AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE TO PAY A Chap. 53 PENSION TO ARTHUR MURLEY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Somerville pension to SECTION 1. The city of Somerville is hereby authorized City of to pay Arthur Murley, an employee in the highway de- may pay a partment of that city for a period of about fifty years, a Arthur Murley. pension at the rate of nine dollars a week for the remainder of his life. mitted to city SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance To be subby the city council of said city, with the approval of the council, etc. Approved February 7, 1916. mayor. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE TO PENSION Chap. 54 WILLIAM STERN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Somerville William Stern. SECTION 1. The city of Somerville is hereby authorized City of to pay to William Stern, a call fireman of that city, who was may pension permanently injured in the performance of his duty, a sum not exceeding four hundred and fifty dollars as an annual pension. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance To be subby the city council of the city, with the approval of the mitted to city Approved February 7, 1916. mayor. [1914, 289.] council, etc. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF PALMER TO PAY MONEY Chap. 55 TO THE WING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Palmer may Wing Memorial ciation. SECTION 1. The town of Palmer is hereby authorized Town of to raise by taxation and to pay annually or otherwise to pay money to the Wing Memorial Hospital Association, to be used for the Hospital Assocharitable purposes of the association in said town, such sums, not exceeding two thousand dollars, as may be appropriated by the town by a two thirds vote at an annual meeting or at a special meeting duly called for the purpose. SECTION 2. No payment shall be made as authorized in Approval of the foregoing section except with the approval of the select- required. men of the town, and all sums so paid shall be expended by said association in conformity with such rules and regulations as the selectmen shall from time to time establish or approve. selectmen Certain vote of town ratified, etc. Repeal. SECTION 3. The vote of the town of Palmer at its annual meeting held on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and fifteen, whereby the sum of one thousand dollars was appropriated to be used for the charitable purposes of said hospital association, is hereby ratified and confirmed. SECTION 4. Chapter two hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 56 AN ACT TO CONFIRM THE INCORPORATION OF THE CAMBRIDGE Incorporation of Cambridge Co-operative Society confirmed. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All the acts of incorporation of the Cambridge Co-operative Society, and the certificate of incorporation issued by the commonwealth of Massachusetts on the fifteenth day of September in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and all acts of the society since the said date, so far as the same would be valid and legal had said corporation been formed in accordance with the provisions of law, are hereby ratified and confirmed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 57 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ASSISTANT ASSESSORS IN THE TOWN Assistant assessors to be appointed in town of Arlington. OF ARLINGTON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The assessors of the town of Arlington shall after the next annual town meeting for choice of town officers and in the month of March next ensuing, appoint from the legal voters of the town assistant assessors, each of whom shall serve for one year from the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified; and thereafter, the assessors of said town shall annually, after the annual town meeting and in the month of March, appoint from the legal voters assistant assessors, each of whom shall serve for one year from the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The said assistant assessors shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and shall have the powers and perform the duties prescribed by law for assistant assessors. In case of a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term of any assistant assessor, the assessors shall have power to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. The com- Compensation, pensation of the assistant assessors shall be fixed by the assessors. how fixed. submitted to SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Act to be by a majority of the legal voters of the town of Arlington voters, etc. voting thereon at the next annual meeting of said town. Approved February 8, 1916. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY Chap. 58 OF HAVERHILL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: may be elected in police SECTION 1. The municipal council of the city of Haver- Certain persons hill is hereby authorized to elect Stanislas Rainville, now to membership lock-up keeper, and Justin R. Bridgham and James Bolan, department now drivers of the patrol wagon, to membership in the of Haverhill. police department of the city with the same rating and rights under the civil service laws and regulations to which they would now be entitled if they had been made regular police officers at the time of their first election to the respective offices which they now hold. mitted to SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Act to be subby a majority of the voters voting thereon at the election voters, etc. to be held in Haverhill on the twenty-ninth day of February in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen. The vote shall be taken in answer to the following question, which shall be printed on the official ballot:-"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen authorizing the municipal council of the city of Haverhill to elect Stanislas Rainville, Justin R. Bridgham and James Bolan to membership of the police department be accepted?" but so much of this act as provides for its submission to the Time of taking voters shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 8, 1916. [Accepted February 29, 1916.] effect. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF REGIS- Chap. 59 TRATION IN MEDICINE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriapriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth tions. Members, salaries. Travelling expenses, etc. Clerical services. Printing, etc. from the ordinary revenue, for the salaries and expenses of the board of registration in medicine, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to wit: For the salaries of the members of the board, forty-three hundred dollars. For travelling and other expenses of the board, a sum not exceeding five hundred and seventy-five dollars. For clerical services, the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For printing, postage, office supplies and contingent expenses of the members of the board, to include printing the annual report, and for rent of rooms outside the state house, a sum not exceeding fourteen hundred and seventyfive dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1898, 415; 1914, 140.] Chap. 60 AN ACT RELATIVE TO APPROPRIATIONS BY THE CITY OF Appropria tions by city of Brockton for Brockton hos BROCKTON FOR THE BROCKTON HOSPITAL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and forty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen pital increased. is hereby amended by striking out the word "eight", in the second line, and inserting in place thereof the word: twelve, so as to read as follows:- Section 1. The city of Brockton is hereby authorized to appropriate a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars a year, to be paid to the Brockton Hospital Company toward the maintenance and support of the Brockton hospital. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 61 AN ACT CONFIRMING THE LOCATIONS GRANTED BY THE TOWN Locations granted by town of Peabody for OF PEABODY FOR THE ELECTRIC LINES OF ITS ELECTRIC Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All lines for the transmission of electricity for light, heat or power, heretofore acquired or constructed certain electric by the electric light department of the town of Peabody upon, along, over and under the public ways and places of lines confirmed. said town, and the poles, piers, abutments, conduits and SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF HOLYOKE TO PAY A Chap. 62 SUM OF MONEY TO THE WIDOW OF JOHN J. MANNING. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: yoke may pay to widow of John J. Manning. SECTION 1. The city of Holyoke is hereby authorized City of Holto pay to Margaret Manning, widow of John J. Manning, sum of money late a lieutenant in the fire department of the city, who lost his life as a result of illness contracted in the performance of his duty, a sum of money equal to that which would have been due the said Manning had he lived and continued in the employ of the city for the remainder of the financial year of the city which ends on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen. mitted to board SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance To be subby the board of aldermen of the city, with the approval of of aldermen, Approved February 9, 1916. the mayor. etc. [Accepted March 22, 1916.] [1873, 154; 1887, 303; 1888, 386; 1890, 317; 1896, 438; 1910, 136; 1912, 355, 381; 1913, 608; 1914, 149, 400; 1915, 354.] AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TERM OF OFFICE OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: THE Chap. 63 of treasurer of Holyoke. SECTION 1. The term of office of the treasurer of the Term of office city of Holyoke shall hereafter, beginning with the mu- city of nicipal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, be three years. SECTION 2. So much of chapter four hundred and Repeal. thirty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. mitted to state election. SECTION 3. This act shall be submitted to the voters of Act to be subsaid city at the next annual state election, and shall take voters at next effect upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters voting thereon; otherwise it shall not take effect. Approved February 9, 1916. |