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SECT. 2. The overseers of the poor of said city, 2 or such other persons as said City Council shall ap3 point directors of said house for the employment and 4 reformation of juvenile offenders, shall have power, 5 at their discretion, to receive and take into said 6 house, all such children resident at, or belonging 7 to, said city, who shall be convicted of criminal 8 offences, or taken up and committed under and by 9 virtue of the fifth and sixth sections of the one hun10 dred forty-third chapter of the Revised Statutes 11 of this Commonwealth, and who may, in the judg12 ment of any justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 13 or of the Court of Common Pleas, sitting within and 14 for the County of Middlesex, or of the justice of the 15 Police Court within and for said city, be proper ob16 jects therefor; and upon the conviction or commit17 ment aforesaid, of any such child, in the judgment of 18 any such justice, a proper object for the said house 19 of employment and reformation, the said justice, pre20 viously to declaring the sentence of the law on such 21 child, shall cause notice to be given to the directors 22 of the said house; and in case the said directors 23 shall declare their assent to the admission of such 24 child into said house, the said justice shall sentence 25 him or her to be committed to said house of employ26 ment and reformation, subject to the control of the 27 directors thereof, in conformity with the provisions 28 of this act.

1 SECT. 3. Any justice of either of the said courts 2 respectively, on the application of the mayor, or of 3 any alderman, of the city of Lowell, or of any direct4 or of the house of reformation, or of any overseer of

5 the poor of said city, shall have power to sentence 6 to said house of employment and reformation, all 7 children resident in or belonging to said city, who 8 live an idle or dissolute life, whose parents are dead, 9 or, if living, from drunkenness, or other vices, neg10 lect to provide any suitable employment, or exercise 11 any salutary control over said children. And the 12 persons thus committed, shall be kept, governed, and 13 disposed of, as hereinafter provided, the males till 14 they are of the age of twenty-one years, and the 15 females, of eighteen years.

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SECT. 4. The overseers of the poor of said city, 2 or such other persons as the said City Council may 3 appoint directors of the institution authorized by this 4 act, may receive the persons sentenced and commit5 ted as aforesaid, into said institution; and they shall 6 have power to place the persons committed to their 7 care, the males until they arrive at the age of twenty8 one years, and the females until they arrive at the 9 age of eighteen years, at such employments, and to 10 cause them to be instructed in such branches of use11 ful knowledge, as shall be suitable to their years and 12 capacity; and they shall have power to bind out said 13 minors, as apprentices or servants, until they arrive 14 at the ages aforesaid, to such persons, and at such 15 places, to learn such arts, trades, and employments, 16 as in their judgment will be most for the reformation, 17 amendment, and future benefit and advantage of such 18 minors. And the provisions of the eightieth chapter 19 of the Revised Statutes of this Commonwealth, (except 20 the second section of said chapter), are hereby 21 adopted as parts of this act, but the overseers or di

22 rectors specified in this act, shall have all the pow23 ers, and be subject to all the duties, of the overseers 24 and selectmen, as set forth in said chapter; and the 25 master or mistress, and the servant and apprentice 26 bound out as aforesaid, shall have all the rights and 27 privileges, and be subject to all the duties set forth 28 in the aforesaid chapter (except as aforesaid.)

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SECT. 5. Whenever said overseers or directors 2 shall deem it expedient to discharge any minor com3 mitted to their charge as aforesaid, and not bound 4 out as a servant or apprentice, and shall recommend 5 the same in writing to the Court by which said mi6 nor was committed, said Court shall have power to 7 discharge him or her from the imprisonment or cus8 tody aforesaid.

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SECT. 6. Either of the said justices, on the appli2 cation of either of the persons mentioned in the 3 third section of this act, shall have power to order 4 the transfer of any child committed to the common 5 jail or the house of correction, and inmates of the 6 same at the time of the passing of this act, and be7 longing to or having their residence in said city, to 8 the said house for the employment and reformation 9 of juvenile offenders, to be received, kept, or bound 10 out, by the directors thereof, in conformity with the 11 provisions of this act.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive.

AN ACT

Concerning Streets and Ways in the City of Boston.

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

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SECT. 1. When any street or way, which now is, 2 or hereafter shall be opened in the city of Boston, 3 over any private land, by the owners thereof, and 4 dedicated to, or permitted to be used by the public, 5 before such street shall have been accepted and laid 6 out according to law, it shall be the duty of the own7 ers of the lots abutting thereon, to grade such street 8 or way at their own expense, in such manner as the

9 safety and convenience of the public shall, in the 10 opinion of the mayor and aldermen of said city, re11 quire; and if the owners of such abutting lots shall, 12 after reasonable notice given by the said mayor and 13 aldermen, neglect or refuse to grade such street or 14 way in manner aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the 15 said mayor and aldermen to cause the same to be 16 graded as aforesaid, and the expense thereof shall, 17 after due notice to the parties interested, be equita18 bly assessed upon the owners of such abutting lots, 19 by the said mayor and aldermen, in such proportions 20 as they shall judge reasonable; and all assessments 21 so made shall be a lien upon such abutting lands, in 22 like manner as taxes are now a lien upon real estate; 23 provided, always, that nothing contained in this act 24 shall be construed to affect any agreements hereto25 fore made respecting any such streets or ways as 26 aforesaid, between such owners and said city.

1 SECT. 2. No street or way shall hereafter be 2 opened as aforesaid in said city, of a less width than 3 thirty feet, except with the consent of said mayor 4 and aldermen, in writing, first had and obtained for 5 that purpose.

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SECT. 3. This act shall take effect in thirty days 2 from the passing thereof, unless the City Council 3 of said city shall, within that time, vote not to accept 4 the same.