[CHAP. 72.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT REPORTS OF IMPARTIAL PHYSICIANS SHALL BE ADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE IN PROCEEDINGS FOR THE COMPENSATION OF INJURED EMPLOYEES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section eight of Part III, of chapter seven hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by section ten of chapter seven hundred and eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the words: -The report of the physician shall be admissible as evidence in any proceeding before the industrial accident board or a committee of arbitration, provided that the employee and insurer have seasonably been furnished with copies thereof, so as to read as follows: -Section 8. The industrial accident board or any member thereof may appoint a duly qualified impartial physician to examine the injured employee and to report. The fee for this service shall be five dollars and travelling expenses, but the board may allow additional reasonable amounts in extraordinary cases, and the association shall reimburse the board for the amount so paid. The report of the physician shall be admissible as evidence in any proceeding before the industrial accident board or a committee of arbitration, provided that the employee and insurer have seasonably been furnished with copies thereof.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 23, 1916.

[CHAP. 73.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SESSIONS OF THE PROBATE COURT IN THE COUNTY OF BRISTOL AT ATTLEBORO.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter eighty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by striking out the word "and", where it occurs the second time in the seventh line, and by adding at the end thereof the following: - and at Attleboro on the fourth Friday of January, March, May, June, September and November, so as to read as follows:- Section 1. The probate court for the county of Bristol shall be held at Fall River on the first Friday of January, April, July and October, on the third Friday of February, May and November, and on the second Friday of September; at New Bedford, on the first Friday of February, May, August and November, and on the third Friday of March, June and September; at Taunton on the first Friday of March, June, September and December; on the second Friday of January, February, March, April, May, June, October, November and December, and on the third Friday of January, April, October and December; and at Attleboro on the fourth Friday of January, March, May, June, September and November. [Approved March 23, 1916.

[CHAP. 74.1

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE GRANTING OF HUNTERS' LICENSES TO MINORS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. A hunter's license, under the provisions of chapter six hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven and amendments thereof, shall not be granted to minors under eighteen years of age as a matter of right, but the clerk of any city or town may, in his discretion, issue a license to any such minor provided that the minor applies therefor in writing, and files a statement signed by his parents or guardian consenting to the granting of the license. The consent of the parents or guardian shall be preserved by the clerk as a part of the record of the case.

SECTION 2. Section seven of chapter six hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby repealed, and so much of any other section of the said chapter as is inconsistent herewith shall not apply to the provisions of this act. [Approved March 23, 1916.

[CHAP. 75.]

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE PLEDGE, MORTGAGE, SALE, ASSIGNMENT OR TRANSFER OF PENSIONS GRANTED BY THE COMMONWEALTH OR BY ANY COUNTY, CITY OR TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer hereafter made of any right, claim, or interest in any pension which has been, or may hereafter be granted by the commonwealth or by any county, city or town, shall be void and of no effect, and any person who shall be a party to such pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension, or pension certificate, which has been, or may hereafter be granted or issued by the commonwealth or by any county, city or town, or who shall hold the same as collateral security for any debt or promise, or upon any pretext of such security or promise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Approved March 24, 1916.

[CHAP. 76.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF PRISONERS FROM THE STATE PRISON TO THE PRISON CAMP AND HOSPITAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section ninety-six of chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby further amended by striking out the words "temporary industrial camp for prisoners", in the fourth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: -camp section of the prison camp and hospital, and from the state prison such

prisoners other than those serving sentences for life as have shown by their conduct and disposition that they would be amenable to less rigorous discipline and would benefit from work in the open air, so as to read as follows:- Section 96. They may remove prisoners from the Massachusetts reformatory, the state farm, and the jails and houses of correction to the camp section of the prison camp and hospital, and from the state prison such prisoners other than those serving sentences for life as have shown by their conduct and disposition that they would be amenable to less rigorous discipline and would benefit from work in the open air, and may, at any time, return them to the place of imprisonment from which they were removed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 24, 1916.

[CHAP. 77.]

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO DISCONTINUE A SECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY IN THE TOWNS OF NORWOOD

AND WESTWOOD.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Massachusetts highway commission is hereby authorized to discontinue as a state highway that part of Washington street in the towns of Norwood and Westwood between the points at which the said street intersects a new way laid out by the county commissioners of the county of Norfolk in the year nineteen hundred and twelve, by filing in the office of the clerk of the said commissioners and in the offices of the town clerks of Norwood and Westwood a certified copy of a plan showing the said part of the said street and of a certificate that it has been discontinued as a state highway; and thereafter that part of the highway so discontinued shall be a county way.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 27, 1916.

[CHAP. 78.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE SALE OF POISONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and thirteen of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter two hundred and sixty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve and by chapter five hundred and eighty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by striking out the words "laudanum, McMunn's elixir, morphia or any of its salts", in the sixth and seventh lines, and by striking out the word "opium", in the seventh line, so as to read as follows:- Section 2. Whoever sells arsenic (arsenious acid), atropia or any of its salts, chloral hydrate, chloroform, cotton root and its fluid extract, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium, Donovan's solution, ergot and its fluid extract, Fowler's solution, oil of pennyroyal, oil of savin,

oil of tansy, Paris green, Parson's vermin exterminator, phosphorus, prussic acid, "rough on rats", strychnia or any of its salts, tartar emetic, tincture of aconite, tincture of belladonna, tincture of digitalis, tincture of nux vomica, tincture of veratrum viride, compounds of fluorine, or carbolic acid, without the written prescription of a physician, shall affix to the bottle, box or wrapper containing the article sold a label of red paper upon which shall be printed in large black letters the name and place of business of the vendor and the words POISON and ANTIDOTE, and the label shall also contain the name of an antidote, if any, for the poison sold. He shall also keep a record of the name and quantity of the article sold and of the name and residence of the person or persons to whom it was delivered, which shall be made before the article is delivered and shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers of the district police and by the police authorities and officers of cities and towns; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except upon the prescription of a physician. Whoever neglects to affix such label to such bottle, box or wrapper before delivery thereof to the purchaser or whoever neglects to keep or refuses to show to said officers such record or whoever purchases any of said poisons and gives a false or fictitious name to the vendor shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales by wholesale dealers or manufacturing chemists to retail dealers, or to a general merchant who sells Paris green, London purple or other arsenical poisons in unbroken packages containing not less than one quarter of a pound, for the sole purpose of destroying potato bugs or other insects upon plants, vines or trees, except that he shall record each sale and label each package sold, as above provided. Nor shall the provisions of this section apply to sales of compounds containing not more than fifty per cent of sodium fluoride intended solely for the destruction of roaches, ants or other household insects when sold in sealed metal packages containing not less than one fourth of a pound plainly labelled in such a manner as to show the purposes for which the preparation is intended. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 28, 1916.

[CHAP. 79.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE USE AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC MARKETS ESTABLISHED BY CITIES AND TOWNS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and nineteen of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following section:- Section 3. Any city or town. which maintains a public market or market place in accordance with the provisions of this act may make rules and regulations for the use and management thereof, subject to the approval of the secretary of the state board of agriculture, and may attach penalties for their violation.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 29, 1916.

[CHAP. 80.]

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE SECRECY OF THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT TO BLIND AND OTHER PHYSICALLY DISABLED VOTERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and ninety-four of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "by", in the seventh line, and inserting in place thereof the following:- any qualified voter whom the aforesaid voter may designate, so as to read as follows:Section 294. A voter who declares on oath to the presiding officer that he had the right to vote on the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven and cannot read, or that from blindness or other physical disability he is unable to prepare his ballot or register his vote upon a voting machine, shall be assisted in such marking or registering by any qualified voter whom the aforesaid voter may designate.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 29, 1916.

[CHAP. 81.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section fifty-two of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out the word "an", in the fourth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: a primary or, and by inserting after the word "next", in the eleventh line, the words: - primary or, so as to read as follows:Section 52. If a registered voter complains to the registrars or election commissioners, in writing under oath in a city fourteen days at least, or in a town four days at least, before a primary or election or town meeting, that the complainant has reason to believe and does believe that a certain person by him therein named has been illegally or incorrectly registered, and setting forth the reasons for such belief, the registrars or election commissioners shall examine into such complaint, and if satisfied that there is sufficient ground therefor, they shall summon the person complained of to appear before them at a certain place and time before the next primary or election or town meeting to answer to the matters set forth in the complaint, and the substance of the complaint and a copy of this and the following section shall be set forth in the summons. Service of the summons shall be made by an officer qualified to serve civil or criminal process, not more than fourteen nor less than two days before the day named for appearance, by delivering in hand a copy of the summons to the person therein summoned, or by leaving it at the place of alleged illegal or incorrect registration, if no later residence of such person appears on the register, and in that event at such later residence if the officer finds that such person resides at such place or later residence, as the case may be, or if he was formerly there and has changed his residence, then by leaving it at the