relative to the incurring of debt by
said city.

Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
during the current year by vote of the city council of said
city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not other-
wise. A-pproved April 22, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 249, 250. 253

An Act authorizing the city of fall river to transfer QfiQj) 249

CERTAIN UNEXPENDED LOAN BALANCES FOR USE FOR OTHER
MUNICIPAL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Fall River is hereby authorized R-v^may"
to transfer the whole or any part of the unexpended balance transfer certain
of the Harbor Improvement Loan issued under date of De- w^baLnces
cember first, nineteen hundred and sixteen under authority o'^i'^gr^^'^^nici-
of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the General pai purposes.
Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen, and of a loan for im-
provements in and along Quequechan river issued under
date of November first, nineteen hundred and twenty under
authority of chapter three hundred and eleven of the Special
Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, to any other account
established for purposes for which a loan may be author-
ized for an equal or longer period of time; provided, that P''°^'«°-
no transfer of the whole or any part of the unexpended
balance of either such loan shall be voted by said city until
a vote has been passed to abandon the completion of the
improvements for which said loan was authorized.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 24, 1929.

An Act authorizing the county commissioners of the (Jjidj) 250

COUNTY of BRISTOL TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE ACCOMMODA-
TIONS FOR THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS FOR THE FALL RIVER
DISTRICT OF SAID COUNTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing adequate county com-
accommodations for the registry of deeds for the Fall River Brfs^torcounty
district of the county of Bristol, in the city of Fall River, the ["jjy fo^^'u®-'"'
county commissioners of said county may take by eminent pose of provid-
domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or accommoda-^
acquire by purchase or otherwise, such land or interests of°deidIfo?'Fan
therein as may be necessary for such purpose, may erect on River district,
such land, or on land already owned by said county, a suit- "*''■
able fireproof building or an addition to buildings already
owned by said county, and shall suitably furnish and equip
the same.

Section 2. For the purpose of meeting expenses to be May borrow
incurred under authority of section one, including any land bonds!'ete."^
damages, said county commissioners may from time to time
borrow upon the credit of said county such sums as may
be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, three hundred
thousand dollars, and shall issue bonds or notes of the county
therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Bristol Regisl'ry of"*^
County Registry of Deeds (Fall River district) Loan, Act Deeds (Fau
of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate LoIn^Actof
loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more than ^^■^-

254

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 251.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc.

twenty years from their dates. Such bonds or notes shall
be signed by the treasurer of the county and countersigned
by the county commissioners. The county may sell such
securities at public or private sale upon such terms and con-
ditions as the county commissioners may deem proper, but
not for less than their par value. Indebtedness incurred
hereunder shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
chapter thirty-five of the General Laws.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance during the current year by the county commissioners
of said county, but not otherwise.

Approved April 24, 1929.

Chap. 251 An Act providing for additions at the essex county

TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

County com-
missioners of
Essex county
may expend a
certain sum for
construction of
additions to
Essex county
tuberculosis
hospital.

County treas-
urer may
borrow money,
issue notes, etc.

County com-
missioners to
file detailed,
certified state-
ment of cost
and expenses.

Assessment,
etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Subject to the approval of the department
of public health, the county commissioners of Essex county,
acting as trustees of the Essex county tuberculosis hospital
district, may expend a sum not exceeding two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing and of
originally furnishing and equipping additions to the Essex
county tuberculosis hospital in order to accommodate addi-
tional patients and employees.

Section 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the treasurer of
said county, with the approval of the said county commis-
sioners, may borrow by a temporary loan or loans, on the
credit of the county, such sums, not exceeding said amount,
as may from time to time be required to meet costs and ex-
penditures incurred under this act, including interest, and
may issue notes of the county therefor, which notes may be
discounted, such discount to be treated as interest paid in
advance. Said notes may be sold at public or private sale
as said county treasurer and commissioners may deem proper
and may be renewed from time to time for such periods as
may be necessary. All money so borrowed shall be de-
posited in the county treasury, and the county treasurer shall
pay out the same as ordered by the county commissioners
and shall keep a separate account of all moneys so borrowed
and expended.

Section 3. From time to time and upon the completion
of the work herein provided for, said county commissioners
shall file in the office of the clerk of the courts for said
county a detailed statement, certified under their hands, of
the actual cost and expenses incurred in doing the said work,
and shall assess said cost and expenses upon the cities and
towns of said county constituting the said hospital district,
in accordance with section eighty-three of chapter one hun-
dred and eleven of the General Laws, and such cities and
towns may provide for the payment of said assessments by
direct taxation or by borrowing as authorized by said chapter

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 252, 253. 255

one hundred and eleven for paying assessments levied for the
construction of tuberculosis hospitals. The proceeds of such
assessments shall be applied to the payment of the tempo-
rary loans under section two.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance, Effective upon
during the current year, by the county commissioners of the ^'^''^^ ^°*^^'
county of Essex, but not otherwise.

Approved April 24, 1929.

An Act providing for the periodic inspection of motor Chap. 252

VEHICLES, MOTOR CYCLES AND TRAILERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety of the General Laws is hereby amended neJ'g^tion
by inserting after section seven the following new section: — after § 7.
Section 7 A. The registrar shall include in the rules and ^^'n'°of^o"tT°'
regulations prepared by him under section thirty-one, rules vehicles, motor
and regulations providing for the periodic inspection of all trailers'"
motor vehicles and trailers, for the purpose of determining
whether they are properly equipped and maintained in good
working order, as required by the preceding section.

Approved April 24, 1929.

An Act relative to the salary and qualifications of Chav. 253

THE director OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section nine of chapter twenty-one of the g.l. 21, §9,
General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word '^"^^^ ^
"shall" in the fourth line the words: — be qualified by train-
ing and experience to perform the duties of his office, and
shall, — and by striking out, in the fifth line, the words "a
salary of thirty-five hundred dollars" and inserting in place
thereof the words : — such salary, not exceeding four thou-
sand dollars, as the governor and council determine, — so as
to read as follows : — Section 9. Upon the expiration of the Director of

, r m c !• J c -I'l,!- animal indus-

term 01 office 01 a director 01 animal industry, his successor try. quaiifica-
shall, except as provided by section three, be appointed for tions. salary,
three years by the governor, with the advice and consent of
the council. The director shall be qualified by training
and experience to perform the duties of his office, and shall,
except as provided by section three, receive such salary, not
exceeding four thousand dollars, as the governor and council
determine, and shall be allowed his necessary expenses paid
or incurred in the performance of his official duties.

Section 2. This act shall not take effect until an appro- "^'^^^^^
priation has been made sufficient to cover the same, and then ^ *"^ ^ ^° '
as of June first of the current year.

Approved April 25, 1929.

256

Acts, 1920. — Chaps. 254, 255.

G. L. 218. § 10.
etc., amended.

District courts,
assistant clerks,
appointment,
etc.

Chap. 254: An Act establishing the office of second assistant

CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF EAST NORFOLK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and eighteen of the
General Laws, as most recently amended in section ten by
section one of chapter ninety-five of the acts of the current
year, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
ten and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section
10. The clerk of a district court may, subject to the ap-
proval of the justice, appoint one or more assistant clerks,
who shall be removable at his pleasure or at the pleasure of
the court, for whose official acts the clerk shall be responsible
and who shall be paid by him unless salaries payable by the
county are authorized in this section or in section fifty-three.
Assistant clerks with salaries payable by the county may be
appointed in the central district court of northern Essex, the
municipal court of the Charlestown district, the municipal
court of the Brighton district, the district court of western
Hampden, the district court of Newton, the district court of
northern Norfolk and in courts the judicial districts of which
have, according to the national or state census last preceding,
a population of sixty thousand or more. Second assistant
clerks with salaries payable by the county may be appointed
in the municipal court of the Roxbury district, the East
Boston district court, the municipal court of the Charlestown
district, the municipal court of the West Roxbury district,
and, subject to the approval of the county commissioners,
in the first district court of eastern Middlesex, the third
district court of eastern Middlesex, the district court of
southern Essex, the third district court of Bristol and the
district court of East Norfolk.

Third assistant clerks with salaries payable by the county
may be appointed in the municipal court of the Roxbury
district and, subject to the approval of the county com-
missioners, in the first district court of eastern Middlesex
and the third district court of eastern Middlesex.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance during the current year by the county commissioners of
the county of Norfolk. Approved April 25, 1929.

Second assist-
ant clerks,
appointment,
etc.

Third assistant
clerks, appoint-
ment, etc.

Submission to
Norfolk county
commissioners,
etc.

Chap. 255 An Act authorizing the city of everett to establish

AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND TO ACQUIRE LAND
therefor by PURCHASE OR OTHERWISE.

City of Everett
may establish
and maintain
a public hos-
pital, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Everett may establish and main-
tain a public hospital for the use of the inhabitants of said
city, and others admitted thereto, who may require medical
or surgical treatment, and may appropriate money for ac-
quiring land and erecting buildings therefor, for originally

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 256. 257

furnishing and equipping the same and for the maintenance
of said hospital. Said city may enter into arrangements
with the Everett Cottage Hospital Association Lessees of
the Whidden Memorial Hospital located in said city for the
use of said public hospital.

Section 2. For the purpose of providing money for the May borrow
purpose of acquiring land, erecting buildings and originally boTcfs^'efc"^
furnishing and equipping the same as aforesaid, said city may
borrow from time to time, within a period of five years
from the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary,
not exceeding, in the aggregate, three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
which shall bear on their face the words, Everett Hospital tolLoanf Act''
Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute of 1929.
a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more
than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall be
authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount
not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted
for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year
when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act
shall be outside the statutory limit, but shall, except as herein
provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General
Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the first para-
graph of section seven thereof as revised by chapter three
hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight. Appi'oved April 25, 1929.

An Act relative to appropriations for construction C}iaT>.25Q

AND certain other PURPOSES BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The school committee of the city of Boston Appropriations
may, by vote of four fifths of all its members, taken by yeas mHtee°o"/c'it^'
and nays, make appropriations by items, for the construe- "f Boston for

•^' ,, ^ , ' CO II s t r uc 1 1 o II

tion and furnishing of new school buildings, both temporary and certain
and permanent, including the taking of land therefor, and ot^er purposes.
for school yards, and the preparing of school yards for use,
and for the rent of hired school accommodations, which
items may be sub-divided as the committee may determine,
for the financial year ending December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, of not more than three million
five hundred thousand dollars in lieu of the amount author-
ized by item (6) of section one of chapter two hundred and
six of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen,
as most recently amended by section one of chapter three
hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, and there shall be raised by taxation, in addition
to other sums required by law to be raised for appropriations
of previous years for such purposes, such portion of said
amount or amounts appropriated for the year ending De-
cember thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine as

258 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 257, 25S.

may be determined by the school committee on or before
August first of the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine,
and certified by the school committee to the board of as-
sessors on or before the fifth day of August in the year nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine, and the balance of the amount
appropriated for the year ending December thirty-first,
nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, shall be raised by tax-
ation during the financial year ending December thirty-first,
nineteen hundred and thirty.
Increase in Section 2. The limit of the amount of taxes that may

limit of amount , . •i'ct-> -ii-

of taxes to be be asscsscd ou property m the city of Boston is hereby m-
prcfperty°i^ crcascd in the years nineteen hundred and twenty-nine and
mo^^etc^^ ^"'^ nineteen hundred and thirty by such an amount on each one
thousand dollars of the valuation upon which the appropri-
ations of the city council of said city are based, as may be
necessary to raise sufficient money to meet the provisions
of this act.

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

Approved April 26, 1929.

Chap. 2^1 An Act abolishing betterments in connection with the

CONSTRUCTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF
A CERTAIN TRAFFIC ARTERY IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

pr'L^mbfe''^ Whcveas, The deferred operation of this act would in part

defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as folhws:

1928, 366, § 2, Chapter three hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nine-

teen hundred and twenty-eight is hereby amended by strik-
ing out section two and inserting in place thereof the follow-
Snc^voTks"^ ^^^' — Section 2. The department may, on behalf of the
may take, etc., commonwcalth, take under chapter seventy-nine of the
privateTands General Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, such
oTcerCifn"*'*'"" Public or private lands, including public parks or rights
traffic artery therein, as it may deem necessary for carrying out the pro-
Cam*bridge. visious of this act, provided that no damage shall be paid
Proviso. for public lands or parks so taken.

Approved April 26, 1929.

Chap. 258 An Act relative to cases of desertion or non-support.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^c.'^ameAded. SECTION 1. Scctiou One of chapter two hundred and

seventy-three of the General Laws, as amended by chapter

one hundred and twenty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred

and twenty-five, is hereby further amended by adding at

fvidlnce of the end thereof the following new sentence : — In a prosecu-

Hvea"'irt'from ^^^^ hereunder for desertion or non-support against a hus-

husband, etc., band, a dccrec or judgment of a probate court in a proceed-

deswdon or ii^g i^ which the husband appeared or was personally served

non-support.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 259. 259

with process, establishing the right of the wife to Hve apart,
or of her freedom to convey and deal with her property,
or the right to the custody of the children, shall be admissible
and shall be prima facie evidence of such right.

Section 2. This act shall become operative on September when
first of the current year. Approved April 26, 1929. °P^^«t'^«-

An Act to authorize the town op saugus to connect Phn^ 259

THE MAIN SEWER OR FORCE MAIN CARRYING THE SEWAGE ^'

OF THAT TOWN WITH THE SEWERAGE OR SEWAGE DISPOSAL
SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF LYNN,

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Saugus may connect its main Town of
sewer or force main with the west side intercepting sewer connect ThY
of the city of Lynn or with the sewage pumping station of main sewer or
said city; provided, that an agreement to this effect shall carryi^n^sew-
be made by the city and town acting through the board or to® n^^vith*
officer having charge of the sewers in the city of Lynn and sewerage or
the board of selectmen in the town of Saugus or the board or sjXm of Sty'
officer having charge of sewers in said town in case the con- °^ ^^"'^•
struction and operation of sewers in said town shall, sub- Proviso,
sequent to the effective date of this act, be delegated to such
board or officer and approved by the mayor and city council
of said city and by said town. The agreement shall state Terms and
the terms and conditions upon which the said connection conditions of
is to be made and shall be recorded by the city clerk in the etc.
city of Lynn and the town clerk in the town of Saugus in
the records of their respective municipalities. The agree-
ment shall provide for the payment by the town of Saugus
to the city of Lynn of a stated sum at the time when the
connection is made and also for a yearly payment toward the
maintenance and operation of said pumping station and
outfall works beginning in the year in which the connection
is made. In case the main sewer or force main of the town
of Saugus, instead of being connected with the sewerage
system of the city of Lynn at the sewage pumping station
of said city, should be connected with the west side inter-
cepting sewer of said city, said town of Saugus shall pay in
addition a yearly rental for the use of said sewer beginning
in the year in which the connection is made upon such terms
as may be mutually agreed upon. Such payment by the
town of Saugus toward the maintenance and operation of the
pumping station and outfall works of the city of Lynn for
the disposal of sewage of the town of Saugus may be based
upon the relative quantity of sewage contributed to said
pumping station by each municipality. The agreement shall
also state the terms, conditions and regulations in accord-
ance with which the sewage of the town of Saugus may be
discharged into the sewerage system of the city of Lynn.

Section 2. No connection shall be made under this act Approval of
with the sewerage system of the city of Lynn until plans departmen*fof
showing such proposed connection and the territory within public health.

260

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 260, 261.

Plans to be
filed, etc.

the town of Saugus to which said system is to be extended
have been submitted to the state department of pubhc
health and approved by said department. Such plans shall
also be filed in the office of the town clerk of the town of
Saugus and in the office of the city clerk of the city of Lynn.

Approved April 26, 1929.

C hap. 2Q0 An Act authorizing the sale of certain land held by

THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD FOR
MILITARY PURPOSES AND NO LONGER NEEDED THEREFOR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Common-
wealth may sell
certain land

Section 1. The armory commissioners and the com-
mission on administration and finance, acting as a joint
Springfield held board, ai'c hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the
governor, to sell and convey the property owned by the
commonwealth in the city of Springfield which was acquired
as the site for an armory for the naval militia and which is
no longer needed for such purpose.

Section 2. Such land shall be sold only after the in-
tention to sell is advertised once in each of three successive
weeks preceding the date of such proposed sale, in a news-
paper published in the city of Springfield, and only after the
receipt of sealed bids opened in public. Such land shall be
conveyed upon payment to the state treasurer of the pur-
chase price, and there shall be included in the deed a state-
ment that the provisions of this act have been complied with.

Approved April 26, 1929.

for military
purposes, etc

Sale to be ad-
vertised, etc.

Chav.2Q\ An Act relative to conditional sales of portable or

SECTIONAL BUILDINGS, SO-CALLED.

G. L. 181,
amended.

Conditional
■sales of fixtures,
portable or
sectional build-
ings, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section thirteen of chapter one hundred and eighty-four
of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after
the word "ranges" in the second line the following: — ,
buildings of wood or metal construction of the class com-
monly known as portable or sectional buildings, — so as to
read as follows: — Section 13. No conditional sale of heat-
ing apparatus, plumbing goods, ranges, buildings of wood or
metal construction of the class commonly known as portable
or sectional buildings, or other articles of personal property,
which are afterward wrought into or attached to real estate,
whether they are fixtures at common law or not, shall be
valid as against any mortgagee, purchaser or grantee of
such real estate, unless not later than ten days after the
delivery thereon of such personal property a notice such as
is herein prescribed is recorded in the registry of deeds for
the county or district where the real estate lies. The notice
shall be signed by the vendor or a person claiming under him
and shall contain the names of the contracting parties, the
name of the record owner of the real estate at the time of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 262. 261

recording the notice, the fact that it is agreed that title to such
personal property shall remain in the vendor until the pur-
chase price is paid, the terms of payment and the amount of
such purchase price remaining unpaid, and descriptions, suf-
ficiently accurate for identification, of such real estate and
the personal property delivered or to be delivered thereon.
If the sale is of several articles for a lump sum greater than
the value of the personal property delivered or to be de-
livered on the real estate, the notice shall also state such
lump sum and such value. The notice shall be indexed
under the name of such record owner, and a release of title
in any such article of personal property may be recorded at
any time. Approved April 26, 1929.

An Act relative to the operation of motor vehicles C'/iai).262

BY certain non-residents.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety of the General Laws, as amended in section g. l. 90, 5 lo,
ten by section four of chapter four hundred and sixty-four ^^^" ^™^° ^
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby
further amended by striking out said section ten and insert-
ing in place thereof the following: — Section 10. No person Unlicensed
shall operate a motor vehicle upon any way unless licensed operate m°otor
under this chapter, except as is otherwise herein provided; vehicles, except,
but this section shall not prevent the operation of motor
vehicles by unlicensed persons if riding with or accompanied
by a licensed operator, excepting only persons who have
been licensed and whose licenses are not in force because of
revocation or suspension, persons whose right to operate has
been suspended by the registrar, and persons less than six-
teen years of age; but such licensed operator shall be liable
for the violation of any provision of this chapter, or of any
regulation made in accordance herewith, committed by such
unlicensed operator; provided, that the examiners of opera- Proviso,
tors, in the employ of the registrar, when engaged in their
official duty, shall not be liable for the acts of any person
who is being examined. During the period within which a Operators of
motor vehicle of a non-resident may be operated on the ways J^^nCn-'^^^"''^^
of the commonwealth in accordance with section three, such residents.
vehicle may be operated by its owner or by his chauffeur or
employee without a license from the registrar if the operator
is duly licensed under the laws of the state or country in
which he resides, or has complied fully with its laws respect-
ing the licensing of operators of motor vehicles and has such
license or evidence of such compliance on his person or in
the vehicle in some easily accessible place; and a non-resi-
dent who holds a license to operate motor vehicles under
the laws of the state or country in which he resides, and has
the license on his person or in the vehicle in some easily
accessible place, may at any time operate, without a license
from the registrar, any type of motor vehicle which he is
licensed to operate under said license, irrespective of the

262

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 263.

Proviso.

Application
of section.

ownership of such vehicle, provided, that the laws relative
to registration are complied with and that, as finally de-
termined by the registrar, his state or country grants sub-
stantially similar privileges to residents of this commonwealth
and prescribes and enforces standards of fitness for operators
of motor vehicles substantially as high as those prescribed
and enforced by this commonwealth; but if any such non-
resident or his chauffeur or employee be convicted by any
court or trial justice of violating any provision of the laws of
the commonwealth relating to motor vehicles or to the
operation thereof, whether or not he appeals, he shall be
thereafter subject to and required to comply with all the
provisions of this chapter relating to the registration of motor
vehicles owned by residents of the commonwealth and the
licensing of the operators thereof. A record of the trial
shall be sent forthwith by the court or trial justice to the
registrar. This section shall apply to the operation of all
vehicles propelled by power other than muscular power,
except railroad and railway cars, road rollers, and motor
vehicles running only upon rails or tracks.

Approved April 26, 1929.

Chap.2Q3 -^^ ^^'^ establishing the boston traffic commission

AND DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES.

Boston Traffic

Commission

establislied.

Commissioner
to be chairman.

Term, com-
pensation.

Associate
commissioners.

No com-
pensation.

May employ
engineers,
experts, etc.

City ordi-
nances ap-
plicable to
commission,
except, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby established in the city of
Boston, hereinafter referred to as the city, a commission to
consist of a commissioner and four associate commissioners
and to be known as the Boston Traffic Commission, herein-
after referred to as the commission. The commissioner,
who shall be chairman of the commission, shall be appointed
by the mayor of the city, shall serve for a term of four years
and until the qualification of his successor, shall be subject
to the confirmation of the civil service commission under
chapter four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen
hundred and nine, as amended, shall receive such compen-
sation as shall be established by the mayor and city council
of the city, and may be removed by the mayor in accordance
with section fourteen of said chapter four hundred and eighty-
six. The police commissioner, commissioner of public works,
the chairman of the park commissioners and the chairman
of the board of street commissioners, all of the city, shall be,
ex officiis, the associate commissioners and shall receive no
compensation for their services as such associate commis-
sioners; but all the expenses of the commission incurred for
the purposes of this act shall be paid by the city. For said
purposes the commission may, subject to the approval of the
mayor and to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws and
the rules and regulations made thereunder, employ engineers,
experts, assistants and other officers and employees. All
statutes and ordinances applicable generally to the depart-
ments of the city shall apply to the commission, except the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 263. 263

provisions of section five of said chapter four hundred and
eighty-six.

Section 2. The commission shall have exclusive au- Rules and
thority, except as otherwise herein provided, to adopt, reUxth'e°to%e-
amend, alter and repeal rules and regulations, not incon- traffiretc^^*
sistent with general law as modified by this act, relative to
vehicular street traffic in the city, and to the movement,
stopping or standing of vehicles on, and their exclusion
from, all or any streets, ways, highways, roads and park-
ways, under the control of the city, including rules and
regulations designating any way or part thereof under said
control as a through way under and subject to the provisions
of section nine of chapter eighty-nine of the General Laws,
as amended, and may prescribe penalties not exceeding fifty
dollars for the violation of any rule or regulation adopted
hereunder. No such rule or regulation, except such special city'Record"*
rules and regulations as are declared by vote of the com-
mission to be urgently required by considerations of public
safety or convenience or such as are of a temporary nature
and are to be effective for a period of not more than two
weeks, shall take effect until published for two successive
weeks in the City Record. Upon petition of twenty-five Public hearing
registered voters of the city relative to any rule or regulation "^°" petition.
adopted or proposed to be adopted under this section, the
commission shall hold a public hearing thereon within thirty
days after the filing with the commission of such petition,
and final action thereon shall be determined only by vote of
a majority of the entire membership of the commission.
The commission shall have power to erect, make and main- Traffic signs,
tain, or cause to be erected, made and maintained, traffic ^^^^^'^^•^ "■
signs, signals, markings and other devices for the control of
such traffic in the city and for informing and warning the
public as to rules and regulations adopted hereunder, sub-
ject, however, to section two of chapter eighty-five, and to
sections eight and nine of said chapter eighty-nine, of the
General Laws, as amended. Nothing in this act shall be Act, how
construed to authorize the commission to adopt any rule or '^""^ '^^^ '
regulation excluding the cars of a street railway company
from any way or part thereof in which it has a location, or
to modify or limit any power or authority of the metro-
politan district commission, of the state department of
public works or of the state department of public utilities,
or any power now vested in the said police commissioner to
regulate street uses under licenses or permits granted by said
commissioner.

Section 3. All existing rules and regulations of the board Existing rules

p., .. Jii ifi •• , 1 and regulations

01 street commissioners, the board oi park commissioners, the to remain in
pohce commissioner, or any other pubhc board, commis- lmen*ded,"e'tc'.'
sion or official of the city, relating to the control of vehicular
traffic, shall remain in full force and effect until amended,
revised or repealed by the commission under this act, and
any amendment, revision or repeal of such a rule or regu-
lation or the adoption of any new rule or regulation by the

264

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 264.

Submission to
city council, etc,

Proviso.

commission shall not affect any act done, any right accrued,
any penalty incurred, or any suit, prosecution or proceed-
ing pending at the time of said amendment, revision, repeal
or adoption.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance,
during the current year, by vote of the city council of the
city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not other-
wise; provided, that for the purposes of such acceptance
only, this act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 26, 1929.

G. L. 194, § 5,
amended.

Public admin-
istrators not to
act when heir,
etc., claims the
right, nor when
sole known as-
sets of estate
consist of ac-
count in sav-
ings bank, etc.,
not increased
or decreased
during certain
period.

Chap. 2Q4: An Act prohibiting the granting to public adminis-
trators OF administration or their appointment as
receivers of absentees' estates in certain cases.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
five and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 5.
Administration shall not be granted to a public adminis-
trator when the husband, widow or an heir of the deceased,
in writing, claims the right of administration or requests
the appointment of some other suitable person to the trust,
if such husband, widow, heir or other person accepts the
trust and gives the bond required, nor when the sole known
assets of the estate of the deceased consist of an amount of
money standing to his credit in a savings bank or in the
savings department of a trust company, in case such account
has not been increased by a deposit, nor decreased by a
withdrawal of any part of his deposits or of any part of the
interest thereon, during a period of twenty years or more
next preceding the petition for such administration.

Section 2. Chapter two hundred of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out section eight and insert-
ing in place thereof the following: — Section 8. If such
absentee has left no corporeal property within the com-
monwealth, but there are debts and obligations due or owing
to him from persons within the commonwealth, a petition
may be filed as provided in section one, stating the nature
and amount of such debts and obligations, so far as known,
and praying that a receiver thereof may be appointed. The
court may thereupon issue a notice as above provided,
without issuing a warrant, and may, upon the return of said
notice and after a hearing, dismiss the petition or appoint
a receiver and authorize and direct him to demand and col-
lect the debts and obligations specified in said petition;
provided, that no public administrator shall be appointed
as such receiver when the sole known assets of the estate of
the absentee consist of an amount of money standing to his
credit in a savings bank or in the savings department of a
trust company, in case such account has not been increased
by a deposit, nor decreased by a withdrawal of any part of

G. L. 200, § 8,
amended.

Petition for
appointment
of receiver of
debts and
obligations due
to absentees.

Issue of notice
by court.

Proviso.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 265. 265

his deposits or of any part of the interest thereon, during
a period of twenty years or more next preceding the petition
for appointment of a receiver. The receiver shall give bond ^°'^"^-
as provided in section five, and shall hold the proceeds of
such debts and obligations and all property received by him, '
and distribute the same as hereinafter provided. He may
be further authorized and directed as provided in the pre-
ceding section. Approved April 27, 1929.

An Act relative to the preparation and transmission phnr) 9fif^

TO THE FULL COURT OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF ^'
NECESSARY PAPERS IN APPELLATE PROCEEDINGS AND RELA-
TIVE TO THE ENTRY OF SUCH PROCEEDINGS IN SAID COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the g.l. 231. § 135,
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section '^'nended.
one hundred and thirty-five and inserting in place thereof
the following: — Sectioji 135. In all cases to be brought Preparation
before the full court of the supreme judicial court, including sion to fuiT'^'
cases from the supreme judicial court when held by a single preme°{udi'ciai
justice, the superior court, the land court, the probate court, court of neces-
the appellate division of the municipal court of the city of ap'^eUat^e^pro-
Boston or an appellate division of any other district court, feedings, etc.
the clerk of the court below, at the expense of the appellant
or excepting party, or, upon a case reserved or reported, at
the expense of the plaintiff or of the party at whose request
it is reserved or reported, shall prepare and transmit to the
supreme judicial court for the commonwealth, or for the
proper county, one copy of every paper on file in the case
necessary to a full presentation of all questions of law in- '

tended to be raised before the full court, except papers used
in evidence only, and of all papers made part of the case
by reference in the record, for the use of the chief justice,
and a like copy for the clerk of the supreme judicial court
which shall be kept on file in said court; five typewritten
copies of any opinion or statement of reasons for decision
filed by the court below, for the use of the full court; one
copy of the record of the court below which transmits the
questions of law, for the use of each associate justice, each
party and the reporter of decisions. In appeals under section
one hundred and nine, the court may order the expense of
the necessary papers to be borne by some party other than
the appealing party, or may in its discretion provide the
required typewritten copies of the opinion or statement
aforesaid without charge. Original papers used in the trial
in the court below which are needed before the full court of
the supreme judicial court shall be transmitted to its clerk
to be kept on file by him until the rescript in such case is
sent. The expense of such copies and transmission shall
be taxed in the bill of costs of the prevaihng party, if he has
paid it.

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. 265.

Order in writ-
ing for prepara-
tion and trans-
mission of
papers and
copies to full
court of su-
preme judicial
court to be
given to clerk,
recorder, etc.,
of court in
which case is
pending, etc.

Entry of case.

G. L. 231, § 109,
amended.

Appeal from
appellate divi-
sion to supreme
judicial court.

G.L. 231, § 141,
etc., amended.

In order to carry any question of law from the supreme
judicial court when held by a single justice or from any
other court to the full court of the supreme judicial court
upon appeal, exception, reservation, report or otherwise as
authorized by law, the party having the obligation to cause
the necessary papers hereinbefore specified to be prepared
shall give to the clerk, recorder, register or other appropriate
official of the court in which the case is pending, within ten
days after the appeal or allowance of the bill of exceptions
or the determination by the court in which the questions
arose of the form of the transmitting order, an order in
writing for the preparation of such papers and copies of
papers for transmission to the full court of the supreme
judicial court. As soon as may be after receiving such
written order, the clerk or other official shall make an esti-
mate of the expense of the necessary transcripts of steno-
graphic notes and of the preparation and transmission of
the necessary papers and copies of papers aforesaid and
shall give such party notice in writing of the amount of
such estimate. Such party, within twenty days after the
date of such notice from the clerk or other official, shall pay
to him the amount of such estimate. The clerk or other
official then without delay shall prepare the papers and
copies of papers aforesaid for transmission and when they
are ready shall give notice in writing of such fact to the party
ordering them, who, within five days after the date of such
notice, shall enter the case in the supreme judicial court for
the commonwealth, or for the proper county.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and thirty-one is
hereby further amended by striking out .section one hundred
and nine and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 109. An appeal shall lie from the final decision of
the appellate division to the supreme judicial court for the
commonwealth. Claim thereof shall be filed in the office of
the clerk of said municipal court within five days after notice
of the decision of the appellate division. The appeal shall
not remove the cause, but only the question or questions to
be determined. The completion of such appeal shall be in
accordance with section one hundred and thirty-five. The
expense of the preparation of the necessary papers and copies
of papers and their transmission, and the entry fee in the
supreme judicial court, shall be taxed in the bill of costs of
the prevailing party, if he has paid it. Section twenty-five
of chapter two hundred and sixty-one shall apply to such
appealed cases. If the appellant fails duly to perfect the
appeal or to enter the same in the supreme judicial court,
the appellate division may upon application of an adverse
party, and after notice to all persons interested, order the
appeal vacated and the decision appealed from affirmed.

Section 3. Section one hundred and forty-one of said
chapter two hundred and thirty-one, as amended by section
two of chapter three hundred and seventeen of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 265. 267

amended by inserting after the word "thirty-four" in the
eighteenth hne the words: — , one hundred and thirty-five,
— so as to read as follows: — Section 141 . Sections one, two, Sectionsap-
three, four, five, six, seven, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, chdf actio°ns
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, before dis-

/ tzj / / trict courts

twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty- except in city
five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, ^^ ^^oston.
thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four,
thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine,
forty, forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-
five, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one,
fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-
eight, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-
five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy,
seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, sev-
enty-nine, eighty-five, eighty-five A, eighty-seven, eighty-
eight, eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-
three, ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-seven, ninety-eight,
ninety-nine, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hun-
dred and two, one hundred and thirty-four, one hundred and
thirty-five, one hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and
thirty-seven, one hundred and thirty-eight, one hundred
and thirty-nine, one hundred and forty and one hundred
and forty-seven shall apply to civil actions before district
courts, and no other sections of this chapter shall so apply,
except to the municipal court of the city of Boston under
section one hundred and forty-three.

Section 4. Section eleven of chapter two hundred and ^gg^pn^'gy^'
twelve of the General Laws, as amended by section four of rlpe^fed.^ '
chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby repealed.

Section 5. Section nineteen of chapter two hundred and ^niMd'ed' ^ '^'
fourteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking
out, in the sixth hne, the word "forthwith", and by inserting
after the word "court" the second time it appears in the
same line the following : — The completion of an appeal here-
under shall be governed by section one hundred and thirty-
five of chapter two hundred and thirty-one, — so as to
read as follows: — Section 19. A party aggrieved by a final g^^i^dgp^er
decree of a justice of the supreme judicial court or a final of justice of
decree of the superior court may, within twenty days after dS'^ourTor
the entry thereof, appeal therefrom. An appeal from a ^j^"^' "^.^^fee
final decree of a justice of the supreme judicial court shall court. '^" '
be entered on the docket of that court, and an appeal from
a final decree of the superior court shall be entered in the
supreme judicial court. The completion of an appeal here-
under shall be governed by section one hundred and thirty-
five of chapter two hundred and thirty-one. When such
appeals have been entered as aforesaid, all proceedings
under such decree shall be stayed, and the cause shall there-
upon be pending before the full court, which shall hear and
determine the same, and affirm, reverse or modify the de-
cree appealed from. Upon the reversal of a final decree, the

268

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 266.

G.L. 215. § 10.
amended.

Appeal to be
heard by
full court.

G.L. 278. §33,
amended.

Transmission
and entry of
papers relative
to question of
law arising in
criminal case in
superior court
upon appeal,
etc.

When operative

court may remand the cause to a justice of the supreme
judicial court or to the superior court, with necessary and
proper directions for further proceeding therein.

Section 6. Section ten of chapter two hundred and
fifteen of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking
out, in the third and fourth lines, the words "eleven of chap-
ter two hundred and twelve" and inserting in place thereof
the words : — one hundred and thirty-five of chapter two
hundred and thirty-one, — and by striking out, in the sixth
and seventh lines, the words "section one hundred and
thirty-five of chapter two hundred and thirty-one" and in-
serting in place thereof the words: — said section, — so as
to read as follows: — Section 10. The appeal shall be pend-
ing before the full court as soon as it has been filed in the
probate court, and proper copies of papers in the proceed-
ing, as specified in section one hundred and thirty-five of
chapter two hundred and thirty-one, have been prepared by
the register and transmitted to the supreme judicial court
and entered in the docket of the full court under said section.

Section 7. Chapter two hundred and seventy-eight of
the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
thirty-three and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 33. Copies and papers relative to a question of law
which arises in a criminal case in the superior court upon
appeal, exception, report or otherwise shall be prepared by
the clerk of the court at the expense of the commonwealth
and shall thereupon be transmitted to and entered in the
law docket of the supreme judicial court for the common-
wealth, or for the proper county, as soon as may be after
such question of law has been reserved and duly made matter
of record in the superior court. Copies and papers as afore-
said shall be as specified by, and the number of copies to be
prepared hereunder and the persons for whose use the same
shall be transmitted shall be as provided in, the provisions
of section one hundred and thirty-five of chapter two hun-
dred and thirty-one relative to appellate proceedings in civil
cases, except as otherwise provided in respect to the tran-
script of the evidence by sections thirty-three A to thirty-
three G, inclusive, and the rules made thereunder, in criminal
cases subject to said sections. Entry of a case hereunder
shall not transfer the case, but only the question to be de-
termined.

Section 8. This act shall become operative on Septem-
ber first of the current year. Approved April 27, 1929.

Chav.2QQ An Act relative to audit control of accounts of
municipal gas and electric plants.

G. L. 164, § 56,
amended.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and sixty-four of the General Laws
is hereby amended by striking out section fifty-six and in-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 266. 269

serting in place thereof the following : — Section 56. The Manager of
mayor of a city, or the selectmen or municipal light board, iTghUnJl^lp-
if any, of a town acquiring a gas or electric plant shall ap- g^'^'j'*"'®"*-
point a manager of municipal lighting who shall, under the
direction and control of the mayor, selectmen or municipal
light board, if any, and subject to this chapter, have full
charge of the operation and management of the plant, the
manufacture and distribution of gas or electricity, the pur-
chase of supplies, the employment of agents and servants,
the method, time, price, quantity and quality of the supply,
the collection of bills, and the keeping of accounts. His Compensation.
compensation and term of office shall be fixed in cities by the
city council and in towns by the selectmen or municipal light
board, if any; and, before entering upon the performance of
his official duties, he shall give bond to the city or town for Bond.
the faithful performance thereof in a sum and form and with
sureties to the satisfaction of the mayor, selectmen or mu-
nicipal light board, if any, and shall, at the end of each mu- To render de-
nicipal year, render to them such detailed statement of his mentor*^
doings and of the business and financial matters in his charge doings, etc.
as the department may prescribe. All moneys payable to or
received by the city, town, manager or municipal light board
in connection with the operation of the plant, for the sale
of gas or electricity or otherwise, shall be paid to the city or
town treasurer. All accounts rendered to or kept in the Accounts sub-
gas or electric plant of any city shall be subject to the in- hispection.
spection of the city auditor or officer having similar duties,
and in towns they shall be subject to the inspection of the
selectmen. The auditor or officer having similar duties, or
the selectmen, may require any person presenting for settle-
ment an account or claim against such plant to make oath
before him or them, in such form as he or they may pre-
scribe, as to the accuracy of such account or claim. The
wilful making of a false oath shall be punishable as perjury.
The auditor or officer having similar duties in cities, and p.{y^n°eTfto°/
the selectmen in towns, shall approve the payment of all biiis or pay
bills or pay rolls of such plants before they are paid by the Ludltor, etc.
treasurer, and may disallow and refuse to approve for pay-
ment, in whole or in part, any claim as fraudulent, unlawful
or excessive; and in that case the auditor or officer having
similar duties, or the selectmen, shall file with the city or
town treasurer a written statement of the reasons for the
refusal; and the treasurer shall not pay any claim or bill
so disallowed. This section shall not abridge the powers Certain powers
conferred on town accountants by sections fifty-five to sixty- counrante not
one, inclusive, of chapter forty-one. The manager shall at ■abridged.
any time, when required by the mayor, selectmen, municipal n^i|keltltement
light board, if any, or department, make a statement to of' doings when
such officers of his doings, business, receipts, disburse- '"'''^""■®'^' ®*''-
ments, balances, and of the indebtedness of the town in his
department. Approved April 27, 1929.

270

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 267.

Standard for
ereain, milk
and skimmed
milk.

Chav. 267 An Act relative to standards and grades of cream.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L.^9^4^ § 12, Section 1. Chapter ninety-four of the General Laws is
hereby amended by striking out section twelve and insert-
ing in place thereof the following: — Section 12. The
Massachusetts legal standard for milk shall be milk which
upon analysis is shown to contain not less than twelve per
cent of milk solids and not less than three and thirty-five
hundredths per cent of milk fat. The Massachusetts legal
standard for skimmed milk shall be skimmed milk con-
taining not less than nine and three tenths per cent of milk
solids exclusive of milk fat. The Massachusetts legal stand-
ard for cream or ungraded cream shall be cream which upon
analysis is shown to contain not less than sixteen per cent
of milk fat. The Massachusetts legal standard for the
grades to be known as light cream, medium cream, heavy
cream and extra heavy cream shall be cream which upon
analysis is shown to contain not less than sixteen, twenty-five,
thirty-four and thirty-eight per cent, respectively, of milk
fat.

Section 2. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further
amended by striking out section twenty-one and inserting
in place thereof the following: — Section 21. No person,
himself or by his agent, shall sell, expose for sale, or have in
his custody or possession with intent to sell, cream not
bearing, upon a label, cap or tag in legible bold-faced letters
of not less than twelve point plain gothic type, a statement
of one of the following designations conforming to the legal
standard for the particular grade or kind as set forth in
section twelve: "Light Cream", "Medium Cream",
"Heavy Cream", "Extra Heavy Cream", "Ungraded
Cream", or "Cream" together with the percentage of milk
fat contained therein which shall be not less than sixteen
per cent. Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells, exposes
for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent to
sell, cream not bearing a designation as hereinbefore re-
quired, or cream bearing such a designation and not con-
forming to the legal standard set forth in said section twelve
for the grade or kind so designated, shall for the first offence
be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, for the
second offence by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine
of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred
dollars.

Section 3. This act shall take effect on October first of
the current year. Approved April 27, 1929.

G.L.94, §21,
amended.

Labelling of

cream

regulated.

Penalty.

Effective date.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 268, 269. 271

An Act relative to the reimbursement of the com- Chap. 268

MONWEALTH FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE INSTRUCTION AND
SUPPORT OF BLIND AND DEAF CHILDREN IN CERTAIN SCHOOLS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws is hereby amended ^mg^vfed ^ ^^'
by striking out section twenty-six and inserting in place
thereof the following : — Section 26. The department may, Certain deaf
upon the request of the parents or guardians and with the sons nmy be^*^"
approval of the governor, send such deaf and such blind f^P* •^V®'',"

^^ .. ^. , ' 1 • , p 1 i- c ta:n schools.

persons as it considers proper subjects tor education, tor a
term not exceeding ten years, to the American School, at
Hartford, for the Deaf, in the state of Connecticut, to the
Clarke School for the Deaf at Northampton, to the Horace
Mann School at Boston, to any other school for the deaf in
the commonwealth, as the parents or guardians may prefer,
or to the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for
the Blind, as the case may be, and, upon like request and
with like approval, it may continue for a longer term the
instruction of meritorious pupils recommended by the
principal or other chief officer of the school which they at-
tend. With the approval of the governor the department
may, at the expense of the commonwealth, make such pro-
vision for the care and education of children who are both
deaf and Wind as it may deem expedient. No such pupil
shall be withdrawn from such institutions or schools except
with the consent of the authorities thereof or of the de-
partment; and the expenses of the instruction and support
of such pupils therein, actually rendered or furnished, in-
cluding their necessary traveling expenses, whether daily
or otherwise, but not exceeding ordinary and reasonable com-
pensation therefor, shall be paid by the commonwealth; but mentof cwn-
the parents or guardians of such children, who are able monweaith.
wholly or in part to provide for their support and care, to
the extent of their ability may be required by the depart-
ment to reimburse the commonwealth therefor.

Approved April 29, 1929.

An Act further extending the term of service of the (JJidj) 269

SPECIAL COMMISSION ON THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE AND
VESTING IT W'lTH CERTAIN POWERS IN THE EVENT OF A
FUEL EMERGENCY.

Whereas, The deferred operation of tliis act would tend pr'^^mbfe*^^
to defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the pubHc convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The term of service of the special com- Term of serv-

,1 • e Te • J 1 '1 1 J ice of special

mission on the necessaries oi hie, appointed under chapter commission on
three hundred and twenty-five of the acts of nineteen hun- of iiFe^extended.

272

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 269.

Unexpended
balances, etc.

Report to
general court.

To act as
emergency
fuel adminis-
trator, etc.

Effective date.

dred and twenty-one, as extended to May first, nineteen
hundred and twenty-three by section one of chapter three
hundred and forty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, to May first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four by section one of chapter three hundred and twenty of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, to May first,
nineteen hundred and twenty-five by section one of chapter
three hundred and twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, to May first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
seven by section one of chapter two hundred and seventy-
three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and
to May first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine by section
one of chapter two hundred and sixty-three of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby further ex-
tended to May first, nineteen hundred and thirty, and dur-
ing the term hereby extended the commission shall have all
the powers and duties granted and imposed by sections two
to four, inclusive, of said chapter three hundred and twenty-
five, as amended by section one of chapter ninety-nine of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four. During said
extended term the chairman of said commission shall have
authority to act for the commission when the commission is
not in session, and the compensation of its chairman shall
continue to be as provided in section one of said chapter
three hundred and twenty-five.

Section 2. The unexpended balances of any appropri-
ations heretofore made for the use of the commission are
hereby made available for the purposes of the commission
during the current fiscal year and the commission, from such
balances and from such additional appropriations as may be
made by the general court, may expend such sums as shall
be approved by the governor and council. The commission
shall report annually to the general court not later than the
second Wednesday of January.

Section 3. Whenever the governor shall determine that
a fuel emergency exists, he may, with the approval of the
council, by a writing signed by him, designate the aforesaid
special commission to act as an emergency fuel adminis-
trator, which shall have with respect to fuel all the powers
and authority granted by the Commonwealth Defence Act
of nineteen hundred and seventeen, being chapter three hun-
dred and forty-two of the General Acts of nineteen hundred
and seventeen, to persons designated or appointed by the
governor under section twelve of said chapter three hundred
and forty-two; and he may revoke such written authority
at any time. The provisions of said chapter three hundred
and forty-two are hereby made operative until May first,
nineteen hundred and thirty to such extent as the provisions
of this act may require.

Section 4. This act shall take effect May first, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved April 30, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 270, 271. 273

An Act authorizing the town of dedham to borrow Qfidj) 270

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing school Town of Ded-

, . . niini ni9v

buildings, and/or additions to existing school buildings where borrow nioney

^ ' 'or schoo'

jurposes

such additions increase the floor space of said buildings, and p°uVpo'^es'
originally equipping and furnishing such buildings and/or
additions, the town of Dedham ma^^ borrow from time to
time, within a period of five years from the passage of this
act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, three hundred thousand dollars, and may issue
bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the
words, Dedham School Loan, Act of 1929. Each author- Dedham School
ized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans {9"29""^'^^ °^
shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from their dates,
but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum
equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of such au-
thorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by
the tax levy of the year when authorized. Indebtedness
incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory
limit, but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the
limitation contained in the first paragraph of section seven
thereof as revised by chapter three hundred and twenty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 30, 1929.

An Act relative to appropriations by the town of Chav. 211

CHATHAM FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Chatham may, by a two thirds Town of
vote at any annual town meeting, appropriate a sum not fpproprTatTa^
exceeding three thousand dollars, to be expended under the f^r^^'ubHc'"
direction of the selectmen, for the purpose of providing amusements,
amusements or entertainments of a public character.

Section 2. So much of the action of said town at its Certain action
annual meeting in the current year, in pursuance of article ald^wn firmed?
fifteen of the warrant therefor, as would have been valid etc
had section one been then in force, is hereby ratified and
confirmed, and the entire sum appropriated thereunder may
be expended for the purposes specified in section one, sub-
ject to the provisions thereof.

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

Approved April 30, 1929.

274

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 272, 273, 274.

Chap. 212 An Act relative to appropriations by the town of

HARWICH FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Harwich may, by a two thirds
vote at any annual town meeting, appropriate a sum not
exceeding one thousand dollars, to be expended under the
direction of the selectmen, for the purpose of providing
amusements or entertainments of a public character.

Section 2. The vote passed by said town at its annual
town meeting in the current year, in pursuance of article
forty-nine of the warrant therefor, is hereby ratified and
confirmed, and the sum appropriated thereunder may be
expended for the purposes specified in section one, subject
to the provisions thereof.

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

Approved April 30, 1929.

Town of
Harwich may
appropriate a
certain sum
for public
amusements.

Certain vote
of town ratified
and confirmed,
etc.

Chap. 273 An Act relative to the compensation of town clerks.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 46, §
amended.

Fees of city
and town
clerks.

Section twenty-six of chapter fortj^-six of the General
Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the twelfth line,
the words "containing more than ten thousand inhabitants",
— so as to read as follows: — Section 26. The town clerk
shall receive the following fees from the town upon present-
ing to the town treasurer a certificate of the receipt of the
prescribed copies by the state secretary: For each marriage,
fifty cents; for each birth, one dollar; for each death returned
to him by an undertaker or the board of health, fifty cents;
for each death not so returned but obtained and recorded
by him, one dollar. He shall also receive from the town
the following fees: For each certificate transmitted under
section twelve, fifty cents; for receiving and recording an
affidavit and forwarding a copy thereof under section thir-
teen, one dollar; for sending the notice required by section
twenty-three, fifty cents; for each oath administered in
his capacity as clerk, twenty-five cents. A town may limit
the aggregate compensation allowed to its clerk.

Approved April 30, 1929.

Chav. 27 4: An Act relative to the reissue of a license to operate

MOTOR vehicles AS AFFECTED BY A CONVICTION FOR
operating while under the INFLUENCE OF INTOXICAT-
ING LIQUORS RESULTING IN A FATAL ACCIDENT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section twenty-four of chapter ninety of the General
Laws, as most recently amended by section one of chapter
two hundred and eighty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by inserting
after the word "conviction" in the seventy-third line the

G. L. 90, § 24,
etc., amended

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 274. 275

following: — ; and provided, further, that notwithstanding
the foregoing, no new license shall be issued by the registrar
to any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while
under the influence of intoxicating liquor, until ten years
after the date of final conviction, in case the registrar de-
termines, upon investigation and after a hearing, that the
action of the person so convicted in committing such offence
caused an accident resulting in the death of another, nor at
any time after a subsequent final conviction of a like offence,
in case the registrar determines in the manner aforesaid
that the action of such person so subsequently convicted
in committing such subsequent offence caused an accident
resulting in the death of another, — so as to read as follows :
— Section 2Jf. Whoever upon any way, or in any place to Penalty for
which the public has a right of access, operates a motor opiating motor

1-1 111 I'll 1 • n f • j^ • ±- vehicles reck-

vehicle recklessly, or while under the miiuence oi mtoxicatmg lessiy or while
liquor, or negligently so that the lives or safety of the public onu"oxka"hig^
might be endangered, or upon a bet or wager or in a race, 'iquor, etc.
or whoever operates a motor vehicle for the purpose of mak-
ing a record and thereby violates any provision of section
seventeen or any regulation under section eighteen, or who-
ever without stopping and making known his name, resi-
dence and the number of his motor vehicle goes away after
knowingly colliding with or otherwise causing injury to any
other vehicle or property, or whoever uses a motor vehicle For unauthor-
without authority knowing that such use is unauthorized, i^eduseof

, ... motor V6nicl6s

or whoever loans or knowingly permits his license to operate
motor vehicles to be used by another person, or whoever For fraud in
makes false statements in an application for such a license with Hcen"ea
or falsely impersonates the person named in such an appli-
cation, or procures such false impersonation, whether of
himself or of another, shall be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars or by im-
prisonment for not less than two weeks nor more than two
years, or both; except that for an offence of operating a For second or
motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating offen'p'^s o"*op-
liquor committed within a period of six years immediately erating motor
following his final conviction of a like offence by a court or under Influence
magistrate of the commonwealth, a person shall be punished gatiri^^fiuor
by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than
two years. Before a magistrate or other officer authorized investigation,

, ^ ■ ,.,.'='.., , 1 • , etc., as to pre-

to receive complaints m criminal cases reduces a complaint vious convic-
to writing, or before a prosecuting officer presents evidence offence 'l'^^

etc..

to the grand jury, charging a person with having operated when person is
a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating ha vmg operated
liquor, he shall communicate with the office of the registrar, '"hu^'^u^nder''^
and shall inquire as to whether there is in said office any influence of in-
record or other information tending to show that such li^q'uor*'"^
person has been finally convicted of a like offence by a court
or magistrate of the commonwealth within a period of six
years immediately preceding the commission of the offence
with which he is charged, and if it shall appear to such magis-
trate or other officer, or to the grand jury, as the case may

276

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 274.

Penalty for
not stopping,
etc., after
collision, etc.

Issue of new
license, when.

Provisos.

be, that such person has so been convicted, the complaint
or indictment shall contain an averment to that effect which
shall specify such court or magistrate and the date of such
conviction. Any person who operates a motor vehicle
upon any way, or in any place to which the public has a
right of access, and who, without stopping and making
known his name, residence and the number of his motor
vehicle, goes away after knowingly colliding with or other-
wise causing injury to any person, shall be punished by im-
prisonment for not less than two months nor more than
Revocation of I^q years. A convictiou of a violation of this section shall
conviction, etc. be reported forthwith by the court or magistrate to the
registrar, who may in any event and shall, unless the court
or magistrate recommends otherwise, revoke immediately
the license of the person so convicted, and no appeal from
the judgment shall operate to stay the revocation of the
license. If it appears by the records of the registrar that
the person so convicted is the owner of a motor vehicle or
has exclusive control of any motor vehicle as a manufacturer
or dealer, the registrar may revoke the certificate of regis-
tration of any or all motor vehicles so owned or exclusively
controlled. The registrar in his discretion may issue a new
license to any person acquitted in the appellate court, or
after an investigation or upon hearing may issue a new
license to a person convicted in any court; provided, that
no new license shall be issued by the registrar to any person
convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the
influence of intoxicating liquor until one year after the date
of final conviction, if for a first offence, or five years after
any subsequent conviction, and to any person convicted of
violating any other provision of this section until sixty days
after the date of final conviction, if for a first offence, or one
year after the date of any subsequent conviction; and pro-
vided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, no new
license shall be issued by the registrar to any person con-
victed of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence
of intoxicating liquor, until ten years after the date of final
conviction, in case the registrar determines, upon investi-
gation and after a hearing, that the action of the person so
convicted in committing such offence caused an accident
resulting in the death of another, nor at any time after a
subsequent final conviction of a like offence, in case the
registrar determines in the manner aforesaid that the action
of such person so subsequently convicted in committing such
subsequent offence caused an accident resulting in the death
of another. The prosecution of any person for operating
a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating
liquor, if the offence is committed within a period of six
. - years immediately following his final conviction of a like
o^subsequ^en" offcucc by a court or magistrate of the commonwealth, shall
not in any event be placed on file or otherwise disposed of
except by trial, judgment and sentence according to the
regular course of criminal proceedings, nor shall the execu-

Prosecutions
for operating
motor vehicle
while under
influence of
intoxicating

offence, etc.,
disposition, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 275, 276. 277

tion of the sentence for such later offence be suspended under
section one of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine. The Proseeutiona
prosecution for the violation of any other provision of this lationsfif^'"'
section, if a second or subsequent offence, shall not, unless sXe^^gnt
the interests of justice require such disposition, be placed on offence, dis-
file or otherwise disposed of except by trial, judgment and p°s't>°n' etc
sentence according to the regular course of criminal pro-
ceedings; and such a prosecution shall be otherwise dis-
posed of only on motion in writing, stating specifically the
reasons therefor, and verified by affidavit if facts are relied
on. If the court or magistrate certifies in writing that he
is satisfied that the reasons relied upon are sufficient and
that the interests of justice require the allowance of the
motion, the motion shall be allowed, and the certificate
shall be filed in the case. A copy of the motion and cer-
tificate shall be sent by the court or magistrate forthwith
to the registrar. Approved April 30, 1929.

An Act authorizing the department of public utili- (JJmr) 275

TIES to license THE OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES FOR
THE CARRIAGE OF PERSONS FOR HIRE OVER A CERTAIN
ROUTE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The department of public utilities, upon application by Department of
any person or corporation to whom a license has been m"y Hc"ense*tiie
granted by the licensing authority of the town of Milton operation of

" , ,. c J f f 1 J 1 11 1 r-Ci motor vehicles

under section forty-five oi chapter one hundred and fatty- for the carriage
nine of the General Laws, as amended, may grant to such hirrover^a^"'^
person or corporation a license to operate motor vehicles certain route in
for the purpose set forth in said section over the following '^' ^ °
route : — from the corner of Hilltop street and Granite
avenue in the city of Boston via Granite avenue, Adams
street, Codman street and Dorchester avenue to the Ash-
mont station of the Boston Elevated Railway Company in
said city; and no further license therefor shall be required.
Before granting such license, said department shall give a Pubiic hearing.
public hearing upon the application therefor, after notice to
the city council of said city. Said department shall not grant
such license unless it finds that public necessity and con-
venience require that the applicant be allowed to operate
motor vehicles over such route. A license granted hereunder
by the said department shall confer the same rights and
shall be subject to the same provisions of law as if granted
by the city council of said city under said section forty-five.

Approved April 30, 1929.

An Act requiring the submission of budgets at annual (Jjidj) 276

TOWN MEETINGS. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section sixteen of chapter thirty-nine of the General Laws, g. l. 39, § le.
as amended by chapter three hundred and eighty-eight of ''*''•• ^™'''"'«*-

278

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 277, 278.

Submission of
budgets at
annual town
meetings.

the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby
further amended by adding at the end thereof the following
new paragraph : — In every town having a committee ap-
pointed under authority of this section, such committee, or
the selectmen if authorized by a by-law of the town, and,
in any town not having such a committee, the selectmen,
shall submit a budget at the annual town meeting.

Approved April 30, 1929.

Chap. 277 An Act relative to the salary of the state librarian.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 6, § 35,
amended.

State librarian,

appointment,

salary.

Chapter six of the General Laws is hereby amended by
striking out section thirty-five and inserting in place thereof
the following : — Section 85. ' The governor, with the advice
and consent of the council, shall appoint a librarian of the
state library, who shall hold office during their pleasure and
shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the trustees of
said library with the approval of the governor and council.

Approved April 30, 1929.

Chav. 27S An Act establishing the harbor lines in fort point
channel in boston harbor and abolishing the harbor
lines in south bay in said harbor.

Harbor lines in
Fort Point
channel in
Boston harbor
established.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The harbor lines in Fort Point channel in
Boston harbor are hereby changed and established as
follows: The location of each of the angle and tangent
points in the lines hereinafter described is fixed by a dis-
tance hereinafter called longitude, in feet, from a meridian
passing through the center of the apex of the dome of the
state house in Boston, and by a distance hereinafter called
latitude, in feet, from a line at right angles to said meridian
and passing through the said center of the apex of the state
house dome, and the bearings refer to the true meridian
passing through the center of said apex.

Beginning at a point marked I in latitude three thousand
nine hundred and sixty-two feet south and longitude two
thousand two hundred and twenty-seven feet east, said
point being on the face of the sea wall on the northerly side
of Fort Point channel, being point I of the harbor line es-
tablished by section two of chapter one hundred and sev-
enty of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty, thence
southerly by said harbor line by the arc of a circle having
a radius of three hundred and thirty-eight feet about one
hundred and fifty-seven feet to point H' in latitude four
thousand and eighty-one feet south and longitude two
thousand one hundred and twenty-six feet east, thence to
the left by the arc of a circle having a radius of seven hun-
dred and fifty feet to point G' in latitude four thousand five
hundred and sixty feet south and longitude one thousand

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 279. 279

eight hundred and thirty-eight feet east, said point G' being
at the intersection of said arc and the harbor hne as estab-
lished by section one of chapter two hundred and thirty-two
of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, thence
by said harbor hne north eighty-three degrees thirty-seven
minutes thirty-five seconds east, true bearing, about three
hundred and seventy-eight feet to a point in latitude four
thousand five hundred and eighteen feet south and longi-
tude two thousand two hundred and fourteen feet east, said
point being the southerly end of the arc of a circle having
a radius of three hundred feet as described in said chapter
two hundred and thirty-two.

All harbor lines heretofore established in said Fort Point jfnefjJboH^h'e'd
channel southwesterly of point I on the northerly and
westerly side, and southwesterly of said point G' in the
southerly and easterly side of said channel, and all harbor
lines in South Bay in Boston harbor, are hereby abolished.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 1. 1929.

An Act relative to the methods and frequency of Chav 279

MAKING CERTAIN TESTS OF MILK AND CREAM AND TO
THE TESTING OF UTENSILS USED THEREIN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section twenty-five of chapter ninety-four g. l. 94, §25,
of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in '^'"ended.
the sixth and in the seventeenth lines, respectively, the word
"value" and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the
words: — milk-fat content, — so as to read as follows: —
Section 25. No bottle, pipette or other measuring glass or Testing of
utensil shall be used by any inspector of milk, or by any ,ictermln°ng
person in any milk inspection laboratory, in determining, J.|,7j,'"'l'^i^* i^
by the Babcock or other centrifugal machine, the composi- or cream, etc.
tion of milk or cream for the purposes of inspection, or by
any person in any place in determining, by the Babcock or
other centrifugal machine, the composition or milk-fat
content of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying
or selling, until such measuring glass or utensil has been
tested for accuracy and verified by the director, or by his
duly designated deputy. Each such bottle, pipette or other
measuring glass or utensil shall be submitted to the said
director by the owner or user thereof, to be tested for
accuracy, before the same is used for such purposes. As a
fee for making the test, the owner or user shall pay to the
said director a sum not exceeding five cents for each bottle,
pipette or other measuring glass or utensil tested. Each
measuring glass or utensil so tested and verified or found
inaccurate shall be marked accordingly by the director or
by his said deputy. No such measuring glass or utensil so
marked inaccurate shall be used in determining the compo-
sition or milk-fat content of milk or cream,

280

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 279.

G. L. 94, § 26,
amended.

Inspection of
testing ma-
chines.

Condemnation
of inaccurate
testing
machines.

G.L.94, § 27,
amended.

Certificate for
use of Babcock
etc., machine
required.

Fee, etc.

G.L.94, §29,
amended.

Testing and
inspection of
measuring
devices.

Section 2. Section twenty-six of said chapter ninety-
four is hereby amended by striking out, in the fourth and
in the fourteenth Hnes, respectively, the word "value" and
inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the words: —
milk-fat content, — so as to read as follows : — Section 26.
Each Babcock or other centrifugal machine used by an
inspector of milk or by a person in a milk inspection labora-
tory for determining the composition of milk or cream for
purposes of inspection, or by a person in any place for
determining the composition or milk-fat content of milk or
cream as a basis for payment in buying or selling, shall be
inspected at least once in each year by the director or by his
inspector or deputy. The owner or user of any such centrif-
ugal machine shall pay to the director as a fee for making
each such annual inspection the actual cost thereof.

Each Babcock or other centrifugal machine used as
aforesaid which, in the opinion of the director, his inspector
or deputy is not in condition to give accurate results, may
be condemned by him. No Babcock or other centrifugal
machine so condemned shall be used for determining the
composition or milk-fat content of milk or cream as afore-
said, unless such machine is corrected to the satisfaction of
the director, his inspector or deputy, and approved by him.

Section 3. Section twenty-seven of said chapter ninety-
four is hereby amended by striking out, in the fifth line, the
word "value" and inserting in place thereof the words: —
milk-fat content, — so as to read as follows : — Section 27.
No inspector of milk and no person in a milk inspection
laboratory shall manipulate the Babcock or other centrif-
ugal machine to determine the composition of milk or
cream for purposes of inspection, and no person in any
place shall manipulate such a centrifugal machine to deter-
mine the composition or milk-fat content of milk or cream
as a basis for payment in buying or selling, without first
obtaining a certificate from the director or his duly desig-
nated deputy that he is competent to do such work. The
fee therefor shall be two dollars, and shall be paid to the
director. If a holder of a certificate is notified by the di-
rector, or by his duly designated deputy, to correct his use
of such a centrifugal machine, the actual cost of an inspec-
tion to ascertain if such person has corrected his use of the
said machine shall be paid by him or by his employer to the
director.

Section 4. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further
amended by striking out section twenty-nine and inserting
in place thereof the following : — Section 29. The director
shall test or cause to be tested all bottles, pipettes and other
measuring glasses or utensils submitted to him under section
twenty-five, and shall inspect or cause to be inspected at
least once each year each Babcock or other centrifugal ma-
chine used by an inspector of milk, or by a person in any
milk inspection laboratory, for purposes of inspection, or
by any person in any place to determine the composition

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 279. 281

or milk-fat content of milk or cream as a basis for payment
in buying or selling, and shall collect the fees or actual cost
of tests and inspections under this and the four preceding
sections. The director, his inspectors and deputies, may
enter upon premises where tests of milk or cream are made
in order to inspect any apparatus used in making such tests
and to ascertain whether this and the four preceding sections
are complied with.

Section 5. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further g. l. 94, new
amended by inserting after section twenty-nine the follow- ^fter°§'29.
ing new section : — Section 29 A . The director shall, after Director to
reasonable notice and a hearing, and with the approval .^^f ^jgui^J-ona
of the governor and council, prescribe, and may from time governing
to time in like manner modify or amend, rules and regula- ["equency of
tions to govern the methods and frequency of making tests ["|!'^j'g"|^*^^f^.
for determining the composition or milk-fat content of milk ing miik-fat
or cream as a basis for payment in buying or selling. The or"ertJim'!^etc.'^
director, his inspectors and deputies, may enter upon
premises where tests of milk or cream are made to determine
whether rules and regulations made hereunder are being
observed.

Section 6. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further g. l. 94. § 30,
amended by striking out section thirty and inserting in '^'"'^"ded.
place thereof the following : — Section SO. The director Director to
shall enforce sections twenty-five to thirty-one, inclusive, provbLirs*'*'"
and the rules and regulations made thereunder, and may Prosecution.
prosecute or cause to be prosecuted any person violating
any provision of said sections or of said rules and regulations.
Sections twenty-five to thirty-one, inclusive, and the rules Certain persons
and regulations made thereunder, shall not affect any prosecutron*°
person using any centrifugal or other machine or test to ^^^en.
determine the composition or milk-fat content of milk or
cream if such use or test is made for the information of such
person only, and not for purposes of inspection or as a
basis for payment in buying or selling.

Section 7. Said chapter ninety-four is hereby further g. l. 94, § 31,
amended by striking out section thirty-one and inserting =^'"«^"^ed.
in place thereof the following : — Section 31 . Whoever Penalty for
hinders or obstructs the director, his inspector or deputy, in '"i'th officer,
the discharge of any authority or duty imposed upon him ® -o^tj^^ ^Tan
by any provision of sections twenty-five to thirty, inclusive, provision of
whoever violates any provision of said sections, and who- reiulaUons.
ever knowingly violates any provision of the rules and regu-
lations made thereunder shall be punished by a fine of not
less than fifteen nor more than fifty dollars.

Approved May 1, 1929.

282

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 280.

Chap. 280 An Act relative to the notification of voters whose

NAMES ARE OMITTED FROM THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF
VOTERS IN ANY YEAR, AND REQUIRING THAT LISTS OF SUCH
NAMES BE POSTED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE FOR
PUBLIC INSPECTION.

G. L.51, § 37,
etc., amended.

Registrars of
voters to pre-
pare annual
register, etc.

Arrangement.

Entries.

To make in-
quiries, inves-
tigations, etc.

To send notice
by first class
mail to voters
whose names
have not been
entered in an-
nual register.

To prepare list
of names of
voters not
entered, etc.

Not applicable
to certain cities
and towns.

1917 (G) 106,
§ 15, etc.,
amended.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter fifty-one of the General Laws, as
amended in section thirty-seven by section two of chapter
two hundred and nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one and by section twelve of chapter one hundred
and thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, is hereby further amended bj^ striking out said section
thirty-seven and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 37. The registrars, after April first, shall prepare an
annual register containing the names of all qualified voters
in their city or town for the current year, beginning with
said day. Such names shall be arranged in alphabetical
order, and, opposite to the name of each voter, his residence
on April first preceding or on any subsequent day when he
became an inhabitant of the city or town. The registrars
shall enter in the annual register every name contained in
the lists transmitted to them by the assessors under section
five, which they can identify as that of a person whose name
was borne on the voting list of the city or town at the last
preceding election or town meeting, giving the residence of
each such person on April first, which, in the case of a person
assessed a poll tax, shall be the place at which he was so
assessed. They shall make all inquiries and investigations
necessary to identify such person, and they shall not enter
in the annual register the name of a person objected to by
any registrar until such person has been duly notified and
given an opportunity to be heard. They shall forthwith
enter in the annual register the name of every person whose
qualifications as a voter have been determined by them in
the current year and whose name has accordingly been
entered in the general register. They shall, on or before
the first Monday of August in each year, send notice in
writing to each voter of the preceding year whose name has
not been entered in the annual register of the current year
that the name of such voter has not been so entered, such
notice to be sent by first class mail enclosed in an envelope
bearing the proper address to which the same may be re-
turned in case of non-delivery, and the registrars shall pre-
pare a list of the names of voters not so entered, which shall
be open to public inspection in their principal office, or shall
be posted by copy in the places where copies of voting lists
are required to be posted under section fifty-seven of chapter
fifty-one. This section shall not apply to cities and towns
having listing boards.

Section 2. Chapter one hundred and six of the General
Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended in
section fifteen by section four of chapter eighty-four of the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 280. 283

acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section fifteen and inserting
in place thereof the following: — Section 15. The registrars Registrars of
of voters shall, after the first day of April in each year, pre- se"a "t? pf eparl'
pare an annual register containing the names of all qualified ^^^'^'^^ register,
voters in Chelsea for the current year, beginning with the """'
first day of April. The names shall be arranged by wards Arrangement.
and precincts and, opposite the name of each voter, shall be
entered his residence on the preceding first day of April or
any subsequent day when he became a resident of said city.
The registrars of voters shall enter in the annual register Entries.
every name contained in the lists, for the current year, of
persons transmitted to them by the listing board, giving, as
the residence of each person on the first day of April, the
place at which he was Hsted by said board; provided, that Proviso,
in every case they are able to identify the name so trans-
mitted as that of a man or woman whose name was borne
on the voting list of said city at the last preceding election.
They shall make all inquiries and investigations necessary To rnake in-
to identify such person, and they shall not enter in the in^vesttgaUons,
annual register the name of a person objected to by any of ^^'^■
the registrars of voters, until such person has been duly
notified and given an opportunity to be heard by them, and
shall have appeared and satisfied them of his right to have
his name so entered. They shall forthwith enter in the
annual register the name of every person whose qualifications
as a voter have been determined by them in the current
year and whose name has accordingly been entered in the
general register. They shall, on or before the first Monday To send notice
of August in each year, send notice in writing to each voter nmii to*^vJt?r8
of the preceding year whose name has not been entered in hl'vrnot been
the annual register of the current year that the name of entered in an-
such voter has not so been entered, such notice to be sent by ""^ register.
first class mail enclosed in an envelope bearing the proper
address to which the same may be returned in case of non-
delivery; and if upon investigation they are satisfied that
the name of any such voter has been omitted by mistake
from the lists transmitted to them by the fisting board, they
may enter his name in the annual register and shall cause
such entry to be attested by their clerk. The registrars shall ug" o^names
prepare a list of the names of voters not so entered, which of voters not
shall be open to pubhc inspection in their principal office, ^" '"^^ ' ^ "'
or shall be posted by copy in the places where copies of
voting lists are required to be posted under section fifty-
seven of chapter fifty-one of the General Laws.

Section 3. Chapter two hundred and eighty-two of the lois (G) 282,
General Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended amended.
in section fifteen by section four of said chapter eighty-four
and as affected by chapter two hundred and thirty-nine of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby
further amended by striking out said section fifteen and
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 15. The Board of eiec-
board of election commissioners shall, after the first day of sloners'Sf""^"
April in each year, prepare an annual register containing the Cambridge to

284

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 280.

prepare annual
register, etc.

Arrangement.

Entries.

Proviso.

To make in-
quiries and in-
vestigations,
etc.

To send notice
by first class
mail to voters
whose names
have not been
entered in an-
nual register.

To prepare list
of names of
voters not
entered, etc.

1919 (G) 108,
§ 15, etc.,
amended.

Registrars of
voters of
Watertown to
prepare annual
register, etc.

Arrangement.

names of all qualified voters in Cambridge for the current
year, beginning with the first day of April. The names
shall be arranged by wards and precincts and, opposite the
name of each voter, shall be entered his residence on the pre-
ceding first day of April or any subsequent day when he
became a resident of said city. The board of election com-
missioners shall enter in the annual register every name
contained in the lists, for the current year, of persons trans-
mitted to it by the listing board, giving, as the residence of
each person on the first day of April, the place at which he
was listed by said listing board; provided, that in every case
the board of election commissioners is able to identify the
name so transmitted as that of a man or woman whose name
was borne on the voting list of said city at the last preceding
election. The board shall make all inquiries and investiga-
tions necessary to identify such person, and it shall not enter
in the annual register the name of a person objected to by
any of its members, until such person has duly been notified
and given an opportunity to be heard by it, and shall have
appeared and satisfied it of his right to have his name so
entered. The board shall forthwith enter in the annual
register the name of every person whose qualifications as a
voter have been determined by it in the current year and
whose name has accordingly been entered in the general
register. The board shall, on or before the first Monday of
August in each year, send notice in writing to each voter of
the preceding year whose name has not been entered in the
annual register of the current year that the name of such
voter has not so been entered, such notice to be sent by first
class mail enclosed in an envelope bearing the proper ad-
dress to which the same may be returned in case of non-
delivery; and if upon investigation it is satisfied that the
name of any such voter has been omitted by mistake from
the lists transmitted to it by the listing board, it may enter
his name in the annual register and shall cause such entry
to be attested by its clerk. The board shall prepare a list
of the names of voters not so entered, which shall be open to
public inspection in its principal office, or shall be posted
by copy in the places where copies of voting lists are required
to be posted under section fifty-seven of chapter fifty-one of
the General Laws.

Section 4. Chapter one hundred and eight of the Gen-
eral Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, as amended in
section fifteen by section four of said chapter eighty-four, is
hereby further amended by striking out said section fifteen
and inserting in place thereof the following: — -Section 15.
The registrars of voters shall, after the first day of April in
each year, prepare an annual register containing the names
of all qualified voters in Watertown for the current year,
beginning with the first day of April. The names shall be
arranged by precincts and, opposite the name of each voter,
shall be entered his residence on the preceding first day of
April or any subsequent day when he became a resident of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 280. 285

said town. The registrars of voters shall enter in the annual Entries.
register every name contained in the lists, for the current
year, of persons transmitted to them by the listing board,
giving, as the residence of each person on the first day of
April, the place at which he was listed by said board; pro- Proviso.
vided, that in every case they are able to identify the name
so transmitted as that of a man or woman whose name was
borne on the voting list of said town at the last preceding
election. They shall make all inquiries and investigations To make in-
necessary to identify such person, and they shall not enter iHvesttgations,
in the annual register the name of a person objected to by ^tc
any of the registrars of voters, until such person has been
duly notified and given an opportunity to be heard by them,
and shall have appeared and satisfied them of his right to
have his name so entered. They shall forthwith enter in
the annual register the name of every person whose quali-
fications as a voter have been determined by them in the
current year and whose name has accordingly been entered
in the general register. They shall, on or before the first To send^noUce
Monday of August in each year, send notice in writing to mail to voters
each voter of the preceding year whose name has not been haveVot blen
entered in the annual register of the current year that the ^^^^{^^ \^^^^'
name of such voter has not so been entered, such notice to
be sent by first class mail enclosed in an envelope bearing
the proper address to which the same may be returned in
case of non-delivery; and if upon investigation they are
satisfied that the name of any such voter has been omitted
by mistake from the lists transmitted to them by the listing
board, they may enter his name in the annual register and
shall cause such entry to be attested by their clerk. The To prepare list
registrars shall prepare a list of the names of voters not so vot"erfnot°
entered, which shall be open to public inspection in their entered, etc.
principal office, or shall be posted by copy in the places
where copies of voting lists are required to i3e posted under
section fifty-seven of chapter fifty-one of the General Laws.

Section 5. Section ten of chapter one hundred and fifty- 1920, 154, § 10,
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, inserted by '^'"°"
section two of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby amended
by striking out the last sentence and inserting in place thereof
the following : — The commission shall, on or before the Election com-
first Monday of August in each year, send notice in writing LoweiuC send
to each voter of the preceding year whose name has not "1°* g^^*^!! to^*^
been entered in the annual register of the current year that voters whose
the name of such voter has not so been entered, such notice "ot been^en-
to be sent by first class mail enclosed in an envelope bear- J:f f^J" e""""*'
ing the proper address to which the same may be returned in ^^ ^^ '^^^ j^^^
case of non-delivery, and the commission shall prepare a list of names of
of the names of voters not so entered, which shall be open entered'!°etc.
to public inspection in its principal office, or shall be posted
by copy in the places where copies of voting lists are required
to be posted under section fifty-seven of chapter fifty-one
of the General Laws.

286

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 281.

1913, 835, § 76,
etc., amended.

Election com-
missioners of
Boston to send
notice by first
class mail to
voters whose
names have
not been en-
tered in annual
register.

To prepare list
of names of
voters not
entered, etc.

Section 6. Section seventy-six of chapter eight hundred
and thirty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen,
as most recently amended by section five of chapter one
hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one, is hereby further amended by striking out the
last sentence and inserting in place thereof the following : —
They shall, on or before the first Monday of August in each
year, send notice in writing to each voter of the preceding
year whose name has not been entered in the annual register
of the current year that the name of such voter has not been
so entered, such notice to be sent by first class mail enclosed
in an envelope bearing the proper address to which the
same may be returned in case of non-delivery, and they shall
prepare a list of the names of voters not so entered, which
shall be open to public inspection in their principal office,
or shall be posted by copy in the places where copies of
voting lists are required to be posted under section fifty-
seven of chapter fifty-one of the General Laws.

Approved May 1, 1929.

Chap. 281 An Act authorizing the first independent universalist

SOCIETY IN SPRINGFIELD TO MERGE IN AND UNITE WITH
THE THIRD CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY IN SPRINGFIELD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The corporation established by chapter
sixty-seven of the acts of eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
under the name First Independent Universalist Society in
Springfield, is hereby authorized to merge in and unite with
the Third Congregational Society in Springfield, which was
duly incorporated under authority of chapter eighty-six of
the acts of eighteen hundred and eighteen, under the name
Second Congregational Society in the First Parish in Spring-
field, and the title of which was altered to its present form
under authority of chapter eighty-two of the acts of eighteen
hundred and nineteen.

Section 2. Upon the acceptance of this act by vote of
each of said corporations in accordance with law, duly
certified copies of such votes shall be filed in the Hampden
county registry of deeds and thereupon the persons who
are then members of the first named corporation shall become
members of said Third Congregational Society in Spring-
field, which shall thereafter have and enjoy all of the fran-
chises, powers, privileges and rights, including property
rights, of both of said corporations.

Section 3. The annual meetings of said Third Congre-
gational Society in Springfield shall be held at such times as
the corporation may by its by-laws determine, and it shall
also elect such trustees, standing committees and other
officers to serve for such periods of time as shall be provided
by said by-laws, Approved May 1, 1929,

First Inde-
pendent Uni-
versalist Society
in Springfield
may merge in
and unite with
the Third
Congregational
Society in
Springfield, etc.

Upon accept-
ance, etc.,
certified copies
of votes to be
filed in Hamp-
den county
registry of
deeds, etc.

Annual meet-
ings, trustees,
etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 282, 283. ^S7

An Act authorizing the city of melrose to borrow Chav. 2S2

MONEY for school PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing school City of^Meirose
buildings, and/or additions to existing school buildings money for
where such additions increase the floor space of said build- ^° °° p"'"p°^^^-
ings, and originally equipping and furnishing such new
buildings and/or additions, and/or acquiring land for school
purposes, the city of Melrose may borrow from time to time,
within a period of five years from the passage of this act,
such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the ag-
gregate, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and may
issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face
the words, Melrose School Loan, Act of 1929. Each au- MeiroseSchooi
thcrized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such }^9°29"' ^""^ °^
loi.ns shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from their
dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless
a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of
such authorized issue is voted for the- same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. In-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory hmit, but shall, except as provided herein, be
subject to chapter fortj^-four of the General Laws, exclusive
of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of section
seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 3, 1929.

Chap.2S3

An Act relative to the filling in certain cases of
vacancies caused by the withdrawal or death of
candidates of political parties nominated by direct
nomination.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter fifty-three of the General Laws is hereby amended ^^^^fg^^ ^ ^*'
by striking out section fourteen and inserting in place
thereof the ioWowins,: — Section lA. If a candidate nomi- Filling in cer-

. rr-Tic 11 <• tain cases oi va-

nated for a state, city or town oince dies before the day of cancies caused
election, or withdraws his name from nomination, or is found or^d^'thlT^^'
ineligible, the vacancy, except for city offices where city '^o"i^|^ai*'^arties
charters provide otherwise, may be filled by the same po- nominated by
litical , party or persons who made the original nomination, uon!*ete.'""^^"
and in the same manner; or, if the time is insufficient there-
for, the vacancy may be filled, if the nomination was made
by a convention or caucus, in such manner as the convention
or caucus may have prescribed, or, if no such provision has
been made, by a regularly elected general or executive com-
mittee representing the poHtical party or persons who held
such convention or caucus. In the event of the withdrawal
or death of any candidate of a political party nominated by

288 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 284.

direct nomination for any office, the vacancy may be filled
by a regularly elected general or executive committee rep-
resenting the election district in which such vacancy occurs,
or, if no such committee exists by the members of the town
committee in any town comprising such district, by the
members of the ward committee or committees in the ward
or wards comprising such district if within the limits of a
single city, or by delegates chosen as hereinafter provided
by and from the members of the ward and town committees
in the wards and towns comprising such district if within
the limits of more than one municipality, at a meeting to
be called by such a member or delegate, as the case may be,
designated by the chairman of the state committee, and
such member or delegate shall preside until a chairman of
such meeting is elected. Each ward and town committee
in the wards and towns comprising such a district within the
limits of more than one municipality shall, as occasions arise,
choose from its members delegates to fill vacancies as here-
inbefore provided, in such manner as it may determine by
its rules and regulations, to a number not exceeding one
for each five hundred votes, or fraction thereof, cast in its
ward or town for the candidate of the party for governor at
the last state election, and shall forthwith notify the state
secretary of the delegates so chosen. If a vacancy is caused
■ by withdrawal, certificates of nomination made otherwise
than in the original manner shall be filed within seventy-
two week day hours in the case of state offices, or within
forty-eight week day hours in the case of city or town
offices, succeeding five o'clock in the afternoon of the last
Objections, etc. ^jg^y f^j. fjii^g withdrawals. They shall be open to objec-
tions in the same manner, so far as practicable, as other
certificates of nomination. No vacancy caused by with-
drawal shall be filled before the withdrawal has been filed.

Approved May 3, 1929.

Chap. 2S4: An Act providing for a state fire patrol in certain

COUNTIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
G. L.^48, new Chapter forty-eight of the General Laws is hereby amended
ifter^us. by inserting after section twenty-eight the following new

state forester scctlou I — Sectton 28 A . Upon written application of the
flJr a statue' fi^re couuty commissiouers of any county which accepts this
P„^;i'"°'J,tl,?fl" section by vote of said commissioners, the state forester
may appoint additional temporary officers in the division
of forestry or detail assistants to the state fire warden to
such number as may be necessary, who shall patrol the
forests in the towns of such county, during those seasons of
the year when forest fires are likely to occur therein for the
Reimburse- purposc of detecting and preventing such fires. One half
Sonw^ith™' of the money expended under the provisions of this section
in any county shall be repaid to the commonwealth by said
county. Approved May 3, 1929.

tain counties.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 285, 286. 289

An Act relative to the compensation of auditors PhQ^y 285

AND special masters IN CERTAIN CASES. '^"

Be it enacted, etc., as follows: ^

Section 1. Section sixty-two of chapter two hundred g. l. 221, § 62,
and twenty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by ^^^^ ^ '
adding at the end thereof the words : — ■ , except as pro-
vided in section sixty-two A, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 62. Auditors, masters in chancery and special fuXors"^
masters shall file their final report in the office of the clerk masters,' etc.
of the court by which they are appointed within ninety
days after the hearing before them has been closed or within
such time as the court may allow, and, in default thereof,
shall not be entitled to any fees, except as provided in section
sixty-two A.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and twenty-one is g.l. 221, new
hereby amended by inserting after said section sixty-two |^^*|°" •'^f^^''
the following new section: — Section 62 A. If an auditor or compensation
special master, appointed by the supreme judicial, superior "^eJ-f/^X'^s^'eTs
or probate court, becomes incapacitated or dies without incertain'cases.
having filed his final report, the court may award him or his
estate reasonable compensation, payable by the county,
upon a finding that he actually performed services which
would entitle him to the compensation awarded had he filed
a report as provided in section sixty-two; provided, that Proviso.
all his records and memoranda, or copies thereof, in the case
in which compensation is sought, are filed with the clerk
of the court.

Section 3. This act shall take effect on September first Effective
in the current year and shall apply to cases then pending ^^*®'®*^*=-
and to cases disposed of within two years prior thereto, as
well as to cases thereafter instituted.

Approved May 3, 1929.

Chap. 286

An Act relative to the height of buildings on land
abutting on st. james avenue betw^een clarendon
and dartmouth streets in the city of boston.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The provisions of section one of chapter four hundred and Height of buiid-
fifty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight affutun/on st.
prescribing a height limit for buildings on land abutting on i'Xween'"^"^'^
St. James avenue between Clarendon and Dartmouth streets clarendon and
in the city of Boston shall apply only to any portion of a streys"in city
building within one hundred feet of said St. James avenue; of Boston.
and in case any building on land abutting on said St. James
avenue between said Clarendon and Dartmouth streets
extends more than one hundred feet from said St. James
avenue, the height of any part thereof on land more than
one hundred feet from said St. James avenue shall not ex-
ceed that permitted for a separate building on such land.

Approved May 4, 1929.

290

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 287.

Chap. 2S7 An Act to provide for the more effective enforce-
ment OF THE SALE OF SECURITIES ACT.

' Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 25, new
sections.

Securities
Division.

Director, ap
pointment,
term, com-
pensation.

Functions
of division.

Assistants, etc.

For certain
purposes, di-
rector to be

Section 1. Chapter twenty- five of the General Laws is
hereby amended by adding thereto, under the heading,
Securities Division, the following two new sections: —
Section 12 A. There shall be in the department, and under
its general supervision and control, a securities division
which shall be under the charge of a director. The com-
mission, with the approval of the governor and council,
shall appoint said director for a term of five years, and fix
his compensation. The commission, with like approval,
or the governor, may remove said director at any time for
cause. Said division shall perform such of the functions in
relation to the administration and enforcement of chapter
one hundred and ten A imposed upon the commission by
said chapter as the commission may from time to time
determine by order duly recorded in the office of the com-
mission and open to public inspection. The commission
may employ such assistants and employees to serve in said
division as may be necessary. Section 12B. For the pur-
poses of section five A, the said director shall be deemed a
m^tSoner TtT' commissioncr of the department; for the purposes of section
seven of chapter one hundred and ten A, an order or finding
by said director, or his failure or refusal to make an order
or finding, shall be deemed an order, finding, failure or re-
fusal by the commission; and for purposes of service of
process under section eight of said chapter and of signing
the certificate under paragraph (c) of section eleven thereof,
said director shall be deemed the secretary of the commis-
sion. Section fourteen of said chapter shall apply to wit-
nesses before the said director.
G. L. 110 A. §2, Section 2. Subdivision (a) of section two of chapter one
Imel'de?" *"'' huudrcd and ten A of the General Laws, inserted by section
one of chapter four hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following: — and also, in so far as de-
termined by the commission under section twelve A of said
chapter, the securities division or its director, established
*j Commission," by Said scctiou, — so as to read as follows: — (a) "Com-
mission", the commission supervising and controlling the
department of public utilities under chapter twenty-five and
also, in so far as determined by the commission under section
twelve A of said chapter, the securities division or its di-
rector, established by said section.

Section 3. Said chapter one hundred and ten A is
hereby further amended by inserting after section six the
following new section: — Section 6 A. The commission may
also require any person offering any security for sale, or the
directors, trustees or corresponding officers of the corpora-
tion, association, trust, or other body issuing the security,

definition.

G. L. 110 A,

new section
after § 6.

Commission
may require
certain periodic
statements to
be filed, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 288. 291

the sale of which is otherwise lawful under this chapter, to
file, in such form as it may from time to time prescribe,
periodic statements verified by oath of the person or officers
subscribing and filing the same and of a reputable account-
ant, or, in lieu of such oath, verified by the written decla-
ration of such person or officers and accountant that such
statements are made under the penalties of perjury, showing
the financial condition of such person, corporation, associa-
tion, trust or other body and such further information and
data as the commission may deem advisable. Failure to Failure to file
file such statements or to submit such information and data be^juTcaus°e
within the time specified shall be just cause for the making ^2[e^J}''s'g"f,r^''*
by the commission of a finding to the effect that the sale ties is fraud-
of such securities is fraudulent or would result in fraud, ^^ent, etc.
Such a finding shall have the same effect as if made under
section six.

Section 4. This act shall become operative on September when operative.
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved Mmj 4, 1929.

An Act relative to the improvement of low land (7/ia7?.288

AND SWAMPS AND THE ERADICATION OF MOSQUITOES.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would, in part, ^^l^^^^^fj^^
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public health and convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and fifty-two of the ^^i.\^^;^lJ^
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section one,
as appearing in section one of chapter four hundred and
fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three,
and as amended by section one of chapter three hundred
and ninety-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section improvernent

Ti. ■ • ci/-<\ji- n J of low land

1. If it IS necessary or useful (1) to dram or now a meadow, andswamps.
swamp, marsh, beach or other low land held by two or more
proprietors, or (2) to remove obstructions in rivers or streams
leading thereto or therefrom, or (3) to eradicate mosquitoes
in any area infested thereby, inchiding, in respect to each
such purpose, purposes incidental thereto, such improve-
ments may be made as provided in the following eighteen
sections, except as hereinafter otherwise provided.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and fifty-two is ^.l. 252 new
hereby further amended by inserting after section four, ap-
pearing as aforesaid, the following new section: — Section 4A. ^edtTany
The commonwealth, acting through one or more state de- ^,'^3^;.;*°'^^°''
partments, or through the metropolitan district commission be parties to
in respect to the metropolitan parks or water district or un°dwtu V
either metropolitan sewerage district, and any city, town or 1^ ^^^^f^^'^'-^^^;
district, or any combination thereof, to the extent of their as individual
ownership of any area described in section one, may be p^'oprx^tors.

292

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 288.

May institute
proceedings in
certain cases.

Petition, etc.

Action, by
wliom taken.

Notice of
hearing, etc.

Appropria-
tions, etc.

G. L. 252, new-
section
after § 5.

State reclama-
tion board to
notif.v persons
and bodies
politic to be
benefited, of
estimated ex-
pense of pro-
posed improve-
ments, etc.

Deposit of
Hioney, etc.

Appointment
of commis-
sioners to make
improvements,
etc.

parties, in their proprietary capacity, to proceedings under
sections one to fourteen C, inclusive, in respect to any pur-
pose set forth in said section one, to the same extent as in-
dividual proprietors. Said bodies politic, or any combina-
tion thereof, may also institute proceedings under said
sections in their governmental capacity, in any case where
it appears that the public health, safety or convenience will
be promoted by improvements to effect any of said purposes,
but in such proceedings no district shall be organized, and
the improvements shall be constructed and maintained as
provided in section five A. The petition in such a proceed-
ing need cover only matters pertinent to the project therein
set forth, and the provisions of section five requiring that
the petitioners constitute a majority ownership of the lands
affected shall not apply to such petition. Individuals and
corporations qualifying as proprietors may join in any peti-
tion authorized in this section. Action by any such body
politic hereunder shall be taken by the administrative head
of the state department or commission, or by the mayor,
selectmen, or prudential committee or other governing body,
as the case may be. Notice of the hearing before said board
on such a petition shall be given as provided in the first
paragraph of section five to all petitioners and to the ad-
ministrative heads of such state departments and com-
missions, mayors of such cities, selectmen of such towns,
and the prudential committees or other governing bodies
of such distiicts, as the said board may determine, and to
all other known proprietors of lands to be affected by such
improvements. Cities, towns and districts are hereby au-
thorized to raise and appropriate money for such purposes.
Section 3. Said chapter two hundred and fifty-two is
hereby further amended by inserting after section five, ap-
pearing as aforesaid, the following new section: — Section 5 A.
If the board determines that the proposed improvements
should be undertaken and that their construction and
maintenance may be effected without the formation of a dis-
trict, and in every such case where the board is petitioned
by a body politic in its governmental capacity under section
four A, it shall notify all persons and bodies politic to be
benefited thereby of the estimated expense of constructing
the proposed improvements, including land damages, if any,
and of the maintenance thereof. Upon receipt of sums of
money sufficient to cover such estimated construction ex-
pense, or of any money which can be used for such purposes
to the advantage of the contributors, the board shall desig-
nate an identifying name under which said improvements
shall be made and shall deposit the money so received with
the state treasurer, who shall hold such money in a special
fund or funds for such purpose, and shall disburse the same
on warrants drawn by the board. The board shall there-
upon issue a certificate appointing one or more commis-
sioners, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of
their duties, and shall authorize said commissioners to

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 288. 293

proceed to make the improvements, which may be made at
such places, either within or without the commonwealth,
as may be necessary or convenient to make the improve-
ments effective; and said commissioners shall thereupon
proceed so to do. The board shall fix the compensation of ^"JJ^'^gt"®^'
said commissioners and shall allow them their necessary
travel and other expenses necessarily incurred in the per-
formance of their duties. Such compensation and expenses
shall constitute a part of the expense of making and main-
taining such improvements. Any commissioner may be re- Removal for
moved by the board for cause and the board may fill va- ''''"^®' ^^''■
cancies. The board may discharge the commissioners when
the improvements are completed and may appoint others
to care for maintenance. Any excess funds received under Excess funds
authority of this section shall be returned to the contributors etc.^"^^ ^"^
thereof in proportion to the contributions. If the sums so Board to notify
estimated are not sufficient to complete such improvements, trlbiito'rs o?"
the board shall determine the amount of the estimated additional cost
additional cost thereof and shall notify the original con- sums'are^fn-
tributors of their shares of such additional cost. The board sufficient, etc.
shall instruct the commissioners not to continue with such
improvements until such additional funds are received by the
board, and such commissioners, after receipt of such instruc-
tions, shall incur no further expense in connection with such
improvements until authorized so to do by the board. If one
or more, but less than all, of several petitioners provide their
respective proportions of the fund estimated as necessary to
make such improvements, the board may appoint com-
missioners to make such portion of such improvements as, in
its opinion, will benefit the contributors. For the purpose Powers of
of effecting such improvements and providing for their missk>nMlTta'
maintenance as provided in this section, the board shall have
all the powers conferred by sections two, three, four, five,
except the last paragraph thereof, and eight, and the com-
missioners by it appointed shall have all the powers con-
ferred upon district commissioners under sections twelve
and thirteen, provided that in taking by eminent domain or Proviso,
acquiring by purchase, gift or otherwise, land or other prop-
erty or any interest therein, the commissioners so appointed
shall take or acquire the same in the name and on behalf
of the city or town wherein the land or other property or
interests are situated, but not until such city or town has duly
authorized such taking, has assumed all liability for damages
therefor and has complied with all provisions of law appli-
cable to land takings by cities or towns. All amounts for
which a city or town may be liable hereunder, together with
interest and costs, may be contributed by persons or bodies
politic benefited by such improvements in proportion to their
respective benefits or otherwise.

Section 4. Section eight of said chapter two hundred ^c.^amended.
and fifty-two, appearing as aforesaid and as amended by
section six of said chapter three hundred and ninety-three,
is hereby further amended by striking out the last sentence.

294 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 289.

?ecti6n^^' ^^^ Section 5. Said chapter two hundred and fifty-two is
after § 14B. hereby further amended by inserting after section fourteen
Penalty for B, appearing as aforesaid, the following new section: — Sec-
tniuli^gany^ tioTi l\C. Whoevcr obstructs or injures any ditch, tide gate,
structure, etc. (j^j^g gr othcr structuro constructed or used for any purpose
authorized by any provision of sections one to fourteen B,
inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten
of^dama^es dollars. The state reclamation board may also recover,
in the name of the commonwealth, for any such obstruction
or injury, in an action of contract, the amount of the dam-
ages sustained by reason thereof, and the provisions of sec-
tion five A, relative to the disposition of money therein re-
ferred to, shall govern the disposition of money I'ecovered
in such action.
G. L 40, § 5 Section 6. Section five of chapter forty of the General

e c, amen e . j^^^g^ ^g uiost recently amended by chapter one hundred and
towns may eight of the acts of the current year, is hereby further amended
mo^neyVor^ by adding at the end thereof the following new clause: —
improvement (36) For the improvement of low lands and swamps and

of low lands ,1 tj.- c -x "JJ-I-xj.

and swamps the eradication of mosquitoes, as provided m chapter two
er^adka'tfon hundred and fifty-two. Approved May 6, 1929.

of mosquitoes.

Chap. 2S9 An Act authorizing the city of lynn to borrow an

ADDITIONAL SUM OF MONEY FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

ma'^ borrow" SECTION 1. For the purpose of constructing an eastern
an additional scnior high school buildiug and of originally equipping and
for"se°niM'high fumishing said building, the city of Lynn may borrow
school purposes, from time to time, within five years from the passage of this
act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding^ in the
aggregate, five hundred thousand dollars, in addition to
the sums authorized by chapter one hundred and eight of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and may
issue bonds or notes therefor which shall bear on their face
Lynn Eastern the words, Lyuu Eastcm Senior High School Loan, Act of
schoo'i Loan, 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate
Act of 1929. Jqqjj ^j^j-j gyg]^ loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen
years from their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under
this act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten
per cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same pur-
pose to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized.
Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit but shall, except as herein provided, be sub-
ject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive
of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of section
seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred and
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 7, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 290, 291, 292. 295

An Act reviving thomas d. gard company, incorporated. C}ia7).290

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would cause Emergency
great inconvenience and expense, therefore it is hereby de- preamble.
clared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Thomas D. Gard Company, Incorporated, a corporation Thomas d.
dissolved by chapter two hundred and seventy-three of the ^fco'^S-ated?^'
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby re- revived.
vived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if said
chapter had not been passed. Approved May 7, 1929.

An Act extending further the duration of a law pro- QJidj) 291

VIDING FOR THE TRIAL OR DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN CRIMINAL ^'

CASES BY DISTRICT COURT JUDGES SITTING IN THE SU-
PERIOR COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter four hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of nine- 1923, 469. § 5,
teen hundred and twenty-three, as amended by chapter four ''^''- '"^^'"^'"^■
hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, by chapter two hundred and eighty-five of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, by chapter two
hundred and eighty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-seven and by section one of chapter three hundred Duration of
and fifty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty- 'j't^^'of^ceS
eight, is hereby further amended by striking out section five criminal cases
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 5. courttudges
This act shall not be operative after December thirty-first, ^ij*J'e"foi."court,
nineteen hundred and thirty-two. extended.

Approved May 7, 1929.

An Act exempting from the inheritance tax certain Chap. 292

INTERESTS IN MASSACHUSETTS REAL ESTATE OWNED BY
non-resident DECEDENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter sixty-five of the o. l. 65, § 1.
General Laws, as most recently amended by section one of ^^°' '^n^ended.
chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by
inserting after the word "commonwealth" in the seventh
line the following: — except such an interest in such real
estate as is represented by a mortgage or by a transferable
certificate of participation or share of an association, part-
nership or trust, — so that the first paragraph will read as
ioWows: — Section 1. All property within the jurisdiction Taxation of
of the commonwealth, corporeal or incorporeal, and any gu^cces'sloTs'^
interest therein, belonging to inhabitants of the common- including tan-
wealth, and all real estate or any interest therein and all prope?tTof"'^

296

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 293.

non-resident
decedents.

Exemption.

To what estates
applicable.

tangible personal property within the commonwealth be-
longing to persons who are not inhabitants of the common-
wealth except such an interest in such real estate as is rep-
resented by a mortgage or by a transferable certificate of
participation or share of an association, partnership or trust,
which shall pass by will, or by laws regulating intestate
succession, or by deed, grant or gift, except in cases of a
bona fide purchase for full consideration in money or money's
worth, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor
or donor or made or intended to take effect in possession or
enjoyment after his death, and any beneficial interest therein
which shall arise or accrue by survivorship in any form of
joint ownership in which the decedent joint owner con-
tributed during his life any part of the property held in such
joint ownership or of the purchase price thereof, to any
person, absolutely or in trust, except to or for the use of
charitable, educational or religious societies or institutions,
the property of which is by the laws of the commonwealth
exempt from taxation, or for or upon trust for any charitable
purposes to be carried out within the commonwealth, or to
or for the use of the commonwealth or any town therein for
pubhc purposes, shall be subject to a tax at the percentage
rates fixed by the following table:

Section 2. This act shall apply to estates of persons
dying on or after December first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight. Approved May 7, 1929.

Town of Ber-

nardston may
borrow money
for town hall
purposes.

Bernardston
Town Hall
Loan, Act
of 1929.

C/ia».293 An Act authorizing the town of bernardston to bor-
row MONEY FOR TOWN HALL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of repairing and remodeling
its town hall and of refurnishing and reequipping the same,
the town of Bernardston may borrow from time to time,
within a period of five years from the passage of this act,
such sums as may be necessarj^, not exceeding, in the aggre-
gate, twenty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes
therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Bernardston
Town Hall Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall
constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in
not more than ten years from their dates, but no issue shall
be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount
not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted
for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year
when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act
shall be within the statutory limit and shall, except as herein
provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General
Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the first para-
graph of section seven thereof as revised by chapter three
hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 8, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 294. 297

An Act amending the charter of the city of melrose. Chav.294:

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section thirty-three of chapter one hundred amended ^ ^^'
and sixty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine
is hereby amended by striking out, in the last hne, the words
"end of the municipal year" and inserting in place thereof
the following: — first Monday in January following the
next regular municipal election; and if there would be a
vacancy on said first Monday, it shall be filled at such regu-
lar municipal election for the balance of the unexpired
term, — so as to read as follows: — Section 33. The school ofThoois'in''"*
committee shall on the first Monday in' June, or as soon city of Melrose,
thereafter as may be, choose by vote of a majority of its etc! '"'*' ^^^'
members, but not from its number, a superintendent of
schools, who shall be under its direction and control. Such
superintendent shall hold office until the close of the school
year next ensuing or until his successor is chosen and quali-
fied, unless sooner removed, and he may be removed at any
time by the school committee by vote of two thirds of all
its members. The school committee, so far as appropri- School com-

11 c 1 1 1 1 c 1 1 1 11 mittee, powers,

ations are made therefor by the board of aldermen, shall duties, etc.
have full power and authority to furnish all school buildings
with proper fixtures, furnishings and equipments. It may
also appoint janitors and all officers and employees con-
nected with the schools, fix their compensation, make rules
concerning their tenure of office, and discharge them at its
pleasure. The school committee shall in case of a vacancy vacancy.
in its number forthwith notify the board of aldermen, and
the board of aldermen shall call a joint convention of the
members thereof and of the school committee, and at such
convention the vacancy shall by vote of a majority of all the
members of the two bodies be filled until the first Monday
in January following the next regular municipal election;
and if there would be a vacancy on said first Monday, it
shall be filled at such regular municipal election for the
balance of the unexpired term.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-two, as isqq, 162, § 36,
amended in section thirty-six by section one of chapter one ^tc amended.
hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty and by section one of chapter seventy-eight of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section thirty-six and insert-
ing in place thereof the following: — Section 36. There Departments
shall be the following departments and oflicers: — ^""^ °"^'="''-

I. The assessing department, to be under the charge of Assessing

,-, •, ^ ,. department.

the board oi assessors.

II. The charity department, to be under the charge of charity

, , , 1 p , , .'' {> ° department.

the board of public welfare.

III. The health department, to be under the charge of Health

,11 J r 1- 1J.U department.

the board oi health.

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Law de-
partment.

Fire de-
partment.

Police de-
partment.

Public works
department.

Public library
department.

Cemetery
department.

Memorial

building

department.

City clerk
department.

Treasury
department.

Collecting
department.

Auditing
department.

Park de-
partment.

Executive
departments.

IV. The law department, to be under the charge of the
city solicitor.

V. The fire department, to be under the charge of the
chief of the fire department.

VI. The police department, to be under the charge of
the captain of police.

VII. The public works department, to be under the
charge of an official who shall be known as the engineer and
superintendent of public works. He shall have charge of
the design, construction, alteration, repair, maintenance
and management of the water works, the public sewers and
drains, the public ways, sidewalks and bridges, and the
lighting and watering thereof, and also the public buildings,
excepting the soldiers and sailors memorial building and
excepting such duties with reference to the school buildings
as are now conferred by law and this act upon the school
committee. He shall make and have the custody of all
plans, surveys, measurements and levels appertaining to
the public ways, drains, sewers, water works and lands, and
shall perform such other duties as the board of aldermen
may prescribe. Subject to the approval of the mayor he
shall appoint an assistant superintendent in the water de-
partment, an assistant superintendent in the sewer depart-
ment, and such other assistants as the condition of the
work may require.

VIII. The public library department, to be under the
charge of the trustees of the public library.

IX. The cemetery department, to be under the charge
of a cemetery committee, to consist of three persons, which
shall have control of all matters pertaining to public ceme-
teries and burial grounds.

X. The memorial building department, to be under the
charge of the trustees of the soldiers and sailors memorial
building.

XI. The city clerk department, to be under the charge
of the city clerk.

XII. The treasury department, to be under the charge
of the city treasurer.

XIII. The collecting department, to be under the charge
of the city collector.

XIV. The auditing department, to be under the charge
of the city auditor.

XV. The park department, to be under the charge of the
board of park commissioners appointed under and subject
to the provisions of section two of chapter forty-five of the
General Laws, which shall, in addition to the powers and
duties conferred and imposed upon it by general law, have
charge of the design, construction, alteration, repair, mainte-
nance, and management of the public parks, squares and
playgrounds, and the lighting and watering thereof.

The departments provided for in the first ten clauses of
this section shall be executive departments, and the heads
thereof shall be executive officers.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 295. 299

Section 3. Section forty-eight of said chapter one hun- i899, i62, § 48,
died and sixty-two is hereby amended by striking out, in the ^'"«"''''^-
eighth and ninth lines, the words "one hundred" and in-
serting in place thereof the words: — ten per cent of the, —
and by striking out, in the fifteenth line, the word "annual"
and inserting in place thereof the word: — biennial, — so as
to read as follows: — Section A8. No vote of the board of Question of

,1 ji-- • c T ^ 1 ^ authorization

aldermen authorizmg an issue oi bonds or a permanent loan, of issue of

except for the purpose of refunding or renewing, replacing or ^Ty^'be sib*-"

paying any portion of the municipal indebtedness, shall be- mitted to vot-

come operative until after the expiration of a period of thirty cases" etc.^*°

days from the day of the final passage of said vote by the

board of aldermen, and its approval by the mayor. If

within said period of thirty days a petition of ten per cent

of the legal voters of the city shall be filed with the city

clerk, asking that the question of the authorization of

such issue or loan be submitted to the voters of the city at

large, the city clerk shall transmit such petition to the board

of aldermen, and said question shall be submitted to the

qualified voters of the city voting at large in their respective

voting places at the next biennial municipal election. A

special election for voting upon said question may however

be called by vote of two thirds of the board of aldermen,

with the approval of the mayor. If the act of the mayor

and aldermen authorizing such issue or loan be approved

by a majority of the legal voters of the city voting upon the

question such act shall at once become operative; but if

not so approved such act shall have no effect. If such

petition be not filed within said period of thirty days the act

of the mayor and aldermen authorizing such issue or loan

shall become operative upon the expiration of said period.

Nothing in this section shall apply to debts incurred for

temporary loans made under authority of statute.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance submission to
during the current year by vote of the city council of said ^Uy council,
city, subject to the provisions of its charter, but not otherwise.

Approved May 8, 1929.

An Act providing for the reconstruction and mainte- QJi^rt 295

NANCE OF BASS RIVER BRIDGE ON BRIDGE STREET IN THE
CITY OF BEVERLY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The county commissioners of the county of Essex county
Essex, subject to all general laws that may be apphcable, mayrecon-
and to the approval of the appropriate federal authority, River bridge
are hereby authorized to reconstruct the Bass River bridge ^^ ^^^'^^p*'^^^^
and draw therein on Bridge street in the city of Beverly, Beverly.
including the approaches thereto, of such type and dimen-
sions as they may determine but of a width not less than
the present width of such bridge and approaches.

Section 2. The cost and expenses incurred under this Limitation as
act shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five *° ''°^*"

300

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 295.

County treas-
urer may
borrow money,
issue notes, etc.

Detailed, cer-
tified statement
of actual cost
and expenses
to be filed, etc.

Apportionment
and assessment
upon Essex
County and
city of
Beverly, etc.

Issue of warrant
against city of
Beverly upon
failure to pay,
etc.

County treas-
urer may
borrow money,
issue bonds, etc,

thousand dollars and shall be paid in the first instance by
the county of Essex. The treasurer of said county, with the
approval of the county commissioners, may borrow by a
temporary loan or loans on the credit of the county such
sums, not exceeding the said amount, as may from time
to time be required to meet such cost and expenses, includ-
ing interest, and may issue notes of the county therefor bear-
ing interest or discounted as may be deemed advisable, and
the said treasurer may sell such notes at public or private sale
upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners
may deem proper. The notes may be renewed from time to
time for such periods as may be necessary. All money so
borrowed shall be deposited in the county treasury, and the
county treasurer shall pay out the same as ordered by the
county commissioners and shall keep a separate and accurate
account of all moneys so borrowed and expended, including
interest or discount, as the case may be.

Section 3. From time to time and upon completion of
such work, the said county commissioners shall file in the
office of the clerk of the courts for said county a detailed
statement, certified under their hands, of the amount of
the actual cost and expenses incurred in doing the said work,
including interest or discount, as the case may be, on all
monies borrowed under section two, and not theretofore
included in any statement previously so filed, and within
three months after the filing of any such statement, they shall,
after such notice as they deem proper, and a hearing, ap-
portion and assess upon said county an amount equal to
forty per cent of such cost and expenses and upon the city
of Beverly the balance thereof. The county commissioners
shall file in the office of the said clerk of the courts a report
of the apportionment and the clerk shall, within seven days
thereafter, transmit a true and attested copy thereof to the
treasurer of the said city, and said city shall pay its propor-
tion of said cost and expenses, determined by the county
commissioners as aforesaid, into the treasury of the said
county, within such time as the county commissioners may
direct but not later than ninety days after the date of filing
of said report, together with interest thereon at six per cent
per annum from the last mentioned date. If the city shall
neglect or refuse to pay its proportion as aforesaid, the said
county commissioners shall, after notice to it, issue a warrant
against it for such proportion with interest from the date
last mentioned, together with the cost of the notice and
warrant, and the same shall be collected and paid into the
treasury of said county to be applied in payment of such
cost and expenses or in payment of the temporary loan or
loans issued by the county under section two.

Section 4. For the purpose of paying the county's
ultimate share of said cost and expenses, the county treas-
urer, with the approval of the county commissioners, may
borrow from time to time such sums as may be necessary,
not exceeding in the aggregate, fifty thousand dollars, and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 295. 301

may issue bonds or notes of the county therefor, which shall Ess'lx^^Ba^
bear on their face the words, County of Essex, Bass River RiverBridge
Bridge Loan, Act of 1929. l^o"'^''"^

Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and Loans, when
such loans shall be payable in not more than ten years from payable, etc.
their dates. Such bonds or notes shall be signed by the
treasurer of the county and countersigned by a majority of
the county commissioners. The county may sell the said
securities at public or private sale upon such terms and
conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper,
but not for less than their par value. Indebtedness in-
curred by said county hereunder shall, except as herein pro-
vided, be subject to chapter thirty-five of the General Laws.

For the purpose of paying any amount assessed upon the city of Beverly
city of Beverly under section three, said city may borrow money?7ssue
from time to time such sums as may be necessary, not ex- bonds, etc.
ceeding in the aggregate seventy-five thousand dollars, and
may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their
face the words. City of Beverly, Bass River Bridge Loan, city of Beverly,
Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a Brfdg^lLoIn,
separate loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more ^^t of 1929. '
than ten years from their dates. Indebtedness incurred by
said city hereunder shall be outside the statutory limit, but
shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-
four of the General Laws. The proceeds of loans issued by
said city shall be paid into the county treasury of said
county and, together with the proceeds of loans issued by
said county under this section, shall be appHed to meet
temporary loans of said county issued in accordance with
section two or to pay said cost and expenses.

Section 5. The expense of maintaining said bridge Maintenance
shall, in the first instance, be paid out of the treasury of the °^ bndge, etc.
county of Essex. The county commissioners of said county
shall maintain said bridge and the said city shall operate
the same. Said county commissioners shall annually, in
the month of November, submit to the treasurer of the said
city a true statement of the expense of maintenance of the
said bridge, and within thirty days thereafter the said city
shall pay into the treasury of the said county the amount of
said expenses. If the said city neglects or refuses to pay issue of warrant
the said expenses as aforesaid, the said commissioners shall, B^everiy°upon
after due notice to it, issue a warrant for the same, with pay^^c**
interest and cost of the notice and warrant, and the same
shall be collected and paid into the treasury of said county
to be applied in reimbursing said county for expenses in-
curred by the county as aforesaid.

Section 6. The county commissioners, acting in the County com-
name and on behalf of said city, may purchase, or take by may'take^
eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General '""'^' ^^°-
Laws, such lands and such rights and easements in land in
said city, as may be required to carry out the purposes of
this act. All expenditures made under authority of this
section, including land damages, shall be included as a part

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Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 296, 297.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc.

of the cost and expenses of reconstructing said bridge and
its approaches.

Section 7. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance,
during the current year, by the county commissioners of
said county. Approved May 8, 1929.

Chap.29Q An Act authorizing the town of great barrington to

BORROW MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of constructing a central
heating and ventilating plant for the Searles, Bryant and
McTigue school buildings in the town of Great Barrington
and of meeting the expenses incident to the installation of
such plant, vSaid town may borrow from time to time, within
a period of five years from the passage of this act, such sums
as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, twenty-
five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes there-
for, which shall bear on their face the words, Great Barring-
ton School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall
constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in
not more than five years from their dates, but no issue shall
be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount
not less than twenty per cent of such authorized issue is
voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of
the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under
this act shall be inside the statutory limit, and shall, except
as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the
General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the
first paragraph of section seven thereof as revised by chapter
three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 9, 1929.

Town of Great
Barrington may
borrow money
for school
purposes.

Great Barring-
ton School
Loan, Act
of 1929.

Chap. 297 An Act to provide for the construction of a vehicular
tunnel between boston proper and east boston.

Transit de-
partment of
city of Boston
to construct
vehicular tun-
nel under
Boston harbor
from point in
Boston proper
to East Boston.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L The city of Boston, hereinafter called the
city, acting by the transit department of the city of Boston,
hereinafter called the department, shall proceed with the
laying out and construction of a tunnel which shall consist
of two or more roadways or lanes for vehicular traffic con-
tained in one or two tubes, with or without physical con-
nection, under Boston harbor from a convenient point or
points in Boston proper to a convenient point or points in
that part of the city known as East Boston, and with the
laying out and construction of all facilities and appurte-
nances incidental thereto, including plazas and street ap-
proaches extending not more than one thousand feet from
the tunnel entrances or exits as the department shall deem

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 297. 303

necessary and desirable to facilitate the movement of traffic
entering and leaving the tunnel. The word "tunnel" as Word "tunnel"
used in this act shall connote the plural in so far as it may con- p'lura'i^'etc ^^^
sist of two tubes with or without physical connection.

Section 2. The department shall immediately after the Department to
effective date of this act make such preliminary investiga- ™nry Pnveg'^i-
tions, surveys and plans as it may deem expedient and to g^tions, etc.
that end the department, its employees or any other parties May enter upon
acting with its authority may enter upon any lands, or places Ilea vkt^fns^ etc.
without being liable in trespass, in order to make surveys
and investigations, and may place and maintain marks and
monuments thereon, and make borings and excavations and
do all other acts necessary for the preparation of plans
and estimates for said tunnel and other facilities and appur-
tenances; provided, that compensation shall be recoverable Proviso.
from the city under chapter seventy-nine of the General
Laws for any actual damages caused by such acts.

Section 3. The department may, for the purposes of °!;''^'"^jf°"*d
this act, take and use without compensation public lands use public'
and ways, except any wharves, piers or other structures of iTtc^mry*'^*'
the commonwealth or any land of the commonwealth above ^^^^ ^''?^^. ,.
low water mark, and the department may, for the said bliiidlngs'' " '"^
purposes, acquire on behalf of the city by purchase or other- easement's?'*
wise, or may take by eminent domain under chapter seventy- estatesand
nine of the General Laws or any other alternative method knd.^'t".
now or hereafter provided by general law, lands in fee in-
cluding buildings thereon, and easements, estates and
rights in land, including the right to go under the surface
thereof, or through or under buildings or parts of buildings
thereon, or any leasehold rights, or other rights therein, or
relative thereto; such takings in fee or otherwise may be
made, whether the lands or other rights taken or otherwise
affected are held under or by title derived by eminent do-
main or otherwise, and the department may, for such pur-
poses, acquire for the city by purchase or otherwise, or may
take any property and rights of any kind deemed by it
essential to the construction of said tunnel. A taking or Taking or pur-
purchase under this section of an easement or other estate mentor other
or right in a given parcel of real estate or any right taken, estate or right
whether such parcel or other right taken consists of unim- Estate may hT
proved land or of land and buildings or rights of any nature, t°o'ifSf'par°cS'"^'
may be confined to a portion or section of such parcel or etc.
right fixed by planes of division, or otherwise, below or above
or at the surface of the soil, and in such case no taking need
be made_of upper or lower portions, or other parts or sections
thereof, except of such easements therein, if any, as the de-
partment may deem necessary. The department shall, so Notification
far as may be practicable, notify all known owners of takings'^'^etc^
such takings, but the validity thereof shall not be affected
by want of such notice. Any person sustaining damage by Recovery of
reason of property or rights, in property taken or injured by '^^'^^^^^' ®*°-
the department under authority of this act, except public
lands and ways which may be taken and used without com-

304

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 297.

Department
may sell or
remove build-
ings on land
taken: lease
lands or rights
in lands, etc.,
taken, etc.

Disposition of
proceeds of
sales or leases.

Department
may order re-
moval or re-
location of
surface tracks,
conduits, pipes,
wires, etc.

Order to be
deemed revo-
cation of right
to maintain
such tracks, etc.

Department
may remove
tracks, etc.,
upon failure
of owner to
comply with
order.

Removal and
relocation of
structures upon
private lands.

Shutting off of
gas or electric
current, etc.

pensation as hereinbefore provided, shall be entitled to
recover the same from the city under said chapter seventy-
nine or under other provisions of law providing an alternative
method of taking by eminent domain, as the case may be.
The members of the department shall not be hable personally
for any such damage. To such extent and under such con-
ditions as the mayor of the city may from time to time de-
termine, all action taken by the department under this
section shall be with the written approval of the mayor.

Section 4. The department may sell the buildings or
other structures upon any lands taken by it, or may remove
the same, and shall sell, if a sale be practicable, or if not,
shall lease, if a lease be practicable, any lands or rights or
interests in lands or other property taken or purchased for
the purposes of this act, whenever the same shall, in the
opinion of the department, cease to be needed for the said
purpose. The proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be
used for the payment of costs of construction and after
construction is completed shall be paid into the sinking
fund hereinafter provided for.

Section 5. The department may order the removal or
relocation of any surface tracks, and the removal or reloca-
tion of any conduits, pipes, wires, poles, or other property
located in pubhc ways or places, which it deems to interfere
with the laying out, construction or operation of the tunnel
and other facilities authorized by this act, and shall grant
new locations for any such structure so removed or relocated.
Such orders, to the extent specified therein, shall be deemed
a revocation of the right or license to maintain such tracks,
pipes, conduits, wires, poles, or other property in such pubhc
ways or places, and the owner of any such structures in
public ways or lands shall comply with such orders without
expense to the city. If any such owner shall fail to 'comply
with the order of the department within a reasonable time,
to be fixed in the order, the department may discontinue
and remove such tracks, conduits, pipes, wires, poles, or
other property, and may relocate the same, and the cost of
such discontinuance, removal or relocation shall be repaid
to the city by the owner. No such discontinuance, removal
or relocation shall entitle the owner of the property thus
affected to any damages on account thereof. Any such
structure in or upon private lands may be removed and
relocated by the department, or, if removed and relocated
by the owner thereof, the reasonable expense shall be repaid
to him by the department. Any gas or electric lighting
company shall shut off the gas or current from any pipes or
wires affected by any acts done hereunder, so far and for
such time as may be necessary to prevent the escape or
explosion of gas, or other public danger. This section shall
not apply to facilities on property of the commonwealth
under the control of the department of public works or in-
stalled under hcenses or permits granted by said department,
except with its approval.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 297 305

Section 6. The city may place in the tunnel such wires city m-iy place
and apparatus as may be necessary for its pohce and fire- ra^usfntuM'd'
alarm service, to be used, however, exclusively for such "oif^l^'if/fi'^
service and to be so placed as the department may determine, alarm service,
but this privilege shall not extend to water pipes, except ^^°-
such as may be needed for fire protection and other uses
therein.

The department may place and maintain or may grant Department

. . ^ . , • ,1 1 • n^ay place, or

permission to any corporation or person to place and mam- grant permis-
tain within the tunnel ducts or other structures, to be so coTporatfon
located as not to interfere with the safe and convenient f^r person to
operation and maintenance of the tunnel and other apparatus other str^ucturL
which the city is hereinbefore permitted to place therein, ^Yghm tunnel,
and may contract with any such person or corporation for
such permission or for the use of such ducts or other structures
at such annual rate of rental as may be fixed by the depart-
ment. The construction, maintenance and repairs of any
such ducts or other structures shall be subject to such di-
rections and regulations as the department may impose.

Section 7. No contract for construction work or for the contract for
purchase of apparatus, supplies or materials, the estimated wo"rk,'^etc'°"
cost of which amounts to five hundred dollars or more, shall not to be '
be awarded by the department under this act unless pro- proposais"hatf
posals for the same have been invited by advertisements in ^jged ^^tc^'^"
at least one newspaper pubhshed in the city once a week for
at least two consecutive weeks, the last pubhcation to be at
least one week before the time specified for the opening of
said proposals. Such advertisements shall state the time
and place where plans and specifications of proposed work or
supplies may be had and the time and place for opening the
proposals in answer to said advertisements, and shall reserve
to the department the right to reject any or all proposals.
All such proposals shall be opened in public. No bill or Proposals to
contract shall be split or divided for the purpose of evading fn public*^
any provision of this section. All contracts made by the contracts to
department hereunder, where the amount involved is five be in writing,
hundred dollars or more, shall be in writing, and no such ^^'''
contract shall be deemed to have been made or executed until
the approval of the mayor is affixed thereto. Any contract 2°"^, etc.
made as aforesaid may be required to be accompanied by a
bond with sureties satisfactory to the department, or by a
deposit of monej^, certified check or other security for the
faithful performance thereof, and such bonds or other se-
curities shall be deposited with the city treasurer until the
contract has been carried out in all respects; and no such
contract shall be altered except by a written agreement of
the contractor, the sureties on his bond and the department,
with the approval of the mayor.

Section 8. For the purpose of meeting the cost of the To meet cost
tunnel, which shall include all expenses incurred in laying treasum-ma^y
out and constructing the same and all facilities and appurte- issue and seii

., ,, .,,. . , '^ '^ Donds ot

nances incidental thereto, including plazas and street ap- city, etc
proaches as described in section one, and all land damages,

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Traffic Tunnel
Bonds, City of
Boston, Act
of 1929.

Sinking fund
for payment
of bonds, etc.

Proviso.

Tolls, rents,
etc., to be
used to meet
operating
costs, etc.

Tunnel to be
operated as toll
tunnel, etc.

expenses of the department, such proportion of the salaries
of the department as may in its opinion be properly charge-
able thereto and all interest accruing prior to the use of the
tunnel on debt incurred for the foregoing, the treasurer of
the city shall, from time to time, on request of the depart-
ment, with the approval of the mayor of the city and with-
out any other authority than that contained in this act,
issue and sell at public or private sale the bonds of the city,
registered or with interest coupons attached, as he may deem
best, to an amount not exceeding sixteen million dollars.
Such bonds shall be designated on their face, Traffic Tunnel
Bonds, City of Boston, Act of 1929, shall be for such terms,
not exceeding fifty years, as the mayor and the treasurer of
the city may determine, and shall bear such interest, payable
semi-annually, as the mayor and the treasurer of the city
may determine. Such bonds may be called, retired and
cancelled by the city on any date upon which interest is
payable on said bonds after twenty years from their re-
spective dates, by payment by the city of the amount of the
face of said bonds with any accumulated unpaid interest, and
the bonds shall contain a statement to such effect. The pro-
ceeds of such bonds shall be used only to meet the cost of the
tunnel as hereinbefore defined. The debt incurred from time
to time under the provisions of this act shall not be included
in determining the limit of indebtedness of the city as
established by law. The board of sinking fund commis-
sioners of the city shall estabHsh a sinking fund for the pay-
ment of the bonds issued under authority hereof. There
shall annually be paid into such fund from tolls and charges
or otherwise as hereinafter provided such sum at least as is
necessary to provide for the payment of the principal of all
such bonds at the expiration of fifty years from their re-
spective dates; provided, that the first payment into said
fund shall not be made prior to the expiration of one year
after the entire tunnel is in operation. Upon and after the
completion of the tunnel as aforesaid there shall also be
paid into said fund the proceeds received from any sales or
leases under section four and the balance of the proceeds
of any bonds previously issued hereunder and no longer
required for construction purposes.

All tolls, rents, percentages, compensation and other
charges received for any use of the tunnel shall be used by
the treasurer of the city only to meet the operating costs
and, subject to the provisions of section twelve, the excess in
any year of such tolls and charges over operating costs shall
be paid into said fund.

Section 9. Upon the completion of the tunnel, the pub-
lic works department of the city shall operate the same as a
toll tunnel, and shall from time to time establish a schedule
of tolls and charges for the use of the same, which, in the
opinion of said public works department, subject to the
approval of the department of public utihties, will pay all
operating costs, which term wherever used in this act shall

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 297. 307

include charges for adequate maintenance and upkeep, op-
erating expenses including therein proper policing, lighting,
and ventilating, interest on all bonds issued under authority
hereof, and such annual amounts as are necessary to provide
a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of such
bonds upon the expiration of such period of time, not less
than twenty nor more than fifty years after their respective
dates, as said public works department, with the approval
of the department of public utilities, shall from time to time
determine. If in any year such schedule of tolls and charges
should prove to be insufficient, the said public works depart-
ment shall establish such tolls and charges as will provide
sufficient revenue to meet any deficit; provided, that if in Proviso.
the opinion of the said pubHc works department such new
schedule of rates and charges would not result in an increase
in revenue, then it may establish such new schedule of tolls
and charges as it deems will produce the maximum revenue
and any deficits resulting therefrom shall be met as pro-
vided in section eleven. All schedules of tolls and charges Schedules of
established under this section or under section twelve shall charge subject
be subject to the approval of the department of pubhc to^approvai,
utihties. The said public works department shall collect collection of
such tolls and charges from the driver of each vehicle using toils, etc.
said tunnel, and shall daily pay the same over to the city
collector of Boston; provided, that no toll or charge shall P''°^'^o-
be collected from the drivers of vehicles owned by the city
or from drivers of ambulances.

Section 10. In addition to the full credit of the city. Certain amount
so much of all receipts from tolls and charges for or on ac- toils and*^^'^°'"
count of the use of the tunnel as are required to be expended, topTym'lntlf'^
by the provisions of this act, for the payment of the prin- principal and
cipal and interest of the bonds issued under section eight, as boud1i!'etc.
and when the same become due and payable, are hereby
pledged to such payment; and said provisions are hereby
declared to constitute contracts between the city and the
holders of said bonds within the meaning of section ten of
Article I of the constitution of the United States, and a
recital thereof shall appear on the face of said bonds.

Section 11. If at any time during the operation of the Procedure when
tunnel the receipts from tolls and charges as established toifJand™™
under section nine or twelve are insufficient to meet the sufficfenu'o''''
operating costs, including for sinking fund requirements, meet operating
however, only such amount as is required by section eight, °°®*'®*^*'-
the treasurer of the city is hereby authorized and directed
to make payments on account of the same from any funds
in the treasury of the city, including temporary tax loan
funds but excluding trust funds. If for any year ending on
the last day of June the operating costs, including for sinking
fund requirements, however, only such amount as is required
by section eight, exceed the receipts from such tolls and
charges, the said treasurer shall notify the assessors of the
city of the amount of such excess and the same amount shall
be added to the amount to be raised by the city in the next

308

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 298.

Procedure when
receipts from
tolls and
charges exceed
operating
costs, etc.

Additional
engineering
employees.

City to hold
tunnel in its
private or
proprietary
capacity, etc.

Submission
to city
council, etc.

annual tax levy. Any such amount shall be in excess of the
limit imposed by law on the amount to be raised for mu-
nicipal purposes by taxation in said city.

Section 12. Whenever as of the last day of June in any
year the receipts from tolls and charges as established under
section nine or under this section exceed the operating costs,
including sinking fund requirements on a basis of the pay-
ment of all bonds issued hereunder at the expiration of
twenty years after their respective dates, said excess shall
be transferred to the general funds of the city so far as
necessary to reimburse it for any amounts raised by taxation
under section eleven. If any such excess occurs after the
city shall have been reimbursed in full for all amounts so
raised by taxation, the public works department shall,
subject to the provisions of said section nine, establish a
reduced schedule of tolls and charges, sufficient, however, to
meet the operating costs.

Section 13. The department may engage such addi-
tional engineering employees as may in its judgment be
required and are approved by the mayor of the city.

Section 14. The city shall have, hold and enjoy in its
private or proprietary capacity, as its own property, the said
tunnel and the same shall never be taken by the common-
wealth except on payment of just compensation.

Section 15. This act shall take effect upon its accept-
ance on or before July first of the current year by vote of the
city council of the city of Boston, subject to the provisions
of its charter; but for the purpose only of such acceptance,
it shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 9, 1929.

G. L. 262, §
amended.

Fees of wit-
nesses before
certain
tribunals.

Chap. 2QS An Act establishing the fees of witnesses before cer-
tain tribunals.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloios:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty-two of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
twenty-nine and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 29. The fees for attending as a witness before
the general court, the supreme judicial court, the superior
court, the land court, a probate court or court of insolvency,
a district court, county commissioners, a trial justice, a
referee, an arbitrator, the department of industrial accidents
or the board of conciliation and arbitration, or on any other
occasion for which no express provision is made, or allowed
to persons, except the debtor, who are examined under
section eighty-two of chapter two hundred and sixteen,
unless fraudulent conduct is charged and proved against
them, shall be one dollar and fifty cents a day, and five
cents a mile for travel out and home; provided, that if the
witness has a usual place of business or employment in the
city or town where the court trial or hearing is held, travel
shall be reckoned out and to such place of business or

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 299, 300, 301. 309

employment, and not out and home. Each witness shall
certify in writing the amount of his travel and attendance.

Section 2. This act shall become operative September when operative.
first in the current year. Approved May 9, 1929.

An Act making the sale or exchange and, in certain Chap. 2^^

CASES, THE delivery OF ANY ARTICLE OF FOOD OR DRINK
OR OF CERTAIN DRUGS CONTAINING WOOD ALCOHOL A
FELONY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter two hundred and seventy of the General Laws ^j^l^-^^jo, § 4.
is hereby amended by striking out section four and inserting ''"'^" ®
in place thereof the following: — Section 4- Whoever, him- Penalty for
self, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent ehanging.Tnd,
of another, sells or exchanges, or has in his possession with |j" ,°fe^;]i,g ^'Jf^^-
intent to sell or exchange, or knowingly delivers or has in his article of food
possession with intent to deliver, any article of food or certain drugs
drink, or any drug intended for internal use, containing ^°JJ,*^'Jj|."|qi
any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, either etc.
crude or refined, under or by whatever name or trade mark
the same may be called or known, shall be punished by a fine
of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment
in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one
half years or in the state prison for not more than five years,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved May 9, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of boston to pay a sum (7/|Qr),300

OF money to the mother of FRANCIS P. o'fLAHERTY, ^'

A MINOR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of discharging a moral obli- ^,^*j: p^^y a'sum
gation, the city of Boston may pay to Mary E. O'Flaherty, of'money to the
mother of Francis P. O'Flaherty, a minor, a sum, not exceed- Fra*ncTs°p.
ing one thousand dollars, for injuries caused by shots fired by ^'^j^^^'^^'
a police officer of said city while attempting to apprehend an
alleged automobile thief, said payment to be in full dis-
charge of all obligations on the part of said city on account
of said injuries.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance submission to
during the current year by vote of the city council of said city cound. etc.
city, subject to the provisions of its charter.

Approved May 9, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of boston to pay a sum Chap.301

of money to the mother of JOSEPH p. COWAN, A MINOR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of discharging a moral ^^^^ "iy^a su°m
obligation, the city of Boston may pay to Margaret E. °fj^°p'],^yj*''
Cowan, mother of Joseph P. Cowan, a minor, a sum, not Joseph p.

Cowan, a minor.

310 Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 302, 303, 304.

exceeding five hundred dollars, for injuries caused by shots
fired by a police officer of said city while attempting to
apprehend an alleged automobile thief, said payment to be
in full discharge of all obligations on the part of said city
on account of said injuries.
ItylTounciVetc. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
during the current year by vote of the city council of said
city, subject to the provisions of its charter.

Approved May 9, 1929.

Chap. 302 An Act ratifying certain votes of the town of billerica

IN RELATION TO CERTAIN BUILDING INSPECTION LAWS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Certain votes The votes of the town of Billerica, at its annual meeting
Billerica in in the cuiTcut year, to revoke and repeal its acceptance of
certahTbuiiding the provisious of chapter six hundred and fifty-five of the
in.spection laws ^q^^ of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an act to revise
and codify the building inspection laws of the common-
wealth, and to accept the provisions of sections three and
six to twelve, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-
three of the General Laws, are hereby ratified to the same
extent as if said town had been expressly authorized by law
to pass said votes. Approved May 9, 1929.

Chav.303 An Act relative to interrogatories in civil actions.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Sniii'ded' ^ ^'' Section 1. Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
sixty-one and inserting in place thereof the following: —

SgatoHes' hi*^"^ SecUon 61 . Any party, after the entry of a writ or the filing

civil actions. of Q. bill or pctitioii, may interrogate an adverse party for the
discovery of facts and documents admissible in evidence at
the trial of the case. No party shall file as of right more
than thirty interrogatories, including interrogatories sub-
sidiary or incidental to, or dependent upon, other interroga-
tories, and however the same may be grouped, combined or
arranged; but for adequate cause shown, the court may allow
additional interrogatories to be filed. The word "party",
in this section, in sections sixty-two to sixty-five, inclusive,
and in section sixty-seven, shall be deemed to include parties
intervening or otherwise admitted after the beginning of the
suit.

Effective date. Section 2. This act shall take effect on the first day
of September in the current year.

Approved May 9, 1929.

Chap. 304: An Act further regulating the taking and possession

OF certain shellfish.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

^c ^'amei'ided*' Chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws, as
amended in section eighty-four by section two of chapter

A.CTS, 1929. — Chap. 304. 311

one hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section eighty-four and inserting in place thereof
the following: — Section 84- The aldermen or selectmen, if ^mJers^may""
so instructed by their cities or towns, may, except as provided regulate the
in sections seventy-nine to eighty-three, inclusive, control, tain fish, etc.
regulate or prohibit the taking of eels, soft-shelled clams,
quahaugs, razor fitsh, so-called, and scallops within the
same; and may grant permits prescribing the times and
methods of taking eels and such shellfish within such cities
and towns and make such other regulations in regard to
said fisheries as they deem expedient. But an inhabitant
of the commonwealth, without such permit, may take eels,
soft-shelled clams, quahaugs, razor fish, and, from October
first to the following April first, both dates inclusive, scallops,
for his own family use from the waters of his own or any
other city or town, not exceeding one half bushel of quahaugs
and of soft-shelled clams, including shells, in any one day,
or one bushel of each, including shells, in any one week, and
not exceeding one and one half bushels of scallops, including
shells, in any one week, and may take from the waters of
his own city or town any of such shellfish for bait, subject to
the general rules of the aldermen and selectmen, respectively,
as to the times and methods of taking such fish; provided, P'"°"'''^°-
that no person shall take scallops exceeding in quantity one
and one half bushels, including shells, in any one week from
the waters of any city or town by dredging without first
obtaining a written permit from the aldermen or selectmen
of such city or town. This section shall not authorize the
taking of fish in violation of the provisions of sections forty-
four and forty-five of chapter ninety-one of the Revised
Laws. Whoever takes any eels or any of said shellfish Penalty,
without such permit, and in violation of any of the foregoing
provisions of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not
less than three nor more than fifty dollars. This section ^^^51^^;^'
shall not afi"ect section one of chapter two hundred and "
fifty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

Whoever shall take or have in possession quahaugs or Penalty for

. . lskihe or DOS"

soft-shelled clams less than two inches in longest diameter sessing certain
to the amount of more than five per cent of any batch shall ^Jft-'lhefild'^
be punished by a fine of not less than three nor more than ciams, etc.
fifty dollars; provided, that it shall not be unlawful to take Proviso,
such quahaugs or soft-shelled clams or have the same in
possession under authority of a permit, which the director is
hereby authorized to grant, for replanting for seed pur-
poses in waters or flats within the commonwealth.

Approved May 9, 1929.

312

4cTS, 1929. — Chap. 305.

Chap.S05 An Act relative to boarding homes for aged persons

AND TO THE LICENSING AND SUPERVISION OF THE SAME
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

Emergency
preamble.

G. L. 121, new-
section
after § 22.

Licensing of
boarding homes
for aged per-
sons by de-
partment of
public welfare.

Rules and
regulations.

Revocation .

Supervision and
inspection.

Deposit of
bond, etc.

Penalty,

Who shall be
deemed to
maintain a
boarding home
for aged
persons, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws
is hereby amended by inserting after section twenty-two,
under the title "BOARDING HOMES FOR AGED "PER-
SONS", the following new section: ~ Section 22 A. The
department may license any suitable person to maintain a
boarding home for aged persons, may prescribe the conditions
under which such a license may be granted and may make,
and from time to time alter and amend, rules and regulations
for the government of such homes. Every license issued
under authority of this section shall be for the term of two
years, but may be revoked by the department at any time
for cause. The department shall have supervision of all
such homes and may visit and inspect the same at any time
and examine their accounts. Any person, other than a
charitable corporation hereinafter referred to, proposing to
enter into a contract to provide care incident to advanced age,
for life or for more than five years, for any person over sixty
years of age and not a member of his immediate family shall
report that fact immediately to the department and shall,
before entering into or receiving any consideration under such
contract, deposit with the state treasurer a bond in a sum
and in an amount satisfactory to the department, with
sureties approved by the state treasurer, or, in lieu thereof,
such amount of money or securities as the department de-
termines, as security for the proper care as aforesaid of such
person. Any person who maintains a boarding home for
aged persons without holding a license hereunder, and any
person licensed hereunder who violates any provision hereof,
shall for a first offence be punished by a fine of not more than
five hundred dollars and for each subsequent offence by
imprisonment for not more than two years. Whoever, under
his own name or under any other name or style, except a
charitable corporation duly incorporated under the laws of
this commonwealth, maintains a home in which three or
more persons over the age of sixty years and not members
of his immediate family are, for hire, gain or reward, by
contract as aforesaid or otherwise, provided with care incident
to advanced age shall be deemed to maintain a boarding home
for aged persons for the purposes hereof.

Approved May 10, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 306, 307. 313

An Act relative to appointment to civil service posi- Chap. 306

TIONS AS AFFECTED BY CONVICTION OF CRIME.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in part p^^^S!^
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the pubhc convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, as amended in *^'- ^^f^^^'A^^
section seventeen by chapter thirty-six of the acts of nine- *" °' ^™^" '^
teen hundred and twenty-two, is hereby further amended by
striking out said section seventeen and inserting in place
thereof the following: — Section 17. No person habitually ^®^gf,"giP^?"bie
using intoxicating liquors to excess shall be appointed, em- for appointment
ployed or retained in any position to which this chapter ""rv-ce'ilws.
applies, nor shall any person be appointed or employed in
any such position within one year after his conviction of any
crime against the laws of the commonwealth; provided, that p^^'so-
the commissioner may in his discretion authorize the appoint-
ment or employment, within said year, of a person convicted
of any of the following offences: — (1) a violation of any
rule or regulation made under section thirty-one of chapter
ninety; (2) a violation of any provision of said chapter ninety
relating to motor vehicles, except those of sections twenty-
three to twenty-five, inclusive; (3) any other offence for
which the sole punishment imposed was (a) a fine of less than
one hundred dollars, (6) a sentence to imprisonment in a
jail or house of correction for less than six months, with such
a fine or without any fine, or (c) a sentence to any other penal
institution under which the actual time served was less than
six months, with such a fine or without any fine.

Approved May 10, 1929.

An Act relative to the listing of voters in the city of Chap.307

CAMBRIDGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section twelve of chapter two hundred and eighty-two i9i| (G^) 282.
of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended.
affected and amended by chapter two hundred and thirty-
nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is
hereby further amended by striking out the third paragraph
and inserting in place thereof the following: — If the board voter"^in^city
of election commissioners, after investigation and report of Cambridge.
by the chief of poHce or a police officer detailed by him, is
satisfied that such statements are true, it shall give the
appHcant a certificate that he was a resident of said city on
said first day of April, or a certificate that he became a
resident at least six months immediately preceding the
election, as the case may be, which certificate shall state his
name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April

314

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 308.

in the current year or on the above date, as the case may be,
and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding
year; but no such apphcation shall be received, and no such
person shall be listed or be given said certificate, between the
twentieth day preceding, and the day following, a state or
municipal election. Approved May 10, 1929.

Chap

G. L.32, § 89,
etc., amended.

Payment of
annuities to
dependents of
policemen or
firemen liilled,
or dying from
injuries re-
ceived, in
performance
of duty.

308 An Act relative to the payment of compensation to
dependent fathers and mothers of policemen and
firemen who are killed in the performance of duty.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, as
amended in section eighty-nine by section three of chapter
five hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four and by section one of chapter four hundred
and two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
is hereby further amended by striking out said section
eighty-nine and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 89. If a member of the police or fire force of a city
or town which accepts this section, or a member of the
department of public safety doing police duty, is killed, or
dies within six months from injuries received, while in the
performance of his duty as such member and it shall be
proved to the satisfaction of the mayor and city council or
selectmen, or of the commissioner of public safety subject
to the approval of the governor and council, as the case may
be, that such death was the natural and proximate result
of an accident occurring during the performance and within
the scope of his duty as such member, and the attending
physician or medical examiner shall certify to the city, town
or state treasurer, as the case may be, that the death was
the direct result of the said injury, there shall be paid except
as hereinafter provided, out of the city, town or state treas-
ury, as the case may be, to the following dependents of such
deceased person the following annuities: To the widow, so
long as she remains unmarried, an annuity not exceeding one
thousand dollars a year, increased by not exceeding two
hundred dollars for each child of such deceased person
during such time as such child is under the age of eighteen
or over said age and physically or mentally incapacitated
from earning; and, if there is any such child and no widow
or the widow later dies, such an annuity as would have
been payable to the widow had there been one or had she
lived, to or for the benefit of such child, or of such children
in equal shares, during the time aforesaid; and, if there is
any such child and the widow remarries, in lieu of the
aforesaid annuity to her, an annuity not exceeding two
hundred and sixty dollars to or for the benefit of each such
child during the time aforesaid; and, if there is no widow and
no such child, an annuity not exceeding one thousand dollars
to or for the benefit of the father or mother of the deceased

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 308. 315

if dependent upon him for support at the time of his death,
during such time as such beneficiary is unable to support
himself or herself and does not remarry. The total amount
of all such annuities shall not exceed two thirds of the
annual rate of compensation received by such deceased
person at the date of his death. The amount of any such ^f®amS™unn°c
annuity shall from time to time be determined within the
limits aforesaid by the mayor and city council, the select-
men, or the commissioner of public safety subject to the
approval of the governor and council, as the case may be.

In case the deceased was a member of a contributory re- Election of
tirement system for public employees, the benefits provided deceased'war^
under this section shall be in the alternative for the benefits, ^Xibutw^
if any, provided by such retirement system for dependent retirement
widows and children or for dependent fathers or mothers; ^y^^^m, etc.
and the widow, or if there is no widow, the legal representa-
tive of the children entitled thereto, if any, otherwise the
father or mother in the order named, shall elect which
benefits shall be granted. Such election shall be made in Election to be
writing and shall be filed with the retirement board i^ '"^" "^^'^ °'
charge of the system of which the deceased was a member and
shall not be subject to change or revocation after the first
payment of any benefit thereunder.

Section 2. Said chapter thirty-two, as amended in g. l. 32, § 71,
section seventy-one by section three of chapter four hundred «*<=•• ^^nended.
and eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
one and by section two of said chapter four hundred and
two, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
seventy-one and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 71. Subject to the requirement of election set Payment of

.J T r 1 ■ • ^ j_ • T annuities to

forth m the last paragraph oi section eighty-nme, ii any dependents of
permanent or call officer of said police department is killed policew'fed!
or dies within six months from injuries received while in ",■,'• ui^/j'/j.g™"'
the performance of his duty as such officer and it shall be ceived, in
proved to the satisfaction of the commission that such oFduty,''"*'^
death was the natural and proximate result of an accident subject, etc.
occurring during the performance and within the scope of
his duty as such officer and the attending physician or
medical examiner shall certify to the state treasurer that
the death was the direct result of the said injury, there shall
be paid to the following dependents of such deceased officer
the following annuities: To the widow, so long as she re-
mains unmarried, an annuity not exceeding one thousand
dollars a year, increased by not exceeding two hundred
dollars for each child of such deceased person during such
time as such child is under the age of eighteen or over said
age and physically or mentally incapacitated from earning;
and, if there is any such child and no widow or the widow
later dies, such an annuity as would have been payable to
the widow had there been one or had she lived, to or for
the benefit of such child, or of such children in equal shares,
during the time aforesaid; and, if there is any such child
and the widow remarries, in lieu of the aforesaid annuity

316

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 309.

Determination
of amount, etc.

T'rovisions of
G. L., 32, §89,
in effect in any
city or town,
to continue in
force until ac-
ceptance by
such city or
town of § 89 as
amended
by this act.

1928, 402, § 8,
amended.

to her, an annuity not exceeding two hundred and sixty
dollars to or for the benefit of each such child during the
time aforesaid; and, if there is no widow and no such child,
an annuity not exceeding one thousand dollars to or for the
benefit of the father or mother of the deceased if dependent
upon him for support at the time of his death, during such
time as such beneficiary is unable to support himself or
herself and does not remarry. The total amount of all
such annuities shall not exceed two thirds of the annual rate
of compensation received by such deceased officer at the date
of his death. The amount of any such annuity shall, from
time to time, be determined within the limits aforesaid by
the said commission. The provisions of this and the two
preceding sections as to pensions or annuities for disability
or death resulting from injuries received in the performance
of duty shall apply to officers assigned to duty under the
commissioner of public safety as provided in section four
of chapter one hundred and forty-seven.

Section 3. The provisions of said section eighty-nine,
as in effect in any city or town immediately prior to the
effective date of this act, shall, notwithstanding the pro-
visions of this act, continue in full force and effect therein
until the acceptance by such city or town of said section
eighty-nine, as amended by this act.

Section 4. Section eight of said chapter four hundred
and two is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence.

Approved May 10, 1929.

Chap.S09 A-N Act regulating the salaries of the mayor and city

COUNCILLORS IN CITIES OPERATING UNDER PLAN D OF THE
STANDARD FORMS OF CITY CHARTERS.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would, in part,
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 43, § 88,
amended.

Section eighty-eight of chapter forty-three of the General
Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the second line,
the word "two" and inserting in place thereof the word: —
three, — by striking out, in the seventh and eighth lines,
the words "five hundred" and inserting in place thereof the
words: — seven hundred and fifty, — and by adding at the
end thereof the following new sentence : — Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this section, the initial establish-
ment of the salaries of the mayor and other city councillors
after the adoption of plan D may take effect in the year
when established and in accordance with the vote establish-
fn cTty opTr-''°' Jng the Same, — so as to read as follows: — Section 88. The
ating under mayor shall receive for his services such salary as the city
standard forms couucil shall by Ordinance determine, not exceeding three
of city charters, j^hgusand dollars, and shall receive no other compensation

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 310, 311. 317

from the city. His salary shall not be increased or diminished
during the term for which he is elected.

The council may by a vote of not less than three members, Salary of city
taken by yeas and nays, establish a salary for its members, ''°""''' °"-
not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars each. Such
salary may be reduced, but no increase therein shall be made
to take effect during the year in which the increase is voted.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section,
the initial establishment of the salaries of the mayor and
other city councillors after the adoption of plan D may take
effect in the year when established and in accordance with the
vote establishing the same. Approved May 11, 1929.

An Act authorizing certain expenditures for flori- Chav.ZlO

CULTURAL RESEARCH AT THE MARKET GARDEN FIELD
station in WALTHAM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

For the construction and equipping of buildings at the Massachusetts
market garden field station in Waltham, to be used for the coUeg^emay
purposes of floricultural research, there may be expended, tamsumfor'
under the direction of the trustees of the Massachusetts floHcuiturai
agricultural college, such sum, not exceeding fifteen thousand marke*t garden
dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated. fnWaithim

Approved May 11, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of tewksbury to supply Chav.^W

ITSELF AND ITS INHABITANTS WITH WATER, AND TO BUY
WATER FROM OR SELL W^ATER TO THE TOWNS OF WILMING-
TON AND ANDOVER, THE CITY OF LOWELL AND THE COM-
MONWEALTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Tewksbury may supply itself lewksbury
and its inhabitants with water for the extinguishment of may supply
fires and for domestic and other purposes; may estabhsh inj^ahit"ntV
fountains and hydrants, relocate or discontinue the same, ^'"^^ '^'^^^^' ^^'^■
and may regulate the use of such water and fix and collect
rates to be paid for the use of the same.

Section 2. The said town, for the purposes aforesaid, or^'a^cquTre, *'*''^
may lease, or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy- certain waters

• !• A^ /-~\ IT • t u xl- within limits

nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or other- of town.
wise, and hold, the waters, or any portion thereof, of any
pond, brook, spring or stream or of any ground water sources
by means of driven or other wells or filter galleries, within
the limits of said town, and the water rights and water
sources connected therewith; provided, that the amount of Proviso,
water which may be taken shall from time to time be deter-
mined by vote of the town; and also may take by eminent
domain under said chapter seventy-nine, or acquire by pur-
chase or otherwise, and hold, all lands, rights of way and
easements necessary for collecting and storing such water and

318

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 311.

Proviso.

May erect
proper dams,
buildings, etc.

May construct
wells, lay con-
duits, pipes, etc.

Restrictions as
to entry upon
railroad lo-
cations, etc.

Town may
buy water from
or sell water
to the common-
wealth, or to
any munici-
pality men-
tioned in § 10,
etc.

Control, etc., of
property by
board of water
commissioners.

Recovery of
damages.

Proviso.

protecting and preserving the purity thereof and for con-
veying the same to any part of said town; provided, that
no source of water supply and no lands necessary for pro-
tecting and preserving the purity of the water shall be taken
without first obtaining the advice and approval of the depart-
ment of public health, and that the location of all dams,
reservoirs, wells or filter galleries, filtration plants or other
works to be used as sources of water supply under this act
shall be subject to the approval of said department. Said
town may construct and may erect on the lands taken or
held under the provisions of this act proper dams, reservoirs,
pumping and filtration plants, buildings, standpipes, fix-
tures and other structures, and may make excavations,
procure and operate machinery and provide such other
means and appliances and do such other things as may be
necessary for the establishment and maintenance of complete
and effective water works; and for that purpose may con-
struct wells and reservoirs, establish pumping works and
lay down and maintain conduits, pipes and other works,
under or over any lands, water courses, railroads, railways,
or public or private ways, and along any such way in said
town, in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the
same; and for the purpose of constructing, laying, main-
taining, operating and repairing such conduits, pipes and
other works, and for all other proper purposes of this act,
said town may dig up or raise and embank any such lands,
highways or other ways in such manner as to cause the least
hindrance to public travel thereon. Said town shall not
enter upon, construct or lay any conduits, pipes or other
works within the locations of any railroad corporation except
at such time and in such manner as it may agree upon with
such corporation or in case of failure so to agree as may be
approved by the department of public utilities.

Said town may sell water to the commonwealth, or to any
municipality, or to the inhabitants thereof, mentioned in
section ten, or purchase it from the commonwealth or any
such municipality for such periods of time, in such manner,
on such terms and conditions and in such amounts as said
town may from time to time by vote determine, and for the
purpose aforesaid the said town, by its board of water com-
missioners, hereinafter provided for, may make a contract or
contracts for a term or terms not to exceed fifteen years from
the date thereof.

Section 3. The land, water rights and other property
taken or acquired under this act, and all works, buildings and
other structures erected or constructed thereunder, shall be
managed, improved and controlled by the board of water
commissioners hereinafter provided for, in such manner as
they shall deem for the best interest of the town.

Section 4. Any person or corporation injured in his or
its property by any action of said town or board under this
act may recover damages from said town under said chapter
seventy-nine; provided, that the right to damages for the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 311. 319

taking of any water, water source or water right, or any
injury thereto, shall not vest until the water is actually
withdrawn or diverted by said town under authority of this
act.

Section 5. Said town may, for the purpose of paying Town may issue
the necessary expenses and liabilities incurred or to be in- ^o"*^*- ^^°-
curred under the provisions of this act, issue from time to
time bonds or notes to an amount, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, three hundred thousand dollars, which shall bear
on their face the words, Town of Tewksbury Water Loan, Town of
Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a sepa- wlT^^Loan,
rate loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more than ^ct of 1929.
thirty years from their dates. Indebtedness incurred under
this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall,
except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four
of the General Laws.

Section 6. Said town shall, at the time of authorizing Payment
said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in accord- °^ '°'*"' ^^°-
ance with the provisions of section five; and when a vote to
that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income
derived from the water rates, will be sufficient to pay the
annual expense of operating the water works and interest
as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid, and to
make such payments on the principal as may be required
under the provisions of this act, shall without further vote
be assessed by the assessors of the town annually thereafter
in the same manner as other taxes, until the debt incurred
by the said loan or loans is extinguished.

Section 7. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, Penalty for
pollutes or diverts any of the waters taken or held under this water.'etc
act, or injures any structure, work or other property owned,
held or used by said town under the authority and for the
purposes of this act, shall forfeit and pay to said town three
times the amount of damages assessed therefor, to be re-
covered in an action of tort; and upon conviction of any one
of the above wilful or wanton acts shall be punished by a fine
of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment
for not more than one year.

Section 8. The said town shall, after its acceptance of fommisJiJnMs!
this act, at the same meeting at which the act is accepted or election,
at a meeting called for the purpose, elect by ballot three ''™'*' ^ "'
persons to hold office, one until the expiration of three years,
one until the expiration of two years, and one until the
expiration of one year, from the next succeeding annual town
meeting, to constitute a board of water commissioners; and
at the annual town meeting held on the day on which the
shortest of such terms expires, and at each annual town
meeting thereafter, one such commissioner shall be elected by
ballot for the term of three years. All the authority granted
to the town by this act, except sections five and six and except
as otherwise specially provided, shall be vested in said board
of water commissioners, who shall be subject however to such
instructions, rules and regulations as said town may impose

320

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 311.

Quorum.

Vacancy,
how filled.

To fix water
rates, etc.

Net surplus,
how to be used

Annual,
etc., reports.

Rate at which
town of Tewks-
bury may
furnish water
to towns of
Wilmington
and Andover
and city of
Lowell to be
agreed upon,
etc.

For purpose
of supplying
water, town of
Tewksbury
may extend
its water pipes
and mains, etc.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc.

by its vote. A majority of said commissioners shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Any
vacancy occurring in said board from any cause may be filled
for the remainder of the unexpired term by said town at any
town meeting called for the purpose. Any such vacancy may
be filled temporarily in the manner provided by section
eleven of chapter forty-one of the General Laws, and the
person so appointed shall perform the duties of the office
until the next annual meeting of said town or until another
person is qualified.

Section 9. Said commissioners shall fix just and equi-
table prices and rates for the use of water, and shall prescribe
the time and manner of payment. The income of the water
works shall be appropriated to defray all operating expenses,
interest charges and payments on the principal as they
accrue upon any bonds or notes issued for water supply pur-
poses. If there should be a net surplus remaining after pro-
viding for the aforesaid charges it shall be appropriated for
such new construction as the water commissioners, with the
approval of the town, may determine upon, and in case a
surplus should remain after payment for such new construc-
tion the water rates shall be reduced proportionately. All
authority vested in said commissioners by the foregoing
provisions of this section and by section three shall be sub-
ject to the provisions of section eight. Said commissioners
shall annually, and as often as the town may require, render
a report upon the condition of the works under their charge
and an account of their doings, including an account of
receipts and expenditures.

Section 10. The town of Tewksbury may furnish and
sell water to the towns of Wilmington and Andover and the
city of Lowell, or any of them, or to the inhabitants of any
such town or city, at a rate to be mutually agreed upon, at
the boundary line between said town of Tewksbury and such
town or city except as provided in section eleven; and said
town of Tewksbury may, at its own expense, extend within
its limits its water mains and install other fixtures necessary
to supply water to said towns and city, or any of them, or
to the inhabitants thereof, or to the commonwealth, and said
towns and city, or any of them, may extend their water
mains and install other fixtures necessary or proper to re-
ceive and distribute such water.

Section 1L The town of Tewksbury, with the consent
of the board or official having charge of the ways of any
adjoining city or town, and for the purpose of supplying
itself or any such city or town or the inhabitants thereof
with water, may extend its water pipes and mains through
or under any way of such city or town, and install such
fixtures therein as may be necessary.

Section 12. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
by a majority of the voters of the town of Tewksbury present
and voting thereon at a town meeting called for the purpose
within three years after its passage; but the number of meet-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 312. 321

ings so called in any year shall not exceed three; and for the
purpose only of being submitted to the voters of said town
as aforesaid this act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 13, 1929.

Chap.312

An Act to prohibit or regulate the discharge of
sewage or other polluting matter into the coastal
waters of barnstable, dukes and nantucket counties.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The department of public health, hereinafter Department
called the department, is hereby authorized and directed to may'^prohibTt*^
prohibit the entrance or discharge into or on any of the tidal or regulate the
waters and flats in the counties of Barnstable, Dukes and sewage, etc.
Nantucket, or the tributaries of such waters, of sewage or waters?/^'
any other substance which might be injurious to the public Barnstable,
health or might tend to contaminate any of said tidal waters Nantucket
or flats from which shellfish are taken. counties.

Section 2. The supreme judicial court or any justice court en-
thereof, and the superior court or any justice thereof, shall fo»cement, etc.
have jurisdiction in equity to enforce the provisions of this
act and any order made by the department in conformity
therewith. Proceedings to enforce any such order shall be Proceedings,
instituted and prosecuted by the attorney general upon the •'n^gt^tutS
request of the department.

Section 3. Whoever permits the entrance or discharge Penalty,
into or on any part of said waters or flats, or the tributaries
of such waters, of sewage or any other substance injurious to
the public health or tending to contaminate any area from
which shellfish are taken shall be punished by a fine of not
more than five hundred dollars.

Section 4. In carrying out the provisions of this act, No interference
the department shall not interfere with any prescriptive rcripttver^ght
right of drainage existing on the effective date of this act, °^ig[f,Igo"n
nor shall said department prohibit the use of any sewer or effective date
drain or any outlet thereof existing on said effective date ° ^"^ ■^^■
unless authorized by law so to do.

Section 5. The department shall, of its own motion or Department
at the request of the officials of any town in or near which otiiSaTs^of Tny'
said waters or flats are situated or of any factory or other asTobe'stmeaM
establishment situated on or near said waters and flats, of rendering
consult and advise with said officials as to the best practicable sewagrfrom*
and reasonably available means of rendering harmless the ggt'^'bfi^hment
sewage, waste or refuse from such town or establishment.
In any case wherein the department determines that the
best practicable and reasonably available means of disposing
of such sewage, waste or refuse is to discharge the same into
tidal waters from which shellfish are taken for use as bait
only, the provisions of this act shall not apply.

Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May I4, 1929.

322

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 313, 314.

G. L. 90, § 19,
etc., amended.

Restrictions as
to dimensions
of motor ve-
hicles and
trailers.

Chap. 313 An Act relative to the dimensions of motor vehicles

AND TRAILERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter ninety of the General Laws, as amended in sec-
tion nineteen by section one of chapter one hundred and
eighty of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five and
by chapter seventy-two of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section nineteen and inserting in place thereof the
following: — Section 19. No motor vehicle or trailer, the
outside width of which is more than ninety-six inches or
the extreme over-all length of which is more than twenty-
eight feet, shall be operated on any way without a special
permit so to operate from the board or officer having charge
of such way or, in case of a state highway or a way deter-
mined by the department of public works to be a through
route, from said department; provided, that such width
may be exceeded by the lateral projection of pneumatic
tires beyond the rims of the wheels for such distance on
either side of the vehicle or trailer as will not increase its
outside width above one hundred and two inches; and pro-
vided, further, that the extreme over-all length of such a
vehicle or trailer when used in localities or on ways desig-
nated by the said department may exceed twenty-eight feet
but not thirty-three feet, and that, when used for the trans-
portation of poles or single units of lumber or metal, such
length may exceed twenty-eight feet but not sixty feet,
except as authorized by a special permit granted as aforesaid.
The aforesaid dimensions of width and length shall be in-
clusive of the load. Approved May 14, 1929.

Proviso.

Dimensions to
include load.

Chav.ZlAi An Act further extending the time for completing

the RAILROAD OF THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD
CORPORATION, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The time within which the Southern New
England Railroad Corporation or its successor may com-
plete and open its railroad for use is hereby further extended
to April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty, subject,
however, to the conditions set forth in section one of chapter
one hundred and seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, which conditions are hereby declared to be
binding upon all successors to said corporation.

Section 2. This act shall not take effect unless its pro-
visions are accepted by vote of the board of directors of
said corporation or its successor, and an attested copy of
such vote is filed with the state secretary within thirty days
after such acceptance; provided, that this act shall be void
and of no effect unless said corporation or its successor shall,
prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-

Extension of

time for com-
pleting railroad
of Southern
New England
Railroad Cor-
poration, etc.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 315, 316. 323

nine, repair to the satisfaction of the state department of
pubhc works the bridges which carry pubhc highways over
its location within the commonwealth.

Approved May 14, 1929.

An Act regulating the dealing in stock of trust com- (7/ia».315

PANIES AND NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATIONS BY SAVINGS
BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES IN THEIR SAVINGS DEPART-
MENTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Clause seventh of section fifty-four of chap- g.l. les, §54,
ter one hundred and sixty-eight of the General Laws is hereby a'mende'd.'^'
amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting
in place thereof the following: — Seventh, In the stock of a Dealing in

,. • jiiiii c 11- stock of trust

trust company incorporated under the laws 01 and domg companies and
business within this commonwealth, or in the stock of a rng'as"oci'^troM
national banking association located in the New England by savings
states and incorporated under the authority of the United companfes in"*
States, which has paid dividends of not less than four per departments,
cent thereon in cash in each of the five years next preceding regulated.
the date of such investment and the amount of whose sur-
plus is at least equal to fifty per cent of its capital; but a
savings bank shall not hold, both by way of investment and
as security for loans, more than twenty-five per cent of the
stock of any one such company or association, nor shall it
hold by way of investment stock of such companies and
associations having an aggregate initial cost in excess of
fifteen per cent of the deposits of such savings bank, or stock
of any one such company or association having an initial
cost in excess of one per cent of the deposits aforesaid.

Section 2. Investments by a savings bank or by a Certain invest-
trust company in its savings department in the stock of any dated, etc!'
one trust company or national banking association made
prior to the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, amounting in aggregate par value to not exceeding
one hundred thousand dollars, if otherwise valid, are hereby
validated. This act shall not invalidate any investment in
the stock of such a company or association legally made
prior to the effective date hereof.

Approved May 15, 1929.

An Act relative to the jurisdiction of district courts (7/ia7?.316

FOR civil business.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and eighteen of the G.L.218, §19,
General Laws, as amended in section nineteen by section ®*'=''^'"^" ® •
twelve A of chapter five hundred and thirty-two of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-two and by section one
of chapter fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section nineteen and inserting in place thereof the fol-

324

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 316.

District courts.

Civil jurisdic-
tion in general.

G. L. 218, §20,
etc., amended.

District courts.

Writs of
scire facias.

G. L.231, § 104,
amended.

Removal from
Boston mu-
nicipal court.

Claims of trial
by jury, etc.

lowing: — Section 19. District courts shall have original
jurisdiction concurrent with the superior court of actions of
contract, tort and replevin, and also of actions in summary
process under chapter two hundred and thirty-nine and
proceedings under section forty-one of chapter two hundred
and thirty-one.

Section 2. Section twenty of said chapter two hundred
and eighteen, as amended by section two of said chap-
ter fifty-seven, is hereby further amended by striking out
the last sentence, — so as to read as follows: — Section 20.
District courts may issue writs of scire facias against execu-
tors and administrators upon a suggestion of waste after a
judgment against them and also against bail taken in a civil
action before them, and proceed to judgment and execution
as the superior court might do in like cases. Such writs
shall be served not less than seven days before the return
day, which shall be not more than sixty days after the date
thereof.

Section 3. Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
one hundred and four and inserting in place thereof the
following: — Section IO4. No other party to such action
shall be entitled to an appeal. In lieu thereof, in any
such action in which the debt or damages demanded or
the value of the property detained does not exceed the
jurisdictional limit of said municipal court effective im-
mediately prior to September first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, any such party may, within two days after the
time allowed for entering his appearance, file in said court
a claim of trial by jury, and an affidavit by his counsel of
record, if any, and if none, the affidavit of such party, that
in his opinion there is an issue of fact requiring trial in the
cause, and that such trial is in good faith intended, together
with the sum of three dollars for the entry of the cause in
the superior court, and a bond in the penal sum of one
hundred dollars, with such surety or sureties as may be ap-
proved by the plaintiff or the clerk or an assistant clerk of
said municipal court, payable to the other party or parties
to the cause, conditioned to satisfy any judgment for costs
which may be entered against him in the superior court in
said cause within thirty days after the entry thereof; and,
in lieu of such an appeal in any such action in which the
debt or damages demanded or the value of the property
detained exceeds the jurisdictional limit as aforesaid, any
such party may, within two days after the time allowed for
entering his appearance, file in said court a claim of trial
as to all parties by the superior court, with or without jury,
and an affidavit by his counsel of record, if any, and if none,
the affidavit of such party, that in his opinion there is an
issue of fact or law requiring trial in the cause, and that such
trial is in good faith intended, together with the sum of three
dollars for the entry of the cause in the superior court, and
a bond as hereinbefore provided. The clerk shall forth-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 317. 325

with transmit the papers and entry fee in the cause to the
clerk of the superior court, and the same shall proceed as
though then originally entered there, but, if a trial by jury
is claimed, may be marked for trial upon the lists of causes
advanced for speedy trial by jury.

Section 4. In construing said section one hundred and ^cfionaiTimit
four, as applying to district courts other than the mu- of said munic-
nicipal court of the city of Boston under the provisions of s^airmwin in
section one hundred and ten A of said chapter two hun- construing §io4.
dred and thirty-one, the words "jurisdictional limit of said
municipal court" shall mean the jurisdictional limit of such
other district courts.

Section 5. This act shall become operative on September when operative,
first of the current year. Approved May 15, 1929.

An Act providing for the dredging by the department Chap.S17

OF PUBLIC WORKS OF COMMERCIAL POINT CHANNEL IN
DORCHESTER BAY, OF A CHANNEL LEADING FROM SAID
CHANNEL TO THE LANDING OF THE DORCHESTER YACHT
CLUB AND OF CERTAIN FLATS IN SAVIN HILL BAY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The department of public works is hereby authorized and °ubiic*woHi*s°^
directed to dredge Commercial Point channel in Dorchester may dredge
bay, between Commercial Point and the tracks of the New poi^rchannei
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, for a width of not baj^a'^chlnnei
less than one hundred feet on the bottom and to a depth of 'wading from
not less than twelve feet at mean low water, to dredge the to'theitnding
channel leading from said Commercial Point channel to the chMter^a'cht
landing of the Dorchester Yacht Club for a width of not less ciub and .
than fifty feet on the bottom and not less than six feet deep slvfn'kiu bay.
at mean low water, and to dredge the flats, in that part of
Dorchester bay known as Savin Hill bay, adjacent to the
fining made for the Old Colony boulevard and on both sides
of said Commercial Point channel to a depth of three feet at
mean low water, the area on the northerly side of said channel
being located between said Old Colony boulevard and the
bathing beach at Savin Hill playground and the area on the
southerly side of said channel being located between said
Old Colony boulevard and the channel leading to the landing
of the Dorchester Yacht Club, said dredging to be not nearer
than a distance of seventy feet from the present high water
line at the filling made for said Old Colony boulevard.
Subject to appropriation, said department may expend for Expenditure,
the purposes of this act the sum of one hundred forty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars, which sum shall be appor-
tioned as follows: — From the port of Boston receipts,
twenty-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars,
and the remainder to be considered as a part of the cost
of the Old Colony boulevard, so-called, and to be divided
as follows: — fifty-nine thousand six hundred eighty-seven
dollars and fifty cents from the Highway Fund, and fifty-nine
thousand six hundred eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents

326

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 318, 319.

to be assessed upon the cities and towns of the metropoHtan
parks district in proportion to the respective taxable valua-
tions of the property of said cities and towns, as defined in
section fifty-nine of chapter ninety-two of the General Laws.

Approved May 15, 1929.

G. L.9, § 1,
amended.

State secretary,
salary, etc.

Chap.Z\S An Act establishing the salary of the secretary of

THE commonwealth AND PROHIBITING THE COLLECTION
OF CERTAIN FEES IN HIS DEPARTMENT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter nine of the General
Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the third line,
the word "six" and inserting in place thereof the word: —
seven, — so as to read as follows : — Section 1 . There shall
be a department of the state secretary under his supervision
and control, organized as provided in this chapter. The
state secretary shall receive a salary of seven thousand
dollars. He shall make a quarterly return on oath to the
governor and council of all fees of office received by him,
and give to the state treasurer a bond, in a penal sum and
with sureties approved by the governor and council, con-
ditioned satisfactorily to account for all money received
by him in his official capacity.

Section 2. Section three of chapter two hundred and
twenty-two of the General Laws is hereby amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new sentence : — Neither
the state secretary, nor any officer or employee in his de-
partment, acting as such a commissioner shall charge any
fee for administering such an oath.

Section 3. The increase in salary provided for by this
act shall not take effect until an appropriation has been
made sufficient to cover the same and then as of June first
in the current year. Approved May 15, 1929.

G. L. 222, § 3,
amended.

Collection of
certain fees
prohibited.

When to
take effect.

C/iap.319

Emergency
preamble.

An Act dissolving certain corporations.

Whereas, It is necessary that certain delinquent and other
corporations be dissolved before April first in the current
year, therefore this act is hereby declared to be an emergency
law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
convenience.

Certain cor-
porations
dissolved.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Such of the following named corporations as
are not already legally dissolved are hereby dissolved, sub-
ject to the provisions of sections fifty-one and fifty-two of
chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the General Laws : —

A. & H. Dress Co., A. Bonfigho Company, A. C. Holmes,
Inc., A. C. Lewis Leather Company, A. Doda Co., Inc.,
A. E. Copp Company, A. F. Bourque, Inc., A. F. Wastcoat,
Incorporated, A. Fisher & Son, Inc., A. H. Atwood Co.,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 327

A. H. Tutin Co. Inc., A. Hankey & Company, Incorporated, ^^1^'^^^°'"
A. J. Bates Company, A. J. Beaumier Company, A. J. Com- disaoived.
pany, A. L. Sayles & Sons Company, A-1 Painting and
Decorating Co., Inc., A. Skolnik, Inc., A. T. Stuart Realty
Corporation, A. W. Rogers Electric Company, Inc., Abbott
Realty Company, Aberdeen Laundry Company, Acme Motor
Devices Company, Acme Shoe Co. Inc., Adams Warehouse
Co., Adaskin Furniture Company of Worcester, Advance
Aircraft Company, Aerial Advertising, Inc., Aero Inn As-
sociates, Inc., Al-By Garage Company, Al. Knox Shoe Co.
Inc., Alan Shepard & Co., Inc., Alba Restaurant, Inc.,
Albert E. Heustis, Incorporated, Albert F. Baldwin Com-
pany Inc., Albert's Incorporated, Aldemite Roofing & Paint-
ing Company, Alexander Strauss Incorporated, Alexander's
Fashion Shop, Inc., Alfred Securities Corp., All Metal
Company, Inc., AU-Nu Products Co., Allen Sales Com-
pany, Incorporated, Alta Clothing, Inc. of Boston, Alton
Footwear, Inc., Altshuler Raincoat Company, Alwood Oil
Burner Company, The, American Fancier and Stockkeeper
Company, The, American Finance Company, American
Horsemobile Company, American Liberty Loan Co., Inc.,
American Linseed Company, American National-Security
Company, American Optical Company do Brazil, American
Players Film Company, American Reclamation Company,
American Record Manufacturing Co., American Sand Blast
Company of Boston, American Solvents & Chemical Corpo-
ration of Massachusetts, American Storage Battery Com-
pany, The, American Storage Warehouse Co., American
Wet Wash Laundry Company, The, Ames Nowell, Incorpo-
rated, Amesbury Seat Mfg. Company, Ancienne France,
Ltd. of Salem, Mass., Ancona Company, The, Anderson Fire
Brick Company, Angus Engineering Company, Incorporated,
Annite Products of New England, Inc., The, Anthony B.
Cassedy Inc., Anthony H. Brackett & Co., Inc., Appliance
Merchandising Corporation, Arcade Finance Corporation,
Arco Insurance Agency, Inc., Arkayar Rubber Products
Corp., Arnold J. Booth Realty Co., Arrow Haulage Com-
pany, Art-Line Shoe Co., Arthur F. Bent Company, Arthur
T. McGilvreay Co., Ashfield Co-operative Creamery As-
sociation, The, Ashland Manufacturing Company, Ashley
Read Equipment Company, Ashmont Motor Company, Asia
Sales Company, Inc., Associated Building Crafts, Inc.,
Associated Contractor, Inc., The, Associated First National
Pictures of New England, Inc., Associated Growers of
Sterling Apples, Inc., Associated Producers, Inc., Associated
Tire Corporation, Atkinson Shoe Company, Atlantic Cone
Company, The, Atlantic Market Co., Inc., Atlantic Oil
Corporation, Atlantic States Warehouse & Cold Storage
Company, Atlantic Tire Company, Atlas Auto Service
Corporation, Atumba Minerals Corporation, August E.
Francini & Co., Inc., Austin Baldwin & Co., Inc., Auto
Rental, Inc., Automatic Credit Company, The, Automatic
Ordnance L't'd., Automobile Accessory and Radio Com-

328 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain cor- pany, Avoii Lumber Company, The, Ayer I^rivate Hospital,

di'sToVved. Incorporated, Ayer Tanning Company.

B. & B. Company, B & G Realty Company, B & J Phar-
mac}^ Inc., B & M Construction Company, B and S Shop,
Inc., The, B and X Lunch, Inc., B. B. & R. Knight, Inc., B.
J. & A. B. Theatre Corporation, B. J. Brimmer Company,
B. Silverman & Son, Inc., Back Bay Auto Renting Company,
Back Bay Public Market Co., Balcom and Dion Inc., Bank-
ers Discount Corporation, Bankers Realty Company,
Barnard Brothers Company, Barnet Leather Co., Inc. of
Massachusetts, Barron Cohen Co., Bass Point Company,
Bay State Auto Repair Co. Inc., Bay State Brick & Stone
Co., Bay State Garter Company, Bay State Research &
Manufacturing Co., Inc., Bay State Rubber Co., Bay State
Wall Paper Company, Bay State Yellow Cab Co. of Chelsea,
Bazley Engineering Co., Inc., Beacon Creamery Company,
Beacon Dry Goods System Inc., Beacon Rathskellar, Inc.,
Beacon Undergarment Co., Bean Construction Co., Incor-
porated, Beatrice Creamery Company, Beauty Top Lift
Company, Beaver Drug Company, Becker Fur Co., Inc.,
The, Beckwith Motor Company, Bedford Woolen Mills,
Beede, Inc., Belding-Hall Electrice Corporation of New
England, Belger Company, Inc., The, Belleaire, Incorporated,
Bellingham Shoe Manufacturing Company, The, Bellow
Drug Store Incorporated, Belmont Nash Co., Inc., Belmont
Spa Inc., Belvidere Woolen Company, Benchley Brothers,
Inc., Bender, Wickstrom & Company, Inc., Benj. Pope &
Edgar W. Cottle, Inc., Bentwood Novelty Company,
Berkeley Construction Co. Inc., Berkshire Company, The,
Bernard Motor Company, Bernhard-Crowe Manufacturing
Company, Bernstein-Kramer Company, Bethel-Player Co.
Inc., Better Service Company, Bickford Operating Corpora-
tion, Billings Dental Company, Bilt-Rite Oil Burner Com-
pany, Biltmore Shoe Co., Birch River Gold Mines, Inc. of
Ontario, Bishop and Babcock Company of Massachusetts,
The, Blackburn-Martin Inc., Blake, Inc., Blanchard Instru-
ment Company, Blotcher Dress Company, Blue Ribbon
Laundry Co. of Brockton, Bob Malone Company, Inc.,
Bolton Worsted Mills, Inc., Bonded Home Bureau, Incor-
porated, Bondholders Security Corporation, Bonoloid Cor-
poration, Boothbay Harbor Contracting Company, Boston
& New York Coach Co., Boston and Suburban Laundry
Company, Boston Braid Manufacturing Company, Boston
Chicle Company, Boston-Connecticut Motor Lines, Inc.,
Boston Cooperage Company, Boston Crown Co., Boston
Machinery Company, Boston Market, Incorporated, The,
Boston Mohair Velvet Company, Boston Motor Co., Boston
Novelty Shoe Co., Boston Overland Company, Boston
Potato Chip Co., Boston Rag Rug Company, Inc., Boston
Sanitary Service Co., Inc., Boston Shipbuilding Company,
Boston Telegram Company, The, Boston Typewriter Co.
Inc., Boston Wood Heel Company, Boston Wood Heel
Company of Framingham, Inc., Bostonia Cigar Company.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 329

Boyle & Bradley, Inc., Bojdston Bakery, Inc., Boylston Certain cor-
Bottling Company, Boylston Drug Co., Inc., Boylston diL^soVvrd.
Multigraphing Co. Inc., Bradshaw & Company Inc., Brad-
smith Counter Company, Incorporated, Breezy Meadows,
Inc., Brett Shirt Company, Brian E. Hawkes & Co., Inc.,
Brigham Circle Cab, Inc., Brightwood Manufacturing Com-
pany, The, Brightwood Sales Corporation, Bristol Block
Company, Broad Sound Holding Company, Broadway
Amusement Company, Broadway Dry Goods Co., Broad-
way Garage of Somerville Inc., Broadway Tire Service
Company, Inc., Brockton Honeycrust Bread Co., Brockton
Mowing Machine Cutter-Bar Company, Brockton Webbing
Company, Brockway-Smith Corporation, The, Brookfield
Woolen Company, Brookline Hotel Corporation, Brookline
Taxi Co. Inc., Brookline Village Provision Co., Brownell
Boston Company, Brownings, Inc., Browns Ticket Agency,
Inc., Brunelle "Flowerland" Inc., Building Finishing Cor-
poration, The, Bunker Hill Pharmacy, Inc., Business Ad-
ministration Bureau, Incorporated, The, Business Invest-
ment Corporation, Butkovitz Fur Company, Inc., Butler's
Inc., Byron N. Sellers, Inc.

C and I Transportation Company, Inc., The, C B Die
& Machine Co., C. D. Kepner Company, The, C. E. Chapin
Co., Inc., C. E. Robinson Company, Inc., C. E. Soule, Inc.,
C. E. Taylor's Express Inc., C. Ernest Hill Incorporated,
C. L. Dutton Co., C. P. Thompson Company, Incorporated,
C. S. Hardy, Inc., C. S. Scott Company, C. W. Dyer, Inc.,
Cadillac Berkshire Company, Cafe Bova, Inc., Cambridge
Art Brass M'f'g. Co., The, Camp Mohican, Inc., Campbell
Appliance Co., The, Canadian Club Beverage Company,
Canton Company, Incorporated, Cape Cod Real Estate
Operators, Inc., Capitol Chain Stores, Inc., Capitol Coat Co.,
Capitol Film Corporation, Capitol Manufactui'ing Com-
pany, Inc., Capitol Operating Company, Capitol Theatre
Company of Lowell, Carl T. Daley Co., Carmel Candy Stores,
Inc., Carmine Zamarro Co., Carnoba Candies Inc., Carpen-
ter Die & Tool Company, Carroll Manufacturing Company,
Carson Shoe Co. Inc., Carter, Rice & Company, Inc. (1883),
Cash & Carry Stores Inc., Casler's, Incorporated, Castle
Square Players Incorporated, The, Castlegate Garage, Inc.,
Cedar Acres, Inc., Cee Curity Trunk & Bag Co., Celerundum
Radio Products Co., Center Realty Corporation, Central
Battery & Tire Service, Inc., Central Flag Company, Inc.,
Central Garage of Newtonville Incorporated, Central Mfg.
Co., Inc., Central Mortgage & Investment Trust, Inc.,
Central Packing Co. Inc., Central Square Theatre, Inc.,
Central Star Automobile Co., Centre Department Store, Inc.,
Centrifugal Fan Company, Century Parlor Furniture Co.,
Chandler & Patten Co., Chapin Brothers, Inc., Charles A.
Coombs, Inc., Charles A. Esty Paper Company (1915),
Chas. A. G. Winther Co., Charles E. Moody & Co., Inc.,
Charles Frederick Company, Inc., Chas. H. Grover, Inc.,
Charles Hudson, Inc., Charles J. Roche, Inc., Charles L.

330 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

porations"'^' Richardson Company, Charles 0. Timson Shoe Co., Chas.

dissolved. W. Winslow, Incorporated, Charlsam Real Estate Co.,

Chase & Lyman Incorporated, Checker Inn Company,
Chelsea Leather Company, Chester F. Gibbons Co. Inc.,
Chevaux Kid Leather Co., Chilton Corporation, The, Chimes
Spa Company, Chisholm Development Company, Incor-
porated, Chocolate Shop of Worcester, Inc., Cifre Drug
Company, Citizens Finance Corporation (1925), City Fuel
Securities Company, City Hall Sq. Motor Car Co., City
Restaurants, Inc., Claire, Inc., Clarence P. Baxter Company
Inc., Clark & Lee Company, The, Clark & Parker, Incor-
porated, Claude E. Davis, Inc., Clement Company, The,
Clifford Construction Co., CHfton B. Russell, Incorporated,
Clinton Carpet Company, Chnton Corporation, Chnton
Pants Company, Inc., Cloran & Moloney, Inc., Close Mani-
fold Mfg. Company, Cochrane Print Works Company,
Cocozella & Solar Inc., Coffee Pot, Inc., Coffee Shoppe, Inc.,
The, Cohen & Son, Inc., Cole & Harlow, Inc., ColHngwood
Yarn Company, CoUis and Company, Inc., Collord Hardware
Company, Colonial Blanket Mills, Inc., Colonial Investment
Company, Colonial Trust and Discount Corporation, The,
Colonial Wall Paper Co., Colonial Wood Heel Co., Columbia
Advertising Company, Columbia Cafe Inc., Columbia Coffee
Company, The, Columbia College Clothes, Inc., Columbia
Films, Inc., Columbia Lacquer and Paint Company, Colum-
bia Theatre Co., Columbus Pharmacy, Inc., Comans Com-
pany, Inc., Comfort & Zavaha Shoe Trimmings Co., Comins
Rubber Shoe Co., Commercial Buildings Corporation of New
England, Commercial Protective Association, Inc., Common-
' wealth Auto Body Service, Inc., Commonwealth Garage
Inc., Commonwealth Real Estate & Investment Company,
Inc., Commonwealth Wall Paper Company, Compressible
Tube Incorporated, Conant Hospital Co., Conant, Houghton
and Co., Incorporated, Conlon Prescott Co., Connecticut
Valley Coach Co., Consolidated Electrical Companies, Inc.,
Consolidated Underwriters, Inc., Consumers' Supply Com-
pany of Springfield, Contentment Farm Company, Con-
tinental Bedding Company, Continental Realty Company,
Converse Rubber Sales Corporation, Converse Rubber Shoe
Company, Coolidge Hudson-Essex Co., Cooper's Spa, Inc.,
Copithorn Mfg. Co., Copley Investment Company, The,
Copley Mortgage Corporation, Copley Square Market Inc.,
Corr Manufacturing Company, Cosmopolitan Theatres &
Film Company, Inc., Cotton Research Company, Inc.,
Country Craft Manufacturing Company, Court Machine
Company, Craig Fountain Pen Corporation, The, Craigie
Circle Company, Crandon Wool Company, Credit & Audit
Bureau of New England, Inc., The, Crescent Gardens, Inc.,
Crescent Natural Gas Corporation, The, Crown Confec-
tionery Company, Crown Electrical Welding Company,
Crown Hotel Company, Crown Mfg. Company, Crown
Millinery Co., Crown Theatre Co., Inc., Cruise Shoe Com-
pany, Cubicle Stores, Inc., Cunningham Burdwood Con-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 331

struction Co., Cuptor Sales Company of New England, ^^l^ll^^l"'-
Currier-Todd Company, Cushman Candy Company, Cus- dissolved.
torn House Garage Company, Inc., Cutwell Inc., Cypress
Pharmacy, Inc.

D. A. Donovan Jr. Shoe Company, D. C. H. Co., The,
Dadmun Co., Daily News Publishing Company, The,
Dainties Sales Co., Inc., Danforth Farms Realty Corpora-
tion, Darling's Garage, Inc., Darnstaedt-McGillivray Motor
Company, D'Augusta Co. Inc., David J. Hurley Furniture
Company, David J. Ingraham, Inc., David Mendelsohn,
Inc., David W. Lewis Company, Davidson Mortgage Com-
pany, Davis-Smith Company, The, Davis Warehouse Com-
pany, Day Square Pharmacy, Inc., Deal & Hawkins, Inc.,
Dean Shoe Manufacturing Company, Decoma Leather
Specialty Company, Decorative Metal Co. Inc., Delhud
Coal and Supply Company, The, Devon Furniture Com-
pany, Inc., Devon Shoe Co., Inc., Devonshire Bond and
Mortgage Corporation, Devonshire Securities Corporation,
Dexter Real Estate Company, Diamond Vaporizer Com-
pany, Diamond Vaporizer Sales Inc., Diehl & Co., Inc.,
Dighton Stove Lining Company, Dillon Printing & Pub-
lishing Co. Inc., Dime-Eat Sales & Service Company, Dis-
count Company of New England, Dixon Steamship Com-
pany, Doane & Williams Lumber Company, Dock Square
Fruit & Produce, Inc., Dockham Publishing Company,
Dr. C. W. King, Inc., Dr. I. Rosenberg Hanover Dental Com-
pany, Domestic Oil Heating Company, Dominick G. Isernio
Company, Dono Corporation of Massachusetts, Doody
Vapor Heating Company, The, Door Control Engineering
Company, Dorchester Auto Sales Co., Dorchester Iron &
Metal Co., Dorchester Motor Sales, Inc., Dorchester Paige
Jewett Company, Inc., D 'Orlando & Co., Ltd., Doyle &
Lydon, Inc., Drake & Company, Inc., Drivurself Corpora-
tion of New England, Du Pont Company, Inc., Dual Duty
Pen & Pencil Company, Inc., Dubin-Kimball Co., Du-
chemin Wrecking Co., Inc., Duchin Tailoring Co., Dudley
Freeman Company, Inc., Dudley Hardware Co. Inc.,
Duffley-Rolfe Company, Dunn Land Company, Dunn,
Richards and Tuller, Incorporated, Dupont Leather Goods,
Inc., Durfee Piano Company, Inc., Dyer Company, The.

E. B. Truax & Son, Inc., E. E. Wilson Company, E. H.
Hosford Co., E. J. Berry Company, E. M. Fay Electric
Company, Inc., E. Pappas Co., E. R. Grabow Company,
Inc., Eagle Construction Company, Eameslea Real Estate
Corporation, Earnest E. Smith, Incorporated, Earnsdale
Worsted Company, Eastern Apple Company, Eastern But-
ter Company, Eastern Coal and Coke Company, Eastern
Electric Supply Co., Eastern Extract Company, Eastern
Luggage Company, Inc., Eastern Rubber Co., Eastern Sal-
vage Co., Eastern Tire Rebuilders Co., Eastern Tire Supply
Co., Economy Plumbing, Lighting and Heating Supply
Company, Economy Rug Works, Inc., Edgarton Mfg. Co.,
Edgartown Realty Company, The, Edie & Company, In-

332 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain cor- corporatccl, Edlo Laboratories, Inc. (1925), Edward M.

dissolved. Alden Co., Edward Perkins Lumber Co., Edwards Furniture

Company, Inc., Edwin C. Foss Inc., Ehrlich & Wolf Inc.,
El-Jobe-An Mutual Building Association, Inc., Eliot Lunch,
Inc., Elizabeth Eaton, Inc., Elliot & Douglas Manufacturing
Company, Elm Amusement Company of Danvers, Elm
Amusement Company of Hudson, Elm Street Theatre Com-
pany of Worcester, Elm Theatre Company, Empire Milli-
nery Company, Inc., Endurance Mfg. Co. Inc., Enfield
Dairy Inc., Ernest A. Hurd, Inc.; Esplanade, Incorporated,
The, Essex Baking Company, Inc., Essex County Co-
operative Dairy Association, Essex Drug Co., Essex Hosiery
Co. Inc., Essex Shoe Company, Inc., Essex Wood Heel
Company, Estes-Odell, Inc., Evans-Lawrie Company, Ever
Sharp File Co. Inc., Everett Bronze and Aluminum Foundry
Inc., Everett Motor Company, Everwell Associates, In-
corporated, The, Everyday, Inc.

F. A. Hermann Company, F. A. York Co., F. D. Kirby,
Inc., F. E. Atteaux & Co., Inc., F. E. Earle Company, F.
H. Thomas Company, F. L. Horton Corporation, F. P. Adams
Company, Inc., F. T. Curley Company, Inc., F. T. Mor-
combe Co., F. W. Pray Coal Company, F. X. DeLorey &
Co. Inc., Fahey Leather Stain Co., Fairfield Shoe Co.,
Fairview Inn, Inc., Falcon Press, Fall River Produce Com-
pany, Fall River Restaurant Company, Falls Dry Goods
Company, The, Famous Cloak Company, Fannon's Tog
Shops Inc., Farmers Co-operative Dairy Dealers, Inc.,
Fashion Parlor Furniture Company, Fashion Shop, Incorpo-
rated, Federal Abrasive Works, Inc., Federal Coach Com-
pany, Federal Truck Company of Boston, Federal Willow
Furniture Manufacturing Company, Fenway Operating
Company, Fibreboard Supply Company, Fidelity Clothing
Co. Inc., Fidelity Realty Co., Inc., Fidlers' Inc., Fields
Corner Olympia Co., Finance and Realty Corporation, The,
Finnish Baths, Inc., First National Exhibitors Circuit of
New England, Inc., Fiske Motors Inc., Fitchburg Bobbin
Cleaning Machine Co., Fitchburg Brick Company, Fitz-
Gerald the Druggist Inc., Fitzgerald Corporation, The,
Fiumara-Watts Garage Company, The, Flagg Lunch, Inc.,
Flash-On-Advertising Co., The, Fhnt & Co. Inc., Florida
Grape and Land Company, Florida-Massachusetts Com-
pany, Florida Scenic Highlands Land Company, Forest
Hills Construction Co. Inc., Forrest-Lydiard Co., The,
Foster & Co., Inc., Fowle, Hibbard Company, Fox Furniture
Company (1919), Frances H. Clapp Corporation, Francis
C. Gagnier, Inc., Francis L. Stanley Company, Frank A.
Andrews Inc. (1911), Frank A. Holby Corporation of Massa-
chusetts, Frank J. Low Co., Frank R. Briggs Company,
Frank R. Shannon Co., Franklin County Automobile
Dealers Exchange, Inc., Frankhn Garden, Inc., Franklin
Ice Company, Frankhn Motor Sales Co., Franz Bros., Inc.,
Fraternity Craft Co. Inc., Fred J. Land Incorporated, Fred
K. Wells Sales Company, Fred S. Stewart Company, Fred-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 3l9. 333

erick C. Adams Inc., Freedman Bros. Shoe Co., Inc., Free- Certain cor-
man Manufacturing Co., Inc., Fritz Carlton Hotel Company, diLToVvrd.
Fuelite Natural Gas Company Inc., Fuller Construction
Company, Fullum-Thorburn, Inc., Fulton Confectionery
Company, Inc.

G. B. Lawrence Company, G. E. Bliss, Inc., G. F. Red-
mond & Company, Inc., G. Ferullo Company, G. J. Prew
& Co., Inc., Gale & Co. Inc., Gardner Chair Company,
Gardner Hardware Co., Garinger Motor Company, The,
Garland, Inc., Garrett's Service Inc., Gateway Filling Sta-
tion, Inc., The, General Auto Sales Inc., General Collection
Bureau, Inc., General Fibre Box Company (1919), General
Manufacturing Company, General Merchandise Corporation,
General Phonograph Corporation of New England, General
Tool and Stamping Company, Inc., George Alexiade & Sons
Co., Geo. B. Creesy Co. Inc., George B. Dodge Co., Inc.,
Geo. B. Dowley Inc., Geo. D. Pearson Co., Inc., George F.
McKenna & Son, Inc., George Morrell, Inc., George Turco
Company, George W. Haynes, Inc., George Whitaker &
Co. Inc., George's Lunch Inc., Gilbert & Freedlender Shoe
Co., Gilchrest-Wallace Co., Inc., Gillespie Manufacturing
Co., Inc., Gillette Autoparts Co. Inc., Girard Auto Renting,
Inc., Glendale Laundry System, Inc., Globe Auto Body
Service Corporation, Globe Cloak & Suit Co., Globe Enter-
prise Company, The, Globe Importing Co., Globe Sanitary
Laundry Company, Goldberg-Kolman, Inc., Goldberg's,
Inc., Golden Distributing Corporation, Gong Wah Com-
pany, Goniprow-O'Neil Co., Goodhue Leather Company,
Goodwin, Quist and Graham Inc., Gordon Bankers' Pub-
licity Corporation, Gordon Dress Company, Inc., Gordon's
Central Sq. Theatre Company, Coward's Market Company,
Grand Family Laundry, Inc., Granite Realty Co. Inc.,
Gray & Davis Corporation, Gray Brothers Construction
Company, Gray Mercantile Agency, Inc., Gray Wood Heel
Company, Great Eastern Products Company, The, Green
Label Bottling Company, Grenier & Company Inc., Grimes
Lunch Co., Grocers' Cash System, Inc., Groton Private
Hospital, Incorporated, Groveland Shoe Co., Inc., Grueby
Faience and Tile Company, Guarantee Roofing Company,
The, Guiel & Bachand, Incorporated, Guild and Gray Inc.,
Gunning Iron & Brass Foundry, Inc., The, Gwendolyn's,
Incorporated.

H. & G. Dry-Goods, Inc., H. B. Bowl & Company, Inc.,
H. C. Davis Company, Inc., H. H. March Inc., H. J. Robert-
son Company, H. L. Buss Company, H. L. Moore, Inc.,
H. N. Fish Company, H. R. White Co., H. Russell Burbank
Co., The, H. T. Born Productions Inc., H. W. Peters Com-
pany, Hagman Grinder Company, Inc., Hair-Rite Labora-
tories, Incorporated, Hall Electrical Company, Hamilton
Manufacturing Company, The, Hammond Reed Company,
Hampden Plumbing and Heating Company, The, Hanipton
Golf and Country Club Inc., HandyMit, Incorpo ated,
Hanna Company, The, Harbor Machine Company, Harbor

334 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certam^cor- gp^^ Inc, Harding Theaters, Inc., Hardshall Process, Inc.,
dissolved. Harmony Shoemakers Inc., Harold W. O'Leary Company,
Harold's Radio Co. Inc., Harper X L Products Co., Inc.,
Harriette Inc., Harrington Sales Company, Inc., Harris
Remedy Company, Harry Leshner Creamery Co., Harry
M. O'Brien, Inc., Harry S. Gordon Leather Co., Hart &
O'Donnell Company, Harvard Avenue Garage, Inc., Har-
vard Building Association Inc., Harvard Restaurant Com-
pany, Haskell-Bouchard Company, Haskell Quality Laun-
dry, Inc., Haslam, Ward and Russell, Inc., Hassler New
England Company, The, Haverhill Abattoir Company,
Haverhill Acceptance Corporation, Haverhill Blacking Com-
pany, Inc., Haverhill Juvenile Shoe Co., Haverhill Toplift
Co., Hawthorne Bros. Inc., Hayden Motor Company, Hay-
den's, Inc., Haymarket Electric Supply Co. Inc., Healy &
Lyons Company, Heath & Company, Incorporated, Heath
Real Estate Company, Helen Sacker, Inc., Hennessey Motors,
Inc., Henry Whiton Inc., Herbert F. Allen, Inc., Hercules
Oil Company, Inc., Hermann Liicke Co., The, Herron Cut
Glass Works, Inc., Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. (Massa-
chusetts), Hettinger & Hirbour, Inc., Hibel Fur Company,
Hickmann & Reilly, Inc., Hickory Handle Co., Inc., High
Grade Clothing and Furnishing Company, The, Hildebrand
Machine and Electric Company, Hill Automotive Equipment
Company, Inc., The, Hillcrest Farm Milk Company, Hindle
Automatic Oil Feed Corporation, The, Hippocrates Company
Inc., Hoehle & Johnson Co., Holbrook Cabot and Rolhns
Corporation, Holden Textile Company, HoUiston Motor
Sales Co., Holmes Electric Automatic Alarm Corp., Holyoke
Insurance Service, Inc., Home & Real Estate Owners' Service
Bureau, Inc., Home Appliance Service Company, Home
Building Publishing Co., Home City Fuel Company, Home
Owners Service Corporation, Home Repairing and Remodel-
ing Corp., Home-Town Bakery Inc., Homer C. Perkins Co.,
Inc., Homer Foot Hardware Co. Inc., Homer Oil Burner
Corporation, Hood Tire Sales Co., Hopewell Manufacturing
Company, Hopkins & Lee Company, Hopkinson Japanning
Company, Horn Shoe Company, Hotel Belmont, Inc., Hotel
Metropolitan, Inc., Hotel Pharmacy, Incorporated, House-
hold Accessory, Inc., Howe Taxi, Inc., Hoyt Construction
Company, Hub Quilt Manufacturing Company Incorporated,
Hub Restaurant, Inc., The, Hudson Brothers Wrecking
Corporation, Hudson Building Company, Hudson Dyeing
Company, Hudson Pictures Corporation, Hudson Shoe Com-
pany, Huey Brothers Company, Hugh J. Bradley, Inc.,
Humboldt Amusement Co., Humboldt Manufacturing Com-
pany, The, Humboldt Theatre, Inc., Humphreys Sanborn
Incorporated, Hunneman Service, Inc., Huntington Motor
Mart, Inc., Hunton & Hoxie Co., Inc., Huron Avenue Drug
Company, Hyde Square Hardware Company, Hydro Manu-
facturing Company, The, Hygrade Laundry Inc., Hynes
and Carph Co., Inc., The.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 335

I. Charak Company, I. E. Hill & Co., Inc., I. H. Wiley Certain cor-
Waxene Company, I. Holtz Shoe Company, I. N. Chase d°sToVved.
Lumber Co., Ideal Financing Association, Inc. (5/12/25),
Ideal Five and Ten Cent Grocery Stores, Inc., Ideal Garage
Co., Ideal Ladies Garment Shop, Inc., Ideal Upholstering
Co. Inc., Imp Burner Company, Imperial Productions, Inc.,
Independent Fibre Company, Independent Lunch, Inc.,
Independent Taxi Company of Cambridge, Inc., Indessi
Ice Cream Co., Ingalls Garage Inc., Institute of Agriculture,
Inc., The, Intercontinental Fibre Co., Interior Advertising
Company, Inc., International Bond & Security Company,
International Furniture Co., Inc., International Gypsum
Company, Inc., The, International Manufacturing Com-
pany, International Optical Corporation, The, International
Supply Company, Inc., Interstate Commission Company,
Interstate Stage Lines, Inc., Interstate Transit Co. Inc.,
Investment Sales Corporation, Investors' Guaranty Cor-
poration of New England, Irwin Corporation, Italian &
American Products Exchange, Inc.

J. E. Laj^cock Company, J. F. Howard, Incorporated, J.
F. Kimball & Companj^, Inc., J. Falkson & Co. Inc., J. H.
Mitchell Co., J. L. Provost Co. Inc., J. Lipsky Co., Inc.,
J. Murray Quinby, Inc., J. R. Estabrook Construction Com-
pany, J. Rubin Co. Inc., J. Solin Co., Inc., J. Stanley Gal-
lagher, Inc., J. W. Fletcher Pharmacy, J. W. Yates Inc.,
Jacob Dreyfus & Sons Company, Jacobs, Whitcomb Com-
pany, James A. Ross, Inc., James F. McGrath Company,
James M. Downs Company, Inc., James Millar Co., James
Robertson & Co., Inc., James W. Hitchings Company,
Jameson Lumber Company, The, Jane Eaton Candies, Inc.
(1926), Janes-Walker Co., Inc., Jardin Inc., Jefferson Thea-
ter, Inc., Jellcrson-Rafter Company, Jersey Garage, Inc.,
Jesse R. Croxford, Inc., Jessta, Incorporated, Jewelers Sales
and Loan Exchange Co., Inc., Joe's Market, Inc., John B.
O'Neil Company, Inc., John C. DeLaney Moulding Com-
pany, John Davis Shoe Stores, Inc., John E. Hayford Co.,
John F. Brown, Jr. Co., John F. Johnston Company, John
H. Tarment Company, John Heald Company, John J.
Crowley Coal Co., Inc., John J. White & Son Company,
John S. Boyd Company, John Urban Riley Incorporated,
John W. Danforth Company, John's Inc., Johnson & Co.,
Inc., Jones-Apt, Inc., Jones-Mannix Company, Joseph
Johnsyn & Sons, Inc., Joseph P. Henry, Inc., The.

K & S Automotive Service Company, The, Karl Andren
Company, Karmak Company, Inc., The, Katama Mills,
Kelly-Springfield Truck and Bus Corporation of Massa-
chusetts, Kelvinator Boston, Inc., Kennedy Furniture Com-
pany, Kennedy-Wilhams & Co. Inc., Kenwood Company,
The, Kerr Advertising Company, Kiley, Bruder & Kiley
Inc., Killion Rubber Company, Kingsley Drug Company,
Kittredge and Savitt Incorporated, Kleen-Heet Co. of
Boston, Klingberg Company, The, Kneeland Dress Company,
Kollen's Public Market Corporation, Kolyon Mfg. Co.

336 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain cor- L_ \ ■\y, AcceptancG Corporation, of Holyoke, Mass.,

drsToivrd. L. Agoos & Co. Inc., L. B. Cousins Company, Inc., L. B.

Goodspeed Co., L. J. Pasquinucci Realty Co., L. Lo Conte
& Co., Inc., L. 0. Wetherell Company, L. Rosenberg Co.,
Inc., LaFollette Coal and Iron Corporation, Lafayette
Lodge Incorporated, Lake Silver Fox Co., Lake Street
Cleansing and Dyeing Company, Inc., The, Lakin's, In-
corporated, Lambert-Osgood Co., The, Lamino Manufac-
turing Company, Lamping-Nolan Shops, Inc., The, Lancaster
Apartments Inc., Langdon Apartments, Inc., The, Langham
Hotel Company, Lansing Awning & Tent Co., Inc., Larry
Welch Agency, Inc., Lasher-Peerblow Company, Lawrence
Ice Company (1888), Lawrence Spring Company, Lawrence
Sun Publishing Company, Laxton Medicine Company Inc.,
Leader Chain Stores, Incorporated, The, Leather Products
Corporation, Lee Brothers Company, Leeds Company, Ltd.,
Legion Arms, Inc., Leo J. Lyons Sons Company, Leo Katz,
Incorporated, Leo Olans Inc., Leon's Clothes Shop, Inc.,
Lerer Wholesale Grocery Company, Lester Mintz Company
Inc., Lewis Diamond Co. Inc., Lewis J. Bird Company,
Lexington Park Building and Sales Co., Lexington Rubber
Company, Libby Manufacturing Company, Liberty Piano
& Furniture Co., Liberty Restaurant Company, Liberty
Tailoring Co., Inc., Liberty Washing Machine Company,
Linab Products, Inc., Lincoln Care Company, Inc., Lincoln
Oil Company, Lincoln Stone Quarry Company, Lincoln
Woolen Mills, Inc., Lindenberg Water Battery Motor Com-
pany, LTndependant Publishing Company, Linnit Service,
Inc., Linwood H. Young Company, Little field-Legal Leather
Co., Littleton Manufacturing Company, Livingstone Motor
Co. Inc., Lloyd's of Boston, Inc. (1928), Lockwood Company,
Inc., Lombard White Company, London and Ellis, Inc.,
London Character Shoe Co., London Merchandising Co.,
London Seal Bottling Company, Incorporated, Longmeadow
Farms Company, Loring & Hammond Inc., Loring-Axtell
Company, Lorraine Shoe Co., Lothian Realty Co. Inc.,
Louis' Public Market, Inc., Louis Realty Company, Louise
Clothes Shop, Inc., The, Low Price Stores Company, Lowell
Baking Co., Inc., Luccio & Son Inc., Ludlum Products Cor-
poration, The, Luxor Cab Manufacturing Corporation,
Lyman B. Brooks Company, Lynch Motor Co., Inc., Lynn
and Boston Despatch, Inc., Lynn Coaster Car Corporation,
Lynn Motor, Inc., Lynn Olympia Company, Lynway Shoe
Company, Lyons & Dunn Shoe Co.

M & M Company, The, M & R Shoe Co., M & S Doughnut
Corporation, M. Cohen & Sons Company, M. E. H. Mer-
' chandising Co., M. F. Gookin Co. Inc., M. Finkovitch, Inc.,
M. J. B. Realty Company, The, M. J. Brohen Company,
The, M. J. Fish Sons Co., Inc., Macco Manufacturing Com-
pany, MacDonnell's Inc. (1912), MacLaughlin Shoe Co.,
MacNeill Electric Service Co., Macdonald Brothers In-
corporated, Macdougal & Morrison, Inc., Macomber Ice
Cream Incorporated, Macy Furniture Co. Inc., Madeira

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 337

Grocery Corporation, Madison, Inc., The, Madison Realty Certain cor-
Corporation, The, Magnet Theatre Company, Magoun dbToVvrd.
Square Pharmacy, Incorporated, Maille Drug Company,
Incorporated, Main PubHc Market Co. Inc., Main St.
Realty Co. of Worcester, Inc., Malcolm H. Smith Company,
Inc., Maiden Hardware Co., Maiden Sole Co., Mansfield
Housing Corporation, Mansion House Ice Cream Company,
Manufacturers Cloak & Suit House Inc., Manufacturers
Outlet, Inc., Maple Row Stock Farm, Inc., Mar-Bel Fashion
Shop, Inc., Marbeth Inc., Marguerite's Gowns, Inc., Marine
Securities Corporation, Marion Cranberry Co., Markem
Machine Company, Marketing Service Company, The,
Marmon Worcester Company, Marshall Fabric Co., Mar-
shalls. Incorporated, Martin Fifth Wheel and Trailer Com-
pany, Mary Ann Doughnut Shoppe, Inc., Mary Gay's
Kiddies' Shops, Inc., Maryland Apartments, Inc., Marysville
Dredging Company, Maslo Products Company, Massachu-
setts Advertising Sales Service, Inc., Massachusetts Brick
Corporation, Massachusetts Building-Loan Company, In-
corporated, Massachusetts Iron & Steel Co., Massachusetts
Legal Service Associates, Inc., Massachusetts Motor Sales
Co., Massachusetts Tailors and Furriers, Inc., Massachusetts
Wholesale Grocery Company, Massasoit Knitting Mills,
Inc., Mastercrafts Incorporated, The, Mastic Co., The,
Mattapan Motor Co., Maxwell Undergarment Company,
Mayer Hosiery Company, Mayflower Grape Wine Company,
Mayflower Investment Corporation, Mayflower Markets of
Massachusetts, Inc., Maylon Shoe Company, Maytag Sales
Company, Inc., McAdam & O'Brien, Inc., McCarty's, Inc.,
McElwain, Holmes Company, McGaffee Shoe Company,
McGrath, Inc., McGrath Motors Inc., McGrath-Sherrill
Press, McMinn & Quigley Steel Company, Mechanics Fur-
niture Co., Medfield Inn, Inc., Medford Motors, Inc., Medi-
cal Products Company, Medway News Company, Melville
Shoe Corporation, Melvin Realty Corp., Mercantile Bond
& Share Corporation, Mercantile Laundry Company, Mer-
cantile Sales and Finance Corporation, Merchant Tailors
Manufacturing Company, Merchants' Collecting Company,
The, Merchants Jobbing Company, Mercury Messengers
Inc., Merrimac Valley Coaches, Inc., Merrimack Cabinet
Co., Inc., Merrimack Machine Company, Merrimack Woolen
Corporation, Mesaba Railway Company, Meserve Rotary
Snow Plow Company, Messina Realty Company, Metal-
lurgical Research Company, Metropolitan Academy of
Aeronautics, Inc., Metropolitan Construction Company,
Metropohtan Grocery Company, Metropolitan Loan and
Investment Corporation, Metropolitan Refrigeration Equip-
ment Co., Metropohtan Shoe Company Incorporated, Michi-
gan Smoked Fish Company, Inc., Middlesex Investment
Company, Middleton Motor Company, Incorporated, Mil-
ford Holding Company, Milford Liquidating Company, Inc.,
Mill River Land Company, Inc., Millane's Drug Shop Inc.,
Millbury Brick Company, Miller Coal Company, Inc.,

338 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain cor- Miller Electric & Radio Corporation, Millinaiton Company,
dissolved. Inc., The, Millspaugh Motors Inc., Milstone, Dublin Co.,

Inc., Milton Public Market, Inc., Mine Brook Cranberry-
Company, Mines and Metals Investment Trust Incorporated,
Minute Tapioca Company, Miracle Oil Sales Co. of Mass.,
Miss Natalie, Inc., Mitchell, Woodbury Company, Mocans
Inc., Model Furniture Company, Modern Auto Service Co.
Inc., Modern Construction Company, Modern Garage, Inc.,
Modern Heating and Engineering Company, Modern Home
Rebuilders of New England, Inc., Modern Transportation
Co., Modiste, Incorporated, The, Mohawk Sausage & Pro-
vision Company, Mohican Auto Sales Company, Moisant
Beverages, Inc., Molhart Company, The, MoUins Real
Estate Co., Inc., The, Monarch Battery Supply Co., Monello
Tile & Marble Co. Inc., Montvale Monumental Co., Moon
Motor Sales Company, Moore Phonograph Company, Moor-
land Company, Morin's Laboratories, Inc., Mortgage In-
vestors Service Inc., Moss Shoe Company, Motion Picture
Corporation, Moto-Ray Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Motor Equipment Company, Motor Radiator Corporation
of America, Motor Securities Company, Mt. Carmel Cran-
berry Company, Mount Pleasant Realty Company, Multi-
Bore Grinding Machine Co., Murch- Anderson Company,
The, Murphy Aluminum and Bronze Foundry, Inc., Murphy
& Osborne Shoe Company, Inc., Murphy & Powers, Inc.,
Murray & Murray Co. Inc., Murray Realty Company,
Murray Shoe Company Incorporated, Murray's, Inc.,
Murray's Waldorf Taxi Inc., Music Shop of Worcester, Inc.,
The, Mutual Auto Body Service, Inc., The, Mutual Retail
Service Corporation, Mutual Supply Co., Inc., My-Inn,
Incorporated, Myer P. Benjamin Co. Inc., Myles Standish
Flower Shop, Inc., The, Myron-Oriental-Rug Shop Inc.,
Mystic Construction Co., Inc.

N. C. Zarvos Corporation, N. E. Bunting, Inc., N. E. Mutual
Service, Inc., N. F. Lachapelle Building Co., N. L. Stebbins,
Inc., N. Levesque Company, N. R. Briggs Electric Company,
Naborhood Department Store, Inc., The, Nadeau Extender
Company, The, Nadel Inc., Namaskett Press Incorporated,
The, Napier-Myers Inc., Nassau Shoe Co., Nathan D. Dodge
Shoe Company, National Art Mfg. Company Inc., National
Bassinet Company, National Business Reporter Publishing
Co., Inc., National Chemical Company, National Labora-
tories Co., National Manufacturing Company of Leominster,
Inc., National Markets, Inc. of Lowell, National Meat Co.
Inc., National Merchants' Club, Inc., National Paint & Wall
Paper Stores, Inc., National Printing and Advertising Co.,
Inc., The, National Store & Office Fixture Co. Inc., National
Theatre, Inc., Naushon Company, Neighborhood Stores,
Inc., Neil Blanc, Inc., Nelson Machine Company, Nelson-
Phillips Manufacturing Company, Inc., Nelson Shoe Com-
pany, Nesmith-Farren Shoe Co., New Atlantic Film Pro-
duction, Inc., New Bedford Cotton Cleaning Corporation,
New Bedford Football Club (Inc.), New Bedford Olympia

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 339

Company, New England Advertising Company, New Eng- Certain cor-
land Chemical Company, New England Development Cor- dbsoVvri.
poration. New England Film Productions Inc., New England
Finance Co., Inc., New England Five, Ten and Twenty-
Five Cents Department Stores, Inc., New England Furniture
and Supply Company, New England Grocery Co., Inc.,
The, New England Ice Machine Company, New England
Investors Shares, Inc., New England Motor & Supply Co.,
New England Oil Burner Corporation, New England Pants
Manufacturing Co., Inc., New England Premium Corpora-
tion, The, New England Sand & Gravel Company, New
England Shpper Co., New England Spaghetti Manufactur-
ing Company, Inc., New England Taxicab Exchange Inc.,
New England Textiles, Inc., New England Tool and Machine
Company, Incorporated, The, New England Whip Company,
New Haven Olympia Company, New Method Sanitary
Laundry, Inc., The, New Pacific House Inc., The, New Pub-
lic Market, Inc., New School of Design, Inc., The, New York
Electrical Co., New York Food Shop, Inc., New York Manu-
facturing District Terminals Inc., Newburyport Tobacco
and Novelty Co., Newell Company, The, Newton Fhnt
Company, Incorporated, Newton Livestock Company,
Newton Pressed Steel and Manufacturing Company, Newton
Sand and Gravel Company, Niagara Laundry Company,
Nick the Banana Man, Inc., Nickerson Auto Service, Inc.,
Nobscot Shoe Mfg. Co., Nobska Spinning Company, Nockege
Mills, Nojack Rim and Tire Corporation, Nonpareil Cafe-
teria, Inc., Norfolk Auto Co., North Attleboro Drug Co.,
North Attleboro Lace Works, Inc., North Cambridge
Olympia Company, North Eastern Products Corporation,
North Pacific PubHc Service Company, North Section
Pharmacy, Incorporated, North Shore Blue Book Inc., •
North Shore Dairy Association, North Shore Ice Cream Co.,
North Shore Radio Company, Northampton Brick Com-
pany, Northampton Hosiery Company, Northboro Woolen
Company, Northeastern Importing Company, Northern
Middle- West & Eastern Fur Co., Inc., Northern Real Estate
Building Corporation, Norwalk Sales Company Jack, The
Tire Engineer Inc., Norwood Housing Association, Inc.,
Norwood Lithuanian Grocery and Provision Store, Incor-
porated, The, Novak Corporation, The, Novelty Amusement
Company, Novelty Shoe Store, Inc., Nox-AU Shoe Company,
Nugas Service Inc.

O. A. Martin, Inc., O. K. Purifier Co., O. S. Holmbring,
Inc., O'Brien Wood Heel Co., Inc., Old Colony Construction
and Development Company, Old Colony Furniture Com-
pany, Old Colony Grocery and Provision Company, Old
Colony Mortgage Company, Inc., Old Colony Packing Com-
pany, Old Colony Pictures, Inc., Old Colony Tire Company,
Old Homestead Company, Oliver Company, Inc., Olympar
Operating Corpn., O'Neil Larkin Co., O'Neil Shoe Co.,
Orangemaid Co., Orleans Associates Incorporated, Osborne
Awning Co., Oscar's, Inc., Otis Shoe Co., Overland Motor

340 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain^cor- Coach Company, Ovington and Richard, Inc., Owen F.

dissolved. Farley Company, Oxford Candy Company, Oxley's Inc.

P. Cogan & Son Company, P. G. K. Company Limited,
P. H. Walker Co., P. I. Reynolds Company, Inc., P. M.
Sleeper Co., Paco Manufacturing Company, Page Shoe
Mnfg. Co., Palestine Tobacco Corporation, Palma School,
Inc., Pan-American Fur Breeders, Inc., Pandolfo-Caggiano
Furniture Company, Pandora Development Company,
Paragon Oil Equipment Company, Paramount Cone Com-
pany, Paris Fashion Shop, Inc., Parisian, Inc., The, Park
Pharmacy of Boston Incorporated, Parker Hardware Com-
pany, Parkside Pharmacy Company, Parmenter Manu-
facturing Company, Parquette Gauge Sales Co., Patenaude
Bootery, Inc., Paul Kurtze, Inc., Peabody-Hiland Inc.,
Pearl Shoe Company, The, Pearson & Marsh Incorporated,
Peckham Brass Foundry, Inc., Pelham Hall, Inc., The,
Pender-Farnsworth Company, The, Pentucket Wood Heel
Company, Inc., Pepper Investment Company, PeppA-ell
Motor Co., Perkins Appliance Company, Permanent Home
Exhibit, Inc., The, Perry Building Corporation, Perry Motor
Car Company, Peter Fossa Ice Cream Co., Peter L. Thomp-
son (Inc.), Peter Medve Building Company, Pettingell Com-
pany, The, Philbrick Tie & Timber Company, PhilHps Petro-
leum Products Company, Physicians Exchange, Inc., Pianko
Chemical Company, Pickett Mfg. Co., Inc., Pierce Arrow
Trucking Company, Pierce- Johnson Co., Pierce Music Co.,
Piezo Electrical Company, Pilgrim Auto Exchange, Inc.,
Pilgrim Oil Company, Pillsbury & Frink Company, Pine
Beach Camp Inc., Pine Grove Farm Dairy Co., Pine Tree
Lunch Co., Pine View Inn, Inc., Pinkerton Company, Inc.,
Pioneer Wiping Cloth Company, Pittsfield Lime & Stone
Company, Pittsfield Luncheonette, Inc., Players Hall Com-
pany, Plymouth County Ideal Factory Corporation, Plym-
outh County Mortgage & Bond Company, Plymouth Real
Estate Corporation, Pocasset Garage and Machine Company,
Point Breeze Hotel, Inc., Poli Theatres & Realty Company,
Polish Industrial Association, Pontiac Mfg. Co., Pope Chemi-
cal Company, Porter's Market, Inc., Portuguese Loan Co.,
Inc., Post Office Lunch, Inc., Powlyn Frocks, Incorporated,
Powow Amusement Company, The, Preferred Baking Co.,
Premier Land Company, Prentice Paper Box Company,
Prince & Chandler, Inc., Priscilla Sears, Inc., Priscilla Shoe
Shop, Inc., Progress Manufacturing Company, Progress
Motor Sales, Inc., Providence-Philadelphia Steamship Com-
pany, Public Service Auto Company, Public Shoe Market,
Inc., Pulsifers' Auto Express Inc., Pultz, Incorporated, Pure
Ice Company (1908), Puritan Bakeries, Inc., Puritan Coach
Lines, Puritan Lamp & Shade Company, Inc., Puritan
Oxygen Co.

Qroil Company, Quality Company Inc., Queen Hairpin
Co. (Inc.), Queensberry Realty Company, Quinapoxet Manu-
facturing Company, Quinlan Square Pharmacy, Inc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 341

R& S Theatres, Inc., R. D. Lurvey Corporation, R. E. B. ^^l^^^^f^'
Manufacturing Co., The, R. H. Booth Sales Company, The, dissolved.
R. M. Sharaf Machine Co., Inc., R. Marston Company, R.
R. Bunnell Coal Company, R. S. Reed Company, R. T.
Charlton & Co. Inc., R. T. Lyman and Company Inc., R.
V. Pettingell Electric Supply Company, Radchffe Shoe Co.,
Radio Communication Corporation, Radio Conduction,
Inc., Radio Questionnaire Corporation, Radio Shop, Inc.,
The, Radio Twins Corporation, The, Rainbow Gardens, Inc.,
Ralph W. Bean, Inc., Ralph's Baggage Shop, Inc., Rand
Construction Co., Inc., Randall Candy Shop, Inc., Ranger
Motor Car Company, Ray Taxi Service Company, Raymond
B. Shattuck Corporation, Rayner Corporation, Rays Cloth-
ing Company Inc., Re Bros. & DeAgostini, Inc., Read Manu-
facturing Company, Reading Hatchery Inc., Readio Com-
pany, The, Ready To Use Tip Co., Realty Company of
Massachusetts, The, Realty Holding Corporation, Red Line,
Inc., The, Reed Athletic Shoe Company, Reed Hardware
and Sporting Goods Company, The, Register and Guide
Company, The, Reid Motor Sales, Inc., Reis & Company,
Inc., Rehable Specialty Co. Inc., Rehance Wood Heel Com-
pany, Relyon Products Co., Remedy Stores, Inc., Republic
Oil Company, Research Incorporated, Resilient Mat Co.,
The, Revere Lumber Company, Revere Nash, Inc., Rex
Engineering Company, The, Rialto Drug Company, Inc.,
Rialto Theatre Company, The, Rice-Durfee Company,
Richard Madden Co., Inc., Richard Mayer Company,
Richards, Inc., Richmond Company, The, Richmond Realty
Co., Riddock Process Corporation, Riko Company, Inc.,
The, Riverside Park Amusement Company, Riverway
Battery Service Inc., Riviera, Inc., The, Roadstrand-Perry
Company, The, Robbins Plumbing Co. Inc., Robert R. Mc-
Nutt Corp., Robertson & Brabrook Corporation, Robertson
& Brabrook Manufacturing Company, Robertson & Morse
Inc., Robinson Anti-Splash Tire Company, Rochester Base-
ball Club, Inc., Roosevelt, Inc., Roosevelt, Inc., The, Ros-
Aux Company, Rose Taxi Service, Inc., Rosehall Inc., Ross
Leather Co., Rosso & Little, Inc., Roy E. Litchfield, Inc.,
Royal Caffe, Inc., Royal Dress Manufacturing Company,
Royal Insulation Moulding Company, Royal River Manu-
facturing & Power Company, Royce-Superior Laundry Com-
pany, Incorporated, Rubber Products, Inc., Rubell Dress
Company, Inc., The, Ruddock Shoe Co., Russell & Peterson
Realty Company, Ryan & Burke Last Machinery Co., Inc.,
Ryan Motor Service, Inc., Ryan Publishing Company, Inc.,
Rytone Company.

S. A. E. Steel Corporation, S & K Company, S & S Develop-
ment Corporation, S & S Realty Development Corporation,
S. Atwood & Company Incorporated, S. E. Hecht Company,
S. E. M. Co. Inc., S. Klayman Shoe Company, S. L. Prentiss
Company, S. S. Holton Co., S. S. Pope Company, S. Singer
Inc., Saad Manufacturing Co., Sackett Electrical Co., Inc.,

342 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

^oratbns"'^ Safety Auto Lock Corporation, Sagamore Company, Sailrite
dissolved. Model Yacht Company, Salem D. Towne Company, The,

Salem Furniture Co., Inc., Salem Mattress Company, Salem
Stitch Down Shoe Company Inc., Salem Tanning Company,
Sam's Used Auto Parts Company, Samuel E. Cass, Incorpo-
rated, Samuel J. Wilde Florida Realty Corporation, Samuel
Marshall, Inc., Samuel Rome & Co. Inc., Samuels Hardware
Co., Sandler's, Inc., Sandy Bay Pier Company, The, Sanford
and Russell Company, Sanitary Dust Removing Company
of Massachusetts, Sanitary Fixtures Company, The, Sanpeco
Chocolate Products Company, The, Savoy Cafe, Inc., The,
Saxony Knitting Mills, Schaubel Heating & Ventilating Co.,
Inc., Schipper Bros. Coal Mining Co. (Inc.), Schnare Con-
struction Corporation, Scollay Haberdasher, Inc., Scollay
Square Olympia Co., Seacoast Fishing Company, Seaman
Engine Company, Searles & Sons Inc., Sears St. Garage Co.,
Seaver-Howland Press, Inc., Sell- All, Inc., Senator Files
Corporation, Service Engineering Corporation, Service
Garages, Inc., Severn Mills Co., Seymour Laundry Company,
Inc., Shannon Battery Co., Shannon's Battery Station, Inc.,
Shaw Motor Company, Incorporated, Shawmut Fuel Co.,
Inc., Shea& Company, Inc., Shirley Tire & Supply Company,
Shoe-Tread Corporation, The, Short Reels Inc., Shrewsbury
Center Garage, Incorporated, Shrewsbury Circle Swing
Company, Shubert's Clothes Shop, Inc., Shulman Corpora-
tion, The, Sigsbee Company, Inc., Silvee Construction
Company, Silvertown Football Association, Inc., Simonds
& Adams Company, Sintzel Orange Mill Co. of New England,
Slater Shoe Co., Slocum Lumber Company, Small, Maynard
and Company (Incorporated), Smith & McCarthy, Inc.,
Smith Hospitals, Inc., Smith Nut & Chocolate Co., Smithco
Corporation, Snow Herb Remedy Company, Snow's Home
Bakery Co., Socold Refrigerating Corporation, Solar Light
System, Inc., Somerset Company, Somerville Spaghetti
Co., Inc., Somerville Yellow Cab Co., South End Pharmacy,
Inc., South Medford Garage, Inc., Southbridge Toric Lens
Company, Southeastern Construction Company, Southern
Industries, Inc., Southern Massachusetts Coal Mining Corp.,
Sparrow Bros. Inc., Spector-Ganzburg Co., Inc., Sporwin
Shoe Company, Spring Coal Company, Springfield Invest-
ment Company, Incorporated, Springfield Linotyping Co.,
Springfield Tool Co., Standard Auto Supply Co., Standard
Automotive Equipment Company, Standard Coat and Apron
Supply Co. Inc., Standard Finance Corporation, Standard
Mica Company, Standard Parlor Frame Co. Inc., Standard
Saw & Tool Mfg. Co. Inc., Standard Wood Novelty Com-
pany, Standish & Alden, Inc., Standish Industrial Company,
Stanley James Inc. Players, Star Drug Co., The, Star Metal
Bed Co., Inc., Star Shoe Stitching Co. Inc., Starrett-Fields,
Inc., State Beef Company, Station Food Co., Stearns Stamp-
ing Company, Steinbeck Hardware Company, Stenman Wire
Specialty Company, Stephen Richard Company, Inc., The,
Sterling-Knight Company of New England, Sterling Knit

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 343

Goods Company, Sterling Rubber Mills Incorporated, Stern Certain cor-
Bros. Shoe Company, Stern-Made Dress Co., The, Sternburg drs«)Vved.
Clothing Company, The, Steven's Amusement Co., Inc.,
Stevens-Crosby Co., Inc., Stiles-Lewis Press, Inc., The,
Stiles Sales Service, Inc., Stockbridge Construction Co., Inc.,
Stores Realty Trust, Inc., Stowell Company, The, Stoy's
Machine Developing Co., Inc., Strand Auto Renting Co.,
Strecker Press and Envelope Co., Strong Manufacturing
Company, Inc., Stuart Hotel Corporation, Sublime-Art Film
Company, Inc., Suffolk Jobbing Co., Suffolk Lumber Co.,
Suffolk Metal & Iron Co. Inc., Suffolk Real Estate and
Mortgage Corporation, Suffolk Upholstering Co. Inc., Sulkin
Spice Company, Sullivan Stone Co., Sumack Realty Co.,
Summit Hospital, Sumner Company, The, Sunbeam Amuse-
ment Co., Sunkist Beverage Corporation, Super-Insulated
Wire Co., Superior Battery Plate Mfg. Co., Superior Service
Placement Bureau, Inc., Supreme Film Corporation, Sus-
quehanna Silk Mills of Massachusetts, Swain & Gunn, Inc.,
Sweeney Motor Sales, Inc., Sweet Shoppe, Incorporated, The,
Sweets Sales Company.

T. B. Murch Co., T. C. Kerans Co., T. J. Kiely Shoe Co.,
T. J. Sullivan Shoe Co., Inc., T. Levine and Son. Inc., T. P.
Blake & Brother, Inc., T. R. Mathews and Company, Inc.,
T. S. Keegan Leather Co., Tacbert, Inc., Talbot Company,
Talbot Investment Association, Inc., Taters, Inc., Taunton
Dye Works and Bleachery Company, Taunton Planing Mill
Company, Taunton Wholesale Millinery Company, The,
Taylor Brothers Laundry, Incorporated, Taylor Furniture
Co., Ted Toy-lers Inc., The, Tel(>gram Publishing Co., The,
Tell-U-Signal Company, Terminal Packing Company, Tex-
tile Engineers Co., Textile Securities Company, Theatre
Repair & Service Company, Thibeault Motor Sales, Inc.,
Thomas & Lake, Inc., Thomas H. Logan Company, Thomas
McDowell Co. Inc., Thomas Shoe Company, Thomas
Storage Company, Thompson's Cafeteria, Inc., Thomson-
Crooker Shoe Company, 370 Commonwealth Ave., Inc.,
Three Millers Company, The, Thrifteria Stores Inc., Tibbetts
Brothers, Incorporated, Tide Crest Co., Timothy E. Sweeney
Corporation, Tire Sales Co., Inc., Tobey Lime Company,
The, Toomey Detective Agency, Inc., Tower Manufacturing
Corporation (1923), Tracy-Elliott Mills, Inc., Tracy Footwear
Process, Inc., Tracy Foster Shoe Company Inc., Tratten-
DiCicco, Inc., Travers Shoe Co., Inc., Tremont Shoe Com-
pany, Tri-Art Shoe Co., Trimount Construction Co., Inc.,
Trimount Filling Stations, Inc., Tristate Contracting Com-
pany, Triumph Manufacturing Company, Turgeon Chemical
Co., Turgeon's Sons' Co., Inc., Twin City Flour Company,
Inc., Two Toms Company.

U-Can-C Co., Inc., Ultra Smart Clothes, Inc., Umbagog
Camp Company, Umbagog Camps Inc., Underhay Oil Co.,
Underwood Typewriter Company, Union Baking Co. Inc.,
The, Union Box Company, Inc., Union Color and Chemical
Company, Union Textile Corporation, Union Wet Wash

344 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

porltlonT' Laundry, Inc., United Bargain House, Inc., United Builders
dissolved. Supply Corporation, United Chemical Stores Inc., No. 2,
The, United Drug Company, United 5 & 10^ Grocery Stores,
Inc., United Furniture Mfg. Co., United Group Clinics,
(Corporation), United Loan Co., Inc., United Products
Corporation, United Sausage Company (1925), United Serv-
ice Association, Inc., United States Machinery Manufac-
turing Company, United Stay Company, United Syndicates,
Inc., Universal Color Plate Company, Universal Light Com-
pany, Universal Polish Company, Universal Taxi Company,
Universal Thrift Associates, Inc., University Auto Repair
Co., Inc., University Finance Corporation, University Sea
Grill & Dairy, Inc., Usave Stores, Inc.

Valley Silk Shop, Inc., Van Heusen International Com-
pany, Van Heusen's Home Made Candies, Inc., Van Schuy-
lers', Inc., Vanizette Company, Varney & Puech Company,
Varsity Clothes Shops, Inc., Vaughan Trading Company,
Inc., Vera Chemical Corporation, Victor H. Spiller Company,
Victory Shoe Company of Haverhill, Viking Specialty Co.,
Village Hall Corporation of Barnstable, The, Visidex Co. of
New Eng., Vital Exchanges of New England Inc., Voorhies
& Company, Inc., Vulcan Foundry Company, Vulcan Oil
Corporation.

W & R Shoe Company, W. B. Sales Co., The, W. C. Gray
Ship Company, W. D. Kendall Company, W. F. and Com-
pany, Inc., W. G. Clark & Co. Inc., W. Guy McGregor Co.,
W. H. & Co., Incorporated, W. H. Newth Co., Inc., W. J.
Boynton Baking Company, The, W. J. Metivier Co., W. J.
Reilly & Co., Inc., W. J. Rose Co., W. K. Bedell, Inc., W. L.
Sturtevant, Inc., W. M. Leonard, Incorporated, W. R. Beale
Lumber Co., Inc., W. R. Eaton, Inc., W. S. Bray & Son, Inc.,
W. W. Forrester & Son, Inc., Waddell-Cooper Company,
Wakefield Music Store, Inc., Walker Markets Inc., Walking-
Cane Manufacturing Company, The, Wallace G. Hathaway,
Inc., Wallace Knitting Mills, Inc., Wallace Manufacturing
Company, Walter's Restaurant, Inc., Waltham Company,
The, Walworth Oregon Company, Wardrobe Checking
Corporation, Warner & Childs Company, Inc., The, Warner
Box Company, Warren Blaisdell, Inc., Washampton Realty
Companj^ Washburn Chair Company, Inc., Washington
Heights Garage, Inc., Washington PubHc Market Inc.,
Washington Street Olympia Company, Waste Eliminators,
Incorporated, Watch City Music Company, The, Water-
house Welding Company, Watson- Willson Company, Waver-
ley Realty Corporation, Waverly Drug Co., Waycross Com-
pany, Webb Realty Company, Weiss Shoe Stores, Inc.,
Weld-On Amusement Company, Wells Different Ink Com-
pany, Wells Machine Company, Inc., Welworth Novelty
Co., Werner Farm Milk Company, West Coast Products
Inc., West Everett FilHng Stations, Inc., West Roxbury
Building Corporation, Westcott Motors of New England,
Inc., Western Auto Supply Co., Inc., Westfield River Paper
Company, Westland Pharmacy Inc., Wetherbee Grain Co.,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319. 345

Wetterlow Musical Bureau Inc., Weymouth and Braintree Certain cor-
Realty Company, Whidden-Hewitt Co., Whitall Manufac- d°sToVvrd.
turing Company, Whitcomb Quality Pattern Co., Whitcomb
Steel Corporation, White & Baer Co. Inc., White & Walsh,
Inc., White Mission Supply Company, Whiteside Milk
Company, Whiting and Davis Chain Company, Whitings
Cafeteria, Inc., Whitney, Cox & Company, Incorporated,
Whittier Woodenware Company, Wholesale Drygoods Syndi-
cate, Inc., Wilcox Mofflin Wool Company, William B.
Fletcher, Inc., WilHam C. Taylor Co., Wilham Caldwell &
Sons (Inc.), William F. Ducharme, Inc., Wilham F. Lawson,
Inc., William H. Jones & Co. Inc., William H. Jordan Com-
pany, Wilham H. Jordan Vessels Company, Wm. J. Mc-
Carthy Stone Co., Wilham L. Miller Company, William
Mann Company, Wm. Morton Cole Inc., Wm. R. Rawlins
Co., Williams, Clark & Co., Inc., Williams Products Co.,
Williams Realty Co., Willimansett Builders Supply Corpora-
tion, Willimansett Ice Company, The, Wills Realty Co.,
Winchester Motors, Inc., Winchester Overland Company,
Inc., Winco Paper Company, Winthrop Corporation, Win-
throp Electric Company, Wiswell-Porter, Inc., Wolbarst
Confectionery Co., Wollaston Pavilion, Inc., Wollaston Shoe
Corporation, Woodruff and Dean, Inc., Woolstock Manu-
facturing Corporation, Worcester Auto Body and Welding
Company, Worcester County Acceptance Corporation,
Worcester Finance Company, Worcester Grinding Company,
Worcester Produce & Potato Company, Worcester Progres-
sive Realty Corporation, Worcester Shopping News, Inc.,
Worcester Spring Co., The, Worcester Steel Products Com-
pany, Worcester Steel Products Corporation, Worcester
Sulphur Bath Co., Workmen's Circle Loan Association, Inc.
World Commerce and Finance Profit-Sharing Corporation,
Worthy Pictures Company, Wurldsbest Ventilator Sales
Company, Wynn Paper Products Company.

XL Heating & Plumbing Co. Inc.

Ye Okie English Products Co., Inc., Ye Wunda-Lofe
Bakeries, Inc.

Za-Rex Food Products, Inc., Zenith Motor Lines, Inc.,
The, Zevitas Brothers Co., Zimmerman Corporation, The,
Zion Land Enterprise of America, Inc.

Public Service Corporations.

Brant Rock Water Company. ?ervfj"cor''ora-

Horn Pond Branch Railroad Company. tions dissolved.

Middlesex Aqueduct Corporation, Milford and Uxbridge
Street Railway Company.

Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway Company.

Charitable and Other Corporations.

Amesbury and Salisbury Academy.

Bethany Rescue Mission, Boston Italian Immigrant So- Certain chari-
ciety, Boston North End Mission, Boston Relief Committee corporalions ^"^

dissolved.

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. 319.

Certain chari-
table and other
corporations
dissolved.

Pending suits
not affected, etc

Proceedings in
suits upon
choses in
action, how
brought, etc.

Incorporated, The, Boston St. Raphael Italian Immigrant
Society, Boston Tercentennial Association, Inc., Boston
University Nanking Association, The.

Carolina Industrial School, Columbian Charitable Guild,
of Lawrence, The, Community Service Corporation of Mill-
bury, The, Community Service of Lawrence, Inc., Crowmont
Mount, Inc., The.

Dewing Memorial, Dont Worry Fellowship.

Eolian Protective Society, Inc.

Gallaudet Society for Deaf Mutes, The.

Kidder House Association.

Ladies Benevolent Society of Blandford, The, Lesbian
Educational Society-" Agia Paraskevi", Inc., Lexington
War Chest Incorporated, The, Longmeadow Community
Hou,se Association, Inc.

Massachusetts No-License League, Medway Ladies Aid
Association, Inc., The, Midvedifka Association, Millet
Sanitorium, Incorp.

Notre Dame Social Service Foundation, Incorporated.

Oak Hill Cemetery Corporation.

Pan-Cretan Society Minos Inc., Peabody Community
House, Incorporated, The, Pilinover Relief Association Inc.

Quincy Charitable Society, Quinebaug Reservoir Company.

Reconstruction Association, Inc., The, Roslindale Tennis
Club, Inc., Roxburghe Club, The.

Saint Paul's Catholic School Association of Cambridge,
The, Serge Koussevitzky Fund, Inc., Society for the employ-
ment of Bible Readers in Boston, Society of Kerasiton St.
Athanasios, The, South Boston Lithuanian Benevolent
Society, The, Springfield Child Welfare Society, Inc., Spring-
field Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, Inc.

Tri-Link Club of Cambridge.

University Rowing Club, Inc., The.

White Ribbon Home, Inc., Winchester Hebrew Benevo-
lent Association Incorporated, Woman's Education Associa-
tion, Worcester Tuberculosis Relief Association.

Young Men's Hebrew Association of South Framingham.

" Zahrat-Ul-Watan ", The Syrian Christian Charitable
Society.

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
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

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 320, 321. 347

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.

Section 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to No relief from
relieve the last person who was the treasurer or assistant fil'e'tax'°" *°
treasurer, or, in their absence or incapacity, who was any return, etc
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 as required by chapter
sixty-three 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 be operative as of March when operative,
thirty-first in the current year. Approved May 16, 1929.

An Act authorizing the city of pittsfield to borrow (JJiQr) 320

MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of acquiring land for school pJtfgfieidmay
buildings and/or constructing and originally equipping and borrow
furnishing said buildings, the city of Pittsfield may, from "choof
time to time, within a period of five years from the passage purposes.
of this act, borrow such sums as may be necessary, not
exceeding, in the aggregate, nine hundred thousand dollars,
and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Pittsfield School Loan, Act of 1929. ^^i'^^^fLl^an,
Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and Act of 1929 '
such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from
their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act
unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent
of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be
raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. Indebted-
ness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory
limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the
limitation contained in the first paragraph of section seven
thereof as revised by chapter three hundred and twenty-
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 16, 1929.

An Act relative to certain ponds on the island of Qji^j) 32 1
Martha's vineyard.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chilmark pond in the town of Chilmxark, Oyster pond in Certain ponds
the town of Edgartown and Tashmoo pond in the town of MVrtWs"^
Tisbury shall be considered as never having been stocked by ^g"j^''g-^g*r°d
the director of the division of fisheries and game of the depart- as never

having been

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Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 322, 323.

stocked by
director of
division of
fisheries and
game.

merit of conservation, for the purposes of section sixty-one
of chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws, and
amendments thereto. Approved May 16, 1929.

Chap. 322 An Act authorizing the department of mental diseases

TO TAKE OR PURCHASE ADDITIONAL LAND IN THE CITY OP
WALTHAM AND THE TOWNS OF BELMONT AND LEXINGTON
FOR THE PROPOSED METROPOLITAN STATE HOSPITAL.

Department
of mental
diseases may
take or pur-
chase additional
land in city of
Waltham and
towns of
Belmont and
Lexington for
proposed
metropolitan
state hospital.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The department of mental diseases, on behalf of the com-
monwealth, may, with the approval of the governor and
council, take in fee by eminent domain under chapter seventy-
nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase, for the
proposed metropolitan state hospital, land in the city of
Waltham and in the towns of Belmont and Lexington,
adjoining land already acquired by the commonwealth for
said proposed hospital. Approved May 16, 1929.

G. L. 40, § 4,
etc., amended.

Contracts by
cities and
towns for
specified
purposes.

Chav.323 An Act authorizing cities and towns to make contracts

FOR THE installation OF MECHANICAL TRAFFIC SIGNAL
LIGHT SYSTEMS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty of the General Laws, as amended in section
four by chapter sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six and by section one of chapter one hundred
and fifty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, is hereby further amended by striking out said section
four and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section
4- A town may make contracts for the exercise of its cor-
porate powers and for the following purposes: For the dis-
posal of its garbage, refuse and offal by contract for a term
of years. Contracts for such disposal may be made by the
selectmen, board of health or other officers having charge
thereof.

For the reception, care and treatment by hospitals estab-
lished in or near the town, if it maintains and manages no
hospital, of persons who by misfortune or poverty require
relief during temporary illness; but this provision shall not
add to the compensation now required from the common-
wealth or from any town for the care and treatment of any
person chargeable to them respectively, nor diminish the
right of the commonwealth to require the removal to the
state infirmary of a person who has no legal settlement.
Contracts for such reception, care and treatment may be
made by the board of public welfare or by the board of health .

For the furnishing of transportation of school children.
Contracts for such transportation may be made by the school
committee for periods not exceeding three years.

For the installation and maintenance, subject to such
laws as may be applicable, of mechanical traffic signal light
systems for the control and regulation of traffic on ways

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 324. 349

within its control, including poles, wires and other necessary-
apparatus upon, over or under such ways. Such a contract
may provide for payments by such town over a period not
exceeding five years.

To pay interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent per
annum, during the lives of any persons in being at the time
of entering into such contract, upon any cash gift which it
may lawfully receive. Approved May 16, 1929.

An Act to authorize the town of methuen to take the (JJidrf 324
WATERS OF Peter's pond and bartlett's brook and

THEIR tributaries IN THE TOWNS OF METHUEN AND
DRACUT FOR AN ADDITION TO ITS WATER SUPPLY AND TO
IMPROVE ITS WATER SYSTEM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Subject to rights already granted or to be Town of
granted in the future by the general court, and subject to takl^^hT^I^ters
such regulations and obligations as may hereafter be pre- "n^ Bartlitt'"'*
scribed or imposed by the general court, or otherwise as brook and
provided in this act, the town of Methuen, by its board of [nTheSs"^^
water commissioners, for the purpose of increasing its water °|jj^|^^a"u"
supply, may take by eminent domain under and in accord- for an addition
ance with chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws except suppiy^etc.
as hereinafter provided, or acquire by purchase or other-
wise, the waters of Peter's pond and Bartlett's brook in the
towns of Methuen and Dracut, and the tributaries of said
pond and of said brook and the water rights connected
therewith, by diverting the same at any point or points in
said towns of Methuen and Dracut, and may hold and use
said waters and conduct the same to the present system of
the town of Methuen, reserving to the owners of mills on
said pond and said brook, and the rivers into which they
flow, their rights as mill owners to use such waters as shall
flow to said mills and the dams connected therewith, except
so far as said town of Methuen shall from time to time
actually divert and use the same for the purposes named in
this act. For the purpose of building and maintaining dams. For certain
reservoirs, pumping plants and pipe lines, and of collecting, fakT°lnd^^^
storing, preserving and protecting the purity of the water jf^7°j[g' j^
taken under the provisions of this act, and conducting the towns of '
same as aforesaid, and for the purpose of extending, im- Dracut,"et".^
proving and enlarging the sources of water supply of the
town of Methuen, and preserving and protecting the purity
of the same, the said town of Methuen may also take by
eminent domain under and in accordance with said chapter
seventy-nine except as hereinafter provided, or acquire by
purchase or otherwise, all lands, reservoirs, dams, structures,
pipe lines, buildings, rights of way and easements within
the towns of Methuen and Dracut which may be necessary;
provided that no sources of water supply and no lands Proviso,
necessary for developing the supply or for preserving the
quality of the water of the town of Methuen shall be taken

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Acts. 1929. — Chap. 324.

Proviso.

May construct
and maintain
dams, pumping
plants, etc.,
make exca-
vations, lay
conduits,
pipes, etc.

May dig up,
raise and
embank
lands, high-
ways, etc.

Proviso.

Restrictions
as to entry
upon railroad
locations, etc.

Taking of
land or

property to be
in accordance
with G. L. 79,
except, etc.

or used without first obtaining the advice and approval of
the department of pubHc health, and that the location and
plans of all dams, reservoirs, wells, pumping and filtration
plants, and such other works as may be necessary in carry-
ing out the provisions of this act, shall be subject to the ap-
proval of said department; and provided, further, that in
the manner of taking said water from said pond and brook
and their tributaries the said town of Methuen shall con-
form to such reasonable regulations as may be established
from time to time by said department; and shall install
such measuring and recording devices as may, in the opinion
of said department, be necessary to record accurately and
permanently the amount of water taken from said pond
and said brook and their tributaries by said town of Me-
thuen; and that all records so taken shall be kept on file by
said town of Methuen and shall be open at all reasonable
times to inspection by the public.

Section 2. The town of Methuen may construct and
maintain on the land acquired and held under the provi-
sions of this act proper dams, reservoirs, standpipes, tanks,
pumping plants, buildings, fixtures and other structures,
including also the establishment and maintenance of filter
beds and purification works or systems, and may make
excavations, procure and operate machinery and may pro-
vide such other means and appliances and do such other
things as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions
of this act; and for the aforesaid purposes may construct,
lay and maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes, pipe lines and
other works under and over any land, water courses, rail-
roads, and street or electric railways and public or other
ways in said towns of Methuen and Dracut, in such manner
as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the
purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, operating and
repairing such aqueducts, conduits, pipes and other works,
and for all other proper purposes of this act, the town of
Methuen may dig up or raise and embank any such lands,
or public or other ways in such manner as to cause the least
hindrance to public travel thereon; provided, that no
conduits or pipes shall be laid in any way in the town of
Dracut except under authority of the board of selectmen of
said town; and provided further, that any public way in
the town of Dracut in which work is done under the pro-
visions of this act shall be restored by the town of Methuen
to a condition satisfactory to the board of selectmen of said
town of Dracut. The town of Methuen shall not enter
upon, construct or lay any aqueducts, conduits, pipes or
other works within the location of any railroad corporation
except at such times and in such manner as it may agree
upon with such corporation, or, in case of failure so to agree,
as may be approved by the department of public utilities.
Section 3. The taking of land or other property under
this act may be permanent or temporary and shall be in
accordance with said chapter seventy-nine, except that

Acts, 10^9. — Chap. 3^4. 35l

(a) The water commissioners need make no award of
damages for injuries sustained by persons or corporations on
account of any taking of water or water rights;

(b) The notice required by section eight of said chapter
seventy-nine need not be given in case of a taking of water
or water rights;

(c) Petitions for the assessment of damages under section
fourteen of said chapter seventy-nine may be filed within
two years after the right to such damages has vested, without
any extension of time by reason of failure to receive notice
under section eight thereof or otherwise;

(d) The water commissioners shall, within thirty days
after making any taking, cause a copy of the order of taking
to be printed in full in one or more daily or weekly news-
papers published in the county in which the lands affected
are situated or, in the case of a taking of water or water
rights, in the county in which the point of diversion is situ-
ated;

(e) An owner of land or other property taken shall, upon
request made within six months of the taking, be furnished
within thirty days of such request with a plan or description
of his land or other property taken.

Section 4. Any person or municipality sustaining dam- Damages,
age in his or its property by the taking of land, water, water recovery, etc.
right, easement or other property, or by the entry upon or
the use of any property, or by the making of any change
of grade, layout, construction, alteration, discontinuance of
a way, or by anything done by the town of Methuen under
authority of this act shall be entitled to recover the same
from said town under said chapter seventy-nine; provided, PfO'^'so.
that the right to any damages for the taking of any water,
water right or any injury thereto shall not vest until water is
actually withdrawn or diverted under such taking. Damages
for the temporary use or injury to property may, on the re-
quest of the petitioner, be assessed by monthly payments,
to be continued so long as the property is used or injured.

Section 5. The town of Methuen may enter upon any Entry upon
lands for the purpose of making surveys, test pits and make surveys.
borings, and may take or otherwise acquire the right to '^tc
occupy temporarily any lands necessary for the construction
of any works or for any other purpose authorized by this act.

Section 6. If the town of Methuen shall under au- Building of
thority of this act construct any reservoir in such manner as tnl^aclot^
to flow any existing public way, it shall raise the way to p"-^,-^ wayf
such grade as will make it reasonably safe and convenient flowed, etc."
for travel, or shall build in place of any part of said way so
flowed another suitable way, which shall thereafter be a
public way, with all necessary fences and culverts.

Section 7. The said town of Methuen, with the advice Town of^ ^^
and approval of the department of public health, may sell sefior^iease
at public or private sale or may exchange any real property, fJ"°Per n^ee'ded,
or any easements, whether taken by eminent domain or etc.
otherwise, no longer needed for works under its charge or

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. 324.

May permit
construction
of poles, wires,
etc., for
transmission
of electric
power, etc.

Proviso.

Penalty for
polluting water,
etc.

Control, etc.,
of property
by commis-
sioners.

Court enforce-
ment, etc.

Town of
Methuen may
borrow money,
issue bonds,
etc.

Town of
Methuen
Water Loan,
Act of 1929.

may from time to time lease any property not then so needed;
and may in its discretion, by lease, license or other agree-
ment, permit the construction and maintenance on any
land under its control of towers, poles, wires, and other
structures for the purpose of transmitting electric power over
lands and water of said town of Methuen held for water
supply purposes under this act; provided, that in the opinion
of the said department, such lease, license or agreement will
not affect or interfere with the water supply; and provided
further, that said town may revoke said lease, license or
agreement for cause to be determined by it, with the ap-
proval of said department.

Section 8. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, pol-
lutes or diverts any water taken or held under this act, or
injures any structure, work or other property owned, held
or used by said town of Methuen under authority of this
act, shall forfeit and pay to said town three times the amount
of the damages assessed therefor, to be recovered in an
action of tort; and upon being convicted of any of the above
wilful or wanton acts shall be punished by a fine of not
more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not
more than one year.

Section 9. The board of water commissioners of the
town of Methuen shall manage, improve and control the
land and other property purchased or acquired in any way
under the provisions of this act, and may prohibit all persons
from entering in, upon or over the waters of any reservoir
constructed under authority of this act or upon any lands
taken or acquired by said town hereunder. Said board shall
execute, superintend and direct the performance of all the
works, matters and things mentioned in the preceding
sections of this act. All the authority granted to said
town by the preceding sections of this act shall be vested
in said board, and all authority vested in said board by this
act shall be subject to such instructions, rules and regula-
tions as said town may impose by its vote.

Section 10. The supreme judicial court or any justice
thereof, and the superior court or any justice thereof, in term
time or vacation, on the petition of the department of pubhc
health or of any city, town, corporation or persons interested,
shall have jurisdiction in equity or otherwise to enforce the
provisions of this act and of any rule, regulation or order
made under authority of this act and to prevent any vio-
lation of any of said provisions.

Section 11. For the purposes set forth in this act other
than those pertaining to maintenance, the town of Methuen
may borrow from time to time, within a period of five years
from the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary,
not exceeding, in the aggregate, five hundred thousand dol-
lars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear
on their face the words. Town of Methuen Water Loan, Act
of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325. 353

loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more than thirty
years from their dates. Indebtedness incurred under this
act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except
as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the
General Laws.

Section 12. The said town shall, at the time of author- Payment of
izing said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in ^°^°'^t«-
accordance with section eleven; and when a vote to that
effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income de-
rived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual
expense of operating its water works and the interest as it
accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid by the
town and to make such payments on the principal as may
be required under the provisions of said section eleven shall,
without further vote, be assessed by the assessors of the
town annually thereafter in the same manner as other taxes,
until the debt incurred by said loan or loans is extinguished.

Section 13. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 17, 1929.

An Act making appropriations for the maintenance of Chav.S25

CERTAIN COUNTIES, FOR INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIRE-
MENTS, FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS, AND
GRANTING A COUNTY TAX FOR SAID COUNTIES.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would cause Emergency
substantial inconvenience, therefore it is hereby declared p'''^"'^'®-
to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The following sums are hereby appropri- ^P^,^°f^ien°nce
ated for the counties hereinafter specified for the year nine- of certain
teen hundred and twenty-nine. No direct drafts against f°t"e"esTand
the account known as the reserve fund shall be made, but debt require-

. , , ments, lor

transfers from this account to other accounts may be made certain
to meet extraordinary or unforeseen expenditures upon the ^^^^P'^o^ementB,
request of the county commissioners and with the approval
of the director of accounts.
Section 2.

Barnstable County.

Item

1 For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

fourteen thousand dollars .... $14,000 00 Appropriations.

2 For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding county tax,

sixty-three thousand thirty-nine dollars and forty- Barnstable,

four cents . . . ... . . 63,039 44

3 For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed

by law, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand

dollars 15,000 00

4 For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding eleven thousand dollars • . . . 11,000 00

5 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum not

exceeding sixteen thousand five hundred dollars . 16,500 00

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. S25.

Appropriations,
etc., and county
tax, Barnstable.

Item

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding twelve thousand dollars

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding eleven thou-
sand dollars .......

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars .....

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars ........

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not exceed-

ing two thousand dollars .....

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars .

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding sixty-five
thousand dollars ......

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

eleven thousand dollars .....

20 For the sanatorium, a sum not exceeding fortj'-eight

thousand dollars ......

20a For county health service, a sum not exceeding
twelve thousand five hundred dollars .

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding three thousand
five hundred dollars .....

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand five hundred dollars

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding five thou-

sand dollars .......

And the county commissioners of Barnstable county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of two hundred seventy-
eight thousand one hundred forty-five dollars and
fifty-seven cents, to be expended, together with
the cash balance on hand and the receipts from
other sources, for the above purposes .

112,000 00
12,000 00

11,000 00

1,500 00

2,000 00
2,000 00
6,000 00

15,000 00

65,000 00
11,000 00
48,000 00
12,500 00

3,500 00
1,500 00
5,000 00

,145 57

Appropriations,
etc., and
county tax,
Berkshire.

Berkshire County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

twenty thousand five hundred dollars . . $20,500 00

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

eighteen thousand dollars . .... 18,000 00

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed
by law, a sum not exceeding twenty-seven thou-
sand five hundred dollars ..... 27,500 00

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding eleven thousand one hundred dollars . 11,100 00

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum not

exceeding forty-two thousand dollars . . . 42,000 00

For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding forty-one thousand five
hundred dollars . . . . . . 41,500 00

For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . 15,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

355

Item

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-
perior courts, a sum not exceeding fifteen thou-
sand dollars .......

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars ......

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding five thousand
five hundred dollars .....

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not exceed-

ing three thousand dollars ....

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand
dollars ........

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding twenty-three thousand dollars

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges

and land damages, a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred sixty thousand dollars ....
16a For examination of dams, a sum not exceeding one
thousand six hundred dollars ....

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding one thousand

five hundred dollars .....

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding one thou-

sand five hundred dollars .....

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

fifteen thousand dollars .....

20 For the sanatorium (Hampshire County), a sum

not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars

21 For the care and maintenance of Greylock state

reservation, a sum not exceeding nine thousand
five hundi'ed dollars .....
21a For the care and maintenance of Mount Everett
state reservation, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars .......

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding eight hundred five

dollars ........

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding five thousand
five hundred dollars .....

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars .....

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding eight thou-

sand dollars .......

And the county commissioners of Berkshire county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of three hundred ninety-
four thousand two hundred eleven dollars and
forty-two cents, to be expended, together with the
cash balance on hand and the receipts from other
sources, for the above purposes ....

$15,000 00 Appropriations,
etc., and county
tax, Berkshire.

1,500:00

5,500 00
3,000 00

15,000 00

23,000 00

160,000 00

1,600 00

1,500 00

15,000 00

11,500 00

9,500 00

1,000 00

805 00

5,500 00

1,000 00

8,000 00

,211 42

Bristol County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five thousand dollars ....

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding
forty-four thousand dollars ....

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed
by law, a sum not exceeding forty-four thousand
dollars ........

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not
exceeding forty-three thousand dollars

$35,000 00 Appropriations,
etc., and
A A r\(\n nn county tax,
44,000 00 Bristol.

44,000 00
43,000 00

356

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

Appropriations,
etc., and county
t.ax, Bristol.

Item

5 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum not

exceeding one hundred one thousand dollars . $101,000 00

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding ninety thousand dollars 90,000 00

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding sixty thousand dollars . . . 60,000 00

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand

dollars 50,000 00

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand

dollars . . . . . . . . 1,000 00

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding thirteen thou-
sand dollars "13,000 00

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-

ceeding six thousand dollars .... 6,000 00

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding seventeen thou-
sand five hundred dollars ..... 17,500 00

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a

sum not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars . 55,000 00

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding one hundred

twenty-six thousand dollars .... 126,000 00

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding seven thou-

sand dollars 7,000 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding twelve

thousand dollars . . . . . . 12,000 00

19 For the agricultural school, a sum not exceeding fifty

thousand dollars . . . . . 50,000 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding eleven thousatid

dollars 11,000 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding three thousand

dollars 3,000 00

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not exceed-
ing five thousand dollars ..... 5,000 00

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding seven thou-

sand dollars . . . . . 7,000 00

And the county commissioners of Bristol county are
hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of six hundred twenty-
five thousand five hundred dollars, to Ije expended,
together with the cash balance on hand and the
receipts from other sources, for the above purposes $625,500 00

Appropriations,
etc., and
county tax,
Dukes County.

Counly of Dukes County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

three thousand two hundred dollars . . . $3,200 00

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding
twenty-one thousand three hundred seventy dol-
lars and four cents ...... 21,370 04

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed
by law, a sum not exceeding five thousand three
hundred sixty-nine dollars and twentj' cents . 5,369 20

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars . 1,300 00

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum not
exceeding three thousand dollars . . . 3,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

357

Item

12
14

17
18
19
20
21
23

For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding one thousand five hun-
dred dollars $1,500 00

For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding one thousand dollars .... 1,000 00

For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-
perior courts, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars .

For transportation expenses of county and associate
commissioners, a sum not exceeding three hundred
dollars ........

For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments
of the insane, a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ........

For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars ....

For repairing, furnishing and improving county
buildings, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars ........

For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-
ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding two thousand dollars

For highways, including state highways, bridges and
land damages, a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars .....

For law library, a sum not exceeding one hundred
fifty dollars .......

For training school, a sum not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars .......

For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding
four hundred dollars .....

For the sanatorium (Barnstal)le County), a sum not
exceeding four thousand six hundred dollars

For the Gay Head reservation, a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars ......

For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the
current year, a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ........

For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ........

And the county commissioners of the county of
Dukes County are hereby authorized to levy as
the county tax of said county for the current year,
in the manner provided by law, the sum of forty-
two thousand seven hundred thirty-nine dollars
and sixty cents, to be expended, together with the
cash balance on hand and the receipts from other
sources, for the above purposes .... $42,739 60

Appropriations,
etc., and county
tax, Dukes
County.

1,000

300

500 00

300

5,000 00

2,000 00

1,500

150

500

400

4,600

500

Essex County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding
thirty-five thousand dollars ....

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding
two hundred thirteen thousand dollars

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed by
law, a sum not exceeding fifty-four thousand five
hundred dollars ......

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not
exceeding one hundred one thousand dollars

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum
not exceeding one hundred seventy-six thousand
dollars ........

$35,000 00 Appropriations.

etc., and
010 nnn nn county tax
213,000 00 Essex.

54,500 00
101,000 00

176,000 00

358 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

Item

Appropriations, Q YoT Salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
tax,' Essex""" ^ support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-

tion, a sum not exceeding eighty-six thousand
dollars . . . . . . . . $86,000 00

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding one hundred ten thousand dollars . 110,000 00

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding one hundred

nineteen thousand dollars .... 119,000 00

9 For trial justices, a sum not exceeding five thousand

dollars 5,000 00

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding two thousand

five hundred dollars 2,500 00

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding thirteen thou-
sand dollars 13,000 00

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-

ceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . 15,000 00

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding twenty-four thou-
sand nine hundred dollars .... 24,900 00

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding sixty-eight thousand four hun-
dred dollars 68,400 00

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding four hundred

eight thousand dollars 408,000 00

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding nine thousand

dollars . . 9,000 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding fifty-four

thousand dollars . . . . . . 54,000 00

19 For maintenance of the independent agricultural

school, a sum not exceeding one hundred fifty-one
thousand one hundred dollars .... 151,100 00
19a For the equipment of the independent agricultural
school, a sum not exceeding two thousand eight
hundred dollars 2,800 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding four thousand

nine hundred dollars ..... 4,900 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceecUng three thousand

two hundred dollars 3,200 00

23a For unpaid bills of previous j^ears, a sum not exceed-
ing two thousand two hundred dollars . . 2,200 00

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-

sand dollars . 10,000 00

And the county commissioners of Essex county are
hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of said
county for the current year, in the manner pro-
vided by law, the sum of one million three hundred
seven thousand dollars, to be expended, together
with the cash balance on hand and the receipts
from other sources, for the above purposes . $1,307,000 00

Franklin County.
Appropriations, J YoT interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding
county tax, six thousand six hundred dollars . . . $6,600 00

Franklin. ' 2 For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

fifteen thousand dollars . . . . . 15,000 00

3 For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed
by law, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand
four hundred sixteen dollars .... 14,416 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325. 359

Item

4 For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding five thousand eight hundred dollars . $5,800 00 Appropriations,

5 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum tax 'Franklin'*^

not exceeding fourteen thousand five hundred

dollars ... . . . 14,500 00

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-.
tion, a sum not exceeding twenty-seven thousand
dollars . . . . . . . . 27,000 00

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding five thousand dollars .... 5,000 00

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding fourteen thou-
sand dollars 14,000 00

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding three hundred

fifty dollars . 350 00

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding two thousand

dollars 2,000 00

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not exceed-

ing two thousand dollars ..... 2,000 00

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding four thousand five

hundred dollars . ... . . 4,500 00

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a

sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars . . 10,000 00

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding seventy-six
thousand five hundred dollars .... 76,500 00
16a For the examination of dams, a sum not exceeding

two thousand five hundred dollars . . . 2,500 00

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding two thousand

seven hundred dollars ..... 2,700 00

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

eight thousand six hundred fifty dollars . . 8,650 00

20 For the sanatorium (Hampshire County), a sum not

exceeding twelve thousand seven hundred forty-
five dollars 12,745 00

20a For Greenfield health camp (Chapter 354, Acts of

1928), a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars . 1,000 00

21 For Mount Sugar Loaf state reservation, a sum not

exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars . 1,800 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding eight hundred

fifty dollars ....... 850 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding one thousand

dollars 1,000 00

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars ..... 1,000 00

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding five thou-

sand dollars . 5,000 00

And the county commissioners of Franklin county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of one hundred ninety-
five thousand three hundred eighty-seven dollars,
to be expended, together with the cash balance on
hand and the receipts from other sources, for the
above purposes ...... $195,387 00

360

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

Appropriations,
etc., and
county tax,
Hampden.

Item
1

Hampden County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

eighty-six thousand five hundred dollars . . $86,500 00

2 For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

one hundred twenty thousand dollars . . . 120,000 00

3 For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed

by law, a sum not exceeding forty-five thousand

dollars 45,000 00

4 For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding fifty-seven thousand dollars . . 57,000 00

5 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum

not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars . . 95,000 00

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding eighty-five thousand
dollars . 85,000 00

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding forty thousand dollars . . . 40,000 00

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding sixty-three

thousand dollars 63,000 00

9 For trial justices, a sum not exceeding two thousand

dollars 2,000 00

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand

five hundred dollars 1,500 00

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding twelve thou-
sand dollars 12,000 00

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-

ceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . 15,000 00

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand

dollars 15,000 00

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a

sum not exceeding sixty-five thousand dollars . 65,000 00

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding two hundred

sixty-five thousand dollars .... 265,000 00

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding nine thousand

dollars 9,000 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding forty-three

thousand dollars 43,000 00

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

thirty-six thousand dollars .... 36,000 00

20 For the sanatorium (Hampshire County), a sum not

exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . 15,000 00

20a For the preventorium, a sum not exceeding three

thousand dollars 3,000 00

21 For Mount Tom state reservation, a sum not ex-

ceeding nine thousand dollars .... 9,000 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding five thousand

dollars 5,000 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding four thousand
nine hundred twenty-two dollars and forty-six

cents 4,922 46

23a For unpaid bills of previous j'ears, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand five hmidred dollars . . 1,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

361

Item

For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars .......

And the county commissioners of Hampden county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of nine hundred fifteen
thousand dollars, to be expended, together with
the cash balance on hand and the receipts from
other sources, for the above purposes .

$10,000 00 Appropriations,
etc., and county
tax, Hampden.

$915,000 00

Hampshire County.

1 For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

nine thousand dollars .....

2 For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

thirty-five thousand dollars ....

3 For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed

by law, a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand
dollars ........

4 For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding nine thousand five hundred dollars

5 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum

not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars ........

7 For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sum not exceeding twelve thou-
sand dollars .......

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars ........

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding four thousand
dollars ........

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-

ceeding three thousand dollars ....

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars ........

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding one hundred
ten thousand dollars .....

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding one thousand

two hundred dollars .....

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

nine thousand dollars .....

20 For the sanatorium, a sum not exceeding twelve

thousand dollars ......

20a For the preventorium, a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars ......

21 For Mount Tom state reservation, a sum not ex-

ceeding two thousand dollars ....

21a For Deer Hill state reservation, a sum not exceeding

three hundred dollars .....

$9,000 00 Appropriations,
' etc., and

county tax,
35,000 00 Hampshire.

18,000 00

9,500 00

24,000 00

25,000 00
25,000 00

12,000 00

1,000 00

4,000 00
3,000 00

20,000 00

13,000 00

110,000 00
1,200 00
9,000 00
12,000 00
2,000 00
2,000 00
300 00

362

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

Itom
Appropriations, 22
etc., and county
tax, Hampshire.

For pen.sions, a sum not exceeding two thousand

dollars ........ $2,000 00

For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the
current year, including insurance renewals, a sum
not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars 3,500 00
23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not ex-
ceeding three hundred fifty dollars . . . 350 00

For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars . . . . . 10,000 00

And the county commissioners of Hampshire county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax
of said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of two hundred twenty-
five thousanfl one hundred fifty-eight dollars and
forty-one cents, to be expended, together with the
cash balance on hand and the receipts from other
sources, for the above purposes . . . . $225,158 41

Appropriations,
etc., and
county tax,
Middlesex.

Middlesex County.

1 For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

sixty-five thousand dollars .... $65,000 00

2 For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

one hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars . 178,000 00

3 For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed

by law, a sum not exceeding seventy-two thou-
sand dollars . 72,000 00

4 For clerical assistance in county oflfices, a sum not

exceeding two himdred sixty-six thousand five

hundred dollars . . . . . . 266,500 00

6 For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum

not exceeding three hundred tliousand dollars . 300,000 00

6 For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and

support of i)risoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a simi not exceeding one hundred ninety-five
thousand dollars 195,000 00

7 For criminal costs in the sur)erior coiu't, a sum not

exceeding two hundred ten tliou.'^and dollars 210,000 00

8 For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-

perior courts, a sinn not exceeding one hundred

eighty thousand dollars . . . . . 180,000 00

9 For trial justices, a sum not exceeding one thousand

dollars 1,000 00

10 For transportation expenses of county and associate

commissioners, a sum not exceeding two thou-
sand five himdred dollars ..... 2,500 00

11 For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments

of the insane, a sum not exceeding twenty-nine

thousand dollars 29,000 00

12 For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-

ceeding twenty-five thousand dollars . . . 25,000 00

14 For repairing, furnishing and improving county

buildings, a sum not exceeding one hundred five

thousand dollars . . . . . . 105,000 00

15 For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-

ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding one hundred forty thousand
dollars 140,000 00

16 For highways, including state highways, bridges and

land damages, a sum not exceeding four hundred

thousand dollars . . . . . . 400,000 00

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding eleven thou-

sand dollars 11,000 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding fifty-six

thousand dollars 66,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

363

Item

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding
forty thousand dollars .....

21 For Walden Pond state reservation, a sum not ex-

ceeding ten thousand dollars ....

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand

dollars ........

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars ........

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars ....

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-

sand dollars .......

And the county commissioners of Middlesex county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax
of said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of one million eight
hundred twenty-two thousand two hundred
twenty-four dollars and fifty-one cents, to be
expended, together with the cash balance on hand
and the receipts from other sources, for the above
purposes ...... I

$40,000 00 Appropriationa.
etc., and county
^„ „„^ ^„ tax, Middlesex.

10,000 00
30,000 00

5,000 00

10,000 00

1,822,224 51

12
13
14

Norfolk County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding
eleven thousand dollars .....

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding
twenty-two thousand one hundred two dollars
and ninety-four cents .....

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed by
law, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars .

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not
exceeding ninety-four thousand five hundred
dollars ........

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum
not exceeding ninety-three thousand dollars

For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
support of prisoners in jails and houses of correc-
tion, a sum not exceeding forty-eight thousand
dollars ........

For criminar costs in the superior court, a sum not
exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars .

For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-
perior courts, a sum not exceeding forty-five
thousand dollars ......

For transportation expenses of county and associate
commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars ......

For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments
of the insane, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand
dollars ........

For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-
ceeding eight thousand dollars ....

For building county buildings, a sum not exceeding
three thousand dollars .....

For repairing, furnishing and improving county
buildings, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand
dollars ........

For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-
ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding fifty-seven thousand dollars

For highways, including state highways, bridges and
land damages, a sum not exceeding two hundred
sixty-two thousand dollars ....

$11,000 00 Appropriations,
etc., and

county tax,
Norfolk.

22,102 94

30,000 00

94,500 00

93,000 00

48,000 00

55,000 00

45,000 00

1,500 00

11,000 00

8,000 00

3,000 00

15,000 00

57,000 00

262,000 00

364

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

Approprititions,
etc., and county
tax, Norfolk.

Item

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding three thou-

sand dollars $3,000 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding seven

thousand dollars 7,000 00

19 For the agricultural school, a sum not exceeding

seventy-eight thousand dollars .... 78,000 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding five thousand

dollars 5,000 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding two thousand
four hundred thirty-five dollars and forty-six

cents . . 2,435 46

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars .... 3,000 00

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding eight thou-

sand dollars 8.000 00

And the county commissioners of Norfolk county are
hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of six hundred seventy-
seven thousand dollars, to be expended, together
with the cash balance on hand and the receipts
from other sources, for the above purposes . . $677,000 00

Appropriations,
etc., and
county tax,
Plymouth.

12
14

Plymouth County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding

thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars . $37,500 00

For reduction of county debt, a sum not exceeding

seventy thousand dollars ..... 70,000 00

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed by
law, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars 25,000 00

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not

exceeding thirty thousand dollars . . . 30,000 00

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum

not exceeding fifty-seven thousand dollars . . 57,000 00

For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
support of prisoners in jails and houses of cor-
rection, a sum not exceeding ninety-three thou-
sand dollars 93,000 00

For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not

exceeding forty-seven thousand dollars . . 47,000 00

For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-
perior courts, a sum not exceeding thirty-one thou-
sand dollars 31,000 00

For transportation expenses of county and associate
commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand eight hundred dollars .... 1,800 00

For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments
of the insane, a sum not exceeding five thousand
five hundred dollars ..... 5,500 00

For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars .... 5,000 00

For repairing, furnishing and improving county
buildings, a sum not exceeding six thousand
dollars 6,000 00

For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-
ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding nineteen thousand dollars . 19,000 00

For highways, including state highways, bridges and
land damages, a sum not exceeding one hundred
sixty-eight thousand eight hundred fifty dollars . 168,850 00

For law libraries, a sum not exceeding three thou-
sand five hundred dollars .... 3,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 325.

365

Item

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding five thou-

sand five hundred dollars ....

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

twelve thousand dollars .....

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding one thousand

seven hundred one dollars ....

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding four thousand
two hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-three
cents ........

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not ex-
ceeding six thousand six hundred dollars

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-

sand dollars .......

And the county commissioners of Plymouth county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of five hundred twenty-
four thousand dollars, to be expended, together
with the cash balance on hand and the receipts
from other sources, for the above purposes .

$5,500 00 Appropriations,
etc., and county

12,000 00 *""■ P'^"^""***-
1,701 00

4,235 93

6,600 00

10,000 00

$524,000 00

12
13

Worcester County.

For interest on county debt, a sum not exceeding
thirteen thousand dollars .....

For salaries of county officers and assistants, fixed
by law, a sum not exceeding fifty-five thousand
dollars ........

For clerical assistance in county offices, a sum not
exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars

For salaries and expenses of district courts, a sum
not exceeding one hundred forty-six thousand
dollars ........

For salaries of jailers, masters and assistants, and
support of prisoners in jails and houses of cor-
rection, a sum not exceeding ninety-six thousand
dollars ........

For criminal costs in the superior court, a sum not
exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars

For civil expenses in the supreme judicial and su-
perior courts, a sum not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars ......

For trial justices, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars . . . . . . . _ .

For transportation expenses of county and associate
commissioners, a sum not exceeding three thou-
sand five hundred dollars ....

For medical examiners, inquests, and commitments
of the insane, a sum not exceeding eighteen thou-
sand dollars .......

For auditors, masters and referees, a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty thousand dollars

For building county buildings, a sum not exceeding
ten thousand dollars . . . .

For repairing, furnishing and improving county
buildings, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars ........

For care, fuel, lights and supplies in county build-
ings, other than jails and houses of correction, a
sum not exceeding sixty thousand dollars .

For highways, including state highways, bridges
and land damages, a sum not exceeding four
hundred eighty-one thousand dollars

$13,000 00 Appropriations,
etc., and

55,000 00
75,000 00

146,000 00

96,000 00
85,000 00

100,000 00
1,000 00

3,500 00

18,000 00
20,000 00
10,000 00

20,000 00

60,000 00

481,000 00

county tax,
Worcester.

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Appropriations,
etc., and county
tax, Worcester.

Item

17 For law libraries, a sum not exceeding eight thou-

sand two hundred dollars .... $8,200 00

18 For training school, a sum not exceeding twenty-

three thousand dollars 23,000 00

19 For county aid to agriculture, a sum not exceeding

thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars . . 33,500 00

20a For the preventorium, a sum not exceeding three

thousand dollars 3,000 00

21 For Mount Wachusett state reservation, a sum

not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars . 25,000 00

21a For Purgatory Chasm state reservation, a sum

not exceeding two thousand dollars . . . 2,000 00

22 For pensions, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand

dollars 15,000 00

23 For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the

current year, a sum not exceeding four thousand

dollars 4,000 00

23a For unpaid bills of previous years, a sum not ex-
ceeding six thousand dollars . . . 6,000 00

24 For a reserve fund, a sum not exceeding ten thou-

sand dollars 10,000 00

And the county commissioners of Worcester county
are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of
said county for the current year, in the manner
provided by law, the sum of nine hundred sixty-
five thousand dollars, to be expended, together
with the cash balance on hand and the receipts
from other sources, for the above purposes . . $965,000 00

Approved May 17, 1929.

Chap

G. L. 152, § 15,
amended.

Recovery of
damages for
injuries to
employees of
persons
insured under
workmen's
compensation
laws caused
under circum-
stances creating
a legal
liability in
some person
other than
the insured,
etc.

.326 An Act relative to the recovery of damages for
injuries to employees of persons insured under the
workmen's compensation laws caused under circum-
stances CREATING A LEGAL LIABILITY IN SOME PERSON
OTHER THAN THE INSURED.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
fifteen and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 15. Where the injury for which compensation is
payable was caused under circumstances creating a legal
liability in some person other than the insured to pay dam-
ages in respect thereof, the employee may at his option
proceed either at law against that person to recover dam-
ages or against the insurer for compensation under this
chapter, but not against both. If compensation be paid
under this chapter, the insurer may enforce, in the name of
the employee or in its own name and for its own benefit, the
liability of such other person; and in case the insurer re-
covers a sum greater than that paid by it to the employee,
four fifths of the excess shall be paid to the employee; but
the insurer shall not make any settlement by agreement
with such other person without the approval of the indus-
trial accident board. An employee shall not be held to have
exercised his option under this section to proceed at law if,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 327. 367

at any time prior to trial of an action at law brought by
him against such other person, he shall, after notice to the
insurer, discontinue such action, provided that upon pay- Proviso,
ment of compensation following such discontinuance the in-
surer shall not have lost its right to enforce the liability of
such other person as hereinbefore provided.

Section 2. Section forty-one of said chapter one hun- g. l. 152. § 41,
dred and fifty-two is hereby amended by adding thereto the ^™^"<^«'^-
following: — , or, in case an action against a third person
is discontinued as provided in section fifteen, within thirty
days after such discontinuance, — so as to read as follows:
— Section 1^1. No proceedings for compensation for an Notice and
injury shall be maintained unless a notice thereof shall have ''^'*"^"
been given to the insurer or insured as soon as practicable
after the happening thereof, and unless the claim for com-
pensation with respect to such injury has been made within
six months after its occurrence, or, in case of the death of the
employee, or in the event of his physical or mental incapacity,
within six months after death or the removal of such inca-
pacity, or, in case an action against a third person is discon-
tinued as provided in section fifteen, within thirty days
after such discontinuance. Ay-proved May 17, 1929.

An Act authorizing certain cemetery corporations in (JJidj) 327

THE town of CHATHAM TO TRANSFER THE CEMETERIES,
AND OTHER PROPERTY AND TRUST FUNDS OF SAID CORPO-
RATIONS, TO SAID TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Each of the following named cemetery cor- Certain
porations situated in the town of Chatham, to wit: Union corpora'twns in
Cemetery, incorporated under chapter two hundred and cj^j^him may
fifty-two of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and seven- transfer the
teen. Peoples Cemetery, Seaside Cemetery Corporation, otlTefproperty
South Chatham Cemetery and Methodist Episcopal Ceme- f^^^^ll\^i^
tery, or any of them, may, by deed executed by the president corporations.
and treasurer of such corporation, thereunto duly author- ^^^aidtown.
ized, or, in case of the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, by a
majority of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
or Society of Chatham, thereunto duly authorized, convey
and transfer to said town of Chatham, and said town is
hereby authorized to receive, and thereafter to hold and
maintain, but for cemetery purposes only, and subject to all
rights heretofore existing in any burial lots in such cemetery
or cemeteries, the real and personal property of such cor-
porations, or any of them; and thereupon, and upon the
transfer of trust funds, as authorized by section two, by any
such corporation holding such funds, such corporation shall
be dissolved; and the cemetery of such corporation shall be
and become a public burial place, ground or cemetery.

Any property devised or bequeathed to any of such Property

7 2^- , r--- ji bequeathed

cemetery corporations transierring its property under au- under win to
thority of this act, under the will of any person living at the cortoritk)^*'

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to be paid to
said town, and
to be held
upon same
trusts.

Payment to
said town of
trust funds
for perpetual
care of

cemetery lots,
etc.

Management
by said town
of property
acquired from
said cemetery
corporations.

Proviso.

Transfer to
town treasurer
of interest and
dividends
accruing on
trust funds
for benefit of
any of said
corporations
or lots
therein, etc.

Town to
administer
property or
funds in
accordance
with terms
of gift or
trust, etc.

Effective upon
acceptance, etc,

time of the transfer aforesaid or under the will of any de-
ceased person not then probated, shall, at the time when
such devise or bequest becomes operative, be paid to said
town instead of to said corporation and thereafter be held
upon the same trusts.

Section 2. Any cemetery corporation mentioned in
section one, upon the transfer of its property thereunder
to said town, shall also pay over to said town all funds or
other property held by it in trust for the perpetual care of
the lots in such cemetery or otherwise, and said town shall
thereafter hold such trust property upon the same trusts
as those upon which such trust funds are now held by such
cemetery corporation.

Section 3. All real and personal property, and property
rights, acquired by said town from any cemetery corpora-
tion under authority of section one shall be held and man-
aged by said town in the same manner in which cities and
towns are authorized by law to hold and manage property
for cemetery purposes; provided, that all rights which
any persons have acquired in any such cemetery or any lots
therein shall remain in force to the same extent as if this
act had not been passed and such transfer had not occurred.
The records of any such corporation shall be delivered to
the clerk of said town, and such clerk may certify copies
thereof.

Section 4. Interest and dividends accruing on funds
deposited in trust with any savings bank, under authority
of section thirty-seven or thirty-eight of chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-eight of the General Laws, or with any other
banking institution, for the benefit of any such cemetery
corporation or of any lots therein shall, after such convey-
ance and transfer, be paid by such bank to the treasurer of
said town, and said treasurer, under the direction of the
cemetery commissioners of said town, shall use the same
for the purposes specified by the donor of said funds or by
the will of the person bequeathing the same.

Section 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to
authorize or require the diversion of any funds or property
given in trust for any specified purpose or use to any other
purpose or use, and said town shall administer such prop-
erty or funds in accordance with the terms of such a gift
or trust until otherwise ordered by a court of competent
jurisdiction.

Section 6. This act shall take full effect upon its ac-
ceptance by a majority of the registered voters of the town
of Chatham present and voting thereon at the annual town
meeting of said town to be held in the year nineteen hun-
dred and thirty, or at a special town meeting called for the
purpose to be held prior to December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine; but for the purpose only of such
9,cceptance it shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 17, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 328, 329. 369

An Act making a correction in the law relative to (Jhav 328

PROBATE RECORDS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and fifteen of the g. l. 215, § 36.
General Laws, as amended in section thirty-six by section ^*'' • '^'"^nded.
one of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of
the current year, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section thirty-six and inserting in place thereof the fol-
lowing: — Section 36. Decrees and orders of probate courts Prolate cLrt
shall be in writing. The registers shall record in books kept to be in
therefor such decrees, orders and other proceedings in said wkhofker"*
courts and such instruments, as shall be determined by rules ?°"'"* p^ceed-

' , ... "^ ings and

made from time to time under section thirty. certain other

Section 2. This act shall take effect on September first lo^be^rTcwded.
in the current year. Approved May 17, 1929. Effective date.

An Act relative to the disposition of motor vehicles phri-r) S2Q
seized and held to be containers or implements of ^'

SALE of intoxicating LIQUOR CONTRARY TO LAW AND
penalizing THE USE OF RENTED OR ENCUMBERED PER-
SONAL PROPERTY AS SUCH A CONTAINER OR IMPLEMENT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section sixty-eight of chapter one liundred ^^^^^^8, § 68,
and thirty-eight of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after the word "shall" in the thirteenth line the
words: — , except as hereinafter provided, — and by adding
at the end thereof the following: — If a motor vehicle is
seized under the provisions of this chapter and is held to be
a container or implement of sale of liquor contrary to law,
the court or trial justice shall, unless good cause to the
contrary is shown, order a sale of such motor vehicle by
public auction and the officer making the sale, after deduct-
ing the expense of keeping the motor vehicle, the fee for the
seizure and the cost of the sale, shall pay all liens, according
to their priorities, which are established, by intervention or
otherwise, at said trial or in other proceedings brought for
said purpose, as being bona fide and as having been created
without the lienor having any notice that such motor vehicle
was being used or was to be used as a container or imple-
ment of sale of liquor contrary to law. The balance, if any,
of the proceeds of the sale shall be forfeited to the com-
monwealth and shall be paid by said officer into its treasury.
All liens against any motor vehicle sold under the provisions
of this section shall be transferred from said motor vehicle
to the proceeds of its sale, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 68. At the time and place designated in the notice, claimant of
the person complained against, or any person claiming an beadmiTted
interest in the liquor and vessel seized, or any part thereof, as party to the
may appear and make his claim verbally or in writing, and
a record of his appearance and claim shall be made, and he

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Judgment.

Disposition of
motor vehicles
seized and
held to be
containers
or implements
of sale of
intoxicating
liquor contrary
to law, etc.

Payment of
liens.

Balance of
proceeds of sale
to be forfeited
to common-
wealth, etc.

G. L. 138, § 71,
amended.

Not applicable
to motor
vehicles seized
as aforesaid,
etc.

G. L. 266,
amended.

Penalty for
concealing
mortgaged per-
sonal property,
or for using
rented or
mortgaged
personal
property as a
container or
implement of
sale of
intoxicating
liquor, etc.

shall be admitted as a party to the trial. Whether a claim
as aforesaid is made or not, the court or trial justice shall
proceed to try, hear and determine the allegations of such
complaint, and whether said liquor and vessels, or any part
thereof, are forfeited. If it appears that the liquor, or any
part thereof, was at the time of making the complaint owned
or kept by the person alleged therein for the purpose of being
sold in violation of law, the court or trial justice shall render
judgment that such and so much of the liquor so seized as
was so unlawfully kept, and the vessels in which it is con-
tained, shall, except as hereinafter provided, be forfeited
to the commonwealth. If a motor vehicle is seized under
the provisions of this chapter and is held to be a container
or implement of sale of liquor contrary to law, the court or
trial justice shall, unless good cause to the contrary is shown,
order a sale of such motor vehicle by public auction and the
officer making the sale, after deducting the expense of keep-
ing the motor vehicle, the fee for the seizure and the cost of
the sale, shall pay all hens, according to their priorities,
which are established, by intervention or otherwise, at said
trial or in other proceedings brought for said purpose, as
being bona fide and as having been created without the
lienor having any notice that such motor vehicle was being
used or was to be used as a container or implement of sale
of liquor contrary to law. The balance, if any, of the pro-
ceeds of the sale shall be forfeited to the commonwealth and
shall be paid by said officer into its treasury. All liens
against any motor vehicle sold under the provisions of this
section shall be transferred from said motor vehicle to the
proceeds of its sale.

Section 2. Section seventy-one of said chapter one
hundred and thirty-eight is hereby amended by adding at
the end thereof the following new sentence : — The provi-
sions of this section shall not apply to a motor vehicle if
seized and held to be an implement of sale as aforesaid, but
the disposition of such a motor vehicle shall be governed by
the provisions of section sixty-eight.

Section 3. Section eighty-two of chapter two hundred
and sixty-six of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after the word "concealment" in the fifth line the
words: — , or whoever shall use rented, leased or mortgaged
personal property as a container or implement of sale of
intoxicating liquor contrary to law, — so as to read as
follows : — Section 82. Whoever, with a fraudulent intent
to place personal property which is subject to a mortgage
beyond the control of the mortgagee, removes or conceals
or aids or abets in removing or concealing the same, and a
mortgagor of such property who assents to such removal or
concealment, or whoever shall use rented, leased or mort-
gaged personal property as a container or implement of sale
of intoxicating liquor contrary to law, shall be punished by a
fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprison-
ment for not more than one year.

A'pproved May 20, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 330. 371

An Act establishing the north seekonk water dis- Chav 330

TRICT OF SEEKONK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of Seekonk North seekonk
hable to taxation in that town and residing within the ter- of^sllk^k™*
ritory comprised within the following boundary lines, to established.
wit : — Beginning at a point at the boundary line of the
town of Seekonk and the city of Attleboro, which line is
located fourteen hundred and fifty feet northeasterly from
the easterly side of Central avenue, in said town of Seekonk,
which is the point of beginning; thence continuing in a south-
westerly direction to the northeasterly corner of lot num-
bered seventy-one on the Bourne Plat No. 2, December,
nineteen hundred and fourteen, by W. M. Dexter; thence
continuing along the westerly line of Greenfield street to
a stone bound on the southerly line of Pine street, which
stone bound marks the division between lots numbered one
hundred and twenty-seven and one hundred and twenty-
eight on that plat entitled "Baker's Corners Plat, Seekonk,
Mass., owned by M. J. Gallagher, surveyed and drawn
February, nineteen hundred and eleven by J. E. Judson,
C. E."; thence continuing along the easterly boundary line
of lots numbered one hundred and twenty-eight, one hun-
dred and forty-seven, one hundred and forty-eight, one
hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and sixty-eight and
one hundred and eighty-seven to the northerly line of Lester
street, on said plat; thence turning and continuing in a
southwesterly direction to the northerly intersection of
Roosevelt street and Newman avenue on plat entitled
"Metropolitan Boulevard, Seekonk, Mass., 1913"; thence
continuing along the northerly line of Roosevelt street on
said plat to its intersection with the boundary line of Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island; thence turning and continuing
in a northerly direction along said boundary line of Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island to the land now owned by M.
J. Gallagher; thence continuing easterly along the southerly
line of said land to the intersection of the westerly boundary
of that land entitled "Lull Farm Plat, Seekonk, Mass., be-
longing to M. J. Gallagher, by Frank A. Waterman Co.,
April, 1919"; thence continuing along the westerly boundary
of said Lull Plat and along the westerly boundaries of
"Baker Plat, Seekonk, Mass., owned by Lester C. Baker,
drawn by Loring Hayward, C. E." and "Maynard Plat in
Seekonk, Mass., November 15, 1913, H. F. Conant, Civil
Engineer and Surveyor, Attleboro, Mass., replatted by J.
E. Judson, Pawtucket, R. I." to the northwesterly corner of
said Maynard Plat; thence continuing in a northeasterly
direction to a point on the southerly line of Pond street in
the said town of Seekonk, which point is three hundred feet
westerly from the southerly intersection of said Pond street
and Central avenue in said town; thence continuing along

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May contract
with city of
Attleboro, etc.

May take
waters of any
pond, etc., in
town of See-
konk, may
take, etc.,
lands, rights
of way, etc.

Proviso.

May construct
dams, stand-
pipes, etc.,
make

excavations,
etc.

May construct
wells, etc., lay
aqueducts,
conduits, etc.

May dig up
and embank
lands, high-
ways, etc.

the so-called Ten Mile river in a northerly direction to the
Attleboro-Seekonk boundary line; thence continuing in a
northeasterly direction along the Attleboro-Seekonk bound-
ary line to the point or place of beginning, — shall constitute
a water district, and are hereby made a body corporate by
the name of the North Seekonk Water District of Seekonk,
hereinafter called the district, for the purpose of supplying
themselves with water for the extinguishment of fires and
for domestic and other purposes, with power to establish
fountains and hydrants and to relocate and discontinue the
same, to regulate the use of such water and to fix and collect
rates to be paid therefor, and to take, or acquire by lease,
purchase or otherwise, and to hold fbr the purposes men-
tioned in this act, property, lands, rights of way and other
easements, and to prosecute and defend all actions relating
to the property and affairs of the district.

Section 2. For the purposes aforesaid, said district,
acting by and through its board of commissioners herein-
after provided for, may contract with the city of Attleboro,
or any other town or city, acting through their respective
water departments, or with any water company, and/or
may take under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws,
or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, the waters,
or any portion thereof, of any pond or stream, or of any
ground sources of supply by means of driven, artesian or
other wells within the town of Seekonk, and the water rights
connected with any such water sources; and for said pur-
poses may take as aforesaid, or acquire by purchase or
otherwise, and hold, all lands, rights of way and other ease-
ments necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purifying
and preserving the purity of the water and for conveying the
same to any part of said district: provided, that no source
of water supply or lands necessary for preserving the quality
of the water shall be so taken or used without first obtain-
ing the advice and approval of the state department of
public health, and that the location of all dams, reservoirs
and wells to be used as sources of water supply under this
act shall be subject to the approval of said department.
Said district may construct on the lands acquired and held
under this act proper dams, reservoirs, standpipes, tanks,
buildings, fixtures and other structures, and may make
excavations, procure and operate machinery and provide
such other means and appliances, and do such other things
as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance
of complete and effective water works; and for that pur-
pose may construct wells and reservoirs and establish pump-
ing works, and may construct, lay and maintain aqueducts,
conduits, pipes and other works under or over any land,
water courses, railroads, railways and public or other ways,
and along such ways, in said town, in such manner as not
unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the purposes of
constructing, laying, maintaining, operating and repairing
such conduits, pipes and other works, and for all proper

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 330. 373

purposes of this act, said district may dig up or raise and
embank any such lands, highways or other ways in such
manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel on
such ways; provided, that all things done upon any such Proviso,
way shall be subject to the direction of the selectmen of
the town of Seekonk. Said district shall not enter upon, Requirements
construct or lay any conduit, pipe or other works within irpon"rafiroad
the location of any railroad corporation except at such time '"cations.
and in such manner as it may agree upon with such corpo-
ration, or in case of failure to so agree, as may be approved
by the department of public utilities.

Section 3. Any person sustaining damages in his prop- Property
erty by any taking under this act or any other thing done recovfr'y,' etc.
under authority thereof may recover such damages from said
district under said chapter seventy-nine; but the right to
damages for the taking of any water, water right or water
source, or for any injury thereto, shall not vest until water
is actually withdrawn or diverted under authority of this
act.

Section 4. For the purpose of paying the necessary ex- District may
penses and liabilities incurred under the provisions of this fsaue°bondaT^'
act, other than expenses of maintenance and operation, the etc.
said district may borrow from time to time such sums as
may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, seventy-
five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes there-
for, which shall bear on their face the words, North Seekonk North Seekonk
Water District Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue Loan!" Act oT*
shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be ^^^9.
payable in not more than thirty years from their dates.
Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.

Section 5. Said district shall, at the time of author- Payment of
izing said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in °^"' "^^^
accordance with section four of this act; and when a vote
to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income
derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual
expense of operating its water works and the interest as it
accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid by the
district, and to make such payments on the principal as may
be required under provisions of this act, shall without further
vote be assessed upon said district by the assessors of said
town annually thereafter until the debt incurred by said
loan or loans is extinguished.

Section 6. Any land taken or acquired under this act Land acquired
shall be managed, improved and controlled by the commis- etc..\y1fo\% '
sioners hereinafter provided for, in such manner as they commissioners,
shall deem for the best interest of the district. etc.

Section 7. Whenever a tax is duly voted by said dis- Assessment
trict for the purposes of this act, the clerk shall send a ortaxe"'
certified copy of the vote to the assessors of said town, who
shall assess the same in the same manner in all respects in
which town taxes are required by law to be assessed. The
assessment shall be committed to the town collector, who

and collection

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Meeting, how
called.

Board of water
commissioners,
election,
powers, etc.

Treasurer of
district,
appointment,
bond.

Quorum.
Vacancy.

Commissioners
to fix water
rates, etc.

Income, how
used.

shall collect said tax in the manner provided by law for the
collection of town taxes, and shall deposit the proceeds
thereof with the district treasurer for the use and benefit
of said district. Said district may collect interest on over-
due taxes in the manner in which interest is authorized to be
collected on town taxes.

Section 8. The first meeting of said district shall be
called, within four years after the passage of this act, on
petition of ten or more legal voters therein, by a warrant
from the selectmen of said town, or from a justice of the
peace, directed to one of the petitioners, requiring him to
give notice of the meeting by posting copies of the warrant
in two or more public places in the district seven days at
least before the time of the meeting. Such justice of the
peace, or one of the selectmen, shall preside at such meeting
until a clerk is chosen and sworn, and the clerk shall pre-
side until a moderator is chosen. After the choice of a
moderator for the meeting the question of the acceptance of
this act shall be submitted to the voters, and if it is accepted
by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon it
shall take effect, and the meeting may then proceed to act
on the other articles contained in the warrant.

Section 9. Said district shall, after the acceptance of
this act as aforesaid, elect by ballot, either at the same
meeting at which this act is accepted or at a special meeting
called for the purpose, three persons to hold office, one until
the expiration of three years, one until the expiration of two
years, and one until the expiration of one year from the day
of the next succeeding annual district meeting, to constitute
a board of water commissioners; and at every annual meet-
ing thereafter one such commissioner shall be elected by
ballot for the term of three years. All the authority granted
to said district by this act, and not otherwise specifically
provided for, shall be vested in said board of water com-
missioners, who shall be subject, however, to such instruc-
tions, rules and regulations as the district may by vote
impose. Said commissioners shall appoint a treasurer of
said district, who may be one of their number, who shall give
bond to the district in such an amount and with such surety
or sureties as may be approved by the commissioners. A
majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business. Any vacancy occurring in said
board from any cause may be filled for the remainder of the
unexpired term by said district at any legal meeting called
for the purpose. No money shall be drawn from the dis-
trict treasury on account of the water works except upon
a written order of said commissioners or a majority of them.

Section 10. Said commissioners shall fix just and
equitable prices and rates for the use of water, and shall
prescribe the time and manner of payment. The income
of the water works shall be appropriated to defray all
operating expenses, interest charges and payments on the
principal as they accrue upon any bonds or notes issued

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 330. 375

under authority of this act. If there should be a net surplus
remaining after providing for the aforesaid charges, it may be
appropriated for such new construction as said commissioners
may recommend, and in case a surplus should remain after
payment for such new construction the water rates shall
be reduced proportionately. Said commissioners shall Annual, etc.,
annually, and as often as said district may require, render '^^''"'^ '
a report upon the condition of the works under their charge,
and an account of their doings, including an account of
receipts and expenditures.

Section 11. Said district may adopt by-laws prescrib- Adoption ot
ing by whom and how meetings may be called, notified and ciiilng of
conducted; and, upon the application of ten or more legal meetings,
voters in said district meetings may also be called by war-
rant as provided in section eight. Said district may also
establish rules and regulations for the management of its
water works, not inconsistent with this act or with law,
and may choose such other officers not provided for in this
act as it may deem necessary or proper.

Section 12. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, Penalty for
pollutes or diverts any water obtained or supplied under wator.'etc.
this act, or wilfully or wantonly injures any reservoir, stand-
pipe, aqueduct, pipe or other property owned or used by
said district for any of the purposes of this act, shall forfeit
and pay to said district three times the amount of damages
assessed therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort, and
upon conviction of any of the above acts shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprison-
ment in jail for a term not exceeding six months.

Section 13. For the purpose only of its acceptance, Submission to
this act shall take effect upon its passage, and it shall take distHct°^etc.
full effect upon its acceptance by a majority vote of the voters
of said district present and voting thereon at a district meeting
called, in accordance with the provisions of section eight,
within four years after its passage; but it shall become void
unless said district shall begin to distribute water to con-
sumers within two years after its acceptance as aforesaid.

Section 14. Upon a petition in writing addressed to said ^''{,o'te"go{f
commissioners by any owner of real estate in said town, question of
abutting on said district, setting forth that the petitioner certain"eai
desires to have certain accurately described portions of his dlstrict'et'j.''
real estate included in said district, said commissioners
shall cause a duly warned meeting of said district to be
called, at which meeting the voters may vote on the question
of including said real estate within said district. If a ma-
jority of the voters present and voting thereon vote in the
affirmative, the district clerk shall within ten days file with
the town clerk of said town and with the state secretary an
attested copy of said petition and vote, describing precisely
the real estate added to said district ; and thereupon said real
estate shall become and be a part of said district and shall
be holden under this act in the same manner and to the same
extent as the real estate described in section one.

376

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 331.

For certain
purposes,
district to
have certain
powers, etc.

Section 15. For the purposes of providing itself with
equipment and of lighting its streets, said district shall have
and may exercise the powers conferred upon fire districts
under section sixty-nine of chapter forty-eight of the Gen-
eral Laws. Approved May 20, 1929.

Chap. 331 An Act to provide for the establishment of building

LINES ON HIGHWAYS BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

G. L. 82. § 6,
amended.

County
commissioners
may make
changes
between
termini of
highway
described in
petition, etc.,
and may
establish
a building
line, etc.

G. L. 82, § 7,
etc., amended.

Taking of
easements of
slope in connec-
tion with land
takings for
highway
purposes or
establishment
of building
lines in
connection
therewith.

Damages.

Indemnity.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter eighty-two of the General Laws is
hereby amended by striking out section six and inserting in
place thereof the following : — Section 6. They may make
such changes between the termini of the highway described
in the petition, relative to the direction and course of such
highway or to the alteration, specific repair or discontinu-
ance thereof, as in their opinion the public convenience re-
quires, and, in connection with the laying out, alteration or
relocation thereof, may establish a building line not more
than forty feet distant from the exterior line of such high-
way, extending for such distance from points where such
highway joins an intersecting way, as defined in section one
of chapter ninety, as may be necessary to insure the safety
of the public, and thereafter no structures shall be erected
or maintained between such building line and such highway
except steps, windows, porticos, other usual projections ap-
purtenant to the front wall of a building, embankments,
walls, fences and gates, to the extent prescribed by the
order establishing such building line. A building line so
established may be discontinued in the manner provided for
the discontinuance of a highway.

Section 2. Said chapter eighty-two, as amended in
section seven by chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
further amended by striking out said section and inserting
in place thereof the following : — Section 7. If it is neces-
sary, for the purpose of laying out, altering or relocating a
highway, or establishing a building line in connection there-
with, to acquire land, or an easement or right therein, in-
cluding an easement in land adjoining the location of the
highway consisting of a right to have the land of the loca-
tion protected by having the surface of the adjoining land
slope from the boundary of the location, the commissioners
shall, at the same time that the highway is laid out, altered
or relocated, take such land, easement or right by eminent
domain under chapter seventy-nine. Any person sustaining
damage in his property by the laying out, alteration, relo-
cation or discontinuance of a highway, or by specific repairs
thereon, or by the establishment or discontinuance of a
building line, shall be entitled to recover the same under said
chapter. If no entry has been made upon land taken for
highway purposes, or if the location has for any other cause

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 332. 377

become void, or if specific repairs which have been ordered
are not made, a person who has suffered loss or been put to
expense by the proceedings shall be entitled to recover in-
demnity therefor under said chapter.

Approved May 20, 1929.

Chap.3^2

An Act relative to salaries and allowances of cer-
tain OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE PRISON
AND MASSACHUSETTS REFORMATORY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and twenty-five of p-Lps.
the General Laws, as amended in section twenty-two by amended,
section two of chapter three hundred and forty-three of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section twenty-two and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 22. The officers of
warden and the deputy warden of the prison shall receive gabries.'^""'
such salaries as shall be fixed by the commissioner with the
approval of the governor and council, not exceeding five
thousand dollars in case of the warden or three thousand
dollars in case of the deputy warden. Each other officer or
employee of the prison shall receive such salary as may be
fixed under and in accordance with sections forty-five to
fifty, inclusive, of chapter thirty. No other perquisite, re- No other per-
ward or emolument shall be allowed to or received by any or"emoi undent?
of the said officers, except that the warden and deputy except, etc.
warden shall be allowed maintenance for themselves and their
families.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and twenty-five, g. l. 125, § 29.
as amended in section twenty-nine by section four of said etc., amended.
chapter three hundred and forty-three, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section twenty-nine and in-
serting in place thereof the following : — Section 29. The officers of
superintendent and the deputy superintendent of the re- J^formitory?^
formatory shall receive such salaries as shall be fixed by the salaries.
commissioner with the approval of the governor and coun-
cil, not exceeding five thousand dollars in case of the super-
intendent or three thousand dollars in case of the deputy
superintendent. Each other officer or employee of the
reformatory shall receive such salary as may be fixed under
and in accordance with sections forty-five to fifty, inclu-
sive, of chapter thirty. No other perquisite, reward or No other per-
emolument shall be allowed to or received by any of the or^emoium'Int^
said officers, except that the superintendent and deputy except, etc.
superintendent shall be allowed maintenance for themselves
and their families.

Section 3. The increases in salaries authorized herein increases in
shall not take effect until an appropriation has been made to'takl'effecT
sufficient to cover the same, and then as of June first in the
current year. Approved May 20, 1929.

378

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 333, 334,

G. L. 3, §9,
etc., amended.

Compensation
of members
of general
court.

Chap.SSS An Act establishing the compensation of members of

THE GENERAL COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section nine of chapter three of the General
Laws, as amended by section one of chapter four hundred
and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
one and by section one of chapter five hundred and two of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby
further amended by striking out, in the second and seventh
lines, the words "fifteen hundred" and inserting in place
thereof in each instance the words: — two thousand, — so
as to read as follows : — Section 9. Each member of the
general court shall receive two thousand dollars for each
regular annual session of the term for which he is elected,
and four dollars and twenty cents for every mile of ordinary
traveling distance from his place of abode to the place of
sitting of the general court. The president of the senate
and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each
receive two thousand dollars additional compensation.

Section 2. The compensation established by this act
shall be allowed from January first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine.

(This bill, returned by the governor to the house of repre-
sentatives, the bra^ich in which it originated, with his objec-
tions thereto, was passed by the house of representatives May
21, 1929, and, in concurrence, by the Senate, May 21, 1929,
the objections of the governor notwithstanding, in the manner
prescribed by the constitution; and thereby has "the force of a
law".)

When allowed.

Chap

Metropolitan
district com-
mission may
lay out and
construct
certain sections
of the pro-
posed circum-
ferential
highway,
so-called, in
cities of
Melrose,
Maiden,
Medford and
Boston, and
towns of
Saugus,
Stoneham and
Milton.

.334 An Act relative to the laying out and construction
of certain sections of the proposed circumferential
highway, so-called, in the cities of melrose, mal-
den, medford and boston, and in the towns of saugus,
stoneham and milton.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The metropolitan district commission, here-
inafter called the commission, is hereby authorized to lay
out and construct, in accordance with the provisions of
chapter ninety-two of the General Laws relating to the lay-
ing out and construction of parkways and boulevards, the
following described parkways and boulevards, the same
being sections of the circumferential highway, so-called: —

(a) Beginning at the easterly end of the Lynn Fells
parkway at its present terminus at Bellevue avenue in the
city of Melrose, thence extending northeasterly over lands
acquired under authority of chapter three hundred and
ninety-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six
to the Newburyport turnpike in the town of Saugus;

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 334. 379

(b) Beginning at the northerly terminus of Fellsway East
at or near Border road in the city of Maiden, thence over the
Middlesex Fells reservation and public or private lands and
public or private ways in the cities of Maiden and Melrose
and the town of Stoneham to a point at or near the inter-
section of Wyoming avenue and Pond street in said town
of Stoneham, a portion of said route in the said city of Mel-
rose following the course of the Jerry Jingle road, so-called,
together with such alterations, improvements and reloca-
tions of said Fellsway East in the said city of Maiden and of
the Emerson border road and the Lynn Fells parkway in said
town of Stoneham as in the opinion of the commission are
desirable.

If the commission deems it wise, it may substitute for the
parkway or boulevard above described under paragraph (b)
the following parkway or boulevard : —

(c) Beginning at a point on Woodland road at or near its
intersection with Ravine road in the said town of Stoneham,
thence over the Middlesex Fells reservation to a point on
the Lynn Fells parkway at or near its intersection with the
boundary line between the said town of Stoneham and the
said city of Melrose, together with such alterations, im-
provements and relocations of said Woodland road in said
town of Stoneham and in the city of Medford as in the
opinion of the commission are desirable.

(d) Beginning at the junction of the Neponset River park-
way and Brush Hill road in the town of Milton, thence
westerly over public or private lands and public or private
ways including East Milton street to the junction of said
East Milton street and Hyde Park avenue at Wolcott street
in the Readville district of the city of Boston. All portions
of the parkway or boulevard described in this paragraph
shall be open to all classes of vehicles.

Section 2. For the purpose of carrying out the work Expenditures.
authorized in paragraphs (a) and (b) or (a) and (c) of sec-
tion one, the commission may expend such sum not exceed-
ing four hundred and fifty thousand dollars as may hereafter
be appropriated, said sum to be in addition to the sum au-
thorized by said chapter three hundred and ninety-four.

For the purpose of carrying out the work authorized in
paragraph (d) of section one, the commission may expend
such sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars as may
hereafter be appropriated.

Section 3. To meet one half of the expenditures made One half of
under authority of sections one and two, there shall be tobTpa^d'^''^
paid by the cities and towns of the metropolitan parks dis- ^„\,-n*'oP"'^
trict in proportion to the respective taxable valuations of the metropolitan
property of said cities and towns, as defined in section fifty- drjtrfct.
nine of said chapter ninety-two, from such appropriations
as may hereafter be made, the sum of two hundred sixty-
five thousand dollars. To meet the remaining one half paldby^*"''^
made under authority of said sections one and two, there commonwealth
shall be paid by the commonwealth from the Highway Fund, Fund^'^ "^^^

380

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 335, 336.

Taking of
public or
private
lands, etc.

Proviso.

after appropriations have been made, a sum not exceeding
two hundred sixty-five thousand dollars.

Section 4. The department may, on behalf of the com-
monwealth, take under chapter seventy-nine of the General
Laws or acquire by purchase or otherwise such public or
private lands including public parks or reservations or
rights therein as it may deem necessary for carrying out
the provisions of this act, provided that no damages shall
be paid for public lands or parks so taken.

Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 21, 1929.

Chav.SSb An Act extending the time for investigations by the

DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS OF MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS AND

Emergency
preamble.

1926, 210, § 3,
amended.

Duration of
act relative
to investiga-
tions by
director of
accounts of
municipal
accounts and
financial
transactions.

FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend
to defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section three of chapter two hundred and ten of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended by
striking out, in the second line, the word "twenty-nine"
and inserting in place thereof the word: — thirty-two, — so
as to read as follows: — Section 3. This act shall not be
operative after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two,
except as to investigations begun before said date.

Approved May 22, 1929.

Chap.SSQ An Act providing for precinct voting, representative

TOWN MEETINGS, TOWN MEETING MEMBERS, A REFEREN-
DUM AND AN ANNUAL MODERATOR IN THE TOWN OF LUD-
LOW.

Be it enacted, etc., as foUoivs:
Precmct SECTION 1. Upou the acceptance of this act by the town

representative of Ludlow, as hereinafter provided, the selectmen shall
forthwith divide the territory thereof into three voting
precincts, each of which shall be plainly designated and
shall contain not less than five hundred registered voters.
All precincts shall contain approximately an equal num-
ber of registered voters. The precincts shall be so estab-
lished as to consist of compact and contiguous territory, to
be bounded as far as possible by the center line of known
streets and ways or by other well defined limits. The bound-
aries of such precincts shall be reviewed and, if need be,
such precincts shall be wholly or partly revised by the
selectmen in December, once in five years, or in December of
any year when so directed by a vote of a representative town
meeting not later than November thirtieth of that year;
and in the course of any such revision the number of such

town
meetings,
etc., in town
of Ludlow.

Precincts,

establishment

etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 336. 381

precincts may be changed, but shall never be less than three
nor more than five. The selectmen shall, within twenty Selectmen to
days after any establishment or revision of the precincts, ^^p"""*^ ^°'"ss,
but not later than January twentieth of the succeeding year,
file a report of their doings with the town clerk, the regis-
trars of voters and the assessors of taxes with a map or maps
or description of the precincts and the names and residences
of the registered voters therein. The selectmen shall also
cause to be posted in the town office a map or maps or descrip-
tion of the precincts as established or revised from time to
time, with the names and residences of the registered voters
therein; and it shall also cause to be posted in at least one
public place in each precinct a map or description of that
precinct with the names and residences of the registered
voters therein. The division of the town into voting pre- Division into
cincts and any revision of such precincts shall take effect preimcts,
upon the date of the filing of the report thereof by the select- effective date,
men with the town clerk. Whenever the precincts are "
established or revised, the town clerk shall forthwith give give written"
written notice thereof to the state secretary, stating the Te^^retary^etc^
number and designation of the precincts. Meetings of the Meetingsof
registered voters of the several precincts for elections, for voters, when
primaries, and for voting upon any question to be submitted tobe\eYcf.
to all the voters of the town, shall be held on the same day
and at the same hour and at such place or places within the
town as the selectmen shall in the warrant for such meeting
direct. The provisions of the General Laws relating to Certain
precinct voting at elections, so far as the same are not in- of General
consistent with this act, shall apply to all elections and Laws to
primaries in the town upon the establishment of voting ^''p^'^*'-
precincts as hereinbefore provided.

Section 2. Other than the officers designated in sec- Representative
tion three as town meeting members at large, the repre- member^hipf
sentative town meeting membership shall in each precinct number, etc.
consist of the largest number divisible by three which will
admit of a representation of all precincts by an equal number
of members and which will not cause the total elected town
meeting membership to exceed ninety. The registered '^^^^^^
voters in every precinct shall, at a special election called for members,
that purpose, to be held not sooner than thirtj^ days after the terms°'e'tc.
establishment of precincts under this act or at the first an-
nual town election held after the establishment thereof, and
at the first annual town election following any precinct re-
vision where the number of precincts is changed, conform-
ably to the laws relative to elections not inconsistent with
this act, elect by ballot the number of registered voters in the
precinct, other than the officers designated in section three
as town meeting members at large, provided for in the first
sentence of this section, to be town meeting members of the
town. The first third in order of votes received of mem-
bers so elected shall serve three years, the second third in such
order shall serve two years, and the remaining third in such
order shall serve one year, from the day of the annual town

382

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 336.

Notice to
members
elected.

Town meetings
limited to
elected town
meeting
members and
certain officers
designated
as town
meeting
members at
large.

Notice of

town

meetings.

Quorum.

Meetings
public.

No compensa-
tion.

meeting, or, in case such election is at a special meeting, from
the day of the next annual town meeting; in case of a tie
vote affecting the division into thirds, as aforesaid, the
members elected from the precinct shall by ballot deter-
mine the same; and thereafter, except as is otherwise pro-
vided herein, at each annual town election the registered
voters of each precinct shall, in like manner, elect one third
of the number of town meeting members to which that
precinct is entitled for the term of three years, and shall at
such election fill for the unexpired term or terms any va-
cancy or vacancies then existing in the number of elected
town meeting members in their respective precincts. Upon
every revision of the precincts where the number of pre-
cincts is changed the terms of office of all elected town meet-
ing members from eveiy such precinct shall cease upon the
election of their successors. The town clerk shall, after
every election of town meeting members, forthwith notify
each elected town meeting member by mail of his election.
Section 3. Any representative town meeting held under
this act, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be
limited to the voters elected under section two, together
with the following, designated as town meeting members at
large; namely, the selectmen, the moderator, the town clerk,
the town treasurer, the town collector, the town counsel,
if he is a resident of the town, the chairman of the school
committee, the chairman of the library trustees, the chair-
man of the board of health, the chairman of the park com-
mission, the tree warden, the chairman of the assessors of
taxes, the chairman of the sewer commission, the chairman
of the forestry commission, the chairman of the cemetery
committee, the chairman of the finance committee, the
highway surveyor, the chairman of the board of registrars
of voters, and the chairman of any other board or commis-
sion established in the town by authority of the general
court. The town clerk shall notify the town meeting
members of the time and place at which representative town
meetings are to be held, the notices to be sent by mail at
least seven daj's before the meeting. The town meeting
members, as aforesaid, shall be the judges of the election
and qualification of their members. A majority of town
meeting members shall be a quorum for doing business;
but a less number may organize temporarily and may ad-
journ from time to time. Notice of every adjourned rep-
resentative town meeting shall be posted by the town clerk
in at least one public place in each precinct, and he shall
notify the town meeting members by mail of the adjourn-
ment at least twenty-four hours before the time of the ad-
journed representative town meeting. The notices shall
state briefly the business to be acted upon at any meeting
and shall include notice of any proposed reconsideration.
All town meetings shall be public. The town meeting mem-
bers as such shall receive no compensation. Subject to
such conditions as may be determined from time to time by

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 336. 383

the representative town meeting, any voter of the town who voters may
is not a town meeting member may speak at any repre- meetiifgV but
sentative town meeting, but shall not vote. Any eleqted shaii not vote.
town meeting member may resign by filing a written resig- Resignations.
nation with the town clerk, and such resignation shall take
effect upon the date of such filing. No elected town meet-
ing member whose official position entitles him to be a town
meeting member at large shall act as a town meeting member
at large during such time as he remains an elected town
meeting member. A town meeting member who removes Removal
from the town shall cease to be a tov;n meeting member and or°^ecin"t,
an elected town meeting member who removes from one effect.
precinct to another or is so removed by a revision of pre-
cincts shall not retain membership after the next annual
election.

Section 4. Nomination of candidates for town meeting Nomination of
members to be elected under this act shall be made by nomi- towl'meltin^g"^
nation papers, which shall bear no political designations, members, how
and shall be signed by at least ten registered voters of the
precinct in which the candidate resides, and filed with the
town clerk at least fifteen days before the election; provided Proviso,
that any elected town meeting member may become a can-
didate for re-election by giving written notice thereof to the
town clerk at least thirty days before the election. No written
nomination papers shall be valid in respect to any candidate acceptance,
whose written acceptance is not thereon or attached thereto
when filed.

Section 5. The articles in the warrant for every town Warrant
meeting, so far as they relate to the election of the modera- acted^'uponr
tor, town officers, town meeting members and, as provided «*■«•
in this act, to referenda and all matters to be acted upon and
determined by ballot of the town, shall be acted upon and
determined by the voters in their respective meetings by
precinct. All other articles in the warrant for any town
meeting, beginning with the town meeting at which said
town meeting members are first elected, shall be acted upon
and determined exclusively by town meeting members at
a meeting to be held at such time and place as shall be set
forth by the selectmen in the warrant for the meeting,
subject to the referendum provided for by section eight.

Section 6. A moderator shall be elected by ballot at ^°^^^ll^°^i^
each annual town meeting and shall serve as moderator of
all town meetings except as otherwise provided by law,
until a successor is elected and qualified. Nominations
for and election^ of a moderator shall be as in the case of other
elective town officers and any vacancy in the office shall be
filled by the town meeting members at a meeting held for
that purpose. If a moderator is absent a moderator pro Moderator
tempore shall be elected by the town meeting members. pro tempore.

Section 7. Any vacancy in the full number of elected ^^fn"u^be?
town meeting members from any precinct shall be filled of town
until the next annual election by the remaining elected town member,
meeting members of the precinct from among the regis- ^"'°6-

384

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 336.

Calling of

special

meeting.

Quorum.

Choice by
ballot.

Certificate of
choice, etc.

Votes, when
effective, etc.

Referendum.

Polling hours.

Votes by ballot,
etc.

Questions, how

determined,

etc.

Questions, how
stated upon
ballot, etc.

tered voters thereof. Notice of any vacancy shall be given
promptly by the town clerk to the remaining members
from, the precinct in which the vacancy or vacancies exist
and he shall call a special meeting of such members for the
purpose of filling any vacancy. He shall cause to be mailed
to every such member not less than seven days before the
time set for the meeting a notice specifying the object, time
and place of the meeting. At said meeting a majority of the
elected town meeting members from such precinct shall
constitute a quorum, and they shall elect from their own
number a chairman and clerk. The choice to fill any va-
cancy shall be by ballot and a majority of the votes cast
shall be required for a choice. The chairman and the
clerk shall count the ballots and shall make certificate of
the choice and forthwith file the same with the town clerk,
together with a written acceptance by the member or mem-
bers so chosen who shall thereupon be deemed elected and
quahfied as a town meeting member or members, subject
to the right of all town meeting members to judge of the
election and qualifications of the town meeting members as
set forth in section three.

Section 8. No vote passed at any representative town
meeting under any article in the warrant, except a vote to
adjourn or a vote for the temporary borrowing of money in
anticipation of revenue or a vote declared by a two thirds
vote of town meeting members present and voting thereon
to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate
preservation of the peace, health, safety or convenience of
the town, shall take effect until after the expiration of ten
days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, from the date of
the dissolution of the meeting at which said vote was passed.
If within said ten days a petition, signed by not less than
two hundred registered voters of the town, containing their
names and addresses, as they appear on the list of regis-
tered voters, is filed with the selectmen requesting that the
question or questions involved in such vote be submitted to
the voters of the town at large, then the selectmen, within
fourteen days after the filing of the petition, shall call a
special meeting, which shall be held within ten days after
the issuing of the call, for the purpose of presenting to the
voters at large the question or questions so involved. The
polls shall be opened at two o'clock in the afternoon and
shall be closed at eight o'clock in the evening, and all votes
upon any questions so submitted shall be taken by ballot,
and the check list shall be used in the several precinct meet-
ings in the same manner as in the election of town officers.
The questions so submitted shall be determined by vote of
the same proportion of voters at large voting thereon as
would have been required by law of the town meeting mem-
bers had the question been finally determined at a rep-
resentative town meeting. The question or questions so
submitted shall be stated upon the ballot in substantially
the same language and form in which they were stated when

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 336. 385

presented to said representative town meeting by the
moderator as appears from the records of the said meeting.
If such petition is not filed within the period of ten days, Votes operative
the vote of the representative town meeting shall become ^fj^^° p^t'tion,
operative upon the expiration of the said period.

Section 9. The town of Ludlow, after the acceptance of Powers of town

,,_,. -' . ^ , and its town

this act and the nrst election oi town meeting members meeting
thereunder, shall have the capacity to act through and be '"''■"'^ers, etc.
bound by its said town meeting members who shall, when
convened from time to time as herein provided, constitute
representative town meetings; and the representative
town meeting shall exercise exclusively, so far as will con-
form to the provisions of this act, all powers vested in the
municipal corporation. Action in conformity with all
provisions of law now or hereafter applicable to the trans-
action of town affairs in town meetings shall, when taken
by any representative town meeting in accordance with the
provisions of this act, have the same force and effect as if
such action had been taken in a town meeting open to all
the voters of the town as heretofore organized and conducted.

Section 10. This act shall not abridge the right of the Certain rights
inhabitants of the town of Ludlow to hold general meetings, et^c*i^ " ^e .
as that right is secured to them by the constitution of this
commonwealth; nor shall this act confer upon any rep-
resentative town meeting in said town the power finally to
commit the town to any measure affecting its municipal
existence or changing its government, without action
thereon by the voters of the town at large, using the ballot
and check list therefor.

Section 11. The question of the acceptance of this act Submission to
shall be submitted to the registered voters of the town of of Lutiiow, etc.
Ludlow at the annual town meeting in the year nineteen
hundred and thirty. The vote shall be taken by ballot in
accordance with the provisions of the General Laws, so far
as the same shall be applicable, in answer to the question,
which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used for
the election of town officers: "Shall an act passed by the
general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine
entitled, 'An Act providing for precinct voting, representa-
tive town meetings, town meeting members, a referendum
and an annual moderator in the town of Ludlow', be ac-
cepted by this town?"

Section 12. So much of this act as authorizes its sub- Time of taking
mission for acceptance to the registered voters of the town
of Ludlow shall take effect upon its passage, and the re-
mainder shall take effect upon its acceptance by a majority
of the voters voting thereon. Approved May 22, 1929.

386

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 337, 338, 339.

Chap. ^^7 An Act authorizing the town of edgartown to extend

OR CONSTRUCT A CERTAIN WHARF BEYOND THE EXTREME
LOW WATER LINE IN EDGARTOWN HARBOR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Edgartown, subject to the pro-
visions of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, may ex-
tend or construct a wharf for the accommodation of the
Chappaquiddick ferry in Edgartown harbor on the shore of
Chappaquiddick island at the foot of the "Chappaquiddick
Road", so-called, in the town of Edgartown, for a distance
of not exceeding twenty-five feet beyond the extreme low
water line in said harbor, notwithstanding the provisions of
section fourteen of chapter eighty-eight of the General Laws.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 23, 1929.

Town of
Edgartown
may extend
or construct
a certain
wharf beyond
the extreme
low water
line in
Edgartown
harbor.

Chap

Height of
buildings on
certain land
abutting on St.
James avenue
between
Clarendon
and Dartmouth
streets in city
of Boston.

1929, 2S6,
repealed.

.338 An Act relative to the height of buildings on certain

LAND abutting ON ST. JAMES AVENUE BETWEEN CLAREN-
DON AND DARTMOUTH STREETS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section L The provisions of section one of chapter
four hundred and fifty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight prescribing a height limit for buildings on
land abutting on St. James avenue between Clarendon and
Dartmouth streets in the city of Boston shall apply only to
any portion of a building within one hundred feet of said
St. James avenue and in case any building on land abutting
on said St. James avenue between said Clarendon and
Dartmouth streets extends more than one hundred feet
from said St. James avenue, the volume of the portion of
such building within the restricted area hereinbefore men-
tioned shall not exceed ninety feet times the buildable area
of the land within one hundred feet of said St. James avenue,
and the volume of the remainder shall not exceed the volume
permitted on the buildable area of the remaining land.

Section 2. Chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the
acts of the current year is hereby repealed.

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

Approved May 28, 1929.

Chap. 3^9 An Act authorizing an exchange of land by the trus-
tees OF THE ESSEX COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF SAID COUNTY ACTING AS
TRUSTEES OF THE ESSEX COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL
DISTRICT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Exchange of Section 1. Tlic trustccs of the Esscx couuty agricultural

certain land t • i c i

by the trustees school are hereby authorized to transfer to the county
county ^'^'"' commissioners of said county, acting in their capacity as

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 340, 341. 387

trustees of the Essex county tuberculosis hospital district, sfhoofinTthe
so much of the land held by said trustees of said school, county com-
not exceeding two acres, as will enable the said county of'said'rounty
commissioners, acting in said capacity, to effect economies f^^'"^ ^^ , ,■

1 , r • 1 1 • ^ "i-ii trustees of the

m the enlargement oi said hospital as authorized by chapter Essex county
two hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the current j^ear, hospital °*'^
and the said county commissioners, acting in their said district.
capacity, are hereby authorized to transfer to the said trus-
tees of said school so much of the land of said hospital as
would represent a fair equivalent of the land transferred to
them as trustees of said hospital district as aforesaid.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 23, 1929.

C/iap.340

An Act to provide hospital or home care for needy
civil war veterans, their wives and widows.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter one hundred and fifteen of the General Laws is g l. iis, new
hereby amended by adding at the end thereof, under the
caption, "Hospital or Home Care", the following new
section: — Section 25. The commissioner shall expend such Commissioner

, , . , . , "^ . , of state aid and

sum as he deems necessary to provide special care in a hos- pensions may

pital or at home for persons who served in the army or navy hospital or

of the United States in the war of the rebellion and received home care^for

an honorable discharge from all enlistments therein, their war veterans,

wives and widows, who are in need of such care and who were widows'.^^^^°

legally settled in a town of this commonwealth on January

first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. The amount ex- Expenditure.

pended by the commissioner under this section shall be paid

from such appropriation as may be made for the purpose.

One half of such expense shall be assessed, collected and paid and^coSlon.

over by the town of the beneficiary's settlement to the state

treasurer in the same manner and at the same time as state

taxes. The person charged with disbursing military aid or Notification

soldiers' relief in each town shall, within three days of re- tocommts-

ceiving an application for relief under this section, notify the swner.

commissioner of such application upon blanks approved by

him. Any person charged with such disbursement who Penalty.

refuses or unreasonably neglects to give notice required by

this section within the time and substantially in the form

herein required shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five

dollars. Approved May 24, 1929.

An Act extending the boundaries of the duxbury fire (7/iai9.341

AND WATER DISTRICT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The boundaries of the Duxbury Fire and l,°J;^btyFiri
Water District, established by chapter three hundred and IJ^-^^jy^''/'""
thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen, are extended.
hereby extended so as to include the territory hereinafter

388 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 342.

described and such taxable inhabitants of the town of Dux-
bury as reside in said territory :

Beginning at a stake in the southerly line of West street
near the house formerly of Emma M. Brownrigg, now of
Percy L. Walker, distant ninety-seven and thirty-seven one
hundredths feet from the southwesterly corner of the stone
foundation of the house formed}^ of Samuel E. Hathaway
and now of Nepton, measured south eighty and one half
degrees west; thence running westerly by West street to
land formerly of Elizabeth M. Hathaway; thence running
southwesterly to the southeasterly corner of said land
formerly of Elizabeth M. Hathaway; thence continuing in
the same southwesterly direction in a straight line to the
point of intersection with the boundary line prolonged, west-
erly between lands of Harry B. Bradley being numbered
seven on Block N of the assessors map of Duxbury, and of
Percy L. Walker being numbered six on Block N of the
assessors map of Duxbury; thence running easterly on the
prolongation of said line to the common corner of said lots
six and seven; thence continuing easterly on the boundary
line between said lots six and seven to the present line of the
Duxbury Fire and Water District.
^cceptancel'etc. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance
by a majority vote of the voters of said district present and
voting at a meeting duly called, notwithstanding the pro-
visions of sections two and three of chapter two hundred and
ninety of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen.

Approved May 24, 1929.

Chap.342 An Act extending the jurisdiction in equity of the

PROBATE COURTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

2mlndld^^' Section 1. Chapter two hundred and fifteen of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section six

^ip'ty . and inserting in place thereof the following:- — Section 6.

Probate courts shall have jurisdiction in equity, concurrent
with the supreme judicial and superior courts, of all cases
and matters relative to the administration of the estates of
deceased persons, to wills, including questions arising under
sections twenty and twenty-one of chapter one hundred and
ninety-one, to trusts created b}^ will or other written instru-
ment and, in cases involving in any way the estate of a
deceased person or the property of any absentee whereof a
receiver has been appointed under chapter two hundred or the
property of a person under guardianship or conservatorship,
to trusts created by parol or constructive or resulting trusts,
of all matters relative to guardianship and conservatorship
and of all other matters of which they now have or may
hereafter be given jurisdiction. Such jurisdiction may be
exercised upon petition according to the usual course of pro-
cedure in probate courts.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 343. 389

Section 2. Chapter two hundred and four of the General fl^^^^gj' ^ '•
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section one and
inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 1. If a Executor,
person who has entered into a written agreement for the reai'estate"^^^
conveyance of real estate or holds real estate which by opera- ^gg^^tor etc
tion of law is subject to be conveyed to others, dies or is had agreed
put under guardianship or conservatorship or disappears or ° ^°^^^^-
absconds with the result that a receiver of his property is
appointed under chapter two hundred, without having made
such conveyance, the probate court shall have jurisdiction
in equity concurrent with the supreme judicial and superior
courts to enforce specific performance of such agreement or
obligation to convey; and, upon a petition therefor by any
person interested in the conveyance, shall, after notice, if
upon hearing it appears that the deceased, were he living, or
the ward, were he not under guardianship or conservatorship,
or the absentee, had he not disappeared or absconded as
aforesaid, would be required to make the conveyance, order
the executor or administrator, or the guardian, conservator
or receiver to make the same, which conveyance shall have
like force and effect as if made by the person who agreed or
was liable to convey. Such concurrent jurisdiction shall also Concurrent
extend to the specific enforcement of reconveyance by per- to"xtend°t'o
sons alleged to be improperly holding or retaining property g^foJ.cejnent
belonging to the estate of a deceased person, or to a person ofreconvey-
under guardianship or conservatorship, or to a person of certein^persons
whose property a receiver has been appointed under said ^[^ ^ecutw
chapter two hundred, and to the cancellation of deeds, etc'
releases or other conveyances or acquittances executed by a
person since deceased or by a person since placed under
guardianship or conservatorship or of whose property a
receiver has been appointed as aforesaid, on petition of the
executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or receiver,
as the case may be.

Section 3. This act shall take effect September first Effective date.
of the current year. Approved May 24^ 1929.

An Act relative to the division of state police of the (JJiaj) 343

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND TO THE APPOINTMENT
OF ADDITIONAL OFFICERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section nine A of chapter twenty-two of the g. l. 22, § 9A,
General Laws, as inserted by chapter four hundred and etc., amended,
sixty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one,
and as amended by section one of chapter three hundred
and thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, by section one of chapter two hundred and thirty-eight
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and by
chapter three hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking
out in the fifth and sixth lines the words "not exceeding
two hundred in number", — so as to read as follows: —

390

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 343.

Department

of public

safety,

constabulary

force,

appointments,

etc.

Rules and

regulations.

Proviso.

Discipline, etc.

Commissioner
may select and
train group
of persons
not exceeding
fifty in num-
ber, to be
eligible to
appointment
to fill
vacancies,
etc.

Annual
expenditure.

Expenditures
for training of
additional
officers, etc.

G. L. 22, new
section after
J 9A.

Statement to
budget com-
missioner of
approximate
proportion of
time devoted
to patrolling
highways for
purpose of
supervising
traffic, etc.

Section 9 A. Whenever the governor shall deem it neces-
sary to provide more effectively for the protection of persons
and property and for the maintenance of law and order in
the commonwealth, he may authorize the commissioner to
make additional appointments to the division of state police,
together with such other employees as the governor may
deem necessary for the proper administration thereof. The
appointment of the additional officers herein provided for
shall be by enlistment for terms not exceeding three years,
and such appointees shall be exempt from the requirements
of civil service law and rules. Said additional officers shall
have and exercise within the commonwealth all the powers
of constables, except the service of civil process, and of
police officers and watchmen. The commissioner may, sub-
ject to the approval of the governor, make rules and regu-
lations for said additional force, including matters pertaining
to their discipline, organization and government, compen-
sation and equipment, and means of swift transportation;
provided, that said force shall not be used or called upon
for service in any industrial dispute, unless actual violence
has occurred therein, and then only by order of the governor
or the person acting in his place. Any member of said
force violating any of the rules or regulations for said force
shall be subject to discipline or discharge in accordance with
said rules and regulations. The commissioner, subject to
like approval, may select and maintain for the purpose of
training in preparation for service on said force, a group
of persons, not exceeding fifty in number, who, when so
trained, shall be eligible either to appointment to fill va-
cancies therein or, upon order of the governor, to be called
for service in cases of emergency as temporary members
thereof. The commissioner may expend annually for the
expenses of administration, organization, government, train-
ing, compensation, equipment and maintenance such
amount as the general court may appropriate.

Section 2. The department of public safety is hereby
authorized in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirty
to make provision and incur such expenses, in anticipation
of appropriations, as will provide, with the approval of the
governor, for the necessary preliminary training for an
increase of not exceeding thirty appointments to the division
of state police, to be effective, after training, as of the first
day of April in the year nineteen hundred and thirty.

Section 3. Said chapter twenty-two is hereby further
amended by inserting after section nine A, inserted by
chapter four hundred and sixty-one of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, the following new section: —
Section 9B. The department of public safety shall annually
forward to the budget commissioner with its estimates of
expenses for the division of state police, as required under
section three of chapter twenty-nine, a statement of the ap-
proximate proportion of the time of the division devoted to
the service of patrolling the highways of the commonwealth

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 344. 391

for the purpose of controlling and supervising trajffic. Said
statement shall be the basis for a recommendation by the
governor as to the proportion of the appropriations made for
expenses of said division which it appears may fairly be
charged to the Highway Fund.

Section 4. Section thirty-four of chapter ninety of the g. l. qo, § 34,
General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter one ^ '^'' ^'^^'^ ^
hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-one, by section one of chapter two hundred and
eighty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
five and by section six of chapter three hundred and sixteen
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
further amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
— (h) For expenditure, under the direction of the depart- Use of Highway
ment of public safety, for the maintenance, in part, of the
division of state police. Approved May 24 f 1929. in^parrof*'^'

division of
state police.

An Act relative to the retirement system for em- (JJiav 344

PLOYEES OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section six of chapter four hundred and ten ^?23,,4io, § 6,
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three is hereby
amended by striking out, in the twelfth line of the second
paragraph, the word "five" and inserting in place thereof
the word: — six, — so that said paragraph will read as
follows: — The annuity savings fund shall be the fund to Annuity
which shall be paid the deductions from the compensation fund!^^
of members. The treasurer of the city of Worcester shall
withhold five per cent of the regular compensation due on
each pay day to all employees who are members of this re-
tirement system, provided that employees who receive more Proviso
than forty dollars weekly in compensation shall not be
assessed for contribution to this fund on the excess above
that amount. No member shall pay further deductions from Members not
his compensation after the total sum of deductions paid by Ifeductfous'"''^
him shall have amounted, with interest credited thereto, to fromcompensa-
a sum sufficient to purchase under section fifteen (1) (a) an
annuity of six hundred dollars at age sixty, and interest
thereafter accruing shall be paid to the member on his
retiring. If the accumulated deductions of any employee Payment to
retired hereunder exceed the amount required to provide an "airc!}*''^ '"
annuity equal to one fourth of the average annual rate of excessive

, • r. 1 1 !• ill,/-. accumulated

compensation 01 such employee during the last five years deductions
prior to his retirement or resignation or dismissal as provided compensation.
in paragraph (2) of section ten, the excess above that amount
shall be paid to such employee in a lump sum with the first
monthly payment on the account of his retirement allowance.
The amounts so withheld shall be transferred immediately Disposition of
thereafter to the retirement board and credited to the ac- heid"fron7'* '
count of each member so contributing, and shall be paid into ^^"ensation
and become a part of said annuity savings fund.

amended.

392

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 345.

1923,410. § 10,
par. (?),
amended.

Limit of
amount of
accumulations
applied to
provide
pensions, etc.

Maximum
retirement
allowance.

Section 2. Paragraph (2) of section ten of said chapter
four hundred and ten is hereby amended by striking out, in
the fifth hne, the word "five" and inserting in place thereof
the word: — six, — so as to read as follows: — (2) The sum
of the accumulations applied to provide the pensions under
(6) and (c) of this section shall not exceed the amount which
at age sixty, and in accordance with paragraph (1) (a) of
section fifteen is sufficient to provide a total pension of six
hundred dollars; except, that in no case shall the sum of the
pensions hereunder exceed an amount which, when added to
the annual rate of annuity payable to the member if he had
chosen the annuity provided under paragraph (1) (a) of
section fifteen, would provide a total retirement allowance
of one half the average annual rate of his compensation dur-
ing the five years prior to retirement, or, if such member
resigns or is dismissed prior to the date of retirement, during
the five years prior to such resignation or dismissal. For the
purpose of determining the maximum retirement allowance
under this section, the rate of compensation received by a
member on the date immediately preceding a period of
absence without pay shall be used as the rate of pay which
he would have received during such absence without pay.

Approved May 24, 1929.

Sewer assess-
ments in
town of
Winchendon,
etc.

Chap. 345 An Act relative to sewer assessments in the town of

WINCHENDON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Within six months after the passage of this
act, the sewer commissioners of the town of Winchendon may
determine the value of the benefit or advantage to every
parcel of real estate in the town, beyond the general ad-
vantage to all real estate therein, from the construction
heretofore of any sewer, drain or system of sewage disposal
or extension of any existing sewer or drain or from the
doing of any other work authorized by the provisions of
chapter two hundred and forty-five of the acts of nineteen
hundred and six, or any act in amendment thereof or in
addition thereto, shall cause to be recorded in the registry
of deeds of the district in which said town is situated a
statement of their action with reference to such construc-
tion, which shall specify the public ways in which such
sewer or drain is located, and may assess on every such
parcel a proportionate share of such part, not exceeding
three fourths, as said commissioners shall deem just, of
the expenses incurred by the town for the improvements
aforesaid; provided, that no assessment on any parcel of
real estate shall exceed the value of such special benefit to
that parcel, and provided further, that if any real estate de-
termined to be specially benefited as aforesaid has been alien-
ated between the date of such construction and the date
of passage of this act, said town shall assume the assessments
thereon. Every assessment made hereunder upon any such
parcel, except one assumed by the town as aforesaid, shall

Provisos.

Assessments
to constitute
lien, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 346, 347, 348. 393

constitute a lien on such parcel from the date of recording
of the statement aforesaid. Except as herein otherwise
provided, the provisions of general law shall apply to such
assessments.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 25, 1929.

An Act authorizing the county of Suffolk to pay a sum C/ia». 346

OF MONEY to THE PARENTS OF MICHAEL J. DOWNEY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of promoting the public bounty of
good, the county of Suffolk may pay to the father and payasvuJf^
mother of Michael J. Downey, late of Boston, a sum not thrpTren^^of
exceeding five thousand dollars on account of the death of Michaeu.
said Downey who died on December seventh, nineteen °"'"''^-
hundred and twenty-eight, in consequence of injuries sus-
tained by him in falling into an elevator shaft in the Suffolk
county court house.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept- Submission
ance during the current year by vote of the city council of council, etc.
the city of Boston, subject to the provisions of its charter,
but not otherwise. Approved May 25, 1929.

Chap.MI

An Act regulating the use of public ways by funeral
processions.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter eighty-five of the General Laws is hereby amended ^ctioifafte7
by inserting after section fourteen the following new section: § '4.
— Section I4A. A funeral procession of not more than Use of public
ten vehicles shall have the right, except on Sundays and legal Tu^iferaf
holidays, to use any parkway, boulevard or other public way fe°ufated"^
to the same extent and subject to the same regulations and
restrictions as vehicles commonly known as pleasure ve-
hicles. Approved May 25, 1929.

An Act to authorize the town of mansfield to con- (Jhav 348

STRUCT AND MAINTAIN A SYSTEM OF SEWERAGE AND
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Mansfield may lay out, con- Town of Mans-
struct, maintain and operate a system or systems of main const^jrdt and
drains and common sewers for a part or the whole of its ^gte^'"f^
territory, with such connections and other works as may be sewerage and
required for a system of sewage disposal; and, for the pur- ^^wage disposal.
pose of providing better surface or other drainage, guarding
against pollution of waters, and otherwise protecting the
public health, may lay, make and maintain such main drains
as it deems best. For the purposes aforesaid, the town may,
within its limits, deepen, widen and clear of obstruction
any brook, stream or water course, and may straighten or

394

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 348.

Selectmen to
act as board
of sewer
commissioners.

Selectmen
may take lands,
water rights,
etc.

May construct
main drains
and sewers
under or over
any water
course, bridge,
railroad, etc.

Proviso.

Damages,
recovery.

Determination
of proportion
of cost.

Proviso.

Certain
provisions
of general
law to apply,
etc.

Certification of
payment of
assessments
to selectmen,
etc.

alter the channel or divert the waters thereof, and may
lay, make and maintain sub-drains, and, with the approval
of the state department of public health, discharge the
water into any brook, stream or water course within the
town.

Section 2. In said town the selectmen shall act as a
board of sewer commissioners, and the word "selectmen"
as used in this act shall be deemed to refer to such selectmen
acting as such board.

Section 3. The selectmen, acting for and on behalf of
said town, may take by eminent domain under chapter
seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase
or otherwise, any lands, water rights, rights of way or ease-
ments, public or private, in said town necessary for ac-
complishing any of the purposes mentioned in this act, and
may construct such main drains and sewers under or over
any water course, bridge, acjueduct, conduit, railroad, rail-
way or way, or within the location of any railroad or railway,
and may enter upon and dig up any private land, street or
way, or railroad or railway location, for the purpose of
laying such main drains and sewers, and of maintaining
and repairing the same, and may do any other thing neces-
sary or proper for the purposes of this act; provided, that
they shall not take in fee any land of a railroad corporation,
and that they shall not enter upon or construct any drain
or sewer within the location of any railroad corporation,
except at such time and in such manner as they may agree
upon with such corporation, or, in case of failure to agree,
as may be approved by the department of public utilities.

Section 4. Any person injured in his property by any
action of the selectmen under this act may recover damages
from said town under said chapter seventy-nine.

Section 5. The town shall, by vote, determine what
proportion of the cost of said system or systems of sewerage
and sewage disposal the town shall pay; provided, that it
shall pay not less than one fourth nor more than two thirds
of the whole cost. In providing for the payment of the
remaining portion of the cost of said system or systems or
for the use of said system or systems, the town may avail
itself of any or all of the methods permitted by general law,
and the provisions of general law relative to the assessment,
apportionment, division, reassessment, abatement and col-
lection of sewer assessments, to liens therefor and to interest
thereon shall apply to assessments made under this act,
except that interest shall be at the rate of six per cent per
annum. At the same meeting at which the town deter-
mines the proportion of the cost which is to be borne by it,
it may by vote determine by which of such methods the
remaining portion of said cost shall be provided for. The
collector of taxes of said town shall certify the payment or
payments of such assessments or apportionments thereof
to the selectmen, who shall preserve a record thereof.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 348. 395

Section 6. For the purpose of paying the necessary ex- Town may
penses and liabihties incurred by the town under this act issuTbondsT^'
for the construction of a system of main drains and com- ®**^-
mon sewers and of sewage disposal, it may borrow such
sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate,
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and may issue
bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the
words, Mansfield Sewerage Loan, Act of 1929. Each au- MansBeid
thorized issue shall constitute a separate loan. Indebted- Loan!!\ctof
ness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory i^^g.
limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.

Section 7. The receipts from sewer assessments and from Receipts from
payments made in lieu thereof shall be appropriated for the mrnts?how
payment of charges and expenses incident to the mainte- appropriated,
nance and operation of said system of sewerage and sewage
disposal or to the extension thereof, to the payment of in-
terest upon bonds or notes issued for sewer purposes or to
the payment of such bonds or notes.

Section 8. The selectmen may appoint a superintendent Superintendent
of sewers, and may remove him at their pleasure.

Section 9. All contracts made by the selectmen shall contracts, how
be made in the name of the town and shall be signed by
them; but no contract shall be made or obligation incurred
by the selectmen for any purpose in excess of the amount
of money appropriated by the town therefor.

Section 10. The selectmen may from time to time Rules and
prescribe rules and regulations for the connecting of estates regulations.
and buildings with main drains and sewers, and for the
inspection of the materials, the construction, alteration and
use of all connections and drains entering into such main
drain or sewers, and may impose penalties not exceeding
twenty dollars for each violation of any such rule or regu-
lation. Such rules or regulations shall be published not Publication,
less than once a week for three successive weeks in some ^^'^'
newspaper published in the town of Mansfield, if there be
any, and if not, then in some newspaper published in the
county of Bristol, and shall not take effect until such publica-
tion has been made.

Section 11. No act shall be done under authority of ^.^P.^^^b
the preceding sections, except in the making of surveys and sta^e^depart-
other preliminary investigations, until the plans for the pubHc°iieaith.
proposed system of sewerage and sewage disposal have been
approved by the state department of public health. Upon
appHcation to said department for its approval, it shall give
a hearing, after due notice to the public. At such hearing. Hearing, etc.
plans showing in detail all the work to be done in construct-
ing said sj^stem of sewerage and sewage disposal shall be
submitted for the approval of said department.

Section 12. Chapter two hundred and ninety of the 1909,290, as
acts of nineteen hundred and nine, and all acts in amend- r^eaild^'
ment thereof or in addition thereto, are hereby repealed.

396

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 349.

McepfaTnoe^"" Section 13. For the purpose only of submission to the
etc. ' voters of said tov/n, this act shall take effect upon its passage,
and it shall take full effect upon its acceptance by vote of
the majority of the voters of said town voting thereon at
a town meeting called for the purpose within five years after
its passage. No expenditure shall be made and no liability
incurred hereunder until such acceptance.

Approved May 25, 1929.

Chap. 34:9 An Act relating to hawkers and pedlers.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

G. L. 101, § 15,
amended.

Limit of
application.

G. L. 101, § 16,
amended.

Selling of
certain
articles
prohibited.

G. L. 101, § 17,
etc., amended.

Selling of
certain articles
permitted
without a
license, etc.

Licensing of
certain
hawkers and
pedlers, etc.

Proviso.
Penalty.

Section 1. Section fifteen of chapter one hundred and
one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out,
in the second and third lines, the words "having a permanent
place of business in the commonwealth and", — so as to
read as follows: — Section 15. The provisions of this chap-
ter relating to hawkers and pedlers shall not apply to whole-
salers or jobbers selling to dealers only, nor to commercial
agents or other persons selling by sample, lists, catalogues or
otherwise for future delivery, nor to any person who peddles
only fish obtained by his own labor or that of his family,
fruits, vegetables or other farm products raised or produced
by himself or his family, nor to persons selling articles for
charitable purposes under section thirty-three.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and one is hereby
further amended by striking out section sixteen and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 16. The
sale by hawkers or pedlers of jewelry, furs, wines or spirituous
liquors is prohibited.

Section 3. Said chapter one hundred and one, as
amended in section seventeen by chapter two hundred and
eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three and by section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-
five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is
hereby further amended by striking out said section seven-
teen and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section
17. Hawkers and pedlers may sell without a license news-
papers, ice, flowering plants, and such flowers, fruits, nuts
and berries as are wild or uncultivated. The aldermen or
selectmen may by regulations, not inconsistent with this
chapter, regulate the sale or barter, and the carrying for
sale or barter or exposing therefor, by hawkers and pedlers,
of said articles without the payment of any fee; may in like
manner require hawkers and pedlers of meats, butter, cheese,
fish, and fresh fruit or vegetables to be licensed except as
otherwise provided, and may make regulations governing
the same, provided that the license fee does not exceed that
prescribed by section twenty-two for a license embracing
the same territorial limits; and may in like manner affix
penalties for violations of such regulations not to exceed the
sum of twenty dollars for each such violation. A hawker
and pedler of meats, butter, cheese, fish, or fresh fruit and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 349. 397

vegetables licensed under this section need not be licensed
under section twenty-two.

Section 4. Section nineteen of said chapter one hundred ^' ^^ i^V ' ^^'
and one is hereby amended by striking out, m the thirteenth
and fourteenth lines, the words "enumerated in" and insert-
ing in place thereof the words : — which may be sold with-
out a hcense under, — so as to read as follows: — Section 19. ^|deof'°"°^
The aldermen or selectmen may make regulations consistent bootblack and
with the general laws relative to the exercise of the trade rn'moTs.
of bootblacking by minors, and to the sale or barter by
minors of any goods, wares or merchandise the sale of which
is permitted without a license by section seventeen, and may
prohibit such trade or such sales, or may require a minor to.
obtain from them a permit therefor to be issued on terms
and conditions prescribed in such regulations; provided, Proviso.
that in the case of girls under the age of eighteen years and
of boys under the age of sixteen years the foregoing powers
in cities shall be vested in and exercised by the school com-
mittee. No permit issued to a minor under this section
nor badge issued to him under sections sixty-nine to seventy-
three, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-nine shall
authorize the sale by a minor of any article, other than those
which may be sold without a license under section seventeen.
A minor who sells such article or exercises such trade Penalty,
without a permit, if one is required, or who violates the
conditions of his permit or any provision of said regulations,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars.

Section 5. Said chapter one hundred and one is hereby g.l. 101.522,
further amended by striking out section twenty-two and ^n^^nded.
inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 22. The Hawkers' and
director may grant a license to go about carrying for sale {-ge^ggg
or barter, exposing therefor and selling or bartering any
goods, wares or merchandise, the sale of which is not pro-
hibited by section sixteen, to any person who files in his
office a certificate signed by the mayor or by a majority of
the selectmen, stating that to the best of his or their knowl-
edge and belief the applicant therein named is of good
repute as to morals and integrity, and is, or has declared
his intention to become, a citizen of the United States.
The mayor or selectmen, before granting such certificate,
shall require the applicant to make oath that he is the person
named therein, and that he is, or has declared his inten-
tion to become, a citizen of the United States. The oath
shall be certified by an officer duly qualified to administer
oaths and shall accompany the certificate. The director
shall cause to be inserted in every such license the amount
of the license fee and the name of the town for which it is
issued. The licensee may go about carrying for sale or
barter, exposing therefor and selling or bartering in any town
mentioned in his license any meats, butter, cheese, fish,
fruits, vegetables or other goods, wares or merchandise, not
prohibited in section sixteen, upon payment to the director
of the following fees: for each town containing not more

398

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 349.

G. L. 101. § 23,
etc., amended.

Hawkers' and
pedlers' county
licenses, fees.

Description
of article on
license, etc.

Fees, when
paid over
to county.

than one thousand inhabitants, according to the then latest
census, state or national, four dollars; for each town con-
taining more than one thousand and not more than two
thousand inhabitants, seven dollars; for each town con-
taining more than two thousand and not more than three
thousand inhabitants, nine dollars; for each town contain-
ing more than three thousand and not more than four thou-
sand inhabitants, eleven dollars; and for each city and each
other town, eleven dollars, and one dollar for every one
thousand inhabitants thereof over four thousand; but the
fee shall in no case exceed twenty-six dollars, and the amount
paid shall be certified on the face of the license. The di-
rector shall retain one dollar for every city and town
named in each of the above described licenses, and shall
pay over to the treasurers of the respective cities and towns
at least semi-annually the balance of said fees so received.
The director may grant, as aforesaid, special state licenses
upon payment by the applicant of fifty dollars for each li-
cense; and the licensee may go about carrying for sale or
barter, exposing therefor and selhng or bartering in any
city or town in the commonwealth any meats, butter, cheese,
fish, fruits, vegetables, or other goods, wares or merchandise,
the sale of which is not prohibited by statute. A hawker or
pedler licensed under this section need not be licensed under
section seventeen or twenty-three within the territorial
limits for which the license under this section is issued.

Section 6. Said chapter one hundred and one, as
amended in section twenty-three by section two of chapter
one hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, is hereby further amended by striking
out said section twenty-three and inserting in place thereof
the following : — Section 23. The director may also grant
as aforesaid special county licenses for each county men-
tioned therein; and the licensee may go about carrying for
sale or barter, exposing therefor and selling or bartering
within such county any goods, wares or merchandise manu-
factured by himself or by his employer and not prohibited
by section sixteen, upon paying to the director the amounts
following: for Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex and Worcester,
each, ten dollars; for Norfolk, Plymouth, Bristol, Berkshire
and Hampden, each, eight dollars; for Franklin, Hampshire
and Barnstable, each, six dollars; and for Dukes county
and Nantucket, each, four dollars. The license shall describe
the manufactured articles to be sold or bartered under it,
and shall not authorize the sale or barter of any other article
by the licensee. In case the licensee is selling or bartering
goods, wares or merchandise manufactured by his employer,
the name of such employer shall be stated upon the license.
The director shall retain one dollar for every county named
in each of the above described licenses, and shall pay over
to the treasurers of the respective counties at least semi-
annually the balance of said fees so received. A hawker
or pedler licensed under this section need not be licensed

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 349. 399

under section twenty-two in any city or town embraced
within the territorial limits for which the license under this
section is issued.

Section 7. Said chapter one hundred and one, as g. l. loi, § 25,
amended in section twenty-five by chapter one hundred and ^*''^' ''^"^^'^'^^^■
nineteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven,
is hereby further amended by striking out said section
twenty-five and inserting in place thereof the following: — ■
Section 25. A license granted under section twenty-two Transfer of
or twenty-three may be transferred by the director, upon hawkers' and
application therefor, accompanied by a fee of one dollar pediers'
and upon evidence furnished by the applicant like that '*^™^^®'
required for the original granting of such license, and the
transferee of a license granted under said section twenty-three
may go about carrjang for sale or barter, exposing therefor
and selling or bartering any articles described therein within
the county therein set forth. The director may make rules Rules and
and regulations consistent with law covering the transfer '"emulations.
of licenses granted under said section twenty-three.

Section 8. Said chapter one hundred and one is hereby g.l. ioi,§27,
further amended by striking out section twenty-seven and ^'^e^^^'^-
inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 27 . Endorsing
Every person licensed as a hawker or pedler shall endorse ductioA
his usual signature upon his license. He shall produce his usrrf^^"'^
license for inspection whenever demanded by a mayor, badges, etc.
alderman, selectman, director or inspector of standards,
sealer or deputy sealer of weights and measures, city or
town treasurer or clerk, constable, police officer or justice
of the peace; and if he fails so to do, he shall be subject
to the same penalty as if he had no license. The director
shall, at the expense of the licensee, provide a badge for each
pedler and plates or tags for each pack, parcel or vehicle
used in hawking or peddling. Such badges, plates or tags
shall bear the number of the license, the word "pedler",
and such other information as the director may deem neces-
sary. Each pedler shall wear his badge in a conspicuous
place. Each wagon or other vehicle shall have attached to
the front or side thereof, in a place where it may readily
and plainly be seen, and each pack or parcel carried by a
pedler traveling on foot shall have conspicuously displayed
thereon, the plate or tag provided by the director with the
license number attached thereto.

Section 9. Section thirty of said chapter one hundred g l. ioi,§3o,

111 ^ 1 1 11 i<-<.<. etc., amended.

and one, as amended by chapter one hundred and fifty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three and by
chapter two hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by
inserting after the word "pubhc" in the eleventh line the
words: — , or for any other sufficient cause, — so as to read
as follows : — Section SO. Any license granted by the Revocation of
director to a hawker or pedler may be revoked by him upon hawkers°ind
conviction of the licensee of any crime which in the judg- pediers.
ment of the director warrants such revocation, or upon the

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Notice of
certain convic-
tions to
director of
standards.

Effective date.

submission to the director of evidence satisfactory to him
that, during the term of the hcense, the hcensee has accepted
or sohcited money otherwise than through the bona fide
sale or barter of goods, wares or merchandise or has violated
any provision of section ten A of chapter two hundred and
sixty-four, or has in any manner begged or solicited alms
from the public, or for any other sufficient cause. When-
ever any person is convicted of a violation of any provision
of this chapter, relative to hawkers and pedlers, or a person
holding such a license is convicted of any crime, the clerk
of the court in which, or the trial justice by whom, such
person was convicted shall notifj^ the director.

Section 10. This act shall take effect on September
first of the current year. Approved May 25, 1929.

Chap. 350 An Act authorizing the town of saugus to construct

AND operate a SYSTEM OF SEWERS.

Town of Saugus
may construct
and operate a
system of
sewers, etc.

May make and
maintain
connecting
drains, etc.

Election of
selectmen to
act as board
of sewer com-
missioners.

Election of
board of sewer
commissioners
in case of
failure to elect
selectmen, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follmvs:

Section 1. The town of Saugus may lay out, construct,
maintain and operate a sj'stem or systems of main drains and
common sewers for a part or the whole of its territory, with
such connections and other works as may be required for a
system of sewage disposal, and may construct such sewers
or drains over and under land or tidewater in said town
as may be necessary to conduct the sewage to the filter beds,
treatment works and/or to the outfall sewer of the city of
Lynn, and, for the purpose of providing better surface or
other drainage, may make, lay and maintain such drains
as it deems best. And for the purposes aforesaid, the town
may, within its limits, make and maintain sub-drains.

Section 3. The town may, at the meeting when this act
is accepted, vote that the selectmen shall act as a board of
sewer commissioners. If the town does not so vote at said
meeting, the town shall elect by ballot at any town meeting
not later than the second annual meeting after the com-
mencement of construction hereunder of a sj^stem of sewer-
age and sewage disposal, a board of three sewer commis-
sioners who shall be citizens of the town, to hold office, if
elected at an annual meeting, one until the expiration of one
year, one until the expiration of two years, and one until
the expiration of three years, from such annual town meet-
ing, and until their successors are qualified, or, if elected at
a special meeting, one until the expiration of one year, one
until the expiration of two years, and one until the expira-
tion of three years, from the next succeeding annual town
meeting, and until their successors are quahfied; and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 350. 401

thereafter at each annual town meeting, the town shall elect
one member of the board to serve for three years and until
his successor is elected and qualified. In either case, whether
the town votes that its selectmen shall act as a board of
sewer commissioners or elects a board of sewer commis-
sioners, the town may at any time thereafter, by any or
all the methods permitted by general law, provide for the
election of a board of three sewer commissioners, or that the
selectmen may act as a board of sewer commissioners, as
the case may be.

Section 4. Said board of sewer commissioners, acting May take
for and on behalf of said town, may take by eminent domain iTnds!'water
under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire "ghts, etc.
by purchase or otherwise, any lands, water rights, rights of
way or easements, public or private, in said town, necessary
for accomplishing anv purpose mentioned in this act, and May construct

r- o .. i_ I _ > main drains

may construct such mam drams and sewers under or over and sewers,
any bridge, railroad, raihvay, boulevard or other public enter'upon
way, or within the location of any railroad, and may enter ""-^ftf "^
upon and dig up any private land, public way or railroad lands, etc.
location, for the purpose of laying such drains and sewers
and of maintaining and repairing the same, and may do any
other thing proper or necessary for the purposes of this act;
provided, that they shall not take in fee any land of a rail- Proviso,
road corporation, and that they shall not enter upon or con-
struct any drain or sewer within the location of any rail-
road corporation e.xcept at such time and in such manner
as they may agree upon with such corporation, or, in case of
failure to agree, as may be approved by the department of
public utilities.

Section 5. Until the board of sewer commissioners has Authorized
first been elected as provided in this act or the selectmen tow^to carry
have first been authorized by vote to act as such board, as ei^Jtion oT*^''
the case may be, but not in any event later than the second board of sewer

1 ,• c, ,1 , (• ,1 1 r commissioners,

annual meeting alter the commencement oi the wofk of etc.
construction authorized hereb}^, the town may carry on
such work by a duly authorized committee of the town.
The committee shall serve without pay and shall have all
the powers and authority given to the board of sewer com-
missioners in this act or by general law. Whenever the
phrase "said board of sewer commissioners" or "said board"
occurs in this act, it shall mean and include the board of
sewer commissioners, the selectmen acting as such or the
committee of the town provided for in this section, as the
case may be.

Section 6. Any person injured in his property by any Recovery of
action of said board of sewer commissioners under this act '^'"*^®^' ®*''-
may recover damages from said town under said chapter
seventy-nine.

Section 7. The town shall, by vote, determine what Determination
proportion of the cost of said system or systems of sewerage o\ cost^"'^*'""^
and sewage disposal the town shall pay; provided, that it proviso,
shall pay not less than one fourth nor more than two thirds

402

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 350.

Certain
provisions of
general laws
to apply, etc.

Certification of
payment of
assessments to
sewer
commissioners.

Town may
borrow
money, issue
bonds, etc.

Saugus
Sewerage
Loan, Act of
1029.

Receipts from
sewer assess-
ments, how
appropriated,
etc.

Appointment
of clerk and
superintendent
of sewers.

Rentals or
charges, etc.

Contract with
city of Lynn
for disposal of
sewage, etc.

Contracts, how
made, etc.

of the whole cost. In providing for the payment of the
remaining portion of the cost of said system or systems or
for the use of said system or systems, the town may avail
itself of any or all of the methods permitted by general laws,
and the provisions of said general laws relative to the assess-
ment, apportionment, division, reassessment, abatement and
collection of sewer assessments, to liens therefor and to in-
terest thereon shall apply to assessments made under this
act, except that interest shall be at the rate of six per cent
per annum. At the same meeting at which it determines
the proportion of the cost which is to be borne by the town,
it may by vote determine by which of such methods the
remaining portion of said cost shall be provided for. The
collector of taxes of said town shall certify the payment or
payments of such assessments or apportionments thereof to
the sewer commissioners, or to the selectmen acting as such,
who shall preserve a record thereof.

Section 8. For the purpose of paying the necessary
expenses and liabilities incurred under this act for the con-
struction of a system of main drains and common sewers
as set forth in section one, including the fee for entrance into
the Lynn outfall sewer, the town may borrow such sums as
may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate, five hun-
dred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
which shall bear on their face the words, Saugus Sewerage
Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute
a separate loan. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall
be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except as pro-
vided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General
Laws.

Section 9. The receipts from sewer assessments and
from payments made in lieu thereof shall be appropriated
for the payment of charges and expenses incident to the
maintenance and operation of said system of sewerage and
sewage disposal or to the extension thereof, to the payment
of interest upon bonds or notes issued for sewer purposes
or to the payment of such bonds or notes.

Section 11. All contracts made by the board of sewer
commissioners shall be made in the name of the town and
shall be signed by the board, but no contract shall be made

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 351. 403

or obligation incurred by said board for any purpose in
excess of the amount of money appropriated by the town
therefor.

Section 12. Said board may, from time to time, pre- Rules and
scribe rules and regulations for the connection of estates ''^suiations.
and buildings with main drains and sewers, and for inspection
of the materials, the construction, alteration and use of all
connections and drains entering into such main drains or
sewers, and may prescribe penalties, not exceeding twenty
dollars, for each violation of any such rule or regulation.
Such rules and regulations shall be published at least once Publication,
a week for three successive weeks in some newspaper pub- ®'*'"
hshed in the town of Saugus, if there be any, and if not, then
in some newspaper published in the county of Essex, and
shall not take effect until such publications have been made.

Section 13. No act shall be done under authority of Approval of

,, ,. . A • xi 1 ■ c J plans by state

the preceding sections, except m the making oi surveys and department of
other prehminary investigations, until the plans for said ''"^'"^ health.
system of sewerage and sewage disposal have been approved
by the state department of public health. Upon applica-
tion to said department for its approval, it shall give a
hearing, after due notice to the public. At such hearing. Hearing, etc.
plans showing in detail all the work to be done in construct-
ing said system of sewerage and sewage disposal shall be
submitted for the approval of said department.

Section 14. For the purpose of submission to the voters Effective upon
of said town, this act shall take effect upon its passage, and '^^°^p'^'*"'=^' ^^'^^
it shall take full effect upon its acceptance by vote of the
majority of the voters of said town voting thereon at a town
meeting called for the purpose within five years after its
passage. No expenditure shall be made and no liability
incurred hereunder until such acceptance.

Approved May 25, 1929.

An Act to establish a board of commissioners of school rhnj) 351

BUILDINGS AND A DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN
THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The board of commissioners of school build- Board of com-
ings of the city of Boston, hereinafter referred to as the board ™hoo° blli^id-
of commissioners, is hereby established and shall consist "f Bo°8ton^
of three citizens of Boston who otherwise are neither officials estabiishriient,
nor employees of said city, one of whom shall be appointed termV^etc.'^'
by the mayor of said city without approval by the civil
service commissioners, one by the school committee thereof,
and one shall be chosen by the two so appointed or shall be
appointed by the governor if the appointees of the mayor
and school committee fail to choose a commissioner as
aforesaid within thirty days after the second of such ap-
pointees has been appointed. In the case of the original
appointments hereunder, the appointments by the mayor
and school committee shall be made within thirty days after

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Proviso.

Vacancy,
filling, etc.

Proviso.

Commissioners
to serve
without pay.

Expenditures,
etc.

Department
of school
buildings of
city of
Boston,
establishment.

Superintendent
of construction,
salary, etc.

Written report,
etc.

Board of
achoolhouse
commissioners
of achoolhouse
department,
and said
department,
abolished.

Powers, duties,
etc., of superin-
tendent of
construction.

the acceptance of this act and the commissioner appointed
by the mayor shall serve until the expiration of three years,
the one appointed by the school committee shall serve
until the expiration of two years, and the one chosen by
said appointees or appointed by the governor shall serve
until the expiration of one year, from December first of the
current year, and on or before the expiration of any term of
a commissioner, his successor shall be appointed for a term
of three years, in the manner provided for the appointment
of the commissioner whose term expires; provided, that if
the term expiring is that of a commissioner chosen by the
appointees of the mayor and the school committee or ap-
pointed by the governor as aforesaid, a successor shall be
appointed by the governor only in the event that said ap-
pointees fail to choose one within thirty days after the ex-
piration of such term. All commissioners shall serve until
the appointment of their successors. Any vacancy occurring
in said board shall be filled for the remainder of the term
by the mayor, by the school committee, by their appointees
or by the governor, according as the original appointment
was made; provided, that, in the case of a vacancy in the
office of the commissioner chosen by said appointees, a com-
missioner to fill such vacancy shall be appointed by the
governor only in the event that said appointees fail to choose
a successor within thirty days after the occurrence of such
vacancy. The commissioners shall serve without pay. The
necessary expenses and cost of quarters, equipment, secre-
tarial and clerical services shall be paid, upon approval
of the school committee, from appropriations which it is
authorized to make.

Section 2. The department of school buildings of the
city of Boston is hereby established and shall be under the
charge of a superintendent of construction who shall be
elected by the board of commissioners and shall serve at the
pleasure of said board. His salary shall be established by
said board of commissioners, with the approval of the school
committee, but shall not exceed twelve thousand dollars per
annum. He shall make a written report to the mayor, to
the school committee and to the board of commissioners
annually or oftener as the mayor, or the school committee
or the board of commissioners may require and in such man-
ner and detail as may be required.

Section 3. Upon the election of a superintendent of
construction under section two, the board of schoolhouse
commissioners of the schoolhouse department, and said
department, both existing under authority of chapter four
hundred and seventy-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and one, and acts in amendment thereof and in addition
thereto, shall be abolished. Except as provided in this act,
said superintendent of construction shall, upon his election,
succeed to, have and exercise all the power and authority
conferred, and shall be subject to all the duties and obliga-
tions imposed, by all existing laws, whether special or gen-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 351. 405

eral, upon the board of schoolhouse commissioners of the
schoolhoiise department established as aforesaid, in addition
to the powers and authority conferred, and the duties and
obhgations imposed, by this act.

Section 4. The said superintendent of construction Deputy super-
shall appoint, with the approval of the board of commis- duUea.Tafaries.
sioners, one or more deputy superintendents, one of whom
shall have assigned to him the charge of repairs and altera-
tions of all school buildings of said city, subject to the
direction of the superintendent of construction. The deputy
superintendents shall be paid such salaries as may be fixed
by the superintendent of construction, with the approval of
the board of commissioners.

Section 5. After the schoolhouse department of said city Reappointment
is abolished, all of its employees who are subject to civil ^LtusoT^
service shall be reappointed to similar positions with the g^oolhouse^
same status in the department of school buildings, without department.
civil service examination or enrollment.

Section 6. The employees of the schoolhouse depart- ^®htstl?"°^
ment referred to in section five shall, upon reappointment as retirement
therein provided, retain all rights to retirement with pen- ^^^^^^ p^"^'°"'
sion that shall have accrued or would thereafter accrue to
them, and their services shall be deemed to have been con-
tinuous, to the same extent as if this act had not been
passed.

Section 7. The school committee of the city of Boston Submission of
shall submit all proposed budgets and appropriation orders buXetsand
for the construction and furnishing of new school buildings ofjJ°''b''**'°"
both temporary and permanent, including the taking of school com-
land therefor, and for school yards and the preparing of oTBoston^o^
school yards for use, and for the rent of hired school ac- board of

coniniissionGrs

commodations, and for the alteration and repair of school etc.-
buildings, and for furniture, fixtures and means of escape
in case of fire, and for fire protection for existing buildings,
and for improving existing school yards, to the board of
commissioners who shall make written report thereon to the Written report,
school committee after such examination and investigation ^*'''
as said board of commissioners may desire to make, and
no appropriation of money for any of the above-named pur-
poses shall be made by the school committee until such
report shall have been made to the school committee by said
board of commissioners. All such reports of the board of
commissioners shall be incorporated in full in the minutes
of the school committee meeting next following the receipt
thereof.

Section 8. The superintendent of construction shall not No erection or
erect or substantially alter any building or provide tem- bufidings, etc.,
porary school accommodations, or furnish school buildings, "JJl'den't'of"""
or prepare school yards until the superintendent of public public schools
schools of said city shall have submitted in writing to said ?eqtdsition,
superintendent of construction a requisition or order ade- ^*'^-
quately describing the building to be altered or erected or
the need to be supplied; nor shall said superintendent of

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. 352.

Approval of
plans, etc.

Taking of land,
etc.

Submission
to voters, etc.

construction substantially alter or erect any building re-
quiring plans and specifications until such plans and speci-
fications have received, in writing, the approval of the
superintendent of public schools; nor shall said superin-
tendent of construction request the street commissioners to
take any land, except within the limits of a school district
which shall first be designated by the school committee, nor
until the superintendent of public schools shall approve in
writing the particular parcel of land to be taken. The
school committee may authorize payment of money for
lands taken, without the approval of the mayor.

Section 9. This act shall be submitted for acceptance
to the voters of said city at the city election in the current
year in the form of the following question which shall be
placed upon the official ballot to be used at said election: —
"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled 'An Act to establish
a board of commissioners of school buildings and a depart-
ment of school buildings in the city of Boston', be ac-
cepted?" If a majority of the votes cast on said question
are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon take effect,
but not otherwise. Approved May 25, 1929.

Treasurer of
city of Boston
may issue and
sell bonds of
city, etc.

C/iax>.352 An Act to authorize the city op boston to borrow

MONEY TO MAKE UP DEFICITS IN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS
FOR STREET WIDENINGS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The treasurer of the city of Boston, without
any other authority than that contained in this act, shall,
from time to time, on request of the mayor, issue and sell at
public or private sale, bonds of the city to an amount not
exceeding in the aggregate one million dollars, which shall be
outside the statutory limit of indebtedness of said city.
Each authorized issue of bonds shall constitute a separate
loan, but no loan shall be authorized by the mayor under
this act unless a sum equal to ten per cent of the loan so
authorized is voted for the same purpose to be provided
from taxes or other sources of revenue. Any sums to be
raised by taxation shall be outside the tax limit as fixed for
the city for the year in which the loan is authorized. The
bonds shall be designated on their face. City of Boston
Street Widenings and Extensions Loan, Act of 1929; shall
be in such form of coupon bonds, or registered bonds without
coupons, or coupon bonds exchangeable for registered bonds,
as the treasurer of the city shall determine ; shall be for such
terms not exceeding fifteen years from the dates of issue as
the mayor and treasurer of the city shall determine; shall
bear interest in accordance with the provisions of chapter
fifty-two of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen;
and shall be payable by such annual payments as will ex-
tinguish the same at maturity, and so that the first of said

City of Boston
Street

Widenings and
Extensions
Loan, Act of
1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 352. 407

annual payments on account of any loan shall be made not
later than one year after the date of the bonds issued there-
for, and so that the amount of said payments in any year on
account of said loan shall not be less than the amount of
principal of the loan payable in any subsequent year. The
said annual amounts together with interest on the loan shall,
without further action, be assessed until the debt is extin-
guished. The treasurer of the city of Boston shall hold the
proceeds of said bonds in the treasury of the city and pay
therefrom the cost and expenses incurred under the pro-
visions of the acts referred to in section two of this act.
Any premiums received from the sale of said bonds, less the
cost of preparing, issuing and selling the same, shall be
applied to the payment of the principal of the first bond
or bonds to mature. The city treasurer may, with the ap- Temporary
proval of the mayor, make a temporary loan for a period of ^°^^- "**=•
not more than one year in anticipation of the money to
be derived from the sale of any issue of said bonds, and may
issue notes therefor, and such notes may be refunded by the
issue of new notes maturing within the said year; but the
period of the permanent loan herein authorized shall not
be extended by reason of the temporary loan.

Section 2. The money borrowed under the provisions Money
of this act shall be used only for the purposes set forth in, tmderprovi-
and shall be in addition to the sums of money authorized sionsofact,

now us6cl.

and borrowed by the city of Boston under, chapter three
hundred and thirty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-five for the construction of Dock square, Faneuil
Hall square and adjacent streets in the city of Boston, except
Exchange street, and chapter four hundred and seventy-six
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four authoi'izing
the laying out, widening and construction of Kneeland street
from a point at or near Washington and Stuart streets to
Atlantic avenue in the city of Boston, chapter four hundred
and seventy-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
four authorizing the laying out, widening and construction
of Tremont street from Arlington square to its intersection
with Stuart street in the city of Boston and chapter four
hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three authorizing the widening and construction of
Cambridge street and Court street in the city of Boston;
provided, that no part of the money borrowed under this Proviso,
act shall be used except in satisfaction of judgments rendered
after trial in the usual course, or judgments entered by
special order for amounts agreed upon in writing by the
parties and found by the court, after hearing, to be just and
reasonable.

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

Approved May 27, 1929.

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Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 353, 354.

City of Cam-
bridge may
convey to the
President and
Fellows of
Harvard
College a
certain parcel
of land on
Cambridge
street in said
city.

Chav.S53 An Act authorizing the city of Cambridge to convey

TO THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND ON CAMBRIDGE STREET IN
SAID CITY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

In consideration of the conveyance to the city of Cam-
bridge by the President and Fellows of Harvard College of
a certain parcel of land in said city bounded by Cambridge
street, Broadway and Quincy street, said city is hereby
authorized to convey to the President and Fellows of Har-
vard College, free from all encumbrances, restrictions, con-
ditions and public rights and uses, the whole or any portion
of a certain parcel of land in said city bounded and described
as follows: — westerly by Massachusetts avenue, twenty-
four and thirty-three one-hundredths feet; northerly by
land of the said President and Fellows, two hundred forty
and thirty one-hundredths feet; easterly by land of the
said President and Fellows, two hundred sixty-four and
seven one-hundredths feet; and southwesterly by said
Cambridge street, by two lines, seven and eight one-hun-
dredths feet and three hundred sixty-one and sixty-four
one-hundredths feet; said parcel being marked B on a plan
of land in Cambridge belonging to the city of Cambridge,
dated January twenty-three, nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine, L. M. Hastings, city engineer, being plan No. 13389A,
filed in Land Court Case No. 13389; provided, that the
conveyance authorized as aforesaid shall operate as a release
by said city to the commonwealth and its assigns of the
right to construct, maintain and operate railroads and
railways in, over and under the land marked A on said plan.

Approved May 27, 1929.

Proviso.

Chap. 354: An Act to authorize the town of winthrop to lease

LAND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION THEREON OF A BUILDING
FOR FEDERAL BUILDING PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Winthrop may, by its select-
men, lease the whole or any part of a parcel of land now
owned by it and located therein at the corner of Pauline and
Winthrop streets, known as the Old Town Hall site, which
is not needed for municipal purposes, for a period not
exceeding twenty-five years, for the construction thereon of
a building to be used only for federal building purposes.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 28, 1929.

Town of
Winthrop may
lease certain
land for the
construction
thereon of a
building for
federal
building
purposes.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 355, 35G. 409

An Act providing for the establishment of the willard (JJidj) 355

BROOK STATE FOREST IN THE TOWNS OF ASHBY AND TOWN-
SEND.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The commissioner of conservation, here- Commissioner
inafter called the commissioner, may take by eminent do- may establish"
main under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws or prook'gt^te
such alternative method as may be provided by law, or Forest in
acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise, such land or interests anTTownswZ
therein as may be necessary for preserving the forest growth
on that area lying on both sides of the state highway along
the Willard brook in the towns of Ashby and Townsend,
comprising a tract of land not exceeding twelve hundred
acres. The land so taken or acquired shall be known as
the Willard Brook State Forest, and shall be under the
control and management of the commissioner.

Section 2. The commissioner shall grant from time to Granting of
time permits to owners of adjoining land to do any work in owneis^o^f°
said forest necessary to provide convenient access to, or com- adjoining land,
munication with, said adjoining land.

Section 3. Said land shall be exempt from taxation, but Exemption
the commonwealth shall reimburse the towns in which said etc"' '^"'^ '°"'
land is located for the resulting loss of taxable valuation in
the same manner and to the same extent as provided by
sections thirteen to seventeen, inclusive, of chapter fifty-
eight of the General Laws.

Section 4. For carrying out the purposes of this act. Expenditure,
there may be expended such sum, not exceeding twenty *'*'^'
thousand dollars, as may be appropriated, the same to be
considered a part of the amount authorized for activities
under section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and
thirty-two of the General Laws, but the limitation of price
for purchase to five dollars an acre, as provided by said
section thirty-three shall not apply to purchases made under
authority of this act. Approved May 28, 1929.

An Act to reorganize certain boards and officials of (JJiqj) 35Q

THE town of MARBLEHEAD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The following boards, officers and committee Certain
of the town of Marblehead, as constituted on April fifteenth, otticMsand
nineteen hundred and thirty, are hereby abolished as of said to^\"'o"®®°^
date, to wit : — The board of sewer commissioners, estab- MarWehead,
lished under authority of section three of chapter three '*'^°''^'*^'^-
hundred and nine of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred
and sixteen, the surveyor of highways, the playground com-
mittee, the board of engineers of the fire department, and
the board of water commissioners, established under au-
thority of section twelve of chapter one hundred and sixty-
three of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

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Acts, 1929. — Chap. 356.

Board of
public works,
establishment,
members,
terms.

Compensation.
Powers, etc.

Superintendent
of streets,
appointment,
duties, etc.

Subordinate
officials, etc.

Annual report.

Board of health
and welfare,
establishment.

Members, elec-
tion, terms.

Compensation.

Powers and
duties.

The board of health and the board of pubHc welfare of said
town, as such boards are constituted on the day of the
annual town meeting of said town in the year nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-one, are hereby abolished as of such last-
mentioned date.

Section 2. There is hereby established in said town as
of said April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty, in
succession to said boards of water commissioners and sewer
commissioners and said surveyor of highways, a board of
public works, which shall consist of three persons, legal
voters of said town, appointed by the selectmen. Of the
members of said board originally appointed, one shall be
appointed to serve until the expiration of one year, one to
serve until the expiration of two years, and one to serve until
the expiration of three years, from the first Monday in
April, nineteen hundred and thirty; and thereafter, one
person shall be so appointed to serve for the term of three
years from the first Monday of April in the year of his ap-
pointment. The compensation of the members of said
board shall be fixed by said town.

Said board shall have all the authority vested immedi-
ately prior to said April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
thirty, in the said board of water commissioners, the said
board of sewer commissioners and the said surveyor of
highways of said town, and all the powers and duties relative
to drains and edgestones and to the opening of pubhc ways
vested immediately prior to said date in the selectmen of
said town, and shall also have charge of the collection of
ashes and garbage. Said board shall annually, in the
month of April, appoint a superintendent of streets, who
shall perform such duties as may be required of him by,
and shall be removable at the pleasure of, said board, and
whose compensation shall be fixed by said town. Said
board may also employ such subordinate officials and other
employees as may be necessary for the conduct of the public
work; shall keep proper books and records; and shall make
an annual report to the selectmen for each calendar year.
Said report shall include such detailed statements of receipts
and expenditures and work performed as the selectmen re-
quire or the interests of the town demand.

Section 3. There is hereby established in said town,
as of the date of the annual election referred to in this sec-
tion, in succe.ssion to said boards of health and of public
welfare, a board of health and welfare, which shall consist
of three legal voters of said town who shall be elected, be-
ginning with the annual town election in said town in the
year nineteen hundred and thirty-one, to serve, except as
hereinafter provided, for terms of three years each. The
compensation of the members of said board shall be fixed
by said town. Said board shall have all the powers and
duties vested in or imposed upon the said boards of health
and of public welfare of said town, except the collection of
ashes and garbage, on the date of said annual town election.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 356. 411

Of the members of said board originally elected, one shall
be elected to serve for a term of one year, one for a term of
two years, and one for a term of three years.

Section 4. The local superintendent for the suppres- Tree warden
sion of gypsy and brown tail moths in said town shall after supeHntendent,
the acceptance of this act also perform the duties of tree duties, etc.
warden therein, and shall be known as tree warden and
moth superintendent, and the office of tree warden shall be
abolished. The provisions of section thirteen of chapter one
hundred and thirty-two of the General Laws relative to
approval and notice of appointment shall apply to such
superintendent.

Section 5. On and after April fifteenth, nineteen hun- parkcommis-
dred and thirty, the park commissioners of said town shall smners, duties,
succeed to and shall exercise all the powers and duties of the
playground committee therein.

Section 6. On and after April fifteenth, nineteen hun- riredepart-
dred and thirty, the fire department of said town shall be ™®"*-
under the supervision and control of the board of selectmen,
who shall annually, in April, appoint a chief of said de- Appointment
partment for the term of one year, and may remove him at of chief,
pleasure. He shall annually, in April, appoint, for terms of Two deputies
one year each, two deputies, to be designated as first and by chief.^°'"*^
second deputies, and all permanent and other men of said
department, may by appointment fill for the balance of the
unexpired term any vacancy occurring in any such office
or position, and may remove at pleasure any person so ap-
pointed by him. The compensation of the chief, of the compensation,
deputies and of all permanent and other men of said de-
partment shall be fixed by said town. Said chief shall have Duties of chief,
charge of extinguishing fires in said town and of the pro-
tection of life and property therein, in case of fire. He shall
also be forest warden. Subject to such supervision and
control, he shall administer said department, shall have
charge and direction of the property and apparatus used for
and by said department and of all subordinate officers and
other members thereof, and shall make, and may alter or
amend, rules and regulations for its operation. He shall ^eport^'.' ^*^°"
report to the selectmen from time to time as they may
require, and shall annually report to the town, the condi-
tion of the department with his recommendations thereon.
In the absence or incapacity of the chief, the first deputy
shall have and exercise the powers of the chief, and in the
absence or incapacity of both the chief and the first deputy,
the second deputy shall have and exercise such powers.

Section 7. Any vacancy in any office of said town which vacanciee,
the selectmen are authorized by this act to fill by appoint- fi'iing-etc.
ment shall be filled by them, in the manner provided for the
original appointment, for the balance of the unexpired term.

Section 8. This act shall be submitted to the regis- submission
tered voters of the town of Marblehead at the annual town ^° ^'°ters, etc.
meeting of nineteen hundred and thirty. The vote shall be
taken in precincts by ballot in accordance with the pro-

412

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 357.

visions of the General Laws, so far as applicable, in answer
to the following question which shall be placed upon the
official ballot to be used for the election of town officers: —
"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled, 'An Act to re-
organize certain boards and officials of the town of Marble-
head' be accepted by this town? " If a majority of the votes
cast thereon are in the affirmative, this act shall thereupon
take full effect, but not otherwise.

Approved May 28, 1929.

ChaV 357 ^^ "^^^ establishing the MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRIAL
^' COMMISSION FOR THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF

THE INDUSTRIAL, AGRICULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL RE-
SOURCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend
to defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

G. L. 23, new
sections after
§9.

The Massa-
chusetts
Industrial
Commission,
estabHshment.

How consti-
tuted.

Cliairman.

One member
to be repre-
sentative of
labor.

Appointment
of successors.

Meetings.

Traveling
e.xpenses.

Secretary and
experts.

Necessary
clerks and
employees.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter twenty-three of the General Laws
is hereby amended by inserting after section nine, under the
caption "THE MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRIAL COM-
MISSION", the following three new sections: — Section 9A.
There shall be in the department a commission for the
promotion and development of the industries and indus-
trial, agricultural and recreational resources of the common-
wealth, to be known as the Massachusetts industrial com-
mission, in this and the two following sections called the
commission. The commission shall consist of the commis-
sioner and the commissioner of agriculture, ex officiis, and
five unpaid members appointed by the governor, with the
advice and consent of the council, who shall be designated
in their initial appointments to serve respectively for one,
two, three, four and five years. The commission shall
annually choose one of its members as chairman. One of
the members appointed by the governor as aforesaid shall
always be a representative of labor. Upon the expiration
of the term of office of an appointive member, a successor
shall be appointed in the manner aforesaid for five years.
The commission shall meet at least once a month and at
such other times as it shall determine by its rules. The
members shall receive their necessary traveling expenses
while in the performance of their official duties.

Section 9B. Subject to the approval of the governor and
council, the commission may appoint and fix the compen-
sation of a secretary and such experts as it may require and
may remove them with like approval. It may also employ
such other necessary clerks and employees as it may require
and fix their compensation. Authorized representatives of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 358. 413

the commission may travel outside the commonwealth for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section nine C.

Section 9C. The commission may conduct researches into Commission
industrial and agricultural conditions within the common- ^^LrcbesToT
wealth, and shall seek to co-ordinate the activities of unofficial the promotion
bodies organized for the promotion of the industrial, agri- mentofthT
cultural and recreational interests in the commonwealth, and agricultural
may prepare, print and distribute books, maps, charts and and recreational
pamphlets which in its judgment will further the purpose commonu°eaith.
for which it is created, and, on behalf of the commonwealth, Distribution
may accept contributions and, subject to the approval of of i^ooks, etc.
the governor and council, may expend the same and also Expenditure.
may expend such sums as may be appropriated by the gen-
eral court to carry out the purpose of this and the two
preceding sections.

Section 2. Sections ten and eleven of said chapter g. l. 23, §§ 10
twenty-three and section one hundred and seventy-four of cf. l. iX? 174,
chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the General Laws, rlp'^J[^ied'*°^'
as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and
ninety-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
seven, are hereby repealed. Approved May 29, 1929.

An Act authorizing the construction of a parkway (Jfiav 358
OR boulevard from a point near the junction of

NEWTON and HAMMOND STREETS IN THE TOWN OF BROOK-
LINE TO BEACON STREET IN THE CITY OF NEWTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The metropolitan district commission, here- Metropolitan
inafter called the commission, is hereby authorized to lay mfssi^nm^y
out and construct, in accordance with the provisions of '^'^"kw^*''
chapter ninety-two of the General Laws relative to the lay- or boulevard
ing out and construction of parkways and boulevards, a n™"rjunctron
parkway or boulevard from a point at or near the junction "[^^ Hammond
of Newton street with Hammond street, in the town of streets'in
Brookline, to Beacon street, in the city of Newton, at or Reaconstreet
near Hobart road, following substantially the course de- '" Newton.
scribed as "Route 1" in the special report of the commission
filed with the general court December first, nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, printed as current house document num-
bered one hundred and thirty-four.

Section 2. For the purpose of acquiring the land re- Expenditure.
quired for said parkway or boulevard not now owned by the
commonwealth and for preliminarj^ surve3nng and clearing
of the right of way, the commission may expend such sum,
not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, as may here-
after be appropriated.

One half of the expenditures made under authority of this onehaif tobe
section shall be assessed upon the cities and towns of the cftTe^s^'and"^""
metropolitan parks district in proportion to the respective *°^itan ^ w-ks"^""
taxable valuations of the property of said cities and towns, district. '
as defined by section fifty-nine of said chapter ninety-two.

414

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 359.

mid from °^^ '^^^ remaining one half shall be paid from the Highway-
Highway Fund. Fund for the current year.

Certain sum SECTION 3. The sum of fifty thousand dollars authorized

forpurposes ^ to be expended under chapter two hundred and thirty-one
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven is hereby
made available for the purposes of said chapter.
Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 29, 1929.

of chapter.

Chap.S59 An Act relative to the taxation of certain domestic

BUSINESS CORPORATIONS DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN SE-
CURITIES.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend
to defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public convenience.

G. L. 63, new
section after
§ 38A.

Taxation of

certain

domestic

business

corporations

dealing

exclusively

in securities.

Minimum
amount of
total excise,
etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter sixty-three of the General Laws is
hereby amended by inserting after section thirty-eight A,
inserted by section two of chapter three hundred and thirty-
eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the
following new section: — Section 38B. Every domestic
business corporation, which is engaged exclusively in buy-
ing, selling, dealing in, or holding, securities on its own
behalf and not as a broker, shall pay annually an excise
equal to the sum of the following and such a corporation
shall not be subject to the excise imposed by section thirty-
two:

(a) An amount equal to six per cent of such income, re-
ceived by the corporation during the preceding calendar
year, as would be subject to taxation under section one of
chapter sixty-two, if received by a natural person resident
in this commonwealth.

(6) An amount equal to one and one half per cent of such
income, received by the corporation during the preceding
calendar year, as would be subject to taxation under clause
(6) of section five of said chapter sixty-two, if received by
a natural person resident in this commonwealth, the same
to be computed in accordance with the provisions of section
six of said chapter sixty-two, so far as applicable, but with-
out deducting any exemption under authority of said clause
(6) and without making any deduction under clause {g)
or ih) of said section six.

(c) An amount equal to three per cent of the excess of the
gains over the losses received by the corporation during the
preceding calendar year from purchases or sales of intangible
personal property.

But in no event shall the total excise so payable by such
a corporation be less in amount than one twentieth of one
per cent of the fair value of its capital stock on the last day
of the taxable year as defined in paragraph numbered six of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 360. 415

section thirty, nor less than an excise upon its net income at
the rate assessed upon financial corporations.

Such a corporation shall annually on or before April f ^|j"^^qj.
tenth, file a return in such form as the commissioner shall determination
prescribe giving such information as he shall require for de- °^ ®''"*®' ^^'^'
termination of the excise under this section. The com- Assessment
missioner shall assess and collect said excise, and all pro- tion.""
visions of this chapter relative to the assessment, collection,
payment, abatement, verification and administration of the
excise imposed by said section thirty-two, including pen-
alties, shall, so far as pertinent, be applicable to the excise
determined under this section.

Section 2. Section thirty-two of said chapter sixty- g.l.63, §32
three, as amended by section one of chapter four hundred ® "' ^™^"
and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, by section six of chapter three hundred and thirt}^-
eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six and by
section three of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby further
amended by striking out, in the second line, the words "sec-
tion thirty-four" and inserting in place thereof the words: —
sections thirty-four and thirty-eight B, — so as to read as
follows: — Section 32. Except as otherwise provided in sec- Excise on
tions thirty-four and thirty-eight B, every domestic business busines's°
corporation shall pay annually, with respect to the carrying corporations.
on or doing of business by it, an excise equal to the sum of
the following, provided, that every such corporation shall p^^iso.
pay annually a total excise not less in amount than one
twentieth of one per cent of the fair value of its capital stock
on the day fixed for determination of the value of its corpo-
rate excess: —

(1) An amount equal to five dollars per thousand upon
the value of its corporate excess.

(2) An amount equal to two and one half per cent of its
net income determined to be taxable in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter.

Section 3. This act shall take effect as of January Effective date.
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and shall apply to
taxes assessed in said year, and thereafter.

Approved May 29, 1929.

An Act authorizing the town of southwick to purchase nhnY) 360

WATER FROM THE CITIES OF SPRINGFIELD AND WESTFIELD ^'

FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF SAID TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Southwick may supply itself |°''''i^°( i^^
and its inhabitants with water for the extinguishment of ma"y supply
fires and for domestic and other purposes; may establish |nhab!t"ants^
fountains and hydrants, relocate or discontinue the same, with water.
and may regulate the use of such water, and for such pur- May purchase
pose may purchase from the cities of Springfield and West- citie^or"'
field, or either of them, and said cities or either of them may fnd w^st'fieid.

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May construct,
lay, etc., con-
duits, pipes,
etc., to
connect with
sources of
supply of city
of Westfleld,
or of city of
Springfield
located in
city of West-
field, etc.

May acquire
certain land,
etc.

May erect
structures, lay
pipes, etc.

May dig up,
etc., lands,
highways,
etc.

Provisos.

Restrictions
as to entry
upon railroad
locations.

Damages,
recovery, etc.

sell to said town, water from their or its sources of supply
wherever located.

Section 2. The said town, for the purposes aforesaid,
may construct, lay, maintain, operate and repair conduits,
pipes and other works necessary to connect with the sources
of supply of said city of Westfield, or of said city of Spring-
field located in the city of Westfield and convey water
therefrom through said city of Westfield into and through-
out said town, and also conduits, pipes and other work
necessary to connect with the water mains of said city of
Springfield or of said city of Westfield at the boundary line
between said town of Southwick and said city of Westfield
and convey water therefrom throughout said town, and
may, for such purposes, lease, or take by eminent domain
under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire
by purchase or otherwise, and hold, all land, rights of way
and easements within said town and within the city of
Westfield necessary therefor. For the purposes aforesaid,
said town may construct and may erect on the lands taken or
held under the provisions of this act proper buildings, reser-
voirs, standpipes, fixtures and other structures, and may
make excavations, procure and operate machinery, and
provide such other means and appliances and do such
other things as may be necessary for the establishment and
maintenance of complete and effective water works; and
for that purpose may construct reservoirs, establish pumping
works and lay down and maintain conduits, pipes and other
works under or over any lands, water courses, railways,
railroads or public or private ways, and along any such way
in said town or said city of Westfield in such manner as not
unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the purpose of
constructing, laying, maintaining, operating and repairing
such conduits, pipes and other works, and for all other proper
purposes of this act, said town may dig up or raise and em-
bank any such lands, highways or other ways in such man-
ner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel thereon;
provided, that no public way in the city of Westfield shall be
dug up, and no conduits or pipes shall be laid in any such
public way, except under the direction of the mayor of said
city of Westfield, and provided, further, that any public
way so dug up in said city of Westfield shall be restored by
said town to a condition satisfactory to the mayor of said
city of Westfield. Said town shall not enter upon, con-
struct or lay any conduits, pipes or other works within the
location of any railroad corporation except at such time and
in such manner as it may agree upon with such corporation
or in case of failure so to agree as may be approved by the
department of public utilities. Any person or corporation
injured in his or its property by any action of said town or
its board of water commissioners hereinafter provided for,
may recover damages from said town under said chapter
seventy-nine.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 360. 417

Section 3. The land taken under this act shall be man- Board of water
aged, improved and controlled by the board of water com- to™ontroi°Ttc*
missioners of the town of Southwick, hereinafter provided
for, in such manner as they shall deem for the best interest
of the said town.

Section 4. For the purposes set forth in this act, other Town of
than those pertaining to maintenance and operation, the mTv borrow
town of Southwick may borrow from time to time, within a "no^ey, etc.
period of five years from the passage of this act, such sums
as may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate seventy-
five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes there-
for which shall bear on their face the words. Town of South- Town of
wick Water Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall wafer Loan,
constitute a separate loan and such loans shall be paid in Act of 1929.
not more than thirty years from their dates. Indebtedness
incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory
limit but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws.

Section 5. Said town shall, at the time of authorizing Payment of
said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in ac- '°"°''^*'=-
cordance with the provisions of section four; and when a
vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the
income derived from the water rates, will be sufficient to
pay the annual expense of operating the water works and
the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as
aforesaid, and to make such payments on the principal as
may be required under the provisions of this act shall with-
out further vote be assessed by the assessors of the said town
annually thereafter in the same manner as other taxes, until
the debt incurred by the said loan or loans is extinguished.

Section 6. The said town shall, after voting to avail |^!Jtefcom-
itself of the provisions of section one, at the same or a sub- missioners,
sequent meeting, elect by ballot three persons to constitute terms!'etc.
a board of water commissioners, one of whom shall hold
office until the expiration of three years, one until the ex-
piration of two years, and one until the expiration of one
year, from the next succeeding annual town meeting; and
at the annual town meeting held on the day on which the
shortest of such terms expires and at each annual town
meeting thereafter one such commissioner shall be elected
by ballot for the term of three years. All the authority Authority, etc
granted to the said town by this act, except sections four
and five, and not otherwise specially provided for shall be
vested in said board of water commissioners, who shall be
subject, however, to such instructions, rules and regulations
as said town may impose by its vote. A majority of said Q^o'''^™-
commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. Any vacancy occurring in said board from any Vacancies,
cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term ""^ '^
by said town at any legal town meeting called for the pur-
pose. Any such vacancy may be filled temporarily by a
majority vote of the selectmen, and the person so appointed

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To fix water
rates, etc.

Net surplus,
how appro-
priated.

Annual, etc.
reports.

Penalty for
polluting
water, etc.

shall hold office until the town fills the vacancy in the
manner specified herein.

Section 7. Said commissioners shall fix just and equi-
table prices and rates for the use of water and shall prescribe
the time and manner of payment. The income of the water
works shall be appropriated to defray all operating expenses,
and interest charges and payments on the principal as they
accrue on any bonds or notes issued for water supply pur-
poses. If there should be a net surplus remaining after
providing for the aforesaid charges, it shall be appropriated
for such new construction as the water commissioners, with
the approval of the town, may determine upon, and in case
a surplus should remain after the payment for such new
construction, the water rates shall be reduced proportionately.
All authority vested in said commissioners by the foregoing
provisions of this section and by section three shall be sub-
ject to the provisions of section seven. Said commissioners
shall annually and as often as the said town may require,
render a report upon the condition of the works under
their charge and an accounting of their doings including an
account of receipts and expenditures.

Section 8. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts,
pollutes or diverts any of the waters taken or held under this
act, or injures any structure, work or other property owned,
held or used by said town of Southwick under the authority
and for the purposes of this act, shall forfeit and pay to said
town three times the amount of damages assessed therefor,
to be recovered in an action of tort; and upon conviction of
any one of the above wilful or wanton acts shall be punished
by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by
imprisonment for not more than one year.

Approved May 31, 1929.

ChaV.S61 ^'^ ^^^ RELATIVE TO TPIE TAXATION OF INCOME OF INDI-
VIDUALS, TRUSTS AND ESTATES.

G. L. 62, § 24,
amended.

Income tax
returns to be
on oath, etc.

Place and
date of filing.

Period
included.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloios:

Section 1. Chapter sixty-two of the General Laws is
hereby amended by striking out section twenty-four and in-
serting in place thereof the following: — Section 24- Returns
under the two preceding sections shall be on oath or ac-
companied by a written declaration that they are made under
the penalties of perjury, and shall be filed with the income
tax assessor for the district where the taxpayer resides or
has his principal place of business or, at the option of the
taxpayer, with the commissioner, shall be made in such
form as the commissioner prescribes, and shall contain such
further information as he deems pertinent. Except as
otherwise provided in this chapter, the return shall be made
on or before March first in each year and shall relate to the
income received during the year ending on December thirty-
first preceding.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 361. 419

Section 2. Said chapter sixty-two is hereby further g. l. 62, § 25,
amended by striking out section twenty-five and inserting '^^^"'^ed.
in place thereof the following: — Section 25. Every indi- Persons
vidual who while an inhabitant of the commonwealth, and this^chapter.
every executor, administrator, trustee or other fiduciary who
while such an inhabitant or while acting under an appoint-
ment derived from a court of the commonwealth, has re-
ceived any income taxable under this chapter, and the estate
of every deceased inhabitant of the commonwealth, shall be
subject to the taxes imposed by this chapter. Every such Filing
individual or fiduciary shall file a return under section '^^*^°S'^*'*'-
twenty-two or twenty-three if he has in the preceding year
received any such income, and an executor or administrator
shall file a return under said section twenty-three if his
decedent received any such income not returned by the
decedent as to which a tax under this chapter may still be
assessed within the time limited by section thirty-seven.
If a person has been appointed executor or administrator
after January first in any year, the return of such income
received by his decedent but not returned by him shall be
due and shall be filed within ninety days after the date of
such appointment. Every such individual intending to
remove his domicile from the commonwealth, and every such
fiduciary intending to make final distribution of an estate
or trust, before the end of any year shall file immediately
prior to such removal or distribution a return under said
section twenty-two or twenty-three of all such income re-
ceived by him and by his decedent during said year and
prior to such removal or distribution, and the taxes thereon
shall become due and payable forthwith.

Section 3. Section thirty-nine of said chapter sixty-two g. l. 62, §39,
is hereby amended by inserting after the word "shall" the amended,
first time it appears in the fourth line, the words: — , except
as otherwise provided in this chapter, — so as to read as
follows: — Section 39. The commissioner, annually on or commissioner
before September first, shall give written notice to every of date ux'^^
person taxable under this chapter of the amount of the tax is due, etc.
payable by him, and of the date on which the tax is due and
payable, which shall, except as otherwise provided in this
chapter, be October first. The notice shall be mailed,
postage prepaid, addressed to the person assessed at his
place of residence or business, or at the address given in his
return, or otherwise delivered at such place of residence
or business or at such address. All taxes assessed hereunder
may be paid at the office of the commissioner in Boston or
at the office of the income tax assessor for the district where
the taxpayer resides or has his principal place of business, at
the option of the taxpayer, and the notice shall state the
places at which the tax may be paid. Failure to receive such
notice shall not affect the vahdity of the tax.

Approved May 31, 1929.

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Metropolitan
district
commission
may construct
a general
office and
headquarters
building in
city of Boston.

Taking of land,
etc.

Limitation of
expenditure.

Proviso.

State treasurer
may borrow
money, issue
notes, etc.

Chap.3()2 An Act to provide for a general office and head-
quarters BUILDING FOR THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT
COMMISSION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The metropolitan district commission, here-
inafter called the commission, with the approval of the
governor, is hereby authorized to acquire land in the city
of Boston for a site for a building for general office and
headquarters purposes of the commission, and, after plans
therefor have been approved by the governor, to construct
a building for these purposes on said land. For the afore-
said purposes, the commission may take in fee by eminent
domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws,
or under such alternative provisions of law as may be then
in force, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, such land as
may be necessary, and may expend therefor, including the
construction of the building, a sum not exceeding seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars; provided, that if the
commission so desires it may substitute, with the approval
of the governor, for said acquiring land and constructing a
building, the purchase of land and an existing building
suitable for the purpose at a price not exceeding the afore-
said amount.

Section 2. For the purposes of this act, the state treas-
urer may borrow on the credit of the commonwealth such
sums, not exceeding, in the aggregate, seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, as may from time to time be required,
and may issue and renew notes of the commonwealth, carry-
ing such rates of interest as the state treasurer may fix, with
the approval of the governor and council, such notes to be
for such term or terms as shall be recommended by the
governor in pursuance of section three of Article LXII of
the amendments to the constitution. All sums necessary to
meet payments of interest and principal on account of such
notes shall be apportioned, assessed and collected as follows:
one third as maintenance of reservations by the metropolitan
parks district; one third as maintenance by the metro-
politan water district; and one third in equal parts each as
maintenance by the north and south metropolitan sewerage
districts.

Section 3. All the space suitable for office purposes and
not used for metropolitan district activities under the con-
trol of the commission or of any division thereof in any
building constructed or acquired for their use shall be leased
or rented to the commonwealth at fair market rates for
equivalent spaces in privately owned buildings; provided,
that said rates shall be at least sufficient to cover the same
ratio of the costs for maintenance and upkeep of the build-
ing and of a fair return for interest and depreciation on the
investment of the metropolitan districts in said building as
the space therein leased or rented to the commonwealth
bears to the whole building. A-pproved May 31, 1929,

Assessment
and collection.

Office space
not used by
commission
to be leased or
rented to
commonwealth .

Proviso.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 363. 421

An Act relative to contracts for supplying hospital (JJidj) 353

FACILITIES TO PERSONS SUFFERING FROM TUBERCULOSIS
IN THE TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL DISTRICT COMPRISING
CHELSEA, REVERE AND WINTHROP.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing adequate hos- Thetubercu-
pital care for persons residing in Chelsea, Revere and Win- JistTicr^'*'^
throp suffering from tuberculosis who need such hospital ci^i^^'"^
care, the tuberculosis hospital district comprising Chelsea, Revere knd
Revere and Winthrop, established by section ninety of chap- may contract
ter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws, acting ^ther^ubercu-
through its board of trustees created thereunder, is hereby losis hospital
authorized, subject to the approval of the state department private ""^
of public health, to enter into a contract or contracts with ^"I'^'^^g of "^
the trustees of any other tuberculosis hospital district or providing
districts, acting through their respective boards of trustees, fJjTpe^rsons'^^
or with any private hospital, upon such terms and condi- ;:?f*|'"^'S

1 • i. J. i-i 1 L 1 X -1 Chelsea, Revere

tions as may, subject to like approval, be determined upon andwinthrop
by the contracting parties. Section eighty-eight of said tubercufol^s™
chapter one hundred and eleven shall apply to the admis- e*^«=-
sion of patients under such a contract into any hospital main-
tained under sections seventy-eight to ninety, inclusive, of
said chapter one hundred and eleven, and to charges for
their care and treatment in such hospital. Such a contract
or contracts shall be deemed satisfactory compliance with
said sections seventy-eight to ninety, inclusive.

Section 2. The trustees of the said tuberculosis hos- Trustees may
pital district comprising Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop issue"notesr^'
shall raise and expend the sums necessary to meet payments ^*''-
falling due under a contract or contracts entered into and
approved under section one, and may from time to time
borrow the same on the credit of said district, and may issue
notes of the district therefor, payable in not more than
eighteen months from their respective dates of issue, from
the reimbursements received from the said cities and town
as hereinafter provided. They shall annually in January Apportionment
determine the total amount already expended by or due oFexifenditure,
from the district under such a contract or contracts during ^'^''^
the previous year and shall apportion the same to and may
collect the same from the said cities and town, in like man-
ner as the cost of construction and equipment of hospitals
is apportioned and collected under section eighty-three of
said chapter one hundred and eleven, and the same shall be
applied to the payment of the notes issued as aforesaid.

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

Approved June 3, 1929.

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Department
of public
works may
lay out, con-
struct, etc.,
certain ways
in city of
Maiden, and
towns of
Braintree,
Weymouth
and Hingham,
etc.

Chap,SQ4: An Act to provide for the laying out, construction

AND improvement OF CERTAIN WAYS IN THE CITY OF
MALDEN, AND THE TOWNS OF BRAINTREE, WEYMOUTH AND
HINGHAM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The department of public works, hereinafter
called the department, is hereby authorized to lay out,
construct and improve ways for motor vehicles and other
traffic in the city of Maiden and in the towns of Braintree,
Weymouth and Hingham, substantially in the following
locations:

(a) Beginning at a point where the Maiden-Everett
boundary line crosses Broadway in the city of Maiden and
extending along said Broadway northerly to the southerly
end of the state highway in said city, with such widenings
and relocations as the department shall deem desirable;

(b) Beginning at the intersection of Washington and
Plain streets in the town of Braintree and extending along
or near Plain and Grove streets in said town including a
crossing at grade of the tracks formerly of the Old Colony
Railroad Company, thence along or near Columbian street
including necessary alterations to the bridge over the tracks
formerly of the South Braintree, Abington and Plymouth
branch of said Old Colony Railroad Company, and thence
extending over public or private lands and along or near
Park avenue, Ralph Talbot street and Park street in the town
of Weymouth; thence along or near Derby street to a point
at or near its intersection with Whiting street in the town
of Hingham. In connection with the alteration of said
bridge the department may provide for a greater head-room
or greater width between abutments than exists at the
present bridge; provided, that the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad Company, lessee of said Old Colony
Railroad, agrees with the department to pay the added cost
incident thereto, as determined by the department. Said
railroad company shall hereafter maintain the bridge as
altered, except the wearing surface thereof which shall be
maintained by the town of Weymouth.

Section 2. The cost of removal of the existing street
railway tracks and appurtenances from that portion of
Broadway in the city of Maiden between Salem street and
the southerly end of the state highway aforesaid, and the
cost of the reconstruction of the tracks and appurtenances
and the pavement between the rails of each track on said
Broadway from Eastern avenue southerly to the Maiden-
Everett boundary line, shall be borne by the Boston Ele-
vated Railway Company. At any time before the work
herein authorized shall have been completed, the depart-
ment may grant locations in said ways for conduits, pipes,
wires, poles, street railway tracks and other structures

Cost of removal
of street railway
tracks from
certain portion
of Broadway
in Maiden,
and cost of
reconstruction
of tracks, to
be borne by
Boston
Elevated
Railway
Company,
etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 364. 423

which it determines should in the pubHc interest be relocated
in connection with the construction of said ways.

Section 3. The department may, on behalf of the com- Department
monwealth, take by eminent domain under chapter seventy- pubiic^or^
nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or other- private lands,
wise, such public or private lands or rights therein as it
may deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this
act, including such land or rights in land as may be neces-
sary for the construction of any necessary drainage outlets;
provided, that no damages shall be paid for public lands Proviso,
so taken.

Section 4. The cost of laying out, constructing and bedeemed
improving said proposed new ways, including any damages to be the
awarded or paid on account of any taking of land or property work%tc^
therefor, or for injury to the same and any sums paid for
lands or rights purchased, including the interest on any
money borrowed by the state treasurer on the credit of the
commonwealth under section six and all other expenses in-
curred in carrying out the provisions of section one, but
excluding the added cost of alterations of the bridge on
Columbian street incident to increasing the head-room or
width between abutments which is to be borne by the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company,
and excluding the cost of removal and reconstruction afore-
said which, by the provisions of section two, is to be borne
by the Boston Elevated Railway Company, shall be deemed
to be the cost of the work; provided, that such cost shall P'o^'iso.
not exceed in the aggregate the following amounts for work
done in the following municipalities:

For work in the city of Maiden, the sum of one hundred
and seventy thousand dollars;

For work in the town of Braintree, the sum of one hun-
dred and twenty-four thousand dollars;

For work in the town of Weymouth, the sum of two
hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars;

For work in the town of Hingham, the sum of sixty-six
thousand dollars.

Section 5. To meet one quarter of the cost of the work Apportionment

1 • 1 • • 11 1111 • 1 1 ' cost, etc.

authorized in sections one and three, there shall be paid by
the commonwealth, from such appropriations as may here-
after be made, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty-
three thousand dollars to be paid out of the Highway Fund;
one quarter of the cost of the work shall be paid by the mu-
nicipalities of the metropolitan parks district, including
Maiden, Braintree, Weymouth and Hingham, in proportion
to the respective taxable valuations of the property of said
municipalities as defined in section fifty-nine of chapter
ninety-two of the General Laws; one quarter of the cost of
the work in the city of Maiden shall be paid by said city,
and one quarter thereof shall be paid by the county of
Middlesex; one quarter of the cost of the work in each of the
towns of Braintree, Weymouth and Hingham shall be paid

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Cost of work
to be paid
in first
instance by
commonwealth.

Certification
to state
treasurer of
amount
expended for
work, and
amount due
from each
municipality
and county,
etc.

Assessment
and collection,
etc.

State treasurer
may issue and
sell temporary
notes, etc.

Maximum
amount of
notes.

City of
Maiden and
towns of

by said town, one quarter of the cost of the work in the
towns of Braintree and Weymouth shall be paid by the
county of Norfolk and one quarter of the cost of the work
in the town of Hingham shall be paid by the county of
Plymouth.

Section 6. The part of the cost of the work hereinbe-
fore provided to be paid ultimately by the municipalities of
Maiden, Braintree, Weymouth and Hingham as members
of the metropolitan parks district and otherwise, the part
thereof to be paid as aforesaid by the other municipalities
of the metropolitan parks district and the part thereof to
be paid as aforesaid by the counties of Middlesex, Norfolk
and Plymouth shall in the first instance be paid bj^ the com-
monwealth. On or before June tenth in the year nineteen
hundred and thirty and in each subsequent year, until the
work is completed and the entire cost thereof ascertained,
and thereafter, the department shall ascertain and certify
to the state treasurer the amount expended for the work
authorized hereby since the last certification as aforesaid
by the department, including interest paid by the com-
monwealth on temporary loans, and shall ascertain and
certify the amount due from each municipality and county
aforesaid to meet its share of the amount then certified,
and the amounts due as aforesaid from such municipalities
shall be assessed and collected by the state treasurer in the
apportionment and assessment of the annual state tax and
shall be applied to the payment of the principal and interest
of the notes issued as hereinafter provided or to meet the
cost of the work authorized hereby. The amounts due
from each such county shall be paid by the treasurer thereof
into the state treasury on or before November twentieth
next succeeding receipt of written demand therefor from
the state treasurer and shall be applied as hereinbefore pro-
vided in the case of the municipalities aforesaid.

The state treasurer shall, upon the request of the de-
partment and subject to the approval of the governor and
council, issue and sell at public or private sale temporary
notes of the commonwealth, to an amount to be specified
from time to time by the department, sufficient to provide
means for the payment in the first instance of that part of
the cost of the work which is to be borne ultimately by the
municipalities and counties aforesaid. All such temporary
notes shall be issued, and may be renewed, for such maxi-
mum term of years as the governor may recommend to the
general court in accordance with section three of Article
LXII of the amendments to the constitution of the com-
monwealth, and shall bear interest payable semi-annually
at such rate as shall be fixed by the state treasurer, with the
approval of the governor and council. The total amount
of all notes issued hereunder shall not exceed the sum of four
hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.

Section 7. To meet that portion of the cost of the work
to be borne ultimately by the city of Maiden and the towns

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 365. 425

of Braintree, Hingham and Weymouth, respectively, other Braintree,
than the proportionate parts of such cost payable on account and Weymouth
of their membership in the metropolitan parks district, "fj^idg^^'^j
such municipality may borrow outside its limit of indebted- of indebted-
ness as fixed by law such sums as may be necessary, and may bonds?e"tc.
issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall be payable in not
more than ten years; and such indebtedness shall, except
as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the
General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the
first paragraph of section seven thereof, as revised by
chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-eight. To meet that portion of ^i*?'J'n'''*'® °^
the cost of the work to be borne ultimately by the counties Norfofk''and
of Middlesex, Norfolk and Plymouth, respectively, such bo^™°''^';jj;^/
county may borrow such sums as may be necessary, and issue bonds,
may issue bonds or notes of the county therefor, which shall
be payable in not more than ten years; and such indebted-
ness shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter
thirty-five of the General Laws.

Section 8. When the work authorized hereby shall have ways to
been completed, said ways shall become city or town ways ortownwlys,
and shall be kept in good condition and repair by the city etc.
or town in which the way or part thereof is situated, and
the provisions of section twenty-five of chapter eighty-one
of the General Laws shall apply thereto.

Approved June 3, 1929.

An Act to increase the amounts payable under the fh^j. q«c
teachers' retirement law. ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section seven of chapter thirty-two of the g. l. 32, § 7.
General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter two etc., amended.
hundred and sixty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four and by chapter one hundred and seventy-
three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is
hereby further amended by striking out, in the twentieth
and twenty-first lines, as printed in the General Laws, the
words "one hundred dollars", — and by inserting after the
word "year" in the twenty-first line as so printed the
words: — the maximum annual assessment established by
paragraph (2) of section nine, — so that paragraph (4)
will read as follows: — (4) Teachers in training schools main- Teachers'
tained and controlled by the department of education shall a^godatlon
be considered as public school teachers under sections seven Teachers
to nineteen, inclusive, and such a teacher upon becoming training-schools
a member of the association shall thereafter pay assessments s°dered°pubiic
based upon his total salary including the part paid by the school
commonwealth; provided, that the total assessments shall "^^"^ ^'^^' ^ '^■
not exceed in any year the maximum annual assessment
established by paragraph (2) of section nine. Such assess-
ments shall be deducted in accordance with rules prescribed

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Not applicable
to certain
teachers.

G. L. 32,
amended.

Funds of

retirement

system.

Annuity
fund.

Proviso.

G. L. 32, § 10,
etc., amended.

Retiring
allowances.

by the board. This paragraph shall not apply to teachers
regularly employed in the normal schools and therefore sub-
ject to sections one to five, inclusive, although they devote
a part of their time to training school work.

Section 2. Section nine of said chapter thirty-two is
hereby amended by striking out, in the thirtieth line, the
words "five hundred" and inserting in place thereof the
words: — six hundred and fifty, — so that paragraph (2)
will read as follows: — (2) The annuity fund shall consist of
assessments paid by members and interest derived from
investments of the annuity fund. Each member shall pay
into the annuity'' fund, by deduction from his salary in the
manner provided in section twelve (5), such assessments
upon his salary as may be determined by the board. The
rate of assessment shall be estabhshed by the board on the
first day of July of each year after a prior notice of at least
three months, and shall at any given time be uniform for all
members of the association, and shall not be less than three
nor more than seven per cent of the member's salary; pro-
vided, that when the total sum of assessments on the salary
of any member at the rate estabhshed by the board would
amount to more than one hundred dollars or less than thirty-
five dollars for a full school year, such member shall in lieu
of assessments at the regular rate be assessed at the rate of
one hundred dollars a year or thirty-five dollars a year,
payable in equal instalments, to be assessed for the number
of months during which the schools of the community in
which such member is employed are commonly in session.
Any member who shall for thirty years have paid regular
assessments to the annuity fund shall be exempt from further
assessments; but such member may thereafter, if he so elects,
continue to pay his assessments to the fund. No member,
however, shall pay further assessments after the total sum
of assessments paid by him shall have amounted, with
regular interest, to a sum sufficient to purchase under section
ten (3) (a) an annuity of six hundred and fifty dollars at
age sixty, and interest thereafter accruing shall be paid to
the member on his retirement.

Section 3. Section ten of said chapter thirty-two, as
affected by chapter four hundred and sixty of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby amended by
striking out, in the thirty-seventh line, the word "pension"
and inserting in place thereof the word : — annuity, — and
by striking out, in the fiftieth line, the words "five hundred"
and inserting in place thereof the words: — six hundred and
fifty, — so that paragraph (5) will read as follows: — (5)
Any member who served as a regular teacher in the public
schools prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen,
and who has served fifteen years or more in the public
schools, not less than five of which shall immediately pre-
cede retirement, on retiring as provided in paragraph (1)
or (2) of this section, shall be entitled to receive a retire-
ment allowance as follows: (a) such annuity and pension

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 365. 427

as may be due under paragraphs (3) and (4) of this section;
(b) an additional pension to such an amount that the sum
of this additional pension and the pension provided in
paragraph (4) of this section sliall equal the annuity to
which he would have been entitled under sections seven to
nineteen, inclusive, if he had paid thirty assessments based
on his average yearly rate of salary for the five years im-
mediately preceding his retirement, at the rate of assessment
in effect at that time, and his account had been annually
credited with interest at the rate of four per cent per annum;
provided, that if his term of service in the commonwealth Proviso,
shall have been over thirty years, the thirty assessments,
with interest as provided above, shall be credited with
interest at the rate of four per cent, compounded annually
for each j^ear of service in excess of thirty; but the assumed
accumulation of assessments with interest under this para-
graph shall not exceed the amount which at the age of sixty
and in accordance with clause (a) of paragraph (3) of this
section will purchase an annuity of six hundred and fifty
dollars, and the minimum pension shall be of such an amount
that the annual pension, plus the annual amount which
would have been paid from the annuity fund if the member
had chosen an annuity computed under clause (3) (a) of
this section, shall be four hundred dollars. If a member is
at any time eligible to retire and receive a pension com-
puted under this paragraph, he shall receive upon retire-
ment a pension computed hereunder without the necessity
of five years of continuous service preceding retirement.

Section 4. Said section ten, as affected as aforesaid, is g. l. 32, § 10,
hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the '*'• ^™«"ded.
following new paragraph: —

(19) No pension under paragraph (4) shall exceed one Maximum
third of the member's average yearly rate of salary for the pen°tons°^
five years immediately preceding his retirement, and no ""<i"
pension under paragraph (5), except a minimum pension, (4) and (5).
shall exceed one half of the member's average j^early rate of
salary for the five years immediately preceding his retire-
ment; provided, that the pension of any person who became Proviso.
a member of the teachers' retirement association prior to
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, shall in
no case be reduced by this paragraph to an amount less
than the amount to which such person would have been
entitled as pension had the provisions of sections seven to
nineteen, inclusive, in effect immediately prior to said date
been in effect at the time of his retirement. All annuities
and pensions under this section shall be in multiples of four
cents.

Section 5. Section nineteen of said chapter thirty-two g. l. 32, § 19,
is hereby amended by striking out, in the seventh line, the '^™'^'^'^'^'^-
words "one hundred dollars" and inserting in place thereof
the words: — the maximum annual assessment established
by said paragraph (2), — and by striking out, after the
word "that" in the fourteenth line, the words "a person

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Persons
principally
employed in
the public
schools and
also by the
commonwealth ,

Proviso.

Persons
principally
employed by
commonwealth
and also in
public schools.

Proviso.

Deduction of
assessments.

Not applicable
to certain
teachers.

Increase
in amount
of pension pro-
vided for by
§ 3 not appli-
cable to
certain persons.

Effective date.

who receives more than thirty dollars weekly in salary or
wages shall not be assessed on the excess above that amount"
and inserting in place thereof the words: — the annual
assessment of such a member shall not exceed the maximum
annual assessment established by paragraph (2) A (a) of said
section four, — so as to read as follows: — Section 19. A
person who is principally employed as a teacher in the
public schools but who is also employed by the common-
wealth shall, if a member of the teachers' retirement as-
sociation, pay assessments to the annuity fund established
by paragraph (2) of section nine, based on the total salary
received for service as a public school teacher and for em-
ployment by the commonwealth; provided, that the annual
assessment of such a member shall not exceed the maximum
annual assessment estabhshed by said paragraph (2).

A person who is principally employed by the common-
wealth but who is also employed in the public schools shall
not be a member of the teachers' retirement association, but
shall be subject to sections one to five, inclusive, and if a
member of the state retirement association shall pay assess-
ments to the annuity fund established by section four based
on the total salary received for service rendered to the com-
monwealth and for employment as a public school teacher;
provided, that the annual assessment of such a member
shall not exceed the maximum annual assessment established
by paragraph {2) A (a) of said section four.

Assessments under this section shall be deducted from
salary or other compensation in accordance with the rules
and regulations prescribed by the respective retirement
boards having jurisdiction.

This section shall not apply to teachers referred to in
paragraph (4) of section seven.

Section 6. The increase in amount of maximum pen-
sion provided for by section three of this act shall not apply
to any person retired under section ten of chapter thirty-two
of the General Laws prior to June thirtieth in the current
year.

Section 7. This act shall take effect as of June thirtieth
in the current year. Approved June 4, 1929.

Chap.S6Q An Act establishing the maximum basis for deposits
in the annuity fund under the state retirement

SYSTEM.

G. L. 32, § 4,
etc., amended.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section four of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws,
as amended by section six of chapter four hundred and
eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one
and by section one of chapter three hundred of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended
by striking out paragraph {2) A (a) and inserting in place
thereof the following : —

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 367. 429

A. Deposits hy Memhers. — (a) Except as hereinafter Maximum
provided, each member shall deposit in this fund from his depositsby
salary or wages, as often as the same are payable, not less "he™n"uity
than one nor more than five per cent thereof, as determined fund under
by the board under section three (4); but members who reUrement
receive as weekly salary or wages an amount in excess of IstabUshed
thirty-five dollars shall not be assessed for contributions to
this fund on the excess above thirty-five dollars. Any mem-
ber receiving on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty,
salary or wages at the rate of more than thirty dollars per
week shall make deposits based upon the salary or wages
received but not on the amount received exceeding the
weekly rate of thirty dollars, or, upon written apphcation
of such member filed with the board after said date, upon the
full salary or wages received but not on the amount received
exceeding a weekly rate of thirty-five dollars. The pension
for prior service of any member receiving on January first,
nineteen hundred and thirty, salary or wages at the rate of
more than thirty dollars per week shall be computed upon
the salary or wages received during such service but not on
the amount received exceeding the weekly rate of thirty
dollars; but, if such member shall pay deposits prior to
January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, on his
salary or wages exceeding a weekly rate of thirty dollars,
the pension for prior service shall be computed upon the
salary or wages received but not on the amount exceeding
the weekly rate of thirty-five dollars.

Approved June 4, 1929.

An Act providing for a minimum retirement allowance nhn^f Qgy

OF FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS UNDER THE ^'

STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN CERTAIN CASES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section five of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, as g. l. 32. § 5,
amended by sections three and four of chapter three hundred '^''^ ' ^"^^"'^'=«^-
and forty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, by sections one and two of chapter two hundred and
five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, by
sections one and two of chapter two hundred and forty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, by section
two of chapter three hundred of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, and by chapter one hundred and one
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby
further amended by striking out paragraph (2) E and in-
serting in place thereof the following : —

E. Minimum arid Maximum Payments. Except as other- Minimum
wise provided, in no case shall a member, whether he has "iufn'"pay-
elected the form of annuity provided for in paragraph (2) 1."^^*^^'^^^''
B (a) or (2) B (h) of this section, be retired at such an annual "^^
rate of pension as would, when added to the annual amount
which would be required to be paid from the annuity fund
if he had elected the form of annuity provided for in said

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Except, eto.

Pensions and
annuities,
how com-
puted.

paragraph (^) B (a), amount to a total retirement allowance
of less than three hundred dollars or, in case the member has
completed twenty-five years or more of service and his an-
nuity at retirement is computed upon an amount equal to
the sum which accumulated contributions for the entire
period of his membership at the rate of five per cent have
provided, less than four hundred and eighty dollars; and in
no case shall a member who has elected either of the afore-
said forms of annuity be retired at such an annual rate of
pension as would, when added to the annual amount which
would be required to be paid from the annuity fund if he
had elected the form of annuity provided for in said para-
graph (2) B (a), amount to a total retirement allowance of
more than one half the average annual rate of his salary or
wages during the five years prior to retirement, or, if such
member resigns or is dismissed prior to the date of retire-
ment, during the five years prior to such resignation or dis-
missal, except that the minimum retirement allowance
hereinbefore provided for such member shall not thereby
be reduced. For the purpose of determining the maximum
pension and the maximum annuity under this section, the
rate of salary or wages received by a member on the date
immediately preceding any period of absence without pay
shall be used as the rate of pay which he would have received
during such absence without pay.

All pensions and annuities, and the average annual rate
of salaiy or wages during the five years prior to retirements
resignation or dismissal, shall be computed under the pre-
ceding sections to the nearest multiple of twelve.

Approved June 4, 1929.

ChaV.SQS A^ ^CT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COURT HOUSE ACCOMMO-
DATIONS AND FACILITIES FOR THE COURTS AND OTHER
OFFICIALS IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.

Emergency
preamble.

Establishment
of commission
to provide
additional •
court house
accommoda-
tions and
facilities for
the courts and
other officials
in Suffolk
county.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend
to defeat its purpose to provide immediate relief against
court house congestion in SulTolk county, which is seriously
impeding the administration of justice, therefore it is hereby
declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public safety and convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing additional
court house accommodations and facilities for the courts and
other officials in the county of Suffolk, including furnishings
and equipment, there is hereby estabhshed a commission,
hereinafter referred to as the commission, to consist of three
citizens of the commonwealth, who shall be appointed within
two months after the effective date of this act in the manner
following : — one by the governor, one by the mayor of the
city of Boston, hereinafter referred to as the mayor, and one

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 368. 431

who shall be a resident of Boston by the chief justice of
the supreme judicial court. The governor shall designate
one member of the commission as its chairman. The com- Compensation,
missioners shall receive such compensation as may be de-
termined by the governor and the mayor, and shall serve
for a period of five years from said date. Any vacancy in vacancy,
the office of any commissioner shall be filled in the same
manner as the original appointment.

Section 2. The commission, subject to the approval of ^loc"";!,™''"'^
the governor and the mayor, is hereby authorized and directed etc.
to determine upon the location of such additional accommo-
dations and facilities, and whether they shall consist of
alterations in or additions or extensions to the present court
house building or additional court house units, or any or
all thereof, provided, however, that any additional land to Proviso,
be acquired hereunder shall be within the area bounded
by Ashburton place, Bowdoin street, Cambridge street. Court
street, Pemberton square, and the central hall of the present
court house building; and to determine the type and general ^*fy™a"d^'°"
style of building or buildings to be utilized, so far as con- generaistyie
sistent with the laws and regulations relative to the height of etc."' "^^'
buildings applicable to the location, and what streets and
ways, if any, shall be closed, altered or extended in order to
consolidate locations and to permit of an advantageous
lay-out and adequate access thereto. Forthwith upon the Taking of land,
determination of said questions and in accordance with
such determination, the commission shall proceed to acquire
by purchase, or to take by eminent domain under chapter
seventy-nine of the General Laws or under such alternative
provisions of law as may be then in force, such land and
interests therein, including buildings, as may be necessary
to construct such additions, extensions or units upon the
locations designated as aforesaid, or to relocate or extend
public ways, provided, that in case of any taking under said Proviso.
chapter seventy-nine, the commission at the time of taking
need make no award of damages sustained bj'' the person
whose property is taken; and shall proceed to cause to be closing, etc.,
closed, altered or extended such streets and ways as may wayl.^etc.^'^'^
have been determined to be necessary, and to cause to be
prepared, subject to the approval of the governor and the
mayor, and in compliance with said laws and regulations,
plans and specifications for the construction of such altera- Plans and
tions, extensions, additions and/or units, together with such |^^"fi<=''tions,
remodeling and alterations of the present court house
building, as shall have been determined to be necessary as
aforesaid, in order properly to house the superior, municipal
and juvenile courts and clerks' offices, the probate court,
the registry of probate, registry of deeds, the offices of the
district attorney and the sheriff of said county, the social
law library, the supreme judicial court, the land court, the
reporter of decisions, the commission on probation and the
board of bar examiners, and adequately to accommodate all
other services and facilities incidental thereto and needful

432

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Architects ond
engineers, etc.

Wrecking and
removal of
old buildings
on land
taken, etc.

When com-
mission may
proceed with
making of
contracts for
construction of
alterations,
extensions, etc.

Limit of
liability of
commonwealth
and of city,
etc.

Disposition of
furnishings in
existing
court house,
etc.

All work
to be under
written
contract, etc.

Competitive
bidding.

Advertising
in Boston
City Record,
etc.

Proposals to
be opened
in public.

Bond.

Alterations
in contract
to require

for the prompt and effective administration of justice and
the despatch of public business. The services of such
architects and engineers as may be employed by the com-
mission shall be on the basis of salary or fee plus actual cost
of draughting and incidentals, and not of commission.

Section 3. Upon completion of the necessary land
takings or purchases, the commission, with the approval of
the governor and the mayor, may proceed by contract, in
the manner hereinafter provided, with the wrecking and
removal of the old buildings on the land so taken or pur-
chased. When the plans and specifications have been ap-
proved by the governor and the mayor as aforesaid, and if
it appears to their satisfaction that after making reasonable
allowances for unsettled land damages, furnishings and
equipment, and contingencies, the total expense of carrying
out the provisions of this act will not exceed the unexpended
balance of the amount herein authorized to be expended,
the commission is hereby authorized, on behalf of the com-
monwealth and the city of Boston, to proceed with the
making of contracts for the construction of the alterations,
extensions, and additions and/or units authorized as herein
provided, and the furnishing and equipment thereof. The
liabihty of the commonwealth and of said city under any
such contract, or otherwise, shall be limited to the propor-
tions in which the commonwealth and said city, respectively,
contribute to the cost of the work, as herein provided. The
commission may dispose of such furnishings and equipment
in the existing court house building as may be replaced
hereunder, and the proceeds shall be available for expenditure
for the purposes of this act. All work shall be done under
written contract, and no such contract shall be deemed to
have been made or executed until the written approval of
the governor and the mayor has been affixed thereto. All
such contracts shall be awarded by the commission on the
basis of competitive bidding, and only after proposals for the
same have been invited by advertisements in the Boston
City Record once a week for at least two consecutive weeks,
the last publication to be at least one week before the time
specified for the opening of said proposals. Said adver-
tisements shall state the time and place where plans and
specifications of the proposed work may be had and the time
and place for opening the proposals in answer to said ad-
vertisements, and shall reserve to the commission the right
to reject any or all of such proposals. All such proposals
shall be opened in public. Any contract made as aforesaid
may be required to be accompanied by a bond with sureties
satisfactory to the commission, or by a deposit of money,
certified check or other security for the faithful performance
thereof, and such bonds or other securities shall be deposited
with the city treasurer until the contract has been carried
out in all respects. Alterations in any such contract or in
the plans and specifications to which it relates shall require

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 368. 433

the written approval of the governor or some person desig- written
nated by him for the purpose and of the mayor or some go?ernor,°
person designated by him as aforesaid. A member of the ^^°-
commission may be so designated.

Section 4. For the purpose of completely carrying out Expenditure.
the provisions of this act, including payment of salaries and
expenses of its members, the commission may expend a sum
not exceeding five million dollars, in addition to any sums
received under the provisions of this act, of which twenty Apportionment,
per cent shall be paid by the commonwealth and eighty per
cent by the city of Boston. To meet the commonwealth's state treasurer
share of such expenditures, the state treasurer shall from fundsat
time to time, on the request of the commission and with the 00^^°^?^°^
approval of the governor and council, place at the disposal to meet
of the commission such funds as it may require within the ofexp^e^er
said limit, either from such appropriation or appropriations ^t''-
as may be made or by the issue and sale, at public or private
sale, of notes of the commonwealth to an amount not ex-
ceeding one million dollars, which shall be designated,
"Court House Loan, Act of 1929". Such notes shall be Court House
for such term of years as may be recommended by the onm^^^
governor in accordance with section three of Article LXII
of the amendments to the constitution, and shall bear in-
terest, payable semi-annually, at such rate as shall be fixed
by the state treasurer, with the approval of the governor
and council.

Section 5. The city of Boston shall from time to time, city of Boston
at the request of the commission, place at the disposal of fuifdsTt
the commission such funds as may be needed to meet the commfsg°onto
city's share of the expenditures authorized by this act, and meet city's
for this purpose the treasurer of said city, without further Lpense, etc.
authority, shall borrow from time to time such sums as
may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, four
million dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which
shall bear on their face the words, City of Boston, Court city of Boston.
House Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall con- Lran, AcTof
stitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable in ^^2^-
not more than twenty years from their dates. Such in-
debtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the
statutory limit, but shall, except as herein otherwise pro-
vided, be subject to all laws relative to the incurring of debt
by said city.

Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance, submission
during the current year, by vote of the city council of the councu, etc.
city of Boston, subject to the provisions of its charter; but
for the purpose only of such acceptance it shall take effect
upon its passage. Approved June 5, 1929.

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Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 369, 370.

Chav.^Q9 -^^ Act relative to the publication of ordinances and

PROPOSED ORDINANCES IN CERTAIN CITIES.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in part
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Emergency
preamble.

G. L. 40, new
section after
§32.

Publication
of ordinances
and proposed
ordinances
in certain
cities.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter forty of the General Laws is hereby amended by
inserting after section thirty-two the following new section : —
Section 32 A. The provisions in the charter of a city which
accepts this section by vote of its city council, requiring news-
paper advertising of certain ordinances and proposed ordi-
nances shall, in case of any ordinance or proposed ordinance,
or codification thereof, exceeding in length eight octavo pages
of ordinary book print, be deemed to be complied with if
the same is published by the city council in a municipal
bulletin or printed pamphlet, but otherwise in conformity
with said provisions. Approved June 6, 1929.

Town of
East Bridge-
water may
borrow money
for school
purposes.

Chap. 370 An Act authorizing the town of east bridgewater to

BORROW MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as folio ivs:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing additional
school accommodations in the town of East Bridgewater
by the acquisition of land and/or the construction of a new
school building and/or the construction of an addition to
an existing school building, such addition to increase the
floor space of said building, including the original equipment
and furnishing of such new building and/or such addition,
said town may borrow from time to time, within a period of
five years from the passage of this act, such sums as may
be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one hundred
thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor,
which shall bear on their face the words, East Bridgewater
School Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall con-
stitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in not
more than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall
be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount
not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted
for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year
when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act
shall be outside the statutory limit, but shall, except as pro-
vided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General
Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in the first
paragraph of section seven thereof as revised by chapter
three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved June 6, 1929.

East Bridge-
water School
Loan, Act of
1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 371. 435

An Act providing for the improvement of the charles Qhav 371

RIVER BASIN FOR RECREATIONAL AND OTHER PURPOSES,
FOR THE LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN
PARKWAYS ALONG THE BASIN, AND FOR THE IMPROVE-
MENT OF CERTAIN STREETS IN BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE
NEAR SAID BASIN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Part I.

Section 1. The metropolitan district commission, here- Metropolitan
inafter called the commission, is hereby authorized, subject mfss^onm^y
to the provisions, conditions and limitations of expenditures ^^y °"* ^^^

, , , construct

contained in this act, to lay out and construct, for the pur- reservations
pose of establishing reservations and boulevards under chap- et'c'^,'in"and"'^'^^'
ter ninety-two of the General Laws, and for the other pur- Qh^^^'^ie *^ri '
poses set forth in this act, the work described in this act in basin.
and near the Charles river basin, and may make takings
therefor in accordance with chapter seventy-nine of the
General Laws; provided, that no boulevard or parkway, Proviso.
or other road for vehicular traffic, except the road connect-
ing Embankment road with the underpass under the Long-
fellow bridge as authorized in clause (a) of section twelve,
shall be constructed, without express authority of the gen-
eral court heretofore or hereafter granted, upon the present
Boston embankment or upon any widening or extension
thereof which may be made under the provisions of this act
by filling in any portion of the said basin between the Long-
fellow bridge and the Cottage Farm bridge.

Section 2. Subject to the condition imposed in the Commission
second paragraph of section nine, the commission may (a) the^ch^fM-
widen the Charlesbank park and playground between the ^g^^gP^'th
dam and the Longfellow bridge by extending the present dam and
river boundaiy westerly by fill to include an additional area bHdle^'etc!
which shall have a width not exceeding at any point three
hundred feet beyond the present river boundary of said park
and playground, so laying out and establishing the new river
boundary as not to interfere with the use of said dam or its
locks or other appurtenances ; (6) widen the Boston embank- May widen
ment between the Longfellow bridge and Otter street in- embankment
eluding the area under the Longfellow bridge by adding Lo'rnio
thereto, by fill, an area not more than the equivalent of a strip bridge and

Otter street,
etc.

of land two hundred and twenty-five feet wide, laid out in
such manner as to connect by a suitably curved shore line
with the Charlesbank park and playground as widened
under authority of clause (a) of this section, and with the
Boston embankment between Otter street and Charlesgate
West as widened under authority of clause (c) of this sec-
tion; (c) widen the Boston embankment between Otter May widen
street and Charlesgate West by adding thereto, by fill, an enTbankment
area not less than the equivalent of a strip of land two hun- ot^er^Xeet

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and Charlesgate
West, etc.

State depart-
ment of public
works may
acquire on
behalf of
commonwealth
certain lands
owned by
Boston and
Maine Railroad,
etc.

Conveyance
to city of
Boston, etc.

Agreement as
to price, etc.

Sloping of
bank on Boston
side between
certain points,
etc.

Commission
may do work
it deems
necessary or
desirable, etc.

Plans and
specifications.

Approximate
estimates of
cost.

dred and twenty-five feet wide, nor more than the equiva-
lent of a strip of land three hundred feet wide; (d) extend
the shore line, by fill, into the basin along Back street and
Bay State road between Charlesgate West and Granby
street by adding thereto an area not less than the equiva-
lent of a strip of land one hundred and twenty-five feet wide,
nor more than the equivalent of a strip of land two hundred
feet wide, and from Granby street to Cottage Farm bridge
by adding thereto an area not less than the equivalent of a
strip of land seventy-five feet wide, nor more than the
equivalent of a strip of land one hundred and fifty feet wide.

The state department of public works is hereby author-
ized to acquire on behalf of the commonwealth from the
Boston and Maine Railroad, by an agreement with the said
railroad satisfactory to said department, the lands owned by
said railroad fronting on the Charles river and the Nashua
street extension and lying between Leverett street and the new
electric substation used by said railroad, and also the land
of the said railroad located in the block bounded by Leverett,
Brighton and Lowell streets and the said Nashua street
extension, in exchange for lands or flats under or above tide-
water owned by the commonwealth in the city of Boston
or in the city of Cambridge, or both, and to make the nec-
essary conveyances. When the said department has ac-
quired hereunder the said lands owned by the said railroad,
said department may, on said behalf, sell and convey the
same to the city of Boston for playground, bathing or similar
purposes, at a price to be mutually agreed upon by said city
and the said department. The terms and conditions of
any exchange or sale of land authorized by this section shall
be subject to the approval of the governor and council.

Section 3. On the Boston side of the basin, between
the Longfellow bridge and the Cottage Farm bridge, the
commission shall cause the bank to slope in a manner safe
and convenient for the use of the basin for rowing, sailing
and other forms of aquatic sports and recreation.

Section 4. In connection with the work above au-
thorized the commission may do such work as it may deem
necessary or desirable, including fillings, sea walls, beaches,
sloping banks, shore protection, loaming, planting, surface
drainage, walks, conduits, overflows, culverts and other
work appertaining thereto.

Section 5. Before undertaking or contracting for any
of the improvements or work authorized in the preceding
sections, the commission shall cause to be prepared plans and
specifications in reasonable detail showing the extent and
nature of the contemplated improvements and shall make
or obtain approximate estimates of the cost of the several
portions of work in clauses (a), (6), (c), and (d) of section two
and of so much of the work and acquisitions authorized in
section seven as the commission deems essential or desirable
to be effected in connection with, or in the immediate future
following the completion of, the work described in section

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 371. 437

two. The commission shall give public notice of and hold hg^Hn^g
one or more public hearings, at which such plans, speci-
fications and estimates may be inspected by persons inter-
ested in the proposed improvements, and opportunity
afforded for suggestions of changes or modifications in such Upon con-
plans and specifications. Upon the conclusion of such he^JfrTngrlnd
hearings and upon receipt by the commonwealth of the gift of°e^j.[^fn'^ft
of one million dollars referred to in section nine as a con- commission
tribution to the cost of the proposed improvements author- mfnelxtent
ized in sections two and seven, the commission shall, sub- °jg',™P''°nj'
ject to the limitations prescribed in this act, determine the may make
extent and nature of the improvements to be undertaken, cMry^o^'ut *^°
and may proceed to carry out the same and to make con- same, etc.
tracts therefor with one or more contractors; provided that Proviso.
the total fill under this act shall not exceed sixty-five acres
and shall be approved as to safety by the majority of a board
made up of the commissioner of the metropolitan district
commission, the commissioner of public works, and the
commissioner of public health.

Section 6. The commission is hereby authorized and [;°bJhaff"o?
directed to convey in behalf of the commonwealth to the city commonwealth
of Boston so much of the land to be made by filling in the Boston of
basin as will be bounded on the southeast by the Charles- certain land,
bank park and playground to be used for park and play-
ground purposes.

Section 7. The commission, in connection with and dur- Commission
ing the execution of the work authorized in section two and e'tc.^'ifon'^ '
subsequently to the completion thereof, may lay out and chfrfeTrfver
construct anywhere upon the land areas of the Charles river basin, athletic
basin athletic playing fields, tennis courts, running tracks etc.^'"^ ^^ ^'
and other facilities for recreation and athletic sports and
exercise. The commission may also from time to time build, ^^It housts,
enlarge and renew boat houses, boat landings, floats, and etc.
breakwaters for the protection of the same, and such other
facilities as it may deem desirable, necessary or likely to
promote the use of the waters of said basin for rowing, sail-
ing and other forms of recreation and aquatic sports; and gtc^fow""^^'
may acquire, maintain, renew and replace row boats, canoes, boats, canoes,
shells, sail boats, and other water craft, and may from time
to time establish and revise rates and charges for, and rules
and regulations relative to, the use thereof by the public.

Section 8. The commission is hereby further author- Commission
ized to lay out and construct the following described park- "nd^constmct
ways and boulevards or any of them: wa'^^s'ancT'^'^"

(a) A section of parkway or boulevard from a point at boulevards.
or near the intersection of Arsenal street and Market street
in the Brighton district of the city of Boston, thence over
public or private lands and public or private ways to a point
on North Beacon street in said Brighton district west of the
crossing thereof by the Boston and Albany Railroad with the
right to make any necessary fill in the Charles river.

(6) An underpass in Memorial drive in the city of Cam-
bridge carrying that parkway under Massachusetts avenue.

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Limitation of
expenditure.

One million
dollars to Ije
met from gift
to common-
wealth, etc.

Donor to be
permitted to
erect a suitable
memorial, etc.

Gift to be
expended only
for purposes
aiithorized
by §§ 2 and 7.

Work not to be
commenced
until receipt
of gift, etc.

Amount to be
paid by city
of Boston,
etc.

Amount to be
paid by city
of Cambridge,
etc.

(c) A section of parkway or boulevard beginning at Me-
morial drive near its intersection with Ash street, thence
following the banks of the Charles river over public lands,
with the right to make any necessary fill in the Charles river
opposite or near Mt. Auburn street, to Gerry's landing,
thence along lands owned by the commonwealth to Mt.
Auburn street near its intersection with the Fresh pond
parkway.

(d) A section of parkway or boulevard beginning at a
point in Nonantum road in the city of Newton at or near
Hyde brook, thence over public or private lands and public
or private ways in said city of Newton and in the town of
Watertown to a point on Galen street in said town of Water-
town at or near its intersection with California street. Au-
thority to make the necessary fill in the Charles river is
hereby granted; but said parkway or boulevard shall, so far
as feasible, be constructed on existing land and no sub-
stantial fill shall be made in the Charles river which would
result in materially reducing its width below its present
average width along said parkway or boulevard.

Section 9. For the purpose of carrying out the work
authorized by this act, the commission may expend such
sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate,
two million three hundred and five thousand dollars.

One million dollars of said sum shall be met from a gift of
one million dollars to be made to the commonwealth of
Massachusetts for the purpose of beautifying and improving
the Charles river basin. The commission is hereby author-
ized to accept said gift in behalf of the commonwealth and
to permit the donor thereof to erect a suitable memorial on
the shore of the basin at such location and in such form as
the commission may approve. Said gift shall be received
on behalf of the commonwealth and shall be held and dis-
bursed in the same manner as revenue received from or on
account of the metropolitan parks district; but shall be
expended only on account of the cost of the improvements
authorized by section two, and of the cost of providing
additional facilities for aquatic and athletic sports and
recreation as authorized by section seven. The authority
conferred upon the commission by this act to perform the
work authorized in section two is conditional upon the
making of said gift and said work shall not be commenced
until such gift has been received by the commonwealth.

Four hundred thousand dollars of the cost of the work
hereinbefore authorized shall be paid by the city of Boston,
of which one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in
nineteen hundred and thirty, one hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars in nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in nineteen hundred and
thirty-two.

One hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars of the cost
of the work hereinbefore authorized shall be paid by the city
of Cambridge, of which sixty-seven thousand five hundred

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 371. 439

dollars shall be paid in nineteen hundred and thirty and
sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars in nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-one.

Twenty-five thousand dollars of the cost of the work Amount to be
hereinbefore authorized shall be paid by the city of Newton, of Newton.^etc.
of which twelve thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid
in nineteen hundred and thirty and twelve thousand five
hundred dollars in nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

Twenty-five thousand dollars of the cost of the work •\"'?'j^"* *° ^''^
hereinbefore authorized shall be paid by the town of Water- of watertown,
town, of which twelve thousand five hundred dollars shall ®*'°-
be paid in nineteen hundred and thirty and twelve thousand
five hundred dollars in nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

The several amounts to be paid as aforesaid by the cities Assessment
of Boston, Cambridge and Newton and by the town of by^itTti'^''*'"'^
Watertown shall be assessed and collected by the state treas- treasurer,
urer in addition to the respective quotas of the state tax
payable by said cities and by said town in the j^ears when
said amounts become due.

Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars of the cost of Amount to
the work hereinbefore authorized shall be paid from the fronfuighway
Highway Fund, fifty thousand dollars being charged to the ^""'^•
said fund of nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, one hun-
dred and fifty-five thousand dollars to the said fund of
nineteen hundred and thirty, and the balance to the said
fund of nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

The balance, amounting to three hundred and sixty Balance to
thousand dollars, shall be assessed upon the cities and towns upon^cftles
of the metropolitan parks district in proportion to their and towns

.. ,11 1 ,• t n 1 • 1- npi of metropolitan

respective taxable valuations, as defined in section nity- pirks district,
nine of chapter ninety-two of the General Laws, fifty thou- ^^'^■
sand dollars being assessed upon and collected from said
cities and towns in nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, one
hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars in nineteen hundred
and thirty, and the balance in nineteen hundred and thirty-
one.

Section 10. The commission may take over the care, commission to
maintenance, policing and lighting of the northwesterly et^'^of cerum
driveway of Memorial drive between the Longfellow bridge portion of
and Massachusetts avenue, now under the care of the city drive? etc.
of Cambridge. Memorial drive between the Longfellow
bridge and Massachusetts avenue may be opened to all
classes of vehicles. ,

Section 1L Chapter ninety-two of the General Laws is g.l. 92, new
hereby amended by inserting after section seventy-four the |ecuon after
following new section : — Section 74A . The commission commission
may from time to time grant licenses to cities and towns, may grant
educational institutions, clubs and responsible persons for Jitfesand"
the construction and maintenance of boat landings, boat educational
houses and landings, floats, wharves, breakwaters and other institutions,
structures in connection therewith, playgrounds, swimming const°Jction
pools and other recreational facilities at such locations along na^e™of"bSit
the Charles river basin for such rental, if any, and upon such landings, boat

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houses, etc.,
playgrounds
and other
recreational
facilities, alor
the Charles
river basin,
etc.

terms and conditions as it may deem advisable. For the
foregoing purposes the commission may grant suitable
locations by lease or otherwise with the right to erect build-
ings and to project landings and floats upon the waters
of the said basin upon such terms, conditions, restrictions
and agreements and for such period of years not exceeding
twenty-five as the commission may deem expedient. In
carrying out the provisions of this section the commission
shall encourage rowing and boating on the basin in every
reasonable way and, in that connection, shall give con-
sideration to the fact, if it appears to be a fact, that any
club or educational institution has for many years owned or
occupied a boat house on the basin, the point on the bank at
which such boat house was formerly situated and the length
of time during which it had been owned or maintained there.

Board of street
commissioners
of city of
Boston may
lay out and
order con-
structed certain
improvements.

Board may
alter, etc.,
existing puVjlic
ways, may
use public
lands, and
may take
private lands
by eminent
domain.

To be made
in accordance
with certain
provisions
of law.

To meet cost
of work
authorized

Part II.

Section 12. The board of street commissioners of the
city of Boston may, with the approval of the mayor of said
city, lay out and order constructed the following improve-
ments or any of them : —

(a) A vehicular circle at the westerly end of Cambridge
street, including such widening and reconstruction of Cam-
bridge street, Charles street, Embankment road and the
approach to the Longfellow bridge as may be deemed neces-
sary or desirable, and including also a street passing under
the Longfellow bridge and connecting Charles street north
of this bridge with Embankment road south of said bridge;

(6) A vehicular circle at the easterly end of the dam,
including such reconstruction of Charles street, Leverett
street, Nashua street and the approach to the dam as may
be deemed necessary or desirable;

(c) A widening of Charles street between the dam and the
Longfellow bridge, said widening to be made on the Charles-
bank side of the said street.

To carry out the work above authorized, the said board
of street commissioners may alter, relocate or discontinue
such existing public ways or portions thereof in said city as
may be necessary in connection therewith, may use public
lands, including lands of the commonwealth made by filling
or acquired under this act, subject to the approval of the
commission, and may take private lands or interests therein,
by right of eminent domain. Said laying out, widening,
extension, relocation and construction of streets, and the
assessment of betterments therefor, shall be made in ac-
cordance with chapter three hundred and ninety-three of the
acts of nineteen hundred and six, as amended by chapter five
hundred and thirty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and
thirteen, and chapters seventy-nine and eighty of the General
Laws.

Section 13. For the purpose of meeting (a) the cost of
the work authorized in section twelve, to an amount, how-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 371. 441

ever, not exceeding one million dollars, and (b) the special I'^^J^^ '^^^
assessment of four hundred thousand dollars provided for in assessment
section nine, the ti'easurer of the city of Boston, without any fnTo, city°'^
other authority than that contained in this act, shall from BostonThan
time to time on request of the mayor, issue and sell at public issue and
or private sales, serial bonds of the city to an amount neces- boncis"1 city,
sary to meet said cost and assessment. Said bonds shall ^''=-
be outside the statutory limit of indebtedness of said city.
Each authorized issue of bonds shall constitute a separate
loan. The bonds shall be designated on their face "City of charilmveT'
Boston, Charles River Basin and Street Loan, Act of 1929" S''^'"'i"'^
and shall be in such form of coupon or registered bonds Act'^of 192^. '
as the said treasurer shall determine; shall be for such
terms, not exceeding fifteen years from the dates of issue,
as the mayor of the city shall designate; shall bear interest
in accordance with the provisions of chapter fifty-two of the
Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen; and shall be
payable by such annual payments as will extinguish the
same at maturity. The first of said annual payments on
account of any loan shall be made not later than one year
after the date of the bonds issued therefor. The amount
of said payments in any one year on account of such loan
shall not be less than the amount of the principal of the loan
payable in any subsequent year. Said annual amounts,
together with the interest on the loan, shall without further
action be assessed until the debt is extinguished. The said
treasurer shall hold the proceeds of said bonds in the treasury
of the city, and shall paj^ therefrom the sums necessary to
meet said cost and assessment. Any premiums received
from the sale of said bonds, less the cost of preparing and
issuing the same, shall be applied to the payment of the
principal of the first bond or bonds to mature. The said j^an'etc"^^
treasurer may, with the approval of the mayor of said city,
make a temporarj^ loan for a period of not more than one
year in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale
of any issue of said bonds, and may issue notes of the city
therefor, and such notes may be refunded by the issue of new
notes maturing within said year; but the period of perma-
nent loan herein authorized shall not be extended by reason
of the temporary loan.

Part III.

Section 14. The city of Cambridge may, by vote of its cityofCam-
council, approved by its mayor, widen and reconstruct wkfe^n a'^d^
Wadsworth street from Memorial drive to Kendall square reconstruct
and First street from Cambridge street southerly for a dis- portions of
tance of approximately seven hundred feet, including an amfrTi^s't*^
extra widening of the easterly corner of First street and streets, etc.
Cambridge street to give an easy access to Lechmere square.

Section 15. For the purpose of meeting (a) the cost of To meet cost
the work authorized in section fourteen, to an amount, autiiodzedin
however, not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five thou- spemaUsaess-
sand dollars, and (6) the special assessment of one hundred ment provided

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for in § 9,
city of Cam-
bridge may
borrow money,
issue bonds,
etc.

City of Cam-
bridge, Street
Widening
and Extension
Loan, Act of
192!).

and thirty-five thousand dollars provided for in section nine,
the city of Cambridge may from time to time borrow such
sums as may be necessary, and may issue bonds or notes
therefor, which shall bear on their face the words. City of
Cambridge, Street Widening and Extension Loan, Act of
1929. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan,
and such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years
from their dates. Indebtedness incurred under this section
shall be in excess of the statutory limit of indebtedness of
said city, but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
the provisions of chapter forty-four of the General Laws,
exclusive of the limitation contained in the first paragraph of
section seven thereof, as revised by chapter three hundred
and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight. Approved June 6, 1929.

G. L. 21, new
section after
§8.

State super-
visor of
marine
fisheries,
appointment.

Salary.

Powers and
duties.

Chap. 372 An Act establishing the office of state supervisor

OF MARINE fisheries IN THE DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND
GAME.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter twenty-one of the General Laws is
hereby amended by inserting after section eight the following
new section : • — Section 8 A . There shall be a state supervisor
of marine fisheries serving in the division, who shall be ap-
pointed for terms of three years by the governor with the
advice and consent of the council. The salary of said super-
visor shall be fixed by the commissioner, subject to the
approval of the governor and council. The supervisor shall
have charge of the enforcement of the provisions of chapter
one hundred and thirty, and all other provisions of law, rela-
tive to marine fish and fisheries, including shellfish, except
those contained in sections seventy-four to eighty-eight,
inclusive, of chapter ninety-four, and shall have general
direction of the wardens appointed under section seven
engaged in the enforcement of said provisions; provided,
however, that in carrying out all powers and duties conferred
upon him the supervisor shall act with the approval of the
director.

Section 2. Section one of chapter one hundred and
thirty of the General Laws, as amended by section one of
chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, is hereby further amended by
inserting after the word "conservation" in the eighth line,
as printed in the General Laws, the following new paragraph :
— "Supervisor", the supervisor of marine fisheries appointed
under section eight A of chapter twenty-one.

Section 3. Said chapter one hundred and thirty is
hereby further amended by striking out section two and
inserting iq. place thereof the f ollovv^ing : — Section 2. The
director, wardens, deputies and state police shall enforce the
laws relating to fish, birds, mammals and game, except that

Proviso.

G. L. 130, § 1,
etc., amended.

Definition.
Supervisor.

G. L. 130, § 2,
amended.

Enforcement
of fish and
game laws,
etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 372. 443

the supervisor shall, with the approval of the director, en-
force the laws relative to marine fish, including shellfish.
They may seize and remove, summarily, if need be, at the
expense of the owner using or maintaining the same, all
illegal obstructions, except dams, mills or machinery, to the
passage of migratory fish. The wardens and deputies, when
on duty, shall wear and display a metallic badge bearing the
seal of the commonwealth and the words "fish and game
warden" or "deputy fish and game warden", as the case
may be. The director, with the approval of the governor,
may in writing authorize any warden to have in his possession
and carry a revolver, club, bilh^ handcuffs and twisters, or
such other weapon or article required in the performance of
his official duty.

Section 4. Section four of said chapter one hundred and ^- ^i!?- ^ *•

•11 111-- c 1 1 ^niended.

thirty IS hereby amended by msertmg alter the word
"director" in the first line the word: — , supervisor, — so
as to read as follows: — Section 4- The director, supervisor. Powers of
wardens and deputies shall have and exercise throughout the supervisor,
commonwealth, for the enforcement of the laws relating to ^^^^"uties'^"'^
fish, birds, mammals, game and dogs, all the powers of con-
stables, except the service of civil process, and of police
officers.

Section 5. Section five of said chapter one hundred and ^;^^'j'g|J' ^ ^'
thirty is hereby amended by inserting after the word
"director" in the first line the word: — , supervisor, — so
as to read as follows: — Section 5. The director, supervisor, May arrest
wardens, deputies, state police and all officers qualified to war^nt.
serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any
person found violating any of the fish or game laws, except
that persons engaged in the business of regularly dealing in
the buying and selhng of game as an article of commerce shall
not be so arrested for having in possession or selling game at
their usual place of business.

Section 6. Section six of said chapter one hundred and ^c ^amended
thirty, as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentj^-four, is hereby
further amended b}^ inserting after the word "director" in
the second line the word : — , supervisor, — so as to read as
follows: — Section 6. The director, supervisor, a warden, search may be
deputy or state police officer, may search any boat, car, box, "^^6"^ ^""^
locker, crate or package, and any building, where he has illegally taken.
reason to believe any game or fish unlawfully taken or held
may be found, and may seize any game or fish so taken or
held, which shall be disposed of in such manner as the director
deems for the best interests of the commonwealth; provided, Pro^'^s"-
that this section shall not authorize entering a dwelling house,
or apply to game or fish passing through this commonwealth
under authority of the laws of the United States.

Section 7. Section eight of said chapter one hundred and g. l- i3o, § 8,
thirty is hereby amended by inserting after the word "di-
rector" in the first and in the fourth lines, respectively, the

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Persons
taking, killing,
etc., biAls, etc.
to display
them for
inspection.

G. L. 130, new
section after
§ 11.

SuperV'isor to
compile
statistical
information
useful to
marine fish
industries,
etc.

Preparation
and distribu-
tion of
bulletins, etc.

Biological
research, etc.

Rules and
regulations.

G. L. 1.30, § 12,
amended.

Penalty for
entering,
without right,
buildings, etc.,
used by the
director in
scientific
investigations.

word: — , supervisor, — so as to read as follows: — Section
8. The director, supervisor or a warden may request any
person whom he reasonably believes to be engaged in unlaw-
fully taking, killing, hunting or snaring fish, birds or animals
to forthwith display for inspection all fish, birds and animals
then in his possession; and said director, supervisor or warden
may arrest without warrant a person refusing to comply with
such request.

Section 8. Said chapter one hundred and thirty is hereby
further amended by inserting after section eleven the fol-
lowing new section: — Section 11 A. The supervisor shall
devise a system of statistical information useful to the marine
fish industries of the commonwealth, including the shellfish
industry, and shall compile information obtained thereunder.
Upon the request of the supervisor the commissioner may
require for such purposes the attendance of witnesses and the
production of books and documents, and the commissioner or
the supervisor may examine witnesses on oath; and such
witnesses shall be examined in the same manner and paid
the same fees as in the superior court. He shall prepare from
time to time and distribute bulletins and reports embodying
statistical and other information relative to marine fisheries,
including shellfish, and the state secretary shall cause to be
printed for distribution to such industries such numbers of
such bulletins and reports as the commission on administra-
tion and finance may approve. The supervisor may also
conduct, with the approval of the governor and council,
certain biological research for the purpose of conserving
and increasing the supply of marine fish, including shellfish,
in the coastal waters of the commonwealth. He shall also
assist and cooperate with local authorities in the promul-
gation of rules and regulations for the purpose of better
control and conservation of such marine fish.

Section 9. Section twelve of said chapter one hundred
and thirty is hereby amended by inserting after the word
"director" in the third and in the fourth lines, respectively,
the words : — or supervisor, — and by inserting after the
word "director" in the twelfth line the word: — , supervisor,
— so as to read as follows: — Section 12. Whoever wilfully
and without right enters in or upon any building or other
structure or any area of land or water set apart and used by
or under authority of the director or supervisor for conducting
scientific experiments or investigations after the director or
supervisor has caused printed notices of such occupation
and use and the purposes thereof to be placed in a conspicu-
ous position adjacent to any such areas of land or water or
upon any such building or other structure, and whoever
wilfully and maliciously injures or defaces any such building
or other structure or any notice posted as aforesaid, or
injures o^ destroys any property used in such experiments or
investigations, or otherwise interferes therewith, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by
imprisonment for not more than six months. The director,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 372. 445

supervisor, wardens and deputies may arrest without war-
rant any person found violating any provision of this section.

Section 10. Section fourteen of said chapter one hundred ^mMde^d.' ^ ^*'
and thirty is hereby amended by inserting after the word
"director" in the first hne the words: — or supervisor, — so
as to read as fohows: — Section 11^. The director or super- Director or
visor may take fish at any time or in any manner for purposes nmy'takefeh
connected with fish culture or scientific observation. for fish

n in- c • 1 1 culture.

Section 11. Section twenty-two oi said chapter one ^ ^ jg^ ^ 22
hundred and thirty, as amended by chapter one hundred and etc., amended.'
twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
is hereby further amended by inserting after the word
"deputies" in the second line the words: — , and the super-
visor,— so as to read as follows: — Section 22. The direc- Director, etc.,
tor, his wardens and deputies, and the supervisor, may, in ™pYn^prfvate
the performance of their duties, enter upon and pass through 'ands.
or over private lands.

Section 12. Section seventy-four of said chapter one g. l. no, § 74,
hundred and thirty is hereby amended by inserting after ^"^^" ^
the word "director" in the first line, the word: — , super-
visor, — so as to read as follows: — Section 7 If.. The direc- searches;
tor, supervisor, warden, deputy, any member of the state ifbemngof
police, sheriff, deputy sheriff, police officer or constable, property,
within his jurisdiction, may search for and seize, without
warrant, any smelts which he has reason to suspect were
taken contrary to any provision of section seventy-one, and
the net, seine, trap or other device and the vessel, boat, craft
or other apparatus used in connection with such receiving,
or other violation of said section, and the cask, barrel or
other vessel or wrapper containing said smelts. Said officer
may libel said property according to law, or, at his discretion,
sell the same or any part thereof at private sale or by public
auction, and hbel the net proceeds of such sale according to
law, in the same manner and with the same effect as if such
proceeds were the property itself.

Section 1.3. Section seventy-nine of said chapter one g. l. 130, § 79,
hundred and thirty is herebj^ amended by striking out, in the ^^^nded.
fifteenth and in the seventeenth lines, respectively, the word
"director" and inserting in place thereof, in each instance,
the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as follows : — Section Taking of
79. No person shall take from the flats or waters of the reguStld.
commonwealth scallops other than adult scallops, or sell
or offer for sale or have in possession such scallops so taken.
For the purposes of this section an adult scallop shall be a
scallop with a well defined raised annual growth line.
Scallops taken from the tide waters of the commonwealth
shall be culled when taken, and all scallops other than adult
scallops shall immediately be returned alive to tide water
which is at least three feet deep at mean low water; but it
shall not be unlawful to sell or have in possession scallops
other than adult scallops unavoidably left in the catch after
it has been culled, to the amount of not more than five per
cent of the total catch remaining. All scallops taken in

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G. L. 130, § 82
amended.

Modification
of close
season, etc.

G. L. 130, § 92,
etc., amended.

Supervisor to
purchase
lobsters, with
eggs attached,
caught along
shores of
commonwealth
etc.

accordance with this section shall be taken ashore in the
shell. This and the following section shall not apply to seed
and adult scallops carried by storm and tide from the natural
beds and deposited on beaches and flats where, in the opinion
of the supervisor, they cannot survive, but the taking and
sale of the said seed and adult scallops may be authorized by
him at any season of the year, subject to section eighty-four.
The supervisor shall prescribe rules and regulations governing
the taking and sale of the said seed and adult scallops by
special permits or otherwise, to prevent the sale of seed
scallops at any time, or the sale of adult scallops between
April first and October first, except as authorized herein.

Section 14. Section eighty-two of said chapter one
hundred and thirty is hereby amended by striking out the
word ".director" where it appears twice in the fourth line,
and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the word : —
supervisor, — so as to read as follows : — Section 82. The
provisions of the two preceding sections in respect to the
open and close season and in respect to the number of scallops
that may be taken may be modified if, on petition of the
aldermen or selectmen to the supervisor, the supervisor,
after investigation, determines that, owing to unusual
circumstances, such modification is expedient. In that case,
in his discretion, he may authorize, for a prescribed period,
the aldermen or selectmen to issue permits to inhabitants
of their respective cities or towns to take scallops in such
quantities and at such times as he deems expedient.

Section 15. Section ninety-two of said chapter one
hundred and thirty, as amended by section one of chapter
two hundred and sixty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby further amended by striking out,
in the first line, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the words: — supervisor, with the approval of the
director, — and by striking out, in the tenth and in the
eleventh lines, respectively, the word "director" and insert-
ing in place thereof, in each instance, the word : — super-
visor, — so as to read as follows: — Section 92. The super-
visor, with the approval of the director, shall, except as
provided in the following section, purchase to the extent of
the money provided therefor, and at a rate not above the
wholesale market price of other lobsters, lobsters with eggs
attached taken along the shores of the commonwealth.
Whoever takes or handles any such lobsters with eggs at-
tached which are not marked as provided in the following
section may safely store the same in lobster cars or sections
of cars used for such purpose only, and shall keep them
separate from other lobsters until such time as the supervisor
or his agents gather and pay for the same. The supervisor
or his agents shall liberate said lobsters in the vicinity of
their place of purchase. The commissioner of conservation
in his annual budget estimates, filed pursuant to section three
of chapter twenty-nine, shall include a statement of appro-
priation or appropriations recommended by him for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 372. 447

Section 16. Section ninety-three of said chapter one g. l. iso, § 93,
hundred and thirty, as amended by section two of said ^tf' amended.
chapter two hundred and sixty-three, is hereby further
amended by striking out, in the first hne, the word "direc-
tor" and inserting in place thei'eof the word: — supervisor,

— so as to read as follows : — Section 93. The supervisor Purchased
or his agents shall, before its release, mark each lobster pur- marked;*° ^^
chased under the preceding section by punching a hole in ^°pfffo|,°?°^
the middle flipper of its tail, and any lobster so marked shall etc., pro-
not again be purchased. Any person having in possession ^^'^'*'''^-
any lobster so marked, except for the purposes of release as p^"^'*^-
aforesaid, or any lobster mutilated in such manner as to hide

or obliterate the said mark, shall be punished by a fine of not
less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.

Section 17. Section ninety-eight of said chapter one g. l. 130, § 98,
hundred and thirty, as amended by chapter one hundred and ^*<'- '^'^^"ded.
thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
is hereby further amended by striking out, in the eighth line,
the word "director" and inserting in place thereof the word:

— supervisor, — by inserting after the word "director" in
the eleventh line the word: — , supervisor, — and by striking
out in the last sentence, added by said chapter one hundred
and thirty-one, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the word: — supervisor, — so as to read as follows:

— Section 98. Sections ninety-four and ninety-five shall 95*'noTtolVec?
not prohibit the sale of lobsters legally canned, or of lobsters sale of certain
sold for food by licensed victuallers, or of lobsters removed ° stars, etc.
from the shell on the premises where they are eaten. Said Saieof lobster

1-1 •! icii 1 11 meat not

sections shall not prohibit the sale of lobster meat by whole- prohibited,
sale or retail dealers in lobsters; provided, that the meat is Provisos.
removed from the shell at their regular place of business
where lobsters are bought and sold, and that said dealers
have a written permit for such sale from the supervisor, and
that the lobster meat is so removed and sold under such con-
ditions and regulations as he prescribes; and provided, that
the premises where the meat is so removed or sold are at all
times open to the inspection of the director, supervisor,
wardens and deputies. Such a permit may be granted for Permit, etc.
the period of one year upon written application to the super-
visor and the payment of a fee of ten dollars, and may be Fee.
revoked bj^ him for the violation by the holder thereof of any Revocation.
provision of the fish and game laws.

Section 18. Section one hundred and one of said chapter g l- i^o, § 101,
one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by striking out,
in the second line, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — commissioner, — so as to read as follows:

— Section 101. The commissioner of public safety, upon state police to

•,, 4. c 4-U • ■ J i -1 ^' ^ enforce §99.

written reciuest 01 the commissioner, maj^ detail one or more
of the state police to enforce section ninety-nine.

Section 19. Section one hundred and two of said chapter g. l, iso, § 102.
one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by striking out,
in the first line, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as follows :

— Section 102. To enforce section ninety-nine, the super-

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Right of
search.

G. L. 130, § 104,
etc., amended.

Certain city
and town
clerks to
grant licenses
to catch
lobsters, etc.

Licenses for
aliens.

Proviso.

Licenses for
certain non-
residents.

Expiration of
licenses.

Fee.

Color, etc.,
of buoys to be
stated, etc.

Exhibition
of licenses.

visor, a warden, deputy, or member of the state police may
search in suspected places for, seize and remove lobsters
unlawfully taken, held or offered for sale.

Section 20. Section one hundred and four of said
chapter one hundred and thirty, as most recently amended
by section three of chapter two hundred and sixty-three of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby
further amended by striking out, in the fifth, twenty-eighth,
twenty-ninth and thirty-second lines, respectively, the word
"director" and inserting in place thereof, in each instance,
the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 104- The clerk of any town in Essex, Middlesex,
Suffolk, Norfolk, Plymouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes or
Nantucket county, situated on the shores of the common-
wealth, shall grant licenses in the form prescribed and upon
a blank furnished by the supervisor, to catch or take lobsters
from the waters of the commonwealth within three miles of
the shores of the county where the town lies. Except as
hereinafter provided, such licenses shall be granted only to
individuals who are citizens of the commonwealth and who
have resided therein for at least one year next preceding the
date of the same. The clerk of any such town may grant
such a license to any individual who is an alien and who
resides in the county where the town lies; provided, that
such alien has resided in said county, and has been actually
engaged in lobster fishing in the waters of any of the aforesaid
counties, for five years next preceding December first, nine-
teen hundred and twenty. A non-resident citizen of the
United States temporarily residing in any town granting such
licenses may, during June, July, August and September in
each year, upon payment of the fee required by this section
procure a license to take lobsters for consumption by the
licensee and his family only. Licenses, except those granted
to non-residents, shall expire on December thirty-first next
succeeding the granting of the same unless sooner revoked as
provided in the following section. The town clerk granting a
license shall collect therefor a fee of five dollars, which, less
fifteen cents to be retained by him, shall be forwarded to the
supervisor on the first Monday of the following month,
together with coupons provided by the supervisor for a
description of the licensee and his buoys, and for such other
information as may be required. All books of forms fur-
nished to town clerks under this section shall be returned to
the supervisor on January first of each year. Each applicant
for a license shall state the color scheme or other special
markings of the buoys to be used by him which shall be set
forth in his license, and all buoys used by him shall be marked
accordingly and also with the licensee's initials or name which
shall be branded or cut into the surface of the buoy. A
licensee under this section shall at all times, while acting in
pursuance of the license, exhibit his license upon the demand
of any officer qualified to serve criminal process.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 372. 449

Section 21. Section one hundred and six of said chapter g. l. i30, § loe,
one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by striking out, -''""^n'^'^*^'-
in the third Hne, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as follows :
— Section 106. A licensee under section one hundred and ifctn'^ee'^etc
four shall, before receiving a new license, file on or before
October twentieth of that year, a report of his catch with
the supervisor as provided in section one hundred and forty-
eight. Any person refusing, or knowingly or wilfully neglect-
ing, to make the said report shall not receive a new license
until the report is made. The commissioner of conservation
shall state in his annual report the number of licenses granted
under section one hundred and four.

Section 22. Section one hundred and nine of said chapter g. l. iso, § i09,
one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by striking out, ^™<^"''ed.
in the first and in the sixth lines, respectively, the word
"director" and inserting in place thereof, in each instance,
the word : • — supervisor, — so as to read as follows : — Section investigntion of
109. The supervisor may occupy and use any small estua- lobs/ersfetc,
ries or creeks within the commonwealth, not exceeding six,
for the scientific investigation of the habits, propagation
and distribution of lobsters, if such occupation and use does
not impair the private rights of any person or materially
obstruct any navigable waters. Notice of such occupation Notice of
shall be conspicuously posted and maintained by the super- bTpostld^etc.
visor at the nearest points to said estuaries and creeks, and
shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county where
they are situated.

Whoever, after the posting and recording of such notice, Penalty,
takes any lobster from any estuarj^ or creek so occupied as
aforesaid shall be punished as provided in section ninety-one.

Section 23. Section one hundred and twelve of said f^jj^de^'' ^^ ^^'
chapter one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by strik-
ing out, in the second line, the word "director" and inserting
in place thereof the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as
follows:- — Section 112. In order to enforce the two preced- ^f"/??,^®",*

, . ^ ,. of !}§ 110 und

ing sections, the supervisor, a warden, deputy, or state police in.
officer may, without a warrant, search any boat, car, box,
locker, crate or package and any building where he has reason
to believe any lobsters are being transported or held for
transportation in violation of law, and may seize and hold
any lobsters illegally transported; provided, that this section Proviso,
shall not authorize the entering of a dwelling house, and shall
not apply to lobsters passing through this commonwealth
under authority of the laws of the United States.

Section 24. Section one hundred and twenty-nine of am^de^d.' ^ ^'^'
said chapter one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by
striking out, in the first line, the word "director" and insert-
ing in place thereof the word : — supervisor, — so as to
read as follows: — Section 129. The supervisor, a warden, Arrest and

J , T ni J. 1 1 -i • J.1 ■ • detention of

deputy, police oincer or constable witnessing the commission offenders.
of any act prohibited by the nine preceding sections shall,

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G. L. 130, § 138,
etc., amended.

Penalty for
taking, etc.,
certain shellfish
without
written
approval of
supervisor.

Enforcement
of provisions
by fish and
game wardens,
etc.

Superior court
to have juris-
diction in
equity to
enforce
provisions, etc.

What con-
stitutes
evidence of
violation.

G. L. 1,30,
§ 142B,
amended.

Deputy fish
and game
wardens,
appointment,
powers, etc.

without a warrant, arrest the offender and detain him until
an apphcation for a warrant may be made.

Section 25. Said chapter one hundred and thirty, as
most recently amended in section one hundred and thirty-
eight, inserted by section one of chapter three hundred and
seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, by
section one of chapter two hundred and sixty-six of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section one hundred and thirty-
eight and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section
138. Whoever, without the written approval of the super-
visor, digs or takes shellfish for any purpose from any area
determined under the preceding section, or corresponding
provisions of earlier laws, to be contaminated and while such
determination is in force, or whoever knowingly transports
or causes to be transported or has in possession shellfish so
taken, or whoever makes use of a certificate issued under
section one hundred and thirty-nine after its revocation or
cancellation as therein provided or wilfully fails to surrender
the same at the request of said supervisor, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred
dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or
both. The provisions of this section shall be enforced, under
the direction of the supervisor, by fish and game wardens
and deputy fish and game wardens of the division of fisheries
and game of the department of conservation assigned to en-
force the shellfish laws and by all other officers authorized
to make arrests. The superior court shall have jurisdiction
in equity to enforce the provisions of this section and section
one hundred and thirty-nine and of the rules and regulations
of the department of public health made under said section
one hundred and thirty-nine, and to restrain the violation
thereof. In any prosecution for a violation of the provision
of this section prohibiting the digging or taking, without the
written approval of the supervisor, of shellfish from areas
determined to be contaminated, possession, except by a
common carrier, of shellfish apparently so dug or taken shall
be prima facie evidence of a violation of such provision.

Section 26. Section one hundred and forty-two B of said
chapter one hundred and thirty, inserted by chapter three
hundred and twenty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight, is hereby amended by striking out, in the
second line, the word "director" and inserting in place
thereof the word : — supervisor, — so as to read as follows :
— Section lJf.2B. At the request of the city council of a
city or the selectmen of a town, the supervisor may appoint
from a list of names to be submitted to him by said city
council or selectmen one or more deputy fish and game war-
dens who shall supervise the digging, taking and purification
of shellfish provided for by section one hundred and forty-
two A and enforce all laws, rules and regulations relative to
shellfish, and for such purpose they shall have all the powers
of deputy fish and game wardens appointed under section

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 372. 451

seven of chapter twenty-one. Deputy fish and game wardens Compensation,
appointed hereunder shall serve without compensation from
the commonwealth, but may be paid by the city or town for
which they are appointed such compensation as shall be
determined by it.

Section 27. Section one hundred and forty-eight of said ^^^n^/ed' ^ ^^^'
chapter one hundred and thirty is hereby amended by strik-
ing out, in the fifth, eleventh and sixteenth lines, respectively,
the word "director" and inserting in place thereof, in each
instance, the word: — supervisor, — so as to read as follows:
— Section llj.8. The owner of every pound net, weir, fyke Owners of

, ••! I • r £U* • 'J fish weirs,

net or similar contrivance, of every fishing pier, seme, drag lobster pots,
or gill net, lobster pot or trap used in any of the waters of the returns ™^^*
commonwealth for fishing purposes, shall annually, on or be-
fore October twentieth, make a written report, on oath, to
the supervisor of the number of pounds and the value of each
kind of edible fish caught by his pound net, weir, fyke net or
similar contrivance, pier, seine, drag or gill net, and the num-
ber and value of lobsters taken by him in pots or traps, dur-
ing the year last preceding the date of said report, and the
number and value of the devices used in such catching or
taking, and the number of persons employed therein; and
for such purpose, the supervisor shall annually, on or before
March fifteenth, provide him, upon his application, with
suitable blank forms for such reports, so arranged that each
month's catch may be separately recorded thereon; and,
in filling out such reports, such owner shall give the results
of each month's fishing, so far as practicable. Such owner
shall apply to the supervisor for such blank forms. The Lobster cars to
owner of any cars or other contrivances used for keeping Remarked,
lobsters shall have his name and residence legibly marked
thereon. Whoever knowingly and wilfully violates any Penalty.
provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less
than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Section 28. Said chapter one hundred and thirty, as g. l. iso, § 84,
amended in section eighty-four by section two of chapter one '^<'°''^™">d^'^-
hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, and by chapter three hundred and four of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, is hereby further
amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in
place thereof the following : — Whoever shall take or have in Penalty for
possession quahaugs or soft-shelled clams less than two possefs^ng
inches in longest diameter to the amount of more than five •= ^J.^hiTu
per cent of any batch shall be punished by a fine of not less sof't-sheiied
than three nor more than fifty dollars; provided, that it shall ''''""^' ^^''^
not be unlawful to take such quahaugs or soft-shelled clams P''"^'^"-
or have the same in possession under authority of a permit,
which the supervisor is hereby authorized to grant, for re-
planting for seed purposes in waters or flats within the
commonwealth. Approved June 6, 1939,

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Chap. 373 An Act to provide for the disposal of sewage and for

A WATER SUPPLY FOR THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY TUBERCU-
LOSIS HOSPITAL IN LEXINGTON AND WALTHAM.

Emergency
preamble.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public health.

Certain area
of town of Lex-
ington to be
admitted
to south
metropolitan
sewerage
district, etc.

To be deemed
a part of
valuation
and population
of city of
Waltham for
certain pur-
poses.

Discharge of
sewage from
Middlesex
county tubercu-
losis hospital
into sewers of
metropolitan
stnte hospital
at point to be
agreed upon,
etc.

1928, 372, § 4,
amended.

Cost of work
to be paid in
first instance
by city of
Waltham.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. A certain area of the town of Lexington
already acquired or to be acquired by the county of Middle-
sex for the Middlesex county tuberculosis hospital, as shown
upon plans filed in the office of the city engineer of the city
of Waltham, a copy of which is filed with the state depart-
ment of public health, with the metropolitan district com-
mission and with the commissioner of mental diseases,
entitled "Plans of land in Lexington and Waltham for
Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital", shall be ad-
mitted to the south metropolitan sewerage district upon
connection of any sewer in the area so to be admitted with
any sewer connected with the south metropolitan sewerage
system, and thereafter the valuation and population of such
area if and when admitted as aforesaid, including the in-
mates and hospital attendants, orderlies and employees of
said Middlesex county tuberculosis hospital in residence
thereat, shall be deemed a part of the valuation and popu-
lation of the city of Waltham for the purposes of sections
five to eight, inclusive, of chapter ninety-two of the General
Laws.

Section 2. The county of Middlesex, with the approval
of the department of mental diseases, is hereby authorized
to discharge sewage from said Middlesex county tuberculosis
hospital into the sewers of the metropolitan state hospital,
which now or may in the future connect with the sewer
constructed by the city of Waltham under the provisions
of chapter three hundred and seventy-two of the acts of
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, at such point as may
be agreed upon by the county commissioners of said county
and the commissioner of mental diseases, or, in case of
failure to agree, as may be determined by the governor and
council, and the sewer of the metropolitan state hospital and
of the city of Waltham provided under said chapter three
hundred and seventy-two shall be adequate to receive in
addition the sewage of the Middlesex county tuberculosis
hospital.

Section 3. Chapter three hundred and seventy-two of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight is hereby
amended by striking out section four and inserting in place
thereof the following: — Section 4- The cost of the work
authorized by sections two and three of this act shall be paid
in the first instance by the city of Waltham, and the treas-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 373. 453

urer of said city, with the approval of the city council, is city may
hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the city from issuTnotesr"^'
time to time outside the statutory limit of indebtedness, "tc.
such sums of money as may be required therefor, including
interest, and to issue the notes of the city therefor bearing
interest or discounted as may be deemed advisable, and
said city treasurer may sell said notes at public or private
sale upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper.
The notes may be renewed from time to time for such periods
as may be necessary, but not beyond the expiration of two
years from the effective date of this act. All money so bor-
rowed shall be deposited in the treasury of said city, and said
city treasurer shall pay out the same as required for the con-
struction of the said work and shall keep a separate and
accurate account of all moneys borrowed and expended,
including interest or discount, as the case may be. In the "SPP^flgT*®"*
course of the progress of the work, as sections or portions of borne by state,
it are completed, the mayor of said city shall certify to the tCwn.Middiesex
department of mental diseases, to the selectmen of the town county, and
of Watertown and to the county commissioners of Middle- waitham.
sex county, respectively, the cost of such section or portion
and the amounts due from each of the following parties in
the following proportions, viz. : the commonwealth shall
pay forty-five and seven tenths per cent of the cost of the
work as approved by the department of mental diseases, the
town of Watertown, six and six tenths per cent, the county
of Middlesex, thirteen and two tenths per cent, and the city
of Waitham thirty-four and five tenths per cent. The when pay-
amounts so certified by said city to said department of men- blfmade, etc.
tal diseases shall be paid by the commonwealth from time to
time as promptly as possible after such certifications are
received, the said payments to be from the appropriation
made for the metropolitan state hospital. The amounts so
certified to the town of Watertown shall be paid by the town
treasurer into the treasury of the said city on or before
January first, nineteen hundred and thirty. The amounts
so certified to the county commissioners of Middlesex county
shall be paid by the county of Middlesex from time to time
as promptly as possible after such certifications are received,
such payments to be made out of funds provided by chapter
three hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight.

Section 4. There shall be paid by the county of Middle- ^"^^"^^^^^^
sex to the city of Waitham as full compensation for the right Middlesex
to dispose of the sewage of said Middlesex county tuberculosis of waftham*^
hospital through the sewerage system of said city and the j""" '■^^'' ^f^
sewerage system of the south metropolitan sewerage district sewage of
in each year for five years, beginning with the year nineteen countyTubercu-
hundred and thirty, the sum of three hundred and seventy- l°®'g'^°®P^g^g
five dollars per year toward the annual expenses of maintain- beginning with
ing and operating the sewers of said city, including the ^^^^-
amount paid annually by said city for the disposal of sewage
through the south metropolitan sewerage system, and in

454 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 373.

Amount to be each of the following five years, beginning with the year
years^beginning nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the sum of four hundred
un^ies^etc ^^'^ ^^^^ dollars per year, unless in any year during said
last mentioned five year period the average population of
said tuberculosis hospital, including inmates, attendants
and other employees in residence thereat throughout said
year shall exceed seven hundred, in which case there shall
be an added paj^ment to said city of one dollar per year
for each person by which said average population exceeds
Amount to be sevcu hundred. After the end of the year nineteen hundred
af 'e1id"o"f"year ^iid thirty-niuc, thcrc shall be paid by the county to the city
1939. of Waltham annually for the maintenance of its sewers and

the disposal of sewage through the south metropolitan sewer-
age system such sum as may be agreed upon between said
city, acting through its duly authorized representatives, and
the county commissioners and the commissioner of public
by t^r'^eTOnr-" health, acting for the commonwealth; and if said city and
missioners upon gaid commissiouers shall be unable to agree then the amount
agree%tc. to bc paid annually shall be determined by three commis-

sioners to be appointed b}^ the supreme judicial court upon
the application of either party in interest and after notice
to the other. The award of said commissioners appointed
as aforesaid when accepted by said court shall be binding
Certification upon Said city and said county. When the amount of any
commi"sioners annual payment after the end of the year nineteen hundred
of determina- g^j^^-j thirtv-ninc is determined as aforesaid, it shall be certified

tion of amount , ' • • i j-r> ^ • i i ii

of annual pay- to the couuty commissioucrs by a certmcate signed by the
representatives of said city and by said commissioners in
case of an agreement, or by a certificate of the clerk of said
court in case of an award, and such amount shall continue
to be paid annually by the county as aforesaid until changed
by a new agreement or a new award made upon application
of either said city or said county commissioners and duly
certified in the manner above provided, but no such change
shall be made oftener than once in five years. All amounts
payable by the county hereunder shall be paid annually
out of the appropriation for maintenance of said tuberculosis
hospital.

Certification by SECTION 5. The Commissioner of mental diseases shall

commissioner .. , , . . c tv/t- i ii j.

of mental Certify to the county commissioners oi Middlesex county

Middlesex" the cost of the portion of the metropolitan state hospital

commTssion r scwcr withiu the lands of said state hospital to be used by

of coTtlT"*"^ the Middlesex county tuberculosis hospital, and, in addition

me'tropoHtan to the payments to the city of Waltham provided for in

sewlrto^'bi^SLd section three of this act, the county of Middlesex shall pay

by Middielex^ into the treasury of the commonwealth for the use of such

tuberculosis portiou of Said sewer within the lands of the said state hospital

hospital, etc. twenty per cent of the cost of said sewer. The amounts so

certified by said commissioner of mental diseases to said

county commissioners shall be due at such time as the sewer

of said tuberculosis hospital is connected with said sewer of

the metropolitan state hospital and shall be paid as promptly

thereafter as may be.

ment, etc.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 374. 455

Section 6. The town of Lexington may furnish water Town of
derived from the metropolitan water system to that portion fun!isf*w"a ter"^
of the Middlesex county tuberculosis hospital located in the ^^ MTddTesex""
city of Waltham, for domestic and other purposes, in the county tuber-
same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as located in^^'**
if located in said town. . etc"'''''™'

Section 7. The city of Waltham may furnish water q;^. ^f
derived from its water system to that portion of the Middle- waitham may
sex county tuberculosis hospital located in the town of to'tiiat pw-tlon
Lexington, for domestic and other purposes, in the same of Middlesex

^ ,, . 1 tj • -CI county tubercu-

manner and upon the same terms and conditions as ii lo- losis hospital

Cated in said city. _ _ Lexington, etc.

Section 8. The state treasurer, in making the apportion- state treasurer
ment to the cities and towns in the metropolitan water dis- ^^°,oynt°
trict under section twenty-six of chapter ninety-two of the apportioned
General Laws, shall add to the amount apportioned to the Lexh7gto°n
town of Lexington, if said town furnishes water as pro- ^'ae^L?' ^' ^^'
vided in section six of this act, an amount determined by the amount for
metropolitan district commission and certified to the state flfnilsi'/edby
treasurer to be necessary to make a full apportionment to ^^^^ ^°,'^}\^^. .
said town for the water supplied to that portion of the
Middlesex count}^ tuberculosis hospital situated in the city
of Waltham.

Section 9. The county commissioners of the county of co'ifnt'r*'^
Middlesex may take by eminent domain under chapter commissioners
seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or necessary ease-
otherwise, such easements or rights in land as may be neces- Criand°etcf''*^
sary to connect with the metropolitan state hospital sewerage
system and to connect with the water system of the town of
Lexington or of the city of Waltham; provided, that no Proviso,
such easement or right in land shall be so taken within the
limits of the land of the metropolitan state hospital except
with the approval of the governor and council, upon the
recommendation of the department of mental diseases.
Said county commissioners are hereby authorized to convey Conveyance to

,.■ ' ijii 1 •! c 1 commonwealth

to the commonwealth, by sale or m exchange tor such ease- of certain
ments or rights in land, lands of said countj^ lying east of '^"'^'^' ^^''''
Walnut antl Woburn streets, in the town of Lexington and
the city of Waltham. Approved Juiie 7, 1929.

An Act consolidating the north christian church of (JfiaT) 374

new BEDFORD, MASS. AND THE TRINITARIAN CHURCH IN
NEW BEDFORD.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Section 1. The North Christian Church of New Bed- J|;^i^°[,^''
ford, Mass. and the Trinitarian Church in New Bedford, church of
corporations established under the laws of the common- Mars.^nd°t'he
wealth, are hereby merged and consolidated into one corpora- cL'^'^h^in"
tion, with all the privileges, powers and immunities to which New Bedford
other religious societies in this commonwealth are by law h°to one^'cor-
entitled, under the name of The United Church of New ^i°''^,ji°"e"o"f''°^
Bedford, (Christian and Congregational) which shall in all The'uuited

456

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 375.

Church of
New Bedford,
(Christian and
Congrega-
tional).

Delivery of
papers, etc.,
necessary for
effecting trans-
fer, etc.

Proceedings
and votes
relating to
consolidation
ratified and
confirmed, etc.

respects be a continuation of, and the lawful successor to, the
corporations hereby consolidated, and all bequests, devises,
conveyances and gifts heretofore or hereafter made to either
of said corporations, however described, and all the powers
and privileges thereof shall vest in said consolidated corpora-
tion and all trusts now or hereafter vested in either of said
corporations shall be preserved inviolate, and all provisions
relating thereto shall have full force and effect in said con-
solidated corporation.

Section 2. The treasurers of said existing corporations
are hereby respectively authorized to execute and deliver all
papers and documents that may be deemed necessary or
proper for effecting the transfer of the property of the existing
corporations respectively to the consolidated corporation.

Section 3. The proceedings and votes of the North
Christian Church of New Bedford, Mass. and of the Trini-
tarian Church in New Bedford relating to the consolidation
of said churches, and all acts and doings thereunder are hereby
ratified and confirmed, any informalities, errors or omissions
to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved June 7, 1929.

Chap.Z75 An Act further regulating the signing and sealing

OF STOCK CERTIFICATES OF BUSINESS CORPORATIONS.

Emergency
preamble.

G. L. 156, § 33,
etc., amended.

Certificates of
stock of busi-
ness corpora-
tions, signing,
sealing, etc.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the
General Laws, as amended in section thirty-three by chapter
one hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six and by chapter one hundred and two of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, is hereby further
amended by striking out said section and inserting in place
thereof the following: — Section 33. Each stockholder shall
be entitled to a certificate, in form conformable to section
fifteen, which shall be signed by the president or a vice presi-
dent and either the treasurer or an assistant treasurer of the
corporation, shall be sealed with its seal and shall certify the
number of shares, and the class thereof, owned by him in such
corporation; but when any such certificate is signed by a
transfer agent or transfer clerk and by a registrar and the
registrar is not the same person, partnership, association,
trust or corporation as the transfer agent or transfer clerk,
the signature of the president or a vice president or of the
treasurer or an assistant treasurer of the corporation, or both
such signatures, or the seal of the corporation, or either or
both such signatures and such seal, upon such certificate
may be facsimile, and such certificate shall be as vahd and

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376. 457

effectual for all purposes as if signed by such officer or officers,
or sealed with its corporate seal, as the case may be. Each To contain
certificate of stock, which by the agreement of association or clrtai^'^iimHa-
amended agreement of association or, in the case of a cor- t'ons and pref-
poration created by special law, by its articles of organization notification as
or by amendment is limited as to its voting rights or is pre- „? Ilm"^*^
ferred as to its dividend or as to its share of assets upon dis-
solution, shall have plainly written, printed or stamped
thereon either a sufficient statement of such limitation or
preference or a notification that its preferences, voting
powers, restrictions and qualifications are fixed in the agree-
ment of association or articles of organization or amendments
recorded in the office of the state secretary.

Section 2. The amendment of section thirty-three of Amendment of
chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the General Laws made made by '§ if to
by section one of this act shall be in lieu of the amendment of amendm'^nt of
said section thirty-three made by chapter one hundred and f^t'lln'^inf^'f
two of the acts of the current j^ear and said chapter one
hundred and two shall never become effective.

Approved June 7, 1929.

by 1929, 102, etc.

C/iap.376

An Act to apportion and assess a state tax of eight

MILLION five hundred THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Whereas, A delay in the taking effect of this act would cause Emergency
great inconvenience in the collection of the state tax, there- P''''^™t''e.
fore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Each citj^ and town in the commonwealth state tax
shall be assessed and pay the sum with which it stands and°sses"ed.
charged in the following schedule, that is to say: —

Abington, eighty-five hundred dollars .... $8,500 00

Acton, forty-two hundred and fift}^ dollars . . . 4,250 00

Acushnet, five thousand and fifteen dollars . . . 5,0L5 00

Adams, seventeen thousand five hundred and ten dollars 17,510 00
Agawam, ten thousand seven hundred and ninety-five

dollars 10,795 00

Alford, four hundred and twenty-five dollars . . 425 00
Amesbury, sixteen thousand five hundred and seventy-
five dollars 16,575 00

Amherst, thirteen thousand one hundred and seventj-

five dollars 13,175 00

Andover, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty

dollars 24,820 00

Arlington, sixty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-
five dollars 64,175 00

Ashburnham, twenty-four hundred and sixty-five dollars 2,465 00

Ashby, thirteen hundred and sixty dollars . . . 1,360 00

Ashfield, seventeen hundred dollars .... 1,700 00

Ashland, thirty-four hundred dollars .... 3,400 00

Athol, fourteen thousand seven hundred and five dollars 14,705 00
Attleboro, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and

twenty-five dollars . . . . . . . 32,725 00

Auburn, seventy-three hundred and ninety-five dollars . 7,395 00

458

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

State tax
apportioned
and assessed.

Avon, twenty-eight hundred and ninety dollars
Ayer, forty-six hundred and seventy-five dollars
Barnstable, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five dollars ......

Barre, fifty-two hundred and seventy dollars
Becket, one thousand and twenty dollars
Bedford, thirty-one hundred and forty-five dollars
Belchertown, twentj^-four hundred and sixty-five dollars
Bellingham, thirty-five hundred and seventy dollars
Belmont, forty thousand one hundred and twenty dollars
Berkley, eleven hundred and ninety dollars .
Berlin, twelve hundred and seventy-five dollars
Bernardston, eleven hundred and ninety dollars
Beverly, fifty-four thousand three hundred and fifteen
dollars .........

Billerica, twelve thousand two hundred and forty dollars
Blackstone, thirty-nine hundred and ninety-five dollars
Blandford, twelve hundred and seventy-five dollars '
Bolton, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars
Boston, two million two hundred five thousand four hun-
dred and ninety-five dollars .....

Bourne, ten thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars
Boxborough, four hundred and twenty-five dollars
Boxford, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars
Boylston, eleven hundred and five dollars
Braintree, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty-
five dollars ........

Brewster, twenty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars

Bridgewater, nine thousand one hundred and eighty

dollars ........

Brimfield, seventeen hundred dollars
Brockton, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-
five dollars .......

Brookfield, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars .
Brookline, one hundred seventy-three thousand i:
hundred and ten dollars .....

Buckland, thirty-six himdred and fifty-five dollars

Burlington, twenty-seven hundred and twenty dollars

Cambridge, two hundred twenty-three thousand eight

hundred and five dollars ......

Canton, eleven thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars
Carlisle, one thousand and twenty dollars
Carver, thirty-four hundred dollars
Charlemont, fifteen hundred and thirty dollars
Charlton, twenty-six hundred and thirty-five dollars
Chatham, fifty-seven hundred and eighty dollars .
Chelmsford, eleven thousand one hundred and thirty
five dollars .......

Chelsea, seventy-four thousand and thirty-five dollars
Cheshire, twenty-two hundred and ten dollars
Chester, two thousand and forty dollars
Chesterfield, six hundred and eighty dollars .
Chicopee, sixty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty
dollars ........

Chilmark, six hundred and eighty dollars

Clarksburg, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars

Clinton, twenty thousand nine hundred and ninety-five

dollars .........

Cohasset, eleven thousand one hundred and thirty-five
dollars ........

Colrain, twenty-two hundred and ten dollars
Concord, ten thousand seven hundred and ninety-five
dollars . . . . .

Conway, eleven hundred and ninety dollars .
Cummington, six hundred and eighty dollars
Dalton, eighty-three hundred and thirty dollars

$2,890 00
4,675 00

23,885 00

5,270 00

1,020 00

3,145 00

2,465 00

3,570 00

40,120 00

1,190 00

1,275 00

1,190 00

54,315 00

12,240 00

3,995 00

1,275 00

1,445 00

,205,495 00

10,285 00

425 00

1,445 00

1,105 00

27,455 00
2,125 00

9,180 00
1,700 00

97,495 00
1,955 00

173,910 00
3,655 00
2,720 00

223,805 00

11,645 00

1,020 00

3,400 00

1,530 00

2,635 00

5,780 00

11,135 00

74,035 00

2,210 00

2,040 00

680 00

07,660 00

680 00

1,445 00

20,995 00

11,135 00
2,210 00

10,795 00

1,190 00

680 00

8,330 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

459

Dana, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars
Danvers, fifteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-
five dollars .......

Dartmouth, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty'

five dollars .......

Dedham, twenty -eight thousand three hundred and

ninety dollars .......

Deerfield, fifty-nine hundred and fifty dollars
Dennis, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five dollars
Dighton, fifty-seven hundred and eighty dollars
Douglas, twenty-six hundred and thirty-five dollars
Dover, forty-one hundred and sixty-five dollars
Dracut, sixty-seven hundred and fifteen dollars
Dudley, fifty-nine hundred and fifty dollars .
Dunstaljle, five hundred and ninety-five dollars
Duxbury, seventy-two hundred and twenty-five dollars
East Bridgewater, sixty-eight hundred dollars
East Brookfield, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars
East Longmeadow, forty-four hundred and twenty dollars
Eastham, thirteen hundred and sixty dollars .
Easthampton, eighteen thousand one hundred and ninety

dollars ........

Easton, seventy-nine hundred and five dollars

Edgartown, fifty-one hundred dollars

Egremont, eleven hundred and five dollars

Enfield, eight hundred and fifty dollars

Erving, thirty-lour hundred dollars

Essex, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars

Everett, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and five

dollars ........

Fairhaven, fifteen thousand four hundred and seventy

dollars ........

Fall River, one hundred eighty-three thousand two hun-
dred and sixty dollars .....

Falmouth, twenty-two thousand four hundred and forty

dollars ........

Fitchburg, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and forty

dollars ........

Florida, seventeen hundred dollars
Foxborough, seventy-two hundred and twenty-five dollars
P'ramingham, forty-two thousand and seventy-five dollars
Franklin, eleven thousand six hundred and forty-five

dollars ........

Freetown, twenty-five hundred and fifty dollars
Gardner, thirty-two thousand four himdred and seventy

dollars . .......

Gay Head, one hundred and seventy dollars .
Georgetown, twenty-four hundred and sixty-five dollars
Gill, eleven hundred and ninety dollars
Gloucester, forty-four thousand three hundred and sev

enty dollars .......

Goshen, five hundred and ten dollars

Gosnold, thirteen hundred and sixty dollars .

Grafton, sixty-six hundred and tliirty dollars

Granby, thirteen hundred and sixty dollars .

Granville, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars

Great Harrington, thirteen thousand eight hundred and

fifty-five dollars ......

Greenfield, thirty-four thousand five hundred and ten

dollars ........

Greenwich, five hundred and ninety-five dollars
Groton, fifty-three hundred and fifty-five dollars
Groveland, twenty-six hundred and thirty-five dollars
Hadley, thirty-nine hundred and ten dollars .
Halifax, seventeen hundred dollars
Hamilton, sixty-two hundred and five dollars

$935 00 State tax

apportioned

15,725 00^"' ''^^""'•

14,365 00

28,390 00
5,950 00
3,825 00
5,780 00
2,635 00
4,165 00
6,715 00
5,950 00
595 00
7,225 00
6,800 00
1,445 00
4,420 00
1,360 00

18,190 00
7,905 00
5,100 00
1,105 00
850 00
3,400 00
1,955 00

82,705 00

15,470 00

183,260 DO

22,440 00

71,740 00

1,700 00

7,225 00

42,075 00

11,645 00
2,550 00

32,470 00

170 00

2,465 00

1,190 00

44,370 00

510 00
1,360 00
6,630 00
1,360 00

935 00

13,855 00

34,510 00

595 00

5,355 00

2,635 00

3,910 00

1,700 00

6,205 00

460

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

State tax
apportioned
and assessed.

Hampden, eight hundred and fifty dollars • / • . $850 00

Hancock, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars / . . 765 00

Hanover, forty-three hundred and thirty-five dollars . 4,335 00

Hanson, thirty-three hundred and fifteen dollars . . 3,315 00

Hardwick, forty-one hundred and sixty-five dollars . 4,165 00

Harvard, twenty-eight hundred and ninety dollars . 2,890 00

Harwich, fifty-eight hundred and sixty-five {lollars . 5,865 00

Hatfield, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five dollars . 3,825 00
Haverhill, seventy-nine thousand three hundred and five

dollars / . . . 79,305 00

Hawley, three hundred and forty dollar^ . . . 340 00

Heath, five hundred and ninety-five do^ars . . . 595 00
Hingham, fifteen thousand nine huiidred and eighty

dollars . . . . . / . . . . 15,980 00

Hinsdale, thirteen hundred and sixty /dollars . . . 1,360 00

Holbrook, forty-seven hundred and ^xty dollars . . 4,760 00

Holden, forty-five hundred and ninety dollars . . 4,590 00

Holland, two hundred and fifty-five dollars . . . 255 00

Holliston, forty-four hundred and twenty dollars . . 4,420 00
Holyoke, one hundred thirty-seven thousand and twenty

dollars 137,020 00

Hopedale, sixty-eight hundred and eighty-five dollars . 6,885 00

Hopkinton, thirty-five hundred and seventy dollars . 3,570 00

Hubbardston, eleven hundred and ninety dollars . . 1,190 00

Hudson, ten thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars 10,625 00

Hull, eighteen thousand and twenty dollars . . . 18,020 00

Huntington, eighteen hundred and seventy dollars . 1,870 00

Ipswich, ninety-five hundred and twenty dollars . . 9,520 00

Kingston, five thousand and fifteen dollars . . . 5,015 00

Lakeville, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars . . 1,955 00

Lancaster, thirty-nine hundred and ten dollars . . 3,910 00

Lanesborough, seventeen hundred dollars . . . 1,700 00
Lawrence, one hundred fifty-nine thousand four hundred

and sixty doUars 159,460 00

Lee, seventy-one hundred and forty dollars . . . 7,140 00

Leicester, fifty-four hundred and forty dollars . . 5,440 00

Lenox, seventy-four hundred and eighty dollars . . 7,480 00
Leominster, thirtj^-three thousand five hundred and

seventy-five dollars ....... 33,575 00

Leverett, seven hundred and sixtj'-five dollars . . 765 00
Lexington, twenty thousand nine hundred and ninety-
five dollars 20,995 00

Leyden, four hundred and twenty-five dollars . . 425 00
Lincoln, thirty-two hundred and thirty dollars . . 3,230 00
Littleton, three thousand and sixty dollars . . . 3,060 00
Longmeadow, eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-
five dollars 11,475 00

Lowell, one hundred fifty-eight thousand seven hundi-ed

and eighty dollars 158,780 00

Ludlow, twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-five

doUars 12,495 00

Lunenburg, twenty-eight hundred and ninety dollars . 2,890 00
Lymi, one hundred sixty-five thousand two hundred and

forty dollars 165,240 00

Lynnfield, thirty-five hundred and seventy dollars . . 3,570 00
Maiden, eighty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-
five dollars * 83,895 00

Manchester, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five dollars 13,855 00

Mansfield, ten thousand two hundred dollars . . 10,200 00
Marblehead, twenty-one thousand five hundred and five

doUars 21,505 00

Marion, fifty-two hundred and seventy doUars . . 5,270 00
Marlborough, twenty-two thousand five hundred and

twenty-five dollars 22,525 00

Marshfield, sixty-nine hundred and seventy dollars . 6,970 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

461

Mashpee, eleven hundred and five dollars
Mattapoisett, forty-one hundred and sixty-five dollars
Maynard, ninety-seven hundred and seventy-five dollars
Medfield, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five dollars
Medford, eightj^-six thousand nine hundred and fifty-five

dollars ........

Medway, forty-two hundred and fifty dollars
Melrose, forty thousand eight hundred dollars
Mendon, sixteen hundred and fifteen dollars .
Merrimac, three thousand and sixty dollars .
Methuen, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and

eighty dollars .......

Middleborough, eleven thousand eight hundred and

fifteen dollars .......

Middlefield, four hundred and twenty-five dollars .
Middleton, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars .
Milford, nineteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five

dollars ........

Millbury, seventy-six hundred and fifty dollars
Millis, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five dollars
Millville, twenty-three hundred and eighty dollars
Milton, forty-one thousand three hundred and ten dollars
Monroe, fifteen hundred and thirty dollars
Monson, forty-nine hundred and thirty dollars
Montague, sixteen thousand seven hundred and forty-five

dollars ........

Monterey, one thousand and twenty dollars .
Montgomery, three hundred and forty dollars
Mount Washington, two hundred and fift3'-five dollars
Nahant, fifty-five hundred and twenty-five dollars
Nantucket, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars .
Natick, twenty thousand one hundred and forty-five

dollars ........

Needham, twenty-three thousand and thirty-five dollars

New Ashford, one hundred and seventy dollars

New Bedford, two hundred nineteen thousand seven

hundred and twenty-five dollars
New Braintree, six hundred and eighty dollars
NeV Marlborough, eighteen hundred and seventy dollars
New Salem, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars .
Newbury, twenty-eight hundred and five dollars
Newburyport, eighteen thousand one hundred and five

dollars ........

Newton, one hundred sixtj'-six thousand and ninety

dollars ........

Norfolk, twenty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars
North Adams, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and

seventy-five dollars ......

North Andover, eleven thousand eight hundred and

fifteen dollars .......

North Attleborough, thirteen thousand seven hundred

and seventy dollars ......

North Brookfield, thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five

dollars ........

North Reading, twenty-seven hundred and twenty dol-
lars ........

Northampton, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and

fifty-five dollars ......

Northborough, twenty-six hundred and thirty-five dollars
Northbridge, fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety

dollars ........

Northfield, three thousand and sixty dollars

Norton, thirt.y-four hundred dollars

Norwell, twenty-four hundred and sixty-five dollars

Norwood, thirty-two thousand three hundred and

eighty-five dollars .......

$1,105 00 State tax

M65 00,,,,3_,.
3,825 00

86,955 00

4,250 00
40,800 00

1,615 00

3,060 00

27,880 00

11,815 00

425 00

1,955 00

19,125 00

7,650 00

3,825 00

2,380 00
41,310 00

1,530 00

4,930 00

16,745 00

1,020 00

340 00

255 00

5,525 00

11,900 00

20,145 00

23,035 00

170 00

219,725 00

680 00

1,870 00

765 00

2,805 00

18,105 00

166,090 00—
2,125 00

36,975 00

11,815 00

13,770 00

3,825 00

2,720 00

37,655 00
2,635 00

14,790 00
3,060 00
3,400 00
2,465 00

32,385 00

462

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

State tax
apportioned
and assessed.

Oak Bluffs, fifty-one hundred dollars

Oakham, six hundred and eighty dollars

Orange, seventy-seven hundred and thirty-five dollars

Orleans, four thousand and eighty dollars

Otis, six hundred and eighty dollars

Oxford, forty-seven hundred and sixty dollars

Palmer, fourteen thousand eight hundred and seventy

five dollars .......

Paxton, eleven hundred and ninety dollars

Peabody, thirty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-five

dollars ........

Pelham, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars .

Pembroke, thirty-two hundred and thirty dollars .

Pepperell, forty-three hundred and thirty-five dollars

Peru, four hundred and twenty-five dollars

Petersham, twentj^-one hundred and twenty-five dollars

Phillipston, five hundred and ten dollars

Pittsfield, eighty thousand five hundred and eighty dollars

Plainfield, five hundred and ten dollars .

Plainville, twenty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars

Plymouth, tliirty-three thousand nine hundred and

fifteen dollars ......

Plympton, eight hundred and fifty dollars

Prescott, one hundred and seventy dollars

Princeton, seventeen hundred dollars

Provincetown, fifty-five hundred and twenty-five dollars

Quincy, one hundred forty-nine thousand four hundred

and thirty dollars .....
Randolph, seventy-three hundred and ten dollars
Raynham, twenty-five hundred and fifty dollars
Reading, eighteen thousand and twenty dollars
Rehoboth, twenty-eight hundred and five dollars
Revere, forty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars
Richmond, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars
Rochester, seventeen hundred and eighty-five dollars
Rockland, eleven thousand five hundred and sixty dollars
Rockport, sixty-seven hundred and fifteen dollars
Rowe, one thousand and twenty dollars .
Rowley, two thousand and forty dollars
Royalston, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars
Russell, fifty-three hundred and fifty-five dollars
Rutland, eighteen hundred and seventy dollars
Salem, sixty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars
Salisbury, forty-two hundred and fifty dollars
Sandisfield, eight hundred and fifty dollars
Sandwich, three thousand and sixty dollars
Saugus, sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars
Savoy, four hundred and twenty-five dollars .
Scituate, thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty

dollars ........

Seekonk, fifty-five hundred and twenty-five dollars .
Sharon, seventy-one hundred and forty dollars
Sheffield, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars
Shelburne, thirty-five hundred and seventy dollars .
Sherborn, two thousand and forty dollars
Shirley, twenty-eight hundred and ninety dollars
Shrewsbury, ninety-four hundred and thirty-five dollars
Shutesbury, five hundred and ten dollars
Somerset, thirteen thousand six hundred and eighty-five

dollars .......

Somerville, one hundred forty-six thousand eight hundred

and eighty dollars .....
South Hadley, twelve thousand two hundred and forty

dollars .......

Southampton, eleven hundred and five dollars
Southborough, forty-three hundred and thirty-five dollars

$5,100 00

680 00

7,735 00

4,080 00

680 00

4,760 00

14,875 00
1,190 00

31,365 00

935 00
3,230 00
4,335 00

425 00
2,125 00

510 00
80,580 00

510 00
2,125 00

33,915 00

850 00

170 00

1,700 00

5,525 00

149,430 00
7,310 00
2,550 00

18,020 00
2,805 00

48,450 00

935 00

1,785 00

11,560 00
6,715 00
1,020 00
2,040 00
1,445 00
5,355 00
1,870 00

68,680 00

4,250 00

850 00

3,060 00

16,915 00
425 00

13,430 00
5,525 00
7,140 00
1,955 00
3,570 00
2,040 00
2,890 00
9,435 00
510 00

13,685 00

146,880 00

12,240 00
1,105 00
4,335 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

463

Southbridge, eighteen thousand five hundred and thirty
dollars ........

Southwick, twenty-two hundred and ninety-five dollars
Spencer, sixty-two hundred and ninety dollars
Springfield, three hundred fifty-five thousand three hun-
dred dollars .......

Sterling, twenty-three hundred and eighty dollars .
Stockbridge, fifty-nine hundred and fifty dollars
Stoneham, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars .
Stoughton, twelve thousand and seventy dollars
Stow, two thousand and forty dollars
Sturbridge, seventeen hundred dollars .
Sudbury, thirty-two hundred and thirty dollars
Sunderland, seventeen hundred and eighty-five dollars
Sutton, twenty-four hundred and sixty-five dollars .
Swampscott, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and
five dollars .......

Swansea, fifty-three hundred and fifty-five dollars .
Taunton, fifty-two thousand three hundred and sixty
dollars ........

Templeton, forty-five hundred and ninety dollars .
Tewksbury, forty-two hundred and fifty dollars
Tisbury, sixty-one hundred and twenty dollars
Tolland, four hundred and twenty-five dollars
Topsfield, thirty-three hundred and fifteen dollars .
Townsend, twenty-eight hundred and ninety dollars
Truro, eleven hundred and ninety dollars
Tyngsborough, fourteen hundred and forty-five dollars
Tyringham, five hundred and ninety-five dollars
Upton, two thousand and forty dollars .
Uxbridge, ten thousand and thirty dollars
Wakefield, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty
five dollars .......

Wales, five hundred and ninety-five dollars
Walpole, seventeen thousand five hundred and ten dollars
Walthani, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-
five dollars .......

Ware, ninety-nine hundred and forty-five dollars
Wareham, fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty
dollars ........

Warren, fifty-five hundred and twenty-five dollars .
Warwick, six hundred and eighty dollars
Washington, two hundred and fifty-five dollars
Watertown, sixty-three thousand one hundred and fifty
five dollars .......

Wayland, sixty-one hundred and twenty dollars
Webster, sixteen thousand three hundred and twenty
dollars ........

Wellcsley, thirty-four thousand six hundred and eighty
dollars ........

Wellfleet, seventeen hundred dollars
Wendell, eleven hundred and ninety dollars .
Wenham, tliirty-nine hundred and ten dollars
West Boylston, twenty-two hundred and ninety-five
dollars ........

West Bridgewater, thirty-nine hundred and ten dollars
West Brookfield, nineteen hundred and fifty-five dollars
West Newbury, fifteen hundred and thirty dollars .
West Springfield, thirty-four thousand five hundred and
ninety-five dollars ......

West Stockbridge, sixteen hundred and fifteen dollars
West Tisbury, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars .
Westborough, fifty-five hundred and twenty-five dollars
Westfield, twenty-eight thousand six hundred and forty-
five dollars .......

Westford, fifty-seven hundred and eighty dollars .

$18,530 00 state tax

9 OOn on apportioned

.6,^yo uu a„(j assessed.

6,290 00

355,300 00

2,380 00

5,950 00
15,300 00
12,070 00

2,040 00

1,700 00

3,230 00

1,785 00

2,465 00

28,305 00
5,355 00

52,360 00
4,590 00
4,250 00
6,120 00

425 00
3,315 00
2,890 00
1,190 00
1,445 00

595 00

2,040 00

10,030 00

27,455 00

595 00

17,510 00

66,725 00
9,945 00

14,280 00

5,525 00

680 00

255 00

63,155 00
6,120 00

16,320 00

34,680 00
1,700 00
1,190 00
3,910 00

2,295 00

3,910 00

1,955 00

1,530 00

34,595 00

1,615 00

935 00

5,525 00

28,645 00
5,780 GO

464

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 376.

state tax
apportioned
and assessed.

Westhampton, five hundred and ten dollars .
Westminster, eighteen hundred and seventy dollars
Weston, ninety-six hundred and five dollars .
Westport, seventy-four hundred and eighty dollars .
Westwood, forty-eight hundred and forty-five dollars
Weymouth, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and

ninety dollars ......

Whately, seventeen hundred and eighty-five dollars
Whitman, eleven thousand and fifty dollars
Wilbraham, forty-two hundred and fifty dollars
Williamsburg, twenty-two hundred and ninety-five dollars
Williamstown, eighty-five hundred dollars
W^ilmington, forty-seven hundred and sixty dollars .
Winchendon, eighty-four hundred and fifteen dollars
Winchester, thirty-three thousand one hundred and fifty

dollars ........

Windsor, five hundred and ninety-five dollars
Winthrop, twenty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty

five dollars .......

Woburn, twenty-six thousand one hundred and eighty

dollars ........

Worcester, four hundred three thousand two hundred and

forty dollars .......

Worthington, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars .
Wrentham, thirty-nine hundred and ninety-five dollars
Yarmouth, five thousand and fifteen dollars .

$510 00

1,870

9,605

7,480

4,845

48,790

1,785

11,050

4,250

2,295

8,500

4,760

8,415

33,150

595

29,155

26,180

403,240

765

3,995

5,015

8,500,000

State treasurer
to issue
warrant.

Payment of
assessments
by cities
and towns.

Notice to treas-
urers of delin-
quent cities
and towns.

Section 2. The state treasurer shall forthwith send his
warrant, according to the provisions of section twenty of
chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws to the selectmen or
assessors of each city and town taxed as aforesaid, requiring
them respectively to assess the sum so charged, and to add
the amount of such tax to the amount of city, town and
county taxes to be assessed by them respectively on each city
and town.

Section 3. The state treasurer in his warrant shall re-
quire the selectmen or assessors to pay, or issue severally
their warrant or warrants requiring the treasurers of their
several cities and towns to pay to the state treasurer, on or
before November twentieth in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine, the sums set against said cities and towns
in the schedule aforesaid; and the selectmen or assessors,
respectively, shall return a certificate of the names of the
treasurers of their several cities and towns, with the sum
which each may be required to collect, to the state treasurer
at some time before September first in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine.

Section 4. If the amount due from any city or town, as
provided in this act, is not paid to the state treasurer within
the time specified, then the state treasurer shall notify the
treasurer of such delinquent city or town, who shall pay into
the treasury of the commonwealth, in addition to the tax,
such further sum as would be equal to one per cent per
month during the delinquency from and after November
twentieth in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine;
and if the same remains unpaid after December first in the
year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, an information may

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 377, 378. 465

be filed by the state treasurer in the supreme judicial court,

or before any justice thereof, against such delinquent city

or town; and upon notice to such city or town, and a sum- Warrant of

mary hearing thereon, a warrant of distress may issue against mlylsul^*^'^

such city or town to enforce the payment of said taxes under

such penalties as the court, or the justice thereof before whom

the hearing is had, shall order. Nothing herein contained °x'^'from"moLy

shall be construed to prevent the state treasurer from deduct- due from com-

mg at any tmie, irom any moneys which may be due from

the commonwealth to the delinquent city or town, the whole

or any part of said tax, with the interest accrued thereon,

which shall remain unpaid. Approved June 7, 1929.

An Act relative to seals and sealed instruments. Chap. 377

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would defeat Emergency
its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency preamble,
law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section seven of chapter four of the General ^twentt-^'
Laws, as amended in clause twenty-ninth by section one of ninth, etc.,
chapter one hundred and seven of the acts of the current ^'"^"
year, is hereby further amended by striking out said clause
twenty-ninth.

Section 2. Said chapter four is hereby further amended ^ct^on'afteT
by inserting after section nine the following new section : — § 9-
Section 9 A. In any written instrument, a recital that such Use of seals
instrument is sealed by or bears the seal of the person signing Insr/umlnts.
the same or is given under the hand and seal of the person
signing the same, or that such instrument is intended to
take effect as a sealed instrument, shall be sufficient to give
such instrument the legal effect of a sealed instrument with-
out the addition of any seal of wax, paper or other substance
or any semblance of a seal by scroll, impression or otherwise ;
provided, that if in any case the seal of a court, public office. Proviso.
public officer or corporation is expressly required by the
constitution or by statute to be affixed to a paper, the word
"seal" shall mean either an impression of the official seal
upon the paper or an impression on a wafer or wax affixed
thereto. The word "person" as used in this section shall tlTnl-iude'^cOT-"
include a corporation, association, trust or partnership. poration, etc.

Section 3. This act shall take effect contemporaneously Effective con-

. , . e ■ ^ \ , l,jjj temporaneously

With section two oi said chapter one hundred and seven. with 1929,

Approved June 7, 1929. '°^' ^ ^•

An Act relative to the terms of certain notes to be Chav. 37S
issued by the commonwealth.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The term of the notes which the state treas- Term of state
urer is authorized to issue under chapter two hundred and pendlture^of a
twenty-seven of the acts of the current year, authorizing the further sum of

466

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 379.

money for com-
pletion of the
Brookline
Street-Essex
Street-Cottage
Farm bridge.

Term of state
notes for addi-
tional court
house accom-
modations and
facilities for the
courts and other
officials in
Suffolk county.

Term of state
notes for con-
struction of
certain ways
in city of
Maiden, and
towns of Brain-
tree, Weymouth
and Hingham.

Term of state
notes for con-
struction of a
general office
and headquar-
ters building
for metropoli-
tan district
commission.

metropolitan district commission to expend a further sum of
money for the completion of the Brookline Street-Essex
Street-Cottage Farm bridge, shall not exceed one year, as
recommended by the governor in a message to the general
court, dated June sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine,
in pursuance of section three of Article LXII of the amend-
ments to the constitution.

Section 2. The term of the notes which the state treas-
urer is authorized to issue under chapter three hundred and
sixty-eight of the acts of the current year, providing addi-
tional court house accommodations and facilities for the
courts and other officials in the county of Suffolk, shall not
exceed one year, as recommended by the governor in a
message to the general court, dated June sixth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, in pursuance of section three of
Article LXII of the amendments to the constitution.

Section 3. The term of the notes which the state treas-
urer is authorized to issue under chapter three hundred and
sixty-four of the acts of the current year, providing for the
laying out, and construction and improvement of certain
ways in the city of Maiden, and the towns of Braintree,
Weymouth and Hingham, shall not exceed three years, as
recommended by the governor in a message to the general
court, dated June sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine,
in pursuance of section three of Article LXII of the amend-
ments to the constitution.

Section 4. The term of the notes which the state treas-
urer is authorized to issue under chapter three hundred and
sixty-two of the acts of the current year, providing for a
general office and headquarters building for the metropolitan
district commission, shall not exceed five years, as recom-
mended by the governor in a message to the general court,
dated June sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, in
pursuance of section three of Article LXII of the amend-
ments to the constitution. Approved June 7, 1929.

Chap. 379 An Act concerning municipal lighting plants and the
powers of the department of public utilities relative

THERETO.

G. L. 164,
amended.

42,

Establishment
of municipal
lighting plant,
purchase of
existing plant.

Proviso,

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and sixty-four of the
General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section
forty-two and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 1^2. If, w^hen a town votes to establish a municipal
lighting plant, any person or municipality was, at the time
of the first vote required by section thirty-five or thirty-
six, engaged in generating or distributing gas or electricity
for sale for lighting purposes in such town, the town may
purchase of him or it, at such price and on such terms as
may be agreed upon, such portion of his or its plant and
property within the limits of such town as such town desires
for its use and as can be agreed upon, provided, however,

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 379. 467

that no such purchase shall be consummated by a city unless
approved by vote of its city council, or of its commissioners
if the city government consists of a commission, or by a
town unless ratified by the voters at a town meeting.

Section 2. Said chapter one hundred and sixty-four is g. l. i64,
hereby further amended by striking out section forty-three ^ ^^' '''^^'"^^^■
and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 4^. Jgte^4"mation
If a town which votes to establish a municipal lightmg plant by department
fails, within one hundred and fifty days from the passage of °/ie''s"a''s'to "price
the final vote required by section thirty-five or thirty-six, °^,^''t^o°tfJ"°P'
to agree, as to price or as to the property to be included in eluded in pur-
the purchase, with any person or municipality engaged at owner o" plant
the time of the first vote required by said section thirty-five ^^'^.^ff^-"^^
or thirty-six in generating or distributing gas or electricity agree, etc.
for sale for lighting purposes in such town and electing to
sell, either such town or such person or municipality may ap-
ply to the department within thirty days after the expira-
tion of said one hundred and fifty days for a determination
as to what property ought in the public interest to be in-
cluded in the purchase and what price should be paid, having
in view the cost of the property less a reasonable allowance
for depreciation and obsolescence, and any other element
which may enter into a determination of a fair value of the
property so purchased, but such value shall be estimated
without enhancement on account of future earning capacity
or good will, or of exclusive privileges derived from rights in
the public ways; and thereupon the department, after notice
to the parties, shall give a hearing thereon and make the de-
termination aforesaid. Such property shall include such what property
portion of the property of such person or municipality within etc. ""^ " ^'
the limits of such town as is suitable for, and used in con-
nection with, the generation or distribution of gas or elec-
tricity within such limits; provided, that such purchase shall Proviso.
include both a gas and electric lighting plant only if a single
corporation owns or operates both such plants. Such price Price to in-
shall include damages, if any, which the department finds ciude damages.
would be caused by the severance of the property proposed
to be included in the purchase from other property of the
owner. If any such property is subject to any mortgages. Deduction from
liens or other encumbrances, the department in making its ff"pvoperty7s^
determination shall provide for the deduction or withhold- subject to
ing from the purchase price, pending discharge, of such "'"^'
sum or sums as it deems proper.

If within thirty days after such determination shall have Notification
been made by the department, the owner shall notify the ^^orTown
town of its acceptance of the determination as made by the within limited
department, and within a further period of thirty days shall ance of d^^''*'
tender a good and sufficient deed of conveyance to the city termination.
or town clerk of the property required by the department Jf^c^lTveyince^
to be purchased, and shall then place said deed in escrow,
the town shall have sixty days in which to accept or reject
said tender, and if it accepts shall have a further period of
sixty days in which to pay to the owner the price deter-

468

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 379.

Acceptance or
rejection by city
or town, etc.

How rejection
shall operate.

Procedure in
case owner fails
to file accept-
ance and tender
within limited
time.

Proviso.

G. L. 164, § 44,
repealed.

G. L. 164, § 45,
amended.

Property in
adjoining city
or town.

G. L. 164, § 46,
amended.

Supply of ad-
joining city
or town.

G. L. 164, § 47,
amended.

Supply by mu-
nicipal plants
to adjoining
cities or towns.

mined as hereinbefore provided. Such acceptance or re-
jection in case of a city shall be by vote of its city council,
or its commissioners if its government consists of a com-
mission, and in case of a town shall be by vote at a town
meeting. A rejection of the tender shall operate as a rescis-
sion of all votes theretofore passed for the establishment of a
municipal hghting plant.

Should the owner not file such acceptance and tender
within the time so limited, the town may proceed to con-
struct or otherwise acquire a municipal plant without further
attempt to acquire the plant of such owner or any part
thereof, provided, however, that in case of a city such action
is authorized by vote of its city council, or of its commis-
sioners if its government consists of a commission, and that
in case of a town such action is authorized by vote at a town
meeting.

Section 3. Section forty-four of said chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-four is hereby repealed.

Section 4. Section forty-five of said chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-four is hereby amended by striking out, in
the fifth line, the words "the three preceding sections" and
inserting in place thereof the words : — sections forty-two
and forty-three, — so as to read as follows : — Section li.5. If
a town purchases a gas or electric lighting plant having
mains, poles, wires or other distributing apparatus in an ad-
joining town where there is no private gas or electric lighting
company, it may also purchase such mains, poles, wires or
other distributing apparatus therein, subject to sections
forty-two and forty-three.

Section 5. Section forty-six of said chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-four is hereby amended by striking out the
last sentence, — so as to read as follows: — Section 46. A
town which has acquired, as hereinbefore provided, mains,
poles, wires or other distributing apparatus in an adjoining
town may thereafter manufacture, sell and distribute gas or
electricity to said adjoining town or to its inhabitants, and
shall thereafter have therein the same rights and franchises
and be subject to the same limitations and obligations as
the vendor from whom such outlying plant was purchased
would have had or to which he would have been subject had
such purchase not been made.

Section 6. Section forty-seven of said chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-four is hereby amended by striking out the
last sentence, — so as to read as follows: — Section 1^7 . The
department may, after notice and a public hearing, authorize
a town which has acquired a municipal lighting plant to
extend its mains or lines into an adjoining town in order to
distribute and sell gas or electricity therein, if such town
or a private corporation therein is not then supplying such
town with gas or electricity, as the case may be. Such
authorization shall be upon such terms and with such limita-
tions and restrictions as the department deems for the pub-
lic interest. A town so authorized shall thereafter have in

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 380. 469

such adjoining town the same rights and privileges, and be
subject to the same limitations and obligations, as it has
within its own territorial limits.

Section 7. Sections forty-eight, forty-nine and fifty of j'j^g ^g^and
said chapter one hundred and sixty-four are hereby repealed, so, repealed.

Approved June 8, 1929.

Chap. SSO

An Act to provide an alternative method of taking
property by eminent domain and assessing better-
ments by public authorities.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would in part Emergency
defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an ^
emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Section 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by o. l., new
inserting after chapter eighty, under the title, EMINENT ^{^JJP^frs""
DOMAIN TAKINGS AND BETTERMENT ASSESS-
MENTS BY JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, the follow-
ing new chapter: —

Chapter 80A.

EMINENT DOMAIN TAKINGS AND BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS
BY JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Section 1 . A board of officers, hereinafter called the board, ^eSSd^oF
upon whom authority to take real estate by eminent domain taking property
on behalf of the commonwealth or of any county, city, town domldiTand
or district thereof, hereinafter described as the body politic, be^'tTeTments"!)
has been conferred by law, for the purpose of effecting a board 9f officers
public improvement, may, at its election, instead of pro- L"v^t?taker«ii
ceeding in accordance with chapter seventy-nine, or in ofstate"or o^'^'^
accordance with chapters seventy-nine and eighty if better- any county,
ments are to be assessed, institute proceedings for the taking di'stricuhCTeof.
of real estate or any interest therein, and for the assessment
of betterments, in accordance with this chapter. So much
of sections two to fifteen, inclusive, as relates to the assess-
ment of betterments shall apply only to proceedings there-
under wherein the board votes under section two to assess
betterments and so states in the order adopted thereunder.

Section 2. The board, having first complied with all the Adoption of
preliminary requirements prescribed by law, shall adopt an tiolf totake?etc.
order of intention to take, which shall contain a description
of the property to be taken sufficiently accurate for identi-
fication, and shall state the interest therein to be taken and
the purpose for which such property is to be taken, and, if
betterments are to be assessed therefor, shall so state ; other-
wise, it shall state that no betterments are to be assessed.
In case there are trees upon land so to be taken, or structures
affixed thereto, the order shall state whether the same are
to be included in the taking, and, if they are not to be so

470

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Order, plan
and estimate.

Notice of
adoption of
order, etc.

Recording.

Petition to
superior court,
etc.

Contents, etc.

Issue of order
of notice to re-
spondents, etc.

included, shall allow the owner a reasonable time after the
taking becomes absolute to remove the same, to be specified
in the order.

Section 3. The order shall contain an estimate of all
damages sustained by every person in his property by reason
of such taking as of the date of the adoption of the order,
and shall contain an estimate of the cost of the improvement,
including such damages, and, if betterments are to be
assessed, a description sufficiently accurate for identification
of the area which it is expected will receive benefit or ad-
vantage, other than the general advantage to the commu-
nity, from such improvement, and shall refer to a plan of
such area, and shall contain an estimate of the betterments
that will be assessed upon each parcel of land within such
area. Notice of the adoption of such order shall be sent
forthwith by registered mail to every person, whose address
is known, appearing of record to have an interest in any land
to be taken, damaged or assessed, by or on account of the
proposed improvement, setting forth all estimates contained
in said order in relation to said land, and a like notice shall
be posted in a conspicuous place on each parcel thereof.
Such order, plan and estimate shall be recorded, within ten
days from the adoption of the order, in the registry of deeds
of every county or district in which property to be taken or
assessed is situated.

Section 4- Within ten days from the recording of such
order, plan and estimate, the board shall cause to be filed in
the superior court of the county in which such proposed
public improvement or the major part thereof is situated a
petition on behalf and in the name of the body politic under-
taking such improvement, to establish its right to take the
property described in the order and, if betterments are to be
assessed, to assess the same on account of the special benefits
to be derived from the improvement, and to determine the
compensation and damages to be paid, the area to be as-
sessed and the amount of the benefits to be made the basis
of assessments. The petition shall contain a copy of the
order and estimates, and shall designate the registry or regis-
tries of deeds in which the order, plan and estfinate have
been recorded as provided in section three. The proceeding
thus instituted shall be in rem against the land to be taken,
damaged or assessed, but every person appearing of record
to have an interest in any of said land at the time of the
adoption of the order shall be made a party respondent.
The court shall issue an order of notice to all of said re-
spondents, returnable at any return day which occurs thirty
days or more after the filing of the petition, which shall be
served upon all respondents who are residents of the common-
wealth or can be found therein in the manner prescribed for
serving a writ of summons in civil actions, and upon all
other parties by posting a copy thereof on each parcel of land
to be taken, damaged or assessed and by sending a copy
thereof by registered mail to each of said parties whose ad-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 380. 471

dress is known, at least twenty days before said return day.
Persons not in being, unascertained or unknown who may
have an interest in any of such land shall be made parties
respondent by such description as seems appropriate, and
service may be made on such persons by publication, in
such manner as the court may order.

Section 5. Any of said respondents, and any other per- Filing of
son claiming an interest in any of the land to be taken, thfrr'^da'^s'^'"
damaged or assessed by or on account of said improvement, afterretumday
may appear and file an answer within thirty days after the ° p'''^'''°"' ^*<=-
return day of the petition. In such answ'er he may (1) deny
the right of the petitioner to make the improvement, or to
take or damage his land, (2) deny the right of the petitioner
to levy an assessment upon his land, (3) impugn the validity
or regularity of the proceedings for establishing the improve-
ment, taking property by eminent domain or assessing
betterments therefor so far as any absence of such validity
or regularity may affect the legality of the taking or dam-
aging of his land, or of the assessment of betterments thereon,
in which case he shall specify the invalidity or irregularity
relied on, (4) deny the sufficiency of the compensation or
damages allotted to him in the estimate of the board, in
which case he shall state the amount of compensation or
damages claimed by him, (5) deny that his property will
receive benefit or advantage, other than the general ad-
vantage to the communit}^, from the establishment of the
improvement, in the amount stated in the estimate, in which
case he shall state the value of such benefit or advantage, if
any, which he admits his property will receive.

Section 6. The court shall, on motion of the petitioner, Kntry of do-
enter a default against all persons served with process or pp'Jionsserv'ed
who otherwise appear to have seasonably received personal ^'th process

,• j> ii j-i- 111 1 1 1 and who failed

notice 01 the petition and who have not appeared and to appear, etc.
answered within the time prescribed. The court shall Appointment of
appoint one or more disinterested persons to act as guardian nlinw-s^'S.c!"^
or guardians ad litem for minors, for persons under dis-
ability, and for all persons not in being, unascertained, un-
known or out of the commonwealth, who have been named
or described as parties respondent and for whom no duly
authorized person has appeared and answered, and such
guardian or guardians ad litem shall be allowed thirty days
from his or their appointment to appear and answer on
behalf of the persons whom he or they represent.

Section 7. If any person in his answer denies the right of ,^gterim„^"ion
the petitioner to make the improvement or to take or dam- by court if any
age his property, or to levy an assessment thereon, or fight of'^petT-*
impugns the validity or regularity of the proceedings, the [^"rovement^
court shall forthwith hear and determine the issue thus or damage his
raised, and may order the petition dismissed or may enter p^'^p'^''^^^' *'*''^'
an order establishing the right of the petitioner to take the
real estate, or interest therein, described in the order for the
purpose therein stated and to assess betterments as therein
set forth, or may enter such other order as law and justice

472

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 380.

Court to estab-
lish right of
petitioner to
take real estate
and assess
betterments if
no issue is
raised, etc.

Hearing and
determination
by commis-
sioners as to
amount of
compensation,
damages and
betterments,
in case of con-
troversy, etc.

Redetermina-
tion by jury if
any person is
aggrieved by
determination
of commis-
sioners, etc.

may require. If the court does not order the petition dis-
missed, and one or more of the respondents allege excep-
tions or appeal to the supreme judicial court or the matter
is reported to the supreme judicial court, further proceed-
ings shall not be stayed unless the justice who heard and de-
termined the matter so directs. If no such issue is raised
by any person in his answer, the court shall, on motion of
the petitioner, enter an order establishing the right of the
petitioner to take the real estate, or interest therein, de-
scribed in the order for the purpose therein stated and to
assess betterments as therein set forth. An order under
this section establishing the right of the petitioner to take
property or to assess betterments shall be final and con-
clusive as to the validity of the proceedings up to the date
of the adoption of such order.

Section 8. If the court shall enter an order establishing
the right of the petitioner to take the real estate, or interest
therein, described in the order for the purpose therein stated
and to assess betterments as therein set forth, and any
person has in his answer denied the sufficiency of his com-
pensation or damages as estimated in the order under section
three or has denied that his property will receive benefit
or advantage in the amount estimated therein, the court
shall appoint not more than three disinterested persons as
commissioners to hear and determine the issues thus raised.
The provisions of law in regard to auditors shall so far as
apt apply to such hearing, and all controversies as to the
amount of compensation, damages and betterments arising
out of the same petition shall be referred to the same com-
missioners. The commissioners shall hear the parties as
speedily as may be and shall thereafter file a draft report
with the clerk of the court and shall send notice of such
filing to the several parties. The commissioners shall not
determine the compensation or damages to which any person
is entitled to be greater than as alleged by him in his answer,
nor less than as estimated by the board; nor shall they de-
termine the benefit to any parcel of land to be less than as
admitted by the owner in his answer nor more than as esti-
mated by the board.

Section 9. Any person aggrieved by the determination
of the commissioners with respect to his compensation or
damages may have a redetermination thereof by a jury by
making application therefor within twenty days after the
sending of the notice of the filing of the commissioners' draft
report. The application may be placed on the trial list of
the next ensuing sitting of the court with jury in the county
and heard and determined in the same manner as other
civil cases and may be advanced for speedy trial; but if
there are two or more such applications with respect to a
particular public improvement which cannot be heard
forthwith without unduly delaying the trial of other civil
cases, the court may direct that a special jury be summoned
to hear and determine all such applications. The chief

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 380. 473

justice of the superior court shall preside or designate one
of the associate justices of said court to preside over the
sittings of such special jury, who shall have in the hearing
and determination of such applications all the powers of a
justice of that court presiding over the trial of an ordinary-
civil action. The award of the commissioners shall be prima
facie evidence of the compensation or damages to which the
applicant is entitled, and the jury shall not award compen-
sation or damages to any person in a greater amount than
as alleged by him in his answer nor less than as estimated
by the board. If the jury does not agree upon a verdict, or
if the verdict is set aside, the applicant shall be entitled to
a new jury from time to time until a verdict has been ren-
dered and established; but he may at any time, upon terms,
waive his right to a trial by jury and accept the compen-
sation or damages awarded by the commissioners.

Section 10. If the verdict of the jury as finally established fe™'con-"*"^^'
shall differ from the award of the commissioners with respect fimiation by
to the compensation or damages to which any person is mittaUo'^cm^'
entitled, the report of the commissioners shall be amended J^|.o®,ig,'dera-°'^
accordingly, and, after all applications for redetermination tion, etc. '
of compensation or damages have been disposed of, the
report shall be presented to the court for confirmation.
The report of the commissioners as thus amended shall be
final and conclusive as to all questions of fact, but the court
may hear and determine questions of law arising therefrom
and may order the report to be confirmed or to be recom-
mitted to the commissioners to be reconsidered in accord-
ance with law, or may itself make such amendments and
alterations as are necessary to render the report consistent
with the law. If an appeal to the supreme judicial court or Appeal to
exceptions are taken with respect to the order of the justice cu^iai'court"
of the superior court upon the motion for final confirmation exceptions, etc.
of the commissioners' report, or if the matter is reported to
the supreme judicial court, the same shall be heard and
determined without awaiting further proceedings in the
superior court. The operation of the order shall be stayed
pending the disposition of such appeal, exceptions or report,
and the order shall, if necessary, be modified to conform to
the decision of the supreme judicial court. After the ex- when judgment
piration of thirty days from the final confirmation of the nltion^shaii
report, or if the same is affirmed by the supreme judicial be entered, etc.
court, of thirty days from the date of the rescript of said
court, if the proceedings have not in the meantime been
discontinued, and if it shall be made to appear that all laws
requiring appropriations of money, to be raised by loan or
otherwise, in cases of taking of property by eminent domain,
in so far as applicable, have been complied with, judgment
of condemnation shall be entered upon motion of the peti-
tioner which shall be final and conclusive against all the
world with respect to the validity and extent of the taking,
and the right of the petitioner to assess betterments there-
for, and against all parties to the proceedings with respect

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Recording, etc.

Abandonment
of proposed
improvements
and discon-
tinuance of
proceedings, etc

Recovery of in-
demnity, etc.

Entry of inter-
locutory judg-
ment of con-
demnation, etc.

Taking to be-
come absolute
and right of
body politic to
real estate and
right of respond-
ents to com-
pensation or
damages to
vest upon
entry of either
final or inter-
locutory judg-
ment of con-
demnation, etc.

to the amount of compensation or damages to which any
person is entitled and the amount of benefit or advantage
which each parcel of land within the designated area will
receive from the improvement. If judgment of condem-
nation is not entered within six months from the confirma-
tion of the commissioners' report, or from the rescript of the
supreme judicial court, the petition shall be dismissed upon
motion of any one or more of the parties respondent. The
clerk of the court shall forthwith transmit for record to
every registry of deeds designated in the petition as pro-
vided in section four a certified copy of any judgment of
condemnation entered under this section or of any inter-
locutory judgment of condemnation entered under section
eleven.

Section 11. The board may at any time before final
judgment of condemnation abandon the proposed improve-
ment and discontinue the proceedings, in which case all
action taken thereunder and under the proceedings for the
laying out or establishment of such improvement shall be-
come void; but in such case, or in case the petition shall be
dismissed on motion of a party respondent under section
ten, any person who has suffered damage or loss or been put
to expense by the proceedings shall be entitled to recover
indemnity in full by order of the court and for which execu-
tion shall issue. In case of abandonment or dismissal as
aforesaid, the clerk of the court shall forthwith transmit for
record to every registry of deeds designated in the petition
as provided in section four a certificate that all proceedings
in relation to such improvement have been discontinued or
dismissed. At any time after the right of the petitioner to
take the property described in the order for the purpose
stated therein and to assess betterments therefor has been
established, if it shall be made to appear that all laws re-
quiring appropriations of money, to be raised by loan or
otherwise, in cases of the taking of land by eminent domain,
in so far as applicable, have been complied with, the court
shall on motion of the petitioner enter an interlocutory judg-
ment of condemnation, which shall have the same effect as
a final judgment of condemnation, except with respect to
compensation, damages and assessments for benefits, and
the proceedings shall continue as herein provided with
respect to compensation, damages, and assessments; but
the petitioner shall not thereafter have the right to discon-
tinue the proceedings.

Section 12. The taking shall become absolute and the
right of the body politic to the real estate or interest therein
described in the petition and the right of the respondents to
compensation or damages shall vest upon the entry of either
final or interlocutory judgment of condemnation, and it
shall have immediate right of entry and possession, subject
to the rights of the owners under section two with respect
to structures and trees. The compensation or damages
shall be payable when vested, or as soon thereafter as they

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 380. 475

are finally determined, and if not then paid may be recovered
in an action of contract. In case two or more persons have
appeared in the proceedings as parties respondent with
interests adverse to each other with respect to a particular
parcel of land, the body politic shall not be bound to pay
such compensation until one or more of such persons have
established his or their rights thereto in proper judicial
proceedings to which the others of such persons are parties;
but the proceedings to determine the amount of compensation
shall not be stayed pending the establishment of such rights.
Compensation and damages shall be assessed as of the date whencom-
of the adoption of the order, and shall bear interest at the jamag'eTshaU
rate of four per cent per annum from the date when the be assessed, etc
right to damages becomes vested until payable, but shall not
bear interest after they are payable unless the body politic
fails upon demand to pay the same to the person entitled
thereto. The body politic shall not pay compensation or
damages to any person in excess of its estimate, except in
accordance with an award of the commissioners, nor in
excess of the award of the commissioners, except as amended
in accordance with a verdict of the jury.

Section 13. If the petition is dismissed under section costs to he
seven, costs, as in actions at law, shall be awarded to the drttonto Vn-'"^'
respondents, in addition to indemnity for loss and damages [Ij^g^^j,*,^ ^°^
as provided in section eleven. If, upon entry of an inter- damages if
locutory or final judgment of condemnation it appears that mfssed"under^'
a respondent has been awarded greater compensation or § <■. etc.
damages than was allotted to him in the estimate contained
in the order adopted under sections two and three or if
betterments to be assessed on the land of any respondent
have been determined to be less than as estimated in said
order, such respondent shall be entitled to such costs; other-
wise, he shall be liable for such costs.

Section 14- If the right to assess betterments has been Apportionment
established, the board, within six months after the com- Cfbettements,
pletion of the improvement, shall assess a proportionate ''^'^■
share of the whole or part of the cost thereof upon each
parcel of land with respect to which a benefit or advantage
has been determined as herein provided and in the amount
so determined, unless the betterments so assessed shall
exceed the cost of the improvement, in which case they shall
be proportionately reduced; and such assessments shall not
thereafter be abated. The lien for such assessments shall
take effect upon the recording of the order of intention to
take under section three.

Section 15. The provisions of chapters seventy-nine and ^gionTonaw
eighty, and all other provisions of law relative to proceed- to apply to pro-
ings under said chapters, shall apply to proceedings under thfaoCapt'er.eTc.
this chapter, and to betterments assessed thereunder, so far
as applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions
hereof; but no petition for the assessment of compensation
or damages or for the abatement of an assessment shall be
maintained by any person who has been made a party to

476

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G. L. 79, i
amended.

Provisions of
this chapter
or chapter 80A,
exclusive.

Proviso.

G. L. SO,
amended.

Provisions of
this chapter
or chapter 80A,
exclusive.

Public authori-
ties may elect
to take prop-
erty and assess
betterments
under G. L.
80A.

the proceedings for condemnation or with respect to prop-
erty the record owners of which at the time of the adoption
of the order under section two have been made parties
thereto. Failure to make any person having an interest in
the land taken, damaged or assessed a party respondent
under section four shall not invalidate the proceedings, but
such person shall not be bound by the judgment in the
proceedings in respect to compensation, damages or assess-
ments. The court shall determine the compensation of
guardians ad litem and commissioners appointed under
this chapter, and shall have power to establish and regulate
the procedure thereunder, so far as not therein prescribed.

Section 2. Section forty-five of chapter seventy-nine of
the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the
word "chapter" in the second and in the fifth lines, respec-
tively, the words: — or chapter eighty A, — and by inserting
after the word "chapter" in the sixth line the words: — or in
chapter eighty A, — so as to read as follows: — Section 45.
No real estate shall be taken for public use by the formal
vote or order of any board of officers except under this
chapter or chapter eighty A, and no damages shall be as-
sessed for the taking or seizure of property for a public
purpose or for injury thereto by authority of law, except
under this chapter or chapter eighty A, notwithstanding
any general or special act hitherto enacted; provided, that
nothing contained in this chapter or in chapter eighty A
shall be construed as amending or in any way affecting
chapter two hundred and fifty-three.

Section 3. Section seventeen of chapter eighty of the
General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word
"chapter" in the fourth line the words: — or chapter eighty
A, — and by inserting after the word "herein" in the fifth
line the words: — or therein, — so as to read as follows: —
Section 17. Whenever a formal vote or order for the laying
out or construction of a public improvement, or for the
taking of land therefor, states that betterments are to be
assessed, no betterments shall be assessed except under
this chapter or chapter eighty A, and all proceedings re-
lating to such betterments shall be as herein or therein pro-
vided, notwithstanding any special act hitherto enacted.

Section 4. In any case where the commonwealth, or a
county, city, town or district thereof, has been or shall be
authorized by provisions of general or special law to take
real estate or any interest therein by eminent domain
under chapter seventy-nine, or to assess betterments under
chapter eighty, of the General Laws, the officer or board of
officers thereof authorized to exercise such power may,
unless otherwise provided, elect to take such property or
interest and to assess such betterments under chapter
eighty A of the General Laws. Approved June 8, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 381, 382. 477

An Act providing for a new house of correction for (Jhdj) Qgi

THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of providing a new house of Middlesex

. countv com-

correction for the county of Middlesex, the county com- missioners may
missioners of said county may take by eminent domain, fOTa'new'hous^e
under chapter seventy-nine or eighty A of the General Laws, ['^^^TddVe'scx
or acquire by purchase or otherwise, such land in said county, county, etc.
lying outside of the city of Cambridge, as may be necessary,
and may construct the necessary buildings thereon and may
furnish and equip the same and do all things necessary for
said purpose.

Section 2. For the purpose aforesaid, the county treas- County treas-
urer of said county, with the approval of the county com- w.^'^money,
missioners, may borrow from time to time, on the credit issue bonds, etc.
of said county, such sums as may be necessary, not ex-
ceeding, in the aggregate, one million dollars, and may issue
bonds or notes of the county therefor, which shall bear on
their face the words, Middlesex County House of Correc- Middlesex
tion Loan, Act of 1929. Each authorized issue shall con- of°correctio"n^
stitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable in ^^1^29^^^
not more than ten years from their dates. Such bonds or
notes shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and
countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners.
The county may sell the said securities at public or private
sale upon such terms and conditions as the county com-
missioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par
value. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall, except
as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five of the
General Laws.

Section 3. Chapter three hundred and seventy-six of 1928,376,
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight is hereby
repealed.

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its accept- submission to
ance, during the current year, by the county commissioners comurcom-
of the county of Middlesex, but not otherwise. missioners, etc.

Approved June 8, 1929.

Chap.SS2

An Act reapportioning the cost of laying out and
constructing the northern artery, so-called, and
abolishing and remitting betterment assessments
IN connection with the laying out and construction
of said artery and the southern artery, so-called.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend pr'^fmbiT"^
to defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be
an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public convenience.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

_ Section L Section one of chapter four hundred and etc*,'amended.
eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four,

478

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 382.

Metropolitan
district com-
mission may
sell and convey
certain prop-
erty not needed
in construction
of traffic route
between Boston
and territory
north and
east thereof.

Proceeds of
sales, dis-
position.

1924, 489, § 2,
etc., amended.

Cost of work,
payment in
first instance
by state.

Proviso.

Cost to be paid
by state and
by cities and
towns benefited.

as amended by section one of chapter three hundred and
nineteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
by sections one and two of chapter three hundred and fifty-
seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six and by
section one of chapter three hundred and fifteen of the acts
of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby further
amended by striking out the next to the last paragraph and
inserting in place thereof the following : — After so much of
the above specified land and property has been appropriated
for said way as is needed therefor, said commission may, in
the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, sell and con-
vey the remainder for value, with or without suitable re-
strictions. The commission may also, in the name and on
behalf of the commonwealth, sell and convey land and prop-
erty or any interest therein, or abandon any such interest
less than fee, taken or acquired but no longer needed for the
actual construction of said way, with or without suitable
restrictions. The proceeds of all land and property so sold
shall be paid to the commonwealth and shall be available
for expenditures authorized by this act, in addition to the
aggregate amount provided in section two thereof.

Section 2. Said chapter four hundred and eighty-nine,
as amended in section two by section two of said chapter
three hundred and nineteen and by section two of said chap-
ter three hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by
striking out section two of said chapter four hundred and
eighty-nine and inserting in place thereof the following : —
Section 2. The cost of laying out and constructing said
proposed new way, including any damages awarded or paid
on account of any taking of land or property under this act
or for damage to any property and any sums paid for lands
or rights purchased, and the salaries and wages of all em-
ployees of the commission, the cost of moving any building or
structure on land of the commonwealth in the Charles river
dam and of erecting any building or structure in place
thereof and all other expenses incurred in carrying out the
provisions of this act, and also the interest on all money
borrowed by the state treasurer under section five, and any
expenses lawfully incurred for service of a commission ap-
pointed by the supreme judicial court to apportion the cost
of the work hereunder and any interest paid on betterments
assessed hereunder which shall be remitted under authority
of law, shall be deemed to be the cost of the work, and shall
in the first instance be paid by the commonwealth; provided,
that such cost shall not exceed in the aggregate three million
dollars and the receipts from sales available under section
one. One third of such cost shall be borne by the common-
wealth and shall be paid in the manner provided in section
six. One third of such cost shall be paid by the cities and
towns of the metropolitan parks district, including Cam-
bridge and Somerville, in proportion to the respective tax-
9,ble valuations of the property of said cities and towns, as
Refined by section fifty-nine of chapter ninety-two of the

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 382. 479

General Laws. One sixth of such cost shall be paid by the
city of Cambridge, and one sixth of such cost shall be paid
by the city of Somerville.

Section 3. Said chapter four hundred and eighty-nine, 1024, 489, § 3
as amended in section three by section three of said chapter ^ °' ^"^°
three hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by
striking out section three of said chapter four hundred and
eighty-nine and inserting in place thereof the following: —
Section 3. The metropolitan district commission shall as- Certification
certain and certify to the state treasurer the full cost of the u°er oHuir^"
said way and the amounts due from the cities and towns of ^nd amounts
said district including said cities of Cambridge and Somer- due from cities
ville, and from said cities of Cambridge and Somerville ^" °^"*'
otherwise than as members of said district, and the amounts
due from said cities of Cambridge and Somerville otherwise
than as members as aforesaid shall be assessed and collected
by the state treasurer in the apportionment and assessment
of the annual state tax for the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine. Such assessments against said cities may be
paid from the proceeds of taxation or from the proceeds of
loans issued under section seven.

To meet in part the expenditures required under the pro- Assessment

<■,!• ,• j.,1 •,• J, p •ij-i'j. and collection

Visions of this section oi the cities and towns oi said district, of certain sum
including said cities of Cambridge and Somerville, there shall J.xi^^ndhuies°^
be assessed in the proportion set forth in section two and
collected by the state treasurer in the apportionment and
assessment of the state tax for the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-nine the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and for the remainder of said expenditures the state state treas-
treasurer may, with the approval of the governor and coun- notes^et'cno^
cil, issue notes or bonds to an amount not exceeding seven J^^'ex '^enditures
hundred and fifty thousand dollars as a part of the Metro-
politan Parks Loan. Such notes or bonds shall be issued
for such term of years as shall be recommended by the gov-
ernor in accordance with the provisions of section three of
Article LXII of the amendments to the constitution, and
shall bear interest semi-annually on the first day of January
and July at such rate as shall be fixed by the state treasurer,
with the approval of the governor and council.

Section 4. Said chapter four hundred and eighty-nine, 1924, 489, §6,

1 1 . ,. . , .. £. » -1 1 , etc., amended.

as amended m section six by section five 01 said chapter
three hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by
striking out said section six and inserting in place thereof
the following: — Section 6. To meet the expense of said ^'^"^*^^pp''°"

1 • 1 i 1 • 1 1 ii 111 1 11 priations to

work required to be paid by the commonwealth, there shall meet part of
be annually appropriated from the Highway Fund in each b°y state.^ ^'^^
of the years nineteen hundred and twenty-five and nineteen
hundred and twenty-six, the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars, and in nineteen hundred and twenty-seven the sum
of one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars, and in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine
the sum of two hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred
dollars.

480 Acts, 1929. — Chap. 382.

itf 'amended Section 5. Chapter three hundred and thirty of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, as amended in
section two by section two of chapter three hundred and
sixty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six,
is hereby further amended by striking out section two of
said chapter three hundred and thirty, and inserting in
Department^^^ p\sice thcrcof the f ollowiug : — Section 2. The department
may take lands, of pubHc works may, ou behalf of the commonwealth, take
fn'^constructwn Under and in accordance with chapter seventy-nine of the
°f southern General Laws, except as hereinafter provided, or acquire by
purchase or otherwise, such lands or rights therein as it
may deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this
act, including such land as may be necessary for the con-
struction of any necessary drainage outlets, but no awards
or payments shall be made because of any taking of cemetery
land or of any other land devoted to a public use except as
Provisions of rcQuircd by the constitution. The provisions of section five
not applicable of Said chapter seventy-nine shall not apply to any taking

to any taking. ^j^^gj. ^J^Jg ^^^

an^d remTttance Section 6. On and after the effective date of this act,
of betterment no bcttcrments shall be assessed or collected under chapter
rrconnection eighty of the General Laws or otherwise for or on account
with laying out of the uorthem traffic route or motor traffic artery, con-
tion of north- sti'ucted uudcr chapter four hundred and eighty-nine of
ern artlrles*^' the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four and acts in
amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or for or on
account of the southern traffic route or motor traffic artery,
constructed under chapter three hundred and thirty of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five and acts in amend-
ment thereof and in addition thereto; and all betterments
heretofore assessed thereunder but not collected, together
with any accrued interest, shall be abated in full; and all
such betterments collected in part or in whole and with or
without interest shall be abated in full and the proceeds
thereof, with interest thereon at the rate of four per cent
per annum from the date of payment, shall be paid forth-
with to the persons from whom such betterments were col-
lected, as certified by the metropolitan district commission
with respect to said northern traffic route or motor traffic
artery and by the department of public works with respect
to said southern traffic route or motor traffic artery from
any funds available from the collection of betterments as-
sessed in connection with the laying out and construction
of the particular route or artery or from appropriations
already made for the cost thereof, or, in case of the north-
ern traffic route or motor traffic artery, from the receipts
from sales of land and property available under section one
of said chapter four hundred and eighty-nine, as amended.

Approved June 8, 1929.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383. 481

An Act relative to transportation facilities in the rhn^ qqq

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT. ' ^'

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The territory within and the inhabitants of ^„^j*f^",'''*^'^^
the following cities and towns, to wit: Arlington, Belmont, made a body
Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Maiden, corpora'te'linder
Medford, Milton, Newton, Revere, Somerville and Water- the name of
town, shall constitute a district or incorporated municipality, transit* disfdct.
and for the purposes of this act are made a body politic
and corporate under the name of the metropolitan transit
district, hereinafter called the district, with power to take Powers.
and hold property, sue and be sued in law and equity, to
prosecute and defend in all actions relating to the property
and affairs of the district, and of contracting and doing other
necessary acts relative to its property and affairs; and said
territory and inhabitants shall be jointly and severally liable
for the debts and obligations thereof. Said district shall Corporate seal.
have a corporate seal. Process may be served upon the
treasurer of the district as hereinafter provided.

The real estate of the district, with the exception of that Rea' estate
used for tunnels, subways, stations, transfer areas, rapid taxatfon!°
transit lines and their appurtenances, shall be subject to except, etc.
taxation by the city or town in which it is located in the
same manner and to the same extent as if privately owned.

Section 2. The affairs of the district shall be managed Board of five
by a board of five trustees, hereinafter called the trustees, polntmeritr
of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, with the t^'rms.
advice and consent of the council, to serve for terms of two,
four, six and eight years, respectively, as the governor shall
designate, from the date of their appointment, and of whom
one shall be appointed by the mayor of the city of Boston,
to serve for a term of two years from the date of his appoint-
ment. As the term of office of a trustee appointed by the
governor expires, his successor shall be appointed by the
governor, with like advice and consent, for a term of eight
years, and as the term of office of a trustee appointed by the
mayor expires, his successor shall be appointed by the mayor
for a term of two years. All trustees appointed hereunder Nocom-
shall hold office until the qualification of their successors pensation.
and shall serve without compensation. Any vacancy in the vacancies,
office of a trustee shall be filled, for the unexpired term, by '''^'"^'
the governor, with like advice and consent, or by said mayor,
as the case may be. Said trustees shall be sworn by the to be sworn.
governor or by the state secretary. Any trustee may be re- Removal
moved for cause by the governor with like advice and con- ^°^ ''^"®®"
sent. The trustees shall elect one of their own number as chairman.
chairman. The trustees shall adopt a corporate seal for the corporate seal.
district, and designate the custodian thereof. A majority Quorum.
of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of any business, and the action of a majority of the entire
membership shall be required for any affirmative action.

482

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Clerk, treas-
urer, eto., ap-
pointment,
duties, com-
pensation.

Annual re-
port of ac-
counts, etc.

Offices of
treasurer
and clerk may
be held by
same person.

Powers.

Bond.

Civil service
laws not appli-
cable to certain
appointments.

Applicable to
employees of
transit depart-
ment of city
of Boston, etc.

G. L. 32, §§ 56
to 80, inclusive,
applicable to
employees of
transit de-
partment.

Retention of
membership in
Boston retire-
ment system.

Deductions
from pay, etc.

Metropolitan
transit council,
establishment,
membership.

The trustees may from time to time appoint and at pleasure
remove a clerk, treasurer and such agents and employees
for the district as they may deem necessary, and may de-
termine their duties and their compensation, which shall be
paid by the district; shall cause at all times accurate ac-
counts to be kept of all expenditures of the funds of the
district; and shall make an annual report, containing an
abstract of such accounts, to the general court and to the
metropolitan transit council. The offices of treasurer and
clerk may be held by the same person. Except as herein
otherwise provided, they shall have full authority to rep-
resent the district, to have the care of its property and the
management of its business and affairs, and to sell and
convey any real estate or other property not needed for
its business or affairs, by deed sealed with the district seal,
signed and acknowledged by a majority, or in like manner
to authorize such sale and conveyance by the metropolitan
transit department. The treasurer shall give bond for the
faithful performance of his duties with a surety company
authorized to do business in this commonwealth as surety,
in such sum as the trustees may determine. The civil service
laws and rules shall not apply to the appointment or removal
of the clerk, treasurer or other agents or employees of the
district or to the commissioners of the metropolitan transit
department but shall continue to apply to employees of the
transit department of the city of Boston if and when trans-
ferred to the metropolitan transit department under the
provisions of this act; nor shall the provisions of chapter
four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred
and nine and acts in amendment thereof and addition
thereto apply to appointments of the mayor of Boston made
under the provisions of this act. Sections fifty-six to sixty,
inclusive, of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws shall
apply to all employees of the transit department of the city
of Boston so transferred with the same credit for term of
service as though such transfer were not made, and all em-
ployees of said transit department of the city of Boston who
are members of the Boston retirement system, established
by chapter five hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, shall be entitled to retain
their membership therein and to continue to enjoy the bene-
fits thereof. The district shall make like deductions from
the pay of such members as provided in said chapter five
hundred and twenty-one and shall pay the same to the
retirement board provided therein together with the normal
annual contribution to the compensation accumulation fund
which would otherwise be made by the city of Boston. Any
expenses lawfully incurred under this section or under sec-
tion thirteen or fourteen shall constitute part of the current
expenses of the district.

Section 3. The metropolitan transit council, herein-
after called the council, is hereby established to consist of

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383. 483

the mayors and chairmen of the boards of selectmen of all

cities and towns of the district. The council shall annually Annual organi-

organize by the election of a chairman and a secretary. In ^^*>°"-

voting in the council each mayor and chairman of a board ^°*'"s-

of selectmen shall have one vote for each one hundred

million dollars, or fraction thereof, of the amount of property

as last previously established by the general court for their

respective cities and towns as a basis of apportionment for

state and county taxes, and action shall be only by a two

thirds vote of the total number of votes so authorized. All gi°*|®^\",J'''

votes authorized by this act to be taken by the council in state secretary.

behalf of the district shall be signed by the chairman and

secretary of the council and jfiled with the state secretary.

For the purpose of certifying such votes, the custodian of o/^vofe^f^lffix-
the corporate seal of the district as designated under section ing of seal.
two shall by direction of the chairman of the council affix
the seal thereto in behalf of the district.

Any of said mayors or chairmen may from time to time Designation
designate any registered voter of his city or town as his ^® ^^°^^-
proxy to attend any or all meetings of said council, with all
the powers which he would have if personally present, pro- Proviso.
vided, that such designation is by a writing which is signed
by such mayor or chairman, filed with the state secretary
and has endorsed thereon the certificate of a registrar of
voters of such city or town that the person designated is a
registered voter thereof, and that a copy of such designation
certified by said state secretary is filed with the secretary
of the council.

Section 4. Upon the acceptance of section eight as Metropolitan
therein provided, the metropohtan transit department shall ment!*esubibh-
be established and shall consist of a commissioner and two ment,' member-
associate commissioners. The commissioner shall be ap- ^ ^^'
pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the
executive council, and two associate commissioners, by the
mayor of the city of Boston. The initial appointees shall Terms.
serve for terms of five years each from the first day of the
month following that on which this section takes effect.
Upon the expiration of their terms of office, their successors
shall be appointed, for terms of five years each, in the man-
ner following : — the commissioner, by the governor, with
hke advice and consent; one associate commissioner, by
said mayor; and the other associate commissioner, by the
trustees. As their terms expire, their respective successors
shall be appointed in like manner for terms of five years
each. All appointees hereunder shall serve until the quali- g^f^'^'''®®'
fication of their successors and any vacancy in the office of
commissioner or associate commissioner shall be filled for the
unexpired term in the same manner as such commissioner or
associate commissioner was appointed. The commissioner salaries.
shall receive such salary as the governor, with the approval
of said council, shall from time to time establish. Each
of the associate commissioners shall receive such salary, not

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Removal
for cause.

Majority
action, etc.

Proviso.

Chairman of
trustees may
attend meet-
ings, etc.

Who shall
constitute
department
until, etc.

Certain powers,
privileges,
duties, etc.,
to be trans-
ferred to metro-
politan transit
department.

Leases, con-
tracts, etc.,
relating to
subways, etc.,
to be in name
of district.

Contracts,
etc., author-
ized by 1929,
297, to be in
name of city of
Boston, etc.

Metropolitan
transit depart-
ment to take
over records,
etc., and
present organi-
zation of tran-
sit department
of city of
Boston.

exceeding five thousand dollars per annum, as the governor
and executive council may establish. The commissioner and
associate commissioners shall be subject to removal for
cause by the governor with the advice and consent of said
council. The action of a majority of the department shall
be deemed the action of the department provided that no
affirmative action shall be taken in which the commissioner
does not concur. The chairman of the trustees shall be
entitled to notice of and to attend all meetings of said de-
partment, and to participate in all discussions, relative to
matters in which the district is interested, but shall not be
entitled to vote. Until such time as the said commissioner
and associate commissioners shall be appointed and shall
quahfy the chairman and the two associate commissioners
of the transit department of the city of Boston holding office
on the effective date of this section shall constitute the
department created thereby.

Section 5. Upon the establishment of the metropolitan
transit department, all the powers, privileges, duties, re-
strictions and liabilities transferred to the city of Boston by
chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the Special Acts of
nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all the powers, privileges,
duties, restrictions and liabilities thereafter conferred or
imposed upon the city of Boston to be exercised by the
transit department of the city of Boston or conferred or
imposed upon said transit department to be done or per-
formed in the name or on behalf of the city of Boston, shall
be transferred to and conferred and imposed upon said
metropolitan transit department, and after such transfer
all leases, contracts, takings and other acts relating to sub-
ways, tunnels, rapid transit extensions or alterations or
extensions thereof, including the Cambridge-Main street
subway, then in existence or theretofore authorized, shall
be in the name and behalf of the district and bonds of the
district shall be issued to pay for the completion of all work
thereon then under construction; but all contracts, takings
and other acts authorized by chapter two hundred and
ninety-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine or acts amendatory thereof shall be in the name and
behalf of the city of Boston and the treasurer of the city of
Boston shall from time to time, on request of the metro-
politan transit department, issue and sell bonds of the
city and apply the proceeds thereof in accordance with the
provisions of said chapter two hundred and ninety-seven.

Section 6. The metropolitan transit department in be-
half of the district shall, upon its establishment as provided
in section four, take over the records, books, plans, files and
equipment and the present organization, including engineers
and other employees of the transit department of the city
of Boston as of the date of such establishment, shall com-
plete all work then under construction or authorized, shall
prepare under direction of the trustees plans for additional
rapid transit lines and, when and as construction thereof is

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383. 485

authorized, shall construct the same in accordance with
plans approved by the trustees. Except as otherwise ex- Eminent do-
pressly provided herein all purchases or takings by right of '"*''» takings.
eminent domain of property for construction purposes au-
thorized by this act in behalf of the district shall be made
by said metropolitan transit department. The salaries, ex- Salaries.
penses and obligations of the metropolitan transit depart-
ment shall be paid by the district, except as herein provided.

The metropolitan transit department shall make such ^"^"re'wte*"^
investigations and reports and do such other work as may
be directed by other or later acts or resolves, and shall con- Conipietion of
tinue and complete all work which the transit department department
of the city of Boston has been authorized or directed to undw^ke *°
undertake, but the cost thereof, and such proportion of the certain salaries
salaries of the commissioner and associate commissioners and expenses
and expenses of the metropolitan transit department as it as part oF^
may determine to be properly chargeable thereto, shall be cost of work.
charged as a part of the cost of such work and paid from
the proceeds of the bonds issued therefor or by the com-
monwealth after an appropriation has been made or by the
city, town or other body for or in whose behalf the same is
made or done.

Section 7. For the purpose of carrying out the pro- Metropolitan
visions of this act the metropolitan transit department in ment'tohate'
behalf of the district shall have like powers with respect to |iere^g°anted^
the work herein or hereafter authorized as were granted to to Boston
the Boston transit commission under chapter five hundred m^sTnreTc.
and forty-eight of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, and chapter seven hundred and forty-one of the acts
of nineteen hundred and eleven and acts in amendment
thereof and in addition thereto, with respect to works au-
thorized by said chapters.

Section 8. Upon acceptance of this section by the city Uponaccept-
of Boston, acting by the mayor and city council thereof, s^c'tlon^ by' city
who are hereby authorized to accept the same in behalf of °^ ht?*tuies^'
said city by filing a written acceptance thereof with the etc., in certain
state secretary, all right, title and interest of the city of neia^ete.', to'be
Boston in the Tremont street subway, so-called, the East transferred to
Boston tunnel, the Washington street tunnel, the tunnel of metropolitan
the Cambridge connection, so-called, the Dorchester tunnel, sublectfetc"''*'
the Boylston street subway, the East Boston tunnel ex-
tension, the Arlington street station, the Maverick square
station and extension of the East Boston tunnel, the exten-
sion of rapid transit facilities in the Dorchester district, and
in all subways, tunnels, stations, rapid transit facilities, and
alterations, extensions, appurtenances and equipment thereof,
and connections therewith, then existing or under construc-
tion, title to which is in said city, hereinafter called the
"properties", shall by virtue hereof and of such acceptance
be transferred to and vested in said district, subject to exist-
ing contracts for the use of the same by the Boston Elevated
Railway Company, and the district in consideration thereof dlmniiydt^'
shall be obligated and bound to indemnify and hold harmless of Boston, etc.

486

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Obligation of
city of Boston
to pay its part
of expenses of
district not
affected, etc.

Unexpended
balances from
sale of bonds
to be paid to
treasurer of
district, etc.

District to re-
ceive rentals.

To pay to city
of Boston
amounts re-
quired to meet
interest upon
certain bonds
of city.

Rentals,
how used.

As certain
bonds of city
fall due, dis-
trict to pay
city deficiency
if sinking fund
is insufficient,
etc.

the city of Boston from any payment required on account
of bonds issued or obligations incurred on account thereof,
which are not met by rentals heretofore or hereafter re-
ceived therefor, or the sinking fund or funds and accumula-
tions thereof created under the various statutes authorizing
the construction thereof, but nothing hereunder shall in
any way affect the obligation of the city of Boston to pay
as hereinafter provided its part of the expenses and obliga-
tions of the district, including those arising under this
section, and also shall be obligated and bound to indemnify
and hold harmless said city against the obligations of said
contracts for use. Upon request by the trustees the treas-
urer of the city of Boston shall forthwith pay to the treas-
urer of the district all unexpended balances remaining from
the sale of bonds issued under authority of the various acts
authorizing the construction of the properties or issued for
the purpose of providing funds for the construction, equip-
ment, alteration, extension or improvement thereof, which
amounts shall be used by the district for the purposes for
which the same were issued or for completing the con-
struction authorized by chapter four hundred and eighty
of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three.

The district shall be entitled to receive the rentals pay-
able under the then existing or any future leases or con-
tracts for use of said properties or extensions thereof and
to enjoy and enforce all the rights of said city thereunder.
In further consideration for such transfer the district shall
be bound to pay to the city of Boston such amounts as are
required to meet the interest upon all bonds of the city
issued to pay the net cost of the properties so transferred
as defined in the various acts authorizing their construction,
as and when the same is due, increased in each instance by
one half of one per cent of the principal of the bonds upon
which interest is due, which increase shall be paid into the
sinking funds for said bonds in the same manner as pro-
vided by said acts with reference to the rentals now payable
to the city. All rentals received by the district on account
of said properties shall be used only for making said pay-
ments to the city or paid into a fund to be invested and
reinvested but to be used for that purpose when and as
needed or to pay the principal when due of any of said bonds
for which the sinking fund held by the city is insufficient,
but not otherwise. As any bonds of the city issued on ac-
count of the properties transferred fall due, if the amount
available in the sinking funds is insufficient to pay the
same the district shall pay to the city the amount of such
deficiency, and the district may issue bonds in accordance
with the provisions of section ten to provide the necessary
funds therefor. When a sinking fund sufficient to pay all
of said bonds has been accumulated payment of said in-
crease of one half of one per cent shall cease. Any balance
remaining in the sinking funds on account of said bonds

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383. 487

after all have been paid shall be paid by the city to the dis-
trict.

Section 9. If and when section eight is accepted by Uponaccept-
the city of Boston, as therein provided, title to the Cam- crty^o°f Boston,
bridge-Main street subway and lines of railway used in bridg^^MaiS'
connection therewith and their appurtenances, and all al- street subway,
terations and extensions thereof, including therein all transferred to
property acquired or constructed by the commonwealth ^^bYict' etc
under chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the General
Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, and chapter four
hundred and eighty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, then owned by the commonwealth, shall
thereupon by virtue hereof be transferred to the district,
subject to contracts for the use of the same by the Boston
Elevated Railway Company, together with the benefit of
and subject to all the liabihties of said contracts, and the
district shall perform and observe all covenants and con-
ditions in said contracts on the part of the commonwealth
to be performed or observed, and shall indemnify the com-
monwealth against the obligations thereof.

The district shall be entitled to receive the rentals, pay- District to re-
able under the then existing or any future contracts, for the "^^'^^
use thereof and to enjoy and enforce all rights of the com-
monwealth thereunder. In consideration for such transfer, To pay to
the district shall be bound to pay to the commonwealth ?eq*uireTto"*^
such amounts as are required to meet the interest and prin- ^J^®|* '^"ncri*
cipal of all bonds of the commonwealth, issued on account of certain
of the purchase or construction of the property transferred mow(^Rh°"etc.
by this section, as and when the same are due. Any amounts
so paid by the district which are not met within one year
by said rentals, shall be certified and raised as provided in
section twelve except that any amount paid by the district
on account of the principal of the latest maturing of each
issue of bonds of the commonwealth may be paid from the
proceeds of bonds to be issued by the district in the manner
provided in section ten. All rentals received by the district Rentals

• now USGQ

on account of the properties transferred by this section shall
be used only for making said pajnnents to the common-
wealth or paid into a fund to be used only for that purpose.

If and when section eight is accepted by the city of Boston Upon accept-
as aforesaid, all the powers, privileges and duties, which cily^of Botton,
were conferred or imposed upon the commission of the de- certain powers,
partment of public utilities by said chapter three hundred duties to be
and sixty-nine and by the contract for use of the Cambridge- distrfcTanVto
Main street subway executed thereunder, and by chapter b^^j^e^ro®*^
one hundred and forty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred poiitan transit
and twenty-six amending said chapter three hundred and '^^p^'^t'^en*
sixty-nine and by chapter four hundred and forty-four of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, providing for
the construction and use of an additional station at or
near the junction of Cambridge and Charles streets, shall
thereupon by virtue hereof be transferred to and conferred

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Proviso.

Trustees to
issue and sell
bonds of
district.

Proviso.

*' Metropolitan
Transit Dis-
trict Bonds."

Trustees may
borrow money,
etc., in antici-
pation of issue
of bonds, etc.

May appoint
a national
bank, etc., to
act as agent
to register
bonds of
district, etc.

Bonds and
notes of dis-
trict to be
exempt from
taxation, etc.

Rentals or
other compen-
sation for use

and imposed upon the district to be exercised by the met-
ropolitan transit department; provided, that thereafter,
leases, contracts, takings and other acts shall be in the name
of the district instead of the commonwealth and bonds of
the district instead of the commonwealth shall be issued to
pay for the cost and expense incident to the work author-
ized.

Section 10. The trustees shall from time to time and
without further authorization than herein contained, issue
and sell at public or private sale bonds of the district, regis-
tered or with interest coupons attached as they may deem
best, to an amount not exceeding, in the aggregate, the total
cost of carrying out the provisions of this act; provided,
that said trustees may also from time to time issue and
sell bonds for the purpose of calling or refunding prior bonds
issued under the provisions of this section. Said bonds
shall be signed by a majority of the trustees or by such
person or persons as may be designated from time to time
for such purpose in a writing signed by a majority of the
trustees and filed with the state secretary. Such bonds
shall be designated on their face "Metropolitan Transit
District Bonds", and shall be for such terms not exceeding
sixty years, and shall bear interest payable semi-annually
at such rates as said trustees, subject to the approval of the
department of public utilities, shall from time to time de-
termine. Indebtedness incurred under the provisions of
this act shall not be included in determining the statutory
limit of indebtedness of any of the cities or towns constituting
the district. The proceeds of such bonds, including any
premiums realized from the sale thereof, shall be used to
meet all damages, costs and expenses incurred by the dis-
trict in carrying out the provisions of this act.

The trustees, in behalf of the district, may temporarily
borrow money and issue notes of the district therefor in
anticipation of the issue of bonds, or of receipts from tax-
ation, or of income to be received, or to provide for the pay-
ment of any obligations when due, for which funds are not
available. No purchaser of such bonds or lender upon such
notes shall be bound to see to the application of the money
paid or loaned.

The trustees maj'^ appoint a national bank or trust com-
pany to act as agent to register any bonds or notes of the
district issued under the authority of this act, and may pro-
vide for such certification thereof as they deem advisable.
Any expense so incurred shall constitute a part of the cur-
rent expenses of the district.

All bonds and notes of the district issued under authority
of this or any subsequent act shall be exempt both as to
principal and income from all taxes levied by or under au-
thority of the commonwealth, and shall be a legal invest-
ment for the deposits and the income derived therefrom of
savings banks incorporated in the commonwealth.

Section 11. Except as provided in sections eight and
nine, all rentals or other compensation for the use of prop-

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383. 489

crty acquired by the district and payments from taxation ..f property ae-
on account thereof, received by the district, shall be used, tHc't! how '^'^'
in the first instance, for the payment of interest on the bonds "sed", etc.
of the district issued for the acquisition of the property on
account of which such monies are received, and the balance
shall be used to create a sinking fund for such bonds, and
any further balance shall be paid into a general sinking fund
for all bonds of the district. The proceeds of any sale or
sales of such property shall likewise be paid into such sink-
ing funds. Sinking funds may be invested in any bonds of
the district and any bonds so acquired shall be kept alive
therein. Except as aforesaid, such sinking funds shall be
invested only in securities which are legal investments for
Massachusetts savings banks.

Section 12. On or before the fifteenth day of June in Annual cer-
each year the trustees shall certify to the state treasurer the state tr°J^s*urer
estimated amount required for the current expenses of the of estimated
district for the ensuing year beginning on July first, together quired foTcur-
with the amounts to be raised by taxation as authorized or ordisTnctTltc.
directed by this or subsequent acts to be so raised and shall
also certify the amount required to meet any lawful obH-
gations of the district for which payment is not otherwise
provided, or to pay any judgments, or notes issued to pro-
vide funds for payment of any judgments, for which bonds
could not be issued. The total of said amounts shall be Apportion-
apportioned by the state treasurer among the several cities """*' ^^'''
and towns included in the district in proportion to the
amount of property as last previously established by the
general court for said cities and towns as a basis of appor-
tionment for state and county taxes. The trustees shall, in Assessment
like manner, certify to the state treasurer the amounts to be of'ar^oun'ts''"
paid by any city or town for or in whose behalf any work ^^^f ^"""^J,
has been done by the metropolitan transit department and townVin whose
for which the district has not otherwise been reimbursed, has bLn"'^''
The state treasurer shall add the amounts found by him done, etc.
to be due from each of said cities and towns to the state
tax next thereafter to be collected, and said cities and towns
shall be notified of such amounts and they shall be collected
in the same manner as other state taxes assessed upon said
cities and towns. Said amounts shall be paid over by the
state treasurer to said district when collected by the state
treasurer.

Section 13. The trustees shall consider and invest i- investigations
gate relative to the construction of new subways, tunnels t'oVewlubways.
and rapid transit routes and alterations, additions and ex- tunnels, etc.
tensions of existing routes in the metropolitan district, and
of works incidental thereto. They shall also investigate
relative to the most equitable methods of financing such
improvements and of apportioning the cost thereof. They Consideration
shall consider the question of acquiring the Chelsea division Cf chekSf-
of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company, visi^ofEast-
and shall negotiate with the owners of the property of said setts sTre^e^t ""
division relative to the terms and conditions on which it company.
may be acquired. They shall submit their findings and

490

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 383.

Submission to
council and
general court,
etc.

Preliminary
investigations,
surveys and
plans for
subways, rapid
transit routes,
etc.

Entry upon
lands, etc.

Proviso.

Submission to
voters of cer-
tain cities
and towns of
certain plans
for determin-
ing the future
ownership,
management
and operation
of the railway
system of the
Boston Ele-
vated Rail-
way Company

recommendations in relation to the foregoing matters to the
council and the council, upon approval thereof by a two-
thirds' vote of its entire membership, shall submit the same
to the general court.

Section 14. The metropolitan transit department, and
prior to its establishment, the transit department of the
city of Boston, at the expense of the district, when requested
by the trustees, shall make such preliminary investigations,
surveys and plans for subways, rapid transit routes or other
work, which the district or said department on its behalf is
hereafter authorized to construct, as the trustees may deem
expedient and to that end either department, its employees
or any other parties acting with its authority may enter
upon any lands or places without being liable in trespass, in
order to make survej'-s and investigations, and may place
and maintain marks and monuments thereon, and make
borings and excavations and do all other acts necessary for
such investigations and surveys and the preparation of plans
and estimates therefor; provided, that compensation shall
be recoverable from the district under chapter seventy-nine
of the General Laws for any actual damages caused by such
acts.

Section 15. At the biennial state election in nineteen
hundred and thirty, the registered voters of the cities of
Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Maiden, Medford,
Newton, Revere and Somerville and the towns of Arlington,
Belmont, Brookline, Milton and Watertown shall be entitled
to vote upon the following plans for determining the future
ownership, management and operation of the railway sys-
tem of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, which shall
be printed upon the official ballot to be used in said nm-
nicipalities at said election, in the form hereinafter set
forth. Each voter shall make a cross in the space at the
right of the plan which he desires to have adopted. No
ballot shall be counted upon which the voter has made a
cross in more than one such space.

Plan No. 1. Return to the Boston Elevated Railway
Company of the management and operation of
its railway system by terminating public man-
agement and operation thereof.

Plan No. 2. Continuation of pubUc management and
operation of the Boston Elevated Railway Com-
pany in accordance with such terms and con-
ditions as may be agreed to by the stockholders
of said company.

Plan No. 3. Purchase by the Metropolitan Transit

District (which comprises the cities of Boston,

Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Maiden, Med-
ford, Newton, Revere and Somerville and the
towns of Arlington, Belmont, Brookljne, Milton
and Watertown) , of the whole assets, property and franchises
of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, the same there-
after to be owned, managed and operated by said district.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 384. 491

The votes upon the foregoing plans shall be received, votlsb*^'°ovir-
sorted, counted and declared, and copies of records thereof nor and council.
transmitted to the state secretary, laid before the governor
and council, and by them opened and examined, in accord-
ance with the laws relating to votes for state officers and
copies of records thereof, so far as such laws are applicable.
The governor shall transmit a written statement of the re- Transmission
suit of such votes to the general court during the first week votM,"itc°/
of its session in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

Section 16. Sections one, two, three and ten to six- Sections i, 2, 3
teen, inclusive, shall take effect upon their passage. Sec- ciuiilV'Vi^^n""
tions four to nine, inclusive, shall take effect upon the ac- effective.
ceptance of section eight, as therein provided by the mayor fnclusi've^when
and city council of the city of Boston, but for the purposes effective.'
of such acceptance shall take effect upon their passage.

Approved June 8, 1929.

An Act relative to the salaries of the members of C7iao.384

THE board of parole.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows. •

Chapter twenty-seven of the General Laws, as amended S;^;5' t^-i

•^11 ii 1 11 11 <.i etc., amenden.

m section five by chapter three hundred and twelve of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one and by chapter
four hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, is hereby further amended by striking out
said section five and inserting in place thereof the follow-
ing : — Section 5. There shall be in the department a Board of parole.
board of parole, consisting of a deputy commissioner desig- membership,
nated by the commissioner and two appointive members.
Upon the expiration of the term of office of an appointive
member, his successor shall be appointed by the governor,
with the advice and consent of the council, for three years.
The governor shall designate the chairman of the board. de"['^n"te *"
The deputy commissioner shall receive no additional com- chairman.
pensation for his services on said board. The two appointive Salaries.
members shall receive such salary, not exceeding twenty-
five hundred dollars each, as the governor and council
may determine; but if one of said members is designated fhikmanin
as chairman, he shall receive a salary not exceeding five certain cases.
thousand dollars. The appointive members of the board Reimburse-
shall be reimbursed by the commonwealth for actual ex- Spen!es, etc.
penses incurred by them in the performance of their official
duties. With the approval of the commissioner, said board ^r m^icar^
may expend annuaUy from the appropriation for contingent as.si.stance.
and other expenses of the department a sum not exceeding
two hundred dollars for examinations by physicians of pris-
oners whose cases come before said board for action. \

Approved June 8, 1929.

492

Acts, 1929. — Chaps. 385, 386.

Chap.3S5 An Act relative to the term of certain notes to be

ISSUED BY THE COMMONWEALTH ON ACCOUNT OF THE
COST OF LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTING THE NORTHERN
ARTERY, SO-CALLED.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

not™ f°ir\*he^ The term of the notes which the state treasurer is au-
layingoutand thorized to issue undcr the provisions of chapter three
the Northern hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the present year.
Artery. reapportioning the cost of laying out and constructing the

Northern Artery, so-called, shall not exceed three years, as
recommended by the governor in a message to the general
court dated June eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine, in pursuance of section three of Article LXII of the
amendments to the constitution.

Approved June 8, 1929.

Chap.SS^ An Act in addition to the general appropriation act

MAKING appropriations TO SUPPLEMENT CERTAIN ITEMS
CONTAINED THEREIN, AND FOR CERTAIN NEW ACTIVITIES
AND PROJECTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. To provide for supplementing certain items
in the general appropriation act, and for certain new ac-
tivities and projects, the sums set forth in section two, for
the particular purposes and subject to the conditions stated
therein, are hereby appropriated from the general fund or
ordinary revenue of the commonwealth, unless some other
source of revenue is expressed, subject to the provisions of
law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the
approval thereof.

Section 2.

Appropriations
to supplement
certain items
contained in
general appro-
priation act,
and for certain
new activities
and projects.

Legislative
Department.

Additional
compensation
of senators.

Additional com-
pensation of
representatives.

Item
la

Service of the Legislative DepartmetU.

For additional compensation of senators, for their
services during the present session of the general
court, at the rate of five hundred dollars for
each senator, except that the president shall re-
ceive one thousand dollars, the sum to be pay-
able upon prorogation of the present session of
the general court, a sum not exceeding twenty
thousand five hundred dollars . . . $20,500 00

For additional compensation of representatives,
for their services during the present session of
the general court, at the rate of five hundred
dollars for each representative, except that the
speaker shall receive one thousand dollars, the
sum to be payable upon prorogation of the
present session of the general court, a sum not
exceeding one hundred twenty thousand five
hundred dollars 120,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

493

Item
22

22a

226

22c

22d

30a

30c

For authorized traveling and other expenses of
the committees of the present general court,
with the approval of a majority of the com-
mittee incurring the same, a sum not exceeding
fifteen hundred dollars, the same to be in ad-
dition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

For certain expenses of the committee on elections
of the house of representatives, a sum not ex-
ceeding six hundred five dollars and fifty-two
cents ........

For office and other expenses of the committee on
rules on the part of the senate, a sum not ex-
ceeding six hundred dollars ....

For traveling and other expenses of the joint com-
mittee on ways and means during the recess of
the general court, a sum not exceeding twenty-
five hundred dollars .....

For traveling and other expenses of the committee
on public institutions during the recess of the
general court, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars ......

For expenses in connection with the publication of
the bulletin of committee hearings, with the ap-
proval of the joint committee on rules, a sum
not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose

For the purchase of outline sketches of members
of the senate and house of representatives, a sum
not exceeding four hundred dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose ....

For expenses of the revision and rearrangement of
the general statutes of the commonwealth, as
authorized by chapter thirty-nine of the resolves
of the present year, a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars ......

Total

Traveling, etc.,
expenses of
committees of
general court.

$1,500 00

Committee
on elections.

605 52

Committee
on rules.

600 00

Joint com-
mittee on ways
and means.

2,500 00

Committee
on public
institutions.

2,500 00

Bulletin of
committee
hearings.

2,500 00

Purchase of
outline sketches
of members of
senate and
house of
400 00 representatives.

Revision and re-
arrangement of
general statutes.

5,000 00
$156,605 52

Service of Special Legislative Investigations.

30d For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
special commission of laws relative to dependent,
deUnquent and neglected children, as author-
ized by chapter twelve of the resolves of the
present year, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars $5,000 00

30e For expenses of an unpaid special commission to
study and consider certain laws relative to fire
prevention and the rules and regulations of the
state department of public safety, as author-
ized by chapter fourteen of the resolves of the
present year, a sum not exceeding three thou-
sand dollars 3,000 00

30/ For expenses of a study by an unpaid special com-
mission relative to the administration, enforce-
ment and adequacy of the laws relative to
plumbing, as authorized by chapter si.xteen of
the resolves of the present year, a sum not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars .... 500 00

Investigation of
laws as to de-
pendent, etc.,
children.

Commission to
study laws
relative to
fire prevention.

Commission
to study laws
relative to
plumbing.

494

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Commission
to consider
sites for me-
morial to men
and women
who served in
World War.

Investigation
as to grade
crossings.

Investigation
as to duties,
salaries, etc.,
of certain
officials and
employees paid
by counties of
commonwealth.

Survey and 30/

study of game
and inland
fish laws.

Item

30^

30/i

30i

Continuation
of investigation
as to .state,
county and
local taxation,
etc.

Investigation
as to compul-
sory automobile
liability
insurance.

Commission to
study question
of increasing
educational
requirements.

Investigation
as to regulation
of hackney
carriages and
taxicabs.

Judicial
Department.

Justices of dis-
trict courts
sitting in
superior court.

30A:

301

30??i

30n

For expenses of an unpaid special commission to
consider appropriate sites for a fitting memorial
to the men and women of Massachusetts who
served in the World War, as authorized by
chapter twenty-six of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars $3,000 00

For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
special commission as to what measures should
be taken to promote the abohtion of grade
crossings in the commonwealth, as authorized
by chapter thirty of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars 2,000 00

For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
special commission of the question of the duties,
salaries, fees, allowances and other compensation
of certain officials and employees paid by the
several counties of the commonwealth, as au-
thorized by chapter thirty-three of the resolves
of the present year, a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars . . . . , ,. . 5,000 00

For expenses of an unpaid special commission for
a survey and study of the game and inland fish
laws of the commonwealth, as authorized by
chapter thirty-four of the resolves of the present
vear, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred
dollars . 2,500 00

For the continuation of the investigation by an
unpaid special commission of the entire subject
of state, county and local taxation, and revenues
from fees and other sources, as authorized by
chapter thirty-seven of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars 5,000 00

For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
special commission relative to compulsory auto-
mobile liabihty insurance, as authorized by
chapter forty of the resolves of the present year,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars . 10,000 00

For expenses of an unpaid special commission
to study the general question of increasing
the educational requirements of the common-
wealth, as authorized by chapter forty-nine of the
resolves of the present year, a sum not exceed-
ing five thousand dollars . . . . 5,000 00

For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
special commission relative to the regulation of
hackney carriages and taxicabs in the city of
Boston, as authorized by chapter fifty-three of
the resolves of the present year, a sum not
exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, to be assessed
upon said city ...... 1,500 00

Total $42,500 00

Service of the Judicial Department.

Justices of District Courts:
For compensation of justices of district courts
while sitting in the superior court, a sum not
exceeding one thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose . . . . . $1,000 00
For expenses of justices of district com-ts while
sitting in the superior court, a sum not exceed-
ing five himdred dollars, the same to be in ad-
dition to any amoimt neretofore appropriated
for the purpose ...... 500 GO

Total

$1,500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

495

it«tii

98a

131

136a

149

150

152a

154

154a

Service of Special Commission.

For expenses of a commission appointed by the
governor to cooperate with the United States
Geographic Board in the preparation of an of-
ficial gazetteer of the United States, a sum not
exceeding three hundred dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... $300 00

Service of the State Quartermaster.

For the maintenance of armories of the first class,
including the purchase of certain furniture, a
sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... SI 2,000 00

For expenses to be incurred by the department of
public works in moving and relocating, upon
such site as is fixed by the city of Boston, the
hangars and other buildings located at the air-
port in East Boston and now utilized by the
aviation units of the Massachusetts National
Guard, as authorized by chapter twenty-four
of the resolves of the present year, a sum not
exceeding twenty-two thousand dollars . . 22,000 00

Total $34,000 00

Service of the Commissioner of State Aid and Pensions.

For personal services of the commissioner and
deputy, a sum not exceeding one hundred and
fifty dollars, the same to be in addition to an}^
amount heretofore appropriated for the pm-pose $150 00

For personal services of agents, clerks, stenogra-
phers and other assistants, a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose ....... 500 00

Commission to
cooperate in
preparation of
official gazetteer
of United
.States.

State Quarter-
master.

Maintenance
of armories.

Moving and
relocation of
hangars, etc.,
at East Boston
airport.

Commissioner
of State Aid
and PensionB.

Total

B'or Expenses on Account of Wars.

For certain care of veterans of the civil war and
their wives and wddows, as authorized by chap-
ter three hundred and forty of the acts of nine-
teen himdred and twenty-nine, a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty-five thousand dollars

For improvements at the memorial park established
in St. Mihiel, France, a sum not exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose, and to be expended with the approval of
a majority of the appointees under autnority of
chapter forty-three of the resolves of nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven, after plans and speci-
fications have been approved by the governor

For expense of providing and placing a bronze
tablet on a certain wall in a corridor of the state
house, as authorized by chapter nine of the re-
solves of the present year, a sum not exceeding
thirty- two hundred dollars; provided, that the
adjutant general may, with the approval of the
governor and council, add the names of certain
persons not listed in his report as submitted under
chapter eleven of the resolves of the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight ....

$650 00

Expenses on
Account
of Wars.

Care of

$25,000 00 civil war, etc.

Improvements
at memorial

gark eatab-
shed in St.
Mihiel, France.

15,000 00

Bronze tablet
on certain wall
in a corridor of
state house.

3,200 GO

496

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Representation
of common-
wealth at na-
tional conven-
tion of The
American
Legion.

Item

1546

Ballot Law
Commission.

State Library.

155a

158

Superintendent 162
of Buildings.

169

170

Commission
on Necessaries
of Life.

Massachusetts
Bay Colony
Tercentenary
Commission.

Secretary of
the Com-
monwealth.

173

For expense of a propei- representation of the com-
monwealth on the occasion of the national con-
vention of The American Legion in the year
nineteen hundred and thirty, if held in the city
of Boston, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, subject to the conditions and limitations
imposed by chapter twenty of the resolves of the
present year $50,000 00

Total $93,200 00

Service of the Ballot Law Commission.

For expenses, including travel, supplies and equip-
ment, a sum not exceeding thirty-eight dollars
and ten cents, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . $38 10

Service of the State Library.

For personal services of the librarian, a sum not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose ..... $250 00

Service of the Superintendent of Buildings.

For personal services of the superintendent and
office assistants, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose $1,000 00

For services, supplies and equipment necessary to
furnish heat, light and power, a sum not exceed-
ing tliirty-five hundred dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ...... 3,500 00

For other services, supplies and equipment neces-
sary for the maintenance and care of the state
house and grounds, including repairs of furniture
and equipment, a sum not exceeding sixty-three
hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be in addi-
tion to any amount heretofore appropriated for
the purpose 6,350 00

Total $10,850 00

Service of the Commission on Necessaries of Life.

For expenses of the commission, a sum not exceed-
ing eleven thousand dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

$11,000 00

Service of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission.

173a For expenses of the commission, as authorized by
chapter thirty-five of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars, in anticipation of a further sum of
seventy-five thousand dollars to be appropriated
in nineteen hundred and thirty

Service of the Secretary of the CommoniveaUh.

174 For the salary of the secretary, a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

$25,000 00

$500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

497

Item
190a

1906

192

196a

For personal and other services necessary for pre-
paring and printing ballots for the primary elec-
tions, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose

For the printing and distribution of ballots, a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose .....

For furnishing cities and towns with ballot boxes,
and for repairs to the same, a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

For expenses of the secretary of the commonwealth
in providing a suital)le fireproof safe for the
keeping and display of the original charter of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in the archives divi-
sion of his department, a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars ......

Total

Secretary of
the Common-
wealth.

$1,000 00

1,000 00

1,000 00
$4,500 00

Service of the Attorney General's Department.

217 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,
office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

Attorney
General.

$3,000 00

Service of the Deparliiient nf Agriculture.

240a For the printing of additional copies of certain
volumes of the report on birds of the common-
wealth, as authorized by chapter five of the re-
solves of the present year, a sum not exceeding
eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose ....

Department
of Agriculture.

Bird Books.

$18,700 00

Service of Stale Reclamation Board.

241 For expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding
three thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

State Reclama-
tion Board.

$3,000 00

Service of the Department of Conservation.

Division of Forestry:
252a For the purchase of certain land necessary for the
estabhshment of the Willard Brook State Forest,
as authorized by chapter three hundred and fifty-
five of the acts of the present year, a sum not
exceeding twenty thousand dollars .

Department of
Conservation.

Division
of Forestry.

$20,000 00

Enforcement of shellfish laws:
269 For personal services for the enforcement of laws
relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding thirty-
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

Enforcement
of shellfish laws

3,500 00

498

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Division
of Animal
Industry.

Item
270

274

275

275a

276

280

For other expenses for the enforcement of laws
relative to shellfish, a sum not exceeding twenty-
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose $2,500 00

Division of Animal Industry:

For the salary of the director, a sum not exceeding
two hundred and fift}^ dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ...... 250 00

For personal services of clerks and stenographers,
a sum not exceeding four hundred and eighty
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 480 00

For expenses in connection with the Eastern States
conference on tuberculosis eradication among
cattle when held in this commonwealth, a sum not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars . . 250 00

For services other than personal, including print-
ing the annual report, traveling expenses of the
director, and office supplies and equipment, a
sum not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose . . . 2,400 00

For reimbursement of owners of tubercular cattle
killed, as authorized by section twelve A of chap-
ter one hundred and twenty-nine of the General
Laws, inserted by section one of chapter three
hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, and in accordance with certain
provisions of law and agreements made under
authority of section thirty-three of said chapter
one hundred and twenty-nine, as amended,
during the present and previous year, a sum no<.
exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose, and any unexpended
balance remaining at the end of the current fiscal
year may be used in the succeeding year . . 50,000 00

Total $79,380 00

Department
of Banking
and Insurance.

Supervisor of
Loan Agencies.

Service of the Department of Banking and Insurance.

Supervisor of Loan Agencies :
286 For services other than personal, printing the
aimual report, office supplies and equipment, a
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose ....

$500 00

Department 297
of Corporations
and Taxation.

Corporation
and Tax
Divisions.

298

Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation,

Corporation and Tax Divisions :

For the salaries of certain positions fiUed by the
commissioner, with the approval of the governor
and council, and for additional clerical and other
assistance, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . $1,500 00

For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding five
hundred doUars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose ....... 500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

499

Item

303

304
305

Division of Accoiints:

For personal services, a sum not exceeding three
thousand dollars, tne same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

For other expenses, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose

For services and expenses of auditing and installing
systems of municipal accounts, the cost of which
is to be assessed upon the municipalities for which
the work is done, a sum not exceeding seventy-
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

Total

Division of
Accounts.

$3,000 00
1,000 00

7,500 00
$13,500 00

Service of the Department of Education.

309 For personal services of oflBcers, agents, clerks,
stenographers and other assistants, but not in-
cluding those employed in university extension
work, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose . . . $500 00

357 For the maintenance of the Lowell state normal
school, a sum not exceeding three hundred and
thirty-eight dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose 338 00

364a For the preparation of plans for new buildings for
the Worcester state normal school, as authorized
by chapter two hundred and thirty-four of the
acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding
twelve thousand dollars 12,000 00

Massachusetts Agricultural College:
370 For maintenance and current expenses, a sum not
exceeding three hundred dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose .... 300 00
3786 For improvements at the Market Garden Field
Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege, as authorized by chapter three hundred and
ten of the acts of the present year, a sum not
exceeding fifteen thousand dollars . . . 15,000 00

Total $28,138 00

Department
of Education.

Massachusetts

Agricultural

College.

389

396

Service of the Department of Civil Service and Registration.

Board of Registration in Medicine:
For traveUng expenses, a sum not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ......

$250 00

Board of Registration of Nurses:
For traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding two
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amoimt heretofore appropriated for the pur-
pose ........

Department _
of Civil Service
and Regis-
tration.

Board of
Registration
in Medicine.

Board of
Registration
of Nurses.

200 00

Total

$450 00

500

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Department
of Labor and
Industries.

Massachusetts

industrial

commission.

Department
of Mental

Item

414a

433

Service of the Deparlmeul of Labor and Industries.

Investigation
as to nature,
causes and re-
sults of mental
diseases, etc.

Institutions
under control
of Department
of Mental
Diseases.

Foxborough
state hospital.

Gardner
state colony.

448a

449

Grafton 454a

state hospital.

Medfield 455

state hospital.

Belchertown
state school.

Wrentham
state school.

477a

487

491a
494a

Department
of Correction.

498

For expenses of the Massachusetts industrial com-
mission, as authorized by chapter three hundred
and fifty-seven of the acts of the present year,
a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars .

Service of the Department of Mental Diseases.

For the expenses of investigating the nature, causes
and results of mental diseases and defects and
the pubUcation of the results thereof; and of
what further preventive or other measures might
be taken and what further expenditures for in-
vestigation might be made wliich would give
promise of decreasing the number of persons af-
fUcted with mental diseases or defects; and for
making a survey of the feeble-minded within
the commonwealth and an estimate of the num-
ber requiring hospital or custodial care or train-
ing such as the institutions for the feeble-minded
are especially equipped to give, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirty-nine hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose ....

For the maintenance of and for certain im-
provements at the following institutions un-
der the control of the Department of Mental
Diseases :

For the purchase of certain power equipment for
the Foxborough state hospital, a sum not ex-
ceeding nine thousand dollars ....

Gardner state colony, a sum not exceeding twenty-
two himdred dollars, the same to be in addi-
tion to any amount heretofore appropriated for
the purpose .......

For the purchase of certain power equipment for
the Grafton state hospital, a sum not exceeding
forty-five hundred dollars ....

Medfield state hospital, a sum not exceeding three
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the pur-
pose ........

For the expense of constructing certain tunnels at
the Belchertown state school, a sum not e.x-
ceeding twelve thousand dollars

Wrentham state school, a sum not exceeding six
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

For the cost of repairs to a certain officer's cottage
damaged by fire, at the Wrentham state school,
a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars

For the purchase of certain power equipment for
the Wrentham state school, a sum not e.xceed-
ing twenty thousand dollars ....

Total

Service of the Department of Correction.

For traveling expenses of officers and employees
of the department when required to travel in the
discharge of their duties, a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

$10,000 00

$3,900 00

9,000 00

2,200 00
4,500 00

3,000 00
12,000 00

6,000 00

4,000 00

20,000 00
$64,600 00

$500 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

501

Item

For the maintenance of and for certain im-
provements at the following institutions
imder the control of the Department of Cor-
rection :
503 State farm, a sum not exceeding thirteen thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose

507 State prison, a sum not exceeding nineteen thou-

sand two hundred dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose .....
507a For expenses incurred on account of injuries re-
ceived by George R. Connolly, an officer at
the state prison, the sima of one hundred and
thirty-one dollars ......

508 Massachusetts reformatory, a sum not exceeding

eleven thousand two hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose ....

510 Prison camp and hospital, a sum not exceeding five
hundred and sixty dollars, the same to be in addi-
tion to any amount heretofore appropriated for
the purpose .......

513 Reformatory for women, a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .

517 State prison colony, a sum not exceeding sixty-four
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .

519 For the cost of driving test wells for water supply
at the state prison colony, a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

Total

Institutions
under control
of Department
of Correction.

State farm.

$13,000 00

19,200 00

131 00

11,200 00

560 00

500 00

6,400 00

1,000 00
$52,491 00

State prison.

Massachusetts
reformatory.

Prison camp
and hospital.

Reformatory
for women.

State prison
colony.

Service of Ute Department of Public Welfare.

Administration :

521 For personal services of officers and employees and

supervision of homesteads and planning boards,
a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... $2,000 00

522 For services other than personal, printing the

annual report, traveling expenses, including ex-
penses of auxiUary visitors, office supplies and
expenses, and contingent expenses for the super-
vision of homesteads and planning boards, a sum
not exceeding four hundred dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose ..... 400 00

Department of
Public Welfare.

Administration.

Division of Child Guardianship:
531 For personal services of officers and employees, a
sum not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... 1 ,600 00

Boys' Parole:
539 For board, clothing, medical and other expen.ses
incidental to the care of boys, a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose 1,000 00

Division of
Child Guard-
ianship.

Roys' Parole.

502

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Item

under control
of Massachu-
setts training
schools.

Industrial
school for boys.

.543

Industrial
school for girls.

545

547a

547?)

Lyman school
for boys.

548a

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the institutions under the control
of the trustees of the Massachusetts training
schools, with the approval of said trustees, as
follows:

Industrial school for boys, a sum not exceeding
fifteen hundred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose $1,500 00

Industrial school for girls, a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose 500 00

For the cost of repairing damages by fire to a certain
dormitory building at the industrial school for
girls, a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars . 6,000 00

For the cost of purchasing certain land for the
industrial school for girls, a sum not exceeding
fifteen hundred dollars 1,500 00

For the payment of a certain drainage assessment
on account of the improvement of certain land
at the Lyman school for boys, the sum of one
hundred forty-nine dollars and foiu- cents . . 149 04

Massachusetts 550
Hospital School.

Massachusetts Hospital School:
For the maintenance of the Massachusetts hospital
school, to be expended with the approval of the
trustees thereof, a sum not exceeding fourteen
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose

1,400 00

Total

$16,049 04

Department of
Public Health.

Division of

Communicable.

Diseases.

Service of the Department of Public Health.

Division of Communicable Diseases:
563 For services other than personal, traveling expenses,
laboratory, office and other necessary supplies,
including the purchase of animals and equipment,
and rent of certain offices, a sum not exceeding
seven hmidred dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amoimt heretofore appropriated for the
purpose .......

$700 00

Wassermann 56G
Laboratory.

567

Wassermann Laboratory :

For personal services of the Wassermann labora-
tory, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose .

For expenses of the Wassermann laboratory, a sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose .....

800 00

100 00

Inspection of
Food and
Drugs.

570

571

Inspection of Food and Drugs :

For personal services of the director, analysts,
inspectors and other assistants, a sum not exceed-
ing four thousand and seventy-five dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... 4,075 00

For other services, including traveling expenses,
supplies, materials and equipment, a smn not
exceeding four thousand and twenty-five dol-
lars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 4,025 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

503

Item

575

576

577a

578

579

580a

585

586

589

593

595

597

Water Supply and Disposal of Sewage:
For other services, including traveling expenses,
supplies, materials and equipment, of the engi-
neering division, a sum not exceeding eight
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the i

purpose . . . . . . $800 00

For personal services of laboratory director, chem-
ists, clerks and other assistants of the division
of laboratories, a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand and ninety-five dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... 1,095 00

For certain necessary expenses to be incurred in
administering chapter three hundred and twelve
of the acts of the present year, a sum not ex-
ceeding three thousand dollars . . . 3,000 00

Cancer Clinics :

For personal services of certain cancer chnics, a
sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 250 00

For other expenses of certain cancer clinics, a sum
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... 250 00

Special Investigation:
For expenses of an investigation, as a health
measure, of the question of establishing a board
of registration of barbers, as authorized by
chapter forty-three of the resolves of the
present year, a sinn not exceeding three thou-
sand dollars o.OOO 00

Division of Tuberculosis:
For other services for certain children's clinics for
tuberculosis, a sum not exceeding four thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 4,000 00

For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the sanatoria, as follows :

Lakeville state sanatorium, a sum not exceed-
ing thirty-five hundred dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... ;3,5()0 00

North Reading state sanatorium, a sum not ex-
ceeding fourteen thousand two hundred dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amotmt here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 14,200 00

Rutland state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding
twenty-seven hundred dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... 2,700 00

Westfield state sanatorium, a sum not exceeding
twenty-two hundred dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose ...... 2,200 00

Pondville Cancer Hospital:
For the maintenance of the Pondville cancer hos-
pital, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose . . 1,000 00

Water Supply
and Disposal
of Sewage.

Cancer Clinics.

Special In-
vestigation.

l^ivision of
Tuberculosis.

Lakeville state
sanatorium.

North Heading
state sana-
torium.

Rutland state
sanatorium.

Westfield state
sanatorium.

Pondville Can-
cer Hospital.

Total

$45,695 00

504

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Item

Department of 602
Public Safety.

Administration.

603

Division of
State Police.

608a

Department of
Public Works.

Highways.

634

639a

Regi.-itrnti'in nf gj^Q
Motor Vehicles.

641

Waterwaj's and 652
public lands.

Service of the Deparlmenl oj Public Safely.

Administration :

For personal services of clerks and stenographers,
a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred and eighty
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . $1,680 00

For contingent expenses, including printing the
annual report, rent of district offices, supplies
and equipment, and all other things necessary
for the investigation of fires and moving picture
licenses, as required by law, and for expenses of
administering the law regulating the sale and
resale of tickets to theatres and other places of
public amusement by the department of public
safety, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 2,000 00

Division of State Police :
For the cost of certain damages arising from an
accident involving the police steamer, a sum
not exceeding six hundred sixty dollars and
fifty-seven cents ...... 660 57

Total $4,340 57

Service of the Deparlmenl of Public Works.

Functions of the department relating to high-
ways :

For the construction and repair of town and
county ways, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose and to be paid from the Highway Fund $25,000 00

For the construction and reconstruction of certain
highways, as authorized by chapter three hun-
dred and sixty-four of the acts of the present
year, a sum not exceeding forty-five thousand
nine hundred dollars, to be paid from the High-
way Fund 45,900 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:

For personal services, a sum not exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose and to be paid from the Highway Fund 15,000 00

For services other than personal, including travel-
ing expenses, purchase of necessary supplies and
materials, including cartage and storage of the
same, and for work incidental to the registration
and licensing of owners and operators of motor
vehicles, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose and to be
paid from the Highway Fund .... 10,000 00

Functions of the department relating to water-
ways and public lands:
For the maintenance and improvement of com-
monwealth property under the control of the
department in connection with its fimctions re-
lating to waterways and public lands, a sum not
exceeding twenty thousand dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose and to be paid from
the Port of Boston receipts .... 20,000 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

505

Item

656a

6566

Specials :

For dredging Couuuercial Point channel, as au-
thorized by chapter three hundred and seven-
teen of the acts of the present year, a sum not
exceeding twenty-eight thousand one hundred
and twenty-five dollars, to be paid from the
Port of Boston receipts ....

For further investigation by an unpaid special
commission relative to the filling of navigable
waters in a part of Fort Point channel and South
bay, as authorized by chapter forty-eight of the
resolves of the present year, a sum not exceed-
ing seventy-five hundred dollars, one half of
which is to be assessed upon the city of Boston

Total .......

Specials.

P28,125 00

7,500 00
$151,525 00

Service of the Department of Public Utilities.

Sale of Securities:
675 For personal services in administering the law
relative to the sale of securities, a sum not ex-
ceeding three thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose .....

Department of
Public Utilities.

Sale of
Securities.

$3,000 00

Metropolitan District Commission {Highway Fund).

The following five items are to be paid from the
Highway Fund:

681 For maintenance of boulevards and parkways,
with the approval of the metropolitan district
commission, for the installation of a certain
electric lighting system, a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, representing the state's
portion or one half of the estimated cost, and to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... 1,000 00

083 For maintenance of Wellington bridge, with the
approval of the metropolitan district commission,
a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 1,600 00

683a For certain dredging, to be done by the depart-
ment of public works, on account of the Old
Colony boulevard, as authorized by chapter
three hundred and seventeen of the acts of
the present year, a sum not exceeding fifty-nine
thousand six himdred eighty-seven dollars and
fifty cents . . . . . . . 59,687 50

6836 For the construction of certain boulevards, as au-
thorized by chapter three hundred and thirty-
four of the acts of the present year, a sum not
exceeding seventy-nine thousand five hundred
dollars . . 79,500 00

683c For the taking of certain land and for filling for a
certain boulevard in the town of Brookline and
the city of Newton, as authorized by chapter
three hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the
present year, a sum not exceeding twelve thou-
sand five hundred dollars .... 12,500 00

Metropolitan
District Com-
mission (High-
way Fund).

Maintenance
of boulevards
and parkways.

Wellington
bridge.

Old Colony
boulevard.

Construction
of certain
boulevards.

Certain boule-
vard in town of
Brookline and
city of Newton.

Total

$154,287 50

506

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Item

Certain an- 690

nuities and
pensions.

Reimbursement 69f)
of persons for
certain funds.

Unclassified Accotints and Claims.

For the payment of certain annuities and pensions
of soldiers and others under the provisions of
certain acts and resolves, a sum not exceeding
thirteen hundred and thirty-five dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... $1,335 00

For reimbursement of persons for funds previously
deposited in the treasury of the commonwealth
on account of unclaimed savings bank deposits,
a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose ... 1 ,000 00

Claims.

Herbert F.
Bradford.

090

Frank
Norton, Jr.

696a

Town of
Edgartowii.

696?*

Heirs-at-law
of Mohammed
Ali.

696c

Heirs-at-law
of John Kouk-

696d

ourakis.

Heirs-at-law
of Vasil A.
Duro.

696e

NellieC.Dunn 696/
and Adele 8. ^nd
Houle. ^rio

696(7

Thomas H. 696/1

Maguire.

696i

Payments for certain claims authorized by the
following appropriations shall be certified by
the comptroller of the commonwealth only
upon the filing of satisfactory releases or
other evidence that the payments are ac-
cepted in full compensation on the part of
the commonwealth in respect thereto :
For reimbursement of Herbert F. Bradford, lega-
tee, for certain money paid into the treasury of
the commonwealth through error, the sum of

three hundred dollars 300 00

For reimbursement of Frank Norton, Jr., for dam-
ages to a certain automobile, the sum of eighty
dollars and sixty-eight cents . . . . 80 68

For reimbursement of the town of Edgartown on
account of certain expenses in fighting a forest
fire originated on land owned by the common-
wealth, the sinii of thirteen hundred forty-nine
dollars and seventy-two cents .... 1,349 72

For the heirs-at-law of Mohammed Ali, to be paid
to the public administrator, as authorized by
chapter fifteen of the resolves of the present
year, the sum of four himdred seventy-four
dollars and seventy-eight cents . . 474 78

For the heirs-at-law of John Koukourakis, as au-
thorized by chapter twenty-eight of the resolves
of the present year, the sum of seven hundred
sixty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents . . 769 65

For the heirs-at-law of Vasil A. Duro, as author-
ized by chapter forty-one of the resolves of the
present year, the sum of nine hundred dollars
and twenty-six cents ..... 900 26

For Nellie C. Dunn, the sum of four thousand
dollars, and for Adele S. Houle, the sum of
thirty-five hundred dollars, both in compen-
sation for injuries sustained in an automobile
accident, as authorized by chapter fifty of the
resolves of the present year .... 7,500 00

For Thomas H. Maguire, as authorized by chap-
ter fifty-two of the resolves of the present j'ear,
the sum of two thousand dollars . . . 2,000 00

(This item omitted.)

Total

$15,710 09

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

507

Item

Deficiencies.

For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previ-
ous years, in certain items, as follows:

Deficiencies.

Service of the Judicial Department.

Superior Court:
For traveling allowance and expenses, the sum of
thirty-four dollars and fifty-two cents

Service of the Department of Education.

For the reimbursement of certain towns for the
transportation of pupils attending high schools
outside the towns in which they reside, as pro-
vided by law, the sum of four hundred ten dol-
lars and sixty-three cents ....

Judicial
.i;.S4 .52 Department.

Superior Court.

Department of
Education.

410 63

Service of the Department of Mental Diseases.

Monson State Hospital:
For the maintenance of the Monson state hospital,
the sum of sixty dollars and fifteen cents

Service of the Department of Public Welfare.

Boys' Parole:
For services other than personal, including travel-
ing expenses of the agents and boys, and neces-
sary office supplies and equipment, the sum of
thirty dollars and fourteen cents

Total

Department
60 1.5 "^ Mental
Diseases.

Monson State
Hospital.

Department
of Public
Welfare.

30 14 Boys' Parole.

$535 44

Metropolitan District Commission.

The following items are to be assessed upon the Metropolitan
several districts in accordance with the District Com-
methods fixed by law, and to be expended mission.
under the direction and with the approval of
the metropolitan district commission:
700a For repairs and further shore protection at the Lynn beach
Lynn beach reservation, a sum not exceeding reservation,
ten thousand dollars, to be assessed upon the
metropolitan parks district .... .110,000 00
704 For maintenance of Wellington bridge, a sum not Wellington
exceeding forty-eight hundred dollars, the same bridge.
to be in addition to the amount appropriated in
item six hundred and eighty-three and to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose ..... 4,800 00
7066 For certain dredging, to be done by the depart- Old Colony
ment of public works, on account of the Old boulevard.
Colony boulevard, as authorized by chapter three
hundred and seventeen of the acts of the present
year, a sum not exceeding fifty-nine thousand
six hundred eighty-seven dollars and fift}' cents,
to be assessed upon the metropolitan parks
district and to be in addition to the amount
appropriated in item six hundred and eighty-
three a 59,687 50

508

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Item

706c

706il

Construction
of certain
boulevards.

Certain boule-
vard in town
of Brooklino
and city
of Newton.

Construction
and recon-
struction of
certain
highways.

Maintenance of 708

boulevards

and parkways.

706e

Investigation
of discharge of
sewage into
Boston harbor.

710a

For the construction of certain boulevards, as au-
thorized by chapter three hundred and thirty-
four of the acts of the present year, a sum not
exceeding seventy-nine thousand five hundred
dollars, to be assessed upon the metropolitan
parks district and to be in addition to the amount
a])propriatod in item six hundred and eighty-
three h . . $79,500 00

I<'or the taking of certain land and for filling for a
certain boulevard in the town of Brookline and
the city of Newton, as authorized by chapter
three hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the
present year, a sum not exceeding twelve thou-
sand five hundred dollars, to be assessed upon
the metropolitan parks district and to be in
addition to the amount appropriated in item six
hundred and eighty-three c . . . . 12,500 00

For the construction and reconstruction of certain
highways by the department of public works,
as authorized by chapter three hundred and
sixty-four of the acts of the present year, a sum
not exceeding forty-five thousand nine hun-
dred dollars, to be asses.sed upon the metro-
politan parks district and to be in addition to
the amount appropriated in item six hundred
and thirty-nine a 45,900 00

For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, for
the installation of a certain electric fighting
system, a sum not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars, the same to be in addition to the amount
appropriated in item six hundred and eighty-one 1,000 00

For an investigation by an unpaid special com-
mission of the general subject of the discharge
of sewage into Boston harbor, as authorized by
chapter tw-enty-nine of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars, the cost to be assessed in accordance
with said resolve 20,000 00

Total

$233,387 50

Other Miscel-
laneous

Legislative
Department.

Other Miscellaneous.
Service of the Legislative Department.

18 For personal services of the counsel to the senate

and assistants, a sum not exceeding twenty-
four hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose .....

19 For personal services of the counsel to the house of

representatives and assistants, a siun not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose .....

$2,450 00

1,500 00

Total

$3,950 00

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

509

Item

30o

30/7

Service of Special Legislative Investigations.

For expenses of an investigation by a joint special
recess committee to study and investigate the
civil service laws, rules and regulations and their
present interpretation and application with
special reference to laws, rules and regulations
relative to examinations to test the physical fit-
ness of applicants for appointment to positions
in the civil service, as authorized by a joint order
of the general court, a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars ......

For expenses of an investigation by an unpaid
commission relative to the control of domestic
corporations engaged in the manufacture or dis-
tribution of gas, electricity or power, as author-
ized by chapter fifty-five of the resolves of the
present year, a sum not exceeding twenty thou-
sand dollars .......

Total

Investigation
as to civil
service laws,
rules and
regulations.

$2,000 00

Investigation
as to control
of domestic cor-
porations en-
gaged in
manufacture
or distribution
of gas, electric-
20,000 00 ity or power.

$22,000 00

Service of the Deparlmenl of Conservulion.

271a For the salary and expenses of the state super-
visor of marine fisheries, as authorized by chap-
ter three hundred and seventy-two of the acts
of the present year, a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars ......

Department of
Conservation.

$5,000 00

Service of the Department of Education.

Teachers' Retirement Board:
342 For payment of pensions to retired teachers, a
sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose

Department of
Education.

Teachers'

1,000 00 golid.""""^

Service of the Department of Labor and Industries.

414& For expenses of an investigation by the Massa-
chusetts industrial commission relative to the
condition of the textile industry and of the
employment problem of that and other indus-
tries, as authorized by chapter fifty-four of the
resolves of the present year, a sum not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars ....

Department of
Labor and In-
dustries.

Investigation
as to textile
industry.

$3,000 00

Service of the Department of Public Works.

636 For the maintenance and repair of state high-
ways, including care of snow on highwaj's, ex-
penses of traffic signs and lights, and payment
of damages caused by defects in state highways
with the approval of the attorney general, and
for care and repair of road-building machinerj^,
a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dol-
lars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose and to
be paid from the Highway Fund

Department of
Public Works.

Highways.

$35,000 00

510

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Metropolitan
District Com-
mission (High-
way Fund).

Charles River
basin.

Northern
artery.

Service of the Metropolitan District Commission {Highway Fund) .

Item

683d For certain improvements in the Charles River
basin, as authorized by chapter three hundred
and seventy-one of the acts of the present year,
a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to
be paid from the Highway Fund . . . $50,000 00

683e For certain expenses on account of the construction
of the northern artery as finally determined by
chapter three himdred and eighty-two of the
acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding
two hundred sixty-two thousand five hundred
dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund

Total

262,500 00
. $312,500 00

Metropolitan
District Com-
mission.

Charles River
basin.

Northern
artery.

Counsel to
house of
representatives
and assistants.

State prison.

Metropolitan District Commission.

706f For certain improvements in the Charles River
basin, as authorized by chapter three hundred
and seventy-one of the acts of the present year,
a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to
be assessed upon the cities and towns in the
metropolitan parks district in accordance with
their taxable valuations ..... $50,000 00

70Qg For certain expenses on account of the construc-
tion of the northern artery as finally deter-
mined by chapter three hundred and eighty-two
of the acts of the present year, a sum not ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars, to be assessed upon the cities and towns in
the metropolitan parks district in accordance
with their taxable valuations .... 250,000 00

Total $300,000 00

19 For personal services of the counsel to the house
of representatives and assistants, a sum not
exceeding seventy-three dollars and sixty-two
cents, the same to be in addition to any ap-
propriation heretofore made for the purpose . $73 62
507 For the maintenance of the state prison, a sum
not exceeding four thousand dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose .... $4,000 00

1929, 146,
amended.

Section 3. The following amendments and changes
are hereby made in chapter one hundred and forty-six of
the acts of the present year, together with certain other
changes and adjustments: —

Legislative
Department.

Item 25.

Legislative Department.

Item 25 — for expenses in connection with the
pubhcation of the bulletin of committee hear-
ings — shall also include the expenses of pub-
hshing the daily list.

Judicial
Department.

Item 81.

Judicial Department.

Item 81 — for traveling expenses incurred by dis-
trict attorneys — shall include expenses for
present and previous years.

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

511

Item

Department of Conservation.

A transfer of fifty-four hundred and eighty dollars
is hereby authorized from item 261, for travel-
ing expenses of fish and game wardens and for
other expenses necessary for the enforcement of
law, to be added as follows: — to item 262, four
hundred and eighty dollars, and to item 272,
five thousand dollars.

Department of
Conservation.

Department of Mental Diseases.

New Metropolitan Hospital:
Item 436 is hereby amended by striking out the
same and inserting in place thereof the follow-
ing:— For maintenance, a sum not exceeding
twenty-five thousand dollars; provided, that the
comptroller is hereby authorized to approve for
payment in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and
thirty, in anticipation of an appropriation for
the maintenance of this hospital, such sums as
may be required in preparing for the opening of
said hospital and for maintenance and operation
thereafter.

Grafton State Hospital:
The unexpended balances of appropriations here-
tofore made for alterations and improvements to
the boiler house at the Grafton state hospital shall
revert to the General Fund and so far as further
expenditures are concerned shall be considered
as having been repealed.

Medfield State Hospital:
Item 456 shall be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose.

Department of

Mental

Diseases.

New Metropoli-
tan Hospital.

Grafton State
Hospital.

Medfield State
Hospital.

Department of Correction.
State Farm:
The unexpended balance of the ajipropriation
made for the purchase of laundry machinery for
the state farm in nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight may be expended for fireproofing the
laundry building.

Department of
Correction.

State Farm.

Departmient of Public Welfare.

A transfer of seven hundred and ten dollars is
hereby authorized from item 537, for personal
services of agents in the division for boys pa-
roled, and a transfer of nine hundred and five
dollars from item 540, for personal services of
agents in the division for girls paroled, both
to be added to item 535.

Industrial School for Girls:
Item 547 — for the purchase of certain electrical
equipment, and for constructing a line for the
same, at the industrial school for girls — is
hereby repealed.

Department
of Public
Welfare.

Industrial
School for Girls.

Department of Public Works.

The department of pubUc works is hereby au-
thorized, in making settlement of a claim of the
Lane Construction Company, to charge the
same to item 638.

Department of
Public Works.

512

Acts, 1929. — Chap. 386.

Item

Reappropria-
tions and
Changes.

Department of
Conservation.

Department of
Education.

Reappropriations and Changes.

Department of Conservation.

The unexpended balances of any appropriations
heretofore made for certain repairs to the
Standish monument are hereby reappropriated
for expenditures during the current year.

Department of Education.

The department of education is hereby author-
ized to prepare for printing and to place an
order for the printing of certain copies of a bulle-
tin relative to the Massachusetts Bay Ter-
centenary to be used in the pubhc schools, in
anticipation of an appropriation in the fiscal
year nineteen hundred and thirty.

Metropolitan

District

Commission.

Metropolitan District Commission.

Appropriations made in chapter three hundred
and forty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, for the construction of a
boulevard from Black's Creek bridge to Sea
street in Quincy, in item 682a and item 706a,
are hereby reappropriated.

General and Highway Funds
Metropolitan District Commission

$1,434,818 88
. 533,387 50

Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved June 8, 1929.

RESOLVES.

Resolve validating the acts of charles r. currier of Chap.

BOSTON as a notary PUBLIC.

Resolved, That the acts of Charles R. Currier of Boston as Acts of
a notary public, between August nineteenth, nineteen hun- curnlras'a
dred and twenty-one and August twenty-first, nineteen "affjltjd^'''^''
hundred and twenty-eight, both dates inclusive, are hereby
confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if during
that time he had been qualified to discharge the duties of said
oflace. Approved January 25, 1929.

Chap.

Resolve validating the acts of everett r. campbell
of marblehead as a justice of the peace.

Resolved, That the acts of Everett R. Campbell of Marble- Acts of
head as a justice of the peace, between March second, nine- campbeii as a
teen hundred and twenty-eight and August twenty-fourth, ^"'^^''"vaiidated
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, both dates inclusive, are
hereby confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if
during that time he had been qualified to discharge the
duties of said office. Approved February 13, 1929.

Resolve validating the acts of john d'angelo of (Jjiaj) 3

BOSTON AS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Resolved, That the acts of John D'Angelo of Boston as a Acts of John
justice of the peace or as such a justice designated under j^istice^df fhe^
section thirty-nine of chapter two hundred and seven of the peace validated.
General Laws to solemnize marriages, between November
tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and April first,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, both dates inclusive,
are hereby confirmed and made vahd to the same extent as
if during that time he had been qualified to discharge the
duties of said offices. Approved February 27, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by the fi- (JJidj) 4

NANCE commission FOR THE CITY OF LOWELL OF CERTAIN
CLAIMS AGAINST SAID CITY.

Resolved, That the finance commission for the city of by^'gnance""
Lowell is hereby directed to investigate the subject matter commission
of current house documents numbered nine hundred and oTlowbTi L to
sixty-eight, nine hundred and seventy-one, nine hundred and aga*ins"t sLld"^
seventy-four, nine hundred and seventy-five, nine hundred city.
and seventy-seven, nine hundred and seventy-eight, nine
hundred and seventy-nine, nine hundred and eighty-two
and ten hundred and thirty-three, relative to the payment

514

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 5, 6, 7.

Recommenda-
tions to be
included in
annual report,
etc.

by said city of certain claims against it, and all other claims
against said city which have arisen or accrued subsequent
to January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, satis-
faction of which has been withheld because of illegality, or
because of failure to comply with the laws relative to mu-
nicipal finance or with the charter of said city, and which
are presented to the commission. It shall include in its
annual report for the current year its findings and its rec-
ommendations as to such matters or claims, together with
drafts of such legislation as may be necessary to effect such
recommendations. Approved March 20, 1929.

Chap. 5 Resolve authorizing the department of agriculture
TO provide for printing additional copies of the
several volumes of the report on the birds of the
commonwealth.

Printing of
additional
copies of the

Resolved, That the department of agriculture is hereby
authorized to cause to be printed additional copies of the
of'report on"""^ first, sccoud and third volumes of the report on the birds
birds of of the commonwealth, the copies of each such volume to be

commons ea . ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ .^ addition to thc editious thereof heretofore
authorized, as follows: — of the first volume, as author-
ized by chapter thirty-six of the resolves of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, four thousand copies; of the second
volume, as authorized by chapter thirty-one of the resolves
of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five hundred
copies; of the third volume, as authorized by chapter twenty-
five of the resolves of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven,
Expenditure, twcuty-fivc liuudred copies. For the aforesaid purpose
there may be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the
commonwealth such sum, not exceeding eighteen thousand
seven hundred dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated.

Approved March 22, 1929.

Chap. 6 Resolve validating the acts of harry h. chandler of

EVERETT AS A NOTARY PUBLIC.

Acts of Harry
H. Chandler
as a notary
public vali-
dated.

Resolved, That the acts of Harry H. Chandler of Everett
as a notary public, between June twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one and February nineteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, both dates inclusive, are hereby
confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if during
that time he had been qualified to discharge the duties of
said oflace. Approved March 22, 1929.

Chap. 7 Resolve providing for an investigation by the metro-
politan DISTRICT commission RELATIVE TO THE ADVISA-
BILITY OF DEVELOPING A SECTION OF THE WEST SIDE OF THE
MYSTIC RIVER IN THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE FOR PARK AND
BEACH PURPOSES.

as to'aSbii- Resolved, That the metropolitan district commission is
ity of develop- hereby authorized and directed to investigate the advisability,
seftforof'"'" desirability and cost of developing, and the cost of thereafter

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 8, 9, 10. 515

maintaining, the west side of the Mystic river, from Welhng- west side of
ton bridge to Mystic avenue in the city of Somerville, for in^elty "f^"
park and beach purposes. Said commission shall report to ftT^"^^'^'^'
the general court the results of its investigation and its Report to
recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation general court,
to carry the same into effect, by filing the same with the clerk
of the house of representatives on or before the first Wednes-
day of December in the current year.

Approved March 26, 1929.

Resolve in favor of the town of whately. ChaV' 8

Resolved, That the department of education is hereby Certain pay-
authorized to approve the payment to the town of Whately, orwhate^yJ"
out of that part of the proceeds of the tax on incomes available
for educational purposes under chapter seventy of the General
Laws, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, being the amount,
in addition to the sums already received, which the town
would have received in nineteen hundred and twenty-eight
under authority of said chapter seventy, except for errors in
the claims for reimbursement filed with said department.

Approved March 27, 1929.

Resolve providing for the placing in the state house (JJiap, 9

OF A memorial to MASSACHUSETTS MEN WHO HAVE BEEN
AWARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.

Resolved, That, after an appropriation has been made and ftiTe house
for the purpose of preserving, for the future, evidence of the of a memorial
commonwealth's regard for the heroic services in the mill- setts nfen
tary or naval service of the United States of those persons con^'srelfionai
who enlisted from or who were otherwise accredited to the medal of
commonwealth and whose deeds of valor have been recog-
nized by the awarding of the congressional medal of honor,
the governor and council be authorized to provide for the
placing of a bronze tablet on the wall in the corridor of the
state house at the left of the main entrance to the chamber
of the house of representatives, substantially in accordance
with the sketch accompanying the report of the adjutant
general made pursuant to the provisions of chapter eleven
of the resolves of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, which
report is printed as house document numbered eighty-six of
the current year. The said tablet shall contain the names
of the persons listed in said report and the cost thereof shall
not exceed thirty-two hundred dollars.

Approved March 27, 1929.

Resolve relative to the publication and sale of the (Jfiar), 10

MASSACHUSETTS REPORTS AND OF THE ADVANCE SHEETS
OF THE OPINIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL
COURT.

Resolved, That the attorney general, the secretary of the Publication
commonwealth, the reporter of decisions and a member of the Massa-
the commission on administration and finance, to be desig- port|"nd^oT

516

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 11, 12.

the advance .
sheets of the
opinions and
decisions of
the supreme
judicial court.

nated by its chairman, are hereby directed to advertise for
proposals for the execution of the printing and binding, and
to provide for the sale to the public, at such price as said
officers may fix, of the reports of the decisions of the supreme
judicial court, styled "Massachusetts Reports", during a
term of three years from the first day of July, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-nine. They shall take into consideration
the circumstances and facilities of the several bidders for
the work, as well as the terms offered; they may reject any
bids received, and they shall award the contract or contracts
to such bidder or bidders as in their judgment the interests
of the commonwealth may require, and they shall execute
the contract or contracts in the name and behalf of the com-
monwealth. Bonds or securities satisfactory to said officers,
to an amount not less than ten thousand dollars, shall be
given or deposited by the party to whom any contract is
awarded, to secure its performance. The said officers may,
if in their discretion it is deemed practicable and feasible,
negotiate for, and execute in the name and behalf of, the
commonwealth a contract for the printing and sale to the
public, at such price as the said officers may fix, of advance
copies of opinions of said court filed with the reporter of
decisions. Bonds or securities satisfactory to said officers,
to an amount not less than ten thousand dollars, shall be
given or deposited by the party to whom such a contract is
awarded, to secure its faithful performance.

Approved March 27, 1929.

Payment of
certain sum
to the cliildren
of William
P. Hogan.

Chap. 11 Resolve in favor of the children of william p. hogan.

Resolved, That, for the purpose of discharging a moral
obligation, there be paid from the treasury of the common-
wealth, to the guardian of the dependent minor children
of William P. Hogan, who was killed at West Acton, July
eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, while in the
performance of his duty as a member of the one hundred
and first field artillery of the state military forces, annually
for the further term of five years, the sum of one thousand
dollars. All sums so paid shall be expended by said guardian
for the maintenance and education of said children.

Approved March 28, 1929.

Chap. 12 Resolve providing for an investigation by a special

UNPAID COMMISSION OF THE LAWS RELATIVE TO DEPENDENT,
DELINQUENT AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN AND OTHER
CHILDREN REQUIRING SPECIAL CARE.

Investigation
as to laws
relative to
dependent,
delinquent and
neglected
children, etc.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, consisting
of the commissioner of public welfare, the commissioner of
mental diseases and the deputy probation commissioner and
two other members to be appointed by the governor, is hereby
established for the purpose of investigating the laws relative
to dependent, delinquent and neglected children and children

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 13, 14. 517

otherwise requiring special care, and after completing said
investigation, but not later than the first Wednesday in
December in the current year, to report to the general court f^^°^l^i ^^^^.^
by filing with the clerk of the senate the results thereof, etc.
with its recommendations, if any, as to what changes it
deems necessary in the procedure relative thereto, together
with drafts of legislation necessary to carry such recom-
mendations into effect.

For the purposes of this resolve, said commission may Expenditure.
expend out of such amounts as may be appropriated by the
general court such sums as may be approved by the gov-
ernor and council. Approved April 2, 1929.

Resolve providing for the payment by the common- Chav. 13

WEALTH OF AN ANNUITY TO THE WIDOW OF FREDERICK
PFLUGER.

Resolved, That, for the purpose of promoting the public Payment by
good, there shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of ofT^annuity^
the commonwealth to the widow of Frederick Pfluger, who to widow of
was killed November eleventh, nineteen hundred and mig"^
twenty-eight, while in the performance of duty as a correc-
tion officer at the state prison, the amount of annuity to
which said widow would be entitled if section eighty-nine of
chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, as amended, had
applied to correction officers in the employ of the common-
wealth at the time said Pfluger was killed and if said section
had granted to the commissioner of correction with respect
to correction officers the same powers that it grants to the
commissioner of public safety with respect to members of
the department of public safety, doing police duty.

Approved April 3, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by a special (Jhav 14

UNPAID commission OF THE LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS
RELATIVE TO FIRE PREVENTION.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, to consist investigation
of the commissioner of pubhc safety and four citizens of TOnfmlsaton as
the commonwealth to be appointed by the governor, two to laws, rules
of whom shall be resident within the metropolitan fire pre- relative to
vention district and two resident without said district, is tion^'^''^*'"'
hereby established to study and consider the laws of this
and other states relative to fire prevention and the rules
and regulations of the state department of public safety
pertaining thereto and also the subject matter of current
senate documents numbered one hundred and fifty and two
hundred and forty-seven and current house document
numbered four hundred and twenty-eight, with a view to
recommending such changes and codification of the laws,
rules and regulations effective in this commonwealth relative
to fire prevention as may appear to be necessary or desir-
able.

518

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 15, 16.

Quarters in
state house.

Expenditure.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Payment of
certain sum
to the estate
of Mohammed
All.

Hearings, etc. ^g^[^ commission shall hold hearings, and may require of
any officers of the commonwealth and of the several mu-
nicipalities therein such information pertinent to the subject
matter of this resolve as it may need in the course of its
investigation and study. Said commission shall be pro-
vided with quarters in the state house or elsewhere, may
avail itself of the services of the counsel to the senate and
to the house of representatives, and, after an appropriation
has been made, may expend for expert, clerical or other
services, other than those of said counsel, and for other
expenses, such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate three
thousand dollars, as may be approved by the governor and
council. The commission shall report to the general court
the results of its study and its recommendations, if any,
together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry the
same into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the
house of representatives not later than December fifteenth
in the current year. Approved April 4, 1929.

Chap. 15 Resolve in favor of the estate of mohammed all

Resolved, That, subject to appropriation, there be allowed
and paid from the treasury of the commonwealth, under
the direction of the attorney general, to Silvio Martinelli,
pubhc administrator, to whom letters of administration
were granted by the probate court for Hampden county to
administer that part of the estate of Mohammed Ah not
yet administered, the sum of four hundred and seventy-
four dollars and seventy-eight cents, which sum was errone-
ously paid into the state treasury on January sixth, nineteen
hundred and nine, as the balance of the assets belonging
to the estate of said Ali. The said public administrator
shall receive out of the proceeds of the payment aforesaid
a reasonable allowance for his services and expenses to be
determined by the attorney general.

Approved April 5, 1929.

Chap. 16 Resolve providing for an investigation and study by
A special commission relative to the laws of the
commonwealth relating to plumbing.

by''spec1ai'°° Resolved, That a special unpaid commission is hereby es-
commissionas tabUshcd, to cousist of the commissioner of public health
confmonweaith or soiTic pcrson in the department of public health to be
piunibfng° designated by him, the executive secretary of the board of
state examiners of plumbers, the attorney general or an
assistant attorney general to be designated by him, and three
persons to be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall
be a master plumber, one a journeyman plumber and one
an architect. Said commission shall study and consider the
administration, enforcement and adequacy of the laws re-
lating to plumbing with a view to ascertaining what changes
therein, if any, or additions thereto, if any, said commission
may deem advisable, and in particular shall consider the
uniformity of their application in each city and town of the

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 17, 18. 519

commonwealth; provisions for renewal of licenses; quali-
fications, mode of appointment, direction, control and re-
moval of inspectors of plumbing; inspection of work of
inspectors; registration of certificate holders; granting of
permits to master and journeymen plumbers; enablement
of corporations and partnerships to engage in plumbing
business; control and regulation over camp sites with
respect to sanitation; and all other matters pertinent to
plumbing. Said commission may hold hearings and may Hearings.
expend for clerical and other assistance and other necessary Expenditure.
expenses hereunder, out of such amount, not exceeding five
hundred dollars, as shall hereafter be appropriated, such
sums as may be approved by the governor and council.
Said commission shall report to the general court its findings Report to
and conclusions hereunder, and its recommendations, if ft".'''^^' °°"'^*'
any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry
said recommendations into effect, by filing the same with
the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the
first Wednesday of December in the current year.

Approved April 8, 1929.

Resolve validating the acts of john f. moriarty of QJiap. 17

LYNN AS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Resolved, That the acts of John F. Moriarty of Ljmn as Acts of John
a justice of the peace, between January twenty-fifth, nine- asafusUce^
teen hundred and twenty-two and January twenty-fifth, vlfidlted!''^
nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, both dates inclusive,
are hereby confirmed and made valid to the same extent as
if during that time he had been qualified to discharge the
duties of said office. Approved April 9, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation relative to (Jfiar) Ig

THE advisability AND FEASIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING AN
UNDERPASS OR UNDERPASSES UNDER CAUSEWAY STREET
NEAR THE NORTH STATION IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Resolved, That the transit department of the city of ^g to'afvis-"
Boston is hereby directed to investigate relative to the ad- ability of con-
visability and feasibihty of constructing and maintaining for underpals''''
foot traffic an underpass or underpasses under Causeway ^.'a^^gt^et^®"
street in the city of Boston near the station of the Boston near the North
and Maine Railroad, commonly called the North Station, lo^'ston.*''
Said department shall also investigate and consider the Report to
probable cost of such underpass or underpasses and shall |^^®''^' '^°'^'"*'
report to the general court the results of its investigation
and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of
legislation to carry said recommendations into effect, by
filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives
on or before the first Wednesday of December in the current
year. Said department may expend for the purposes of Expenditure.
this investigation such sum, not exceeding five hundred
dollars, as may be appropriated by said city out of the
receipts in the treasury thereof.

Approved April 11, 1929.

520

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 19, 20, 21.

Chap. 19 Resolve providing for an investigation relative to

THE ADVISABILITY AND COST OF CONSTRUCTING A WAY
FOR MOTOR VEHICLES AND OTHER TRAFFIC IN THE CITY
OF NEWTON AND THE TOWN OF WESTON.

Investigation
as to advisa-
bility and cost
of constructing
a way for
motor vehicles,
etc., in city of
Newton and
town of
Weston.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That the division of metropohtan planning of
the metropolitan district commission and the department
of public works, acting jointly, are hereby authorized and
directed to investigate the advisability and cost of laying
out and constructing, as outlined in section four of the bill
printed in current house document number fifty-one, a
convenient and adequate way for motor vehicles and other
traffic in the city of Newton and the town of Weston, ex-
tending from Commonwealth avenue near Auburndale park
in said city to a point in said town near the intersection of
Church street and North avenue, or any substitutive, al-
ternative or additional route therefor. The joint board shall
report to the general court their findings and recommenda-
tions, together with drafts of legislation to carry the same
into effect, by fifing the same with the clerk of the senate not
later than the first Wednesday of December in the current
year. Approved April 11, 1929.

Chap. 20 Resolve providing for a proper representation of the

COMMONWEALTH AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE
AMERICAN LEGION IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND
THIRTY IN THE EVENT THAT THE SAME IS HELD IN THE
CITY OF BOSTON.

Resolved, That, in order that the commonwealth may be
properly represented on the occasion of the national con-
vention of The American Legion in the year nineteen hundred
and thirty, if held in the city of Boston as anticipated, and
in such case to ensure, in arranging entertainments and
other events in connection therewith, proper co-operation
between the Massachusetts department of The American
Legion and any commission established to administer the
commonwealth's program for celebrating the three hun-
dredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, there may, after an appropriation has been
made and if said convention is to be held in said city as
aforesaid, be expended, with the approval and under the
direction of the governor and council, a sum not exceeding
fifty thousand dollars. Approved April 12, 1929.

Chap. 21 Resolve relative to the acceptance by the common-
wealth OF A MEMORIAL TO THE LATE HENRY CABOT LODGE
AND TO THE PLACING OF SUCH MEMORIAL IN THE STATE
HOUSE.

Resolved, That the commonwealth hereby signifies its
acceptance, subject to the approval of the governor and
council and of the art commission for the commonwealth,
of a bust of Henry Cabot Lodge, late senator of the United
States from Massachusetts, and that the same be placed

Expenditure
to provide for
a proper repre-
sentation of
the common-
wealth at the
national con-
vention of
The American
Legion in 1930
in the event
that same is
held in Boston.

Acceptance by
commonwealth
of a memorial
to the late
Henry Cabot
Lodge, etc.

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 22, 23. 521

in the state house as directed by said commission, and that
the provisions of chapter twenty of the resolves of nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight relative to the acceptance by the
commonwealth and the placing in the state house of a bas
relief portrait of said Henry Cabot Lodge be hereby repealed.

Approved April 12, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by the divi- (JJidj) 22
siON of accounts relative to certain claims against

THE city of revere.

Resolved, That the division of accounts of the depart- investigation

1 r 1 • 1 i J • -1 1 T 1 "y division

ment oi corporations and taxation is hereby directed to of accounts
investigate all claims against the city of Revere which cLimragainst
were incurred prior to January first, nineteen hundred and '^^^y °^ Revere.
twenty-five, including those referred to in current house
document number nine hundred and seventy-two, satis-
faction of which has been withheld because of illegality or
because of failure to comply with the laws relative to mu-
nicipal finance or with the charter of said city, and which
are presented to said division. Said division shall report
to the general court the results of its investigation hereunder
and its findings and its recommendations as to said claims,
together with drafts of such legislation as may be necessary
to effect such recommendations, by filing the same with the
clerk of the senate on or before the first Wednesday of De-
cember in the current year. The expense of the investi-
gation herein authorized shall be paid primarily by the
commonwealth and ultimately by said city as if incurred
under sections thirty-six to forty, inclusive, of chapter
forty-four of the General Laws, as provided in section forty-
one of said chapter. Approved April 13, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by the depart- QJid'n 23
ment of public works relative to the laying out,
construction and widening of certain highways in
east boston and revere.

Resolved, That the department of public works is hereby investigation
directed to consider the subject-matter of senate document out°consTruc-
numbered one hundred and seventy and house documents *L°.?:;t''5 •' °k

. ii- •! i-i 11 certain nign-

numbered six hundred and thirty-eight and six hundred and «'ays in East
thirty-nine, all of the current year, relating to the laying ReveTe.^"
out, construction and widening of certain highways in the
East Boston district of the city of Boston and in the city of
Revere, particularly with a view to determining the ad-
visability and probable cost of said projects. Said depart- Report to

, '^GiiGrtil court

ment shall report to the general court its findings and its etc.
recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation
necessary to carry such recommendations into effect, by
filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives
on or before the first Wednesday of December in the current
year, and shall at the same time file a copy of said report
with the budget commissioner. Approved April 17, 1929.

522

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 24, 25, 26.

Chap. 24 Resolve authorizing the department of public works

TO MOVE AND RELOCATE CERTAIN HANGARS AND OTHER
BUILDINGS AT THE AIRPORT IN EAST BOSTON.

Department
of public
works may
move and
relocate certain
hangars, etc.,
at East Boston
airport.

Proviso.

Expenditure.

Resolved, That the department of pubHc works is hereby
authorized and directed to move and relocate upon such site
as is fixed by the city of Boston, with the approval of the
governor and council, the hangars and other buildings lo-
cated at the airport in East Boston, and now utilized by the
aviation units of the Massachusetts national guard ; provided,
that the city of Boston shall do grading necessary for the
new location and for the runways and approaches thereto,
and shall make the necessary connections for sewer and
water. The department of public works may expend such
sum, not exceeding twenty-two thousand dollars, as may
hereafter be appropriated for this purpose.

Approved April 18, 1929.

Chap.

25 Resolve providing for an investigation by the metro-
politan DISTRICT COMMISSION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WORKS, ACTING JOINTLY, WITH REFERENCE TO THE
WIDENING OR RECONSTRUCTION OF SAUGUS RIVER BRIDGE
BETWEEN THE POINT OF PINES IN THE CITY OF REVERE
AND THE CITY OF LYNN.

Investigation
as to widening
or reconstruc-
tion of

Saugus River
bridge be-
tween certain
points, etc.

Resolved, That, for the purposes hereof, the metropolitan
district commission and the department of public works are
hereby constituted a joint board and are directed to inves-
tigate the desirabihty of widening or reconstructing the
Saugus River bridge, connecting Lynnway at the Point of
Pines in the city of Revere with a state highway in the city
of Lynn. Said joint board shall include in its report its
recommendations as to whether the bridge should be widened
or reconstructed, the cost of widening and of reconstructing
the same, how such cost should be paid, and such further
information and recommendations as said joint board
deems necessary or desirable. Said joint board shall sub-
mit its report and its recommendations, together with
drafts of legislation necessary to carry such recommenda-
tions into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the house
of representatives on or before the first Wednesday in
Copy to budget Dcccmbcr of the current year, and shall file, at the same
time, a copy thereof with the budget commissioner.

Approved April 24, 1929.

Report to
general court
etc.

commissioner.

Chap. 26 Resolve providing for an unpaid special commission

TO CONSIDER AND REPORT UPON THE SITE AND TYPE OF A
SUITABLE MEMORIAL TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF MASSA-
CHUSETTS WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR.

Special com-
mission to
consider and
report upon
site and type

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission is hereby
established, to consist of such members as may be appointed
by the governor, one of whom shall be designated by him

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 27, 28. 523

as chairman. Said commission shall consider and report ^e^l'^d™' *°
as to appropriate sites for a fitting memorial to the men and women of

VcT\T 1 ±2. 1 1-j.i ij • Massachusetts

women oi Massachusetts who served m the world war, m- who served in
dicating its preference as to each such site and the type ^°''''^ *'''"•
of memorial suitable therefor, together with drawings and
estimates of cost in each instance.

The commission shall be provided with quarters in the ^jl'^g^^ouse
state house, shall hold one or more public hearings, and for ^ ^^-^^
traveling and other expenses and for expert, clerical and
other assistance may expend, subject to the approval of the
governor and council, such sum not exceeding three thou-
sand dollars as the general court may hereafter appropriate.
Said commission shall report to the general court its find- ^nS court,
ings and recommendations, together with drafts of legis- ^^°-
lation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect,
by filing the same with the clerk of the house of representa-
tives not later than the first Wednesday of December of the
current year, and at the same time shall file a copy thereof budget°com-
with the budget commissioner. Approved April 25 y 1929. missioner.

Resolve authorizing the department of public works Chay. 27
TO co-operate with others for the purpose of pro-
curing legislation by congress for the protection
of the connecticut river valley from flood damage.

Resolved, That the department of pubhc works be au- ^'"puwl^®"*
thorized to co-operate, if it deems it advisable, with the works may
mayors and city councils of the cities of Springfield, North- oth°e?s'for^ "^^
ampton, Chicopee and Holyoke and the boards of select- proc^uri^ig^iegis-
men of the towns of West Springfield, Hatfield, Agawam ii;tion by
and South Hadley, the war department of the United States, thTprotectlon
and interested individuals, or any of them with a view to °/ect^ci[t°r?ver
procuring the enactment by Congress of legislation pro- vaiiey from
viding for the regulation of the flood flow of the Connecti- °° ''^™^se.
cut river for the purpose of protecting the valley thereof from
floods, or other legislation for such purpose.

Approved April 26, 1929.

Resolve in favor of the heirs of john koukourakis. Chap. 28

Resolved, That, subject to appropriation, there be allowed Te'lt^n'sum
and paid from the treasury of the commonwealth, under the j°jJ^*''J? °K
direction of the attorney general, to the Greek consul at akis"
Boston, for transmission to the heirs at law or next of kin
of John Koukourakis, who died in the city of Chicopee in
nineteen hundred and seventeen, or to their lawful rep-
resentatives, such sum as may be found by the attorney
general to have been paid into said treasury as the balance
of the assets belonging to the estate of the said Koukourakis,
under the provisions of section ten of chapter one hundred
and ninety-four of the General Laws, notwithstanding the
expiration of the time Umited by said section ten for the
recovery of such sum. Approved April 26, 1929.

524

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 29.

Chap. 29 Resolve providing for an investigation and report by
A special commission relative to the discharge of
sewage into boston harbor and its tributary waters,

WITH A VIEW to the ELIMINATION OF RESULTING NUISANCES
AND OBJECTIONABLE CONDITIONS.

Investigation
by special
commission as
to discharge of
sewage into
Boston harbor
and its
tributary
waters, with
a view to
the elimina-
tion of result-
ing nuisances
and objection-
able conditions.

Engineering,
etc., assistance.

Expenditure.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That a special unpaid commission, to consist of
the commissioner of pubhc works or an associate commis-
sioner designated by him, the commissioner of pubhc health
or a representative of his department designated by him,
the commissioner of the metropolitan district commission
or a representative of his commission designated by him, the
health commissioner of the city of Boston and the com-
missioner of public works of the city of Boston, is hereby
authorized and directed to consider the general subject of
the discharge of sewage into Boston harbor and into the
rivers and estuaries tributary thereto, inside or west of a
line drawn from Grovers Cliff in the town of Winthrop to
Point Allerton in the town of Hull, and to consider what
changes, if any, may be necessary in any of the present
systems of sewerage or sewage disposal in territory tributary
to the said harbor, rivers or estuaries, in order to prevent
nuisances or to remove objectionable conditions. It shall
be the duty of said special commission first, to examine the
waters and shores of the harbor and of the rivers and estuaries
tributary thereto to determine their sanitary condition and
what changes, if any, may be necessary or desirable to relieve
the pollution of any of these waters; second, to examine the
systems of sewerage and sewage disposal tributary to said
harbor, rivers and estuaries; third, to recommend such ad-
ditions, enlargements, diversions or improvements in any
of the present sewerage systems or sewage disposal works as
in its opinion are necessary or desirable to prevent objection-
able pollution of said harbor, rivers or estuaries, or the
creation of objectionable conditions therein. Said special
commission may employ such engineering and other assist-
ance, and may incur such expenses, as may be necessary to
carry out the purposes of this resolve, and for said purposes
may expend such sums not exceeding in the aggregate fifty
thousand dollars, of which twenty thousand dollars may be
expended in the current fiscal year after an appropriation
has been made therefor, and thirty thousand dollars in the
fiscal year of nineteen hundred and thirty in anticipation of
an appropriation of said amount to be made in that year.
The cost of this investigation shall be paid one third each
by the cities and towns in the metropolitan sewerage dis-
trict, north system, metropolitan sewerage district, south
system, and the city of Boston, and the state treasurer is
hereby directed to assess the same in accordance with the
provisions of law relative to assessments upon said districts
and assessments for the state tax. Said special commission
shall report to the general court the results of its investi-

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 30. 525

gations and its recommendations relative thereto, together
with maps, plans and estimates of the cost of any changes
in existing sewer systems or outlets or sewage disposal works
that it may deem necessary or desirable, and drafts of legis-
lation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect,
by filing the same with the clerk of the senate on or before
the first Wednesday of December, nineteen hundred and
thirty. Approved April 26, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation relative to (JJidrf 3()

THE ABOLITION OF GRADE CROSSINGS.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, to consist investigation

1 I'l IT- 111 .by special

of two members of the senate to be designated by the presi- commission as
dent thereof, three members of the house of representatives grade°crossin°gs.
to be designated by the speaker thereof, the chairman of
the commission of the department of public utilities, the
commissioner of public works, and two members to be ap-
pointed by the governor, is hereby established to investigate
as to what measures should be taken to promote the aboli-
tion of grade crossings in the commonwealth, and, in case
the commission determines that the existing statutory
procedure for such abolition, including preliminary pro-
ceedings, is inadequate, to formulate a new and adequate
procedure. The commission shall also investigate the
question of apportioning the cost of such abolition and what
revision of the existing method of apportionment may
equitably be required by changed traffic conditions and
methods of transportation; whether a department or com-
mission of the commonwealth should be vested with the
power to determine the chronological order in which the
abolition of the various grade crossings, as affected by
considerations of public necessity and convenience, should
proceed; and all other matters relating to such abohtion
and the financing and distribution of the cost of the same.

Said commission shall be provided with quarters in the Quarters in
state house or elsewhere, shall hold hearings, may require ^*^*^. °''^^'
the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the produc- ®'*""^^-
tion of books and papers, and may administer oaths to wit-
nesses appearing before it. The commission may expend, Expenditure.
after an appropriation has been made, for clerical and other
services and expenses, such sums, not exceeding, in the
aggregate, two thousand dollars, as may be approved by
the governor and council. The commission shall report to Report to
the general court the results of its investigations and its ftc.^'^^ ''°"'^*'
recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation
necessary to carry its recommendations into effect, by filing
the same with the clerk of the house of representatives not
later than the first Wednesday in December in the current
year. Approved May 3, 1929.

526

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 31, 32, 33.

Chap. 31 Resolve validating the acts of william n. folsom of

MELROSE AS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Resolved, That the acts of Wilham N. Folsom of Melrose
as a justice of the peace, between April twenty-first, nine-

Acts of

William N.
Folsom as a

p"eacevaiidated. teen hundrcd and twenty-two and April eleventh, nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine, both dates inclusive, are hereby
confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if during
that time he had been qualified to discharge the duties of
said office. Approved May 3, 1929.

Chap. 32 Resolve providing for an investigation by the metro-
politan DISTRICT commission RELATIVE TO CERTAIN
areas in THE CITY OF MEDFORD TAKEN OVER BY THE
commonwealth, with a VIEW TO THEIR IMPROVEMENT
AND DEVELOPMENT AS A PART OF THE MYSTIC RIVER RESER-
VATION.

Investigation
as to certain
areas in city
of Medfoid
taken over by
state, with
a view to their
improvement,
etc., as a part
of the Mystic
river reserva-
tion.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That the metropolitan district commission be
authorized and directed to investigate the subject matter of
current house document numbered six hundred and ninety-
seven, relative to the improvement and development of
certain areas in the city of Medford taken over by the com-
monwealth, with a view to their improvement and develop-
ment as a part of the Mystic river reservation. The com-
mission shall report to the general court its findings and its
recommendations, if any, together with plans and estimates
of cost and drafts of legislation necessary to carry such
recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the
clerk of the senate on or before the first Wednesday in
December in the current year. Approved May 7, 1929.

Chap. 33 Resolve providing for an investigation of the duties

AND compensation OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS, JUDGES AND
EMPLOYEES OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES AND OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH THE DE-
CLINE IN THE PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY, AND THE
BASIS OF SALARIES PAID IN CERTAIN OTHER PUBLIC AND

Investigation
by special
commission
as to the duties
and compen-
sation of
certain officials,
judges and
employees of
the several
counties and
of the com-
monwealth,
etc.

IN PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, to consist
of one member of the senate to be designated by the presi-
dent thereof, three members of the house of representatives
to be designated by the speaker thereof, and three persons
to be appointed by the governor, shall (1) consider and study
the question of the duties, salaries, fees, allowances and other
compensation of (a) the several judges, registers and assistant
registers of probate, the district attorneys, the assistant
district attorneys and deputy district attorneys, and of
(b) all appointive and elective county officials and clerical
staff, including the justices and special justices of the several
district and municipal courts and the clerical assistants in

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 34. 527

the offices of the several district attorneys, whose salaries
and other compensation are now paid, in whole or in part,
by the several counties; (2) compare, wherever possible, the
salaries and other compensation now paid to persons in the
employ of, or whose salaries and other compensation are
paid by, the various counties with those now paid to persons
occupying similar positions or performing similar duties,
and who are in the employ of, or whose salaries and other
compensation are paid by, the commonwealth or by any
city, and, in this connection, consider and study the basis of
salaries as now paid in private employment; (3) report a
plan for classifying the positions held by such officials and
employees into services, groups and grades and for standard-
izing salary rates and ranges; and, in connection with such
proposed classification, (4) consider, with reference to the
change in the purchasing power of the dollar during the past
ten years, their salaries and any increases granted during
said period. As affecting the salaries and compensation Consideration
payable to registers and assistant registers of deeds and Cf fees'coi-™*^"*
their clerical assistants the commission shall consider the rg^^is^era^of
advisability of a readjustment of the schedule of fees col- deeds.
lectible by the said registers. Said commission shall report Report to
to the general court the results of its study and its recom- etc^'^'^ '^°"'^'
mendations, together with drafts of legislation necessary to
carry such recommendations into effect, by filing the same
with the clerk of the senate not later than the first Wednesday
of December in the current year. Said commission shall have
and may exercise in regard to all officials, employees and
activities to which this resolve applies, the powers granted
by sections eleven and twelve of chapter seven of the General
Laws, inserted therein by section one of chapter three hun-
dred and sixty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, in respect to employment in the service of the
commonwealth. Said commission may, with the approval Expenditure.
of the governor and council, expend for expert, clerical and
other services and expenses such sums, not exceeding five
thousand dollars in the aggregate, as may hereafter be ap-
propriated. Approved May 8, 1929.

Resolve to provide for a survey and revision by a Chap. 34

SPECIAL COMMISSION OF THE GAME AND INLAND FISH LAWS
OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Resolved, That a special commission, to consist of one Survey and
member of the senate to be designated by the president specTaTcom-'*
thereof, two members of the house of representatives to be ™meTnd^*^^
designated by the speaker thereof, two persons to be ap- fniand fish
pointed by the governor, the attorney general or an assistant conrnwn- ^
attorney general to be designated by the attorney general, wei^'t^'-
and the director of the division of fisheries and game or a
representative of said division to be designated by said
director, shall make a survey and study of the game and
inland fish laws of the commonwealth, including the license

528

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 35.

Hearings.

Headquarters
in state
house, ex-
penditure.

Report to
general court,
etc.

fees provided therein, with a view to the revision, codifica-
tion and simpHfication of said laws, and the making of any-
other improvements therein that may seem advisable. Said
commission shall hold hearings and may call upon officers of
the department of conservation and other state officers and
officers of the several counties and municipalities for such
information as may be needed in the course of its work.
Said commission shall be provided with headquarters in the
state house or elsewhere and may expend for expert, clerical
and other services such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate
twenty-five hundred dollars, as may hereafter be appropri-
ated. Said commission shall make a report to the general
court by filing its recommendations with the clerk of the
house of representatives not later than the first Wednesday
of December in the current year, with drafts of such legis-
lation as may be necessary to effect the same.

Approved May 8, 1929.

Chap. 35 Resolve establishing the Massachusetts bay colony

TERCENTENARY COMMISSION AND DEFINING ITS POWERS
AND DUTIES.

Massachusetts

Bay Colony

Tercentenary

Commission,

establishment,

powers and

duties.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Expenditure,
etc.

Resolved, That a special commission, to consist of nine
persons to be appointed by the governor and to be known
as the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commis-
sion, is hereby established. Subject to the approval of the
governor and council, said commission shall devise and ar-
range, and supervise or assist in the carrying out of, plans
for the participation of the commonwealth in the celebration
of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony; and it shall also consider and
recommend as to the form of a suitable and fitting memorial
to commemorate the founders of said Colony. Said com-
mission shall report to the general court its plans, findings
and recommendations, together with drafts of legislation
necessary to carry such recommendations into effect, by
filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives
not later than the first Wednesday of December of the
current year, and shall at the same time file a copy of said
report with the budget commissioner.

For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
resolve including the payment of the expenses of the par-
ticipation aforesaid, there may be expended, after an appro-
priation has been made, a sum not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars, of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars
shall be made available for the current fiscal year in antici-
pation of a further sum of seventy-five thousand dollars to
be appropriated in the year nineteen hundred and thirty.
The commission shall serve without compensation, but may
employ such experts and assistants and incur such other
expenses in the discharge of its duties as may, from time to
time, be approved by the governor and council.

Approved May 10, 1929.

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 36, 37. 529

Resolve providing for a further survey and study QJiav, 36

BY THE department OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE MATTER
OF PROTECTING CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE HOOSAC RIVER
VALLEY FROM FLOOD DAMAGE.

Resolved, That the department of pubHc works is hereby Survey and
directed to make a further survey and study of the matter of pa^tme'rft tt
protecting the cities and towns, or any of them, in the Pf^^^emau^
Hoosac river valley from flood damage and to recommend of protecting'^
the building of such works and the taking of such other towng'^n^he
action as, in its opinion, may be necessary to protect such ^°iJ'|'"'f^'"^^''
cities and towns as aforesaid. Said department may hold flood damage.
public hearings and may consult with other state depart-
ments and such city and town officials as in its opinion may
be necessary for a proper consideration of the subject matter
of this resolve. Said department shall report the results of ^^J*"^^ *°
its survey and study to the general court by filing the same Itc'!"'^'' ^""""^ '
with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before
the first Wednesday of December in the current year, to-
gether with its recommendations, if any, and drafts of legis-
lation to carry the same into effect, and for the purposes of Expenditure,
this resolve, the department may expend such sum as may
be necessary from item number six hundred and forty-seven
of the general appropriation act of the current year.

Approved May I4, 1929.

Resolve providing for the continuation of the work (JJiav. 37
OF investigating and revising the tax laws of the

COMMONWEALTH BY AN UNPAID SPECIAL COMMISSION.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, consisting Unpaid special
of one member of the senate to be designated by the president cont?nul'wwk
thereof, three members of the house of representatives to be °nirevfsing*'"^
designated by the speaker thereof, and three persons to be the tax laws of
appointed by the governor, shall continue the investigation weaiu^'""'^'
of the entire subject of state, county and local taxation and
revenues from fees and other sources, heretofore conducted
under chapter forty-four of the resolves of nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven and chapter thirty-one of the resolves of
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, with a view to recom-
mending ways and means of simplifying the tax, fee and
other revenue laws, preventing evasion, and raising and dis-
tributing the necessary revenue for the support of state,
county and local governments equitably and economically,
and to providing, so far as may be feasible and consistent
with public pohcy, suitable fees and other charges for
services rendered. Said commission shall hold hearings, Hearings, etc.
and may call upon the commissioner of corporations and
taxation and other departments, commissions and officers
of the commonwealth and of the several counties and mu-
nicipalities for such information as may be needed in the
course of its investigation. Said commission shall be pro- Quarters in
vided with quarters in the state house or elsewhere, and may |xp*e^ndit"iffe.

530

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 38, 39.

Report to
general court,
etc.

expend for expert, clerical and other services and expenses
such sums, not exceeding, in the aggregate, five thousand
dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated. Said commission
shall make a report to the general court by filing the same
with the clerk of the house of representatives not later than
December thirty-first in the current year, together with
drafts of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations
into effect. Approved May 14, 1929.

Chap. 38 Resolve relative to the keeping and display of the

ORIGINAL CHARTER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
IN THE ARCHIVES DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE
STATE SECRETARY.

Keeping and
display of the
original charter
of the Massa-
chusetts Bay
colony in the
archives di-
vision of tlie
department of
the state
secretary.

Resolved, That, after an appropriation has been made,
there may be expended from the treasury of the common-
wealth, under the direction of the state secretary, a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars, for the purpose of pro-
curing, and placing in the archives division of the depart-
ment of the state secretary, a suitable fireproof case for the
keeping and display of the original charter of the Massa-
chusetts Bay colony. Approved May 15, 1929.

Chap. 39 Resolve providing for the publication of a new ter-
centenary EDITION OF the GENERAL LAWS, INCLUDING
AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS THERETO, AND AN INDEX.

Publication of
a new tercen-
tenary edition
of the General
Laws, including
amendments
and additions
thereto, and
an index.

Report of
progress to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That the counsel to the senate and the counsel
to the house of representatives be directed to prepare for
publication a new edition of the General Laws and of the
index thereto. Said edition may be referred to as the ter-
centenary edition of the General Laws. Said edition shall
include all amendments and additions to said General Laws,
including those enacted during the session of nineteen hun-
dred and thirty. In said edition the present chapter and
section numbers of the General Laws and the numbers of
inserted chapters and sections shall be preserved, and the
present marginal notations shall be revised where neces-
sary and shall include citations of decisions of the supreme
judicial court rendered since the publication of the General
Laws. For the said purposes, said counsel may make such
use and disposition of the copy of amendments and additions
to the General Laws, prepared by said counsel and filed in
the office of the state secretary as provided in section fifty-
three of chapter three of the General Laws, as may be
necessary, and the second sentence of said section fifty-
three shall not apply to amendments and additions made
during the years nineteen hundred and twenty-nine and
nineteen hundred and thirty. Said counsel shall make a
report of progress to the general court, including any rec-
ommendations for the correction of errors, omissions, in-
consistencies and imperfections which may come to their
attention, together with drafts of legislation to carry the
same into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 40. 531

house of representatives on or before the first Wednesday in
January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and shall make and F'nai report,
file as aforesaid on or before the first Wednesday in January, fi'ied in office
nineteen hundred and thirty-one, a final report, and shall of^s^^te secre-
file a copy thereof in the office of the state secretary, which
shall thereupon constitute the copy of all amendments and
additions to the General Laws described in said section
fifty-three. The said counsel may expend for the aforesaid Expenditure,
purposes during the current year, with the approval of the
president of the senate and the speaker of the house of rep-
resentatives, such sum not exceeding five thousand dollars
as may hereafter be appropriated by the general court, and
may continue the work after December first, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-nine, upon the basis established in nine-
teen hundred and twenty-nine, in anticipation of a further
appropriation. Approved May 15, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by a special ni^nr) 40

COMMISSION relative TO COMPULSORY MOTOR VEHICLE ^'

LIABILITY INSURANCE AND RELATED MATTERS.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, consisting investigation
of one member of the senate to be designated by the president crafmlston
thereof, three members of the house of representatives to relative to

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be designated by the speaker thereof, and three persons to motor vehicle
be appointed by the governor, shall consider and investigate ance'and rt""^'
the recommendations of the governor relating to compulsory ^^^ed matters,
automobile liability insurance as set forth in his inaugural
address to the two branches of the general court; the plans
recommended by the judicial council in its fourth report for
disposing of motor vehicle court cases more promptly and
with less expense; and also the subject matter of the current
senate documents numbered twenty-six, one hundred and
thirty-one and one hundred and seventy-three, and current
house documents numbered ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-
six, one hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and twenty-
five, two hundred and fifty-eight, two hundred and fifty-nine,
four hundred and sixty-six, eight hundred and sixty-seven,
eight hundred and sixty-eight and nine hundred and ninety.
Said investigation shall be conducted with a view to recom-
mending whether the present system of compulsory motor
vehicle liability insurance should be continued, and if so,
whether, in order to accomplish any of the results herein-
after specified, said system should be modified in respect to
any of the particulars set forth in said recommendations,
plans and documents, or otherwise, or whether said system
should be superseded by any other system or arrangement
therein or otherwise suggested, designed to carry out the
purposes of said present system and at the same time to
relieve and reduce the burden of expense on owners of motor
vehicles, to provide for a more equitable distribution, geo-
graphically and otherwise, of such burden, to reduce the
number of accidents and to eliminate or minimize such

532

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 41, 42.

Hearings.

Quarters in
state house.
Expenditure.

Report to
general court,
etc.

objections and defects in the said present system as may be
found to exist. Said commission shall hold hearings, may
call upon the registrar of motor vehicles, the division of
insurance and such other departments, commissions and
officers of the commonwealth as have information in relation
to the aforesaid matters for such assistance as may be helpful
in the course of its investigation, may require by summons
the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production
of books and papers relating to any matter under investiga-
tion, and may administer oaths to witnesses testifying before
it. Said commission shall be provided with quarters in the
state house or elsewhere, and may expend, after an appro-
priation has been made, for expert, clerical and other services
and expenses, such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate ten
thousand dollars, as it may deem necessary. The commis-
sion shall report to the general court the results of its investi-
gations and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts
of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations into
effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the senate not later
than the first Wednesday in December in the current year.

Approved May 15, 1929.

Chap. 41 Resolve in favor of the heirs of vasil a. duro.

tire^"e!reof° Resolved, That, subject to appropriation, there be allowed

Vasil A. Duro. and paid from the treasury of the commonwealth, under the
direction of the attorney general, to the consul for Albania
at Boston, for transmission to the heirs at law or next of
kin of Vasil A. Duro, who died in the city of Haverhill,
March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or to
their lawful representatives, such sum as may be found by
the attorney general to have been paid into said treasury
as the balance of the assets belonging to the estate of the
said Duro, under the provisions of section ten of chapter
one hundred and ninety-four of the General Laws, not-
withstanding the expiration of the time limited by said
section ten for the recovery of such sum.

Approved May 16, 1929.

Chap. 42 Resolve providing for an investigation by the at-
torney GENERAL RELATIVE TO BRIDGES, ABUTMENTS AND
APPROACHES WHICH CARRY PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OVER THE
LOCATION OF THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD
CORPORATION AND OVER THE FORMER LOCATION OF THE
HAMPDEN RAILROAD CORPORATION.

Investigation
by attorney
general as to
bridges, abut-
ments and ap-
proaches which
carry public
highways over
the location of
the Southern

Resolved, That the attorney general is hereby authorized
and directed to inquire into the subject matter of current
house document three hundred and seventy-six, authorizing
and directing the department of public works to maintain
and keep in repair the several bridges, their abutments and
approaches, which carry public highways over that part of

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 43. 533

the location of the Southern New England Railroad Corpo- New England
ration lying within the commonwealth and also to inquire ^orat?onf^T
as to what action should be taken relative to the several focaUon^oUhl'"^
bridges, their abutments and approaches, which carry public Hampden Raii-
highways over the former location of The Hampden Rail- uo^n. ^°'^^°'^*"
road Corporation, and to advise the general court as to
whether or not such bridges, abutments and approaches, or
any of them, should be removed and what body politic or
corporate should bear the expense of maintaining and keep-
ing in repair or removing said bridges, or any of them, as
the case may be. The attorney general is hereby further Report to
authorized and directed to report to the general court the general court,
results of his inquiry, with his recommendations, together
with drafts of legislation necessary to carry the same into
effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the senate on or
before the first Wednesday of December in the current year.

Approved May 17, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by the de- QJi^j) 43

PARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNING THE NEED,
AS A HEALTH MEASURE, FOR ESTABLISHING A BOARD OF
REGISTRATION OF BARBERS OR OTHERWISE REGULATING
THE PRACTICE OF BARBERING.

Resolved, That the department of public health is hereby investigation
authorized and directed to investigate the need, as a health ofjlrbitc*'"''"'^
measure, for establishing a board of registration of barbers J"'^''*'^ concern-

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or otherwise regulating the practice of barbering. For the as a health
purposes of the investigation, a barber shall be construed to "stabUshing^a
be any person who, for hire, shaves or trims the beard, cuts ['"ft^oj^o/"'^^'^'
the hair, gives facial or scalp massage or facial or scalp barbers, etc.
treatment with oils, creams or other preparations, or singes
or shampoos the hair or applies any hair tonics or dyes to
the hair of any person and who is not a registered physician
or a registered embalmer; and the performance of any such
service shall be construed as practising barbering. In con-
nection with its investigation the department shall consider
the subject matter of house document numbered one hundred
and eighty-one of the current year, and shall make such
examination of the sanitary condition of barbering estab-
lishments and the practices of barbers as it deems necessary.
Said department shall report to the general court its findings Report to
and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of such f™®'"''' ''°"''*-
legislation as may be necessary to carry its recommenda-
tions into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the
house of representatives not later than the first Wednesday
of December in the current year. Said department may Expenditure.
expend for the aforesaid purpose such sum, not exceeding
three thousand dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated by
the general court. Approved May 22, 1929.

534

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 44, 45.

Chap. 44 Resolve providing for an investigation and study by

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE QUESTION
OF THE IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM ON
THE PARKWAY AT THE REVERE BEACH RESERVATION AND
ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY OF REVERE.

Investigation
by department
of public works
of question of
immediate
relief of traffic
problem on
parkway at
Revere Beach,
etc.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That the department of public works is hereby
directed to investigate and study the question of the im-
mediate rehef of the traffic problem on the parkway at
Revere Beach, including the probable expense of such re-
lief, and also the advisability of enacting legislation contained
in the subject matter of house documents number eleven
hundred and forty-two and number twelve hundred and
sixty-seven of the current year. Said department shall
report to the general court its findings and its recommenda-
tions, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to
carry such recommendations into effect by filing the same
with the clerk of the house of representatives not later than
the first Wednesday of December in the current year, and
shall at the same time file a copy of said report with the
budget commissioner. Approved May 23, 1929.

Chap. 45 Resolve providing for a further study as to the most

APPROPRIATE METHODS OF DISPOSING OF MINOR INFRAC-
TIONS OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS, RULES AND REGULA-
TIONS.

Investigation
by department
of public works
as to most ap-
propriate
methods of
disposing of
minor infrac-
tions of the
motor vehicle
laws, rules and
regulations.

Hearings.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That the department of public works is hereby
authorized and directed to investigate the subject-matter
of senate document numbered three hundred and seven of
the current year, the recommendations on which the same
was based and the general subject of the most appropriate
procedure for the disposition of petty motor vehicle offences,
with a view to formulating a more effective, expeditious
and economical enforcement of the laws, rules and regulations
relative to motor vehicles and their operation, at a mini-
mum of inconvenience and expense to all concerned. For
the purposes of this resolve, the department may hold
hearings, may require the attendance and testimony of
witnesses, and shall be entitled to call upon all other state,
county and municipal oSicials for such data and assistance
as may be helpful. The department shall report to the
general court by filing its recommendations with the clerk
of the senate on or before the first Wednesday of December
in the current year, with drafts of such legislation as may
be necessary to give effect to the same.

Approved May 23, 1929.

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 46, 47. 535

Resolve providing for an investigation by the at- (JJiaj) 4Q

TORNEY GENERAL RELATIVE TO THE CLAIM OF ARTHUR
W. NEWCOMB AND OTHER HEIRS OF SAMUEL F. NEWCOMB,
LATE OF QUINCY.

Resolved, That the attorney general is hereby requested by^attofne""
to investigate the claim of Arthur W. Newcomb and other general as to
heirs of Samuel F. Newcomb, late of Quincy, referred to in \v!'Newcomb ""^
current senate document numbered one hundred and sev- -ind other heirs
enty-nme, and to examme the law and facts m relation Newcomb, late
thereto. For the purpose of the investigation herein re- " '^umcy.
quested, the attorney general, or an assistant attorney
general designated by him, shall hold one or more public
hearings, of which the claimants, the commissioner of public
works and the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation shall
be notified, and may take evidence, administer oaths and
issue subpoenas. The attorney general is hereby further Report to
requested to make a report of such investigation and exami- et"*''^'^ '^°^^^'
nation to the general court by filing such report with the
clerk of the house of representatives on or before the first
Wednesday of December in the current year, and at the
same time to file a copy thereof with the budget commis-
sioner. Approved May 24 j 1929.

Resolve providing for the observance and commemo- Qfiav 47

RATION OF the ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE DEATH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI.

Whereas, On October eleventh, nineteen hundred and observance

. .,, . Ill 1 n r • 1 • ^" conimemo-

twenty-nme, will occur the one hundred and fiftieth anni- ration of the
versary of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, "nd fiftieth'^
revolutionary war hero, whose service to the cause of Ameri- th" d^athTf"^
can independence was of such value and importance that on Brigadier Gen-
September fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, puiaskf.'™''^
he was appointed brigadier general of the continental army
and chief of dragoons, and on March twenty-eighth, seven-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, was designated commander
of the independent corps known as Pulaski's Legion, serving
with great distinction in such capacity until his death,
October eleventh, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, from
wounds received two days before at the siege of Savannah,
Georgia ; and

Whereas, It is highly fitting that proper recognition should
be given to the memory of this great soldier, whose gallant
and illustrious service in the war for American independence
is a precious heritage to all Americans; therefore be it

Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor issue a Proclamation
proclamation calling for a general observance, on October ^^ governor.
eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, of the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Brigadier
General Casimir Pulaski, and that the commissioner of

536

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 48, 49.

education be authorized and directed to prepare and have
printed and distributed a leaflet containing an appropriate
program for the observance of said anniversary in the schools.

Approved May 34, 1929.

Chav. 48 Resolve providing for further investigation by a

SPECIAL COMMISSION OF THE ADVISABILITY OF FILLING IN
PART OF FORT POINT CHANNEL AND SOUTH BAY IN BOSTON
HARBOR.

Further in-
vestigation by
a special com-
mission of the
advisability of
filling in part
of Fort Point
channel and
South bay in
Boston harbor.

Employment
of engineers,
etc.

Expenditure.

Reimburse-
ment of state
by city of
Boston.

Report to
general court,
etc.

Resolved, That a special unpaid commission, to consist
of one member of the senate to be designated by the president
thereof, two members of the house of representatives to be
designated by the speaker thereof, the state commissioner
of public works, the commissioner of pubhc health, the
chairman of the division of metropolitan planning, the
chairman of the Boston city planning board and the com-
missioner of public works of the city of Boston, is hereby
established to investigate further the filhng of the present
navigable waters of that part of Fort Point channel and
South bay lying above Dorchester avenue bridge and matters
incidental or related thereto, and particularly to investi-
gate the most advisable method of disposing of the storm
and sewage overflows and drainage discharging into Dor-
chester brook, Roxbury canal. South bay and Fort Point
channel and the method of conducting such storm and
sewage overflows and drainage to the sea and the proper
location of an outlet or outlets therefor and any and all
matters incidental thereto. Said commission may employ
such engineers, experts and others, as it may deem neces-
sary, and may expend for the purposes of this resolve such
sum, not exceeding seventy-five hundred dollars, as may
be appropriated by the general court. The city of Boston
shall reimburse the commonwealth for one half of the expense
incurred under said appropriation, and the same shall be
assessed, collected and paid over to the state treasurer by
said city in the same manner and at the same time as state
taxes. Said commission shall report to the general court
the results of its investigations* and its recommendations,
if any, together with drafts of legislation to carry the same
into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the house of
representatives on or before the first Wednesday of De-
cember in the current year. Approved May 24, 1929.

Chap. 49 Resolve providing for a study by a special commission

OF THE GENERAL QUESTION OF INCREASING THE EDUCA-
TIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND OF
CERTAIN RELATED MATTERS.

Si?ecmUwn- Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, to consist of

study the ouc member of the senate to be designated by the president

tfo^n oHncreas- thereof, three members of the house of representatives to be

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 50. 537

designated by the speaker thereof and three persons to be ing the
appointed by the governor, including persons famihar with til^iremtntl IT
the labor, industrial and educational conditions and needs of ^'^';uh"a™d'of
the commonwealth, is hereby established to study the general certain related
question of increasing the educational requirements of the '"^"«''^-
commonwealth, including the subject matter of so much of
the address of His Excellency, the Governor, printed as
current senate document number one, as relates thereto, and
of current house documents numbered two hundred and
sixty-six and twelve hundred and sixty-three. Said com-
mission, in the course of its study, shall consider the effect
of any legislation recommended by it upon the textile and
other basic industries of the commonwealth, the opportuni-
ties for children under sbcteen years of age in part time em-
ployment and the extent to which they are now employed,
the ability of parents to maintain their children while attend-
ing school for any recommended increased period and the
cost to the commonwealth and to the cities and towns thereof
of carrying out any of its recommendations. Said commis-
sion may call upon the department of education and other
departments, commissions and officers of the commonwealth
and of the several counties and municipalities for such infor-
mation as may be needed in the course of its study. Said Quarters in
commission shall be provided with quarters in the state
house or elsewhere and, for the purposes of this resolve, may Expenditure.
expend such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate, five thou-
sand dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated.

Said commission shall report to the general court the re- Report to
suits of its study, together with its recommendations and ff"*^"^'*' ^°^^^'
drafts of legislation necessary to carry the same into effect,
by filing the same with the clerk of the house of representa-
tives not later than the first Wednesday of December in the
current year. Approved May 24y 1929.

Resolve in favor of nellie c. dunn and adele s. houle, QJiav. 50

BOTH OF THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD.

Resolved, That, after an appropriation has been made, Payment of

,1 !_ 11 J 1 • 1 J. r J.1 J. e ±^ certain amounts

there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the com- to Neiue c.
monwealth to NelHe C. Dunn of the city of Pittsfield, the Ad"e"ie s"Houie.
sum of four thousand dollars, and to Adele S. Houle also of
said city, the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars, on account
of injuries sustained by them by reason of being struck by
an automobile operated by a member of the state police
on March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
in said city. Payments under authority of this resolve
shall be made only upon the filing with the comptroller of
satisfactory releases or other evidence that said payments
are accepted as full compensation on the part of the com-
monwealth on account of said injuries.

Approved May 26, 1929.

538 Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 51, 52, 53.

Chap, 51 Resolve providing for the acceptance by the common-
wealth AND the placing IN THE STATE HOUSE OF
A MEMORIAL TABLET TO THOMAS DUDLEY, A COLONIAL
GOVERNOR.

^ommon'J^eaiai Resolvcd, That a memorial tablet to Thomas Dudley, a
and the placing govemor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years six-
iwuseof'a^me- teen hundred and thirty-four, sixteen hundred and forty,
moriai tablet to gixtecu hundred and forty-five and sixteen hundred and
ley, a colonial fifty, which tablet is proposed to be presented to the common-
governor. wealth by the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Associ-

ation, be accepted and placed in some appropriate location
in the state house to be approved by the art commission of
the commonwealth; provided, that said tablet is approved
by said art commission. Approved May 28, 1929.

Chap. 52 Resolve in favor op thomas h. maguire.

E.voTor^'^ Resolved, That, for the purpose of discharging the moral

Thomas H. obligation of the commonwealth in the premises, after an
Maguire. appropriation has been made, there be allowed and paid

from the treasury thereof the sum of two thousand dollars,
to the division of juvenile training of the department of
public welfare, for the use and benefit of Thomas H. Maguire,
a minor in the custody of said division, in full compensation
for injuries sustained by him on March twenty-fourth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, at the Lyman school
for boys, while an inmate thereof. Said division may ex-
pend from said sum, such amounts as it deems necessary
for the proper maintenance and education of said Maguire
during his minority, and when he becomes twenty-one
years of age said division shall pay to him any unexpended
balance remaining from said sum. Nothing herein shall be
construed as abridging the powers of said division relative to
the custody of said Maguire. Approved May 29, 1929.

Chap. 53 Resolve providing for an investigation by a special

UNPAID commission RELATIVE TO HACKNEY CARRIAGES
AND TAXICABS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, AND RELATED
MATTERS.

b'^Tec1ai'°" Resolved, That a special unpaid commission, to consist of
commission as ouc member of the senate to be appointed by the president,
carriTgesa^nd two members of the house of representatives to be appointed
of B'Stou"e'tc^ ^y^ the speaker, and two persons to be appointed by the
governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is
hereby established for the purpose of investigating the sub-
ject-matter of current house document numbered four hun-
dred and fifty-three, relative to the regulation of hackney
carriages and taxicabs in the city of Boston, including all
rules and regulations relating to hackney carriages and
taxicabs promulgated by the police commissioner of the

Resolves, 1929. — Chaps. 54, 55. 539

city of Boston, the board of street commissioners, or by
any other authority having jurisdiction over said carriages
and taxicabs. Said special commission shall also investi-
gate the conduct of the police commissioner in granting
licenses, parking or stand privileges to taxicab companies
or taxicab owners, and the compensation paid, if any, for
the use of any part of a public street or streets by any such
company or owner to the owner or lessee of the property
abutting on such street or streets, or to any other person.
For such purpose, said special commission may hold hear- Hearings.
ings, require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and
administer oaths, and may expend such amount, not ex- Expenditure.
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars, as may hereafter be ap-
propriated, the same to be assessed upon the said city as an
addition to the state tax. Said special commission shall ^e^rai court
report to the general court the results of its investigation and etc.
its recommendations, together with drafts of legislation
necessary to give effect to the same, by filing the same with
the clerk of the senate on or before the first Wednesday of
December in the current year. Approved May 31, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation by the massa- Chap. 54

CHUSETTS industrial COMMISSION OF THE CONDITIONS
affecting the TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND OF THE PROBLEM
OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THAT AND OTHER INDUSTRIES.

Resolved, That the Massachusetts industrial commission, investigation
established by chapter three hundred and fifty-seven of the chusetts Tndus-
acts of the current year, is hereby authorized and directed ^iononuT'^'
to investigate conditions affecting the textile industry in conditions af-
the commonwealth with a view to devising ways and means textikfinchistry,
to effect an improvement of such conditions, and also to *''^'^-
investigate as to the best methods of alleviating distress
caused by extended periods of unemployment in that and
other industries, and in connection therewith to consider the
question of providing insurance against unemployment.
Said commission shall report to the general court the results Report to
of its investigation and its recommendations, if any, together ^^"^'''^ '^°"' ■
with drafts of legislation to carry the same into effect, by
filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives
on or before the first Wednesday of December of the current
year. For the purpose of this resolve, the commission may Expenditure.
expend, after an appropriation has been made, such sum,
not exceeding three thousand dollars, as may be approved
by the governor and council. Approved June 7, 1929.

Resolve providing for an investigation and report (JJidr) 55

BY A SPECIAL COMMISSION RELATIVE TO THE CONTROL AND
CONDUCT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES IN THIS COMMONWEALTH.

Resolved, That an unpaid special commission, consisting investigation
of one member of the senate to be designated by the president m^sswn as t*i5""

540

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 55.

the control and
conduct of
public utilities
in the com-
monwealth.

Investigation
of municipal
lighting plants.

Hearings, etc.

Depositions,
etc.

Quarters in
state house.
Expenditure.

Report to
general court,
etc.

thereof, three members of the house of representatives to be
designated by the speaker thereof, and three persons to be
appointed by the governor, shall investigate to what extent,
if any, any other corporation or any association, trust,
partnership or individual has, directly or indirectly, acquired
domination or control of, or a substantial interest in, any
domestic corporation engaged in the manufacture or distribu-
tion of gas, electricity or power or in the conduct of any other
public utility, by stock ownership or otherwise, the amount
of such stock ownership, direct and indirect, the consideration
paid in acquiring the same, the amount of securities issued
against such ownership and the returns from the investment;
to what extent, if any, any corporation, association, trust,
partnership or individual which has acquired domination,
control or a substantial interest as aforesaid, has also ac-
quired any interest in any publishing or other enterprise in
this commonwealth, the consideration paid therefor and the
returns from the investment; the relations and affiliations
of every corporation, association, trust and partnership
having contractual relations with any domestic corporation
engaged as aforesaid or to which such a domestic corporation
may be subsidiary, with any other corporation, association,
trust or partnership; and the conduct and practices of any
other corporation or any association, trust or partnership in
competing or dealing with a domestic corporation engaged as
aforesaid.

Said commission may under authority of this resolve
investigate the conduct of municipal lighting plants and their
relations, contractual or otherwise, with private corporations,
or associations, trusts, partnerships or individuals.

Said commission shall hold hearings, may require of such
department, commission or officer of the commonwealth as
has or can obtain information in relation to the subject-
matter of this resolve such assistance as may be helpful in the
course of its investigations, may require by summons the
attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production
of books and papers relating to any matter under investiga-
tion, and shall have the same authority to take depositions
as is granted to the commission on administration and finance
by the provisions of section eleven of chapter seven of the
General Laws, as appearing in section one of chapter three
hundred and sixty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three. All persons appearing before the special com-
mission shall be sworn before being heard and any member of
said commission may administer oaths to such persons.

Said commission shall be provided with quarters in the
state house or elsewhere, and may expend, after an appro-
priation has been made, for legal, clerical and other services
and expenses, such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate
twenty thousand dollars, as it may deem necessary.

Said commission shall report to the general court the
results of its investigations and its recommendations, if any,
together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry its

Resolves, 1929. — Chap. 56. 541

recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the
clerk of the house of representatives not later than the first
Wednesday of December in the current year.

Approved June 7, 1929.

Resolve providing for the payment of compensation on Chap. 56

ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF CERTAIN FORMER MEMBERS OF
THE PRESENT SENATE.

Resolved, That, for the purpose of promoting the public Payment of
good, there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the on"account'of
commonwealth to the respective widows of Henry L. Kin- HeMrL!?!!!!-
caide and Henry F. Ripley, who died while members of the caideami
present senate, the balance of salary to which each of said Ripiey, former
deceased members would have been entitled had he lived {^e'preseiu
and served until the end of the current session. senate.

Approved June 8, 1929.

542 Acts and Resolves Approved, etc.

NUMBER OF ACTS AND EESOLVES APPROVED, APPROVAL WITH-
HELD, AND LLST OF ACTS VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR AND
PASSED OVER HIS VETO UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE
CONSTITUTION.

The general court, during its first annual session held in
1929, passed 384 Acts and 56 Resolves which received ex-
ecutive approval and 1 Act from which executive approval
was withheld but has become law by virtue of chapter 1,
section 1, Article 2 of the Constitution of the Common-
wealth.

The governor has returned 2 Acts with his objections
thereto in writing. Upon 1 Act his objections were sus-
tained.

One (1) Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Metro-
politan District Commission to expend a further sum of
money for the completion of the Brookline street-Essex
street-Cottage Farm bridge" (Chapter 227) was passed, but
failed to receive executive approval; as, however, it was
not returned, with objections thereto, within five days after
it had been received in the executive department, the gen-
eral court not having been prorogued in the meantime, said
act has the force of law, under the provisions of the Consti-
tution governing such cases, and has been so certified.

One (1) Act entitled "An Act providing for an additional
judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Hampden
and abolishing the office of special judge of probate and
insolvency in said county" was passed and laid before the
governor for his approval; was returned by him with his
objections thereto, to the branch in which it originated;
was reconsidered, and the vote being taken on its passage,
the objections of the governor thereto notwithstanding, it
was rejected, and said act thereby became void.

One (1) Act entitled "An Act establishing the compensa-
tion of members of the General Court" (Chapter 333) was
passed and laid before the governor for his approval; was
returned by him with his objections thereto, to the branch
in which it originated; was reconsidered, agreeably to the
provisions of the constitution, and the vote being taken on
its passage, the objections of the governor thereto notwith-
standing, it was passed, and said act has thereby the force
of law.

The general court was prorogued on Saturday, June 8,
1929, at fifty-nine minutes past eleven o'clock p.m., the
session having occupied 158 days.

Acts and Resolves Approved, etc. 543

N. B. — A Law approved by the People, November 6,
1928, under Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Con-
stitution, Chapter 406, Acts of 1928, viz.: "An Act to Per-
mit Certain Sports and Games on the Lord's Day", is
printed in the Blue Book edition of the laws for the year
1928, page 583, and the returns of votes and the total num-
ber of ballots cast at such State election, page 587 et sequor.

544

Eeturns of Votes, etc.

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, ns amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the senator
from this district be instructed to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to
take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, known as the prohibition amendment? " submitted at the
State Election, November 6, 192S, in the following Senatorial Districts.

Cape and Plymouth Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Barnstable

878

1,006

699

2,583

Bourne

384

431

352

1,167

Brewster

109

164

148

421

Chatham

225

381

282

888

Chilmark

131

Dennis .........

220

372

310

902

Duxbury .........

316

313

223

852

Eastham

108

112

268

Edgartown

172

148

157

477

Falmouth

734

653

495

1,882

Gay Head

Gosnold

Halifax

130

260

Hanson

272

349

272

893

Harwich

287

451

271

1,009

Kingston

344

337

300

981

Marion

196

257

163

616

Mashpee

107

Mattapoisett

205

277

208

690

Nantucket

471

349

498

1,318

Oak Bluffs

233

175

142

550

Orleans

190

248

192

630

Pembroke

181

245

144

570

Plymouth

1,684

1,442

1,269

4,395

Plympton

123

208

Provincetown

412

313

627

1,352

Rochester

154

100

345

Sandwich

231

229

269

729

Tisbury

164

251

183

598

Truro

128

220

Wareham

645

617

639

1,901

Wellfleet

214

157

454

West Tisbury

161

Whitman .........

1,379

1,512

888

3,779

Yarmouth

240

245

217

702

Totals

10,676

11,750

9,744

32,170

First Bristol Senatorial District.

Attleboro

3,002

3,182

2,094

8,278

Berkley

116

165

108

389

Dighton

249

385

242

876

Easton

796

1,097

602

2,495

Freetown

156

193

188

537

Mansfield

924

1,008

614

2,546

North Attleborough

1,814

1,493

1,261

4,571

Norton

375

413

234

1,022

Raynham

192

281

208

681

Rehoboth

195

250

232

677

Seekonk

324

536

860

Taunton

6,090

3,572

3,805

13,467

Totals

14,233

12,575

9,.591

36,399

Second Bristol Senatorial District.

Fall River

Somerset

Swansea

19,262
584
393

7,983
539
379

11,742
561
465

38,987
1,684
1,237

Totals

20,239

8,901

12,768

41,908

Returns of Votes, etc.

545

Third Bristol Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Acushnet

Dartmouth

Fairhaven

New Bedford

Westport

494

878

1,428

18,843

371

270

747

1,233

7,444

433

267
499
840
6,828
426

1,031
2,124
3,501
33,115
1,230

Totals

22,014

10,127

8,869

41,001

Plymouth Senatorial District.

Bridgewater

Brockton .

Carver .

East Bridgewater

Lakeville

Middleborough

West Bridgewater

Totals .

15,486

825

899

2,408

9,104

163

543

615

140

216

1,102

1,549

393

589

13,165

136
368
143

2,346
27,881

374
1,556

499
3,533
1,233

37,422

Norfolk Senatorial District.

Braintree

Milton

Qui-NCY

Randolph

2,559

3,546

12,413

1,342

2,740

3,162

10,123

702

1,385

1,216

5,790

703

6,684

7,924

28,326

2,747

Totals

19,860

16,727

9,094

45,681

Norfolk and Middlesex Senatorial District.

Ashland

351

521

234

1,106

Dedham

2,996

1,700

1,092

5,788

Dover

220

186

502

Holliston

488

683

294

1,465

Hopkinton

542

451

321

1,314

Medfield

347

390

239

976

Medway

516

416

389

1,321

Millis .

310

229

265

804

Natick

2,939

2,251

1,313

6,503

Needham

1,399

2,317

718

4,434

Norfolk

128

224

141

493

Norwood

2,689

1,582

1,244

5,515

Sherborn

153

225

111

489

Walpole

1,051

1,000

576

2,627

Wellesley

1,534

2,328

820

4,682

Westwood

324

336

218

878

Totals

15,987

14,839

8,071

38,897

Norfolk and SuSolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 21, 22

Brookline

15,518
11,068

6,870
7,780

4,658
3,048

27,046
21,896

Totals

26,586

14,650

7,706

48,942

First Suffolk Senatorial District.

Chelsea
Revere
Saugus
Winthrop

Totals

6,479
6,537
1,825
3,634

18,475

1,773
2,042
2,507
2,721

9,043

4,123
2,867
1,127
1,436

9,553

12,375
11,446
5,459

7,791

37,071

546

Returns of Votes, etc.

Second SuSolk Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total

Votes.

Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3

26,757

3,516

9,240

39,513

Third Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 4,5

Cambridge, Wards 1, 2, 3

13,258
7,150

8,370
1,318

4,426
2,519

26,054
10,987

Totals

20,408

9,688

6,945

37,041

Fourth Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 6, 7, 8

23,176

3,230

7,189

Fifth Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 9, 10, 11

21,638

4,364

7,2S

Sixth Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 12, 19, 20

7,015

Seventh Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 13, 15, 16

24,384

6,265

7,299

Eighth Suffolk Senatorial District.

Boston, Wards 14, 17, 18

23,855

9,665

First Essex Senatorial District.

Lynn

Nahant

Swampscott

19,554

484
1,782

12,897

269

2,327

7,473
205
831

39,924

958

4,940

Totals

21,820

15,493

8,509

45,822

Third Essex Senatorial District.

Essex

204

317

179

700

Gloucester

3,272

3,402

2,497

9,171

Hamilton

394

400

182

976

Ipswich

690

852

646

2,188

Lynnfield

299

391

156

846

Manchester .........

53(

459

283

1,279

Middleton

162

193

168

523

Newbury . . . ,

200

383

186

769

Newburyport

2,537

2,376

1,740

6,653

Peabody

3,159

1,591

2,332

7,082

Rockport

508

698

457

1,663

Rowley .........

185

319

198

702

Topsfield

168

203

122

493

Wenham

184

297

109

590

West Newbury

164

336

180

680

Totals

12,663

12,217

9,435

34,315

Returns of Votes, etc.

547

Fourth Essex Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Amesbury

1,777

1,752

1,173

4,702

Andover

1,723

1,969

958

4,650

Boxford

1.52

298

Georgetown

251

405

241

897

Groveland .

409

450

250

1,109

Haverhill .

8,860

6,508

3,837

19,205

Merrimac

340

515

249

1,104

North Andover

1,412

1,178

774

3,361

Salisbury

284

355

285

924

Totals .

15,141

13,281

7,828

36,253

Fifth Essex Ssnatorial District.

Lawrence

Methuen

17,514
3,414

5,402
3,005

5,178
1,631

28(094
8,050

Totals

20,928

8,407

6,809

36,144

First Middlesex Senatorial District.

Framingham

Marlborough

Newton

Wayland

Weston

3,769

3,777

12,161

520

672

3,256

1,650

12,344

449

617

1,797

1,495

4,293

270

207

8,822
6,922
28,798
1,239
1,526

Totals

20,899

18,346

8,062

47,307

Third Middlesex Senatorial District.

SOISERVILLE

40,877

Fourth Middlesex Senatorial District.

Everett

Malden

Melrose

7,453
9,311
4,059

5,481

7,872
5,758

3,499
4,618
1,607

16,433
21,831
11,424

Totals

20,823

19,111

9,754

49,688

Fifth Middlesex Senatorial District.

Acton

331

517

299

1,147

Boxborough

161

Concord

1,173

1,150

680

3.003

Hudson

1,395

1,018

753

3,168

Lincoln

258

245

154

657

Maynard

1,033

742

546

2,321

Stow .

119

259

121

499

Sudbury

144

314

130

588

Waltham

7,164

4,919

2,412

14,495

Watertown

6,349

4,612

2,198

13,159

Totals

18,004

13,868

7,324

39,196

548

Returns of Votes, etc.

Seventh Middlesex Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Bedford

Billerica

Burlington .

Lexington

Lowell, Wards 1, 9, 10

North Reading .

Reading

Stoneham

Tewksbury .

Wakefield .

Wilmington .

Totals .

245
1,040

236
1,569
6,486

192
1,366
1,718

364
2,644

548

16,408

310

771

192

1,687

1,733

304

2,325

2,000

377

2,753

565

13,017

179
507
169
585

2,519
170
830
837
260

1,345
389

7,790

734
2,318

597
3,841
10,738

666
4,521
4,555
1,001
6,742
1,502

37,215

Eighth Middlesex Senatorial District.

Ashby

165

310

Ayer

602

431

381

1,414

Carlisle

136

243

Chelmsford

1,051

1,313

643

3,007

Dracut

926

501

481

1,908

Dunstable

170

Groton

402

475

274

1,151

Littleton

178

369

134

681

Lowell, Wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 .

15,342

5,594

6,265

27,201

Pepperell

475

481

366

1,322

Shirley

276

238

171

685

Town.send .........

156

403

232

791

Tyngsborough

153

201

108

462

Westford

422

400

322

1,144

Totals

20,139

10,778

9,572

40,489

First Worcester Senatorial District.

Worcester, Wards 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

36,259

Second Worcester Senatorial District.

Worcester, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

37,896

Third Worcester Senatorial District.

Ashburnham

Athol .

FrrcHBuRG

Gardner

Leominster

Lunenburg .

Phillipston .

Royalston

Templeton .

Westminster

Winchendon

Totals .

269
1,245
7,535
2,509
3,379

165
20
58

436

136
1,043

16,795

290

1,615

4,536

1,959

2,676

378

126

608

237

776

13,285

226

1,129

3,315

1,533

2,043

144

338

120

576

9,523

785

3,989

15,386

6,001

8,098

687

142

245

1,382

493

2,395

39,603

Returns of Votes, etc.

549

Fourth Worcester Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Auburn

886

899

462

2,247

Bellingham

371

200

314

885

Blackstone

1,081

195

327

1,603

Douglas

223

365

182

770

Franklin

1,154

779

743

2,676

Grafton

979

863

508

2,350

Hopedale

360

719

248

1,327

Mendon

117

228

132

477

Milford

2,810

1,180

1,484

5,474

Millbury

1,273

860

585

2,718

Millville

48.5

169

269

923

Northborough

268

425

186

879

Northbridge

1,416

1,397

626

3,439

Oxford

68.5

535

368

1,588

Plainville

293

342

722

Shrewsbury

955

1,017

411

2,383

Southborough

390

393

179

962

Sutton .

251

359

179

789

Upton .

248

478

250

976

Uxbridge

1,208

705

.593

2,506

Webster

2,653

835

1,132

4,620

Westborough

674

1,050

511

2,235

Wrenthani .

257

389

209

855

Totals

19,037

14,.382

9,985

43,404

Worcester and Hampden Senatorial District.

Barre

348

435

294

1,077

Berlin

294

104

477

Bolton

186

311

Boylston

144

203

443

Brimfield

100

147

332

Brookfield

208

278

160

646

Charlton

248

352

219

819

Clinton

2,791

1,433

1,618

5,842

Dana

103

282

Dudley

661

286

362

1,309

East Brookfield

154

131

369

Hampden

139

123

317

Hardwick

433

263

251

947

Harvard

140

255

124

519

Holden

458

808

321

1,.587

Holland

Hubbardston ........

101

172

358

Lancaster

284

521

238

1,043

Leicester

899

549

452

1,900

Ludlow

965

466

485

1,916

Monson

691

579

504

1,774

New Braintree

140

North Brookfield

557

430

324

1,311

Oakham

206

Palmer

1,533

866

782

3,181

Paxton

120

241

Petersham

110

150

344

Princeton

177

294

Rutland

202

246

116

564

Southbridge

2,691

1,179

1,446

5,316

Spencer

1,378

718

734

2,830

Sterling

185

334

160

679

Sturbridge

217

233

186

636

Wales

152

Warren

616

424

367

1,407

West Boylston

151

511

168

830

West Brookfield

230

280

1.30

640

Wilbraham

250

330

162

742

Totals

17,414

13,814

10,605

41,833

550

Returns of Votes, etc.

Berkshire Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Adams

2,311

843

1,296

4,450

Cheshire

322

156

183

661

Clarksburg

167

204

160

531

Dalton

691

761

591

2,043

Florida

142

Hancock

177

Hinsdale

217

161

149

527

Lanesborough

157

173

147

477

New Ashford

North Adams

4,350

2,352

2,556

9,258

Peru

PiTTSFIELD

9,196

5,748

4,495

19,439

Savoy

Williamstown

674

686

539

1,899

Windsor

117

Totals

18,242

11,320

10.339

39,901

Berkshire, Hampshire and Hampden Senatorial District.

Agawam .........

1,073

659

475

2,207

Alford

Becket

104

109

308

Blandford

101

205

Chester

207

170

142

519

Easthampton

1,794

981

863

3,638

Egremont

115

225

Granville

118

103

298

Great Barrington

1,117

713

800

2,630

Huntington

292

190

184

666

Lee

728

494

477

1,699

Lenox .

692

310

398

1,400

Monterey

148

Montgomery

Mount Washington .......

New Marlborough

141

196

407

Northampton

4,987

2,768

1,988

9,743

Otis

167

Richmond

241

Russell

193

215

123

531

Sandisfield

Sheffield

155

243

179

577

Southampton

115

154

100

369

Southwick

104

182

135

421

Stockbridge

320

287

276

883

Tolland

Tyringham

145

Washington

West Springfield

3,432

1,877

1,074

6,383

West Stockbridge

150

147

447

Westfield

3,374

2,176

1,531

7,081

Westhampton

118

164

Totals

19,434

12,709

9,774

41,917

Franklin and Hampshire Senatorial District.

Amherst

834

1,144

674

2,652

Ashfield

173

156

401

Belchertown ........

281

282

196

759

Bernardston

182

110

381

Buckland

183

306

250

739

Charlemont

191

107

382

Chesterfield ........

122

220

Colrain

136

299

177

612

Conway

114

146

103

363

Cummington ........

128

266

Deerfield

306

304

261

871

Returns of Votes, etc.

551

Franklin and Hampshire Senatorial District — Concluded.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Enfield

113

263

Erving

197

167

149

613

Gill

216

102

382

Goshen

101

Granby

111

148

324

Greenfield

2,844

2,653

1,473

6,970

Greenwich

142

Hadley

291

206

154

651

Hatfield

367

115

198

680

Hawley

117

Heath

133

Leverett

186

Leyden

107

Middlefield

Monroe

Montague

1,474

740

875

3,089

New Salem

116

214

Northfield

147

498

175

820

Orange

661

1,221

626

2,508

Pelham

200

Plainfield

135

Rowe

110

164

501

205

870

Shutesbury

1,372

876

614

2,862

Sunderland

130

292

1,234

552

894

2,680

Warwick

138

122

Whately

105

104

293

314

293

242

849

Worthington

197

Totals

12,252

12,766

8,832

33,850

First Hampden Senatorial District.

East Longmeadow

Longmeadow

Springfield, Wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

445

770
26,785

501

950

15,578

225

258

7,658

1,171

1,978

50,021

Totals

28,000

17,029

8,141

53,170

Second Hampden Senatorial District.

Chicopee

HOLYOKE

Springfield, Ward 1 .

7,495
14,018
4,099

2,275

4.026

868

2,672
5,002
1,237

12,442

23,046

6,204

Totals .

25,612

7,169

8,911

41,692

552

Retuens of Votes, etc.

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, as amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the repre-
sentatives from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions requesting the
President and Congress to take action to secure to each State the right, within
the bounds set by the Constitution of the United States, to determine for itself
the percentage of alcoholic content in beer, light wines and other beverages,
which will be deemed to be intoxicating, and to prohibit the manufacture, sale
or transportation thereof for beverage purposes? " submitted at the State Election,
November 6, 1928, in the following Representative District.

Second Essex Representative District.

Cities and Towns. Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Haverhill

8,698

6,518

3,989

19,205

Second Middlesex Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Belmont

Cambridge, Wards 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 .

3,008
9,004

2,941
10,408

3,224
11,907

9,173
31,319

Totals

12,012

13,349

15,131

40,492

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, as amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the senator
from this district be instructed to favor the abolition of tax exemptions on all
buildings privately owned, with the following exceptions: The public audi-
toriums of churches in which public religious services are held; those parts of
educational buildings of college grade ivhich are not used as places of residence;
hospital buildings which are not used as places of residence for the medical
staff or nurses; all museums and all public monuments?" submitted at the
State Election, November 6, 1928, in the following Senatorial District.

Second Middlesex Senatorial District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Belmont

Cambridge, Wards 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 . . .

3,560
10.098

2,448
9,392

3,165
11,829

9,173
31,319

Totals

13,658

11,840

14,994

40,492

Returns of Votes, etc.

553

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, as amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the repre-
sentatives from this district be instructed to vote to abolish the death penalty in
Massachusetts and to substitute life imprisonment therefor/" submitted at the
State Election, November 6, 1928, in the following Representative District.

Twenty-First Middlesex Representative District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Malden

7,948

8,186

5,697

21,831

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, as amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the repre-
sentatives from this district be instructed to favor the abolition of tax exemptions
on all buildings privately owned, with the following exceptions: The public
auditoriums of churches in which public religious services are held; those parts
of educational buildings of college grade which are not used as places of
residence; hospital buildings which are not used as places of residence for
the medical staff or nurses; all museums and all public monumentst" sub-
mitted at the State Election, November 6, 1928, in the following Representative
District.

Ninth Plymouth Representative District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Brockton, Wards 1, 2, 5

3,320

3,898

4,528

11,746

Ninth Plymouth Representative District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes

Brockton, Wards 1, 2, 5

2,930

4,137 4,679

11,746

554

Returns of Votes, etc.

Returns of Votes on a Question of Public Policy under Chapter 53, Section 19,
General Laws, as amended by Chapter 97, Acts of 1925, "Shall the repre-
sentatives from this district be instrxicted to vote for resolutions requesting the
President and Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States, known as the prohibition amend-
ment?" submitted at the State Election, November 6, 1928, in the following
Representative District.

Ninth Worcester Representative District.

Cities and Towns.

Yes.

No.

Blanks.

Total
Votes.

Berlin

288

110

477

Bolton

187

311

Boylston

147

200

443

Clinton

2,791

1,433

1,618

5,842

Harvard

131

259

129

519

Holden

462

790

335

1,587

Lancaster

284

513

246

1,043

Northborough

264

424

191

879

Princeton

171

294

Sterling

188

336

155

679

West Boylston

150

514

166

830

Totals

4,627

5,115

3,162

12,904

APPENDIX

The following table and the index to the Acts and Resolves of the
current year have been prepared by William E. Dorman, Esq., and
Henhy D. Wiggin, Esq., counsel, respectively, to the Senate and
House of Representatives, in accordance with section fifty-one of
chapter three of the General Laws.

TABLE

WHAT GENERAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH

HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SUBSEQUENT

LEGISLATION

Chapter 1. — Jurisdiction of the Commonwealth and of the United States.

"Camp Devens" ceded to the United States, 1921, 456.

Consent to the acquisition by tJie United States of land and buildings in
Rutland, 1922, 409; of land in Northampton, 1926, 386; of additional
lands in Haverhill, 1928, 370.

Chapter 2. — Arms, Great Seal and Other Emblems of the Commonwealth.

Sect. 7 amended, 1925, 112.

Chapter 3. — The General Court.

Purchase and distribution of ancient journals of House of Representa-
tives, 1920, 413; 1921, 170; 1922, 164.

For salaries of the present clerk and assistant clerk of the Senate, see
1922, 271; 1924, 436; 1926, 268.

For salary of the present clerk and assistant clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, see 1928, 322.

Legislative supplies, etc., not required to be purchased through central
purchasing agency, 1922, 545 §§ 10-12; 1923, 362 § 1 subsect. 22, § 52.

Sect. 5 revised, 1924, 170 § 1; 1926, 107 § 1; amended, 1928, 297.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 51; revised, 1924, 170 § 2.

Sect. 7 revised, 1924, 170 § 3; 1926, 107 § 2.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 498 § 1; 1924, 502 § 1; 1929, 333 § 1.

Sect. 15 amended, 1927, 340 § 2.

Sect. 18 amended, 1921, 367 § 1; revised, 1922, 366 § 1; 1923, 400 § 1;
amended, 1924, 401 § 1 ; revised, 1927, 340 § 1. (See 1921, 384.)

Sect. 19 amended, 1923, 228.

Sect. 20 amended, 1921, 498 § 2; 1922, 8; 1923, 229 § 1; 1924, 502 § 2;
1928, 201 § 1.

Sect. 24 revised, 1921, 486 § 41.

Sect. 25 repealed, 1929, 41.

Sect. 35 amended, 1921, 343; 1923, 362 § 2.

Sect. 37 amended, 1923, 362 § 3.

Sect. 38 amended, 1923, 362 § 4.

Sect. 50 amended, 1922, 210.

Sect. 51 amended, 1922, 197.

Sect. 53 amended, 1922, 24 § 1; 1927, 68.

558 Changes in the [Chaps. 4-6.

Chapter 4. — Statutes.

Sect. 6, paragraph Sixth amended, 1926, 187 § 2.

Sect. 7, cl. P'ourth repealed, 1921, 486 § 1. CI. Seventh, see 1921,
430 § 1, changing title of police courts to district courts. Cl. Eighteenth
amended, 1928, 235. Cl. Twenty-sixth amended, 1928, 192 § 3. Cl.
Twenty-ninth amended, 1929, 107 § 1; stricken out, 1929, 377 § 1. Cl.
Thirty -ninth added, 1924,360 (defining "annual election" as applied to cities
holding biennial municipal elections). Cl. Fortieth added, 1924, 404 § 1
(defining "surety" and "sureties" with reference to certain fidelity bonds).

Sect. 7A added, 1922, 151 (relative to the filing and recording in the
office of the State Secretary of certain certificates, articles and affidavits).

Sect. 8 amended, 1926, 56.

Sect. 9 A added, 1929, 377 § 2 (unsealed instruments given the effect of
sealed instruments in certain cases).

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 145. (See 1924, 210.)

Chapter 5. — Printing and Distribution of Laws and Public Documents.

As to the preparation and sale of the General Laws in a special form,
see 1922, Resolve 42.

As to the publication of the Tercentenary edition of the General Laws,
see 1929, Resolve 39.

As to state printing, see 1922, Resolve 48; 1923, 493.

Sect. 1 revised, 1923, 362 § 5; amended, 1923, 493.

Sect. 2 revised, 1924, 462.

Sect. 3 amended, 1922, 198 § 1; revised, 1924, 492 § 1.

Sect. 4 amended, 1922, 198 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 362 § 6. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 362 § 7; revised, 1924, 492 § 2. (See 1922, 545
§§ 1, 4, 17.)

Sect. 9 revised, 1924, 322.

Sect. 11 revised, 1922, 319; 1924, 492 § 3; 1927, 264.

Sect. 18 revised, 1929, 176 § 1.

Chapter 6. — The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain
Oflacers under the Governor and Council, and State Library.

Special Commission on the Necessaries of Life, 1919, 341, 365; 1920, 610,
628; 1921,325; 1922,343; 1923,320; 1924,99,320; 1925,273; 1927,263;
1929, 269.

Commission on Administration and Finance to serve under Governor and
Council, 1922, 545 § 2; 1923, 362 § 1 subsect. 2.

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 362 § 8.

Sect. 12 A added, 1923, 210 (relative to the observance of Armistice
Day).

Sect. 14A added, 1927, 58 (relative to the observance of Spanish War
Memorial Day and Maine Memorial Day).

Sect. 17 revised, 1928, 383 § 1. (See 1922, 545 § 2; 1923, 362 § 1 sub-
sect. 2.)

Sect. 20 revised, 1922, 298; amended, 1924, 242.

Sect. 22 amended, 1923, 368 § 1.

Sect. 24 revised, 1929, 194.

Chaps. 7-9.] GENERAL LaWS. 559

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 191.

Sect. 26 revised, 1924, 200 § 1.

Sect. 27 amended, 1924, 200 § 2.

Sects. 28A to 28D added, 1928, 383 § 2 (establishing a public bequest
commission and a public bequest fund).

Sect. 35 revised, 1929, 277.

Sect. 36 revised, 1922, 15; amended, 1925, 185.

Sect. 37A added, 1923, 376 § 1 (authorizing the trustees of the State
Library to receive money and securities in trust for State Library pur-
poses, to be administered by the State Treasurer).

Chapter 7. — Commission on Administration and Finance (former title,
Supervisor of Administration).

Chapter 7, as amended in § 7 by 1921, 298, repealed and superseded by
1923, 362 § 1 (chapter 7, Commission on Administration and Finance).

[Former chapter 7, sects. 6-16. See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 9-13, 17, 20; 1923,
362 § 1 subsects. 7-12, 29, 30, 33-35, 52, 92.]

Office of Supervisor of Administration abolished and his rights, powers,
duties and obligations transferred to Commission on Administration and
Finance, see 1922, 545.

Changes noted below are to sections of new Chapter 7.

Sect. 22 amended, 1924, 446.

Chapter 8. — Superintendent of Buildings, and State House.

Sects. 3, 6, 8, 11. Rights, powers, duties and obligations of Superintend-
ent of Buildings relative to purchasing and storeroom functions transferred
to Commission on Administration and Finance, see 1922, 545 §§ 1, 9.

Sect. 3 repealed, 1923, 362 § 9.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 234; revised, 1928, 175.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 362 § 10.

Sect. 8 repealed, 1923, 362 § 9.

Sect. lOA added, 1924, 356 (relative to leasing by state departments of
premises outside of buildings owned by the commonwealth).

Sect. 11 amended, 1923, 362 § 11.

Sect. 12 amended, 1921, 256.

Sect. 15 repealed, 1924, 361.

Sect. 17 revised, 1921, 459 § 1; 1923, 225 § 1.

Sect. 18 revised, 1921, 459 § 2; amended, 1923, 225 § 2.

Sect. 19A added, 1922, 320 (procuring of portraits and other suitable
memorials of former Governors).

Sect. 21 added, 1922, 146 (regulating the establishment of permanent
memorials in the State House).

Chapter 9. — Department of the State Secretary.

Sect. 1 amended, 1929, 318 § 1.

Sect. 2 revised, 1922, 370 § 1; 1928, 232 § 1.

Sect. 4 revised, 1928, 232 § 2.

Sects. 6 to 9 repealed and new sections 6 to 9 inserted, 1924, 453 § 1.

Sect. 7 (inserted by 1924, 453 § 1) amended, 1925, 85.

Sect. 9 (inserted by 1924, 453 § 1) revised, 1928, 232 § 3.

Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 375; revised, 1928, 232 § 4.

560 Changes in the [Chaps. 10-12.

Sect. 14 repealed, 1923, 362 § 12. (See 1923, 362 § 1 subsect. 27.)
Rights, powers, duties and obligations of the State Secretary relative to
the purchase of paper transferred to Commission on Administration and
Finance, see 1922, 545 §§ 1, 9-12; 1923, 362 § 1 subsect. 22, § 52.

Sect. 18 repealed, 1923, 146 § 1.

Chapter 10. — Department of the State Treasurer.

Rights, powers, duties and obligations of the State Treasurer relative to
bookkeeping and accounting functions not necessarily connected with the
cash and funds which he handles transferred to Commission on Adminis-
tration and Finance, see 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.

Sect. 5. See 1922, 545 § 22. _

Sect. 8A added, 1924, 73 (relative to the disposition and expenditure of
funds received from the United States in relation to forest fire prevention
or for forestry purposes).

Sect. 15 revised, 1927, 241 § 2.

Sect. 16 revised, 1923, 301 § 2, 376 § 2.

Sect. 18 revised, 1927, 325.

Chapter 11. — Department of the State Auditor.

Rights, powers, duties and obligations of the State Auditor, except such
as relate to the auditing of accounts of all offices of the commonwealth
and to the keeping of reports of such audits, transferred to Commission
on Administration and Finance, see 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5, 27, 29; 1923, 362
§ 1 subsects. 13-15, 17-19, §§ 13, 16.

Sect. 3 repealed, 1923, 362 § 13. Office of second deputy abolished,
see 1922, 545 § 27.

Sect. 4 repealed, 1923, 362 § 13. Offices of supervisor of accounts and
assistant supervisor of accounts abolished, see 1922, 545 § 27.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 362 § 14.

Sect. 6 revised, 1923, 362 § 15. (See 1922, 545 §§ 22, 27.)

Sects. 7-11 repealed, 1923, 362 § 13. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)

Sect. 10. See 1922, 358.

Sect. 12 revised, 1923, 362 § 16. (See 1922, 545 § 27.)

Sects. 13-15 repealed, 1923, 362 § 13. (See 1922, 545 § 20.)

Chapter 12. — Department of the Attorney General, and the District

Attorneys.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 117.

Sect. 3A added, 1924, 395 (relative to the settlement of certain small
claims against the commonwealth).

Sect. 12 amended, 1922, 459.

Sect. 14 amended, 1922, 304 § 1; 1923, 211 § 1; 1924, 265 § 1; first
two paragraphs revised, 1925, 285 § 1; amended, 1926, 384 § 1.

Sect. 15 revised, 1923, 398 § 1.

Sect. 16 amended, 1922, 304 § 2; revised, 1923, 211 § 2, 398 § 2; amended,
1924, 265 § 2; par. included in lines 4 and 5 revised, 1925, 285 § 2; section
revised, 1925, 337; amended, 1926, 377 § 1; par. included in lines 5-8
amended, 1926, 384 § 2; same par. revised, 1927, 305 § 1; section amended,
1928, 367 § 1.

Chaps. 13-15.] GENERAL LaWS. 561

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 304 § 3, 333 § 1; 1923, 362 § 17; repealed,
1923, 398 § 3.

Sect. 18 amended, 1922, 334; 1924, 466.

Sect. 19 amended, 1921, 235 § 1; 1924, 346 § 1.

Sect. 20 amended, 1925, 71.

Sect. 20A added, 1927, 244 § 1 (providing for a special assistant district
attorney for the Suffolk district) .

Sect. 25A added, 1929, 143 (authorizing county treasurers to advance
money to district attorneys when necessary in the performance of their
duty).

Chapter 13. — Department of Civil Service and Registration.

Sect. 8 amended, 1926, 185.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 426.

Sect. 15 amended, 1929, 174.

Sect. 21 amended, 1924, 483 § 1.

Sect. 22 amended, 1927, 81.

Sect. 24 amended, 1928, 296 § 1.

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 441.

Sect. 29 amended, 1925, 348 § 1.

Sects. 33-35 added, 1923, 470 § 1 (relative to the board of registration
of certified public accountants).

Sects. 36-38 added, 1925, 348 § 2 (relative to a new board of state
examiners of plumbers, serving in the department of civil service and
registration).

Sect. 36 amended, 1926, 319.

Chapter 14. — Department of Corporations and Taxation.

Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 520 § 1.

Sect. 4, seventh par. amended, 1921, 486 § 2; section amended, 1922,
330; second and third pars, revised, 1928, 302; fifth par. amended, 1927,
129.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 21.

Chapter 15. — Department of Education.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 442.

Sect. 4 amended, 1926, 322.

Sect. 6A added, 1921, 462 § 2 (state board for vocational education
established).

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 121.

Sect. 12 amended, 1921, 449 § 1; 1927, 7.

Sects. 13 and 14 stricken out and new sect. 13 inserted, 1925, 286 § 1.
• Sect. 15 revised, 1925, 286 § 2.

Sect. 19 amended, 1928, 135 § 1.

Sect. 21 revised, 1928, 135 § 2.

Sect. 24 added, 1928, 135 § 3 (relative to the trustees of the Lowell
textile institute).

562 Changes in the [Chaps. I6-23.

Chapter 16. — Department of Public Works.

Sect. 1 repealed, 1927, 297 § 1.

Sect. 2 amended, 1927, 297 § 2.

Sect. 3 repealed, 1927, 297 § 1.

Sect. 4 revised, 1927, 297 § 3.

Sect. 6 amended, 1922, 534 § 2; revised, 1927, 297 § 4.

Chapter 17. — Department of Public Health.

Sect. 8 amended, 1924, 477 § 2. (See 1924, 477.)
Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 481; repealed, 1925, 348 § 5.

Chapter 19. — Department of Mental Diseases.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 443.

Sect. 4 A added, 1922, 519 § 1 (establishing a division of mental hygiene
in the department of mental diseases).
Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 410 § 2; 1925, 293 § 1.
Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 449 § 2; 1922, 410 § 3; 1925, 293 § 2.

Chapter 20. — Department of Agriculture.
Sect. 2 amended, 1925, 287.

Chapter 21. — Department of Conservation.

Sect. 2 amended, 1923, 369 § 1.
Sect. 7 amended, 1923, 144; 1928, 170.

Sect. 8A added, 1929, 372 § 1 (establishing the state supervisor of
marine fisheries).

Sect. 9 amended, 1929, 253 § 1.

Chapter 22. — Department of Public Safety.

Sect. 2 amended, 1923, 330.

Sect. 6 amended, 1925, 322 § 1.

Sect. 7A added, 1924, 504 § 1 (authorizing the payment of reasonable
hospital, medical and siu^gical expenses of officers or inspectors of the de-
partment injured while on police duty).

Sect. 8 revised, 1922, 9.

Sect. 9A added, 1921, 461 (additional appointments in the division of
state police, "state constabulary", so called); amended, 1922, 331 § 1;
1927, 238 § 1; 1928, 303; 1929, 343 § 1.

Sect. 9B added, 1929, 343 § 3 (providing for the apportionment to the
Highway Fund of part of the appropriations of the division of state police).

Sect. 11 amended, 1925, 221.

Chapter 23. — Department of Labor and Industries.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 306 § 1.

Sect. 3 amended, 1921, 306 § 2.

Sect. 4 amended, 1921, 306 § 3; 1922, 196; 1924, 258 § 1; 1927, 275.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 306 § 4.

Chaps. 24-29.] GENERAL LaWS. 563

Sect. 9 revised, 1924, 258 § 2.

Sects. 9x1-90 added, under caption "The Massachusetts Industrial
Commission", 1929, 357 § 1 (establishing said commission and defining its
purposes).

Sects. 10 and 11 repealed, 1929, 357 § 2.

Chapter 24. — Department of Industrial Accidents.

Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 537 § 1; 1923, 477 § 1.
Sect. 3 revised, 1923, 151.
Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 477 § 2.
Sects. 8 and 9 repealed, 1921, 462 § 8.

Chapter 26. — Department of Public Utilities.

Sect. 5A added, 1922, 259 § 1 (authorizing the department of public
utilities to summon witnesses and take testimony); amended, 1923, 362
§18.

Sect. 6 repealed, 1923, 227.

Sect. 12 revised, 1928, 139 § 2.

Sects. 12A and 12B added, under caption "Securities Division",
1929, 287 § 1 (establishing a securities division in the department of public
utilities, and providing for the more effective enforcement of the "sale of
securities act", so called).

Sects. 13-16 repealed, 1928, 139 § 1.

Chapter 26. — Department of Banking and Insurance.

Sect. 3 amended, 1922, 513.
Sect. 7 amended, 1924, 261.

Sect. 8A added, 1925, 346 § 3 (board of appeal on motor vehicle liability
policies and bonds); amended, 1926, 272; 1928, 381 § 1.

Chapter 27. — Department of Correction.

Sect. 4 revised, 1923, 231 § 1.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 312; 1924, 439; revised, 1929, 384.

Chapter 28. — Metropolitan District Commission.

Sect. 2 amended, 1923, 427.

Sect. 5 added, 1922, 406 (authorizing the appointment of a superin-
tendent of police); made a special law instead of an amendment to the
General Laws, 1923, 399 § 3.

Sects. 5 and 6 added, 1923, 399 § 1 (establishing the division of metropoli-
tan planning within the metropolitan district commission) ; sect. 5 amended,
1925, 129 ; sect. 6 amended, 1924, 354.

Chapter 29. — State Finance.

Establishment of commission on administration and finance, see 1922,
545; 1923, 362.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 362 § 19.

Sect. 3 amended, 1923, 300. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5-8.)

564 Changes in the [Chap. 30.

Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 362 § 20. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 6-8.)
Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 362 § 21; revised, 1925, 156. (See 1922, 545
§§ 1, 5, 6.)

Sect. 5A added, 1923, 362 § 22 (requiring departments, offices and com-
missions to submit with budget estimates forecasts of probable annual
construction expenditures). (See 1922, 545 § 7.)

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 362 § 23. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 6-8.)
Sects. 7-9. See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 6-8.

Sect. 9A added, 1928, 251 § 1 (relative to reimbursement by the cities
and towns of the several metropolitan districts of sums paid on their
account by the commonwealth under the state retirement law).
Sect. 10. See 1922 545 5 28.

Sect! 18 amended, 1923, 362 § 24; 1927, 222 § 4. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 20 amended, 1923, 362 § 25. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 23 revised, 1921, 342; amended, 1923, 362 § 26. (See 1922, 545
§§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 24 amended, 1923, 362 § 27. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 25 amended, 1923, 362 § 28. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 26 amended, 1923, 362 § 29. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 27 amended, 1923, 387.

Sect. 29 amended, 1923, 362 § 30. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 31, sentence added at end, 1928, 183 § 1. (See 1928, 183 § 2.)
Sect. 33 amended, 1923, 362 § 31. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 34 amended, 1922, 10.
Sect. 38 revised, 1926, 197 § 1.
Sect. 43 repealed, 1926, 143.

Sect. 48 amended, 1923, 362 § 32. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 50 amended, 1923, 362 § 33. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 56 amended, 1923, 362 § 34. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 58 amended, 1923, 362 § 35. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)
Sect. 61 amended, 1923, 362 § 36. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)

Chapter 30. — General Provisions relative to State Departments, Com-
missions, Officers and Employees.

Reclassification by the commission on administration and finance of
certain appointive offices and positions in the government of the com-
monwealth and an investigation of certain statutory and other salaries,
1926, Resolve 45.

Establishment of commission on administration and finance and pro-
vision for a central purchasing agency, see 1922, 545; 1923, 362.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 362 § 37.

Sect. 6 revised, 1921, 275.

Sect. 7 revised, 1923, 362 § 38.

Sect. 7A added, 1921, 449 § 3 (rendering women eligible to hold state
office); amended, 1922, 371 § 1.

Sect. 13 amended, 1927. 74.

Sect. 15 amended, 1923, 362 § 39. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)

Sect. 25 amended, 1923, 362 § 40.

Sect. 27 revised, 1921, 225; amended, 1923, 362 § 41.

Sect. 30A added, 1923, 362 § 42 (relative to a uniform style of letter-
head for executive and administrative officers, departments and institu-
tions). (See G. L. 8, § 8.)

Chaps. 31, 32.] GENERAL LaWS. 565

Sect. 33 amended, 1922, 24 § 2; 1923, 362 § 43. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 6.)
Sect. 35 amended, 1923, 362 § 44. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 36 revised, 1923, 362 § 45. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 9-13.)
Sect. 38 amended, 1923, 362 § 46. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 39 amended, 1922, 416; 1929, 111.

Sect. 42 amended, 1923, 362 § 47. (See 1922, 358, 545 §§ 1, 9-13.)
Sect. 44A added, 1927, 135 (providing for the conveyance or transfer
of control of any state land needed for the laying out or relocation of a
highway).

Sect. 45 amended, 1923, 362 § 48. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 46 amended, 1923, 362 § 49. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 47 revised, 1923, 362 § 50. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 48. See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.

Sect. 49 amended, 1923, 362 § 51. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.)
Sect. 50. See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 4, 17.

Sects. 51 and 52 added, 1923, 362 § 52 (relative to the purchase of cer-
tain materials, supplies and other property by executive and administrative
departments of the commonwealth).

Chapter 31. — Civil Service.

Sect. 4 amended, 1924, 197; new paragraph added at end, 1929, 134.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 130.

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 36; revised, 1929, 306.

Sect. 21 amended, 1924, 155.

Sect. 23 revised, 1922, 463.

Sect. 26 amended, 1924, 181; repealed, 1925, 220 § 1.

Sect. 31 revised, 1922, 31.

Sects. 42A and 42B added, 1923, 242 § 1 (changing the civil service laws
relative to certain police officers in certain cities and towns); Sect. 42A
amended, 1925, 220 § 2.

Sect. 44 repealed, 1923, 242 § 2.

Sect. 45 revised, 1925, 220 § 3.

Sect. 46 amended, 1925, 220 § 4.

Chapter 32. — Retirement Systems and Pensions.

As to retirement allowances based on annuity and pension contributions
for employees of the city of Boston or of the county of Suffolk, see 1922,
521 and amendments.

As to salaries and retirement allowances of present justices of the supreme
judicial court, see 1923, 375.

Provision for a special commission to investigate the subject of old age
and other pensions, see 1923, Resolve 43; 1924, Resolves 33, 35, 44.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 341 § 1.

Sect. 2, par. (1) revised, 1924, 264; par. (3) amended, 1921, 439 § 1;
par. (4) amended, 1925, 12; par. (8) revised, 1928, 248 § 1; par. (9) revised,
1921, 487 § 4; par. (10) added, 1921, 487 § 5; par. (11) added, 1928, 248
§2.

Sect. 3, par. (4) amended, 1922, 341 § 2.

Sect. 4, (^) B, par. (e) added, 1921, 487 § 6; section revised, 1926,
300 § 1; par. (2) A (a) revised, 1929, 366.

566 Changes in the [Chap. 32.

Sect. 5 (par. included within lines 51-64) revised, 1926, 300 § 2; (par.
included within lines 78-83) revised, 1922, 341 § 3; par. (S) A (6) stricken
out and pars. {2) A (6) and (2) A (c) substituted, 1925, 244 § 1; par. (2) E
amended, 1922, 341 § 4, revised, 1923, 205 § 2; par. (S) B (b) revised,
1923, 205 § 1, 1925, 244 § 2; par. (2) C (d) added, 1927, 101 (regulating the
crediting of interest to certain members of the State retirement association
for periods between interest compounding days) ; par. (2) E revised, 1929,
367.

Sects. 6-19, not applicable to supervisors of attendance, 1928, 184 § 3.
Sect. 6 (par. contained in lines 20-23) amended, 1924, 281 § 1; (par.
contained in lines 31-33) revised, 1925, 228 § 1.

Sect. 7, par. (3) amended, 1924,263 § 1; 1927, 173; par. (4) amended,
1929, 365 § 1.

Sect. 9, par. (2) amended, 1929, 365 § 2.

Sect. 10 extended, 1921, 460; par. (5) amended, 1929, 365 § 3; affected,
1929, 365 § 6; par. (19) added, 1929, 365 § 4.

Sect. 11, par. (1) amended, 1923, 381 § 1; par. (5) added, 1926, 212.

Sect. 16, par. (1) amended, 1922, 521 § 33; revised, 1924, 250.

Sect. 18 revised, 1923, 381 § 2.

Sect. 19 amended, 1929, 365 § 5.

Sects. 20-25 affected, 1921, 413; 1923, 479 § 3.

Sect. 20 (par. contained in lines 9 and 10) amended, 1924, 281 § 2;
revised, 1926, 378 § 1.

Sect. 25, par. (2) C (a) amended, 1921, 480; par. (2) B (b) revised,
1923, 190 § 1; par. (2) E revised, 1923, 190 § 2.

Sect. 46 amended, 1921, 402; 1926, 343 § 7.

Sect. 49 amended, 1921, 279.

Sects. 49-60. See 1922, 521 § 32.

Sect. 56 amended, 1922, 261.

Sect. 57 amended, 1923, 386.

Sect. 61 amended, 1921, 486 § 3. (See 1923, 375; 1926, 380 § 6.)

Sect. 62. See 1923, 375; 1926, 380 § 6.

Sect. 63 amended, 1921, 486 § 4, 487 § 7.

Sect. 65 revised, 1921, 413; 1923, 479 § 3.

Sect. 66 amended, 1923, 407 § 3.

Sect. 68 revised, 1921, 487 § 1.

Sect. 69 revised, 1921, 487 § 2.

Sect. 71 amended, 1921, 487 § 3; revised, 1928, 402 § 2; 1929, 308 § 2;
affected, 1929, 308 §§ 3, 4.

Sect. 74 revised, 1921, 487 § 8; affected, 1922, 266.

Sect. 77, par. (6) amended, 1923, 458 § 1. (See 1923, 458 § 2.)

Sect. 80 amended, 1921, 337 § 1.

Sect. 81 amended, 1928, 252.

Sect. 85A added, 1921, 337 § 2 (relative to retirement of members of
fire departments in towns).

Sect. 87 amended, 1923, 178; 1924, 371; revised, 1928, 402 § 3.

Sect. 87A added, 1924, 504 § 2 (providing annuity payments to families
of certain deceased members of the department of public safety) ; repealed,

1928, 402 § 4.

Sect. 88, new sentence added at end, 1928, 402 § 5.

Sect. 89 revised, 1924, 504 § 3; 1928, 402 § 1; 1929, 308 § 1; affected,

1929, 308 §§ 3, 4. (See 1928, 402 §§ 7, 8.)
Sect. 92 revised, 1926, 289.

Chap. 33.] GENERAL LaWS. 567

Chapter 33. — Militia.

For a complete list of temporary war legislation prior to 1921, see table
of changes for 1920 under chapter 16 of the Revised Laws, superseded by
chapter 33 of the General Laws.

See also 1921, 38, authorizing counties to pay their employees who
served in the world war the difference between their military and county
compensation.

State pay and "bonus" for war service, 1917, 211, 332; 1918, 92; 1919,
283 [§ 17 repealed by 1924, 448 § 2]; 1920, 51, 250, 609; 1922, 457. 1921,
326 and 1922, 240, extending time for filing applications for payments to
November 30, 1921, and further to November 30, 1923. Time limit for fil-
ing applications abolished, 1927, 206. (See 1924, 452.) 1921, 354, entitling
student nurses of medical department of United States army during world
war to receive the "bonus". 1924, 447, enlarging class of persons to whom
payment may be made. 1924, 448, entitling "yeomen F" to receive the
"bonus".

Commission to ascertain the most appropriate methods of caring for the
graves of American dead in foreign soil, revived and continued, 1921, 448;

1922, 455; 1923, Resolve 73; 1924, Resolve 50; 1925, 310.

Military supplies, etc., not required to be purchased through central
purchasing agency, see 1922, 545 §§ 10-12; 1923, 362 § 1 subsect. 22, § 52.

The purchase of certain historical works relative to the service of Massa-
chusetts men in the army or navy during the civil, Spanish or world war
authorized, 1923, 193; 1924, 246.

Establishment of an unpaid special commission to provide for the prepa-
ration of a suitable history of Massachusetts' part in the world war, see

1923, 408. See also 1927, Resolve 37; 1928, Resolve 23.
The following references are to the original Chapter 33.
Sect. 6 revised, 1922, 152.

Sect. 28 revised, 1921, 359 § 1.

Sect. 30 amended, 1921, 276.

Sect. 35A added, 1923, 459 § 10 (relative to the assessment upon cities
and towns of the expense of certain services performed by the land or
naval forces of the commonwealth).

Sect. 52, subsect. (a) amended, 1922, 344; section revised, 1924, 257.

Sect. 64 amended, 1923, 101. (See 1924, 80.)

Sect. 72 amended, 1923, 413 § 2.

Sect. 86, subsect. (a) revised, 1921, 359 § 2; subsect. (6) revised, 1923,
459 § 1.

Sect. 100 revised, 1923, 459 § 2.

Sect. 145, subsect. (a) revised, 1923, 459 § 3.

Sect. 146 revised, 1923, 459 § 4.

Sect. 151, subsect. (a) revised, 1923, 459 § 5.

Sect. 152, par. (c) added, 1923, 459 § 6 (relative to investigations as to
claims for injury to private property by members of the volunteer militia).

Sect. 154, subsect. (a) revised, 1921, 359 § 3.

Sect. 157, pars, (b) and (c) repealed, 1922, 445 § 1; par. (a) revised,
1923, 459 § 7.

Sect. 160 amended, 1922, 445 § 2; revised, 1923, 459 § 8.

Sect. 161 revised, 1923, 459 § 9.

Sect. 176, subsect. (a) revised, 1923, 459 § 11.

Sect. 180, new par. added at end, 1924, 396 § 1.

568 Changes in the [Chaps. 34-36.

Sect. 254 amended, 1924, 396 § 2.

Chapter 33 repealed and superseded by 1924, 465.

The following references are to new Chapter 33, inserted by 1924, 465.

Sect. 22, par. contained in lines 18-23 amended, 1927, 19.

Sect. 48, subsect. (d) amended, 1925, 230.

Sect. 60 amended, 1927, 120.

Sect. 69 amended, 1927, 291.

Sect. 138, par. (c) revised, 1926, 286.

Sect. 145 amended, 1926, 373 § 1. (See 1926, 396.)

Sect. 151 revised, 1925, 270.

Chapter 34. — Counties and County Commissioners.

Counties authorized to pay their employees who served in the world
war the difference between their military and county compensation, 1921,
38.

Sect. 3 A added, 1921, 449 § 4 (rendering women eligible to county
offices); amended, 1922, 371 § 2.

Sect. 5, schedule revised, 1927, 327 § 1.

Sects. 9A-9E added, 1922, 123 (defining the records of county commis-
sioners).

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 423 § 3.

Sect. 17 revised, 1922, 383.

Chapter 35. — County Treasxirers, State Supervision of County Accounts,

and County Finances.

Counties authorized to pay their employees who served in the world
war the difference between their military and county compensation, 1921, 38.

Sect. 3 amended, 1924, 404 § 2.

Sect. 6 revised, 1921, 300.

Sect. 22 amended, 1927, 96 § 1.

Sect. 23 revised, 1927, 96 § 2.

Sect. 23A added, 1929, 42 (relative to the disposition of unclaimed ac-
counts carried on the books of certain county officers).

Sect. 26 amended, 1923, 334 § 1.

Sect. 28 amended, 1921, 336; 1926, 58.

Sect. 30 amended, 1922, 127.

Sect. 36A added, 1925, 74 (authorizing the borrowing of money by
counties to meet extraordinary expenditures in cases of emergency).

Sect. 37A added, 1922, 122 (relative to the borrowing of money by
counties and to the use of proceeds and premiums).

Sect. 38 amended, 1923, 428.

Sect. 39 amended, 1921, 22.

Sect. 43 A added, 1924, 404 § 3 (requiring surety company bonds from
certain county officers and employees).

Sects. 44-47. See 1921, 486 § 2.

Chapter 36. — Registers of Deeds.

Sect. 6 revised, 1926, 98 § 1.
Sect. 13 revised, 1926, 130.

Sect. 13A added, 1927, 150 (relative to the filing of plans in registries
of deeds).

Chaps. 37-40.] GENERAL LaWS. 569

Sect. 19 revised, 1929, 61.

Sect. 24 amended, 1927, 63 § 1; revised, 1928, 386 § 1.

Sect. 31A added, 1921, 207 (registers of deeds to notify commissioner
of corporations and taxation of the recording of certain deeds and decla-
rations of trust).

Sect. 33. See 1921, 422.

Sect. 34 revised, 1921, 422 § 1; 1928, 247.

Sect. 35 amended, 1924, 349 § 1.

Sect. 36 revised, 1922, 301.

Chapter 37. — Sheriffs.

Sect. 2 amended, 1924, 404 § 4.
Sect. 6 repealed, 1924, 404 § 5.
Sect. 7 amended, 1924, 404 § 6.
Sect. 19 revised, 1924, 372 § 1; 1925, 131 § 1; 1927, 183 § 1.

Chapter 38. — Medical Examiners.

Sect. 1 (par. included within lines 38-43) amended, 1926, 12.

Sect. 3 amended, 1924, 404 § 7.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 439 § 1; 1927, 200 § 1; revised, 1927, 277 § 1.

Sect. 11 amended, 1923, 362 § 53.

Chapter 39. — Municipal Government.

Sect. 13 amended, 1921, 486 § 5; revised, 1925, 66.

Sect. 16 revised, 1923, 388; new paragraph added at end, 1929, 276.

Chapter 40. — Powers and Duties of Cities and Towns.

For the repeal of certain special acts authorizing the incurring of
liabilities by municipal officers without appropriation, see 1928, 396 § 2,

Sect. 4 amended, 1926, 67; 1928, 155 § 1; revised, 1929, 323.

Sect. 5, cl. (1) amended, 1924, 404 § 8; cl. (12) revised, 1921, 486 § 6;
1923, 202, 401; amended, 1927, 16; 1928, 9; 1929, 9; revised, 1929, 108;
cl. (21) revised, 1921, 371 § 1; cl. (21 A) added, 1921, 371 § 2 (authorizing
towns to appropriate money for purchase, etc., of ambulances); cl. (31)
added, 1924, 248 § 1 (for establishment and maintenance of children's
health camps); amended, 1925, 17 § 1; cl. (32) added, 1924, 504 § 4 (for
payment of hospital, medical and surgical expenses of certain persons doing
police duty); cl. (33) added, 1926, 116 (for acquiring land for public parking
places and maintaining the same); cl. (34) added, 1928, 36 (for certain
traveling and other expenses of municipal officers and employees); cl. (35)
added, 1928, 350 § 1 (for airport purposes); cl. (36) added, 1929, 288 § 6
(for improvement of low lands and swamps and eradication of mosquitoes).

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 80; revised, 1923, 122. (See 1921, 169, author-
izing city of Boston to utilize schoolhouse property to provide quarters for
organizations of war veterans.)

Sect. 9A added, 1921, 227 (authorizing cities and towns to provide
quarters for camps of the United Spanish War Veterans).

Sect. 11 amended, 1921, 252.

Sect. 12A added, 1928, 51 (authorizing cities and towns to establish
and maintain plants for the purpose of purifying shellfish taken therein).

570 Changes in the [Chap. 41.

Sect. 13A added, 1923, 234 (authorizing cities and towns to establish
insurance funds to pay workmen's compensation).

Sect. 13B added, 1925, 303 § 1 (authorizino; small towns to appropriate
money for free residence quarters for school ph3^sicians).

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 486 § 7; 1923, 266; 1925, 272.

Sect. 21, par. (14) added, 1928, 319.

Sect. 22 amended, 1928, 357 § 6.

Sects. 25-33. See 1924, 488; 1925,219; 1926,350; 1927,220; 1928,70,
137 § 2; 1929, 88, for special zoning provisions for Boston.

Sect. 25 amended, 1925, 116 § 1.

Sect. 27 amended, 1925, 116 § 2.

Sect. 27A added, 1924, 133 (relative to appeals under ordinances or
by-laws limiting buildings to specified zones or districts).

Sect. 29 amended, 1925, 116 § 3.

Sect. 30 amended, 1922, 40; revised, 1926, 59; amended, 1926, 216;
revised, 1929, 39.

Sect. 30A added, 1927, 247 (relative to the effect on prior permits of the
adoption or modification of zoning ordinances and by-laws).

Sect. 32 A added, 1929, 369 (relative to the publication of ordinances and
proposed ordinances in certain cities).

Sect. 40 revised, 1926, 318.

Sects. 42A^2F added, 1923, 391 (relative to the collection of water
rates).

Sect. 42A amended, 1924, 107; 1927, 56.

Sect. 42B amended, 1924, 413.

Chapter 41. — Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 66; par. included in 30th and 31st lines revised,
1925, 178. (See 1921, 65, rendering women eligible to elective municipal
office in Boston.)

Sect. 4 A added, 1929, 36 (relative to the appointment by town boards
of their members to hold other town offices or positions).

Sect. 15 amended, 1924, 109.

Sect. 15A added, 1922, 86 (relative to the certification of appropriation
orders by city and town clerks); amended, 1923, 17.

Sect. 21 amended, 1921, 130.

Sect. 24A added, 1921, 208 (election or appointment of assistant as-
sessors in cities); revised, 1928, 287.

Sect. 25 A added, 1921, 14 (authorizing assessors in towns to appoint
assistant assessors).

Sect. 32A added, 1925, 303 § 2 (authorizing school physicians in certain
small towns to be agents of selectmen acting as overseers of the poor).

Sect. 34A added, 1923, 26 (relative to changing the name of the over-
seers of the poor in certain cities and towns to the board of public welfare).
(See 1927, 165.)

Sect. 35 revised, 1926, 65 § 1.

Sect. 38 A added, 1924, 16 (relative to the collection by collectors of
taxes of accounts due to cities and towns); amended, 1926, 269 § 3.

Sect. 50 amended, 1924, 33 § 1.

Sect. 53 amended, 1924, 33 § 2.

Sect. 54A added, 1922, 135 (requiring annual notification to the assessors
by certain city and town officials of receipts of the preceding year).

Chaps. 42, 43.] GENERAL LaWS. 571

Sect. 55 amended, 1921, 486 § 8.

Sect. 56 amended, 1922, 84.

Sect. 61 A added, 1928, 207 (providing for the appointment of a tempo-
rary auditor, treasurer or accountant in a municipality in certain cases).

Sect. 76 amended, 1922, 297.

Sect. 77 amended, 1921, 486 § 9.

Sect. 91A added, 1924, 82 § 1 (relative to the appointment of constables
by selectmen).

Sect. 100 revised, 1927, 157; new sentence added at end, 1929, 192.

Sect. 102A added, 1925, 303 § 3 (authorizing selectmen in certain small
towns to appoint school physician as inspector of health).

Sect. 106A added, 1925, 303 § 4 (authorizing selectmen in certain small
towns to appoint school physician as town physician).

Sect. 107 amended, 1927, 18; revised, 1929*, 130.

Sect. 108. See 1929, 36.

Sect. 109A added, 1924, 404 § 9 (requiring surety company bonds from
certain city, town and district officers and employees).

Sect. Ill amended, 1921, 486 § 10; 1923, 346; 1927, 131.

Sect. Ill A added, 1929, 206 (providing for vacations for members of
the regular or permanent police and fire forces in towns).

Chapter 42. — Boundaries of Cities and Towns.

Boundary line between Carver and Middleborough established, 1921, 82;
between Cambridge, Belmont and Watertown, 1922, 181 ; between Walpole
and Foxborough, 1924, 440; between Fitchburg and Leominster, 1925, 65;
between Dover and Walpole, 1927, 176; between Norfolk and Walpole
(portion), 1927, 179; between Marshfield and Scituate (portion), 1928,
159; between the counties, of Plymouth and Norfolk (portion) and be-
tween Hingham and Cohasset (portion), 1928, 160.

Sect. 10 revised, 1923, 103.

Chapter 43. — City Charters.

Provision for a special commission to revise the charter of the city of
Boston, see 1923, Resolve 54. See 1924, 479.

Sect. 1 (last paragraph) amended, 1922, 237 § 1.

Sect. 8 amended, 1922, 237 § 2.

Sect. 9 revised, 1925, 188.

Sect. 15 revised, 1922, 237 § 3.

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 237 § 4.

Sect. 28 amended, 1928, 300 § 1.

Sect. 29 amended, 1928, 300 § 2.

Sect. 31 amended, 1922, 237 § 5.

Sect. 36 revised, 1922, 237 § 6.

Sect. 40 amended, 1922, 237 § 7.

Sects. 44A-44H added, 1922, 282 § 1 (providing for the nomination at
preliminary elections of candidates for elective municipal office in cities
governed under a standard form of city charter).

Sect. 45 amended, 1922, 282 § 2.

Sect. 50 amended, 1922, 237 § 8.

Sect. 59 revised, 1922, 237 § 9.

Sect. 62 amended, 1923, 232.

572 Changes in the [Chap. 44.

Sect. 68 revised, 1922, 237 § 10.
Sect. 82 revised, 1922, 237 § 11.
Sect. 88 amended, 1929, 309.

Chapter 44. — Municipal Finance.

As to municipal indebtedness of the city of Boston, see 1909, 486 § 26;
1910, 437; 1911, 165; 1918, Sp. Acts 52.
Relative to the maintenance and operation of municipal light plants,

1922, 184.

Temporary act, in force until July first, 1932, relative to investigations
by the director of accounts of municipal accounts and financial trans-
actions, 1926, 210; 1929, 335.

For the repeal of certain special acts authorizing the incurring of in-
debtedness or the payment of debt otherwise than as authorized by the
General Laws, see 1928, 396 § 2.

Sect. 2 amended, 1928, 396 § 1.

Sect. 5A added, 1922, 28 (authorizing cities to borrow money to meet
expenditures by city officials in anticipation of appropriations); revised,

1923, 359 § 1.

Sect. 6A added, 1921, 366 (authorizing towns to borrow money for
highway purposes in anticipation of state or county reimbursement).

Sect. 7 amended, 1923, 338; cl. (17) affected, 1928, 64; section revised,
1928, 324; cl. (12) added, 1928, 350 § 2 (authorizing cities and towns to
borrow money for airport purposes).

Sect. 8, cIs. (3a) and (56) added, 1923, 303 § 1 (authorizing cities and
towns to incur debt outside the debt limit for certain purposes); cl. (Sb)
revised, 1926, 317; cl. (5c) added, 1926, 45 (authorizing cities and towns
to incur debt outside the statutory limit for constructing and laying aque-
ducts and large water mains); cl. (5) amended, 1921, 486 § 11; section
revised, 1928, 291.

Sect. 10 amended, 1928, 379 § 2.

Sect. 17 amended, 1923, 303 § 2.

Sect. 18 amended, 1923, 303 § 3.

Sect. 19 amended, 1923, 359 § 2. (As to Boston, see 1909, 486 § 26;
1910, 437; 1911, 165.)

Sect. 20 amended, 1928, 224.

Sect. 22. As to rate of interest on securities issued by city of Boston,
see 1918, Sp. Acts 52.

Sect. 24 amended, 1929, 28.

Sect. 24 A added, 1921, 294 (relative to the form of notes issued by
towns and districts).

Sect. 29. As to tax limit of city of Boston, see 1909, 490 I § 53; 1910,
521; 1913, 719 §18; 1915, Sp. Acts 184 § 2, 304; 1916, Sp. Acts 267; 1918,
Sp. Acts 120, 132 § 3; 1919, Sp. Acts 172, 206 § 10; 1920, 401, 524, 641 § 5;
1922, 205; 1923, 223; 1924, 328; 1925, 271; 1926, 117; 1927, 243; 1928,
200; 1929, 140.

Sect. 33x\ added, 1922, 250 (providing that the financial budgets of cities
shall include provision for the salaries of officials).

Sect. 34. See 1922, 28.

Sect. 40 amended, 1926, 158.

Sect. 47. As to Boston, see 1909, 486 § 26; 1910, 437; 1911, 165.

Chaps. 45-48.] GENERAL LaWS. 573

Sect. 50 repealed, 1921, 486 § 12.

Sect. 53 amended, 1926, 205.

Sect. 55 amended, 1921, 486 § 13.

Sect. 55A added, 1929, 81 (relieving certain municipal officers from
liability to theii* municipalities for the loss of public moneys by reason of
the liquidation of certain depositories thereof).

Sect. 56 amended, 1926, 111.

Sect. 62 added, 1922, 253 (providing penalties for violation of the laws
relative to municipal finance) ; amended, 1926, 248.

Sect. 63 added, 1923, 303 § 4 (requiring cities and towns to use the
proceeds of the sale of real estate for certain purposes in certain cases).

Chapter 45. — Public Parks, Playgrounds and the Public Domain.

Sect. 2 revised, 1924, 209 § 1.
Sect. 3 revised, 1924, 209 § 2.
Sect. 10 repealed, 1924, 209 § 3.
Sect. 14, new sentence added at end, 1928, 191.
Sect. 21 revised, 1927, 212.

Sects. 23A-23C added, 1926, 387 (relative to the establishment and
maintenance of shore reservations in certain towns).

Chapter 46. — Return and Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Sect. 3 amended, 1925, 281 § 1.
Sect. 10 revised, 1926, 243 § 1.
Sect. 13 revised, 1925, 281 § 2.
Sect. 26 amended, 1929, 273.

Chapter 47. — Workhouses and Almshouses.

Chapter repealed and new chapter 47 (Infirmaries) inserted by 1927,
203 § 1.

Chapter 48. — Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts.

Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 274.

Sect. 13 amended, 1922, 515; 1927, 160.

Sect. 14 amended, 1927, 280 § 1.

Sect. 15 revised, 1927, 280 § 2.

Sect. 20A added, 1922, 252 (relative to the operation of portable saw-
mills).

Sect. 24 amended, 1923, 214; 1927, 280 § 3.

Sect. 28 A added, 1929, 284 (providing for a state fire patrol in certain
counties).

Sect. 31 amended, 1925, 250 § 2.

Sect. 36 amended, 1923, 109.

Sect. 59A added, 1925, 250 § 1 (relative to the response of fire depart-
ments to calls for aid from other cities, etc.); new par. added, 1927, 199.

Sects. 59B-59D (and heading) added, 1928, 218 (providing for the estab-
lishment of reserve forces in the fu'e departments of cities).

Sect. 63 amended, 1928, 5.

574 Changes in the [Chaps, so, 51.

Sect. 83 amended, 1923, 362 § 54; new sentence added at end, 1928,
402 § 6.

Sect. 87 added, 1924, 343 (relative to rules and regulations of the depart-
ment of public safety in respect to certain fire department equipment).

Chapter 50. — General Provisions relative to Primaries, Caucuses and

Elections.

Sect. 1, new par. added, 1923, 131 § 3; par. contained in lines 50-55
revised, 1928, 212 § 1.

Chapter 51. — Voters.

Board of election commissioners and registration of voters in Boston,
1913, 835 §§ 76-87; 1915, 48, 91 § 7; 1917, 29 § 12; 1919, 269 §§ 1, 6, 7;

1920, 142; 1921, 93, 114 § 5.

For listing of voters in Boston, see 1917, 29; 1920, 145; 1921, 114; in
Chelsea, 1917, 106; 1921, 84; in Cambridge, 1918, 282; 1921, 84; 1927,
99; in Watertown, 1919, 108; 1921, 84; 1924, 137; in Lowell, 1923, 131.

Election commission and registration of voters in Lowell, 1920, 154;

1921, 115; in Cambridge, 1921, 239; listing board and registration of
voters in Revere, 1925, 84; election commissioners in Somerville, 1928,
82; 1929, 178 § 1.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 305.
Sect. 2 revised, 1924, 106.
Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 131 § 4.
Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 131 § 5.
Sect. 6 revised, 1923, 131 § 6; 1925, 146.
Sect. 7 amended, 1923, 131 § 7.
Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 131 § 8.
Sect. 9 amended, 1923, 131 § 9.
Sect. 11 amended, 1923, 131 § 10.

Sect. 14A added, 1925, 183 (relative to the assessment of poll taxes
and the making of certain lists in cities).
Sect. 15 revised, 1921, 102 § 1.
Sect. 16 revised, 1921, 102 § 2.
Sect. 22 amended, 1921, 156.

Sect. 26 amended, 1924, 204 § 1; revised, 1928, 103 § 1. (See 1929, 2.)
Sect. 27 amended, 1924, 204 § 2; revised, 1928, 103 § 2.
Sect. 28 revised, 1924, 204 § 3.
Sect. 30 amended, 1928, 103 § 3.
Sect. 35 amended, 1923, 131 § 11.
Sect. 36 amended, 1921, 209 § 1.

Sect. 37 amended, 1921, 209 § 2; 1923, 131 § 12; revised, 1929, 280 § 1.
Sect. 39 amended, 1923, 131 § 13.
Sect. 42 amended, 1923, 131 § 14.
Sect. 43 amended, 1923, 131 § 15.
Sect. 44 amended, 1922, 166.
Sect. 50 revised, 1929, 128.
Sect. 55 amended, 1921, 209 § 3.
Sect. 57 amended, 1923, 238 § 1.
Sect. 59 amended, 1922, 189.
Sect. 61 revised, 1921, 209 § 4.
Sect. 62 amended, 1924, 252 § 1.

Chaps. 52-54.] GENERAL LaWS. 575

Chapter 52, — Political Committees.

Sect. 1 revised, 1927, 25 § 1; amended, 1927, 295.

Sect. 2 amended, 1925, 114 § 1; 1927, 25 § 2.

Sect. 4A added, 1928, 188 (remedying the evils resulting from the fail-
ure of election of a ward or town committee and the failure of such a com-
mittee to organize).

Sect. 5 amended, 1928, 212 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1928, 212 § 3.

Sect. 7 revised, 1925, 114 § 2; new par. added at end, 1928, 212 § 4.

Sect. 9 amended, 1926, 100.

Chapter 53. — Nominations, Questions to be submitted to the Voters,

Primaries and Caucuses.

Sect. 3 amended, 1927, 24 § 1.

Sect. 6 revised, 1924, 201.

Sect. 7 amended, 1922, 214 § 1; 1923, 124.

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 387.

Sect. 11 amended, 1927, 24 § 2. [See 1909, 486 § 56; 1914, 730 § 6;
1921, 288 § 2; 1926, 105 § 3, as to time of filing objections to nomination
papers of candidates for municipal office in Boston.]

Sect. 13. See 1909, 486 § 56; 1914, 730 § 6; 1921, 288 § 2; 1926, 105 § 3,
as to time of withdrawal of nominations to municipal office in Boston.

Sect. 14 revised, 1929, 283.

Sect. 19 revised, 1925, 97.

Sect. 22A added, 1924, 302 § 1 (relative to fraudulent or invalid signatures
appended to initiative and referendum petitions).

Sect. 28 amended, 1926, 96.

Sect. 34 amended, 1923, 302 § 1; revised, 1925, 312 § 1.

Sect. 35 amended, 1923, 302 § 2; revised, 1925, 312 § 2.

Sect. 37 amended, 1928, 89 § 1. (See 1924, 252 §§ 1, 2.)

Sect. 38 amended, 1927, 110. (See 1924, 252 §§ 1, 2.)

Sect. 44 amended, 1929, 135.

Sect. 46 amended, 1922, 214 § 2.

Sect. 48. See 1925, 76.

Sect. 51 revised, 1925, 29.

Sect. 53A added, 1927, 24 § 3 (relative to objections to nominations at
state primaries and to withdrawals by persons nominated thereat).

Sect. 59. See 1921, 65, enabling women to sign nomination papers for
candidates for municipal office in Boston.

Sect. 61 amended, 1922, 214 § 3. [See 1909, 486 § 56; 1914, 730 § 6;
1921, 288 § 2; 1926, 105 § 3, as to certificates, etc., of nomination papers
of candidates for municipal office in Boston.]

Sect. 62, new sentence added at end, 1928, 321 § 1.

Sect. 76 amended, 1924, 252 § 2.

Sect. 117 amended, 1923, 186.

Chapter 54. — Elections.

Temporary act relative to statements of presidential preference of voters,
1928, 158.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 220 § 1. (See 1913, 835 § 217; 1918, 74; 1920,
636, as to division of city of Boston into voting precincts.)

576 Changes in the [Chaps. 55, 56.

Sect. 4 amended, 1924, 139; 1925, 135 § 1.

Sect. 11 amended, 1923, 204 § 1; 1925, 91; 1928, 149 § 1.

Sect. 12 amended, 1928, 149 § 2.

Sect. 13 amended, 1923, 204 § 2.

Sect. 14 revised, 1923, 204 § 3.

Sect. 41, third par. amended, 1926, 175 § 1; last par. amended, 1927,
24 §4.

Sect. 43 amended, 1925, 36.

Sect. 53 amended, 1926, 196.

Sect. 58. See 1909, 486 § 54; 1914, 730 § 5; 1921, 340; 1926, 105 § 2,
as to time for issuance of nomination papers for elective offices in Boston.

Sect. 63. See 1909, 486 § 32; 1914, 730 § 1; 1921, 288 § 1, as to date
of municipal election in Boston.

Sect. 64 amended, 1924, 171, 468.

Sect. 86 amended, 1925, 101 § 1.

Sect. 87, par. (b) revised, 1926, 38; 1929, 93.

Sect. 89 amended, 1925, 101 § 2.

Sect. 100 amended, 1925, 101 § 3.

Sect. 105 amended, 1921, 209 § 5. (See 1925, 29.)

Sect. 109 amended, 1928, 89 § 2.

Sect. 115 revised, 1925, 118 § 2.

Sect. 116 amended, 1925, 118 § 3.

Sect. 118 amended, 1926, 144.

Sect. 132 amended, 1921, 209 § 6.

Sect. 133 amended, 1921, 209 § 7.

Sect. 135 revised, 1925, 118 § 1.

Sect. 139 revised, 1922, 57.

Sect. 141 amended, 1922, 142.

Sect. 154. See 1922, 459.

Sect. 161 amended, 1924, 424 § 1.

Chapter 55. — Corrupt Practices and Election Inquests.

Sect. 1 revised, 1923, 110.

Sect. 4 revised, 1928, 212 § 5; affected, 1928, 212 § 13.

Sect. 6 revised, 1928, 212 § 6.

Sect. 16 revised, 1928, 212 § 7.

Sect. 17 revised, 1925, 57.

Sect. 22 revised, 1928, 212 § 8.

Sect. 23 amended, 1928, 212 § 9.

Sect. 33A added, 1923, 98 § 1 (relative to the use of the names of political
parties).

Sect. 34 A added, 1922, 269 § 1 (making of false statements in relation
to candidates for nomination or election to public office prohibited);
amended, 1926, 101.

Sect. 36 amended, 1922, 269 § 2.

Sect. 38 amended, 1928, 212 § 10.

Chapter 56. — Violations of Election Laws.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 114 § 6; 1923, 131 § 16.

Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 131 § 17.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 114 § 7; 1923, 131 § 18.

Chaps. 57-59.] GENERAL LaWS. 577

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 114 § 8; 1923, 131 § 19.

Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 4S6 § 14; 1923, 131 § 20; 1925, S4 § 10.

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 131 § 21; 1925, 84 § 11.

Sect. 13 revised, 1923, 183.

Sect. 57 repealed, 1928, 212 § 11.

Sect. 62A added, 1923, 98 § 2 (penalizing members of organizations for
illegal use of names of political parties).

Sect. 64A added, 1922, 269 § 3 (penalty for making false statements in
relation to candidates for nomination or election to public office).

Sect. 66 amended, 1928, 212 § 12. (See 1928, 212 § 13.)

Sect. 69 amended, 1927, 207.

Chapter 57. — Congressional, Councillor and Senatorial Districts, and
Apportionment of Representatives.

Sect. 1 revised, 1926, 372 § 1.
Sect. 2 revised, 1926, 372 § 2.
Sect. 3 revised, 1926, 372 § 3.
Sect. 4 revised, 1926, 372 § 4.
Sect. 5 amended, 1924, 424 § 2.

Chapter 58. — General Provisions relative to Taxation.

Sect. 8 amended, 1922, 34; 1923, 283.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 379 § 1; 1928, 330 § 2.

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 379 § 2; 1925, 343 § 12 (but see 1925, 343 § 13
as revised by 1926, 222).

Sect. lOA added, 1921, 375 § 2 (allowance as offset to amounts due
commonwealth from cities and towns of percentage of corporation taxes
to be distributed); repealed, 1924, 206 § 1.

Sect. 13 amended, 1921, 486 § 15; revised, 1923, 271 § 1. (See 1922,
54 § 1.)

Sects. 13-17 extended, 1921, 344 § 4.

Sect. 14 revised, 1923, 271 § 2.

Sect. 15 amended, 1921, 282; revised, 1923, 271 § 3.

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 54 § 1.

Sect. 17A added, 1923, 271 § 4 (relative to the taxation of land held
for county tuberculosis hospitals).

Sect. 18 amended, 1922, 54 § 2; second paragraph amended, 1924, 222
§ 1; revised, 1927, 222 § 1. (See 1922, 194.)

Sect. 20 revised, 1922, 362 § 1; 1927, 222 § 2.

Sects. 20-24A. See 1921, 375 § 2; 1922, 362 § 2.

Sect. 24A added, 1921, 375 § 1 (distribution to cities and towns of
interest on corporation taxes); amended, 1927, 222 § 3.

Sect. 25 amended, 1921, 375 § 3; revised, 1922, 362 § 2; 1924, 206 § 2.

Sect. 27 revised, 1922, 382; amended, 1926, 287 § 1.

Chapter 59. — Assessment of Local Taxes.

As to local tax limit generally, see Chap. 44 § 29.

As to Boston, see 1909, 490 I § 53; 1910, 521; 1913, 719 § 18; 1915,
Sp. Acts 184 § 2, 304; 1916, Sp. Acts 267; 1918, Sp. Acts 120, 132 § 3;
1919, Sp. Acts 172, 206 § 10; 1920, 401, 524, 641 § 5; 1922. 205; 1923, 223;
1924,328; 1925,271; 1926,117; 1927,243; 1928,200; 1929,140.

578 Changes in the IChap. 60 .

Collection of certain taxes assessed under authority of special law trans-
ferred to the commissioner of corporations and taxation, see 1923, 133,

Sect. 1. For the poll tax payable prior to 1924, including the additional
"war poll tax ", so called, see 1919, 283 §§ 10-15. (See 1921, 226, repealing
certain provisions relative to poll taxes. See 1922, 260, relative to abate-
ments of poll taxes for certain veterans. See 1922, 398, exempting certain
veterans of the world war from the payment of additional poll taxes.)

Sect. 3A added, 1928, 111 § 1 (relative to the taxation of real estate of
a municipality used or occupied for other than a public purpose).

Sect. 5, cl. Second amended, 1921, 389; 1922, 216; cl. Third, subsect.
(c) amended, 1922, 451 § 1; cl. Fifth amended, 1921, 474; 1922, 222;
cl. Sixteenth amended, 1921, 486 § 16; revised, 1924, 321 § 1; amended,
1926, 279 § 1; revised, 1928, 379 § 3; cl. Seventeenth amended, 1924, 17
§ 1; 1927, 11; cl. Twentieth amended, 1928, 77 § 1; cl. Thirty-first
amended, 1929, 15 § 1; cl. Thirty-third amended, 1921, 202; cl. Thirty-
third stricken out and new els. Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth added, 1925,
343 § 8 (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222); cl. Thirty-fifth
added, 1928, 379 § 4.

Sect. 8 amended, 1928, 143 § 1. (See 1922, 329.)

Sect. 18, cl. First revised, 1929, 40 § 1; cl. Second revised, 1924, 321
§ 2; cl. Sixth revised, 1925, 64; 1929, 40 § 1; cl. Seventh amended, 1928,
i43 § 2; revised, 1929, 40 § 1.

Skct. 22 repealed, 1925. 343 § 9 (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by
1926. 222).

Sect. 23 amended, 1921, 348; 1928, 379 § 5. (See 1928, 379 § 9.)

Sects. 23A and 23B added, 1922, 118 (requiring assessors to notify the
financial officers of cities and towns of amounts to be raised by taxation
and from receipts, and of amounts of abatements granted).

Sect. 43 amended, 1928, 14 § 1.

Sect. 45 amended, 1925, 343 § 11 (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by
1926,222); 1928, 14 §2.

Sect. 46 amended, 1928. 14 § 3.

Sect. 47, subs. Sixth amended, 1925, 343 § 10 (but see 1925, 343 § 13
as revised by 1926, 222); section amended, 1928, 14 § 4.

Sect. 51 revised, 1923, 421.

Sect. 52 revised, 1928, 14 § 5.

Sect. 54 revised. 1926, 65 § 5.

Sect. 57 amended, 1926, 269 § 2.

Sect. 59 amended. 1926. 71 § 2.

Sect. 60 amended, 1923, 18.

Sect. 68A added, 1926, 312 (relative to appeals from the refusal of
assessors to abate taxes); amended, 1929, 212.

Sect. 71 amended, 1928, 1.

Sect. 73 amended, 1926, 71 § 3.

Sect. 74 amended, 1926, 279 § 2; 1928, 379 § 6.

Sect. 83 amended, 1926, 279 § 3; 1928, 379 § 7.

Sect. 88 repealed, 1926, 29.

Chapter 60. — Collection of Local Taxes.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 124; 1926, 65 § 3.
Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 71 § 1, 269 § 1.
Sect. 8 amended, 1926, 65 § 4.

Chaps. 60A-62.] GENERAL LaWS. ' 579

Sect. 9 revised, 1923, 128 § 1.

Sects. 10 and 11 repealed, 1923, 128 § 2.

Sect. 12 amended, 1923, 128 § 3.

Sect. 13 revised, 1926, 65 § 2.

Sect. 17 revised, 1923, 128 § 4.

Sect. 31 revised, 1927, 334 § 5.

Sect. 32 amended, 1928, 12.

Sect. 43 revised, 1923, 377 § 7.

Sect. 48 amended, 1927, 126 § 1.

Sect. 50 amended, 1927, 126 § 2.

Sect. 52 amended, 1927, 126 § 3.

Sect. 54 amended, 1925, 241 § 4.

Sect. 55 amended, 1927, 126 § 4.

Sect. 62 amended, 1924, 3; 1925, 51; revised, 1925, 77; amended, 1925,
241 § 5; 1928, 10.

Sect. 68 revised, 1929, 207 § 1.

Sect. 79 amended, 1925, 241 § 6.

Sect. 80 revised, 1925, 241 § 7.

Sect. 81 repealed, 1925, 241 § 8.

Sect. 97 revised, 1923, 128 § 5.

Sect. 100 amended, 1923, 128 § 6.

Forms 10, 11, 12, 14, 18 in schedule at end of chapter amended, 1923,
377 § 8.

Chapter 60A. — Excise Tax on Registered Motor Vehicles in Lieu of Local

Tax.

New chapter added by 1928, 379 § 1.

Chapter 61. — Taxation of Forest Products and Classification and Taxa-
tion of Forest Lands (former title, Taxation of Forest Lands).

Chapter repealed and superseded by 1922, 360 § 1.

Chapter 62. — Taxation of Incomes.

Sect. 1, subsect. (a) el. First amended, 1923, 378 § 1; subsect. (a) cl.
Third amended, 1924, 15 § 1; subsect. (a) el. Fourth amended, 1923, 287
§ 1; subsect. (6) amended, 1923, 487 § 3; revised, 1925, 343 § 7 (but see
1925, 343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222); subsect. (c) cl. First amended,
1925, 223; 1926, 160.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 265.

Sect. 5, cl. (6) amended, 1923, 287 § 2; cl. (c) amended, 1921, 376 § 1;
1922, 449 § 1; 1928, 217 § 1.

Sect. 6, cl. (b) amended, 1922, 329 § 1; cl. (g) amended, 1922, 329 § 2;
cl. (h) amended, 1922. 489.

Sect. 7 amended. 1928, 217 § 2.

Sect. 8, subsect. {a) revised, 1924, 351 § 1.

Sect. 9 amended, 1925, 242 § 1.

Sect. 22 amended. 1924, 15 § 2.

Sect. 24 revised, 1929, 361 § 1.

Sect. 25 revised, 1929, 361 § 2.

Sect. 33 amended, 1922, 290.

Sect. 34 amended, 1923, 362 § 55; 1927, 28.

580 Changes in the [Chap. c3.

Sect. 37 amended, 1922, 143.

Sect. 39 amended, 1929, 361 § 3.

Sect. 41 amended, 1923, 287 § 3; revised, 1925, 186.

Sect. 45 amended, 1922, 339 § 1; 1926, 287 § 2.

Sect. 47 amended, 1921, 113 § 1; 1923, 287 § 4; 1926, 287 § 3.

Sect. 48 amended, 1921, 113 § 2.

Sect. 58 amended, 1923, 402 § 1.

Chapter 63. — Taxation of Corporations.

Sects. 1 to lOB, as added or amended by 1923, 378 § 2, 1923, 487
§§ 1, 2, 1924, 233 § 1 and 1925, 262 § 1, stricken out and new §§ 1 to 7
inserted by 1925, 343 § 1 (but in case of unconstitutionality of new sec-
tions see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222).

Sect. 5 amended, 1927, 222 § 5.

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 520 § 2; revised, 1923, 378 § 3. (See 1922, 239.)

Sect. 12. See 1922, 230.

Sect. 14 amended, 1922, 239; 1924, 182.

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 520 § 3.

Sect. 18 amended, 1922, 520 § 4.

Sect. 18A added, 1927, 225 § 1 (relative to the abatement of certain
corporation taxes).

Sect. 28 amended, 1922, 520 § 5; 1923, 378 § 4; 1920, 287 § 4; 1927,
225 § 2.

Sect. 29 amended, 1922, 520 § 6; 1923, 378 § 5.

Sects. 30-51. See 1922, 362 § 1.

Sect. 30, par. 5 amended, 1922, 302; 1925, 265 § 1; revised, 1925, 343
§ lA (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222); par. contained in
first two lines amended, 1923, 254 § 3; pars. 1 and 2 amended, 1923, 438 § 5;
par. contained in first four lines, as appearing in 1923, 438 § 5. revised,
1924, 26 § 2; par. 3 (a) amended. 1925. 301 § 1; 1926. 279 § 4; par. 4 (n)
affected, 1925, 301 § 1; amended, 1926, 279 § 5; pars. 3 and 4 revised, 1927,
258 § 1.

Sect. 31 revised, 1927, 258 § 2.

Sect. 32 amended, 1923, 424 § 1; revised, 1926, 338 § 6; 1927, 258 § 3;
amended, 1929, 359 § 2.

Sect. 32A added, 1923, 424 § 2 (relative to a minimum gross receipts
excise with respect to certain domestic business corporations).

Sect. 33 revised, 1922, 492 § 1. (See 1922, 492 § 2.)

Sect. 34A added, 1923, 254 § 1 (relative to the taxation of subsidiary
companies controlled by domestic business corporations); repealed, 1924,
26 §1.

Sect. 36 revised, 1927, 148.

Sect. 37, subdiv. (a) revised, 1925, 343 § IB (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as
revised by 1926, 222).

Sect. 38, par. 10 repealed, 1926, 338 § 1.

Sect. 38A added, 1926, 338 § 2 (computation of net taxable income of
domestic business corporation).

Sect. 38B added, 1929, 359 § 1 (relative to taxation of certain domestic
business corporations dealing exclusively in securities).

Sect. 39 amended, 1923, 424 § 3; par. contained in first twelve lines, as
appearing in 1923, 424 § 3, amended, 1924, 26 § 3; revised, 1927, 2.58 § 4;
par. (2) revised, 1926, 338 § 7.

Chap. 63.] GENERAL LawS. 581

Sect. 39A added, 1922, 492 § 2 (imposing a minimum tax upon foreign
business corporations doing business in this commonwealth).

Sect. 39B added, 1923, 254 § 2 (relative to the taxation of subsidiary
companies controlled by foreign corporations); repealed, 1924, 26 § 1.

Sect. 39C added, 1923, 424 § 4 (relative to a minimum gross receipts
excise with respect to certain foreign corporations).

Sect. 41 revised, 1925, 343 § 2; 1926, 338 § 3.

Sect. 42 revised, 1926, 338 § 4.

Sect. 42A added, 1926, 338 § 5 (computation of net taxable income of
foreign corporation).

Sect. 45 amended, 1922, 520 § 7.

Sect. 48 amended, 1922, 520 § 8.

Sect. 51 revised, 1926, 287 § 5; amended, 1927, 225 § 3.

Sect. 52 revised, 1926, 219.

Sect. 53, first par. amended, 1925, 343 § 3 (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as
revised bv 1926, 222); cl. Fourth (part) amended, 1922, 49; last par.
amended,''l923, 402 § 2.

Sect. 55, cl. Sixth added, 1923, 290 § 3 (certain deductions allowed
corponitions owning stock of electric companies); new par. added at end,
1925, 301 § 2; section amended, 1926, 279 § 6.

Sect. 56 amended, 1923, 378 § 6; repealed, 1925, 343 § 4 (but see 1925,
343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222). (See 1922, 239.)

Sect. 56A added, 1923, 310 (providing an alternative method of de-
termining the value of corporate franchises of foreign telephone companies).

Sect. 57 affected, 1925, 301 § 2; amended, 1926, 279 § 7; 1927, 258 § 5;
repealed, 1928, 13 § 2.

Sect. 58 revised, 1921, 394; affected, 1924, 247 § 1; amended, 1925,
343 § 5 (but see 1925, 343 § 13 as revised by 1926, 222).

Sect. 58A added, 1924, 247 § 1 (placing upon an equal basis the taxation
of trust companies and national banks); repealed, 1925, 343 § 6 (but see
1925, 343 § 13 as revised bv 1926, 222).

Sect. 60 amended, 1922, 520 § 9; 1927, 225 § 4.

Sects. 61-66 repealed, 1928, 138.

Sect. 61. See 1921, 406 § 1; 1923, 452.

Sects. 62, 65. See 1921, 406, relieving street railway, etc., companies
for years 1922 and 1923 from commutation or excise tax; time extended
for years 1924-1928, inclusive, see 1923, 452.

Sect. 67 revised, 1928, 143 § 3.

Sect. 68A added, 1928, 13 § 1 (remedy when assessors' valuation ex-
ceeds commissioner's extended to additional classes of corporations).

Sect. 70 amended, 1922, 520 § 10. (See 1921, 375 § 1.)

Sect. 71 amended, 1921, 123; 1922, 339 § 2; 1926, 287 § 6. _

Sect. 71A added, 1923, 402 § 3 (inspection of returns restricted).

Sect. 72 amended, 1922, 520 § 11; revised, 1923, 378 § 7.

Sects. 72-75. See 1921, 493 § 7.

Sect. 73 amended, 1922, 520 § 12.

Sect. 75 amended, 1922, 520 § 13.

Sect. 76 amended, 1923, 140.

Sect. 77 amended, 1922, 520 § 14.

Sect. 78 amended, 1923, 362 § 56.

Sect. 81 added, 1928, 379 § 8 (definition of "local taxation ", for pur-
poses of certain sections of chapter 63).

582 Changes in the [Chaps. 64A-68.

Chapter 64A. — Taxation of Sales of Gasoline and Certain Other Motor

Vehicle Fuel.

New chapter added by 1928, 316 § 1.

Chapter 65. — Taxation of Legacies and Successions.

As to the collection of collateral legacy taxes under chapter 15 of the
Revised Laws and amendments thereof, see 1922, 520 § 24.

Temporary act, imposing tax upon transfer of estates of certain residents
of Massachusetts dying after February 26, 1926, and before June 1, 1927,
1926, 355.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 347, 403 § 1; new paragraphs added, 1924, 128;
1925, 338 § 1; first and last paragraphs amended, 1926, 148 §§ 1, 2; section
amended, 1927, 156 § 1; first paragraph amended, 1929, 292 § 1.

Sect. 4 amended, 1922, 403 § 2; repealed, 1927, 156 § 2.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 403 § 3; repealed, 1925, 338 § 2.

Sect. 7 amended, 1922, 520 § 15.

Sect. 8 amended, 1922, 520 § 16; repealed, 1927, 156 § 2.

Sect. 10 repealed, 1922, 403 § 4.

Sect. 11 revised, 1923, 176.

Sect. 13 amended, 1924, 300 § 1.

Sect. 14 amended, 1924, 300 § 2.

Sect. 15 revised, 1922, 300.

Sect. 23 amended, 1922, 520 § 17.

Sect. 25 amended, 1924, 300 § 3.

Sect. 27 amended, 1922, 520 § 18.

Sect. 30 amended, 1922, 520 § 19.

Sect. 31 amended, 1922, 520 § 20.

Sect. 32 amended, 1922, 339 § 3; revised, 1922, 520 § 21.

Sect. 33 amended, 1922, 520 § 22.

Sect. 34 amended, 1922, 520 § 23.

Chapter 65A. — Taxation of Transfers of Certain Estates.

New chapter added by 1927, 178. (For temporary provisions super-
seded, see 1926, 355.)

Chapter 66. — Public Records.

See 1920, 562; 1921, 171; 1922, 199, relative to the preservation and dis-
tribution of town records of births, marriages and deaths previous to 1850.
Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 362 § 57.
Sect. 3 amended, 1928, 192 § 1.
Sect. 4 amended, 1928, 192 § 2.
Sect. 10. See 1923, 337.

Chapter 67. — Parishes and Religious Societies.

Certificates of organization of parishes and religious societies filed in the
office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Chapter 68. — Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses.
Sect. 9 amended, 1929, 94.

Chaps. 69-71.] GENERAL LaWS. 583

Chapter 69. — Powers and Duties of the Department of Education.

Special commission to investigate relative to the employment, training
and placement of the blind, 1924, 499.

Sect. 3 revised, 1923, 301 § 3.

Sect. 7 amended, 1925, 266.

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 484.

Sect. 12 revised, 1925, 286 § 3.

Sect. 13 amended, 1925, 286 § 4.

Sect. 14 revised, 1924, 499 § 1; amended, 1925, 286 § 5.

Sect. 15 revised, 1925, 286 § 6.

Sect. 16 revised, 1925, 286 § 7.

Sect. 19 amended, 1924, 453 § 2.

Sect. 24 revised, 1925, 286 § 8.

Sect. 25 revised, 1921, 486 § 17; amended, 1923, 362 § 58. (See 1922,
545 §§ 10-12.)

Sect. 26 revised, 1929, 268.

Sect. 28 added, 1923, 361 (providing for the establishment of special
day classes for deaf pupils in the public schools of certain towns).

Chapter 70. — School Funds and Other State Aid for Public Schools.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 145 § 1.

Sect. 2 revised, 1921, 420 § 1.

Sect. 4 revised, 1921, 420 § 2; 1926, 333 § 1.

Sect. 6 amended 1922 190.

Sect! 7 amended,' 1922,'333 § 2; 1923, 145 § 2; revised, 1924, 222 § 2.

Sect. 11 reviseil, 1921, 420 § 3; amended, 1923, 472 § 1; revised, 1926,
333 § 2.

Sect. 12 revised, 1926, 333 § 2.

Sect. 13 revised, 1926, 333 § 2.

Sect. 14 amended, 1924, 455 § 1; revised, 1926, 333 § 2.

Sect. 14A added, 1926, 333 § 3 (providing for a further distribution of
the Massachusetts School Fund to certain towns in certain cases).

Sect. 16 amended, 1922, 333 § 3; 1923, 362 § 59.

Chapter 71. — Public Schools.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 360; 1923, 222 § 1.
Sect. 2 amended, 1923, 222 § 2.
Sect. 4 amended, 1928, 31,
Sect. 6 revised, 1921, 296 § 1.

Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 296 § 2; revised, 1923, 363.
Sect. 21 amended, 1922, 401.
Sect. 24 amended, 1922, 413.
Sect. 40 revised, 1921, 420 § 4.
Sect. 42 amended, 1921, 293.
Sect. 46 amended, 1922, 231.
Sect. 53 revised, 1921, 357 § 1.

Sects. 53 A and 53B added, 1921, 357 § 2 (enabling superintendency dis-
tricts and unions to employ school physicians and nurses, etc.).
Sect. 55 revised, 1922, 120.

584 Changes in the [Chaps. 72-75.

Sect. 61 amended, 1926, 313 § 1.
Sect. 65 amended, 1926, 313 § 2.
Sect. 70 amended, 1921, 486 § 18.
Sect. 71 amended, 1923, 50.

Chapter 72. — School Registers and Returns.

Sect. 2 amended, 1926, 188 § 1.

Sect. 3, paragraph First amended, 1925, 78 § 1.

Chapter 73. — State Normal Schools.

Sect. 1 amended, 1926, 6.

Sect. 4 amended, 1921, 486 § 19; 1923, 362 § 60.

Sect. 7 added, 1921, 92 (authorizing department of education to grant
degrees in education); amended, 1922, 274.

Chapter 74. — Vocational Education.

Sects. 1-24. See 1922, 521 § 2.

Sect. 7A added, 1927, 85 (relative to the tuition of state and city wards
in certain approved vocational schools).

Sect. 8A added, 1923, 299 (relative to payment by certain towns for
the transportation of pupils attending outside vocational schools and to
state reimbursement therefor); revised, 1927, 201.

Sect. 10 revised, 1923, 364.

Sect. 20 revised, 1921, 462 § 3.

Sect. 21 amended, 1921, 462 § 4.

Sect. 22 amended, 1921, 462 § 5.

Sect. 22A added, 1921, 462 § 6 (duties of state board for vocational
education).

Sect. 22B added, 1923, 434 (authorizing the state board for vocational
education to furnish aid during rehabilitation to certain persons).

Sects. 25-37 affected, 1924, 281.

Sect. 34 amended, 1924, 418.

Sect. 42 revised, 1928, 135 § 4.

Sect. 46A added, 1921, 385 (authorizing state textile schools to make
certain tests).

Sect. 47 stricken out and new heading and sects. 47 to 47G added,
1928, 135 § 5 (relative to the Lowell textile institute).

Sect. 48 amended, 1928, 135 § 6.

Sect. 51 amended, 1923, 362 § 61.

Chapter 75. — Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 362 § 62.

Sect. lOA added, 1922, 268 (authorizing the trustees of the Massachu-
setts Agricultural College to insure its memorial building and contents).
Sect. 17. See 1922, 182.
Sect. 21 amended, 1922, 182.

Chaps. 76-81.] GENERAL LawS. 585

Chapter 76. — School Attendance.

Attendance officers changed to supervisors of attendance, 1928, 184.
Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 463. (See 1922, 376.)

Sect. 2A added, 1928, 227 (further providing for the education of deaf
children).

Sect. 3 revised, 1926, 188 § 2.
Sect. 6 amended, 1925, 94.
Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 272.
Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 214.
Sect. 13 amended, 1925, 79.

Chapter 77. — School OfiEenders and County Training Schools.

Attendance officers changed to supervisors of attendance, 1928, 184.
Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 173.
Sect. 12 amended, 1928, 184 § 1.

Chapter 78. — Libraries.
Sect. 15 revised, 1924, 114.

Chapter 79. — Eminent Domain.

Sect. 3, new paragraph added, 1924, 110; section amended, 1926, 124.
Sect. 45 amended, 1929, 380 § 2.

Chapter 80. — Betterments.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 377 § 1.

Sect. 2 amended, 1928, 120.

Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 377 § 2; 1927, 3.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 377 § 3.

Sect. 12 amended, 1923, 377 § 4.

Sect. 13 revised, 1923, 377 § 5.

Sect. 14 repealed, 1923, 377 § 6.

Sect. 17 amended, 1929, 380 § 3.

Chapter 80A. — Eminent Domain Takings and Betterment Assessments
by Judicial Proceedings.

New chapter added by 1929, 380 § 1. (See also 1929, 380 § 4.)

Chapter 81. — State Highways.

Division of highways of department of public works abolished, 1927, 297.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 57 § 1; revised, 1926, 176; 1928, 357 § 1.

Sect. 3 amended, 1921, 260.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 427 § 1.

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 446.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 112 § 2; 1923, 362 § 63.

Sect. 12 revised, 1921, 427 § 2 ; amended, 1927, 105. (See 1921, 427 § 1 .)

Sect. 19 revised, 1923, 482 § 1; 1927, 273.

586 Changes in the [Chaps. 82-87.

Sect. 19A added, 1924, 428 § 1 (requiring warning signs or lights at certain
dangerous places on state highways); repealed, 1928, 357 § 7.

Sect. 23 repealed, 1925, 288 § 2.

Sect. 25 revised, 1921, 428.

Sect. 26 amended, 1922, 281; revised, 1926, 315 § 1.

Sect. 26A added, 1921, 120 § 1 (providing for the participation of the
county in the improvement of public ways).

Sect. 29 revised, 1926, 315 § 2.

Chapter 82. — The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance
of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs thereon.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 251 § 1.
Sect. 6 revised, 1929, 331 § 1.
Sect. 7 revised, 1928, 199; 1929, 331 § 2.
Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 401.
Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 251 § 2
Sect. 24 amended, 1927, 23.

Sect. 32 A added, 1924, 289 (relative to the discontinuance of certain
ways as public ways).
Sect. 37 revised, 1925, 130.

Chapter 83. — Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks.

Sect. 27 amended, 1921, 486 § 20.

Chapter 84. — Repair of Ways and Bridges.

Sect. 11 revised, 1923, 482 § 2.

Sect. IIA added, 1921, 120 § 2 (providing for the participation of the
county in the improvement of public ways).
Sect. 21 revised, 1922, 241.

Chapter 85. — Regulations and By-laws relative to Ways and Bridges.

Sect. 1 revised, 1928, 357 § 2.

Sect. 2 revised, 1928, 357 § 3.

Sects. 3A and 3B added, 1927, 71 (relative to the renaming of certain
unaccepted ways).

Sect. 10 A added, 1924, 296 (relative to the regulation of coasting on
public ways).

Sect. 13 revised, 1921, 377.

Sect. 14A added, 1929, 347 (regulating the use of public ways by funeral
processions).

Sect. 30 revised, 1922, 526; amended, 1925, 180 § 2, 342 § 2.

Sect. 34 revised, 1923, 313 § 1.

Sect. 35 added, 1923, 313 § 2 (relative to the protection of highway
bridges from heavy loads).

Chapter 87. — Shade Trees.

Sect. 12 revised, 1926, 311.

Chaps. S9, 90.J GENERAL LawS. 587

Chapter 89. — Law of the Road.

Sect. 6 A added, 1925, 306 § 1 (regulating the stopping of street cars
during the passage of fire apparatus).

Sect. 7A added, 1925, 306 § 2 (regulating the movement and stopping
of vehicles during fires or the passage of fire apparatus) ; amended, 1926, 278.

Sect. 8 amended, 1926, 330 § 1; revised, 1928, 357 § 4; 1929, 147 § 1.

Sect. 9 added, 1926, 330 § 2 (designation of certain state highways as
through ways and regulation of traffic at their intersections with other
ways); revised, 1928, 357 § 5; 1929, 147 § 2.

Chapter 90. — Motor Vehicles and Aircraft.

Division of highways of department of public works abolished, 1927, 297.

Provision for an aircraft landing field, see 1922, 404; 1924, 368, 383;
1926, 275.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 464 § 1; tenth par. amended, 1924, 189; par.
contained in lines 13 and 14 (as appearing in 1923, 464 § 1) revised, 1928,
381 § 2; par. contained in lines 27 to 33 (as appearing in 1923, 464 § 1)
amended, 1928, 316 § 2; par. defining "motor vehicles", as appearing in
1928, 316 § 2, amended, 1929, 203.

Sect. 1A added, 1925, 346 § 1 (prohibiting registration of certain motor
vehicles unless security for owners' civil liability for personal injuries caused
thereby is furnished); revised, 1926, 368 § 1.

Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 303 § 1; 1923, 362 § 64; fourth par. amended,
1924, 427; eighth par. amended, 1924, 224; section revised, 1928, 316 § 3.

Sect. 3 amended, 1923, 431 § 1.

Sects. 3A and 3B added, 1923, 431 § 2 (relative to jurisdiction and
service of process in actions against non-residents operating motor vehicles
in this commonwealth) ; sects, stricken out and new sects. 3A to 3F inserted,
1928, 344 (permitting the service of process on the registrar of motor ve-
hicles in motor vehicle accident cases).

Sect. 3D affected, 1928, 390.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 303 § 2; revised, 1923, 464 § 2; 1928, 316 § 4;
amended, 1929, 238 § 1.

Sect. 6 amended, 1922, 342 § 1.

Sect. 7 revised, 1921, 189, 434, 483; amended, 1922, 342 § 2; 1923,
335; revised, 1928, 328 § 1; affected, 1928, 328 § 2; amended, 1929, 43.

Sect. 7 A added, 1929, 252 (providing for the periodic inspection of
motor vehicles, motor cycles and trailers).

Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 403 § 1; 1923, 464 § 3; 1925, 283.

Sect. 9 amended, 1922, 303 § 3; sentence added at end, 1928, 187 § 1;
section revised, 1928, 381 § 3; amended, 1929, 180.

Sect. 10 amended, 1923, 464 § 4; revised, 1929, 262.

Sect. 11 amended, 1929, 101.

Sect. 12 amended, 1923, 464 § 5; 1925, 201 § 1.

Sect. 14 revised, 1925, 305; amended, 1928, 166.

Sect. 18 amended, 1928, 357 § 8.

Sect. 19 revised, 1925, 180 § 1; 1927, 72; 1929, 313.

Sect. 20 amended, 1922, 130.

Sect. 21 revised, 1921, 349.

Sect. 22 amended, 1923, 464 § 6.

Sects. 23-25. See 1922, 36.

588 Changes in the [Chap. 91.

Sect. 23 amended, 1921, 304; 1925, 201 § 2; 1926, 267 § 2; affected,
1926, 296.

Sect. 24 amended, 1924, 183; 1925, 201 § 3; revised, 1925, 297 § 1;
amended, 1926, 253; affected, 1926, 296; amended, 1928, 213 § 1; revised,
1928, 281 § 1 ; amended, 1929, 274.

Sect. 24A added, 1926, 361 § 1 (relative to motor vehicles used in the
commission of certain crimes).

Sect. 28 amended, 1922, 202; 1923, 362 § 65.

Sect. 29 amended, 1923, 464 § 7; 1924, 364; revised, 1924, 498; 1929,
230.

Sect. 30 amended, 1923, 464 § 8.

Sect. 31. See 1922, 36.

Sect. 31A added, 1924, 457 (regulating the transportation of personal
property over public ways by motor vehicles).

Sect. 32 revised, 1924, 379.

Sect. 32A added, 1925, 237 § 1 (authorizing the restoration or substitu-
tion of serial numbers on motor vehicles in certain cases).

Sect. 32B added, 1928, 25 (relative to keeping of records of motor ve-
hicles leased upon a mileage basis).

Sect. 33 amended, 1921, 403 § 2; revised, 1923, 464 § 9; 1925, 342 § 1;
(paragraph included in lines 4 to 9) amended, 1926, 244; (paragraph in-
cluded in lines 10 to 24) amended, 1926, 349 § 1; (paragraph included in
lines 87 to 89) revised, 1926, 277; 1927, 134; section revised, 1928, 316 § 5.

Sect. 34 revised, 1921, 112 § 1; 1925, 288 § 1; 1928, 316 § 6; clause (h)
added at end, 1929, 343 § 4.

Sects. 34A to 341 added, 1925, 346 § 2 (relative to the manner of furnish-
ing security for the recovery of damages for personal injuries caused by
certain motor vehicles and to the recovery of the same); section 34 A
amended, 1926, 368 § 2; section 34B revised, 1927, 127 § 1; section 34H
revised, 1926, 368 § 3; sections 34 A to 341 stricken out and new sections
34A to 34J inserted, 1928, 381 § 4.

Sects. 35-43 superseded and new sections 35-59 inserted, 1922, 534 § 1.

Sect. 35 revised, 1928, 388 § 1.

Sect. 36 revised, 1928, 388 § 2.

Sect. 38 amended, 1928, 388 § 3.

Sect. 39 amended, 1928, 388 § 4.

Sect. 41 amended, 1925, 189 § 1; revised, 1928, 388 § 5.

Sect. 45 amended, 1928, 388 § 6.

Sect. 47 revised, 1928, 388 § 7.

Sect. 49 revised, 1928, 388 § 8.

Sect. 53 amended, 1925, 189 § 2; 1928, 388 § 9.

Sect. 55 amended, 1928, 388 § 10.

Sect. 57 revised, 1928, 388 § 11.

Sect. 58 amended, 1928, 388 § 12.

Sect. 59 amended, 1925, 189 § 3; 1928, 388 § 13.

Sect. 00 added, 1928, 388 § 14 (relative to jurisdiction of superior court
in equity to enforce sects. 35-59).

Chapter 91. — Waterways.

Division of waterways and public lands of department of public works
abolished, 1927, 297.

Sect. I amended, 1927, 106 § 1.

Chaps. 92, 93.] GeNEEAlLawS. 589

Sect. 2A added, 1925, 264 § 1 (relative to the control of property ac-
quired in connection with the Pilgrim Tercentenary).

Sects. 10, 12 to 22, inclusive. See 1927, 106 § 1.

Sect. 12 revised, 1922, 262 § 1.

Sect. 15 amended, 1927, 39 § 1.

Sect. 18A added, 1923, 453 (providing access for the public to great
ponds).

Sect. 24 revised, 1925, 196 § 1.

Sect. 28. See 1927, 106 § 1.

Sect. 33 amended, 1923, 57 § 2.

Sect. 34. See 1927, 106 § 1.

Sect. 49 revised, 1928, 122.

Sect. 52 amended. 1925. 196 § 2.

Sect. 59 added, 1929, 181 (prohibiting the discharge of oils and their
products into or on certain waters and flats).

Chapter 92. — Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks.

Act providing for the admission of the town of Needham to the south
metropolitan sewerage system, 1924, 59.

Act admitting the towns of Canton, Norwood, Stoughton and Walpole
to the south metropolitan sewerage district, 1928, 384.

Sect. 10, first par. amended, 1928, 189.

Sect. 17 revised, 1926, 316 § 1.

Sect. 26, second par. amended, 1925, 308.

Sect. 36 revised, 1923, 230.

Sect. 37 amended, 1926, 316 § 2.

Sect. 38 amended, 1926, 316 § 3.

Sect. 43 revised, 1924, 390 § 1; amended, 1925, 83 § 1.

Sect. 44 revised, 1924, 390 § 2; amended, 1925, 83 § 2; revised, 1926, 33.

Sect. 46 amended, 1924, 390 § 3.

Sect. 47 amended, 1924, 390 § 4.

Sect. 48 amended, 1922, 14.

Sect. 56 amended, 1921, 112 § 3; 1925, 288 § 3.

Sect. 63A added, 1923, 221 (authorizing the payment of reasonable
hospital, medical and surgical expenses of poHce officers of the metropolitan
district commission injured while on duty).

Sect. 64 revised, 1923, 350.

Sect. 74A added, 1929, 371 § 11 (licensing of certain recreational facilities
for use in connection with the Charles river basin).

Sects. 76A-76E added, 1928, 238 (authorizing the metropolitan district
commission to permit certain municipalities bordering on the Charles
river basin to take water therefrom for fire protection and certain other
purposes).

Sect. 99 amended, 1923, 362 § 66.

Chapter 93. — Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises.

Special Commission on the Necessaries of Life, 1919, 341, 365; 1920, 610,
628; 1921,325; 1922,343; 1923,320; 1924,99,320; 1925,273; 1927,263;
1929, 209.

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 486 § 21.

Sect. 29 amended, 1924, 327. ,

590 Changes in the [Chap. 94.

Sect. 30 amended, 1924, 334 § 1.

Sect. 30A added, 1924, 490 (providing for abatement and removal of
certain billboards, signs and other devices).
Sect. 32 amended, 1924, 85.
Sects. 35 and 36 repealed, 1923, 470 § 3.
Sect. 37 revised, 1922, 395 § 1; repealed, 1923, 470 § 3.
Sect. 38 repealed, 1923, 470 § 3.

Sect. 39 revised, 1922, 395 § 2; repealed, 1923, 470 § 3.
Sect. 41 repealed, 1921, 486 § 22.

Chapter 94. — Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles.

Special Commission on the Necessaries of Life, 1919, 341, 365; 1920, 610,
628; 1921,325; 1922,343; 1923,320; 1924,99,320; 1925,273; 1927,263;
1929, 269.

Sect. 1, pnr. contained in lines 30 to 32 amended, 1925, 117; five pars,
added at end. 1927, 274 § 1; four pars, added at end, 1928, 307 § 1.
Sect. 7 revised, 1922, 186 § 1.
Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 94; 1922, 186 § 2.
Sect. 9 amended, 1922, 186 § 3.
Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 186 § 4.

Sects. lOA-lOE added, 1921, 303 (regulating the manufacture and
bottling of certain non-alcoholic beverages).
Sect. 12 revised, 1929, 267 § 1.

Sect. 14A added. 1924, 310 § 1 (relative to "Grade A Milk").
Sect. 15 amended, 1924, 310 § 2. _

Sect. 17A added, 1923, 170 (prohibiting the combination of certain fats
and oils with milk, cream or skimmed milk); amended, 1925, 120.
Sect. 21 revised, 1929, 267 § 2.
Sect. 25 amended, 1929, 279 § 1.
Sect. 26 amended, 1929, 279 § 2.
Sect. 27 amended, 1929, 279 § 3.
Sect. 29 revised, 1929, 279 § 4.

Sect. 29 A added, 1929, 279 § 5 (relative to the methods and frequency
of making tests for determining the composition of milk or cream).
Sect. 30 revised, 1929, 279 § 6.
Sect. 31 revised, 1929, 279 § 7.
Sect. 41, sentence added at end, 1929, 171 § 1.

Sect. 42 A added, 1929, 171 § 2 (requiring certain licensed milk dealers
to submit financial reports to the commissioner of agriculture).
Sect. 43 amended, 1924, 122.

Sect. 48A added, 1927, 259 (relative to the licensing of establishments
for the pasteurization of milk).
Sect. 49 amended, 1928, 130 § 1.
Sect. 51 amended, 1923, 84.
Sect. 55 revised, 1928, 130 § 2.

Sects. 64 and 65 stricken out and new sections 64-65F inserted, 1927,
278 § 1 (establishing a standard for ice cream and regulating its manufacture
and sale); sections 65C and 65D repealed, 1928, 229 § 2.
Sect. 74 revised, 1922, 17 § 1.
Sect. 76 revised, 1922, 17 § 2.
Sect. 81 revised, 1922, 338 § 1.
Sect. 82 revised, 1922, 338 § 2; 1928, 40 § 1.

Chap. 94.] GENERAL LaWS. 591

Sect. 88A added, 1929, 210 (requiring the marking of containers of
scallops with designation of source).

Sect. 92A added, 1921, 486 § 23 (sale of decayed eggs).

Sects. 93-95 repealed, 1928, 362.

Sect. 96 revised, 1922, 355 § 1.

Sect. 97 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. 99 amended, 1922, 355 § 2.

Sect. 99A added, 1921, 248 (establishing a standard for boxes and half
boxes for farm produce at wholesale).

Sect. 101 revised, 1926, 264 § 1; amended, 1928, 180 § 1.

Sect. 102 amended, 1924, 119 § 1.

Sect. 103 amended, 1926, 264 § 2; revised, 1928, 180 § 2.

Sect. 104 revised, 1924, 119 § 2.

Sect. 104A added, 1924, 119 § 3 (regulating the marking or branding of
open packages of apples).

Sect. 105 amended, 1924, 119 § 4; 1926, 264 § 3.

Sect. 106 amended, 1924, 119 § 5; repealed, 1926, 264 § 4.

Sect. 108 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. HI amended, 1926, 264 § 5.

Sect. 112 amended, 1926, 35; revised, 1926, 264 § 6.

Sect. 113 revised, 1926, 264 § 7.

Sects. 117A-117F added, 1922, 438 § 1 (providing for the grading and
inspection of onions); stricken out and new sections 117A-117F inserted,
1927, 270 (providing for establishing grades and standards for farm products).

Sect. 117A amended, 1928, 57.

Sect. 119 amended, 1924, 496 § 1.

Sect. 120A added, 1924, 496 § 2 (regulating the fee for licenses for slaughter
houses in certain towns).

Sect. 142 amended, 1923, 425 § 1.

Sect. 143A added, 1923, 425 § 2 (relative to the sale of vegetable
sausages).

Sect. 147A added, 1929, 106 (authorizing the department of public
health to make regulations relative to game, poultry and certain other
meat intended for food purposes).

Sect. 150 amended, 1927, 46; 1928, 40 § 2.

Sect. 150 A added, 1921, 486 § 24 (penalizing the sale of unwholesome
food or drink, etc.).

Sect. 156 revised, 1929, 103.

Sect. 158 revised, 1926, 122 § 1.

Sect. 159 revised, 1926, 122 § 2.

Sect. 163 revised, 1922, 524.

Sect. 164 revised, 1922, 206.

Sect. 173 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. 177 amended, 1923, 155 § 3.

Sect. 184 A added, 1921, 486 § 25 (marking of packages, etc., of foods or
medicines containing certain drugs).

Sect. 185 repealed, 1921, 486 § 26.

Sect. 185A added, 1927, 278 § 2 (providing that sections 186-195 shall
not apply to ice cream).

Sect. 186, cl. Seventh added, 1923, 166 (prohibiting the inflation of
meat with gas or air).

Sect. 189 amended, 1925, 42.

Sect. 191 amended, 1924, 228.

592 Changes in the [Chaps. 96, 98.

Sect. 198 amendod, 1924,208.

Sect. 209 revised, 1922, 535 § 1; amended, 1924, 239 § 1.

Sect. 209A added, 1924, 239 § 2 (relative to permits to have in possession
hypodermic instruments).

Sect. 210 amended, 1922. 535 § 2.

Sect. 212 revised, 1922, 535 § 3.

Sect. 218 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. 219 amended, 1922, 355 § 3.

Sect. 220 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. 221 amended, 1922, 355 § 4.

Sect. 222 revised, 1922, 355 § 5.

Sect. 223 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Sect. 224 revised, 1922, 355 § 6.

Sect. 227 revised, 1922, 400 § 1.

Sect. 228 amended, 1922, 400 § 2.

Sect. 229 revised, 1922, 400 § 3.

Sect. 237 amended, 1922, 355 § 7.

Sects. 238-249. As to the appointment, duties, authority and powers
of a fuel administrator, see 1922, 544; 1923, 217; 1924, 320 § 3; 1925,
273 § 3; 1927, 263; 1929, 269.

Sect. 239 A added, 1926, 382 (authorizing the establishment of a legal
standard of sizes for anthracite coal).

Sect. 240 amended, 1921, 95 § 2; 1923, 196 § 2.

Sect. 241 amended, 1921, 95 § 1; revised, 1923, 196 § 1; 1926, 217.

Sect. 243 amended, 1921, 89 § 1.

Sect. 248 amended, 1921, 89 § 2; 1923, 155 § 2.

Sects. 249A-249F added, 1923, 155 § 1 (relative to the sale of coal).

Sects. 261A-261L added, 1927, 274 § 2 (regulating the sale of agricultural
seeds) .

Sect. 270 revised, 1923, 226 § 1; 1928, 307 § 2.

Sect. 271 amended, 1923, 226 § 2; 1928, 307 § 3.

Sect. 272 amended, 1923, 226 § 3; 1928, 307 § 4.

Sect. 273 revised, 1923, 226 § 4; amended, 1928, 307 § 5.

Sect. 277 revised, 1923, 226 § 5.

Sect. 298 revised, 1921, 251 § 1.

Sect. 299 revised, 1921, 251 § 2.

Sect. 304 amended, 1921, 486 § 27.

Sect. 305A added, 1924, 50 (relative to sanitary food, so called).

Sect. 305B added, 1928, 229 § 1 (relative to the examination of persons
engaged in the handling of food).

Chapter 96. — Survey of Lumber.

Sects. 1-6 repealed, 1924, 258 § 3.
Sect. 9 revised, 1924, 258 § 4.
Sect. 10 amended, 1924, 258 § 5.
Sect. 11 amended, 1924, 258 § 6.
Sect. 12 repealed, 1924, 258 § 3.

Chapter 98. — Weights and Measures.

Sect. 12 revised, 1921, 263 § 1.
Sect. 13 revised, 1921, 263 § 2.
Sect. 14 revised, 1921, 263 § 3.

Chaps. 100-109.] GENERAL LawS. 593

Sect. 18 revised, 1921, 45 § 1; aflFected, 1924, 90.

Sect. 19 revised, 1921, 45 § 2; affected, 1924, 90.

Sect. 22 revised, 1921, 374.

Sect. 29 amended, 1924, 258 § 7; 1925, 72.

Sect. 41 amended, 1923, 32 § 1-

Sect. 42 amended, 1923, 32 § 2; 1927, 95 § 1.

Sect. 56 revised, 1927, 95 § 2.

Sect. 58 repealed, 1922, 355 § 8.

Chapter 100, — Auctioneers.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 127.

Sects. 14-17 added, 1925, 331 (relative to the licensing and regulation
of proprietors of establishments for the sale at auction of certain personal
property).

Chapter 101. — Transient Vendors, Hawkers and Pedlers.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 106 § 1; 1923, 102 § 1.
Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 106 § 2; 1923, 102 § 2; 1926, 120 § 1.
Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 120 § 2.
Sect. 15 amended, 1929, 349 § 1.
Sect. 16 revised, 1929, 349 § 2.

Sect. 17 amended, 1923, 285; revised, 1927, 185 § 1; 1929, 349 § 3.
Sect. 19 amended, 1929, 349 § 4.
Sect. 22 revised, 1929, 349 § 5.

Sect. 23 amended, 1927, 185 § 2; revised, 1929, 349 § 6.
Sect. 25 amended, 1927, 119; revised, 1929, 349 § 7.
Sect. 27 revised, 1929, 349 § 8.

Sect. 30 amended, 1923, 154; revised, 1928, 214; amended, 1929,
349 § 9.

Chapter 102. — Shipping and Seamen, Harbors and Harbor Masters.
Sect. 5 amended, 1926, 241 § 2; 1928, 155 § 2.

Chapter 103. — Pilots.

Sects. 1-14 superseded, 1923, 390 § 1.
Sect. 15 amended, 1923, 390 § 2.
Sect. 16 revised, 1923, 390 § 3.
Sect. 17 amended, 1923, 390 § 4.
Sect. 29 repealed, 1923, 390 § 5.

Chapter 108A. — Partnerships.
New chapter added by 1922, 486.

Chapter 109. — Limited Partnerships.

Certificates and affidavits of limited partnerships filed in the office of the
State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Chapter repealed and superseded by 1923, 112 § 1.

Sect. 31 added, 1924, 231 (fees for filing certificates under the uniform
limited partnership act); revised, 1925, 194.

594 Changes in the [Chaps. 109A-iii.

Chapter 109A. — Fraudulent Transfers of Real and Personal Property.
New chapter added by 1924, 147.

Chapter 110. — Labels, Trade Marks, Names and Registration thereof.

Sect. 4A added, 1927, 62 § 1 (regulating the use of the word "corpora-
tion" or "incorporated" or any abbreviated form thereof as a part of a
name or title under which business is transacted).

Sect. 6 amended, 1929, 6 § 2.

Sects. 8 and 9. (Certificates of registration of labels, insignia, etc., filed
in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.)

Sect. 21 revised, 1924.37 § 1.

Sect. 22 revised, 1924, 37 § 2.

Sect. 23 amended, 1924, 37 § 3.

Sect. 24 amended, 1924, 37 § 4.

Sect. 25 amended, 1924, 37 § 5.

Sect. 26 amended, 1927, 62 § 2.

Sect. 28 amended, 1924. 37 § 6.

Chapter llOA. — Promotion and Sale of Securities.

New chapter added by 1921, 499 § 1 ("Blue Sky Law", so called).

Sect. 2, subdiv. («) amended, 1929, 287 § 2; subdiv. (g) amended, 1924,
487 § 1.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 47; 1924, 487 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1922, 435 § 1; 1924, 487 § 3.

Sect. 6A added, 1929, 287 § 3 (enlarging the authority of the body ad-
ministering the "sale of securities act", so called, to require the submission
of statements).

Sect. 7 amended, 1922, 435 § 2.

Sect. 8 amended, 1922, 317 § 1; revised, 1922, 435 § 3; amended,
1923, 48; revised, 1924, 487 § 4; amended, 1926, 211.

Sect. 9 amended, 1924, 487 § 5.

Sect. 10, par. (6) amended, 1922, 317 § 2; 1924, 487 § 6.

Sect. 13 repealed, 1922, 259 § 2.

Sect. 15 revised, 1924, 487 § 7.

Chapter 111. — Public Health.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921, 322; 1929, 161.

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 200.

Sect. 27A added, 1929, 77 (authorizing the appointment of health
officers by unions of two or more towns).

Sect. 31 revised, 1924, 180.

Sect. 31A added, 1921, 358 (providing for registration of collectors of
garbage, etc.).

Sect. 39 amended, 1921, 315 § 1.

Sects. 44 and 45 repealed, 1928, 229 § 2.

Sect. 48 afl'ected, 1921, 315 § 1.

Sect. 57 revised, 1924, 256.

Sects. 62A-62G added, 1924, 248 § 2 (relative to children's health camps).

Sect. 62H added, 1925, 17 § 2 (providing for care and treatment of
underweight and undernourished children of school age by contract).

Chap. 112.] GENERAL LaWS. 595

Sects. 63, 68. See 1924, 477.

Sect. 63 amended, 1924, 477 § 3.

Sect. 65A added, 1924, 508 § 1 (providing for treatment of extra-pul-
monary tuberculosis at Lakeville state sanatorium).

Sect. 66 revised, 1924, 460 § 1; amended, 1924, 500 § 3; 1927, 139.

Sect. 68 repealed, 1924, 477 § 4.

Sect. 69A added, 1927, 236 (relative to patients at the Pondville Hospital
at Norfolk); sect, stricken out and new sects. 69A to 69D inserted, 1928,
336 (relative to admissions and charges at the Pondville Hospital). (See
1926,391; 1927,328.)

Sect. 70 amended, 1923, 337; 1926, 149.

Sect. 76 amended, 1926, 284.

Sects. 78-91 affected, 1924, 443, 500, 501. (See 1928, 385, providing for
temporary care and treatment of adult residents of certain counties suffer-
ing from pulmonary tuberculosis.)

Sect. 78 revised, 1924, 501 § 1.

Sect. 79 revised, 1924, 500 § 1.

Sect. 81 revised, 1924, 500 § 2.

Sect. 82 revised, 1922, 393 § 1; 1923, 113 § 1.

Sects. 83-85. See 1921, 185 (apportionment of expense incurred by
county of Middlesex for a tuberculosis hospital). See 1923, 429 (apportion-
ment of expense incurred by county of Essex for a tuberculosis hospital);
1924, 443 § 7.

Sect. 85 amended, 1923, 113 § 2; 1927, 73 § 2; revised, 1928, 354 § 2.

Sect. 85A added, 1923, 113 § 3 (authorizing county commissioners to
make temporary loans to provide funds for the care, maintenance and
repair of county tuberculosis hospitals).

Sect. 85B added, 1927, 73 § 1 (relative to county preventoria for the
treatment of children predisposed or susceptible to tuberculosis); revised,
1928, 354 § 1.

Sect. 86 amended, 1922, 393 § 2.

Sect. 91 amended, 1924, 443 § 2; revised, 1924, 501 § 2.

Sect. 92 amended, 1924, 501 § 3.

Sect. 112 amended, 1925, 215.

Sect. 116 amended, 1926, 241 § 3; revised, 1927, 91.

Sect. 121 amended, 1928, 155 § 3.

Chapter 112. — Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations.

Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 340 § 1 ; 1924, 239 § 3.

Sect. 2A added, 1923, 13 (relative to the qualifications of applicants for
registration as qualified physicians).

Sect. 3 amended, 1921, 313, 409; revised, 1922, 340 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1927, 137.

Sect. 9A added, 1922, 426 (providing for the registration of medical stu-
dents for the limited practice of medicine).

Sect. 12A added, 1927, 69 (relative to reports of treatment of certain
wounds caused by firearms).

Sect. 24 amended, 1924, 53.

Sect. 34 amended, 1923, 233 § 8.

Sect. 35. See 1927, 224.

Sect. 38 amended, 1921, 318.

Sect. 44 revised, 1927, 147; amended, 1929, 70.

596 Changes in the [Chaps. ii4, 115.

Sect. 45A added, 1921, 365 (providing for registration of dental
internes).

Sect. 46 revised, 1926, 215.

Sect. 48 revised, 1922, 221.

Sect. 51 amended, 1924, 103.

Sect. 61 revised, 1921, 478 § 1.

Sect. 65 revised, 1921, 478 § 2.

Sect. 68 revised, 1926, 321 § 1.

Sect. 72 amended, 1926, 321 § 2.

Sect. 73 amended, 1926, 321 § 3.

Sect. 82 amended, 1921, 419.

Sects. 87A-87E added, 1923, 470 § 2 (relative to the registration of
certified public accountants).

Chapter 114. — Cemeteries and Burials.

Certificates, articles of organization and amendment and affidavits re-
lating to cemetery and crematory corporations filed in the office of the State
Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 45 revised, 1922, 176 § 1; amended, 1926, 243 § 2; 1927, 48.

Sect. 46 amended, 1926, 243 § 3.

Sect. 47 revised, 1921, 333; second paragraph revised, 1926, 243 § 4.

Sect. 49 revised, 1926, 242 § 1. (See 1926, 242 § 2.)

Sect. 50 amended, 1922, 176 § 2.

Chapter 115. — State and Military Aid, Soldiers' Relief, etc.

For a complete list of temporary war legislation prior to 1921, see Tables
of Changes for 1920 under chapter 16 of the Revised Laws, superseded by
chapter 33 of the General Laws.

See also 1921, 38, authorizing counties to pay their employees who
served in the world war the difference between their military and county
compensation.

As to allowances for the burial expenses of certain persons who died over-
seas in the service of the United States in the world war, see 1923, 258.

Provision for allowances to certain organizations of persons who served
in the world war for the expenses of certain military funerals or burials in
which they participate, see 1923, 396.

State pay and "bonus" for war service, 1917, 211, 332; 1918, 92; 1919,
283 (§ 17 repealed by 1924, 448 § 2) ; 1920, 51, 250, 609; 1922, 457. 1921,
326 and 1922, 240, extending time for filing applications for payments to
November 30, 1921, and further to November 30, 1923. Time limit for
filing applications abolished, 1927, 206. (See 1924, 452.) 1921, 354, en-
titling student nurses of medical department of United States army during
world war to receive the "bonus". 1924, 447, enlarging class of persons to
whom payment may be made. 1924, 448, entitling "yeomen F" to receive
the "bonus".

Sect, 3A added, 1923, 181 (relative to the payment of state and military
aid and soldiers' relief).

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 222 §§ 1, 2; 1924, 357; (paragraphs included
within lines 45-62) stricken out and new paragraph inserted, 1926, 301;
(paragraph appearing in said chapter 301) amended, 1927, 219.

Chaps. 116-118.] GENERAL LaWS. 597

Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 222 § 3; 1922, 229; 1924, 280; revised, 1928, 255.
Sect. 10, second par. amended, 1921, 222 § 4; 1928, 155 § 4; third par.
amended, 1928, 155 § 5.

Sect. 12 amended, 1928, 155 § 6.

Sect. 15 amended, 1923, 362 § 67.

Sect. 17 revised, 1927, 308; second paragraph revised, 1929, 160.

Sect. 18 revised, 1925, 137.

Sect. 19 revised, 1924, 262; amended, 1926, 155.

Sect. 20 amended, 1923, 362 § 68; 1924, 266; 1927, 226; 1928, 155 § 7.

Sect. 25 added, under caption "Hospital or Home Care", 1929, 340.

Chapter 116. — Settlement (former title, Settlemient of Paupers).

Title amended, 1928, 155 § 8.

Sect. 1, cl. Fifth amended, 1922, 177.

Sect. 2 amended, 1928, 155 § 9.

Sect. 3 amended, 1925, 187 § 2; repealed, 1928, 155 § 10.

Sect. 4 amended, 1925, 187 § 1; first sentence stricken out, 1928, 155 § 11.

Sect. 5 revised, 1922, 479; amended, 1925, 34; revised, 1926, 292.

Chapter 117. — Support by Cities and Towns (former title, Support of
Paupers by Cities and Towns).

Title amended, 1928, 155 § 12.

Sect. 3 revised, 1928, 155 § 13.

Sect. 5 amended, 1928, 155 § 14.

Sect. 6, last sentence stricken out, 1928, 155 § 15.

Sect. 7 amended, 1928, 155 § 16.

Sect. 8 amended, 1928, 155 § 17.

Sect. 9 amended, 1928, 155 § 18.

Sect. 11 amended. 1928, 155 § 19.

Sect. 13 amended
Sect. 15 amended
Sect. 16 amended
Sect. 17 amended

Sect. 18 revised, 1924, 221; amended, 1926, 241 § 5; 1928, 155 § 24.

Sect. 23 amended
Sect. 24 amended
Sect. 26 amended
Sect. 29 amended
Sect. 30 amended
Sect. 32 amended
Sect. 35 amended
Sect. 36 amended
Sect. 37 amended

1928, 155 § 20.
1928, 155 § 21.
1928, 155 § 22.
1923, 298; 1926, 241 § 4; 1928, 155 § 23.

1928, 155 § 25.
1928, 155 § 26.

1927, 80; revised, 1928, 155 § 27.

1928, 155 § 28.
1928, 155 § 29.
1928, 155 § 30.
1928, 155 § 31.
1928, 155 § 32.
1928, 155 § 33.

Sect. 38 repealed, 1928, 155 § 58.

Chapter 118. — Aid to Mothers with Dependent Children.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 376.
Sect. 6 amended, 1926, 241 § 6.

598 Changes in the [Chaps. 119-122.

Chapter 119. — Protection and Care of Children, and Proceedings against

Them.

Sect. 36A added, 1927, 168 (authorizing the appointment of certain
charitable corporations as guardians of minor children).
Sect. 56 revised, 1927, 181 § 1.
Sect. 64 amended, 1929, 179 § 3.
Sect. 67 amended, 1927, 221.

Chapter 120. — Massachusetts Training Schools.

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 362 § 69.

Sect. 10 amended, 1923, 362 § 70.

Sect. 18 repealed, 1923, 245 § 2.

Sect. 23 amended. 1924. 78.

Sect. 23A added, 1927, 241 § 1 (providing for the payment into the state
treasury of unclaimed money held by the trustees of the Massachusetts
training schools for the benefit of former wards).

Chapter 121. — Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Welfare,
and the Massachusetts Hospital School.

Sect. 1 amended, 1927, 45.

Sect. 7 amended, 1928, 155 § 34.

Sect. 8 revised, 1928, 155 § 35.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 486 § 28; revised, 1928, 155 § 36.

Sect. 10 amended, 1928, 155 § 37.

Sect. 12 amended, 1928, 155 § 38.

Sect. 22 A added, under caption " Boarding Homes for Aged Per-
sons," 1929, 305 (relative to boarding homes for aged persons and to the
licensing and supervision of the same by the department of public welfare).

Sect. 29 revised, 1922, 306.

Sect. 31 amended, 1924, 344; 1928, 155 § 39.

Sect. 39 amended, 1928, 155 § 40.

Sect. 41 amended, 1928, 155 § 41.

Sect. 42 added, 1926, 241 § 1 (relative to the approval and payment
of accounts against the commonwealth on account of certain poor, sick
and dependent persons).

Chapter 122. — State Infirmary (former title, State Infirmary and State

Paupers).

Title amended, 1928, 155 § 42.
Sect. 1 amended, 1924, 259 § 1.

Sect. 2 A added, 1928, 231 (relative to the powers and duties of the trus-
tees of the state infirmary with respect to gifts).
Sect. 3 revised, 1928, 155 § 43.
Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 362 § 71.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 362 § 72; revised, 1924, 259 § 2.
Sect. 7 revised, 1928, 155 § 44.
Sect. 8 amended, 1928, 155 § 45.
Sect. 10 amended, 1928, 155 § 46.

Chap. 123.] GENERAL LaWS. 599

Sect. 11 amended, 1928, 155 § 47.

Sect. 12 amended, 1928, 155 § 48.

Sect. 14 amended, 1928, 155 § 49.

Sect. 15 amended, 1923, 177; 1926, 241 § 7; 1928, 155 § 50.

Sect. 16 amended, 1928, 155 § 51.

Sect. 18 amended, 1926, 241 § 8.

Sect. 19 amended, 1923, 362 § 73; repealed, 1926, 241 § 9.

Sect. 21 amended, 1928, 155 § 52.

Sect. 22 repealed, 1928, 155 § 53.

Sect. 24 amended, 1921, 430 § 2.

Sect. 25 amended, 1921, 430 § 3.

Chapter 123. — Commitment and Care of the Insane and Other Mental

Defectives.

Sect. 3 amended, 1928, 155 § 54.

Sect. 3A added, 1922, 519 § 2 (relative to the powers and duties of the
department of mental diseases concerning the mental health of citizens).

Sect. 6 amended, 1928, 338.

Sect. 10 amended, 1924, 287 § 1.

Sect. 13A added, 1922, 519 § 3 (relative to the powers and duties of the
division of mental hygiene in the department of mental diseases).

Sect. 16 amended, 1921, 317 § 1.

Sect. 17 amended, 1923, 362 § 74. (See 1922, 545 §§ 1, 5.)

Sect. 20 amended, 1921, 317 § 2; 1922, 410 § 4; 1923, 245 § 1.

Sect. 21 amended, 1924, 287 § 2.

Sect. 22A added, 1923, 467 § 1 (relative to the commitment of insane
persons to the Bridgewater state hospital, and to the transfer or discharge
of inmates thereof).

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 410 § 5; 1925, 293 § 3.

Sect. 32 amended, 1922, 193; 1923, 362 § 75.

Sect. 33 amended, 1926, 229 § 1.

Sect. 34 amended, 1926, 229 § 2.

Sect. 34 A added, 1924, 287 § 3 (relative to licensing physicians to have
charge of federal institutions for the care of insane veterans).

Sect. 45 amended, 1922, 410 § 6; 1925, 293 § 4.

Sect. 46 amended, 1922, 410 § 7; 1925, 293 § 5.

Sect. 51 amended, 1922, 410 § 8; 1925, 293 § 6.

Sect. 62 amended, 1922, 535 § 4.

Sect. 66 amended, 1922, 410 § 9; 1925, 293 § 7.

Sect. 66A added, 1921, 441 § 1 (commitment of feeble-minded persons
to supervision of department of mental diseases, etc.); revised, 1924, 88 § 1.

Sect. 67 amended, 1922, 410 § 10; 1925, 293 § 8.

Sect. 74 re\ased, 1926, 104.

Sect. 77 amended, 1924, 19; 1929, 136.

Sect. 79 revised, 1929, 222.

Sect. 80 revised, 1922, 535 § 5.

Sect. 86 amended, 1926, 132.

Sect. 88A added, 1922, 337 (providing for the parole of inmates of
state schools for the feeble-minded).

Sect. 89 amended, 1922, 535 § 6.

Sect. 89A added, 1921, 441 § 2 (discharge of certain feeble-minded persons
committed under § 66A) ; amended, 1924, 88 § 2.

600 Changes in the [Chaps. 125, 126.

Sect. 89B added, 1921, 441 § 2 (relative to petitions for discharge of
certain feeble-minded persons committed under § 66 A).

Sect. 91 amended, 1922, 410 § 11; 1925, 293 § 9.

Sect. 93 amended, 1922, 410 § 12; 1925, 293 § 10.

Sect. 96, first par. amended, 1921, 317 § 3; re\ised, 1925, 314; 1926, 274.

Sect. 100 amended, 1923, 467 § 2.

Sect. lOOA added, 1921, 415 (investigation by department of mental
diseases of certain persons held for trial); amended, 1923, 331; 1925, 169;
1927, 59 § 1; 1929, 105.

Sect. 101 amended, 1923, 467 § 3.

Sect. 102 revised, 1929, 213 § 1.

Sect. 103 revised, 1929, 213 § 2.

Sect. 104 revised, 1929, 213 § 3.

Sect. 105 amended, 1923, 467 § 4; revised, 1929, 213 § 4.

Sect. 113 revised, 1921, 270 § 1; 1922, 535 § 7; 1928, 333.

Sect. 114 revised, 1922, 535 § 8.

Sect. 115 revised, 1922, 535 § 9.

Sect. 117 amended, 1921, 270 § 2; revised, 1922, 535 § 10.

Sect. 118 amended, 1922, 535 § 11.

Sect. 119 amended, 1922, 535 § 12.

Sect. 121 amended, 1923, 397.

Sect. 124 amended, 1922, 535 § 13.

Chapter 125. — Penal and Reformatory Institutions of the Commonwealth.

As to the commitment of drug addicts and dipsomaniacs to institutions
under the department of correction, see 1922, 535 §§ 4-13.
Sect. 2 amended, 1927, 289 § 2.
Sect. 3 amended, 1923, 362 § 76; 1927, 289 § 3.
Sect. 4 amended, 1927, 289 § 4.
Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 362 § 77.
Sect. 10 revised, 1929, 170 § 1.
Sect. 13 amended, 1926, 343 § 1.
Sect. 14 amended, 1924, 260.
Sect. 15 amended, 1926, 343 § 5.
Sect. 22 revised, 1926, 343 § 2; 1929, 332 § 1.
Sect. 23 amended, 1928, 28 § 2.
Sect. 24 amended, 1926, 343 § 3.
Sect. 26 amended, 1923, 362 § 78.
Sect. 29 revised, 1926, 343 § 4; 1929, 332 § 2.
Sect. 34 revised, 1923, 362 § 79.

Sects. 41A-41E added, 1927, 289 § 1 (relative to the state prison colony).
Sect. 42 repealed, 1921, 486 § 29.
Sect. 49 amended, 1923, 362 § 80; 1927, 289 § 5.
Sects. 51 and 52 repealed, 1923, 362 § 81. (See 1922, 545 §§ 10-16.)
Sect. 53. See 1922, 545 §§ 10-16.
Sect. 54 amended, 1923, 362 § 82.

Chapter 126. — Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County

Industrial Farms.

Sect. 30 amended, 1925, 173.
Sect. 38 revised, 1925, 222.

Chaps. 127-129.] GENERAL LaWS. 601

Chapter 127. — Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institu-
tions, Paroles and Pardons.

As to the commitment of drug addicts and dipsomaniacs to institutions
under the department of correction, see 1922, 535 §§ 4-13,

Sect. 11 amended, 1926, 343 § 6.

Sect. 12 amended, 1929, 170 § 2.

Sect. 16 amended, 1924, 309 § 1.

Sect. 17 revised, 1924, 309 § 2; amended, 1929, 179 § 4.

Sect. 18 amended, 1924, 309 § 3.

Sect. 48A added, 1928, 387 (improving the administration of prison
industries and abohshing gratuities to prisoners in certain institutions).

Sects. 51-78. See 1922, 545 §§ 10-12.

Sect. 51 amended, 1927, 289 § 6.

Sect. 57 revised, 1923, 362 § 83.

Sect. 71 amended, 1923, 362 § 84; 1927, 302.

Sect. 90A added, 1923, 52 (allowing inmates of penal institutions to
attend the funerals of their spouses and next of kin).

Sect. 90 amended, 1928, 155 § 55.

Sect. 127 amended, 1923, 150.

Sect. 151 amended, 1928, 155 § 56.

Sect. 160 amended, 1924, 299.

Sect. 161 amended, 1923, 362 § 85.

Sect. 162 amended, 1928, 132.

Chapter 128. — Agriculture.

Provision for co-operation between the United States department of
agriculture and the commonwealth in the collection and publication of
agricultural statistics, 1921, 253.

Sect. 2, cl. (/) revised, 1921, 206.

Sect. 8 revised, 1922, 438 § 2.

Sect. 14 amended, 1924, 94 § 1.

Sect. 22 revised, 1925, 58 § 1; 1929, 91 § 1.

Sect. 23 amended, 1923, 362 § 86.

Sect. 25 amended, 1925, 58 § 2; revised, 1929, 91 § 2.

Sect. 27 amended, 1926, 31 § 1.

Sect. 28 amended, 1925, 58 § 3.

Sect. 29 revised, 1926, 31 § 2.

Sect. 30 amended, 1923, 147 § 1; revised, 1927, 67.

Sect. 31A added, 1923, 147 § 2 (relative to the disposition of corn stalks
and stubble in connection with the suppression of the European corn borer) .

Sect. 38 amended, 1926, 23.

Sect. 39. See 1921, Resolve 5 (providing for preparation and publica-
tion of a report on the birds of Massachusetts); 1924, Resolve 36; 1926,
Resolves 4, 31; 1927, Resolves 24, 25; 1929, Resolve 5.

Chapter 129. — Animal Industry.

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 353 § 1.

Sect. 12 revised, 1922, 353 § 2 (repealed by 1922, 353 § 4 from and
after August 1, 1923).

602 Changes in the [Chap. iso.

Sect. 12A added, 1924, 304 § 1 (relative to compensation by the common-
wealth in certain cases where cattle affected with tuberculosis are killed).

Sect. 17 amended, 1929, 48.

Sect. 26A added, 1924, 495 (relative to the admission into the common-
wealth of cattle to be used for dairy purposes).

Sect. 31A added, 1927, 215 (relative to the delivery, receipt and use of
tuberculin).

Sect. 32 amended, 1927, 335 § 2.

Sect. 33 revised, 1922, 353 § 3; 1927, 303; amended, 1927, 335 § 3;

1928, 332 § 1.

Sect. 33A added, 1922, 137 (providing for certain requirements in case
of the transfer of possession of bovine animals which have reacted to the
tuberculin test); revised. 1924, 156.

Sect. 33B added, 1927, 335 § 1 (providing for the application in certain
cases of test for bovine tuberculosis to all cattle in a town).

Chapter 130. — Powers and Duties of the Division of Fisheries and Game.

Fisheries.

Possession of protected fish permitted under certain conditions if lawfully
caught in this commonwealth or elsewhere, 1922, 187 § 1.

Sect. 1, two paragraphs added at end, 1922, 187 § 1; new par. inserted,

1929, 372 § 2.

Sect. 2 revised, 1929, 372 § 3.

Sect. 4 amended, 1929, 372 § 4.

Sect. 5 amended, 1929, 372 § 5.

Sect. 6 amended, 1924, 184; 1929, 372 § 6.

Sect. 8 amended, 1929, 372 § 7.

Sect. 9 repealed, 1927, 280 § 4. *

Sect. 11 A added, 1929, 372 § 8 (relative to the preparation of certain
publications and the conduct of certain biological research by the supervisor
of marine fisheries).

Sect. 12 amended, 1929, 372 § 9.

Sect. 14 amended, 1929, 372 § 10.

Sect. 22 revised, 1922, 124; amended, 1929, 372 § 11.

Sect. 23 revised, 1921, 467 § 9; 1925, 295 § 1.

Sect. 28A added, 1924, 191 (relative to the establishment of breeding
areas in certain great ponds).

Sect. 35 revised, 1926, 195 § 2; amended, 1928, 8.

Sect. 49 revised, 1923, 269; amended, 1926, 19 § 1; 1927, 5; 1928, 74 § 1.

Sect. 51 amended, 1926, 19 § 2; 1928, 74 § 2.

Sect. 53 revised, 1926, 19 § 4.

Sect. 54A added, 1926, 19 § 3 (authorizing a trout breeding area in a
certain section of the Deerfield river); amended, 1928, 74 § 3.

Sect. 58 revised, 1923, 268 § 1.

Sects. 58-60. See 1921, 224 (imposing temporary restrictions on taking
of pickerel).

Sect. 59 revised, 1923, 268 § 2; amended, 1926, 27.

Sect. 61 amended, 1922, 148; revised, 1923, 268 § 3. (See 1929, 321.)

Sect. 62A added, 1923, 212 (relative to the taking, possession and sale
of pike perch).

Sect. 62B added, 1929, 82 (relative to the taking, possession or sale of
great northern pike or muscallonge).

Chap. 131.] GENERAL LawS. 603

Sect. 64 amended, 1921, 197: revised, 1922, 444.

Sect. 74 amended, 1929, 372 § 12.

Sect. 75 revised, 1926, 195 § 1.

Sect. 77A added, 1922, 108 (relative to fishing with floats in fresh water
ponds).

Sect. 78A added, 1921, 188 (imposing restrictions on the taking of fresh
water fish); revised, 1923, 268 § 4; 1927, 6; 1929, 47.

Sect. 79 amended, 1929, 372 § 13.

Sect. 80 revised, 1928, 113 § 1.

Sect. 82 amended, 1929, 372 § 14.

Sect. 84 amended, 1928, 113 § 2; revised, 1929, 304; last sentence re-
vised, 1929, 372 § 28.

Sect. 84A added, 1922, 80 (issuing of permits for the taking of shellfish
by unnaturalized foreign-born persons).

Sect. 92 revised, 1928, 263 § 1; amended, 1929, 372 § 15.

Sect. 93 revised, 1928. 263 § 2; amended, 1929, 372 § 16.

Sect. 98 amended, 1928, 131; 1929, 372 § 17.

Sect. 101 amended, 1929, 372 § 18.

Sect. 102 amended, 1929, 372 § 19.

Sect. 104 revised. 1921, 116 § 1; amended, 1922, 161; 1924, 96 § 1; 1928,
263 § 3; 1929, 372 § 20. (See 1928, 263 § 5.)

Sect. 105 revised, 1928, 21.

Sect. 106 amended, 1929, 372 § 21.

Sect. 109 amended, 1929, 372 § 22.

Sect. 112 amended, 1929, 372 § 23.

Sect. 129 amended, 1929, 372 § 24.

Sects. 137-142 repealed and new sections 137-139 added, 1926, 370 § 1.

Sect. 138 (inserted by 1926, 370 § 1) revised, 1928, 266 § 1; 1929, 372
§25.

Sect. 139 (inserted by 1926, 370 § 1) revised, 1928, 266 § 2.

Sects. 142A and 142B added, 1928, 323 (regulating the taking of shell-
fish from contaminated waters and relative to the purification of such
shellfish).

Sect. 142B amended, 1929, 372 § 26.

Sect. 144A added, 1928, 269 (regulating the importation and sale of
shellfish taken from grounds outside the commonwealth).

Sect. 145 revised, 1921, 24.

Sect. 148 amended, 1929, 372 § 27.

Sect. 150 amended, 1926, 195 § 3.

Chapter 131. — Preservation of Certain Birds and Animals. Hunting and

Fishing Licenses.

Provision for preparation and publication of a report on the birds of
Massachusetts, 1921, Resolve 5; 1924, Resolve 36; 1926, Resolves 4, 31;
1927, Resolves 24, 25; 1929, Resolve 5.

Taking of quail in the counties of Essex, Hampden, Hampshire, Middle-
sex, Norfolk, Worcester and Nantucket prohibited until the year 1930,
1925, 103; 1928, 177.

Possession of protected birds and quadrupeds permitted under certain
conditions if lawfully taken or killed in this commonwealth or elsewhere,
1922, 187 § 2.

604 Changes in the [Chap. 13 1.

Close season on ruffed grouse, except as to Dukes County, until the year
1930, 1928, 178; 1929, 209.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 187 § 2.

Sect. 3 revised, 1921, 467 § 1; amended, 1925, 295 § 2; 1926, 352 § 1.

Sect. 4 revised, 1921, 467 § 2; 1925, 295 § 3.

Sect. 5 repealed, 1925, 295 § 4.

Sect. 6 revised, 1921, 467 § 3; 1925, 295 § 5; 1926, 352 § 2.

Sect. 7 revised, 1921, 467 § 4; repealed, 1925, 295 § 6.

Sect. 8 revised, 1921, 467 § 5; repealed, 1925, 295 § 7.

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 467 § 6; revised, 1925, 295 § 8; 1926, 352 § 3.

Sect. 10 amended, 1924, 325; revised, 1925, 295 § 9.

Sect. 11 revised, 1925, 295 § 10.

Sect. 12 revised, 1925, 295 § 11.

Sect. 13 revised, 1921, 467 § 7; 1925, 295 § 12.

Sect. 14 revised, 1921, 467 § 8; amended, 1925, 295 § 13.

Sect. 16 amended, 1923, 68; revised, 1925, 295 § 14.

Sect. 19 amended, 1921, 75; 1926, 151 § 1.

Sect. 20 amended, 1926, 151 § 2.

Sect. 26 amended, 1928, 20. ,

Sect. 29 revised, 1921, 107 § 1; 1925, 249 § 1.

Sect. 30 revised, 1921, 107 § 2; 1925, 249 § 2.

Sect. 33 amended, 1924, 211 § 1; 1926, 151 § 3.

Sect. 34 amended, 1926, 151 § 4; 1928, 72.

Sect. 35 A added, 1926, 151 § 5 (providing for supplying of woodcock,
etc., to educational institutions for scientific purposes).

Sect. 36 amended, 1926, 151 § 6.

Sect. 37 amended, 1922, 171 § 1; revised, 1923, 307 § 1.

Sect. 39 revised, 1923, 307 § 2; 1928, 271.

Sect. 41 revised, 1929, 44.

Sect. 44A added, 1924, 211 § 2 (relative to the killing, etc., of ruffed
grouse). See also 1924, 211 § 1.

Sect. 45 amended, 1923, 99 § 1.

Sect. 46 amended, 1921, 152; 1922, 117 § 2; revised, 1922, 160; 1925,
179; amended, 1926, 88.

Sect. 46A added, 1922, 117 § 1 (relative to the importation of live hares
and rabbits for purposes of propagation or liberation).

Sect. 48 amended, 1923, 99 § 2; revised, 1924, 130.

Sect. 49 revised, 1926, 181.

Sect. 51 revised, 1921, 121; amended, 1925, 104; revised, 1925,320 § 2.

Sect. 51A added, 1923, 185 (requiring annual reports to the division of
fisheries and game relative to fur-bearing animals caught or killed in this
commonwealth) .

Sect. 53 repealed, 1927, 142.

Sect. 57 revised, 1928, 24.

Sect. 58 amended, 1923, 99 § 3; revised, 1925, 334; amended, 1928, 220;
1929, 83.

Sect. 58A added, 1925, 334 (penalizing use, etc., of snares for catching
or killing any animal).

Sect. 61 revised, 1922, 183.

Sect. 63 amended, 1925, 320 § 3; 1926, 66 § 2; 1928, 215. (See 1929,
138.)

Sect. 66 revised, 1922, 128.

Sect. 67 revised, 1921, 257 § 1; amended, 1927, 194; revised, 1928, 361.

Chaps. 132-13S.] GENERAL LaWS. 605

Sect. 68 amended, 1925, 320 § 1; 1926, 66 § 1.

Sect. 69 amended, 1923, 301 § 1.

Sect. 72 amended, 1921, 55.

Sect. 81 amended, 1922, 171 § 2; 1923, 307 § 3.

Sect. 82A added, 1921, 90 (relative to the release of wild birds or animals).

Sect. 85 amended, 1921, 159.

Sect. 90 amended, 1925, 199.

Chapter 132. — Forestry.

Mohawk Trail State Forest established. 1921, 344.

Bash Bish Falls State Forest established, 1924, 159.

Willard Brook State Forest established, 1929, 355.

Sect. 2 revised, 1924, 284 § 1.

Sect. 9 amended, 1926, 164.

Sect. 10 amended, 1921, 271 § 1.

Sect. 14 amended, 1923, 311; revised, 1923, 472 § 2.

Sect. 16 amended, 1923, 472 § 3.

Sect. 30 amended, 1922, 185; revised, 1923, 288 § 1.

Sect. 33 amended, 1921, 238; 1923, 288 § 2.

Sect. 34 amended, 1928, 87.

Sect. 34A added, 1923, 288 § 3 (relative to the sale or exchange of forest
and certain other lands under the supervision of the department of con-
servation and to the granting of certain rights of way and locations for
telephone, etc., lines thereon).

Sect. 35 amended, 1924, 24.

Sects. 38 and 39 added, 1924, 284 § 2 (relative to state trails or paths).

Chapter 135. — Unclaimed and Abandoned Property.

Sect. 7 amended, 1927, 30.
Sects. 8-11 affected, 1927, 30.
Sect. 8 revised, 1927, 163.

Chapter 136. — Observance of the Lord's Day.

"Sundav j^rofessional sports initiative act ", so called, 1928, 406.
Sect. 2* amended, 1928. 406 § 1.
Sf.ct. 4 amended, 1926, 326.

Sect. 6 amended, 1927, 175; 1928, 234; 1929, 118.
Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 119.

Sects. 21-28 stricken out and new sections 21-25 inserted, 1928, 406 § 2.
(See 1928, 406 § 3.)

Chapter 137. — Gaming.
Sect. 4 amended, 1926, 353.

Chapter 138. — Intoxicating Liquors and Certain Non -Intoxicating

Beverages.

Sect. 2A added, 1923, 370 (relative to the manufacture, transportation,
importation or exportation of intoxicating liquors and certain non-intoxi-
cating beverages).

Sect. 4. See 1921, 356, 450; 1926, 92.

606 Changes in the [Chaps. 139, 140.

Sects. 5-9. See 1921, 356, 450.

Sect. 8 affected, 1921, 356, 450.

Sect. IIA added, 1925, 33 (dispensing with the vote at city and town
elections on the question of granting liquor licenses for such period as sales
thereunder would be unlawful).

Sect. 15 amended, 1922, 285.

Sect. 18 amended, 1923, 233 § 1.

Sect. 25 revised, 1923, 233 § 2.

Sect. 28 amended, 1923, 233 § 3.

Sects. 30 and 31 repealed, 1923, 233 § 4.

Sect. 32 amended, 1923, 233 § 5.

Sect. 37 revised, 1927, 169.

Sect. 43 amended, 1923, 291.

Sect. 54 revised, 1921, 495; amended, 1922, 22.

Sect. 68 amended, 1929, 329 § 1.

Sect. 69 revised, 1923, 329.

Sect. 71, new sentence added, 1929, 329 § 2.

Sect. 75 amended, 1923, 435.

Sect. 76 repealed, 1926, 108 § 2.

Sect. 87 amended, 1923, 233 § 6.

Sect. 88 amended, 1923, 233 § 7.

Chapter 139.— Common Nuisances.
Sect. 16A added, 1928, 125 (relative to liquor nuisances).

Chapter 140. — Licenses.

For definition of "licensing authorities", as used in this chapter, see
1926, 92.

Sect. 1 revised, 1926, 92 § 1.

Sect. 10 amended, 1924, 129.

Sects. 21A-21D added, 1922, 392 (authorizing cities and towns to pro-
vide for licensing the sale of certain beverages).

Sect. 23 revised, 1921, 59.

Sect. 50A added, 1929, 187 (relative to the holding of religious meetings
and political meetings or rallies in public ways and places).

Sect. 57 amended, 1929, 238 § 2.

Sect. 58 revised, 1923, 30.

Sect. 66 revised, 1923, 218.

Sect. 94 revised, 1925, 143.

Sect. 121 amended, 1922, 485 § 1; revised, 1927, 326 § 1.

Sect. 122 revised, 1922, 485 § 2.

Sect. 122A added, 1922, 485 § 3 (relative to the recording of licenses to
sell, rent or lease firearms).

Sect. 123 revised, 1922, 485 § 4; 1925, 284 § 1; 1926, 395 § 1; 1927,
326 § 2.

Sect. 125 amended, 1922, 485 § 5.

Sect. 127 amended, 1922, 485 § 6.

Sect. 128 revised, 1925. 284 § 2; amended, 1926, 395 § 2.

Sect. 129 amended, 1925, 284 § 3.

Sect. 129A added, 1922, 485 § 7 (unnaturalized foreign-bom persons re-
stricted as to firearms).

Chaps. 141-146.] GENERAL LaWS. 607

Sect. 130 amended, 1922, 485 § 8; revised, 1927, 172.

Sect. 131 revised, 1922, 485 § 9; 1925, 284 § 4; amended, 1927, 326 § 3.

Sect. 131A added, 1926, 395 § 3 (providing for the issue of permits to
purchase, etc., pistols or revolvers).

Sect. 131 B added, 1926, 395 § 3 (prohibiting loans on pistols or revolvers) ;
amended, 1927, 326 § 4.

Sect. 148 revised, 1925, 295 § 15.

Sect. 157 amended, 1924, 113.

Sect. 182 amended, 1926, 299 § 2.

Sect. 182A added, 1924, 497 § 1 (tickets to theatres and other places of
public amusement to have price printed on face).

Sects. 183A-183C added, 1926, 299 § 1 (requiring innholders, etc.,
conducting certain amusements in connection with their business to be
licensed).

Sects. 185A-185G added, 1924, 497 § 2 (regulating the sale and resale
of tickets to theatres and other places of public amusement).

Sect. 202 amended, 1926, 28.

Chapter 141. — Supervision of Electricians.
Sect. 3, cl. (3) revised, 1921, 221 § 1; cl. (5) amended, 1921, 221 § 2.

Chapter 142. — Supervision of Plumbing.

Sect. 1 amended, 1925, 348 § 3.

Sect. 5 revised, 1925, 348 § 4; 1927, 154.

Sect. 6 revised, 1928, 76 § 1.

Sect. 7 amended, 1928, 76 § 2.

Sect. 11 amended, 1923, 194.

Chapter 143. — Inspection and Regulation of, and Licenses for, Buildings,
Elevators and Cinematographs.

Boston building laws, 1907, 550; 1908, 336; 1909, 313; 1910, 284, 631;
1911, 342; 1912, 369, 370; 1913, 50, 577, 586, 704, 729; 1914, 119, 205,
248, 595, 628, 782, 786; 1915, Sp. Acts 254, 333, 346, 352; 1916, Sp. Acts
248, 277; 1917, Sp. Acts 221; 1918, Sp. Acts 104, 115, 179; 1919, Sp.
Acts 155, 156, 163; 1920, 91, 266, 440, 455; 1921, 60, 289, 476; 1922, 61,
126, 174, 316; 1923, 108, 278, 462; 1924, 136, 335, 412, 414; 1925, 219;
1926,182,350; 1927,42,342; 1928,137.

Sect. 72 amended, 1923, 478 § 1.

Sect. 85 revised, 1927, 82.

Sects. 86-88 added, 1923, 478 § 2 (relative to the use in schools and for
other purposes of moving picture apparatus adapted to standard width
safety films).

Chapter 146. — Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, etc., Licenses of Engineers,
Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery.

Sect. 22 amended, 1926, 291.
Sect. 28 repealed, 1924, 461.
Sect. 57 revised, 1927, 298.
Sect. 60 revised, 1927, 296 § 1.
Sect. 63 amended, 1927, 296 § 2.

608 Changes in the [Chaps. 147-149.

Chapter 147. — State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of
the Department of Public Safety.

Sect. 2 revised, 1921, 164; amended, 1925, 322 § 2; 1926, 199.
Sect. 5 amended, 1928, 320.

Sects. 6A-6D added, 1926, 225 (relative to the disposition of property
recovered by the department of pubHc safety).
Sect. 10 revised, 1924, 218.
Sects. 16 and 17 affected, 1927, 304. (See 1929, 63.)

Chapter 148. — Fire Prevention.

Sect. 2 revised, 1921, 485 § 1; amended, 1928, 277 § 1; 1929, 205 § 2.

Sect. 6 revised, 1928, 277 § 2; new sentence added at end, 1929, 205 § 3.

Sect. 7A added, 1928, 277 § 3 (increasing the powers of state and local
authorities as to fire prevention outside the metropolitan fire prevention
district).

Sect. 10 revised, 1921, 273, 485 § 2.

Sect. 12 revised, 1921, 255; amended, 1924, 398.

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 485 § 3; revised, 1924, 254; 1925, 335 § 1;
1928, 260 § 1, 325 § 1.

Sects. 15-18 affected, 1921, 485 § 1.

Sect. 19 revised, 1921, 485 § 4.

Sect. 21 affected, 1921, 485 § 1.

Sect. 23 affected, 1921, 485 § 1.

Sect. 30 amended, 1928, 274; revised, 1929, 205 § 1.

Sect. 31 amended, 1921, 485 § 5.

Sect. 32 revised, 1928, 325 § 2.

Sect. 33 revised, 1928, 325 § 3.

Sect. 39, els. H and I revised, 1928, 325 § 4; els. N and 0 added at end.
1928, 325 § 5.

Sect. 40 revised, 1928, 325 § 6.

Sect. 54 amended, 1921, 104.

Sect. 57 amended, 1924, 80; 1925, 95.

Sects. 57A-57G added, 1921, 500 (providing for the giving of bonds in
connection with the manufacture, wholesale storage or public exhibition of
fireworks).

Sect. 58 amended, 1928, 325 § 7.

Sect. 60 revised, 1925, 335 § 2.

Sect. 61 amended, 1925, 335 § 3.

Sect. 62 revised, 1921, 485 § 6.

Sect. 66 amended, 1921, 485 § 7.

Chapter 149. — Labor and Industries.

Attendance officers changed to supervisors of attendance, 1928, 184.

Sect. 1, par. contained in lines 19 to 22 amended, 1925, 151.

Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 306 § 5.

Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 306 § 6.

Sect. 15 amended, 1921, 306 § 7.

Sect. 17 amended, 1921, 306 § 8.

Sect. 29 amended, 1929, 110.

Sect. 30 amended, 1923, 236.

Chap. 152.] GENERAL LaWS. 609

Sect. 34 revised, 1924, 237.

Sect. 56 amended, 1921, 280.

Sect. 60 amended, 1921, 410 § 2.

Sect. 65 revised. 1921, 351 § 1, 410 § 3.

Sect. 69 amended, 1921, 410 § 1.

Sect. 70 revised, 1921, 410 § 4.

Sect. 86 amended, 1921, 351 § 2. (See 1922, 401.)

Sect. 88, second paragraph amended, 1925, 47.

Sect. 89. See 1922, 401.

Sect. 94 amended, 1921, 351 § 3.

Sect. 95 amended, 1921, 341; revised, 1926, 188 § 3.

Sect. 117 revised, 1926, 159.

Sect. 120 revised, 1921, 50.

Sect. 141 amended, 1921, 53.

Sect. 148 amended, 1921, 51; 1923, 136; revised, 1924, 145; amended,
1925, 165; last sentence revised, 1929, 117.

Sect. 174 revised, 1927, 292 § 1; repealed, 1929, 357 § 2.

Sect. 177A added, 1922, 215 (prohibiting employers from exempting
themselves from liability for certain injuries to employees).

Sect. 179A added, 1922, 517 (providing a preference to citizens in award-
ing contracts for public work).

Chapter 152. — Workmen's Compensation.

Special commission to investigate the operation of the Workmen's
Compensation Law, 1926, Resolve 36.

Sect. 3 repealed, 1921, 462 § 8.

Sect. 4 amended, 1921, 462 § 7.

Sect. 9 A added, 1929, 242 (relative to the fees of physicians appearing
before the department of industrial accidents on behalf of injured employees
in certain cases).

Sect. 12, paragraph added at end, 1929, 246.

Sect. 15 revised, 1929, 326 § 1.

Sect. 20 amended, 1927, 309 § 1.

Sect. 24 amended, 1927, 309 § 2.

Sect. 26 amended, 1927, 309 § 3.

Sect. 29 amended, 1923, 163; 1924, 207; 1927, 309 § 4.

Sect. 30 amended, 1927, 309 § 5.

Sect. 31 revised, 1922, 402; 1927, 309 § 6.

Sect. 32 amended, 1926, 190.

Sect. 33 amended, 1922, 368.

Sect. 34 amended, 1927, 309 § 7.

Sect. 35 amended, 1927, 309 § 8.

Sect. 36 revised, 1928, 356.

Sect. 41 amended, 1929, 326 § 2.

Sect. 45 revised, 1921, 310.

Sect. 46 amended, 1927, 309 § 9.

Sect. 48 amended, 1927, 309 § 10.

Sect. 49 amended, 1923, 125.

Sect. 52 amended, 1925, 267 § 14; revised, 1927, 284 § 15, 309 § 11.

Sect. 54 repealed, 1923, 139 § 1.

Sect. 55 amended, 1923, 139 § 2.

Sect. 69 revised, 1924, 434; amended, 1927, 309 § 12.

610 Changes in the [Chaps. 15i-i58.

Chapter 154, — Assignment cf Wajes.
Sect. 3 revised, 1929, 159.

Chapter 155. — General Provisions relative to Corporations.

Sect. 3A added, 1924, 166 (requiring certain public service corporations
to make certain deposits of funds in national banks and trust companies).

Sect. 5A added, 1921, 268 § 1 (relative to provision for depreciation by
companies under the supervision of the department of public utilities).

Sect. 10 revised, 1926, 379 § 3; amended, 1929, 24 § 7. (Articles of
amendment and certificates of change of name of certain corporations filed
in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.)

Sect. 18 amended, 1925, 184 § 1.

Sect. 19 amended, 1925, 184 § 2.

Sect. 22 amended, 1923, 172.

Sect. 50 amended, 1928, 50.

Chapter 156. — Business Corporations.

Certificates, articles of organization and amendment and affidavits re-
lating to business corporations filed in the office of the State Secretary
deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 2 amended, 1923, 438 § 1. (See 1923, 438 § 6.)

Sect. 28 revised, 1924, 91 § 1.

Sect. 30 amended, 1924, 91 § 2.

Sect. 33 revised, 1926, 129; 1929, 102; 1929, 375 § 1. (See 1929, 375
§2.)

Sect. 53 revised, 1928, 360 § 1.

Sect. 54 revised, 1928, 360 § 2.

Chapter 157. — Co-operative Corporations.

Certificates, articles of organization and amendment and affidavits re-
lating to co-operative associations filed in the office of the State Secretary
deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 3 amended, 1923, 438 § 2.

Sect. 4 revised, 1921, 297.

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 438 § 3.

Sects. 10-18 added, 1923, 438 § 4 (relative to the incorporation of agri-
cultural and other co-operative corporations without capital stock).

Chapter 158. — Certain Miscellaneous Corporations.

Certificates, articles of organization and amendment and affidavits re-
lating to certain public service corporations filed in the office of the State
Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 37 amended, 1926, 26.

Sect. 39 amended, 1929, 97.

Sects. 41, 42. See 1924, 44 § 1.

Sect. 43 revised, 1924, 44 § 3.

Sects. 46-54. See 1922, 488 § 2.

Chaps. 159-161.] GENERAL LaWS. 611

Chapter 159. — Common Carriers.

Sect. 42 repealed, 1922, 259 § 2.

Sect. 45 revised, 1925, 280 § 1 ; affected, 1925, 280 § 4; amended, 1926,
163; revised, 1926, 392 § 1; amended, 1927, 276.

Sect. 46 amended, 1925, 346 § 7; revised, 1926, 368 § 6, 392 § 2; 1927,
268 § 1.

Sect. 47 amended, 1925, 176; revised, 1927, 268 § 2.

Sects. 48A and 48B added, 1925, 280 § 2 (further regulating operation
of motor vehicles as common carriers of passengers).

Sect. 49 revised, 1925, 280 § 3.

Sect. 49A added, 1928, 115 (providing penalty for evasion of payment of
fare on motor vehicles of common carriers of passengers).

Sect. 56 amended, 1925, 195.

Sect. 59 amended, 1923, 351 § 1.

Sect. 61 amended, 1923, 351 § 2.

Sect. 62 amended, 1923, 351 § 3.

Sect. 86. (Certificates of organization of certain relief corporations
Bled in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.)

Chapter 160. — Railroads.

Certificates relative to railroad corporations filed in the office of the State
Secretary deemed recoivled, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 70 amended, 1925, 125 § 2; revised, 1929, 76.

Sect. 7()A added, 1925, 125 § 1 (relati\e to the operation by railroad
corporations of motor vehicles).

Sect. 128 amended, 1922, 116.

Sect. 142 amended, 1926, 270.

Sect. 198A added, 1925, 216 (relative to the sale of certain tickets issued
by railroad corporations).

Chapter 161. — Street Railways.

Boston Elevated Railway Company, public operation of, 1918, Sp. Acts
159; 1919, Sp. Arts 244. 245. 2.50. 251: 1920. 613. 637; 1921. 108; 1925,
Resolve 38; formation of metropolitan transit district, 1929, 383.

Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts Street Railway Company, formerly Bay State
Street Railway Companv, public operation of, 1918, Sp. Acts 188; 1919,
Sp. Acts 247; 1920, 505;" 1921, 223; 1928, 298.

Act to assure the continued operation of the lines of the Berkshire Street
Railway Company, 1921, 479. See 1924. 293.

Certificates relative to street railway companies filed in the office of the
State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 4, par. (h) amended, 1923, 491 § 1.

Sect. 7, first par. amended, 1924, 205.

Sect. 20 A added, 1923, 491 § 3 (authorizing a change of the par value
of shares of capital stock issued by street railway companies).

Sect. 82 amended, 1925, 236.

Sect. 85 revised, 1923, 482 § 3.

Sect. 98 amended, 1922, 430.

Sect. 108 affected, 1927, 9 § 1 ; amended, 1928, 222.

612 Changes in the [Chaps. 162-i64.

Sect. 136, par. (i) amended, 1923, 491 § 2.

Sect. 161 added, 1923, 296 (authorizing cities and towns to contribute
toward the cost of street railway service therein).

Chapter 162. — Electric Railroads.

Certificates relative to electric railroads filed in the office of the State
Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Chapter 163. — Trackless Trolley Companies.

Certificates relative to trackless trolley companies filed in the office of
the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Chapter 164. — Manufacture and Sale of Gas and Electricity.

Certificates relative to gas and electric companies filed in the office of the
State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 6 amended, 1922, 354 § 1; 1923, 290 § 1; 1925, 184 § 3.

Sect. 8 revised, 1922, 354 § 2; amended, 1924, 44 § 1. (See 1924, 44 § 2.)

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 269; 1925, 150; revised, 1925, 184 § 4.

Sect. 9A added, 1923, 290 § 2 (relative to the corporate purposes of
certain electric companies).

Sect. 13 amended, 1922, 223; 1924, 173.

Sect. 14 revised, 1921, 230 § 1.

Sect. 18 amended, 1922, 226 § 1.

Sect. 19 amended, 1921, 246; 1922, 226 § 2; 1924, 172.

Sect. 22. See 1924, 44 § 2.

Sect. 33 revised, 1924, 44 § 2.

Sect. 42 revised, 1929, 379 § 1.

Sect. 43 revised, 1929, 379 § 2.

Sect. 44 repealed, 1929, 379 § 3.

Sect. 45 amended, 1929, 379 § 4.

Sect. 46 amended, 1929, 379 § 5.

Sect. 47 amended, 1929, 379 § 6.

Sects. 48-50 repealed, 1929, 379 § 7.

Sect. 56 revised, 1929, 266.

Sect. 57A added, 1922, 184 (relative to appropriations for the mainte-
nance of municipal light plants).

Sect. 58 stricken out and new sections 58 and 58A inserted, 1927, 269.

Sect. 63 amended, 1923, 85; 1926, 99.

Sect. 70A added, 1925, 145 (authorizing the department of public
utilities to approve connecting locations of gas mains).

Sect. 72 revised, 1924. 433; amended, 1925, 98; 1926, 256.

Sect. 72A added, 1927, 66 (providing for entry on private land by electric
companies for the purpose of making surveys preliminary to eminent do-
main proceedings).

Sect. 73 revised, 1926, 257.

Sect. 77 amended, 1921, 48.

Sect. 84 amended, 1923, 90.

Sect. 92 amended, 1925, 153.

Sect. 93 revised, 1927, 316 § 1.

Sect. 94 revised, 1927, 316 § 2.

Chaps. 165-168.] GENERAL LaWS. 613

Sect. 94A added, 1926, 298 (providing for approval by the department
of public utilities of certain contracts of electric companies).

Sect. 97 amended, 1924, 146.

Sect. 103 amended, 1928, 139 § 3.

Sect. 105 amended, 1928, 139 § 4.

Sect. 107 amended, 192.5, 234.

Sect. 108 amended, 1928, 139 § 5.

Sect. 114 amended, 1928, 139 § 6.

Sect. 116 amended, 1923, 162.

Sect. 119 amended. 1921, 404.

Sect. 125 A added, 1928, 265 (relative to the supply of gas and electricity
to cities and towns in certain cases).

Chapter 165. — Water and Aqueduct Companies.

Sect. 13. (Certificates of payment of capital of aqueduct corporations
filed in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.)

Chapter 166. — Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the
Transmission of Electricity.

Sect. 1. (Certificates of payment of capital of telephone and telegraph
companies filed in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see
1922, 151.)

Sect. 4 revised, 1921, 230 § 2.

Sect. 21 amended, 1927, 106 § 2.

Sect. 22, second and third paragraphs amended, 1925, 166.

Sect. 34 re^^sed, 1926, 252.

Chapter 167. — Banks and Banking.

Sect. 2 revised, 1922, 363 § 1; amended, 1923, 406 § 1.

Sect. 8 revised, 1922, 367.

Sect. 9 amended, 1922, 104.

Sect. 12 amended, 1921, 78 § 1; 1922, 114.

Sect. 13 amended, 1921, 78 § 2.

Sect. 15 amended, 1921, 153; repealed, 1923, 40 § 2.

Sect. 17 revised, 1924, 255.

Sect. 21 repealed, 1922, 411.

Sects. 22-35. See 1922, 291.

Sect. 24 amended, 1922, 488 § 1.

Sect. 31 amended, 1921, 471.

Sect. 35 revised, 1925, 240.

Sect. 37. See 1922, 114.

Sect. 45A added, 1928, 128 § 1 (authorizing certain foreign banking
associations and corporations to act as fiduciaries); amended, 1929, 243.

Sects. 46 and 47 added, 1922, 312 (fixing responsibility and providing
additional penalties for violation of laws relative to banks).

Chapter 168. — Savings Banks.

Sect. 10. (Certificates and articles of organization of savings banks filed
in the office of the State Secretarv deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.)
Sect. 14 amended, 1922, 258 § 1.

614 Changes in the [Chaps. 169, 170.

Sect. 14A added, 1922, 258 § 2 (providing for the election of trustees of
savings banks in groups).

Sect. 24 revised, 1922, 265 § 1; amended, 1925, 16 § 1.

Sect. 31 amended, 1924, 67 § 1; 1927, 109 § 1; 1928, 60; revised, 1928,
156 § 2.

Sect. 31A added, 1923, 40 § 1 (limiting the restriction on joint accounts
in banks to those in savings banks); amended, 1924, 67 § 2; 1927, 109 § 2.

Sect. 32 A added, 1921, 79 (authorizing savings banks to establish and
maintain safe deposit vaults).

Sect. 33A added, 1923, 37 (permitting savings banks to transmit money
to another state or country); amended, 1926, 162.

Sect. 43 amended, 1923, 362 § 87.

Sect. 51 amended, 1921, 292 § 1; revised, 1922, 468 § 1.

Sect. 51 A added, 1922, 468 § 2 (requiring savings banks to make loans
to depositors on deposit books).

Sect. 54, cl. Second, subdiv. (a) revised, 1925, 209 § 1; subdiv. (e) re-
vised, 1925, 209 § 2; subdiv. (/) re\'ised, 1925, 209 § 3; cl. Third amended,
1926, 283; cl. Fifth, first par. revised, 1925, 208; last par. amended, 1928,
42; cl. Sixth amended, 1921, 229; 1922, 159 § 1; cl. Sixth A added, 1926,
351 § 1 (authorizing investment by savings banks in securities of certain
additional public service companies); cl. Seventh, first par. revised, 1929,
315 § 1 (see 1929, 315 § 2); cl. Ninth (c) amended, 1922, 159 § 2; 1926,
351 § 2; cl. Ninth (e) (3) amended, 1922, 159 § 3; 1924, 68; cl. Fifteenth
revised, 1926, 351 § 3; amended, 1928, 27. (See 1927, 102, relative to
loans by savings banks and savings departments of trust companies secured
by adjusted service certificates.)

Chapter 169. —Deposits with Others Than Banks.

Sect. 1 revised, 1923, 473 § 1; 1929, 182 § 1.
Sect. 2 revised, 1923, 473 § 2; 1929, 182 § 2.
Sect. 3 revised, 1923, 473 § 3; 1929, 182 § 3.
Sect. 10 revised, 1929, 182 § 4.

Sect. 12 revised, 1923, 473 § 4; repealed, 1929, 182 § 5.
Sect. 13 repealed, 1929, 182 § 5.

Sect. 15A added, 1923, 473 § 5 (regulating the dealing in foreign ex-
change by foreign bankers, so called); repealed, 1929, 182 § 5.
Sect. 16 revised, 1923, 473 § 6; 1929, 182 § 6.
Sect. 18 revised, 1923, 473 § 7; 1929, 182 § 7.

Chapter 170. — Co-operative Banks.

Certificates and articles of organization of co-operative banks filed in the
office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 7 amended, 1923, 100; 1926, 150 § 1.

Sect. 9 amended, 1925, 16 § 2.

Sect. 10 revised, 1926, 150 § 2.

Sect. 12 amended, 1921, 242; 1924, 223 § 1.

Sect. 15A added, 1924, 223 § 2 (limiting the issuance and holdmg of
shares in co-operative banks).

Sect. 19 amended, 1922, 208.

Sect. 27 amended, 1921, 211.

Sect. 31 amended, 1921, 158; 1922, 212; 1923, 21.

Chaps. 171, 172.] GENERAL LaWS. 615

Sect. 41 amended, 1921, 157 § 1.

Sect. 42 amended, 1921, 157 § 2.

Sect. 44 amended, 1928, 44.

Sect. 47 amended, 1922, 256; revised, 1928, 292.

Chapter 171. — Credit Unions-
Certificates and articles of organization of credit unions filed in the
ofiice of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

The following references are to the original Chapter 171 :

Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 147 § 1; 1923, 38.

Sect. 4A added, 1923, 294 § 1 (permitting domestic corporations, volun-
tary associations and partnerships to become limited members of credit
unions).

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 294 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 294 § 3.

Sect. 13 amended, 1922, 147 § 2.

Sect. 14 amended, 1922, 147 § 3.

Sect. 15, first paragraph amended, 1922, 147 § 4.

Sect. 16A added, 1923, 143 § 1 (providing for a reserve fund for credit
unions).

Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 147 § 5; 1923,'294 § 4.

Sect. 23 amended, 1923, 54, 143 § 2.

Sect. 27 revised, 1923, 55.

Chapter 171 repealed and superseded by 1926, 273 § 1.

Chapter 172. — Trust Companies.

Certificates and articles of organization of trust companies and certificates
of increase and reduction of capital filed in the office of the State Secretary
deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 4 amended, 1923, 41. (See 1923, 121.)

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 263 § 1.

Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 263 § 2.

Sect. 11 revised, 1922, 293.

Sect. 13 amended, 1922, 265 § 2.

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 352; revised, 1929, 201 § 2.

Sect. 16 amended, 1928, 262.

Sect. IS revised, 1926, 239; 1929, 201 § 1.

Sects. 20-22 repealed, 1923, 406 § 2.

Sect. 23 repealed, 1922, 363 § 2.

Sect. 24 revised, 1922, 488 § 2.

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 488 § 3.

Sect. 26 amended, 1924, 162.

Sects. 28-30 repealed, 1923, 406 § 2.

Sect. 30A added, 1922, 310 (subjecting interdepartment transfers of
assets by trust companies to the supervision of the commissioner of banks).

Sect. 33 amended, 1929, 120.

Sect. 39 amended, 1922, 264.

Sect. 40 amended, 1921, 194.

Sect. 41 revised, 1922, 321; 1929, 116.

Sect. 44 amended, 1922, 292.

Sect. 45 revised, 1928, 285.

Sect. 46 revised, 1922, 396.

616 Changes in the [Chap. 175.

Sect. 52 amended, 1928, 128 § 2.
Sect. 65 amended, 1922, 365.

Sect. 66 amended, 1921, 292 § 2; revised, 1922, 468 § 3.
Sect. 66A added, 1922, 468 § 4 (requiring savings departments of trust
companies to make loans to depositors on deposit books).
Sect. 73 amended, 1922, 294.
Sect. 76 amended, 1922, 291.
Sect. 80 revised, 1922, 394.

Chapter 175. — Insurance.

Certificates and articles of organization and amendment relative to in-
surance companies filed in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded,
see 1922, 151.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 165 § 1.

Sect. 2 A added, 1921, 277 § 1 (relative to contracts of reinsurance).

Sect. 3 amended, 1924, 406 § 1; 1929, 24 § 2.

Sect. 3A added, 1924, 406 § 2 (relative to administration of certain
insurance laws by commissioner of insurance); amended, 1929, 24 § 3.

Sect. 4, second par. amended, 1926, 156; new par. added, 1928, 133 § 1.

Sect. 5 revised, 1927, 284 § 2.

Sect. 6 amended, 1925, 154 § 3, 267 § 1; last sentence revised, 1926,
114 § 2; section revised, 1927, 284 § 3; par. added at end, 1928, 171 § 2.

Sect. 7 repealed, 1925, 154 § 6.

Sect. 8 repealed, 1924, 406 § 17.

Sect. 8A added, 1923, 197 (extending the authority of the commissioner
of insurance relative to hearings).

Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 213.

Sect. 10 revised, 1924, 406 § 3.

Sect. 11, first par. amended, 1927, 284 § 4.

Sect. 13 repealed, 1923, 39 § 3.

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 166; revised, 1924, 450 § 1; 1925, 124 § 1;
amended, 1926, 174 § 1.

Sect. 16 amended, 1924, 450 § 2.

Sect. 18, first par. amended, 1924, 285 § 2; revised, 1925, 164 § 2; 1928,
80 § 2.

Sect. 19A added, 1921, 172 (relative to the merger of insurance com-
panies); revised, 1923, 192.

Sect. 20 amended, 1921, 277 § 2; second par. amended, 1926, 74.

Sect. 22 amended, 1924, 406 § 18.

Sect. 22A added, 1928, 106 § 4 (relative to the form of policies cover-
ing more than one class of insurance).

Sect. 22B added, 1928, 205 § 1 (waivers of provisions of chapter 175
prohibited unless expressly authorized thereby).

Sect. 23 revised, 1925, 154 § 1.

Sect. 23A added, 1925, 154 § 2 (requiring certain insurance companies
to notify the commissioner of insurance in certain cases); revised, 1925,
267 § 2; 1926, 5; 1927, 284 § 5; first par. amended, 1928, 169 § 1.

Sect. 24 revised, 1929, 235.

Sect. 25. Form A, Item 32 (b) revised, 1921, 165 § 2; first par. amended,
1923, 86; Forms B and C, heading and following paragraph stricken out
and new heading and following paragraph inserted, 1929, 24 § 4.

Chap. 175.] GENERAL LaWS. 617

Sect. 26 amended, 1924, 406 § 4.

Sect. 28 revised, 1928, 133 § 2.

Sect. 29 amended, 1929, 24 § 5.

Sect. 31 A added, 1923, 373 (extending the territory within which in-
surance business may be transacted by domestic insurance companies
otherwise restricted by their charters).

Sect. 32 revised, 1921, 190.

Sect. 37 amended, 1921, 144.

Sects. 38-43 repealed, 1923, 120.

Sect. 46 revised, 1928, 171 § 1.

Sect. 46A added, 1922, 407 (giving preference to certain claims against
insolvent domestic liability insurance companies); revised, 1928, 171 § 3.

Sect. 46B added, 1923, 118 § 2 (requiring domestic insurance companies
to file copies of their by-laws and amendments with the commissioner of
insurance).

Sect. 47, els. First and Eighth revised, 1927, 49; cl. Second amended,
1921, 198; 1927, 53 § 1; els. Fourth and Sixth affected, 1925, 345; cl. Sixth
revised, 1927, 284 § 6; cl. Fourteenth added, 1921, 215 § 1 (authorizing
writing of insurance in foreign countries); cl. Fifteenth added, 1921, 277 § 3
(relating to reinsurance) ; section amended, 1925, 2G7 §3; section revised,
1928, 106 § 1.

Sect. 48 amended, 1921, 215 § 2, 277 § 4; 1923, 39 § 1; 1924, 406 § 5;
cl. contained in lines 25-29 amended, 1926, 114 § 1.

Sect. 48x\ added, 1924, 406 § 6 (relative to the organization of mutual
insurance companies); revised, 1925, 267 § 4; 1927, 284 § 7; cl. {b) revised,
1928, 225 § 1.

Sect. 49 amended, 1921, 277 § 5; revised, 1924, 406 § 7; amended, 1924,
450 § 3.

Sect. 50 revised, 1924, 253; amended, 1924, 450 § 4.

Sect. 51, cl. (a) amended, 1923, 39 § 2; 1927, 53 § 2; revised, 1928,
106 § 2; cl. (g) revised, 1924, 298 § 1; amended, 1924, 450 § 5; new par.
added at end, 1928, 106 § 2.

Sect. 52 repealed, 1928, 106 § 5.

Sect. 53 repealed, 1922, 76.

Sect. 54, cl. (6) revised, 1923, 153; cl. (g) revised, 1924, 298 § 2; amended,
1924, 450 § 6; first par. and els. (a) to (/) stricken out, and first par.
and els. (a) to (c) inserted, 1925, 267 § 5; cl. (a) revised, 1928, 225 § 2;
els. (c) and (e) revised, 1927, 284 § 8; new par. added at end, 1928, 106 § 3.

Sect. 55. See 1921, 486 § 30.

Sect. 56 amended, 1924, 450 § 7; revised, 1929, 24 § 6.

Sect. 60, last par. revised, 1926, 14 § 1. (See 1922, 77.)

Sect. 61 amended, 1928, 185.

Sect. 63, cl. 7 (a) added, 1921, 215 § 3; revised, 1923, 297 § 1.

Sect. 65 amended, 1923, 297 § 2.

Sect. 66 revised, 1923, 297 § 3.

Sect. 70 amended, 1924, 450 § 8.

Sect. 71 amended, 1924, 450 § 9; revised, 1927, 248.

Sect. 73 amended, 1926, 53 § 1; revised, 1927, 284 § 9.

Sect. 76, par. contained in lines 9 to 11 revised, 1929, 156.

Sect. 80 amended, 1921, 160; first par. revised, 1929, 34 § 1; second
par. revised, 1926, 115.

Sect. 81 affected, 1921, 372; amended, 1927, 284 § 10.

618 Changes in the [Chap. i75.

Sect. 90 revised, 1925, 154 § 4, 267 § 6; 1927, 284 § 11; first par.
amended, 1929, 34 § 3.

Sects. 90A and 90B added, 1925, 267 § 7 (regulating issue of policies
by certain mutual insurance companies); sect. 90A amended, 1926, 53 § 2.

Sect. 91 repealed, 1924, 406 § 17.

Sect. 92 amended, 1925, 154 § 5, 267 § 8.

Sect. 93 amended, 1921, 486 § 30; 1925, 267 § 9; revised, 1927, 284 § 1.

Sects. 93A to 93D added, 1925, 267 § 10 (regulating the transaction of
business by certain mutual insurance companies); sect. 93B revised, 1926,
53 § 3; sect. 93D revised, 1927, 284 § 12.

Sect. 94 amended. 1922, 77.

Sect. 99, cl. First revised, 1923, 137; first par. amended, 1924, 285 § 3.

Sect. 100 amended, 1923, 152, 198 § 1; revised, 1924, 406 § 8; section
stricken out and new sections 100-lOOB inserted, 1927, 285 § 1.

Sect. 101 revised, 1927, 285 § 2.

Sects. lOlA-lOlG added, 1927, 285 § 3 (relative t© reference proceedings
under the standard fire policy). See also 1927, 285 §§ 1, 2.

Sects. 102A and 102B added, 1924, 285 § 1 (relative to the issuance by
fire insurance companies of a single policy of insurance on which they are
severally liable.)

Sect. 103 repealed, 1923, 336 § 2.

Sect. 105 amended, 1924, 406 § 9; 1925, 267 § 11; affected, 1925, 345.
(See 1924, 406 § 19.)

Sect. 110 amended, 1921, 136.

Sects. lUA and lllB added, 1925, 164 § 1 (permitting certain insurance
companies to issue a single policy of liability insurance on which they are
severally or jointly and severally liable).

Sect. Ill A, provisions (3) and (4) revised, 1928, 80 § 3.

Sect. 112 revised, 1923, 149 § 1.

Sect. 113 revised, 1923, 149 § 2.

Sects. 113A to 113D added, 1925, 346 § 4 (relative to the form of com-
pulsory motor vehicle liability policies and bonds, so called, to premium
charges and classifications in connection therewith, and to proceedings to
enable owners of certain motor vehicles to compel the issue or execution
thereof) .

Sect. 113A, provision (2) revised, 1926, 368 § 4; new par. added, 1926,
368 § 5; provision (4) amended, 1928, 187 § 2; section revised, 1928, 381 § 5.

Sect. 113B revised, 1927, 182; 1928, 381 § 6; new par. added at end,
1929, 34 § 2; revised, 1929, 166. (See 1928, 381 § 11.)

Sect. 113D revised, 1928, 381 § 7.

Sect. 114 revised, 1924, 406 § 10; 1925, 73; 1928, 157.

Sect. 115 repealed, 1924, 406 § 17.

Sect. 116, last par. revised, 1926, 114 § 3.

Sect. 116A added, 1928, 168 (relative to the rights and obligations of
foreign title insurance companies admitted to transact business in Massa-
chusetts).

Sect. 117A added, 1928, 80 § 1 (authorizing two or more fire insurance
companies to join in the issue of a single sprinkler leakage insurance policy).

Sect. 118 amended, 1921, 167.

Sect. 119 A added, 1921, 168 (to protect persons entitled to the proceeds
of life insurance and annuity policies, and the income therefrom, when re-
tained by life insurance companies).

Chap. 175.] GENERAL LaWS. 619

Sect. 123 revised, 1924, 268; amended, 1925, 100; revised, 1925, 197 § 1;
last par. amended, 1927, 93 § 1.

Sect. 125 revised, 1928, 176 § 1.

Sect. 126 amended, 1928, 176 § 2.

Sect. 132, first par. revised, 1925, 197 § 2; amended, 1927, 93 § 2; pro-
vision 2 revised, 1922, 75; amended, 1923, 195; provision 7 amended, 1924,
75 § 1; 1927, 65 § 1; provision 11 amended, 1924, 75 § 2; 1927, 65 § 2.

Sect. 133 amended, 1921, 141; revised, 1928, 244 § 1; 1929, 121.

Sect. 134, new par. added at end, 1928, 244 § 2.

Sect. 139 revised, 1926, 93 § 1.

Sect. 140 amended, 1928, 147.

Sect. 142 amended, 1924, 75 § 3; 1927, 65 § 3.

Sect. 144, last par. amended, 1925, 197 § 3; 1927, 93 § 3.

Sect. 147A added, 1928, 148 § 1 (relative to the contents of industrial
life and endowment policies issued by domestic life companies).

Sect. 148 repealed (except as to existing policies), 1928, 148 § 2.

Sect. 149, new par. added at end, 1928, 182.

Sect. 150 amended, 1921, 372; second par. stricken out, 1927, 284 § 13.

Sect. 151 revised, 1925, 267 § 12; els. Second and Fifth amended, 1926,
44 § 1; revised, 1927, 284 § 14; subdivision (3) (e) of cl. Second stricken out
and new subdivisions (3) (e) and (3) (/) added, 1928, 225 § 3.

Sect. 152 amended, 1924, 406 § 11; revised, 1925, 267 § 13; last sen-
tence stricken out, 1928, 106 § 6.

Sect. 153 revised, 1926, 44 § 2.

Sect. 154 amended, 1924, 406 § 12; revised, 1925, 124 § 2.

Sect. 156 amended, 1922, 81.

Sect. 156A added, 1928, 169 § 2 (requiring certain foreign insurance
companies to cease transacting business in certain cases).

Sect. 159 amended, 1922, 417 § 2.

Sect. 161 repealed, 1929, 6 § 1.

Sect. 163 amended, 1924, 450 § 10; 1926, 231; 1928, 315.

Sect. 166 amended, 1924, 450 § 11; 1925, 124 § 3; 1926, 174 § 2.

Sect. 167A added, 1924, 450 § 12 (exempting certain veterans from
payment of fees for certain licenses); revised, 1929, 232.

Sect. 168 amended, 1924, 450 § 13; 1926, 64; revised, 1927, 29.

Sect. 172 amended, 1924, 450 § 14.

Sect. 172A added, 1923, 354 (authorizing the commissioner of insurance
to license voluntary associations as insurance agents, brokers and adjusters) ;
amended, 1924, 450 § 15.

Sect. 173 amended, 1924, 450 § 16.

Sect. 174 amended, 1924, 406 § 13; revised, 1924, 450 § 17; 1926, 70 § 1;
affected, 1926, 70 § 2.

Sect. 174A added, 1922, 69 (relative to notices of hearings before the
commissioner of insurance and of the revocation or suspension of licenses).

Sect. 174B added, 1923, 116 (requiring insurance agents, brokers and
adjusters to surrender their licenses upon revocation).

Sect. 177 revised, 1928, 205 § 2.

Sect. 178 amended, 1923, 362 § 88; 1924, 406 § 14.

Sect. 180 amended, 1924, 406 § 15.

Sect. 180A added, 1924, 49 (requiring receivers of domestic insurance
companies to give notice of their appointment to policy holders).

Sect. 182 amended, 1925, 346 § 5; 1928, 381 § 8.

620 Changes in the [Chaps. i76-17S.

Sect. 183 amended, 1925, 346 § 6; 1928, 381 § 9.

Sect. 184 amended, 1926, 93 § 2.

Sect. 187 amended, 1925, 54.

Sect. 187A added, 1922, 408 (relative to the limitation of actions on
policies of insurance).

Sects. 1876-1871) added, 1923, 336 § 1 (relative to the cancellation of
insurance policies).

Sect. 189 amended, 1924, 406 § 16.

Sect. 190 repealed, 1924, 406 § 17.

Sect, 192 amended, 1924, 285 § 4.

Sect. 193 A added, 1922, 417 § 1 (relative to the enforcement of the
insurance laws).

Chapter 176. — Fraternal Benefit Societies.

Certificates of organization and amendment of fraternal benefit societies
filed in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Administration of certain insurance laws by commissioner of insurance,
see 1924, 406 § 2 (inserting § 3A in chapter 175).

Sect. 16 amended, 1926, 207.

Sect. 17 revised, 1926, 206; 1928, 186.

Sect. 18 revised, 1928, 156 § 1.

Sect. 23 revised, 1927, 21.

Sect. 24 amended, 1928, 179.

Sect. 39A added, 1921, 295 (relative to the valuation of securities held
by fraternal benefit societies).

Sect. 40 amended, 1927, 189.

Sect. 45 amended, 1922, 90; revised, 1925, 80 § 2; amended, 1926, 77.

Sect. 46 revised, 1921, 155 § 1; amended, 1922, 494; revised, 1925, 80
§ 3; amended, 1928, 284; first paragraph amended, 1929, 142; third para-
graph amended, 1929, 7.

Sect. 46A added, 1921, 155 § 2 (relative to the payment of disability
benefits by subordinate lodges).

Sect. 47 revised, 1925, 80 § 4.

Sect. 47A added, 1925, 80 § 1 (relative to the validity of certain con-
tracts and certificates of fraternal benefit societies).

Sect. 49 revised, 1925, 80 § 5.

Chapter 177. — Assessment Insurance.

Certificates of organization and amendment of assessment insurance com-
panies filed m the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922,
151.

Administration of certain insurance laws by commissioner of insurance,
see 1924, 406 § 2 (inserting § 3 A in chapter 175).

Sect. 13 amended, 1924, 384.

Sect. 15 repealed, 1924, 406 § 17.

Chapter repealed, 1929, 24 § 1.

Chapter 178. — Savings Bank Life Insurance.

Sect. 10 revised, 1929, 37.

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 79 § 1.

Sect. 12 amended, 1927, 92.

Sect. 17 revised, 1927, 188; 1929, 162.

Sect. 21 revised, 1921, 416; amended, 1922, 79 § 2.

Chaps. 179-183.] GENERAL LaWS. 621

Chapter 179. — Proprietors of Wharves, Real Estate lying in Common,

and General Fields.

Certificates of organization of proprietors of wharves and real estate
lying in common filed in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded,
see 1922, 151.

Chapter 180. — Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes.

Certificates of organization and amendment of certain corporations filed
in the office of the State Secretary deemed recorded, see 1922, 151.

Sect. 3 amended, 1925, 226.

Sect. 4 revised, 1927, 133 § 1.

Sect. 5 re\nsed, 1926, 379 § 1.

Sr.cT. 9 A added, 1926, 204 (providing for the maintenance of burial
grounds by religious corporations).

Sect. 11 amended, 1926, 379 § 2.

Sect. 20 amended, 1923, 252 § 1.

Sect. 23 amended, 1923, 252 § 2.

Sect. 26 revised, 1926, 247.

Sect. 27 revised, 1926, 108 § 1.

Sect. 29 added, 1926, 347 (enabling cities and towns to regulate certain
diversions and amusements conducted by corporations created for club
purposes).

Chapter 181. — Foreign Corporations.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 486 § 31.
Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 258.

Sect. 3A added, 1928, 98 § 1 (relative to the service of process on un-
registered foreign corporations).
Sect. 6 amended, 1923, 28.
Sect. 10. See 1923, 290 § 4.
Sect. 23 amended, 1926, 189.

Chapter 182. — Voluntary Associations.

Sect. 1 amended, 1926, 290 § 1.

Sect. 2 revised, 1922, 272; amended, 1926, 290 § 2.

Sect. 2A added, 1929, 45 (regulating the use of names by certain associa-
tions and trusts).

Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 290 § 3.

Sect. 4 amended, 1926, 290 § 4.

Sect. 5 repealed, 1924, 190 § 1.

Sect. 6 amended, 1926, 290 § 5; new paragraph added at end, 1929,
107 § 2.

Sect. 7 amended, 1926, 290 § 6.

Chapter 183. — Alienation of Land.

Sect. 5A added, 1924, 227 (recording of certain affidavits relative to the
title of land).

Sect. 21 amended, 1927, 104 § 1.
Sect. 24 amended, 1927, 104 § 2.
Sect. 49 amended, 1923, 71.
Sect. 52 amended, 1923, 96.

622 Changes in the [Chaps. 184-189.

Chapter 184. — General Previsions Relative to Real Property.
Sect. 13 amended, 1929, 261.

Chapter 185. — The Land Court and Registration of Title to Land.

Sect. 2 revised, 1924, 271 § 1.

Sect. 5 amended, 1924, 271 § 2.

Sect. 10 amended, 1923, 374 § 1.

Sect. 12 revised, 1923, 374 § 2.

Sect. 13A added, 1924, 157 (relative to the appointment and compen-
sation of stenographers for certain trials in the land court).

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 486 § 32; revised, 1923, 385; amended, 1924,
271 § 3.

Sect. 38, form of notice revised, 1928, 129 § 1.

Sect. 45 amended, 1923, 374 § 3.

Sect. 46, cl. Fiftli amended, 1924, 31.

Sect. 48 amended, 1928, 272 § 1.

Sect. 53 amended, 1921, 117.

Sect. 68 amended, 1928, 272 § 2.

Sect. 69 amended. 1928, 272 § 3.

Sect. 71 amended, 1928, 272 § 4.

Sect. 78 amended, 1928, 386 § 2.

Sect. 97 amended, 1926, 90 § 1.

Sect. 103 amended, 1923, 362 § 89.

Sect. Ill amended, 1926. 90 § 2.

Sect. 113 amended, 1928, 272 § 5.

Chapter 186. — Estates for Years and at Will.

For provisions relative to granting discretionary stay of proceedings in
certain actions of summary process, and relative to abolishing fictitious
costs, so called, in such actions, see chapter 239, sections 9 to 13.

Sect. 12. See section 13 and note.

Sect. 13 added, 1927, 339 § 1 (relative to the termination of certain ten-
ancies at will). For previous temporary legislation, see 1919, 257; 1920,
538; 1921,489; 1922,357 §1; 1923,11; 1924,72 §3; 1925,86; 1926,173.

Sect. 14 added, 1927, 339 § 1 (relative to the violation of certain rights
of certain tenants). For previous temporary legislation, see 1920, 555;
1921, 491; 1922, 357 § 2; 1923, 6; 1924, 72 § 1; 1925, 192; 1926, 172.

Chapter 188. — Homesteads.

Sect. 7 amended, 1924, 56 § 4. (See 1924, 56 § 5.)
Sect. 7A added, 1924, 56 § 3 (relative to the releasing of rights of home-
stead). (See 1924, 56 § 5.)

Chapter 189. — Dower and Curtesy.

Sect. 1A added, 1924, 56 § 1 (relative to the releasing of rights of dower
and curtesy). (See 1924, 56 § 5.)

Sect. 5 amended, 1924, 56 § 2. (See 1924, 56 § 5.)

Chaps. 190-197.] GENERAL LaWS. 623

Chapter 190. — Descent and Distribution of Real and Personal Property.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 7 amended, 1925, 281 § 3.

Chapter 191. — Wills.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512. i

Sect. 20 revised, 1925, 155 § 1.

Sect. 21 repealed, 1925, 155 § 2.

Chapter 192. — Probate of Wills and Appointment of Executors.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Chapter 193. — Appointment of Administrators.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 1 amended, 1928, 216 § 1.

Sect. 7 amended, 1921, 64.

Chapter 194. — Public Administrators.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 1 amended, 1929, 85.

Sect. 5 revised, 1929, 264 § 1.

Chapter 195. — General Provisions relative to Executors and Adminis-
trators.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Chapter 196. — Allowances to Widows and Children, and Advancements.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same- in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Chapter 197. — Payment of Debts, Legacies and Distributive Shares.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

624 Changes in the [Chaps. 1 98-204.

Chapter 198. — Insolvent Estates of Deceased Persona.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Transfer of Suffolk county files to custody of State Secretary, 1928, 161.

Sect. 7A added, 1922, 175 § 1 (relative to the allowance of claims of
creditors receiving preferences).

Sects. lOA-lOC added, 1922, 175 § 2 (relative to preferences made by
persons dying insolvent).

Chapter 199. — Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Chapter 200. — Settlement of Estates of Absentees.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 1 amended. 1926. 3.

Sect. 8 revised, 1929, 264 § 2.

Chapter 201. — Guardians and Conservators.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 3 revised, 1922, 461.

Sect. 45 amended, 1924, 8.

Chapter 202. — Sales, Mortgages and Leases of Real Estate by Executors,
Administrators, Guardians and Conservators.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 19 amended, 1923, 321.

Chapter 203. — Trusts.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 21 revised, 1926, 226.

Chapter 204. — General Provisions relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases,
Compromises, etc., by Executors, etc.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Chaps. 205-208.] GENERAL LaWS. 625

Sect. 1 revised, 1929, 342 § 2.
Sect. 13 amended, 1925, 67 § 1.
Sect. 14 amended, 1925, 67 § 2.
Sect. 23 amended, 1921, 44 § 1.
Sect. 24 amended, 1921, 44 § 2.
Sect. 25 amended, 1921, 44 § 3.
Sect. 26 amended, 1921, 44 § 4.

Chapter 205. — Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Con-
servators, Trustees and Receivers.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 1. See 1922, 512.

Sect. 6A added, 1923, 259 (relative to bonds required of national banks
as fiduciaries).

Sect. 7A added, 1922, 512 (relative to certain fiduciary bonds in the
probate court).

Sect. 19A added, 1924, 406 § 19 (relative to deposit of funds by fiduciaries
for safekeeping). [Formerly in chapter 175 § 105.]

Sects. 20-35. See 1922, 512.

Chapter 206. — Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators,
Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 23 A added, 1922, 59 (issuing of citations on probate accounts).

Chapter 207. — Marriage.

Sect. 25 amended, 1922, 98; 1923, 305 § 1.
Sect. 33 amended, 1923, 305 § 2.
Sect. 38 revised, 1929, 169.
Sect. 39 amended, 1926, 102.

Chapter 208. — Divorce.

General provisions of law governing libels for divorce brought in the
superior court made applicable to such libels when commenced in the
probate court, see 1922, 532 § 6.

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 466 § 1; 1922, 532 § 5; revised, 1922, 542 § 1.

Sect. 6A added, 1922, 532 § 6 (making the general provisions of law
governing libels for divorce brought in the superior court applicable to such
libels when commenced in the probate court); second paragraph amended,
1926, 363 § 3.

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 60; 1924, 193.

Sect. 9 A added, 1921, 466 § 2 (transfer from the superior to the probate
court of uncontested divorce libels); repealed, 1922, 542 § 3.

626 Changes in the [Chaps. 209-212.

Chapter 209. — Husband and Wife.

Sect. 32 revised, 1921, 56.

Sects. 32A-32C added, 1922, 242 (naming of third parties in proceedings
for separate support).

Sect. 35 revised, 1924, 345 § 1.
Sect. 36 revised, 1924, 345 § 2.

Chapter 210. — Adoption of Children and Change of Names.

Sect. 2 revised, 1929, 221 § 1.
Sect. 3 amended, 1928, 155 § 57.
Sect. 4 revised, 1929, 221 § 2.

Chapter 211. — The Supreme Judicial Court.

Provision for the pubUcation and sale of advance sheets of the opinions
and decisions of the supreme judicial court, see 1923, Resolve 30; 1926,
Resolve 40; 1927, Resolve 1; 1929, Resolve 10.

As to the transfer of causes within the concurrent jurisdiction of the
superior court or the probate court and of the supreme judicial court, see
1922, 532 § 1.

Sect. 7 revised, 1926, 329 § 8.

Sect. 12 revised, 1926, 329 § 9.

Sect. 15 amended, 1925, 279 § 5; rexdsed. 1926. 329 § 10.

Sect. 22 revised, 1928, 295 § 1. (See 1923, 375.)

Sect. 23 revised, 1922, 228 § 2.

Chapter 212. — The Superior Court.

As to the transfer of causes within the concurrent jurisdiction of the
superior court or the probate court and of the supreme judicial court, see
1922, 582 § 1.

As to concurrent jurisdiction of divorce libels in the superior and probate
courts, see 1922, 532 §§ 4, 5, 7; 542.

Temporary act, inoperative after December 31, 1P32, providing for the
more prompt disposition of criminal cases in the superior court, see 1923,
469 as amended by 1924, 485; 1926, 285; 1927, 282; 1928, 353; 1929, 291.

Temporary act, inoperative on and after the first Monday of January,
1933 (except as to cases then in course of trial), relative to sittings and
sessions of the superior court, see 1927, 306; amended in part, 1928, 228.

Act enlarging the jurisdiction of district courts for civil business, 1929,
316.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, .532 § 3; 1925, 304 § 1.

Sect. 3 amended, 1922, 532 § 4. (See 1922, .532 § 5.)

Sect. 11 amended, 1925, 279 § 4; repealed, 1929, 265 § 4.

Sect. 14 amended, 1921, 35, 327.

Sect. 16 amended, 1922, 532 § 11.

Sect. 17 amended, 1923, 262 § I.

Sect. 18A added, 1921, 350 § 1 (authorizing sittings of the superior
court at Quincy); repealed, 1923, 262 § 2.

Sect. 19A added, 1922, 533 (providing for the appointment of a special
master by the superior court).

Chaps. 213-215.] GENERAL LaWS. 627

Sect. 24 amended, 1926, 228; affected, 1926, 296.
Sect. 27 revised, 1928, 295 § 2.
Sect. 28 revised, 1924, 188.

Chapter 213. — Supreme Judicial and Superior Courts.

Sect. 3, cl. Tenth A added, 1929, 186 § 1 (relative to judicial interpre-
tation of written instruments without other relief).

Sect. 7 revised, 1924, 150.

Chapter 214. — Equity Jurisdiction and Procedure in the Supreme Judicial

and Superior Courts.

Sect. 3, cl. (7), see 1922, 486 § 1 subsect. 44; cl. (10) revised, 1923.
149 § 3; cl. (11) added, 1929, 126 § 1 (relative to enforcement of the pur-
poses of public gifts and conveyances).

Sect. 6 revised. 1926, 138.

Sect. 13 amended, 1921, 431 § 1.

Sect. 19 amended, 1929, 265 § 5.

Sect. 25A added, 1926, 177 (regulating practice as to exceptions in suits
in equity).

Sect. 32 revised, 1922, .532 § 1.

Sect. 33 repealed, 1922, 532 § 2.

Chapter 215, — Probate Courts.

As to the transfer of causes within the concurrent jurisdiction of the
superior court or the probate court and of the supreme judicial court, see
1922, 532 § 1.

As to concurrent jurisdiction of divorce libels in the superior and probate
courts, see 1922, 532 §§ 4, 5, 7; 542.

Short form of certain fiduciary bonds, direct enforcement of same in
equity in the probate court and dispensing with the practice of issuing and
recording letters of appointment, see 1922, 512.

Sect. 3 amended. 1921, 466 § 3; 1922, 532 § 7; revised, 1922, 542 § 2.

Sect. 6 revised, 1929, 342 § 1.

Sect. 6A added, 1927, 94 § 1 (authorizing equitable attachments in the
probate court in proceedings within its jurisdiction).

Sect. 8A added, 1925, 159 (providing for a change of venue of proceed-
ings in probate courts).

Sect. 10 amended, 1929, 265 § 6.

Sect. 18 revised, 1923, 392; 1924, 194 § 1.

Sect. 24 revised, 1926. 214

Sect. 36 revised, 1929, 189 § 1; 1929, 328 § 1.

Sect. 56A added, 1923, 432 (relative to the appointment by judges of
probate of guardians ad litem in certain proceedings). (See 1924, 194 § 2.)

Sect. 62 amended, 1922, 41, 257; 1923, 325 § 1, 483; paragraph con-
tained in lines 43-47, as printed in the Gene.al Laws, revised, 1929, 112;
paragraph contained in line 61, as so printed, revised, 1929, 183.

628 Changes in the [Chaps. 217, 218.

Chapter 217. — Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency.

Sect. 3 amended, 1924, 375; 1926, 97 § 1.

Sect. 23 amended, 1923, 164 § 1.

Sect. 24 amended, 1923, 164 § 2; 1928, 223 § 1- ^

Sect. 24A added, 1927, 209 § 1 (providing for a third assistant register
of probate for Suffolk county).

Sect. 25 amended, 1923, 164 § 3; 1927, 198 § 1.

Sect. 27A added, 1924, 194 § 2 (authorizing the appointment of a per-
manent officer for the probate court for Suffolk county).

Sect. 28 amended, 1925, 246.

Sect. 33 revised, 1921, 42 § 1; amended, 1923, 362 § 90.

Sect. 34 amended, 1923, 383 § 1; revised, 1926, 380 § 1.

Sect. 35 revised, 1926, 380 § 2; amended, 1927, 198 § 2.

Sect. 36 amended, 1922. 333 § 4; 1923, 362 § 91; repealed, 1926, 380 § 3.

Sect. 37 revised, 1921, 364; amended, 1923, 383 § 2; repealed, 1926,
380 § 4.

Sect. 38 revised, 1926, 380 § 5; 1927, 209 § 2.

Sect. 39 amended, 1921, 42 § 2; revised, 1924, 415 § 1.

Sect. 40 amended, 1923, 384; 1924, 376.

Sect. 41 amended, 1926, 97 § 2.

Chapter 218. — District Courts.

As to jurisdiction and procedure in civil cases in district courts other
than the municipal court of the city of Boston, see 1922, 532 § 8.

Act enlarging the jurisdiction of district courts for civil business, 1929,
316.

Police courts to be known as district courts, 1921, 430 § 1.

Temporary act, inoperative after December 31, 1932, providing that
certain justices of district courts sit in criminal cases in the superior court,
see 1923, 469 as amended by 1924, 485; 1926, 285; 1927, 282; 1928, 353;
1929,291.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921,430 § 1; pars, contained in lines 131-137 amended,
1923, 243 § 1; par. contained in lines 55 and 56 amended, 1924, 229 § 1;
par. contained in lines 4 and 5 amended, 1927, 159 § 1; par. contained in
lines 186 and 187 amended, 1927, 262 § 1; pars, contained in lines 9-12
and in lines 19 and 20 amended, 1928, 136.

Sect. 6, first par. amended, 1924, 229 § 2; 1925, 88 § 1.

Sect. 8 revised, 1927, 227 § 1.

Sect. 10 revised, 1921, 287 § 1; 1922, 63 § 1; amended, 1923, 164 § 4;
revised, 1923, 314 § 1; amended, 1923, 379 § 1; revised, 1925, 257 § 1;
1926, 69 § 1, 366 § 1, 389 § 1; amended, 1928, 162; 1929, 95 § 1; revised,
1929, 254 § 1.

Sect. 11 amended, 1922, 156.

Sect. 12 amended, 1927, 52.

Sect. 16 revised, 192«, 191 § 1.

Sect. 19 revised, 1922, 532 § 12A; 1924, 57 § 1; 1929, 316 § 1.
i Sect. 20 amended, 1924, 57 § 2; 1929, 316 § 2.
fe^SECT. 21 amended, 1922, 99 § 1; 1928, 144 § 1.
^ Sect. 23 amended, 1925, 132 § 1.

Sect. 27 revised, 1924, 149.
L Sect. 30 amended, 1929, 216 § 1.

Sect. 36 revised, 1924, 58.

Chaps. 21t), 221.] GENERAL LaWS. 629

Sect. 38 amended, 1926, 271 § 4; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 39 amended, 1927, 245.

Sect. 43 amended, 1922, 532 § 9.

Sect. 43A added, 1922, 532 § 10 (establishing an administrative com-
mittee of district courts).

Sect. 47 amended, 1926, 191 § 2.

Sect. 50 amended, 1928, 334 § 1.

Sect. 53 amended, 1922, 309 § 1; 1923, 323 § 1; 1924, 36; 1928, 334 § 2.

Sect. 55 revised, 1921, 486 § 33.

Sect. 62 amended, 1921,284 § 1; revised, 1922, 299 § 1; 1923, 448 § 1;
amended, 1924, 86 § 1; 1928, 198 § 1; 1929, 208 § 1.

Sect. 65 amended, 1924, 86 § 2.

Sect. 68 amended, 1925, 255 § 1.

Sects. 69-73, as amended by 1921, 430 § 1, 465 § 1, superseded by new
sections 69 and 70. (See 1922, 399 §§ 1-3).

Sect. 69 amended, 1921, 430 § 1; revised, 1922, 399 § 1.

Sect. 70 amended, 1921, 430 § 1; revised, 1922, 399 § 2.

Sect. 71 revised, 1921, 465 § 1; repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 71A added, 1921, 334 § 1 (relative to extra clerical assistance for
district court of Springfield); repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 71B added, 1921, 334 § 2 (relative to extra clerical assistance for
district court of Hampshire); repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 71 C added, 1921, 464 § 1 (relative to clerical assistance for the
municipal court of the Roxbury district); repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 71D added, 1921, 465 § 2 (relative to clerical assistance for the
municipal court of the Brighton district); repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 72 repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 73 amended, 1921, 430 § 1; repealed, 1922, 399 § 3.

Sect. 74 revised, 1928, 140.

Sect. 75 amended, 1921, 284 § 2; 1922, 309 § 2; revised, 1923, 323 § 2;
amended, 1923, 448 § 2; revised, 1924, 506 § 1; 1928, 233 § 1, 334 § 3.

Sect. 76 amended, 1921, 355 § 1; 1924, 484 § 1; revised, 1924, 505 § 1;
amended, 1927, 294 § 1; 1928, 256 § 1.

Sect. 77 revised, 1923, 326 § 1 ; 1927, 227 § 2.

Sect. 78 amended, 1923, 479 § 1.

Sect. 79 amended, 1923, 379 § 2; revised, 1926, 366 § 2.

Sect. 80 revised, 1921, 355 § 2; amended, 1924, 484 § 2; revised, 1924,
503 § 1; amended, 1927, 294 § 2.

Sect. 81 revised, 1925, 38.

Sect. 83 amended, 1921, 321 § 1; revised, 1923, 322 § 1; 1925, 256 § 1.

Chapter 219. — Trial Justices.

Sect. 2 amended, 1924, 229 § 3.
Sect. 17 amended, 1922, 364 § 1; 1924, 229 § 4.

Sect. 17A added, 1926, 288 (providing for clerical assistance for the trial
justice in the town of Ludlow).
Sect. 20 amended, 1929, 216 § 2.

Chapter 221. — Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts.

Sect. 1 amended, 1922, 487 § 1.

Sect. 4 amended, 1921, 305; 1923, 164 § 5; revised, 1923, 206 § 1.

Sect. 5 amended, 1923, 164 § 6.

630 Changes in the [Chaps. 222, 223.

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 236.

Sect. 7 amended, 1922, 423 § 1 ; 1925, 108.

Sect. 14 amended, 1922, 423 § 2.

Sect. 20 amended, 1922, 53; revised, 1924, 392.

Sect. 24 revised, 1924, 131; 1927, 64; 1928, 163.

Sects. 34A-34C added, 1924, 244 (relative to a judicial council to make
a continuous study of the organization, procedure and practice of the courts);
section 34C revised, 1927, 293 § 1.

Sect. 37 amended, 1921, 290 § 1; 1925, 11. (See 1922, 493 and 1924,
316, permitting certain aliens to take examinations for admission to the
bar.)

Sect. 38A added, 1924, 316 (permitting certain aliens to take examinations
for admission to the bar).

Sect. 39 amended, 1921, 290 § 2.

Sect. 40 revised, 1924, 134.

Sect. 47 amended, 1925, 346 § 8.

Sect. 55 amended, 1921, 163.

Sect. 62 amended, 1929, 285 § 1.

Sect. 62A added, 1929, 285 § 2 (relative to compensation for services
rendered by incapacitated or deceased auditors or special masters in certain
cases).

Sect. 69 amended, 1923, 407 § 1.

Sect. 70 amended, 1923, 324 § 1.

Sect. 71 amended, 1923, 352 § 1.

Sect. 72 amended, 1923, 407 § 2.

Sect. 74 amended, 1924, 417 § 1.

Sect. 75 amended, 1921, 423; revised, 1925, 138.

Sect. 82 revised, 1927, 332 § 1.

Sect. 83 revised, 1927, 332 § 2.

Sects. 84 and 85 repealed, 1927, 332 § 3.

Sect. 87 revised, 1927, 332 § 4.

Sect. 88 revised, 1927, 332 § 5.

Sect. 89 revised, 1927, 332 § 6.

Sect. 90 repealed, 1922, 228 § 1.

Sect. 90A added, 1927, 332 § 7 (providing for the reimbursement of the
county for which a salaried official stenographer is appointed by any other
county in which such stenographer renders service).

Sect. 91 revised, 1927, 332 § 8.

Sect. 92 revised, 1926. 294.

Sect. 93 amended, 1922, 487 § 2.

Sect. 95 amended, 1923, 206 § 2; 1927, 235 § 1.

Sect. 96 amended, 1921, 486 § 34.

Sect. 97 amended, 1927, 235 § 2.

Sect. 98 amended, 1924, 350 § 1.

Chapter 222. — Justices of the Peace, Notaries Public and Commissioners.

Sect. 2 repealed, 1923, 164 § 7.

Sect, 3, new sentence added, 1929, 318 § 2.

Chapter 223. — Commencement of Actions, Service of Process.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 432.
Sect. 2 amended, 1922, 99 § 2.
Sect. 7 amended, 1923, 111.

Chaps. 224-231.] GENERAL LaWS. 631

Sect. 25 amended, 1921, 338.

Sect. 37 amended, 1926, 255.

Sect. 39. See 1921, 486 § 37.

Sect. 39A added, 1924, 285 § 5 (relative to service in actions against
fire insurance companies severally liable upon a single policy); revised,
1925, 164 § 3; 1928, 80 § 4.

Sect, 45 A added, 1921, 425 § 1 (security for officers making attachments).

Sect. 65 amended, 1929, 131 § 2.

Sect. 66 revised, 1929, 131 § 1.

Sect. 86A added, 1925, 170 § 1 (relative to relief in the nature of equi-
table attachments in certain proceedings in the supreme judicial and superior
courts).

Sect. 115A added, 1924, 10 (dissolution of attachment of real property
if no service upon defendant).

Sect. 122 amended, 1926, 89.

Sect. 129 A added, 1921, 425 § 2 (release by officer of personal property
attached upon filing of bond).

Chapter 224. — Arrest on Civil Process.

Sect. 2, els. Third and Fifth revised, 1927, 334 § 1.

Sects. 6 to 70, inclusive, as amended, stricken out and new sections 6 to
30, inclusive, inserted, 1927, 334 § 2.

The following references are to the original sections:

Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 33.

Sect. 18A added, 1921, 425 § 3 (security to officers arresting on civil
process).

Sect. 59 amended, 1923, 34.

Chapter 225. — Process after Judgment for Necessaries or Labor.
Chapter repealed, 1927, 334 § 6.

Chapter 229. — Actions for Death and Injuries resulting in Death.

Sect. 1 amended, 1929, 119 § 1.

Sect. 2 amended, 1921, 486 § 35.

Sect. 4 revised, 1929, 119 § 2.

Sect. 5 amended, 1922, 439; 1925, 346 § 9.

Sect. 9 amended, 1927, 213 § 1.

Chapter 231. — Pleading and Practice.

Sect. 18 amended, 1921, 431 § 2.

Sect. 30 amended, 1927, 164.

Sect. 59A added, 1922, 509 § 1 (relating to the speedy trial of cases in
the supreme judicial and superior courts).

Sect. 59B added, 1929, 172 § 1 (relative to expediting the collection of
debts) .

Sect. 60 A added, 1929, 173 § 1 (providing for prompt informal trials in
the superior court).

Sect. 61 revised, 1929, 303 § 1.

Sect. 63 revised, 1922, 314.

Sect. 69 revised, 1926, 381 § 1.

632 Changes in the [Chaps. 233-236.

Sect. 85A added, 1928, 317 § 1 (relative to pleadings and evidence in
motor vehicle accident cases).

Sect. 96 amended, 1928, 306 § 2.

Sect. 97 amended, 1922, 532 § 12.

Sect. 103 amended, 1921, 486 § 36.

Sects. 104-110 affected, 1921, 486 § 36.

Sect. 104 revised, 1929, 316 § 3; affected, 1929, 316 § 4.

Sect. 109 revised, 1929, 265 § 2.

Sects. IIOA-IIOC added, 1922, 532 § 8 (relative to jurisdiction and
procedure in civil cases in district courts other than the municipal court of
the city of Boston).

Sect. IIOA amended, 1925, 132 § 2.

Sect. HOC amended, 1927, 240.

Sect. 115 revised, 1923, 5.

Sect. 121 amended, 1927, 332 § 9.

Sect. 133 revised, 1927, 332 § 10.

Sect. 135 revised, 1929, 265 § 1.

Sect. 141 amended, 1928, 317 § 2; 1929, 265 § 3.

Sect. 142 amended, 1928, 39.

Sect. 144 amended, 1928, 306 § 1.

Sect. 146 amended, 1926, 381 § 2.

Chapter 233. — Witnesses and Evidence.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 263.

Sect. 5 revised, 1926, 230; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 70 revised, 1926, 168 § 1.

Sects. 71 and 72 repealed, 1926, 168 § 2.

Sect. 80 revised, 1927, 332 § 11.

Chapter 234. — Juries.

Sect. 1 amended, 1923, 413 § 1; 1924, 311 § 1.

Sect. 3 amended, 1921, 455 § 2.

Sect. 3 A added, 1921, 455 § 1 (postponement of jury service).

Sect. 4 revised, 1924, 311 § 2.

Sect. 8 amended, 1926, 193; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 23 revised, 1924, 311 § 3.

Sect. 24 amended, 1924, 311 § 4.

Sect. 29 amended, 1926, 192; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 37 amended, 1924, 311 § 5.

Chapter 235. — Judgment and Execution.

Sect. 8 amended, 1924, 38.
Sect. 17 amended, 1925, 217 § 1.
Sect. 23 revised, 1925, 217 § 2.

Sect. 35 revised, 1921, 425 § 4 (security for officers taking property on
execution).

Chapter 236. — Levy of Executions on Land.
Sect. 47 amended, 1925, 217 § 3; 1927, 167 § 1; affected, 1927, 167 § 2.

Chaps. 239-252.] GENERAL LawS. 633

Chapter 239. — Summary Process for Possession of Land.

For provisions relative to termination of tenancies at will, see chapter
186, sections 12 and 13.

Sects. 9-13 added, 1927, 339 § 2 (relative to granting discretionary stay
of proceedings in certain actions of summary process, and relative to abolish-
ing fictitious costs, so called, in such actions). For previous temporary
legislation, see 1920, 577; 1921,490; 1922, 357 § 3; 1923, 36 §§ 1, 2; 1924,
72 § 2; 1925, 111; 1926, 183.

Chapter 240. — Proceedings for Settlement of Title to Land.
Sect, 15 amended, 1924, 20.

Chapter 246. — Trustee Process.

Sect. 4A added, 1921, 417 (relative to trustee suits in district courts).

Sect. 6 amended, 1921, 486 § 37.

Sect. 10 amended, 1922, 93.

Sect. 11 revised, 1927, 216.

Sect. 32, cl. First revised, 1924, 151.

Sect. 45 amended, 1925, 217 § 4.

Chapter 250. — Writs of Error.
Sect. 11 amended, 1925, 279 § 3; 1926, 329 § 7.

Chapter 251. — Arbitration.

Sect. 2 revised, 1925, 294 § 1.
Sect. 7 amended, 1925, 294 § 2.
Sect. 11 amended, 1925, 294 § 3.
Sect. 13 revised, 1925, 294 § 4.

Sects. 14-22 added, 1925, 294 § 5 (relative to the arbitration by parties
to contracts of controversies subsequently arising between them).

Chapter 252, — Improvement of Low Land and Swamps,

Sects. 1-14, as amended by 1922, 349 §§ 1-9, and section 14A, inserted
by 1922, 349 § 10, were superseded by sections 1-14B, inserted by 1923,
457 § 1.

Changes noted below are to sections as inserted by 1923, 457 § 1:

Sect. 1 amended, 1926, 393 § 1; revised, 1929, 288 § 1.

Sect. 2 revised, 1926. 393 § 2.

Sect. 4 A added, 1929, 288 § 2 (authorizing the commonwealth, or any
political subdivision thereof, to undertake improvements under §§ 1-14B,
and regulating such procedure).

Sect. 5 revised, 1926, 393 § 3.

Sect. 5x\ added, 1929, 288 § 3 (authorizing the undertaking of improve-
ments under §§ 1-14B without the formation of a district, and regulating
such procedure).

Sect. 6, first par. revised, 1924, 93 § 1; 1926, 393 § 4; last par. revised,
1924, 93 § 2.

Sect. 7, first sentence amended, 1924, 93 § 3; section amended, 1926,
393 § 5.

634 Changes in the [Chaps. 253-262.

Sect. 8 revised, 1926, 393 § 6; last sentence stricken out, 1929, 288 § 4.
Sect. 9 revised, 1926, 393 § 7.
Sect. 10 revised, 1926, 393 § 8.
Sect. 11 revised, 1926, 393 § 9.
Sect. 14 revised, 1926, 393 § 10.
Sect. 14A amended, 1926, 393 § 11.

Sect. 14C added, 1929, 288 § 5 (penalizing the obstruction or injury of
improvements made under §§ 1-14B).

Chapter 253. — Mills, Dams and Reservoirs.

Sect. 44 amended, 1924, 178 § 1.

Sect. 45 amended, 1923, 334 § 2; revised, 1924, 178 § 2.

Sect. 47 revised, 1924, 178 § 3.

Sect. 48 revised, 1924, 178 § 4.

Chapter 255. — Mortgages, Conditional Sales and Pledges of Personal
Property, and Liens thereon.

Sect. 1 amended, 1921, 233.

Sects. 31A and 31B added, 1925, 175 § 1 (relative to the lien of spinners
and others to secure charges for work, labor and materials in respect of
certain goods).

Sect. 31 C added, 1927, 210 § 1 (relative to the lien to secure charges for
work and for materials furnished in respect to watches, clocks, silverware
and jewelry).

Chapter 260. — Limitation of Actions.

Sect. 1 amended, 1926, 281.

Sect. 4 amended, 1921, 319 § 1; 1925, 346 § 10; revised, 1929, 29 § 1;
affected, 1929, 29 § 2.

Chapter 261. — Costs in Civil Actions.

Sect. 4 amended, 1925, 132 § 3. (See 1925, 132 § 4.)
Sect. 23 revised, 1924, 108 § 1.
Sect. 25 revised, 1924, 108 § 2.

Sect. 25A added, 1924, 108 § 6 (allowance to prevailing party of certain
expenses).

Sect. 26 revised, 1924, 108 § 3.
Sect. 27 revised, 1924, 108 § 4.
Sect. 28 repealed, 1924, 108 § 5.

Chapter 262. — Fees of Certain Officers.

Sect. 1 amended, 1925, 81.
Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 128.

Sect. 4 amended, 1926, 363 § 1; par. contained in lines 19 to 26, in-
clusive, revised, 1927, 334 § 3.
Sect. 8 amended, 1921, 259.
Sect. 14 revised, 1927, 334 § 4.
Sect. 25 amended, 1924, 111.
Sect. 29 revised, 1929, 298 § 1.
Sect. 36 revised, 1928, 360 § 3.

Chaps. 263-268.] GENERAL LawS. 635

Sect. 38, par. contained in lines 28 and 29 amended, 1927, 63 § 2; stricken
out, 1928, 386 § 3.

Sect. 39 revised, 1923, 374 § 4; par. contained in lines 68-72 amended,
1928, 386 § 4.

Sect. 40 revised, 1926, 363 § 2.

Sect. 50. See 1922, 377 § 1.

Sect. 53 amended, 1922, 377 § 1.

Sect. 56 amended, 1922, 377 § 2.

Chapter 263. — Rights of Persons Accused of Crime.

Sect. 6 amended, 1929, 185 § 1.

Sect. 8A added, 1922, 432 (preventing double trials in district courts
and before trial justices).

Chapter 264. — Crimes against Governments.

Sect. 5 amended, 1921. 278; 1922, 227.
Sect. 6 amended, 1928, 154.

Sect. lOA added, 1924, 219 (to prevent the abuse of the uniform of the
naval and other forces of the United States).

Chapter 265. — Crimes against the Person.

Sect. 14 amended, 1923, 280.

Sect. 15A added, 1927, 187 § 1 (providing penalty for assault and battery
with a dangerous weapon).

Sect. 24A added, 1923, 339 (relative to the venue of certain specific
crimes).

Chapter 266. — Crimes against Property.

Sect. 27A added, 1923, 347 § 1 (penalizing the removal or concealment
of automobiles with intent to defraud the insurers).

Sect. 28 revised, 1926, 267 § 1 ; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 29 amended, 1923, 347 § 2.

Sect. 38A added, 1928, 351 (penalizing the misuse of proceeds of con-
struction loans).

Sect. 52 revised, 1922, 313 § 1.

Sect. 53A added, 1922, 313 § 2 (providing for the punishment of certain
crimes relating to banks and banking).

Sect. 55 revised, 1922, 313 § 3.

Sect. 63 amended, 1926, 203; affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 82 amended, 1929, 329 § 3.

Sect. Ill A added, 1926, 198 (relative to fraudulent claims under policies
of fire insurance).

Sect. 120 amended, 1929, 109.

Sect. 139 added, 1925, 237 § 2 (penalty for wrongfully tampering with
"serial number" of motor vehicle).

Chapter 268. — Crimes against Public Justice.

Sect. 1A added, 1926, 187 § 1 (relative to dispensing with the oath as a
method of verifying certain written instruments).
Sect. 8 amended, 1923, 451.
Sect. 8A added, 1923, 241 (relative to bribing police officers).

636 Changes in the [Chaps. 269-276.

Sect. 16 amended, 1925, 53.
Sect. 19 revised, 1929, 170 § 3.
Sect. 31 revised, 1929, 170 § 4.
Sect. 33 amended, 1922, 52.

Chapter 269. — Crimes against Public Peace.

Sect. 9 repealed, 1923, 248 § 2.

Sect. 10 revised, 1923, 248 § 1; 1925, 284 § 5; amended, 1927, 326 § 5.
Sect. lOA added, 1926, 261 (prohibiting the sale and use of silencers
for firearms).

Sect. 12 amended, 1922, 485 § 10.

Chapter 270. — Crimes against Public Health.

Sect. 2A added, 1927, 224 § 1 (relative to safeguarding the distribution
and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive substances in packages for
household use).

Sect. 4 revised, 1929, 299.

Chapter 271. — Crimes against Public Policy.
Sect. 17 revised, 1922, 315.

Chapter 272. — Crimes against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good

Order.

Sect. 55 repealed, 1928, 155 § 58.

Sects. 80A and SOB added, 1928, 347 § 1 (relative to the cropping of
the ears of dogs). (See 1928, 347 § 2.)

Sect. 86 affected, 1921, 109; revised, 1924, 478 § 1.

Sects. 86A-86F jidded, 1924, 478 § 2 (relative to additional fire protection
for horses and mules in cities).

Sect. 88 amended, 1926, 76 § 1.

Sect. 89 amended, 1926, 76 § 2.

Chapter 273. — Desertion, Non-Support and Bastardy.

Sect. 1, sentence added at end, 1925, 126; sentence added at end, 1929
258 § 1.

Sect. 4 revised, 1922, 397.
Sect. 5 amended, 1925, 182.
Sect. 9 amended, 1924, 381.

Chapter 274. — Felonies, Accessories and Attempts to commit Crimes.
Sect. 6 revised, 1924, 164.

Chapter 276. — Search Warrants, Rewards, Fugitives from Justice, Arrest,
Examination, Commitment and Bail. Probation Officers and Com-
mission on Probation.

Sect. 1, cl. Fifteenth added, 1924, 94 § 2 (search warrants for oleo-
margarine colored in imitation of yellow butter, etc.).

Sect. 57 amended, 1922, 464 § 1; revised, 1923, 436 § 1; amended, 1926,
320 § 1.

Chaps. 277-279.] GENERAL LawS. 637

Sect. 58 amended, 1929, 216 § 3.
Sect. 60 amended, 1923, 436 § 2.

Sect. 61 revised, 1922, 465 § 1; amended, 1926, 340 § 3.
Sects. 61A and 61B added, 1922, 465 § 2 (relating to bail in criminal
eases); sect. GIB revised, 1926, 340 § 1; amended, 1929, 30.
Sect. 63 revised, 1922, 465 § 3; amended, 1924, 18.
Sect. 74 revised, 1926, 340 § 2.
Sect. 81 amended, 1922, 361 § 1.

Sect. 85 revised, 1926, 320 § 2; amended, 1929, 179 § 2.
Sect. 87 amended, 1926, 271 § 1; affected, 1926, 296.
Sect. 94 amended, 1927, 166; revised, 1929, 231.
Sects. 98 and 99 revised, 1929, 179 § 1.
Sect. 100 amended, 1926, 320 § 3; revised, 1929, 179 § 1.
Sects. 101-103 revised, 1929, 179 § 1.

Chapter 277. — Indictments and Proceedings before Trial.

Sects. 1-14. See 1922, 466.

Sect. 1 amended, 1924, 311 § 6.

Sect. 2 amended, 1924, 311 § 7. (See 1927, 306.)

Sect. 2A added, 1922, 466 (providing for special grand juries).

Sect. 35A added, 1926, 227 (authorizing amendments of indictments
and complaints in certain cases); affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 57A added, 1923, 340 (relative to the venue of crimes in general).

Sects. 70A and 70B added, 1922, 458 (regulating the disposition with-
out trial of criminal cases).

Chapter 278. — Trials and Proceedings before Judgment.

Sect. 2 amended, 1929, 185 § 2.

Sect. 13 amended, 1921, 262.

Sect. 16A added, 1923, 251 (protecting witnesses under the age of seven-
teen at trials for certain crimes).

Sect. 18 amended, 1929, 216 § 4.

Sect. 29 revised, 1922, 508 § 1.

Sect. 31 amended, 1925, 279 § 2; 1926, 329 § 6.

Sect. 33 revised, 1929, 265 § 7.

Sects. 33A-33G added, 1925, 279 § 1 (relative to certain appeals in
murder and manslaughter cases and to the elimination of delay therein).

Sect. 33A amended, 1926, 329 § 1. '

Sect. 33B amended, 1926, 329 § 2.

Sect. 33C amended, 1926, 329 § 3.

Sect. 33E revised, 1926, 329 § 4.

Sect. 33F revised, 1926, 329 § 5.

Chapter 279. — Judgment and Execution.

Sect. 1 amended, 1924, 175 § 1; 1925, 297 § 2; 1926, 271 § 2; affected,
1926, 296.

Sect. 1A added, 1924, 175 § 2 (relative to the suspension of execution of
sentences of both fine and imprisonment); amended, 1926, 271 § 3; affected,
1926, 296.

Sect. 3 amended, 1926, 266; 1927, 140 § 1; affected, 1926, 296.

638 Changes in the General Laws. [Chaps. 281, 282.

Sect. 3A added, 1926, 245 (to expedite sentence in certain criminal cases) ;
affected, 1926, 296.

Sect. 4 A added, 1926, 320 § 4 (requiring courts to obtain criminal records
of defendants in certain cases before disposition thereof).

Sect. 8A added, 1924, 165 (relative to the time of the taking effect of
a "from and after" sentence).

Sect. 24 amended, 1924, 152.

Sect. 31 amended, 1928, 28 § 1.

Sect. 45 amended, 1929, L33 § 2.

Sect. 49A added, 1929, 133 § 1 (relative to the stay of execution in
capital cases pending the decision of judicial questions).

Chapter 281. — The General Laws and their Effect.
Sect. 9 amended, 1921, 486 § 38.

Chapter 282. — Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves.

For additional acts and resolves repealed, see 1921, 486 § 39.
1906, 463 Part III § 2 and 19 )9, 49:) Part II § 76 revived and re-enacted
by 1921, 486 § 40 and said § 76 later repealed by 1924, 7.

(lll|0 (Slomm0nuifaltl| of Mwsimtl}\XBsttB

Office of the Secretary, Boston, September 2. 1929.

I certify that the acts and resolves contained in this volume are true
copies of the originals on file in this department.

I further certify that the table of changes in genera! laws has been
prepared, and is printed as an appendix to this edition of the laws, by
direction of the Joint Committee on Rules of the General Court, in
accordance with the provisions of section 51, chapter 3 of the General
Laws, as amended by chapter 197, Acts of 1922.

FREDERIC W. COOK,

Secretary of the Commonwealth

INDEX

Chap.
Abatement of taxes (see Taxation).
ABC Puzzle Advertising Company, revived .... 245

Absentees, estates of, receiver.? of, appointment of public adminis-
trators as, prohibited in certain cases .... 264

receivership, under, equity jurisdiction of probate courts as to . 342

Absentee voting, application for ballots for, form of . .93

appropriation . . . . . . . .146

Academy, Hitchcock Free, real and personal property, additional,

holding by ........ 52

Phillips, Trustees of, property-holding powers of . . .98

Accidental death benefits, granting by life insurance companies . 235
Accidents, industrial, department of (see Industrial accidents, de-
partment of),
motor vehicle, fatal, caused by persons operating motor vehicles
while under influence of intoxicating liquor, reissue of
license to operate motor vehicles, as affected by . . 274

insurance covering (see Motor vehicles, insurance in relation
to).
workmen, to, compensation for (see Workmen's compensation
law) .
Accountants, public, registration of, appropriation . 146

Accounts, cities and towns, of (see Municipal finance).

claims, and, unclassified, appropriation ..... 146

supplementary ........ 386

counties, of (see County finance).

director and division of (see Corporations and taxation, depart-
ment of),
municipal gas and electric plants, of, audit control of . . 266

public (see County finance; Municipal finance; State finance).
Actions, civil, bail, scire facias writs against, issuance by district

courts ......... 316

damages, recovery of, for, for injuries to employees of persons
insured under workmen's compensation laws caused
under circumstances creating legal liability in some
person other than the insured ..... 326

death and fatal injuries, for, rights of surviving husband in re-
spect to ........ .

debts, collection of, for, expediting .....

intei rogatories in, number, etc. ......

judgments in (see Judgments in civil actions) .
limitation (see Limitation of actions).

motor vehicle cases, more prompt disposition of, etc., investiga-
tion as to . . . . . . . Resolve

appropriation ........

See also Equity; Evidence: Practice in civil actions.
Acts and resolves, approval of certain, withheld by governor
blue book edition of, appropriation
deficiency ....

cumulative index of, appropriation
number passed by general court
pamphlet edition of, appropriation
vetoed by governor
See also Laws; Statutes.
Acushnet river, harbor lines in, and Fairhaven and New Bedford

harbors, established ....... 80

Adjutant general (see Militia).

ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE, COMMISSION ON:

in general, appropriation ....... 146

marine fisheries, printing of bulletins and reports relating to,

for distribution, etc., approval by .... 372

Springfield, city of, certain land held by commonwealth in,
for military purposes, etc., sale of, powers and duties
as to 260

Item or

Section.

1.2

2
1-3

194

404, 405

684-695
690-696h

2,5

1,2

119

1,2

172

1,2

303

1, 2

386

301

Page 542

146

188

146 Page 171

146

187

Page 542

146

186

Page 542

1-4

141-145

1,2

642

Index.

ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE, COMMISSION ON —

Concluded.

in general, supreme judicial court, decisions, etc., of, publication

and sale of, duties as to . . . Resolve

Worcester, city of, proposed new state normal school building

in, powers as to

budget commissioner, public safety, department of, to furnish

certain information annually relative to division of state

police to ........ .

comptroller, payments by commonwealth to Nellie C. Dunn and
Adele S. Houle, both of Pittsfield, releases, etc., in con-
nection with, filing with .... Resolve

Administrators (see Executors and administrators).

public (see Public administrators).
Adoption of children, consent and notice upon petitions for
Agawam, town of (see Cities and towns).
Aged persons, boarding homes for, licensing, supervision, etc.
Agents, insurance (see Insurance).

Agricultural College, Massachusetts (see Massachusetts agri-
cultural college).
Agricultural experiment station, Massachusetts (see Massa-
chusetts agricultural experiment station).
Agricultural implements, sale by hawkers and pedlers without
license, no longer authorized .....

Agricultural resources, commonwealth, of, promotion and de-
velopment of, commission for, established
appropriation .........

Agricultural school, Bristol county, water supply for, providing
by trustees thereof .......

Essex county, exchange of land by trustees of, and trustees of
Essex county tuberculosis hospital district
Agriculture, tractors and trailers used exclusively for purposes of,
operation upon ways without registration thereof per-
mitted in certain cases ......

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF:

in general, appropriation .......

supplementary ........

birds, report on, the several volumes of, additional copies of,
printing of, powers as to . . . Resolve

financial statements by certain milk dealers, form for, pro-
viding by .
commissioner, appeals to, from di\'ision of plant pest control
financial protection to milk producers in their dealings with
licensed milk dealers, provision for, powers and duties
in connection with .......

Massachusetts industrial commission, to be member of
divisions, etc., of:

dairying and animal husbandry, appropriation
markets, appropriation ....

ornithology, appropriation
plant pest control, appropriation

powers of, in respect to white pine blister rust
reclamation, soil survey and fairs, appropriation
Aid, state and military (see State and military aid).

state, and pensions, commissioner of (see State aid and pensions,
commissioner of).
Aid and relief, division of (see Public welfare, department

of).
Airport, East Boston, in, hangars and other buildings at, certain,
moving and relocating by state department of public
works ....... Resolve

appropriation .........

Albania, consul for, at Boston, payment of sum of money to, for

transmission to heirs of Vasil A. Duro . . Resolve

appropriation .........

Alcohol, wood, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, food, etc., con-
taining, sale, etc., of, made a felony ....

Ali Mohammed, estate of, payment by commonwealth of sum of
money to, etc. ...... Resolve

appropriation .........

Americanization, immigration and, division of (see Educa-
tion, department of).

Chap.

10
234

343

221
305

349

Item or
Section.

1-3

357
386

1.2

414a

1-3

339

1.2

ISO

146

220

-240

386

240a

171

1,2

357

146

226

227

146

233,

234

146

230

-232

146

228,

229

1, 2

146

235

-237

24
386

136a

41
386

696e

299

15
386

696c

197

146

281

146

690

386

690

146 {

207.
684-690

Index. 643

Item or
Chap. Section.

American Legion, The, national convention of, in 1930, representa-
tion of commonwealth at, if held in Boston . Resolve 20
appropriation . . . . . . . . 386 154b

state convention of, appropriation of money by city of Westfield

to provide facilities for holding of, in said city . . 19 1, 2

American Revolution, Massachusetts Society of the Sons of
the (see Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution).
Amesbury, hospital association, property of, purchase by town of

Amesbury ......... 14 1-4

town of (see Cities and towns) .
Amherst, College, trustees of, elected by graduates thereof, num-
ber increased and right to vote therefor extended . . 55 1,2
town of (see Cities and towns).
Water Company, additional water supply for .... 153 1-7

Andover, town of (see Cities and towns).

Animal husbandry, dairying and, division of (see Agriculture,

department of).
Animal industry, division of (see Conservation, department of).
Animals, cattle, diseased, elimination from Barnstable county, pro-
vision for .........

inspectors of, reimbursement of certain towns for, appropriation

certificate of selectmen and approval of director of animal

industry required .......

protection of, from poison, etc. ......

See also Game.
Anniversaries, three hundredth, of municipalities, observance of
Annuities, savings and insurance banks, by, amounts payable

soldiers and others, of, appropriation .....

supplementary ........

state employees, of, appropriation ......

See also Insurance; Retirement systems and pensions.
Apiaries, inspection of, appropriation . • . . . . . 146 225

APPEAL, BOARDS OF:

commissioner of corporations and taxation, from decisions of,
appropriation ........

fire insurance rates, on, appropriation .....

motor vehicle liability policies and bonds, on, appropriation
Appeals, superior court, from, waiver of, in connection with prompt

informal trials in superior court . . . .173 1,2

superior court, to, district courts and trial justices, from, in
criminal cases, revision of amount of bail in connection

with 216 4, 5

taxes, local, abatement of, for ...... 212

supreme judicial court, to, eminent domain takings and better- 1 j- i h

ment assessments by judicial proceedings, in connection }• 380 I . 7'^in

with . J ^ sects., i, lu

proceedings for, preparation and transmission to full court
of necessary papers in, and entry of such proceedings in
said court ......... 265 1-8

Appropriations, cities and towns, by (see Municipal finance),
counties, for maintenance of certain, etc.
state departments, boards, commissions, institutions, etc.,
maintenance of, etc. ......

See also specific titles of departments, boards, commissions,
stitutions, etc.

Aqueduct companies, increase of capital stock of, filing of cer-
tificates of ........ 97

Arbitration, conciliation and, board of (see Labor and indus-
tries, department of).
Arbitrators, witnesses before, fees of . . . . 298 1,.2

Archives, division, in department of state secretary, keeping and
display in, of original charter of Massachusetts Bay
Colony ....... Resolve

appropriation ........

Massachusetts, reproduction of manuscript collection, appro-
priation .........

Arlington, town of (see Cities and towns).

Armories, appropriation ........

supplementary .........

superintendent of, appropriation ......

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