Chap. 53 G. L. 175, § 47, etc., amended. and issue writs and processes, shall make returns of the court, tax bills of costs and receive fines, forfeitures, fees and costs accruing from the civil and criminal business of the court, including fees for blanks and copies. Approved February 21, 1927. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR JEWELERS' BLOCK INSURANCE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section forty-seven of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and ninety-eight, section one of chapter two hundred and fifteen and section three of chapter two hundred and seventy-seven, all of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, by section three of chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five and by chapter forty-nine of the acts of the current year, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "insurance" in the ninth and tenth lines of clause second the following: ; and to insure a person engaged in the business or trade of manufacturing, buying, selling or dealing in, cutting or setting precious stones, jewels, jewelry, gold, silver or other precious metals, whether as principal, agent, broker, factor or otherwise, against any and all risks of loss or damage, including deterioration and loss of use, arising out of or in connection with such business or trade and against liability on account of any such loss or damage, including deterioration and loss of use, in this chapter called jewelers' block insurance, so that clause second will read as follows: Second, To insure vessels, Purposes of incorporation of freights, goods, money, effects, and money lent on bottomry certain insurance companies. or respondentia, against the perils of the sea and other perils Jewelers' block insurance, etc. usually insured against by marine insurance; risks of inland navigation and transportation; also, in connection with marine or inland marine or transportation insurance on property, to insure against any risk whether to person or to property, including liability for loss or damage to either, arising out of the construction, repair, operation, maintenance or use of the subject matter of such primary insurance; and to insure a person engaged in the business or trade of manufacturing, buying, selling or dealing in, cutting or setting precious stones, jewels, jewelry, gold, silver or other precious metals, whether as principal, agent, broker, factor or otherwise, against any and all risks of loss or damage, including deterioration and loss of use, arising out of or in connection with such business or trade and against liability on account of any such loss or damage, including deterioration and loss of use, in this chapter called jewelers' block insurance; also to insure against loss or damage to and loss of use of motor vehicles, their fittings and contents, whether such vehicles are being operated or not, and wherever the same may be, resulting from accident, collision, fire, lightning, theft, and any of the perils usually insured against by marine insurance, or from risks of inland navigation and transportation; and against loss or damage caused by teams, automobiles or other vehicles, except rolling stock of railways, to the property of another, for which loss or damage any person is liable; but not including insurance against Certain insurloss or damage by reason of bodily injury or death by accident to any person resulting from the maintenance and use of motor vehicles. ance excluded. etc., amended. SECTION 2. Section fifty-one of said chapter one hundred G. L. 175, § 51, and seventy-five, as amended by section two of chapter thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentythree, and by section one of chapter two hundred and ninetyeight and section five of chapter four hundred and fifty, both of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "dollars" in the sixth line of clause (a) the following:-, or jewelers' block insurance as set forth in clause second of section forty-seven, if authorized to transact the first, so that clause (a) will read as follows: (a) The first and second, if authorized to Kinds of transact either, provided it has a paid-up capital of not business which less than four hundred thousand dollars, or the first and bined by stock second excepting ocean marine insurance, if authorized to companies. transact either, provided it has a paid-up capital of not less than three hundred thousand dollars, or jewelers' block insurance as set forth in clause second of section forty-seven, if authorized to transact the first. Approved February 21, 1927. insurance AN ACT PROHIBITING UNTIL THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED Chap. 54 AND TWENTY-EIGHT THE TAKING OF HARES IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chapter one hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen 1925, 107, hundred and twenty-five is hereby amended by striking amended. out, in the fifth line, the word "twenty-seven" and inserting - and also by Essex county year 1928, in place thereof the word: - twenty-eight, striking out, in the ninth line, the word "section" and inserting in place thereof the word: act, so as to read as follows: In Essex county, hares may not be taken, Taking, etc., killed or had in possession except as provided in sections of hares in forty-six A, forty-nine and eighty-two to eighty-eight, in- prohibited until clusive, of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the Gen- except, etc. eral Laws, till October twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, except that they may be had in possession in said county if they were killed in another country, state or county without violating the laws thereof. Any person Penalty. violating any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars. Approved February 21, 1927. Chap. 55 AN Act providing for the further enlargement of the Barnstable county com enlarge Barn stable county sanatorium. BARNSTABLE COUNTY SANATORIUM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The county commissioners of the county of missioners may Barnstable may expend a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing, equipping and furnishing an addition to the Barnstable county sanatorium. Such addition shall consist of an addition to the building erected under authority of chapter two hundred and sixtyfive of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six for a children's unit and other hospital purposes and shall be used for the same or similar purposes. May borrow money, etc. Barnstable Submission to county commissioners. Proviso. SECTION 2. For the purpose of paying the necessary expenses to be incurred under section one, said county commissioners may borrow from time to time, on the credit of the county, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate ten thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes of the county therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Barnstable County Sanatorium Loan, Act of 1927. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more than five years from their dates. Such bonds or notes shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners. The county may sell the said securities at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par value. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirty-five of the General Laws. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the county commissioners of said county; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved February 21, 1927. Chap. 56 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE COLLECTION OF WATER RATES BY FIRE DISTRICTS AUTHORIZED TO SUPPLY WATER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section forty-two A of chapter forty of the General Laws, inserted therein by chapter three hundred and ninety-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and amended by chapter one hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "commissioners" in the last line the words: or officers exercising similar powers, and by adding at the end thereof the following: A fire district authorized to supply water shall, for the purposes of said sections, be deemed a water district, so as to read as follows: Section 42A. If the rates and charges due to a city or town or water district which accepts this and the certain cities, statute, filing, five following sections by vote of its city council or of the estate, etc., in voters in town or district meeting for supplying water to towns and any real estate at the request of the owner or tenant, in- water districts. cluding interest and costs thereon, as established by local regulations, ordinances or by-laws, are not paid within sixty days after their due date, the same shall be a lien upon such real estate in the manner hereinafter provided. This and the five following sections shall not take effect in Certificate of a city or town or water district accepting the same as afore- acceptance of said until the city, town or district clerk files in the etc. proper registry of deeds a certificate that said sections have been so accepted. Each register of deeds shall record such certificate in a book to be kept for the purpose, which shall be placed in an accessible location in the registry. The five Sections to following sections shall also apply to a water district which apply to has accepted sections forty-two A to forty-two F, inclusive, districts, etc. and whose clerk has so filed the certificate of acceptance, and wherever in said sections the word "town" and the phrase "board or officer in charge of the water department" or "board or officer having control of the water department" appear, they shall also mean and include such water district and its water commissioners or officers exercising similar powers, respectively. A fire district authorized to supply Certain fire water shall, for the purposes of said sections, be deemed a deemed water water district. Approved February 21, 1927. districts. certain water districts to be AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE RECON- Chap. 57 STRUCTION OF THE EAST SAUGUS BRIDGE OVER THE SAUGUS RIVER BETWEEN THE TOWN OF SAUGUS AND THE CITY OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. treasurer may SECTION 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and 1926. 293, § 2, ninety-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentysix is hereby amended by striking out, in the second and third lines, the words "twenty-five thousand five hundred" and inserting in place thereof the words: thirty-six thousand, so as to read as follows: Section 2. The cost and Limitation and payment of expenses incurred under this act shall not exceed the sum of cost and exthirty-six thousand dollars, and shall be paid in the first penses. instance by the county of Essex. The treasurer of said County county, with the approval of the county commissioners, borrow money, may borrow by a temporary loan or loans on the credit of the etc. county such sums not exceeding the said amount as may from time to time be required to meet the cost and expenses aforesaid, including interest, and may issue notes of the county therefor and may sell such notes at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper. The said treasurer may renew the same for such periods as may be necessary. All amounts so borrowed shall be deposited in the treasury of the county, and the said treasurer shall pay out the same 1926, 293, § 4, amended. County of its proportion of cost and expenses. County of Loan, Act of 1926. Town of as ordered by the county commissioners, and shall keep a separate and accurate account of all moneys borrowed and expended under the provisions of this act, including interest. SECTION 2. Section four of said chapter two hundred and ninety-three is hereby amended by striking out the words "eighty-five hundred" wherever they occur in said section and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the words: twelve thousand, so as to read as follows: Section 4. For the purpose of paying the proportion of the borrow to pay said cost and expenses which is to be borne by the county of Essex, the county treasurer, with the approval of the county commissioners, may borrow such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, and may issue notes of the county therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, County of Essex, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Saugus Bridge Act of 1926. Such loan shall be paid within one year from its date. Such notes shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners. Said county may sell the said securities at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par value. Indebtedness incurred hereunder shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter thirtyfive of the General Laws. The town of Saugus, for the purpose of paying its proportion of said cost and expenses, may borrow from time to time such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, twelve thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Town of Saugus, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Act of 1926. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid within five years from their dates. The city of Lynn, for the purpose of paying its proportion of said cost and exportion of cost penses, may borrow such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, and may issue notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, City of Lynn, East Saugus Bridge Loan, Act of 1926. Such loan shall be paid within one year from its date. Indebtedness incurred by said city and by said town under this act shall be in excess of their respective statutory limits, but shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws. The proceeds of loans issued by said city and by said town shall be paid into the county treasury of said county and, together with the proceeds of loans issued by said county under this section, shall be applied to meet temporary loans of said county issued in accordance with section two or to pay said cost and expenses. Saugus may borrow to pay its proportion of cost and expenses. Town of Loan, Act of to pay its pro and expenses. City of Lynn, Proceeds of loans, disposition, etc. Submission to SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance commissioners. by the county commissioners of the county of Essex; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved February 21, 1927. Proviso. |