Certain employees exempt from medical exam insurance. examination in cases where the insurance is granted under a single policy issued to a given person, firm or corporation, covering simultaneously a group of not less than one hundred lives all in the employ of such person, firm or corporation, - so that said paragraph will read as follows:- Section 71. No life insurance company organized under the laws of or ination for life doing business in this commonwealth shall enter into any contract of insurance upon lives within this commonwealth without having previously made or caused to be made a prescribed medical examination of the insured by a registered medical practitioner; except that an inspection by a competent person of a group of employees whose lives are to be insured and their environment may be substituted for such medical examination in cases where the insurance is granted under a single policy issued to a given person, firm or corporation, covering simultaneously a group of not less than one hundred lives all in the employ of such person, firm or corporation. (The foregoing was laid before the governor on the seventeenth day of February, 1916, 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.) Chap. 13 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE AUDITING OF TOWN ACCOUNTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 1910, 598, § 1, etc., amended. Auditing of accounts of towns. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by section one of chapter seven hundred and six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 1. Any town at a town meeting legally called for the purpose may petition the director of the bureau of statistics for an audit of its accounts, or for the installation of a system of accounts by him approved, and said director, as soon as possible after the receipt of such a petition, shall cause such audit to be made or system of accounts to be installed as the case may be; or a town may provide in its by-laws for periodical audits under the direction of the director of the bureau of statistics, and said director shall cause such audits to be made. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE LAW PRO- Chap. 14 VIDING FOR WEEKLY PAYMENT OF WAGES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. Sec- State board of labor and in prosecute vio providing for Section one hundred and thirteen of chapter five hundred 1909, 514, § 113, and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine is hereby amended by striking out the words "The chief of the district police or an inspector of factories and public buildings", in the first and second lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: The state board of labor and industries, and by striking out the words "thirty days", in the fifth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: three months, so as to read as follows: tion 113. The state board of labor and industries may dustries to make a complaint against any person for a violation of the lations of law provisions of the preceding section. Complaints for such weekly pay violation shall be made within three months after the date ment of wages. thereof, and, on the trial, no defence for failure to pay as required, other than the attachment of such wages by the trustee process or a valid assignment thereof or a valid setoff against the same, or the absence of the employee from his regular place of labor at the time of payment, or an actual tender to such employee at the time of payment of the wages so earned by him, shall be valid. The defendant shall not set up as a defence a payment of wages after the bringing of the complaint. An assignment of future wages which are payable weekly under the provisions of this act shall not be valid if made to the person from whom such wages are to become due or to any person on his behalf or if made or procured to be made to another person for the purpose of relieving the employer from the obligation to pay weekly. The word "person" in this section shall "Person," include the corporations, contractors, persons and partnerships described in the preceding section. Approved February 25, 1916. term defined. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF UPLAND PLOVER Chap. 15 AND CERTAIN OTHER WILD BIRDS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. Chapter four hundred and seventy-two of the acts of the 1910, 472, § 1, year nineteen hundred and ten is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the fol Protection of upland plover, wild pigeons, gulls and terns. lowing: - Section 1. Whoever takes or kills a Bartramian Chap. 16 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE METHOD OF VOTING IN PRESI 1913, 835, § 140, amended. Name of candidates for delegates, etc., to national con ventions to be placed upon ballot in certain order. Statement of preference, etc. Return of votes. DENTIAL PRIMARIES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out section one hundred and forty and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 140. The secretary of the commonwealth shall cause to be placed upon the official ballot for use in primaries at which delegates to national conventions of political parties are elected, under separate headings, and in the following order, the names of candidates for delegates at large, alternate delegates at large, district delegates, and alternate district delegates. The names of candidates appearing in nomination papers which contain nominations for all the places to be filled shall be placed first on said ballot, arranged in groups and in the same order as in the nomination papers. The names of candidates appearing in nomination papers which contain nominations for less than all the places to be filled shall follow, alphabetically arranged. The ballot shall also contain a statement of the preference, if any, of each candidate for delegate as to a candidate for nomination for president, provided that such statement appears in his nomination papers; but no such statement of preference by any candidate for delegate shall appear upon the ballot unless such candidate for nomination for president files his written assent thereto with the secretary of the commonwealth on or before five o'clock of the last day for filing nomination papers. Such assent may be communicated by telegraph or cable. Upon the receipt of the records of votes cast at presidential primaries, the city or town clerk or election commissioners shall forthwith canvass the same and make return thereof to the secretary of the common wealth, who shall forthwith canvass such returns, determine the results thereof, and notify the successful candidates. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 1, 1916. AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE STATE HOUSE BUILDING COMMISSION Chap. 17 AND TO TRANSFER ITS DUTIES TO THE STATE HOUSE COM MISSION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: building com SECTION 1. The state house building commission, es- State house tablished by chapter eight hundred and thirty of the acts mission, of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby abolished abolished, etc. and the powers and duties pertaining to the said commission are hereby transferred to and vested in the state house commission. The members of the state house commission shall receive no compensation under this act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO REQUIRE COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENT ESTATES Chap. 18 OF DECEASED PERSONS TO GIVE NOTICE TO THE ADMINIS- OF RETURNS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: - etc., amended. SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and R. L. 142, § 3, forty-two of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "creditors", in the fifteenth line, the words: and to the administrator of the estate or the executor of the will of the deceased, and to the heirs, legatees or devisees of the deceased, so as to read as follows: Sec- Commissioners tion 3. The commissioners shall be sworn before entering of insolvent upon the performance of their official duties; they shall ine claims, etc. appoint convenient times and places for their meetings to receive and examine claims; and shall by mail or otherwise give to all known creditors at least seven days' written notice of the time and place of each meeting, and also such other notice thereof as the court shall order; and the executor or administrator shall, fourteen days at least before the first meeting, furnish to the commissioners the names and resi Notice that return is filed, etc. dences of all known creditors. At the expiration of the SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 19 AN ACT RELATIVE TO LATE ENTRY OF APPEALS FROM RE R. L. 142, § 16, amended. Late entry of appeals from returns of commissioners of insolvent TURNS OF COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENT ESTATES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section sixteen of chapter one hundred and forty-two of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "court", in the second line, the words: or if the administrator of the estate or the executor of the will of the deceased, or if an heir, legatee, devisee or creditor who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim, so as to read as follows: Section 16. If a person whose claim has been disallowed by the commissioners or by the probate court, or if the administrator of the estate or the estates allowed executor of the will of the deceased, or if an heir, legatee, devisee or creditor who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim, omits, for cause other than his own neglect, to claim or prosecute his appeal as before provided, the supreme judicial court in any county, may, upon his petition filed within two years after the return of the commissioners and within four years after the date of the administration bond, allow him upon terms to enter and prosecute his appeal. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 2, 1916. in certain cases. Chap. 20 AN ACT RELATIVE TO PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF TAXES ON 1909, 490, § 19, Part II, etc., amended. REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section nineteen of Part II of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by section two of chapter five hundred and ninety |