ment of the time within which the first instalment shall be paid, which shall not exceed sixty days from the receipt of due proof of the claim. [Approved March 8, 1916.

[CHAP. 29.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUE OF TERM BONDS TO COMPANIES TRANSACTING WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION INSURANCE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and eighty-three of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby amended by striking out section two, and inserting in place thereof the following:-Section 2. Every such foreign insurance company shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, furnish a bond running to the commonwealth, with some surety company authorized to transact business in this commonwealth as surety, for such term and such amount and in such form and with such surety as may be approved by the insurance commissioner, the bond being conditioned upon the making by such company of the deposits required by section one of this act. The annual license of such a company shall not be issued or renewed until it has filed with the insurance commissioner a bond as aforesaid covering a future period at least as long as that covered by the license. In place of a bond as aforesaid the company may furnish other security, upon a like condition, satisfactory to the insurance commissioner.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 8, 1916.

[CHAP. 30.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO LIGHTS ON VEHICLES AT NIGHT ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter five hundred and seventy-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "one", in each instance where it occurs in the fifth line, the words: - half an, so as to read as follows:- Section 1. Every vehicle on wheels, whether stationary or in motion, on any public highway or bridge, shall have attached to it a light or lights which shall be so displayed as to be visible from the front and the rear during the period from one half an hour after sunset to one half an hour before sunrise: provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any vehicle which is designed to be propelled by hand, or to any vehicle designed for the transportation, as its principal freight, of hay or straw while loaded with such freight. [Approved March 8, 1916.

[CHAP. 31.]

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE METROPOLITAN PARK COMMISSION TO SUMMON WITNESSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section eight of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter three hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven, and by section one of chapter eighty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "Boston", in the eleventh line, the words:-or the metropolitan park commission, so as to read as follows:- Section 8. Witnesses may be summoned to attend and testify and to produce books and papers at a hearing before a city council, or either branch thereof, or before a joint or special committee of the same or of either branch thereof, or before a board of selectmen or a board of police commissioners, or a fire commissioner or a board of fire commissioners, commissioner of public safety, or a school board, or a licensing board for the granting of licenses for intoxicating liquors, or a board of registrars of voters, or before the board of police or of election commissioners for the city of Boston, or the metropolitan park commission, at any hearing before them, as to matters within their authority; and such witnesses shall be summoned in the same manner, be paid the same fees and be subject to the same penalties for default, as witnesses before police, district and municipal courts. The presiding officer of such council, or of either branch thereof, or a member of any such committee, board or commission may administer oaths to witnesses who before such council, or either branch thereof, or any such committee, board or commission, respectively.

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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 8, 1916.

[CHAP. 32.]

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN INSURANCE COMPANIES TO INSURE AGAINST LOSS OF SECURITIES AND DOCUMENTS BY BANKERS AND BROKERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Any company authorized to transact corporate suretyship, fidelity and burglary insurance in this commonwealth, may insure in one contract a bank, banker, investment broker, banking association or banking corporation against the loss of bills of exchange, notes, drafts, bonds, securities, evidences of debt, deeds, mortgages, documents, currency and money, except loss thereof in the course of marine transportation, or of transportation by common carriers.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 8, 1916.

[CHAP. 33.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE SALARY OF THE STENOGRAPHER AND CLERK EMPLOYED BY THE TRUSTEES OF HOSPITALS FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The salary of the stenographer and clerk employed by the trustees of hospitals for consumptives shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of chapter six hundred and five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen. Chapter five hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 13, 1916.

[CHAP. 34.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TAKING OF FISH IN THE WATERS OF COHASSET AND SCITUATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chapter four hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended in section one thereof by chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by striking out said section one and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 1. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to display torches or other light designed or used for the purpose of taking herring or other fish in any of the waters of Cohasset, Scituate and Marshfield, or in the waters of Duxbury and Plymouth harbors westerly of a line drawn from Pier Head to Saquish Head, or in the waters of the town of Kingston: provided, however, that the selectmen of the towns of Scituate, Marshfield, Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth may grant permits for the display of torches or other light for the purposes aforesaid, within the limits of their respective towns as herein described, except that no permits shall be granted for the above named purposes in the waters of Scituate southwesterly of a line drawn from Little Black Rock to Gull island; and provided, further, that the selectmen of Cohasset and Scituate may grant permits for the display of torches or other lights for the purpose aforesaid in the waters lying southwesterly of the above mentioned line and in boats propelled by hand power only. Such permits may at any time be revoked and may be granted under such restrictions as in the judgment of said selectmen will prevent nuisances. [Approved March 14, 1916.

[CHAP. 35.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PLANTING AND CULTIVATING OF CLAMS AND QUAHAUGS IN THE COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The selectmen of any town in the county of Plymouth, except the towns of Plymouth, Kingston and Duxbury, which accepts the provisions of this act, may, by a writing under their hands, grant a

license for such a term of years, not exceeding fifteen, as in their discretion they may deem for the public good, to any citizen of such town, to plant, cultivate and dig clams and quahaugs upon and in any flats and creeks in the town between mean high and mean low water mark, not, however, impairing the private rights of any person. The territory covered by any such license shall not exceed two acres for each clam or quahaug grant. The license may be assigned by the licensee to any person who is a citizen. of the town, but only with the written consent of the selectmen. The said licenses shall be granted only to persons who intend in good faith to plant, cultivate and dig clams or quahaugs.

SECTION 2. The licenses herein provided for shall not be granted if their exercise would materially obstruct navigable waters. No license shall be granted under this act until after a public hearing, notice of which shall have been given by posting in three or more public places in the town at least ten days before the hearing. Such notice shall state the date of the hearing, the name and residence of the applicant, the date of the filing of the application, and the location, area and description of the grounds applied for.

SECTION 3. The license shall describe by metes and bounds the flats and creeks so appropriated, and shall be recorded by the town clerk before it shall have any force; and the licensee shall pay into the town treasury two dollars, and to the town clerk fifty cents.

SECTION 4. The licensee and his heirs and assigns shall, for the purposes aforesaid, have the exclusive use of the flats and creeks described in the license during the time specified therein, and may in an action of tort recover treble damages of any person who, without his or their consent, digs or takes clams and quahaugs from such flats or creeks during the continuance of the license.

SECTION 5. A town which accepts the provisions of this act may, at any annual meeting or at any special meeting called for the purpose, make such by-laws as the town may from time to time deem expedient, to protect and preserve the shellfisheries within the town: provided, always, that such by-laws shall not infringe the laws of the commonwealth.

SECTION 6. If it appears to the selectmen that the licensee, or his heirs or assigns, for a period of two years, has failed actually to use and occupy the grant for the purposes specified in the license, they may, after a public hearing, thirty days' notice of which shall be given to the licensee, revoke the license, and use of the territory shall revert to the town.

SECTION 7. Whoever takes any shellfish from the waters of any town which accepts the provisions of this act in violation of any by-law established by the town, or of any provision of this act, shall for every such offence pay a fine of not less than five or more than ten dollars, and the costs of prosecution, and five dollars for every bushel of shellfish so taken. SECTION 8. A plan of each grant made under this act shall be kept in the office of the selectmen, and shall be open to public inspection at all times.

SECTION 9. This act shall take effect in any town to which it applies upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters of the town voting upon the question of its acceptance at any annual town meeting, or at any special town meeting called for the purpose, but for the purpose of authorizing said vote, it shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 14, 1916.

[CHAP. 36.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE MISUSE OF THE FLAG.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The provisions of chapter five hundred and seventy of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not apply to publications issued solely for the purpose of giving information in relation to the flag, or to publications issued solely for the purpose of promoting patriotism or encouraging the study of American history; but no words, figures, designs or other marks of any kind shall be placed upon the flag or any representation thereof. [Approved March 14, 1916.

[CHAP. 37.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LIMITATION OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF TRUST

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

COMPANIES.

SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and sixteen of the Revised Laws, as amended in section five thereof by chapter four hundred and eightyseven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven and by chapter two hundred and six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by striking out said section five and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 5. The capital stock of such corporation shall be not less than two hundred thousand dollars, except that in a city or town whose population numbers not more than one hundred thousand the capital stock may be not less than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; and except also that in towns whose population is not more than ten thousand the capital stock may be not less than fifty thousand dollars divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; and no business shall be transacted by the corporation until the whole amount of its capital stock is subscribed for and actually paid in, and no shares shall be issued until the par value of such shares shall have actually been paid in in cash. Any trust company desiring to increase its capital stock to an amount greater than that fixed in its agreement of association or beyond the amount which is paid in at the date of the passage of this act may, subject to the approval of the bank commissioner, increase its capital stock in the manner provided for the increase of capital stock of business corporations under the provisions of chapter four hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and three, and of acts in amendment thereof, relative to the increase of capital stock: provided, however, that no such stock shall be issued by any trust company until the par value thereof shall be fully paid in in cash.

SECTION 2. Chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 14, 1916.