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7 sons as are required to be buried at the public ex8 pense, to any regular physician, duly qualified ac9 cording to law, to be by him used for the advance10 ment of anatomical science, preference being always 11 given to the medical schools by law established in 12 this State, for their use in the instruction of medical 13 students, and no dead body shall be buried at the 1 public expense until it shall have been thus reported 15 to the town or city clerk.

1 SECT. 2. No such body shall, in any case, be sur2 rendered, if the deceased person, during his last 3 sickness, of his own accord, requested to be buried, 4 or if, within twenty-four hours after his death, any 5 person claiming to be of kindred to the deceased, 6 and satisfying the proper authority thereof, shall re7 quire to have the body buried; or if such deceased 8 person was a stranger, or traveller, who suddenly 9 died before making himself known; but the dead 10 body shall, in all such cases, be buried; and no body 11 shall be surrendered, until the physician requesting 12 the same shall give to the board, by whose officer 13 the same is to be surrendered, the bond required by 14 the 12th section of the 22d chapter of the Revised 15 Statutes.

1 SECT. 3. The 10th and 11th sections of the 22d 2 chapter of the Revised Statutes, are hereby repealed.

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SECT. 4. This act shall take effect from and after 2 its passage.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive.

AN ACT

Concerning Public Schools.

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

1 Any child unlawfully excluded from any public 2 school, which such child has a legal right to attend, 3 or from public school instruction, in this Common4 wealth, shall recover damages therefor, in an action

5 on the case, to be brought in the name of said child 6 by his guardian, or next friend, in any court of com7 petent jurisdiction to try the same, against the city or 8 town, by which said school is supported.

Passed to be engrossed.

SENATE, March 4, 1845.

Sent down for concurrence.

CHAS. CALHOUN, Clerk.

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE

RAIL-ROAD CORPORATIONS

IN THE

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS

FOR

1844.

Boston:

DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS.

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