davit to be etc. by section fourteen, without requiring anew the detailed information specified by section one hundred and sixty-six. Before the person named in such license shall procure any Certain affiinsurance in such companies on any such property or in- filed with terests, he shall in every case execute, and within five days commissioner before procurthereafter file with the commissioner, an affidavit, which ing insurance, shall have force and effect for one year only from the date of said affidavit, that he is unable to procure, in companies admitted to do business in the commonwealth, the amount of insurance necessary to protect said property or interests, and that he will procure insurance under such license only after he has procured insurance in companies admitted to do business as aforesaid to the full amount which said companies are willing to write on said property or interests; but such licensed person shall not be required to file such affidavit if one relative to the same property or interests has been filed within the preceding twelve months by any broker licensed under this section, nor to offer any portion of such insurance to any company not possessed of net cash assets of at least twenty-five thousand dollars, nor to one which has within the preceding twelve months been in an impaired condition. Each person so licensed shall keep a separate account of Licensees to the business done under the license, a certified copy of which account of busiaccount he shall forthwith file with the commissioner, show-ness done, etc. ing the exact amount of such insurance placed for each person, the gross premium charged thereon, the companies in which the same is placed, the date of the policies and the term thereof, and also a report in the same detail of all such policies cancelled, with the gross return premiums thereon, and before receiving such license shall execute and deliver to the state treasurer a bond in the penal sum of two thou- Bond. sand dollars, with such sureties as he shall approve, conditioned that the licensee will faithfully comply with all the requirements of this section, and will annually, in January, Annual statefile with the state treasurer a sworn statement of the gross treasurer. premiums charged for insurance procured or placed and the gross return premiums on such insurance cancelled under such license during the year ending on December thirtyfirst last preceding, and at the time of filing such statement Payment to will pay to the commonwealth an amount equal to four per wealth. cent of such gross premiums, less such return premiums so reported. keep and file ment to state common A person licensed under this section who negotiates, con- Penalty. tinues or renews any such contract of insurance in any unauthorized foreign company, and who neglects to make and file the affidavit and statements required by this section, or who wilfully makes a false affidavit or statement, or who negotiates, continues or renews any such contract of insurance after the revocation or during the suspension of his license, shall forfeit his license if not previously revoked and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Approved February 12, 1927. Chap. 30 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED G. L. 135, § 7, amended. stolen, etc., property by police officers. AND CERTAIN OTHER PROPERTY COMING INTO THE POS- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: so as Section seven of chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: The word "city" as used in this and the four following sections shall include town, Disposition of to read as follows:- Section 7. If property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes into the possession of a member of the police department of a city by virtue of his office, he shall deliver the same to the officer or member of the department designated by the rules thereof, and shall thereupon be relieved from further responsibility therefor. The officer or member to whom such property is so delivered shall give notice as provided in section one of chapter one hundred and thirtyfour. The word "city" as used in this and the four following sections shall include town. Notice. Word "city" to include town. Approved February 12, 1927. Chap. 31 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ENCLOSED ATHLETIC FIELD IN School committee of city establish, etc., part of Paul Revere park as athletic field. THE CITY OF REVERE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. So much of the park lands known as Paul of Revere may Revere park, under the jurisdiction of the school committee of the city of Revere, as shall be designated for that purpose by said school committee, shall be set apart for an enclosed athletic field. A plan showing the extent of the land so set apart shall be made and kept on file in the office of the school committee. Said school committee shall establish and maintain said athletic field, with suitable equipment, and shall permit its use for athletic games and other enterAdmission fee. tainments of a public nature, at which an admission fee may be charged, upon such terms and conditions as said school committee may impose. Submission to city council, etc. Proviso. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by vote of the city council of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved February 12, 1927. Chap. 32 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF FALMOUTH TO Use for Town of purposes cer- FIRE DEPARTMENT PURPOSES A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Falmouth may use for purposes of its fire department a certain parcel of land therein, known as the "Hewins Lot", purchased by it in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for use as a site for a memorial public library, but, after the necessity for such use ceased, used for park purposes. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Submission to by vote of the selectmen of said town; provided, that such selectmen, etc. acceptance occurs during the current year. Proviso. Approved February 12, 1927. AN ACT CHANGING THE NAME OF CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE OVER Chap. 33 THE CHARLES RIVER BASIN BETWEEN THE CITIES OF BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE TO LONGFELLOW BRIDGE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: bridge. SECTION 1. The bridge constructed under the authority Cambridge of chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of bridge, name changed to eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, known as Cambridge Longfellow bridge, and crossing the Charles river from Cambridge street in Boston to Main street in Cambridge, which bridge has sometimes been called the West Boston bridge, shall hereafter be known, designated and called the Longfellow bridge. SECTION 2. The board of bridge commissioners having Memorial charge of the support, management and repair of said tablet, etc. bridge is hereby authorized and directed to place upon said bridge in a conspicuous place a memorial tablet, dedicated to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, should such a tablet be offered, and be approved by the mayor of Boston and by the mayor of Cambridge. Approved February 12, 1927. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS Chap. 34 OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON TO ESTABLISH IN THE CITY OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: tion of the Boston may Regis College Newton. The Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston, The Congregaa religious and educational corporation, incorporated under Sisters of Saint general law on the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen Joseph of hundred and eighty for the purpose of training children to establish The religion and sound morals and for their general education, for Women, is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to its present in city of powers, to conduct and maintain in the city of Newton a college for the higher education of women to be called The Regis College for Women, and to provide therein instruction in such of the languages and of the useful and liberal arts and sciences as the directors of said corporation shall from time to time determine, subject to such regulations as the department of education shall impose; and said cor- May confer poration is hereby further authorized to confer at such certain degrees. college such degrees as are usually conferred by colleges in this commonwealth, except medical degrees and degrees of bachelor of laws. Approved February 12, 1927. Chap. 35 AN ACT INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF REAL AND PERSONAL 1893, 94, § 3. etc., amended. Groton school may receive and hold real and personal estate. Provisos. PROPERTY THAT MAY LAWFULLY BE HELD BY THE TRUSTEES Be it enacted, etc., as follows: five, Section three of chapter ninety-four of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and three and by section one of chapter ninetytwo of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen and by chapter two hundred and sixty of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, is hereby further amended by striking out, in the thirteenth line, the word three" and inserting in place thereof the word: so as to read as follows: Section 3. Said corporation is hereby authorized to take and receive by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal, to have and to hold the same upon the terms and for the purposes specified in the declaration of trust aforesaid; and also upon such terms and for such purposes and trusts as may be expressed in any deed or instrument of conveyance or gift made to said corporation: provided, the same shall not be inconsistent with the terms and purposes of the declaration of trust aforesaid, made and declared by said trustees; and provided, the real and personal estate held by said corporation shall not exceed in value five million dollars. Approved February 12, 1927. Chap. 36 AN Act postponing THE TIME FOR ALLOCATING AND Appor 1925, 339, § 18, amended. TIONING THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentyfive is hereby amended by striking out, in the eighty-fourth, ninety-sixth, one hundred and forty-second and one hundred and fifty-first lines, the word "twenty-eight" and inserting in place thereof in each instance the word: twenty-nine, by striking out, in the one hundredth and one hundred and twenty-fifth lines, the word "twenty-six" and inserting in place thereof in each instance the word: twenty-seven, -by striking out, in the one hundred and first and in the one hundred and twenty-sixth lines, the word "twentyseven" and inserting in place thereof in each instance the word: twenty-eight, and by inserting after the word 'except" in the one hundred and twenty-first line the following: that the cost of maintenance and operation for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, or any part thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine shall first be estimated and apportioned as aforesaid in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine on or before Feb 66 Sewerage Dis ments of cost for purposes of sewage until ruary fifteenth and, and also by inserting after the word "twenty-eight" in the one hundred and twenty-third line the following:-, or any part thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, so that the last three paragraphs will read as follows:- Beginning in the year South Essex nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, said board shall determine trict, annual annually on or before February fifteenth, what part of the apportionretirement and interest payments falling due that year on of construction, bonds or notes issued under section fifteen, including notes basis, etc. 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 subdivisions (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), (f) and (g) shall be apportioned to the institutions, town and/or cities participating in that share, one third in proportion to their respective valuations as determined as hereinafter provided for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine by the commissioner 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 twentyseven and nineteen hundred and twenty-eight; it being Determination, hereby provided that, until the construction of the sewers of apportionand other works herein provided for and until the sewerage ment, of flow system thus made is in operation, said board in determining, construction of for purposes of apportionment, the flow of sewage, shall sewers, etc. make use of the flow of sewage of the existing systems from said institutions and cities, and as said town of Danvers has Such determiat present no sewerage system and will not have one for some nation in years adequate to dispose of the sewage from said town, the Danvers. flow of sewage from said town of Danvers shall for said purposes be determined at one million two hundred and fifty thousand gallons per day. The cost of maintenance Annual apporand operation of said sewers and other works for each tionments of account described in subdivisions (a) to (g), inclusive, shall tenance and be estimated by said board for each year on or before February fifteenth and shall be apportioned by said board to the institutions, town and/or cities participating in that account, one third in proportion 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-eight, or any part thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine shall first be estimated and apportioned as aforesaid in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine on or before February fifteenth and that the two thirds of the cost of maintenance and operation for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, or any part thereof, and for the year nineteen hundred and twentynine, shall be apportioned in proportion to the flow of case cost of main basis, etc. operation, |